-russia relations. margaret warner, icu with a microphone. >> my question is, should we actually be going on offense in the information war, in the cyber war, in terms of delegitimizing not just exposing the corruption, the playing offense the way they are playing offense? the answer is yes, but not necessarily in the cyberspace. most of what happens in cyberspace is altering information or preventing information from being able to come forward. i think we should be on the offense of of making it clear exactly what we know russia and orpington in particular is doing. -- russia and or putin in particular is doing. we should be working closely with our european allies around the world and exposing and getting them to stand up and it knowledge with us that this is what is happening here. that message gets through. to go back, when i got here, the vestige of that cold war was an attempt to broadcast the truth into russia. and i think somehow, we have to have as the democracies of the world, have to be bette

>> at the heart of the trump-russia mystery. >> i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge, no person i deal with has. >> but there were secret contacts. >> breaking and stunning news. release of an e-mail chain. >> it came from russians. >> some denials that defy facts. >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> it's disgusting, so phony. >> i didn't take any money from russia, if that's what you're asking. >> a shocking dismissal. >> the president of the united states has terminated the director of the fbi. >> he's a showboat, he's a grandstander. >> those were lies plain and simple. >> donald trump's changing stories. >> i own nothing in russia. i don't have any deals in russia. >> i've done a lot of business with the russians. >> compliments for vladimir putin. >> he is very much of a leader. he's done an amazing job. so smart. >> where does the story end? >> you may or may not find evidence of an impeachable offense. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics.

about russia's behavior of late. well certainly that in my view the greatest threat of any nation on earth well here's how it all began on january sixth of last year u.s. intelligence agencies issued a report saying that russia had tried to influence our elections with this russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in twenty sixteen aimed at the us presidential election russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the us democratic process denigrate secretary clinton and home her electability and potential presidency we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president elect trump now the authors of the report at the time said they had high confidence in their judgments a few pages later they explain exactly what they meant by high confidence with a little disclaimer high confidence generally indicates that judgments to based on high quality information from multiple sources high confidence does not imply that the assessment is fact or a certainty such

his interests which are maybe more with iran than with russia because russia is an ally with israel and now i would side but asad and israel and israel and iran are not allies at all their enemies so these co-writing agendas right now in syria may create even more war than there was before when there was a uniting kind of enemy the state and now there isn't. unfortunately momi have run out of time we could do a whole nother program on this i'm sure we will so many thanks to all of you for joining us today on inside story. on kabul and most capable for going to and ended by dr mussen salah. many thanks to you tube for watching the program again any time by visiting our website is al-jazeera dot com of a discussion to go to our facebook bases facebook dot com for slash a.j. inside story is going to say also join the conversation on twitter at a.j. inside story from a laura call an old saying here let's buy and i. never get this risk. but nothing can stop them in their tracks chasing the american dream escaping poverty but the route is their only option and their hope for a better life. in

. -- lead russia. look at the state of russia now. there are an enormous decline. >> will there is enormous decline. they have a second rate military power they have significant , advantages geographically where they are engaged, they have a nuclear arsenal that could blow up the whole world, but in terms of their efficacy, their capacity -- it is the minimus compared to ours. they have an oil-based economy. you have it going from a market value of $350 billion to $300 50 billion in the last 10 years. what do you do if you are a democratic leader of russia? what do you do? how do you provide jobs for your people? where do you go? how do you build that country? unless you engage the west. i do not know how that happens. i have not given up hope, i am not my you have noticed i have , been a very strident voice in the last administration about putin and russia as i am now, but that does not mean that this this ist accompli, that how things are going to be. the last point i will make, when my dad had the e

so what is your own view of russia's extent of russia's involvement or meddling? um --rovsky: thank you. i do not really want to talk about this, because you have your opinion about this, and you read a lot of articles about this. fact inon will be in what i know, what i investigate. -- russian hackers hacked bill clinton emails -- hillary clinton emails. russia hasse, motivation to do this, and has the ability to do this, with the russian cyber army, cyber hackers, who are the greatest in the world. that is my opinion. >> i will also say, and i do not know what you would say about it, we had a publisher of meduza, and he probably would have ejected to -- objected to -- he was a they are a good the unitedut in states, they would say they are not. question right there. hi. intelligenceive analyst. much of the conversation about hackers has been dominated about the election hacking, information warfare, and propaganda. the last couple of years, we have seen an increasing number of hacks in western europe in are remarkably sophisticated and growing, which are targeti

what trump and his team did toward russia, did back to russia right after this election in which russia tried to help them win. we knew before tonight that during the trump transition, top trump transition officials were in on the decision to have national security advisor mike flynn call the russian government secretly to try to under cut the inposition of new sanctions that the obama administration was imposing on russia in response to them messing with our election. mike flynn did not make those calls to the raugs -- russian government alone.ussian governm alone. top echelons of the trump transition knew he was doing that. they were in discussion about the strategy while he was doing that. ultimately, flynn ended up lying about that to the fbi and the rest is history. but in addition to that incident that happened after the election during the transition, we know from michael's reporting as soon as the trump people started landing at the state department, they started working right away on a proposal to have the u.s. unilaterally drop sanctions. their actions after they arrived in wa

>> at the heart of the trump russia mystery. >> i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge, no person that i deal with does. >> but there were secret contacts. >> breaking and stunning news, the release of an e-mail chain. >> someone sent mow an e-mail. >> it came from russians. >> some denials that defy the facts. >> i don't even know what you're talking about. it's crazy. >> it's disgusting. it's so phony. >> i diplomat take adn't take a russia if that's what you're asking. >> a shocking dismissal. >> the president of the united states has terminated the director of the fbi. >> he's a showboat, he's a grandstander. >> those are lying, plain and simple. >> president trump is changing stories. >> i own nothing in russia. i don't have any deals with russia. i've done a lot of business with the russians. >> compliments for vladimir putin. >> he is really very much of a leader. he's done an amazing job. so smart. >> where does this story end? >> you may or may not find evidence of an impeachable offense. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. i

and donald was invited to russia. so he and ivana went to russia. and they tried to make a deal to build a trump tower there. >> that deal never happened. >> there was talk of a trump tower in moscow -- >> but again and again, trump would deep on trying. >> donald's tried at least five times to build a trump tower in moscow. >> donald trump has an enormous ability to deny reality. reality is that during the campaign, not just in ancient history, during the campaign, he was negotiating for a hotel to be built in moscow. >> we've learned michael cohen, president trump's personal lawyer, was in talks with moscow through an intermediary about a proposal to build trump tower there -- >> that is the definition of business dealings in russia. >> the deal, outlined in a nonbinding letter of intent signed by trump in the fall of 2015, fell through. but not before trump's attorney reached out to the kremlin for help. >> cohen said in a statement today he e-mailed russian president vladimir putin's spokesperson dmitry peskov for help on this project on behalf

talks about is russia russia russia this russia gate but no no no no who cares no one in the united states actually cares i can agree with victor i don't think this will be a silver bullet either way i think that you know this this witch hunt will continue i'm far more interested in the way that the democrats in the media have tried to frame it they have argued through this anonymous anti propaganda propaganda you hit the. the alliance for securing democracy hamilton sixty eight dashboard which purports to follow a group of russian bots even though twitter says they've shut them all down. that. they're not going to name that didn't they never name who who they're actually following that they report purport to be promoting there are actually following you by what i know because i've never i've never have had any of these things that are talking about i mean last week these russian bonds that they follow the primary thing that russia was promoting it via social media was monday motivations because obviously most of monday motivations is a putin this plot against the united states we're talki

in these investigations the united kingdom accused russia of basically. phrasing them in such a way that there was no way to hold the government of syria accountable it shifted the focus completely to non-state actors in the investigation and this was something that was not acceptable to western countries in the past and is something that they clearly would have to overcome in any new proposals put forth by the russians that said the members of the security council been calling for a way to get back to discussing this issue and a way to hold the perpetrators of these accounts of these attacks accountable so i'm sure they will be looking at this and see if there's any way to go forward but it will have to overcome these issues that have tied them up in the past in order to go forward many things christus in a way that bringing us the latest from the u.n. security council still to come why u.s. vice president mike pence has become a very popular man in israel. and a deadline for election is in crisis torn venezuela but who will oppose president maduro. welc

that sort of news i would like to move on to russia is russia currently a security threat for the u.s. sure it is. russia is the only other nation that possesses the ability not necessarily the will but the ability to destroy the united states or all the other members of the alliance. and their behavior of the last three years since they invaded ukraine has gotten has raised the concern of everybody including all members of the alliance all members of the european union. and it's it's the kind of thing that i think nobody wants that conflict is not inevitable we all want russia to be a part of the responsible community a responsible name again. not with their current that they're not on the right path not right now we want we would like to see them back on the path of responsible behavior as a great power and it's a great nation great people great history so many places where we could cooperate with them but they don't cooperate with you anymore well they've not lived up to any agreement that they've signed including minsk and other treaties unless you really put pressure on them to d

talks about is russia russia russia this russia gate but no no no no who cares if the united states actually cares i don't agree with victor i don't think this will be a sort of either way i think you know this this witch hunt will continue i'm. i'm far more interested in the way that the democrats and the media have tried to frame it they have argued through this anonymous anti propaganda propaganda you hit the. the alliance for securing democracy hamilton sixty eight dashboard which purports to follow a group of russian bots even though twitter says they've shut them all down. that. they're not going to name that didn't they never name who who they're actually following that they report purport to be promoting there are actually following you by what i know because i've never i've never had had any of these things that are talking about i mean last week these russian bonds that they follow the primary thing that russia was promoting it via social media was monday motivation because obviously more monday motivations is a putin this plot against the united states. you would think about syria

talks about is russia russia russia this run. again but no no no no really here no one in the united states actually cares i can agree with victor i don't think this will be a silver bullet either way i think that you know this this witch hunt will continue i'm far more interested in the way that the democrats and the media have tried to frame it they have argued through this anonymous anti propaganda propaganda you hit the. the alliance for securing democracy hamilton sixty eight dashboard which purports to follow a group of russian bots even though twitter says they've shut them all down. that. they're not going to name that didn't they never name who who they're actually following that they report purport to be promoting their obviously problem with you by what i know because i've never i've never had any of these things that are talking about i mean last week these russian bonds that they follow the primary thing that russia was promoting it via social media was monday motivation because obviously most monday motivations is a

russia. exerting all the efforts to find political asylum settlement unfortunately and i shows just approaching this issue by the same means it's used for the military solution after its interference on in two thousand and fifteen and that's why it is having real problems in finding this settlement or in finding a solution in other words the syrian case is one of the rights of a political solution rather than a military one because the military solution has really proven to be a disaster snotter due to the fact that it has diverse stated the country displaced its people and without getting any results for them and and that e.g. in doesn't see in confident as you reported in your report in your introduction which is. i believe a misconception of the stew asian. because of the iranian element the iranian factor and the question factor that again is still there how could it see confident ok without it it will go back into all into more details about the different players in the conflict mr clegg

russia. exerting all the efforts to find our political asylum settlement unfortunately and i shows just approaching this issue by the same means it's used for the military solution after it's interference on in two thousand and fifteen and that's why it is having real problems in finding this settlement or in finding a solution in other words the syrian case is one of the rights of a political solution rather than a military one because the military solution has really proven to be a disaster it's not our due to the fact that it has divest they did their country displaced its people and without getting any results for them and and that e.g. in doesn't seem confident as you reported in your report in your introduction which is. i believe a misconception of the stew asian. because of the iranian element the iranian factor and the question factor that again is still there how could it feel confident ok without it it would go back and it all into more details about the different players in the co

more opportunity for russia. if russia would decide to keep the territories, it is not very important. if you can give siberia to china, who knows? maybe that is a great opportunity. i think that would be a very unstable station. peter: another question. right over here. >> i am a student here at the honors college. my question is, what do you think is russia's role in the middle east, today, especially given what is going on in syria and with america kind of leading the picture and also given the painful history between russia and its jews, what is the appropriate relationship that israel should have with russia? natan: on one hand, this one is easy for me to speak about putin as a dissident. putin is a former kgb officer and is not a big fan of democracy. on the other hand, it is difficult for me to speak negatively about putin as a -- activist.sts putin is the first non-anti-semite in russia in a thousand years. i can say a lot of bad things about putin. he is permitting or supporting the development of jewish

that sort and there's i would like to move on to russia is russia currently a security threat for the u.s. sure it is. russia is the only other nation that possesses the ability not necessarily the will but the ability to destroy the united states or all the other members of the alliance. and their behavior of the last three years since they invaded ukraine has got has raised the concern of everybody including all members of the alliance all members of the european union. and it's it's the kind of thing that i think nobody wants that conflict is not inevitable we all want russia to be a part of the responsible community responsible they ask me. not with their current that they're not on the right path not right now we what we would like to see them back on the path of responsible behavior as a great power it's a great nation great people great history so many places where we could cooperate with them but they don't cooperate with you anymore well they've not lived up to any agreement that they've signed including minsk and other treaties unless you really put pressure on them to do th

russia is complicit in the assad regime's atrocities you are acting as judge and prosecutor russia is running from the facts your behavior exposes your true motives russia has the audacity to lecture this security council this is a long political spectacle for not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth we should at least have taken a look at the draft before rejecting it russia all on its own killed the mechanism we had specifically tasked to identify those responsible q what do you need an investigative mechanism for before an investigation you haven't cues the syrian government of using chemical weapons. the emergency security council meeting was called after reports emerged of another chemical attack in syria on monday secretary of state claimed that russia was ultimately responsible for that and all other such instance since its twenty fifteen intervention. whoever conducted the attack rochelle truly bears responsibility for the victims in these and countless other syrians targeted with chemical weapons since russia became involved in

the interference of russia in our electoral process. not a single hearing at the full committee level. no interest. look over there. and so we are here today to call upon our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, stand up for your country. this isn't about partisan politics. this is about protecting our beloved country. and everybody needs to be counted. and it's not about a partisan game. it is about protecting the interests of the person electorate. thank you for having me here today. and it gives me great pleasure to introduce my colleague and friend, the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee, elliot engel. >> thanks, gerry. and let me say, it's good to see everyone here. i'm elliot engel, and gerry mentioned before, the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. a year has gone by since our intelligence agency shined a light on russia's scheme to interfere with the 2016 elections. a year has gone by, and there have been no consequences whatsoever for those who attacked american democracy. a year has

i denigrate and ridicule russia and indeed other perceived. enemies of that. same time in the next sentence they will ramp up what the degree of threat is from these countries so they don't seem to see the internal inconsistences of what they're actually saying certainly it was in boston of course for michael falling to say that about the russian aircraft because literally within a few weeks virtually all of the brand new fleet of britain's very advanced frigate fleet was laid up in ports because of similar breakdowns in a very modern ships charles security analyst great to have your analysis and thoughts on this aspect of the latest development tween london on moscow thanks charles. now to the u.s. where after a three day partial government shutdown american senators have voted to support a temporary funding bill which will keep services and institutions afloat until ether fabre. too much is on the table right now that needs to get finished and let us take advantage of these next few weeks to show the american people that indeed we will work together in the b

and russia in many cases showing an inclination towards russia. how do we work with our allies in europe to make sure they don't wind up either through leverage or propaganda beginning to move into a different orbit? >> well, my nato friends get mad when i say this, but some of the things i think is funny about nato is if you're in a conflict with russia, you're not allowed to be in nato. isn't that the people we want in nato? that precludes ukraine. ukraine is i believe on the front line of this battle. they not only are fighting a hybrid war, they're fighting a hot war. i think that's a perfect example of where the russians get away with things. people are still talking about what's happening in ukraine as a separatist movement. the 920 tanks that are in eastern ukraine are russian tanks. and so the fact that anybody thinks this is something other than an invasion and the fact that the russians said we need the u.n. to arbitrate this is a real simple solution. leave. leave the country that you invaded. that will solve that. that will solve that

but focus on russia. policies ande based on the assumption that engagement with russia and global governance would turn into a benign actor and a trustworthy party. the national security strategy said that this premise has turned out to be false. do you agree with the national security strategy? think that the premise of engagement with russia is destined to fail. especially if you look over the long run. increaseave seen is an of russia acting out. think we could also see that there were some missed opportunities. the goal of integrating russia into both international and , the imf,nstitutions the world bank after the fall of the collapse of the soviet union, but also institutions like the council of europe -- i think that was the right choice to make then. going back to your question about, was this inevitable. there was a certain original sin the capture of russia and you cannot get around that. you saw that prior to the last administration. he saw in georgia in 2008 with the cyberattack in estonia on

russia. exerting all the efforts to find a political settlement unfortunately russia is just approaching this issue by the same means it used for the military solution after its interference on in two thousand and fifteen and that's why it is having real problems in finding this settlement or in finding a solution in other words the syrian case is one of rights of a political solution rather than a military one the military solution has really have proven to be a disaster is not a due to the fact that it has the best stated that country displaced its people and without getting any results for a settlement and that he g.m. doesn't he in confident as you reported in your report in your introduction which is. believe i miss conception of the still way ssion duty because of the iranian element the iranian factor and the question factor that gene is still there how could it feel confident ok ms ali they would go back into more details about the different players in the conflict mr klebnikov of the

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exports to russia increased more china's exports to russia and the trade figures increase by more than twenty percent last year in spite of the sanctions in spite of counter sanctions so there is an independent interdependence and we have to be able to to find ways and means to cope with the each other's eyes spoke about this question as i spoke about this confidence building measures i think it's very important to go back to ninety seventy five let's look at very carefully what we decided to do in helsinki ninety seventy five i believe that many of these ideas would be and could be extremely relevant in today's world and we committed to to stay behind of these principles so stances were different world was different but those principles are in my opinion they are quite relevant today i'm sure they are and i'm not debating that but in today's russia the way russia sees it there are two fundamental problems first is the sanctions and anti russian sanctions in a dozen largent let's talk about the interaction sanctions i know that your president has actually said that. this sanctions are

exports to russia increased more of china's exports to russia and the trade figures increase much more than twenty percent last year in spite of the sanctions in spite of counter sanctions so there is an independent interdependence and we have to be able to to find ways and means to cope with the each other's eyes spoke about this question as i spoke about this confidence building measures i think it's very important to go back to ninety seventy five let's look at very carefully what we decided to do in helsinki ninety seventy five i believe that many of these ideas would be and could be extremely relevant in today's world and we committed to to stay behind of these principles so stances were different world was different but those principles are in my opinion they are quite relevant today i'm sure they are and i'm not debating that but in today's russia the way russia sees it there are two fundamental problems first is the sanctions and sanctions and leaders in larchmont let's talk about the interaction sanctions i know that your president has actually said that. this sanctions are hu

how will american diplomacy play out and what is russia's role here in the future. will it be effective in preventing mr. assad from being held accountable for his war crimes. where is our concern about iran and developing a land bridge between tehran and beirut which certainly affects israel's security. on each of these issue, the trump administration appears to view syria through a military lens and make decisions on troop levels and military missions in a policy vacuum. for example, at a pentagon press briefing last year the american public was informed that the united states will sustain a conditions-based military presence in syria after the defeat of isis. however, the administration has provided no information to congress or to the american people about the conditions under which u.s. forces will leave syria. are those conditions political or military? i hope to gain insight into this issue during the hearing today because our young men and women in uniform and their families deserve to be fully informed as to what they're fighting for and when the fight will

medusa is one of the regions, independent, in russia to news in russia. [speaking in native tongue] now, in december after three years of working we have alrea already. in medusa i specialized in narrative stories like big stories about isis and influence and links to russia like this example of scout immigrant workers became islamic state fighters or like my topic lgt problems in russia and political groups against lb gt like the story. the last two years particularly i worked in stories about russian hackers. russian hacking activities against russia for example, this is an article about how russian services recruited guys from around the country russian cyber army. now, in the cannon institute and in the book it's the history of russian hackers from the soviet to today. today i will tell you stories about them. i don't want to talk a lot about possible russian packings for the american election and i think the last two years but i want to talk about russian hackers and their connections to government. elsewhere in the world, in russia the [inaudible] w

the clock is ticking and russia is coming for us again. thank you. >> i think our distinguished chairman the ranking member of the committee of jurisdiction. the ranking member of the foreign affairs committee and ranking member of the judiciary committee of california to ranking member from the financial services committee and as i mentioned the ranking member of the homeland security committee. elijah cummings has joined their colleagues in signing a letter and we have the vice ranking member of the oversight committee. mr. connolly who is also a member of the foreign affairs committee. they were joined by congressman of the house administrations committee in sending a letter to the speaker and in the letter they asked for and they say we are extremely concerned by the intelligence committees warning that russia may attempt -- the intelligence community warning that russia may attempt to interfere with future elections including the upcoming midterm elections and we are deeply troubled by the lack of action by the trump administration an

about russia's behavior. well certainly that in my view the greatest threat of any nation on earth well here's how it all began on january sixth of last year u.s. intelligence agencies issued a report saying that russia had tried to influence our elections with this russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in twenty sixteen aimed at the us presidential election russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the us democratic process denigrate secretary clinton and home her electability and potential presidency we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president elect trump now the authors of the report at the time said they had high confidence in their judgments a few pages later they explain exactly what they meant by high confidence with a little disclaimer high confidence generally indicates that judgments of based on high quality information from multiple sources high confidence does not imply that the assessment is fact or a certainty such

and to stop speculation regarding the meddling of russia. maybe it is not russia. maybe it is another country. i see a lot of cameras and that is why don't want to name other countries. of particular interest to united states, because they raise speculation. why the russian federation? is it just only because of the problem between democrats and republicans? i do not want it to interfere in your internal relations. i would just like to answer your question. my proposal to you, you meaning the united states, to restore sensitive links of communications between our counterintelligence and security workingto start together. i will repeatedly say we are not enemies. we are partners. we were allies in the second world war and we are fighting global terrorism. it is high time for us to have constructive discussions about open and transparent discussions about security challenges that we face. if we have concerns, we have openly discussed them by fitting together, but not through mass media. it is very easy to speak through mass media. just only to send one signal, to say

we would hope russia would recognize that russia's long-term issues, should not way iran is a positive factor. >> we can you think we can convince russia that? i think i agree with you. but i think mr. putin likes having a proxy of iran and syr syria. >> the focus from the russian point of view on stabilization and securing the success of the regime and putting an end to the violence, the question is at what price over the long term. in an enhancement cannot serve any regional or trans- regional interests. u.s. what we are doing. first step was the defeat of isis. as long as isis remained a potent force the space to deal with these was not there. that bandwidth is being freed up now. with the un process and international support for credible electoral reform process we seem transition and syria as a potentially achievable goal. is going to be hard to do. assad will cling to power at every cost possible. we will treat iran and syria as a separate strategic issue. you deal with it in all places it manifests. not just syria but iraq, yemen, the gulf, other areas where their behavior affec

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how much is russia putting up? those who have joined the us coalition they should alsojoin the joined the us coalition they should also join the international effort to assist in the reconstruction of syria. how will russia joined that effort? how much will it put up?” cannot give you a specific figure, because they are estimates. the wine you referred to, citing, that is one estimate, there may be others —— the one. i have not heard any estimates coming from the syrian government. certainly it will be a huge sum. does russia recognise is responsibility in needing to repair the damage it is responsible for? russia recognises its responsibility for achieving the results of the military involvement, which is destroying the assets and the basis of terrorist organisations in syria. we are also involved in promoting a political solution in syria. indeed. you are also involved in shoring president assad is still in power and in control of much of syria and yet you are asking much of the eu to pay reconstruction mon

sanctioning russia i mean do you think they'll be a rift between the u.s. and europe because of this. possibly western europe but certainly not the ones in the east who have been relying on america all this time to get relief from the big bear and for the last eight years of the obama administration that many eastern europeans have been terrified that nothing american would ever stand in the way of russia again and they've got to see this set of potential sanctions as something they can relax and get a night's sleep over so i'm i'm kind of pleased that the traditions of the obama administration have been tossed in the waste basket and we're moving toward with traditional american stances in eastern europe where leave it there dave perkins radio talk show host and political commentator thank you very much thank you thank you kate. now the international paralympic committee has up held its ban on the russian team for the upcoming winter games some clean athletes but not all will be allowed to compete in south korea in march under a neutral flag i.p.c. preside

where they're saying that it's russia's responsibility would have to be that russia was allowing him to somehow hide gas and then use it but as we can see from this incident and ones before every time it's used it's used to attack russia so i don't know why russia would have any interest at all in allowing assad to use gas the russian envoy did come out very direct statements there just within the past hour or so i keep saying western powers of applying pressure on the chemical probe in syria how much of an issue and much of a problem do you think that is or otherwise what we've seen it before in the earlier investigations that a lot of pressure gets put on the investigators to come up with a preconceived. conclusion and and then the evidence doesn't really get looked at. and it's and then the you know this is sort of a forced result it's predictable so i think that that is correct i don't think that we've been getting in on this investigation from the investigators do you think they're for russia's call for a new probe will be welcomed will it be at not welcomed by other world power

russia hacked into the us irish and british power grids fake russia was influencing the braggs it vote through social media fake russia hacked into cataloging a separatism and was promoting cataloging a separatism in spain real how about buying ads on social media in order to influence u.s. public opinion yeah yeah why not make up the budget actually all of those allegations were leveled against russia do you believe that do you think that they're actually doing these kind of things from what the seventeen u.s. . intelligence agencies syndicate and the strong possibility that they did i feel it's just i knew that to sell newspapers people just wrote of one story then put it on everything else that listeners showed new yorkers is dwarfed from an actual file of things that russia has been accused of it turns out that if you point the finger at the kremlin you can find a convenient scapegoat for almost any trouble that you're dealing with it will mop . r.t. new york. meanwhile germany has started the year by introducing a new law to tackle hate speech but it's already been criticized for

his interests which are maybe more with iran than with russia because russia is an ally with israel and now i would add but acid in israel and israel and iran are not allies at all their enemies so these co-writing agendas right now in syria may create even more war than there was before when there was a uniting kind of enemy the state and now there isn't. unfortunately momi have run out of time we could do a whole nother program on this i'm sure we will so many thanks to all of you for joining us today on inside story. and most capable for going to and ended by now to madison salah. and many thanks to you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website miss al jazeera dot com and vote it's gotten to go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for slash a.j. inside that story you can also also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story from the floor a car and the whole team here that's by for now you get i am getting. the scene for us where they're online what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it nev

after they reunited with russia. there have been many lego leaves egalese questions on that, including on the budapest memorandum. according to the budapest memorandum, ukraine said it will no longer have its nuclear start. again, we have never threatened ukraine with nuclear weapons. so it means there have been no violation of the budapest meant -- memorandum. but in a separate protocol, the ukraine said this will not provoke racist, new not these, -- neo-nazi's. but what happened after the protests was a gross violation of that commitment. politically, i assure you, as president putin reiterated once again, we seek the full implementation of the agreements without any admissions and that is fully in line with our respect for territorial integrity for ukraine and its current borders following the referendum that was held with international law. reporter: but, we are talking about the 1998 borders and territorial integrity in terms of 1998. so maybe this treaty needs to be modernized. minister lavrov: with all due re

russia is complicit in the assad regime atrocities you are acting as judge and prosecutor russia is running from the facts your behavior exposes your true. russia has the audacity to lecture this security council this is a long political spectacle for not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth we should at least have taken a look at the draft before rejecting it russia all on its own killed the mechanism we had specifically tasked to identify those responsible. q what do you need an investigative mechanism for before any investigation you have in the syrian government of using chemical weapons. well that came during a debate on how to tweak the system used to assess chemical attacks in syria the emergency meeting was held after the us secretary of state claimed another attack took place in syria on monday he said russia should shoulder the blame for that and other incidents whoever conducted the attack russia ultimately bears responsibility for the victims of these and countless other syrian targeted with chemical weapons since russia became inv

this will not come under the present circumstance. >> we need russia to cooperate. >> russia needs to put pressure on the regime to abide by the security council resolution so yes, why should russia do that because mine is engagement there is no money coming into syria for the broad community from russia or syria and we think that is meaningful. your insight.or >> thank you ambassador. i note you have noted that when a take a look at article for it has a vision of the syrian lad process to produce a new constitution with free and fair elections to include the diaspora of those international standards of accountability and transparency. now we have a geneva process sponsored by russia with iran andon turkey with the cooperation of that geneva process that the un is not involved but it just seems there is no traction to that vision laid out with chaos and messiness. how do we get from that goal that was a clear objective? how do we get traction from 2254? >> the first is to try to engage in a positive and negative sense of what they have committed to with their own support and directly

about russia's behavior. well certainly that in my view the greatest threat of any nation on earth well here's how it all began on january sixth of last year u.s. intelligence agencies issued a report saying that russia had tried to influence our elections with this russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in twenty sixteen aimed at the us presidential election russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the us democratic process denigrate secretary clinton and home her electability and potential presidency we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president elect trump now the authors of the report at the time said they had high confidence in their judgments a few pages later they explain exactly what they meant by high confidence with a little disclaimer high confidence generally indicates that judgments based on high quality information from multiple sources high confidence does not imply that the assessment is fact or a certainty such ju

turkey russia. and the us i think europe which is very become more like a less relevant actor and of fight despite being bearing. brunt of the fighting in syria with the refugees and attacks in iraq could play a significant role here by mediating between these forces because of actually their economy power political. leverage on russia turkey and others and tokyo and the kurds are two potential allies of europe in the syrian conflict john sinan going to yield is richard weiss thank you very much indeed for your contributions of program and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a james i sorry you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is. from me on the whole team here by phone now. the latest news as it breaks the government of mali so maggie has pushed to have a series of laws that if as will make argentina's economy more competitive with detail

and russia organized crime. they deny the allegations. >> there is a -- why would trump ever do business with those guys? >> guys like russia born felix. and they say the suit acuting him of shady dealings is a shake down. >> a twice convicted felony, after his second conviction, he cop ra cooperated on cases with the justice department. >> he was accused of stabbing someone in the neck with a ma margarita class. then fraud with penny stocks. >> his business ties extended well beyond the soho deal. together they explored additional trump deals in the u.s. and abroad. but in sworn testimony in a 2013 deposition, trump insisted he barely even knew sader. >> about how many times have you converses with mr. sader. >> over the years? not many. if he was sitting in the room right now i wouldn't really know what he looked like. >> it is absolutely up tree that trump doesn't know sader. >> at one time he held a card for the trump organization. he was also got between for the recent and controversial attempt at trying to

putin to powere in russia. the techniques were first developed at home against the russian people and now he's using them globally. through our analysis it became clear several have stepped up to the challenge for some in europe the u.s. elections were a wake-up call that led to the political resolve and action. for others, they've been present for decades and organized accordingly. we learned in this investigation that the arsenal could be countered with the right mixture of political will, defense and deterrence. the countries that achieved a degree of success .-full-stop one thing in common, political leadership who publicly says enough is enough and from there mobilized the bureaucracies to respond. in contrast to the current situation in the united states following th attacks like pearl harbor, 9/11 u.s. presidents rallied the country and the world to address the challenges yet today the current president of the united states barely acknowledges the threat posed by the repeated attacks on democratic govern

i face great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. >> the words "relieving pressure" i think are going to raise questions for investigators. >> thank you very much. >> the president has consistently said that he did not obstruct justice when he fired james comey. >> mr. comey -- >> the two men come from completely different worlds. >> james comey is a professional lawman. he has a respect for the traditions of the justice department. >> should it be about the facts and the law. that's why i became fbi director. >> donald trump, on the other hand sack, businessman. >> he expects absolute loyalty from everybody working for him. that's the culture in which he has operated for many, many years. >> their relationship got off to a bad start. before the inauguration, james comey was in charge of telling donald trump about the dossier. the controversial document contained allegations about the president gathered as part of an opposition research during the campaign. >> i didn't want him thinking that i was briefing him on th

the whole the notion of the mother russia. and it creates actually a distance this is something that they found the frightening because they diffusion of these kinds of criticism really creates. a deep a gap but it made mr mudd if i may interject here i think this is a very interesting observation i think it's also very true but i would point to what lies at the root of. jihadist sentiment toward the west is not some cultural separation but primarily in this the sounds of and just as the sense of an indignity the bloodshed the suffering that western countries brought in too many arab society i'm sure they were driven by good intentions there was always things that it's doing the right thing but i think what matters to the afflicted country is not the intentions but the actual result don't you think that russia has the reason to be concerned at the same kind of do gooding would be visited upon it by the western countries i'm in i see an enormous difference here between the two situations. you wouldn't deepen these pull into muc