russian side got to these investigations and this is something we also heard from the russian journalists during the press conference when mr smith was asked questions about the particular ways to open the door sample bottles said yes i want to refer you to some of the actual friends your reports that are available online but when it comes to the specific experience when it comes to the descriptions maybe pictures videos of ways to do it the russian side is always concerned that they don't see this and as it turns out for now the reason for a lifetime bans of individual athletes and now this whole decision to basically bad team russia from competing only allowed to compete under the international olympic flag only based on scratches and salt sure i will no doubt a lot of people will go to. the i.c. website to see exactly what was in that report well thanks a lot with trying to there with the the details of what was discussed at that press conference well before today's decision twenty five russian athletes had already been banned from dissipating in the games by the commission which exami

not seeing russians play, not hearing the russian anthem, it is a disaster. peter: how are russians likely to respond in sporting terms? daria: i have been observing reactions over the last couple of days. i could say the reactions are very different. the russiansying should go anyway. i personally am on that side of well. when t the athletes, it is something they have been preparing for their whole lives. it could be the pinnacle of their career for many of them. they deserve to go if they can prove they can are clean, and i do not see why they should miss out on any of it, but quite a lot of people are saying that the athletes going anyway despite the ban on the russian team would be tantamount to national treachery. that is something that as a russian journalist you hear a lot. people somehow tend to associate the country, the state, and the name of vladimir putin together. if you do something which is not on the general line, you're supposed to be a traitor. athletes deciding to go and compete in the olympics just because of their ambition, not representi

crime, russian financial crime, russian money laundering, russian corruption, than i did. and i knew quite a bit. >> reporter: according to weiner, steele occasionally provided reports on developments inside putin's russia to his colleagues at the state department. >> the people who were working russia all the time valued the reports. they thought they were well sourced. they felt they were remarkably timely. >> reporter: the state department wasn't the only u.s. agency to relyn christopher steele. >> i understood he had a relationship with the fbi, relating to the fifa soccer scandal, and had been a significant source for them in making cases in that area. >> reporter: in 2016, though, the americans calling christopher steele weren't fbi agents. the call he got in 2016 was from a small washington research firm called fusion gps. fusion gps was founded by former "wall street journal" reporters. this is how one of fusion's founders, glen simpson, described his company's mission when he spoke at a 2009 symposium on investigative reporting at the university of california at b

with the support of the russian. the syrian army liberated hundreds of cities from territories and returned almost all the country's territory to the government controlled. the u.s. led coalition the russian federation of the syrian regime is the only field that has made meaningful progress against isis three years the various sides have shared a common goal driving i still out of syria but now that's been achieved for some the main thing now is taking all the credit it is still absolutely critical to the us role in the world to maintain this this narrative that it is a response only responsible for. you know the good things that happen in the world while its enemy is responsible for all the bad things and unfortunately it sees russia as not just a competitor really as an enemy spawn. well that and i mean so what we we're hearing here is effectively that the that i saw has been defeated or the majority of ice has been defeated but essentially the political situation well that's now to be sort of just what exactly cor

russian soldiers in seti are welcoming their commander in chief at the him in military base and on his first visit to the country vladimir putin announced that the bulk of troops stationed here can no go home. last week the russian military declared victory in syria over quote terrorist groups including the so-called islamic state and al qaeda for president putin it's now mission accomplished there where all of that unity with the terrorist threat in the whole world is still very high. however the task of fighting bandits here in syria a task that was essential to solve with the extensive use of force has for the most part been solved and it's been solved spectacularly. when. russia entered the syrian conflict in september twenty fifth it was moscow's biggest intervention in the middle east in decades since then russian forces have battled more moderate rebel groups opposed to the syrian president bashar assad russian airstrikes helped turn the tide in assad's favor. what about not only is president vladimir putin proud of you but i am also proud of you and i thank you. no sooner had p

olympic committee but the russian sports ministry the russian you know special police so this was something that was being directed from very high levels and the evidence for this really came out last year after the mclaren report and that happened basically too soon before the summer olympics for the i.o.c. to be comfortable to put sort of blanket ban in place so they decided to really look at the same evidence and lo and behold mr schmidt which was the that the head of the new commission which gave his report today said yet the evidence checks out we need to ban russia and what happens now to the clean athletes and how are we going to prove that russian athletes are clean well to answer your second question first i think time will tell one of the big things that happens in a lot of reason to lympics and you can go back not only to sochi but to you know london and twenty twentieth's that are cetera you have to keep these samples on file let's just say and maybe a few years down the line might found find even more athletes who are ostensibly clean it is a linux will turn out to have been di

russian in appearance. balancing now as leader of the state between this personal age and interest of state building. he is part of the networks but begins a crack down on them. cracks down in 1925 the soldier ofat 1917 who becomes the head of the central executive committee, he need to stop writing letters in the languages of though minorities even this was stalin's native language he said stop doing that. we can't have a state which correspondence is conducted in a dozen languages. he carefully manages himself.tation of sometimes stalin emphasizes that russian.t a other times he affirms russia's role in the soviet union. he is giving his most famous speech which is a toast but in ussian people this georgian toasting style. stalin, as we know, ultimately as a near himself absolutist ruler in this all of hic empire above these networks. my talk i nning of talked about new chronology for about war and revolution. 1922 ger war from 1914 to and longer revolution beginning in 1905 and we can think if this movem

army russian ideology and the russian world. me. most brother ruffians still accept the monopoly of their russian neighbors and of left to walk a fine line between solidarity and independence. but georgia was a different case. after the rose revolution it quickly developed into a pluralistic comparatively well functioning country. the tax system was simplified and the banking sector and public services modernized its cities were transformed. mikhail saakashvili the new president completely renovated the center of tbilisi. will decide life the city will soon move after the rez revolution foreign capital began to flow into the country it felt like a new era was coming people had a great visions that our country would become a new switzerland or singapore or that an economic miracle would happen. and a big boom really did start things that were worth a million dollars now cost one hundred million apartments in tbilisi were more expensive than in moscow we had an enormous growth in our client base and hired new staff who earned real

let me give you a flavor of what's being said from the russian side a russian foreign ministry spokeswoman came out and said they're always trying to. down put us down in everything a way of life our cultural history and sport what do you say to such sentiments ridiculous i mean this is all in a circle meant mentality we see it with nato they're afraid that nato isn't circling this well i think most people in the west realize this is ridiculous and hopefully nobody will take it too serious that's russia's problem of they feel that the west is in a circle and that's russia's problem they think that the i.o.c. is going after them for doping when they've been caught red handed i think most people outside russia see it differently not him has been looking very thoughtful daria's be looking very full diary you say you're post a reaction to this you talk about doping scandal of the whole saga being painful tell us about the pain well to be honest i guess just like most people in russia i did not expect the russian team to win the sochi olympics so when russia won it was a great surprise i was ac

flag or here the russian or where russian uniform all of which are seen as obviously traditionally quite important aspects of the olympic games for any athlete from any country so russian that are deemed clean will be able to partake in the upcoming games in chang however as you said they will be titles olympic athletes from russia they will hear the olympics. and will have to. participate under the olympic flag certainly something that's seen as quite upsetting for those athletes that are going to be participating as i said now this is not just the only measure that's been implemented here in the us and today we also know that any official from the russian ministry of sports will not be accredited for the upcoming games we know that the then minister of sports back at the time of the olympics of twenty fourteen as well as his deputy are banned from any participation in all future olympic games the russian olympic. committee president alexander superfit is suspended as an i.o.c. member and also the international olympic committee here has decided to put a ban hefty fine on russia of fift

-russian relations with the russian ambassador to the united states. this event was hosted by the world affairs council of northern california. [applause] amb. anatov: it is a great honor for me to be here. i would like to thank the council for this opportunity to be with you. important to discuss a very burning issue, what should we do together? do we need each other? are we partners? re: enemies? who we are, the united states and the russian federation? blame anyone for the current situation in russian-american relations, but today is the first official remarks by me as an ambassador for the russian federation to the united states. [applause] amb. anatov: i am not a magician. killing inou to stop chechnya. stop killing gay people in chechnya. people left alone in chechnya. we need to protect gay people. stop killing gay chechnya and's. chechnyans. gay chechens. stop killing gay chechens. stop killing gay chechens. stop killing gay chechens. [crowd noise] amb. anatov: you can see our relations are complicated. it seems to me everybody has the right to

so it was a nice surprise for russian people and i'm surprised the russian norman but as i started to i'm not surprised but fulfilling these goals by any means before we continue the conversation and let's just take a closer look at what is. the allegations of state backed doping amounts to. the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi russia the host nation won thirty three medals more than any other country russia and president vladimir putin came off looking like champions but did they play fair or were the real champions that doping laps. two years after the games had investigator for the world anti-doping agency richard mclaren published some serious allegations that the moscow laboratory operated for the protection of doped russian athletes within a state directed feel safe system the russian ministry of sport directed controlled and oversaw the manipulation of athletes and little results no less than the head of russia's own anti-doping lab grigori wrote chunk of was chief witness he left for the united states as did you yesterday part of a runner who had reported systematic do

crime, russian financial crime, russian money laundering, russian corruption than i did, and i knew quite a bit. >> according to weiner, steal occasionally provided reports on developments inside putin's russia to his colleagues at the state department. >> the people working russia all the time valued the reports. they thought they were well sourced. they felt they were remarkably timely. >> the state department wasn't the only u.s. agency to rely on christopher steele. >> i understood he had a relationship with the fbi relate together fifa soccer standal and had been a significant source for them in making cases in that area. >> in 2016, though, the americans calling christopher steele weren't fbi agents. the call he got in 2016 was from a small washington research firm called fusion gps. fusion gps was found by former "wall street journal" reporters. this is one of fusion founders described his suspect company's mission when he spoke at a 2009 sem posium on investigative reporting at the university of california at berkeley. >> hoping that people who have an interest in bringing t

have you heard about the russian doping scandal no i haven't heard. i don't know about is this a repeat yes i. have never heard this film about any school but. i heard the news that just. her face i don't know that it's true needs to be seen. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit boring i says to the strongest country. by. people everybody is like a. beautiful national soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't get into the right as i think it's unfair for you to have any doubts as well this is on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia we've got a whole country that's so you live the good stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will. without team russia or back to our continuing coverage of the international olympic committee decision to ban russia's team and many individual russian athletes from taking part in the two thousand and eighteen winter game

it says he reached out to the russian ambassador, urged the russians to call for a delay or no vote on the resolution and ultimately the russians said we're not going to vote no on this. december 28th, president obama announced his sanctions against russia for meddling in the campaign. the court documents say this time the russian ambassador reached out to flynn and said, you know, what's going to happen here and that flynn talked to the transition officials now described as senior transition officials who urged him to tell the russians to moderate their response to these sanctions because they thought that any further, harsher response from russia would derail the trump administration's desire to have rosier relations with the russians. he talked to the russians about it. the russian ambassador told him they would respond more reciprocal reciprocally, which is what vladimir putin did. the key question, why would flynn lie about these conversations with the russians? in theory a private citizen, which is what he was at the time. trump wasn't president. he wasn't national security advis

the russian olympic committee. the ioc reserves the right to take measures against and sanction other individuals implicated in this system. the russian 0lympic committee will reimburse the costs incurred by the ioc on investigations and contribute to the establishment of the independent testing authority in the total sum of 15 million us dollars to build the capacity and integrity of the global anti—doping system. the ioc may partially or fully lift the suspension of the russian 0lympic committee from the commencement of the closing ceremony of the olympic winter games in 2018. provided these decisions are fully respected and implemented by the russian 0lympic committee and by the invited athletes and officials. this decision should draw a line under this damaging episode and serve as a ca ta lyst this damaging episode and serve as a catalyst for a more effective and more robust anti—doping system led by wada. thank you very much and now i'm ready to take any questions you may have. well we will leave that new

/russian relations. but can you talk on a more substantive level and from a legal perspective and perhaps the course of this investigation into how that tweet by the president, this revelation that mike flynn was talking to sergey kislyak and then lied about said conversations with sergey kislyak about sanctions. can you put the picture together with the president's tweet and the president's public statements, included in what you see? >> yeah, it's clear now, nicolle that when the russians interfered in the election and the obama administration sanctioned them for it, what mike flynn did was he got on the phone with ambassador kislyak and said, hang in there. a couple days from now we'll be in office and you don't have to react to the sanctions. basically we're going to watch your back. in the quid pro quo, this was the pro quo. this was the thing that the incoming trump team was giving the russians in exchange for their support during the election. and it's clear that the president, president trump, th

whenever you believe russian products. are not just getting good quality. for the little visit soon as we. look for the spiritual. this is breaking news after months of speculation president putin officially announces his bid for reelection in twenty also commented on the president of russia from the winter olympics. the circle so. we will not announce any blockade or prevent our athletes from competing if we want in a personal capacity. for the i.o.c. banned russia from the twenty eighteen winter games after a three year doping scandal despite a lack of concrete evidence to support the claims of the state sponsored drug program. also ahead of this policy in the u.s. president is expected to recognize jerusalem as the capital city of israel a move that's likely to ignite fury among many in the middle east.

russian officials yet. well you know here in the zone of course it's been a very tense day anticipating what kind of announcement would come from the international olympic committee following a day of deliberations behind closed doors that were closed to the media here who were kept inside a press room for most of the day waiting to hear what would be announced the i.o.c. have in fact said that russia is being suspended from the games but not individual athletes now this is a decision that's certainly going to be and it's already being seen as quite a fruitful not just to athletes who are pretty looking forward to participating at these winter olympics just two months from now but also the millions of fans in russia who of course see it as a source of special pride to see their own athletes being able to compete and also here russian as well as wear the uniforms and this is not going to be happening now we do know of course that following this latest decision the i.o.c. has said that russian athletes indivi

team the russian flag the russian anthem is shows that this is really directed against russia per se it's not a question of clean athletes and athletes that are there. which we know is a widespread practice there was a two thousand legged water report that said between twenty nine and forty five percent of athletes worldwide were engaged in doping this is a problem in many other countries but russia is being singled out for the special treatment particularly against its national symbols and i think that is indeed quite political what sort of action would you like to see him because i take what you say the abbotts sports fans today will listen to the evidence and say you know in sochi something obviously if he was going on the air in twenty five athletes have been given lifetime bans i mean people do want to see action die because something did go wrong. sure i think that's right but the question is is it really credible to think that this is specifically a problem with russia and only with russia and i don't think that's the case i as i say i think there are a lot of athletes or a lo

all you'll see need do the games to go ahead they need russian athletes to me the russian most hockey team to play the need to. contact a hockey league to release their players because they don't the russian the winter olympics loses loses cash and that's been the biggest problem is because when we split the two olympics this summer i'm going every two years it's been a disaster and revenues have for them and people have been not watching numbers of it should be so. they have to this removal state sponsors which i know is of money money people and something that i detest from the start. very keen not to blame people at the top of that you know if they don't want to bring people in the kremlin know they have made a scapegoat in italy won't go that was always going to come down. even and it makes no sense you're buying him to see all the credit more involved in this world of sports ministry were involved in they weren't involved have been very political with their language but the i.o.c. needs russia more than. this moment so recap them russia has been banned from the twenty eighteen wi

let me give you a flavor of what's being said from the russian side a russian foreign ministry spokeswoman came out and said they're always trying to put down put us down and everything our way of life our culture our history and our sport what do you say to such sentiments it's ridiculous i mean it's the soul and circle he meant mentality we see it with nato they're afraid that nato is in circle in this well i think most people in the west realize this is ridiculous and hopefully nobody will take it too serious that's russia's problem of they feel that the west is in a circle and that's russia's problem they think that the i.o.c. is going after them for doping when they've been caught red handed i think most people outside russia see it differently not him has been looking very thoughtful daria's be looking very full diary you say you're personal reaction to this you talk about doping scandal of the whole saga being painful tell us about the pain well to be honest i guess just like most people in russia i did not expect the russian team to win the sochi olympics so when russia won it was

yeah so russian t.v. had announced before that that they would do that if the russian team were banned and it seems they have now widened to the neutral flag situation that we now have as well and of course ahead of this decision various officials had said that that the russian athletes competing under a neutral fly wouldn't really be an option or at least it's one that they condemned for example if you tell you who was sort of mentioned in the report just now he said that that would not be an option even though he said that it would be up to each individual athlete to decide whether they want to compete under a neutral flag the question of course is if they do go whether that will be seen as a very unpatriotic move you know even putin said that it would be a humiliation to compete under a neutral flag so of course the signals from up high say that they probably shouldn't go and there is the option that perhaps there would be an overall boycott and that no one no russian officials and no athletes would go

crime, russian financial crime, russian money lau ing, russian corruption than i do, and i know quite a bit. >> reporter: he provided reports inside of putin's colleagues to the people inside of the state department. >> the people working russia valued the the reports. they felt they were well sourced. they felt they were remarkably timely. >> in the state department was not the only u.s. agency to rely on christopher steel. >> i understood that he had a relationship with the fbi relat te ing to the fifa soccer scandal and had been a significant source for them in makes cases in that e area. >> in 2016 though, the americans called christopher steel weren't fbi agents. the call he got in 2016 was from a small washington research firm called fusion gps. fusion gps was founded by former "wall street journal" reporters. this is how one of fusion's founders glenn simpson described his company's mission when he spoke at a 2009 symposium on investigative reporting at the university of california at berkeley. >> we are hoping that people who have an interest in bringing things outs do somethi

he hadn't accurately described his contacts with the russian ambassador. at the time u.s. intelligent officials and law enforcement officials had access to the intercepts. the electronic intercepts in which sanctions were discussion even though according to the vice president motorcycle flynn told him that was not the case. so, invest gaters at that time felt he was compromised. this is an important part of the investigation. that period between the transition and the first few weeks in the administration for michael flynn. >> jeff, what did he -- what do law enforcement officials belief in looking at the intercepts for the reason flynn was reaching out to the russians. >> let's go back a year, december 2016, the obama administration was intent in sending a message to the russians, a punishment if you will, for interferin interferind meddling in the 2016 election. how did they do that? they felt one step was announcing the sanctions against certain people within the russian government. so, when those sanctions were under mind there were people in the inte intelligence comm

have you heard about the russian doping scandal no i haven't heard. i don't know about is this a repeat yes i. have never heard this i know in the uk and it's called. i heard he used the medicine. and her face i don't know that it's true needs to be received. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit more i says to the strongest country. by. people everybody is like a. beautiful national soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't get the rights to. be found. just well this is on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia is not a whole country that's your political stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics. happened without t.v. russia just a reminder you are watching our continuing coverage of the international olympic committee's decision to ban russia's team and many individual russian athletes from taking part in the two thousand and eighteen winter games in sout

crime, russian financial crime, russian money laundering, russian corruption than i did and i knew quite a bit. >> according to winer, steel occasionally provided reports on developments inside putin's russia to his colleagues at the state department. >> the people working russia all the time valued the reports. they thought they were well-sourced. they thought they were remarkably timely. >> the state department wasn't the only u.s. agency to rely on christopher steel. >> i understood he had a relationship with the fbi relating to the fifa soccer scandal and had been a significant source for them in making cases in that area. >> in 2016, though, the americans calling christopher steel weren't fbi agents. the call he got in 2016 was from a small washington research firm called fusion gps. fusion gps was founded by former wall street journal reporters. this is how one of fusion's founders glen simpson described his company's mission when he spoke at a 2009 investigation of reporting. >> we're hoping that people who have an interest in bringing things out do something about corruption and

may backfire because you may find russian athletes competing. you know it was supposedly under that what is it oh ok our designation doing things that would highlight the fact that there are russian and then everybody will talk about it in the news and so you know if it's short of would back fire i'm not sure that this through right could be interesting to see how this all plays out in the days and weeks to come especially before the run up to the olympics dave lindorff investigative journalist and founding editor of the online newspaper this can't be happening thanks for being with us here on art international but. all right now to remind you the international olympic committee says that russian athletes can only compete under a neutral flag they will participate under the title olympic athlete from russia with the country's flag and symbols banned from the games next tuesday russian sports officials are expected to hold a meeting on how to react to that decision but earlier president putin said that the neutrals option would be humiliating for

mueller is investigating russian inference in the u.s. election last year and whether anyone in the trump campaign was involved. flynn was a foreign policy adviser to the campaign and later president trump's first national security to vice president pence about his contacts with russia's ambassador to the u.s. in his statement, flynn said it has been extraordinarily painful to endure these many months of false accusations of treeson, but he said the -- of treason, but he said the actions i acknowledged in court today are wrong and i am working to set things right. flynn said my guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the special counsel's office reflect the decision i made in the best interest of my family and our country. i accept full responsibility for my actions. we are joined now by paula reid who is outside the courthouse where flynn entered his plea. paula, what essentially does the special counsel get in exchange for this plea? >>reporter: that's the question we've been asking all morning, anthony. newly-released court documen

she said you speak russian. i said, yes, but even an american can learn russian. and there was an awkward five or ten minutes where things were the americans are very bad and this is very bad, and then, when she felt she knew me and i felt i was getting to know her, everything sort of dropped, and we were two people, and we were sharing experiences and insights, and i found that to be the case with russians, whether they lived in central asia, in the caucuses of ukraine, northern russia, they were people just as we. they really wanted peace. this was eleven years after the end of world war ii. 30 million russians had been killed in world war ii, maybe more, and they all wanted peace and, yet, they felt maybe they weren't going to get it, maybe there would be war. >> woodruff: well, so many telling stories, a wonderfully written book. "the year i was peter the great," 1956. crkhrushchev, stalin's ghost ana young american in russia. thank you. >> thank you, judy. >> sreenivasan: now, how an artist in the world of tap dancing is using tradition, breaking with it, and

thinking i was the russian. that was like a bit of fantasy. >> she says despite everything they've been through, she continues to stand by her fiance and his willingness to work with investigators. >> i'm proud of his choice to cooperate with the right side of history. >> again, pamela brown reporting. still ahead, live in the cnn news room. president trump sending a warning to iran. developing the situation in the world tonight. flaring up in that country. we'll talk with republican congressman will herd next. urken almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a swing set standoff. and we covered it, july first, twenty-fifteen. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ but when we brought our daughter home, that was it. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why ne

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flags no russian symbols no russian anthem and effectively no team russia they'll be referred to as ours or olympic athletes from russia now they are mostly said that there are still details that need to be ironed out with the international olympic committee concerning things such as you know what uniform the russian team will be wearing they also said that they reached this decision after hearing the thoughts and concerns of each individual involved in the olympic team from the coaches to the athletes and most of them said you know despite everything they've been through over them over recent months they still want the chance to live out their dreams. every athlete has a dream we train every day for that dream this dream is called the olympics of course we want to perform at the upcoming olympics and have a chance to compete fairly but unlike our competitors we've been deprived of our flag and anthem humiliated or basic rights have been taken away we want to compete from other learned for our loved ones for off and on mission there's been one of the greatest throughout the years we

russia the or put you on the russian side russian officials who's the opportunity to be heard we had. a russian delegation there are today in the i.o.c. executive board gave them again the opportunity to express their most selves. in these. meetings after an order. president of the russian olympic committee apologized. there are those things you. see there are there are a complete and full decision of the i.o.c. executive. order. mr buffett you said. that you were attacked in the center of the games in sochi. the ground only a few meters away from the athletes will it. you personally spend some nights during the games. russia as we heard still denies that they cheated ruthlessly. in your opinion could you could you hide. that when belling seeing the sanctions and a little wish could you please also answer the question in your native language thank you. very clearly that these represents an unprecedented take on the integrity of the olympic games. what i have said. when the first allegations were coming up and there we said if it's proven true it's unprecedented to take on the into equ

ask the russians to delay or vote against a u.n. security council resolution against israel because of its settlements. and that obviously you're not supposed to do. it's a violation of an obscure law called the logan act. beyond that, i'm wondering is there anything that indicates -- we know that flynn is implicated, kushner is implicated, you're reporting. is there any information of anyone else implicated, the president or pence or anyone else? >> yeah, i mean, well, here is what's happened in the last few weeks, jake, we've had multiple officials from the white house, meaning reince priebus, former officials in the white house and current white house who have gone in for interviews with the special counsel. they've all been testifying on this. we know recently from our reporting that jared kushner was brought in and that he was asked about michael flynn and we expect that this is one of the questions that was being asked. so what we're hearing in the past hour or so is a bit of spin from people close to the white house, people w

who might have told him to have those conversations with the russians. we don't know who might have directed him to do that. we know from the white house in the past that the president has said that he didn't know about those conversations. we'll see what michael flynn says when he talks to the fbi, when he talks to the special counsel's office, about those conversations. again, at this hour we're waiting to see whether michael flynn comes out this door or perhaps another door. we know that he has been in the courtroom for about a half hour and we're hearing from reporters in the room that the judge has now ac be sented the guilty plea -- accepted the guilty plea. michael flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi at least four times. >> and yeah, he walked in the courtroom right past you a little over a half hour ago. let's see if -- i think it's highly unlikely he will probably want to talk on his way back out but that's why we are there and you're positioned there. thank you so much. >>> let's get from the courthouse now straight over to the white h

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let me give you a flavor of what's being said from the russian side a russian foreign ministry spokesman came out and said they're always trying to put down put us down in everything a way of life our culture our history and our sport what do you say to such sentiments ridiculous i mean it's the soul and circle movement mentality we see it with nato they're afraid that nato isn't circling this well i think most people in the west realize this is ridiculous and hopefully they will take it too serious that's russia's problem of they feel that the west is in a circle and that's russia's problem they think that the i.o.c. is going after them for doping when they've been caught red handed i think most people outside russia see it differently not him has been looking very thoughtful daria's be looking very full diary you say you're post a reaction to this you talk about the doping scandal of the whole saga being painful tell us about the pain well to be honest i guess just like most people in russia i did not expect the russian team to win the sochi olympics so when russia won it was a great s

his decision to ban russian athletes. it's a tough decision that will have to be made it will depend on the individual athletes of course on the one hand but then still we understand that the russian olympic officials will somehow influence that they are of course responsible for the facilities they provided them they were in charge of the training but anyway if russia goes for this boycott of the winter games in twenty eighteen that will be the direct result of the r.c. decision that we heard on tuesday but the i.o.c. probe has already resulted in more than two dozen russian winter olympians being banned for life and we understand that there is more to come and questions have been raised along the lines of why do athletes who test positive from different countries get bans for only a few years and then they're allowed to compete and then when it comes to the russian athletes they're supposed to be kept away from the olympics for good so you bring up these lifetime bans has the i.o.c. given any reason for these specific l

the campaign colluded with the russians. we don't know the answer. >> we are not there yet. >> we know they have not been truthful about contacts and we have questions about why they were so cozy with them. an experienced lawyer saying something is ridiculous as he was a clinton administration or obama administration official is amateurish and surprising. >> for doesn't stand up. >> that is actually the administration's defense and a lot of this is when you talked to people who are close to jared, talked to people about. >> we have a long day and we will be staying with the story throughout the day. much more when we come back after the break. ♪ there's nothing more important than your health. so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. you might want to consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like any medicare supplement insurance

and russians and the chinese from korea the russians and the chinese border north korea rifa nothing happens there they'll get direct impact we are at a time so we'll have to leave it there let's thank our guests nicholai lawrence and of course macharia and thank you to you for watching you can see the show again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com of further discussion head over to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle there is actor a.j. inside story from me sam is a than a halted here for now is good buy. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power to account. how does this radical transformation occur. i mean if they mean if you want to shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people at this time on al-jazeera. the new era in television news. it doesn't say that he's a tall studer sings in secret we had actual victims who had survived torture detention and saying t

olympic committee but the russian sports ministry the russian you know special police so this was something that was being directed from very high levels and the evidence for this really came out last year after the mclaren report and that happened basically too soon before the summer olympics for the i.o.c. to be comfortable to put a sort of blanket ban in place so they decided to really look at the same evidence and lo and behold mr schmidt which was the that the head of the new commission which gave his report today said yet the evidence checks out we need to ban russia and what happens now to the clean athletes and how are we going to prove that russian athletes are clean well to answer your second question first i think time will tell one of the big things that happens in a lot of reason to lympics and you can go back not only to sochi but to you know london and twenty twentieth's that are cetera you have to keep these samples on file let's just say and maybe a few years down the line might found find even more athletes who are ostensibly clean it is a linux will turn out to have been

the novembere of 7, 1917 russian revolution, about 2.5 million russians had been killed in the great war and some 6 million had been wounded are taken prisoner. up next on american history tv, russian history professor olga porshneva discusses how the russian soldiers believed and their attitudes towards the war and how it contributed to their unrest and the revolution and birth of the soviet union. was hosted by the kansas city war museum. it was part of a two-day symposium on the war. olga porshneva is a professor of russian history at the university in russia. she has given -- she has been given the highest distinction in russia of the best doctoral thesis in the field of russian history in 2000. she is the author of more than 250 published monographs and articles. is a memberrshneva of the russian association for the first world war studies and the expert toward for history of the highest committee of the ministry for education and science of the russian federation. tooke so grateful that she through istanbul to be here. and also, we are so grateful for our partnerships with the

russian athletes and the olympic committee were the only ones to be banned. no official of the russian ministry of sport will be a great it it for the olympic winter games two thousand and eighteen. the then minister of sport restudy tally would go. then deputy minister yuri had gone it will be excluded from any parties from any participation in all future olympic games since this decision was made on december fifth we tally macaws position as the head of russia's football union has been under scrutiny and he has faced calls to resign on monday he ceded to the pressure at least for the time being. with this when i addressed the russian football union's executive board regarding the temporary impossibility to perform my duties during the period of my court proceedings in order to let the union work normally i have asked to be relieved of my duties for up to six months if i can return earlier than i will do so i have not resigned i have a mandate until twenty twenty so we must go is still the chief of russia's well couple guys in committee but he has not ruled

planes intercepted russian planes putin's envoy also for syria that they called on the u.s. to leave the country are we going to see more tension between those two powers. in syria when it comes to syria face well more attention is likely we were on the bring or than other round of tension several months ago or not not not even several months ago just about one and a half months ago when there was intensive fighting in their own sword but the problem was not about darrow's or it was about the oil field or fields that are situated in to the east of there us or so there is clear competition between the government in damascus and the syrian democratic forces which are mostly made of so where does that leave the prospects for peace in syria in two thousand and eighteen then well the process well there we have very contradiction contradicting trounce on the one hand we still hope to have a new round of negotiations leading us to geneva and probably a peace agreement because we have with russia at least she used some understanding with the saudis we have an understanding with the

of the expectations of russia of russians of the majority of the russians and the majority. if russia. doesn't want a liberal democratic leader we first before. wants to have a strong powerful and but totally that cool to restore the. glory of our country independence and freedom for our society for our. state and that is the first of the month after that the second amendment is not civil society is just social justice i think the death watch in a cool place fulfills very well these bought into joe politics and the distorting celebrity and that is why he is so all popular and why we support and keep but keep . it. keep hasn't done anything to it in order to restore social justice anything keep it in some social aspect he he's. a liberal by saying i am also you are right here because we have to take a very short break but we'll certainly come back to these very interesting subject after every short break statement. was running insisting that wait till i did it again i am. i was to try to list as a. kind you. could do for you but it wouldn't stand but showing you the need you

subsequent reporting revealed that the russian he met with was head of the russian sovereign wealth fund, fund that's subject to sanctions by the u.s. government. we now know because transcript of his testimony to house intelligence committee has been released today, based on the transcript he denies he went to the meeting in the seychelles on behalf of the incoming trump administration. also denies that he had any idea before he got halfway around the world to seychelles islands, no idea while he was there would be meeting with this head of the russian sovereign wealth fund. had no idea that's what he would do. but admits once he got there, met the russian guy. and now first time we have erik prince's characterization as to what that meeting was about. quote from the transcript. so we talked about like i said trade matters and how the united states and russia should be working together. schiff -- trade matters can mean a lot of different things, particularly talking to someone controlling sanctioned financial institution. what in particular did you discuss regarding trade? did you discu

potentially maybe hit the russian and i'm not sure but they'll be able to wear you know the russian colors again and hold the russian flag they fail it will draw a line under this whole episode do you think that will be the case if you think this is just stigmatized russian athletes forever. i can't believe it would stigmatize them forever i mean look. u.s. has had the doping scandal in baseball the u.s. team has had the doping scandal in the tour de france. you know i think people have gotten over those things. i'd like to think you know that this would not stigmatize them forever but you know it seems like countries especially the u.s. canada and great britain would like to be stigmatized forever and i don't go along with that dan one of the other things that i think is the russian officials that when they spoke today said that they're hoping that these russian athletes that clean athletes those individuals will build bridges you know will that will this draw a line under the whole repeated press negative press that we see against russia and of doping to think they go ahead and th

why have the russians built this wall? why are all people denied the right guaranteed them under the international agreements to pass freely from zone to zone within berlin? the communist explanation is simplicity itself. according to them, west berlin was a base for intrigue and imperialist assaults on east berlin and east germany where a man has a chance to enjoy the finer things in life. but things were going the other way, east to west, and so has every other casualty at the wall. no one can be sure of the real reason, but prior to the erection of the wall, almost anyone who could get into east germany could reach west berlin if his feet held out. and many did. once in west berlin, you are outside the iron curtain. the free passage of people between east and west berlin was the only physical gap in the iron curtain. so the russians sealed it. the wall is a solid fact. and the wall remains. it stands in berlin today. it stands and will stand wherever the road of world communism leads. some day, according to its builders