moscow says it may reciprocate with economic sanctions.

he's live in moscow with this report. ♪ >>> good evening, everyone. tonight we're joining you from the russian capitol where earlier today the government made some aggressive moves, ordering american diplomats to leave and seizing u.s. embassy property. they war watching yesterday's stormy session on capitol hill closely. late into the day, the senate came together to draw a line in the sand imposing harsh new sanctions on russia. >> it's time to respond to russia's attack on democracy with strength, resolve and common purpose and action. >> the bill was passed in the senate by an overwhelming majority, just as it did earlier this week in the house. and even before the vote vladimir putin launched his own pre-emptive rhetorical strike. the sanctions are obviously illegal, he said. they violate the principles of international trade. at some point he added, we will have to respond. and today they did, announcing that some of our diplomats here have to leave and seizing the country house the embassy uses for recreation. it's also delayed retaliation for

they are not going to like it in moscow. of course they are not going to like it moscow. my first foreign visit will be to poland. brezhnev called edward garrick, his communist puppet in poland, literally called him on the phone -- we know have a transcript of the conversation -- and told him to tell the pope no, he can't come to poland. and garrick said to him -- how can i not receive a polish pope when the majority of my country or catholics? he told them to come up with a nifty excuse. tell the pope. he is a wise man. that he can announced the book he he cannot come because he has taken l. [laughter] imagine -- taken ill. [laughter] and imagine that. garrick gently told his boss that he couldn't say that. in reply, brezhnev barked at him that -- was a better communist than you. and slander down the phone. so john paul ii goes to poland. nine days to poland, huge crowds. hundreds of thousands, millions of people. imagine a million people standing in line to receive communion, right? that's have a some of these masses were. the head of the solidarity movement said this -

the moscow literal shortly been but. sales up and down the moscow river. fishing out the items that be that. the first place. okay this is pure thought with the set long rubbish scraper. and you can see he's helped to collect them while. tweet and branches and leaves. so the the pics scoop. sometimes the rubbish but finds. think about it's like fridges. don't. so it seems that the court fish. so this is what the captain is scooped up to some phones will bring it into the. download. but on average. eat up crews it covers around so tons of rubbish everyday for the moscow river and as you can see today that recall. three there are lots of vodka bottles empty ones. this it should hear all kinds of things not all of this will be taken to a moscow rubbish dump. unless of course the owners of lost items are quick enough to claim them. anyone lost a rubber duck. steve rosenberg bbc news. on the moscow river. volvo is trying to change gears on how because a maiden driven. the chinese and company says from two thousand nineteen it will start rolling out new models p

they are not going to like it in moscow. of course they are not going to like it moscow. my first foreign visit will be to poland. edward garrick, his commonest puppet in poland, literally called him on the phone -- we know have a transcript of the conversation -- and told him to tell the pope poland.an't come to and garrick said to him -- how can i not receive a polish pope when the majority of my country or catholics? he told them to come up with a nifty excuse. tell the pope. he is a wise man. that he can announced the book he he cannot come because he has taken l. [laughter] imagine -- taken ill. [laughter] and imagine that. garrick gently told his boss that he couldn't say that. barked at himhnev that -- was a better communist than you. and slander down the phone. so john paul ii goes to poland. crowdsys to poland, huge . hundreds of thousands, millions of people. imagine a million people standing in line to receive communion, right? that's have a some of these masses were. the head of the solidarity movement said this -- he comes to poland, and the 20 who followed m

he had taken a job in moscow in the kremlin hierarchy. and he had risen through the ranks with lightning speed. he had just become acting prime minister when it became blindingly clear the country needed a new president. >> so he's ready to topple over and they settled on putin because they knew yeltsin could retire without going to jail. >> power brokers wanted to protect him. >> so the deal was made. deal was made. >> december 31st, 1999. >> the surprise announcement from boris yeltsin that he's resigning as president and turning over power to vladimir putin. >> in the very first moments of the 21st century, vladimir putin became president of russia. his first words. "we live in a competitive world and we are not among its leaders." and right away putin began to change his contry. he joined soldiers on the front lines. he assured russians that better times were ahead. >> i think we'll get paid and we'll have work. >> the country quickly fell in love with vladimir putin. the number one song in russia was called a man like putin. >> he's

in moscow. and they're specifically looking for the stamps, seals and certificates. >> a lawyer for browder was tasked with finding out why. he quickly figured it out. someone was using those stamps, seals and certificates to defraud the russian treasury out of $230 million in tax refunds. and it worked? >> it worked remarkably. it was the largest tax refund in the history of russia and approved the next day and paid out one day later. >> he sent the evidence he was gathering back to london where browder was building a case against the judges, tax officials and police officers who he says were in on the heist. they retaliated by going after mag nis ki charging him with fraud and locking him up in one of moscow's most notorious prisons. >> they wanted to break him down, wanted him to withdraw his testimony against the police officers and wanted him to sign a false confession that he stole the $230 million and he did so on my instruction. and sergey refused to buckle. >> he detailed torturous cond

looks closer to dubai man moscow. >> putin's secret sauce, nationalism. and it surged in 2014 after an invasion that shocked the world. >> bigger nations must not be allowed to bully the small. >> vladimir putin gathered a piece of ukrain for russia. >> we thought those days were gone. >> but it all looked very different through russian eyes. >> i have never met a russian who accepted the notion of ukrain as a totally separate state. >> of course many ukrainians deeply resented the invasion, but not russians. they see it as the revival of a deep sense of power and national destiny. >> putin has given them their pride back. russia is once again a great power. >> putinism is an ideology of social conservatism, but above all of national power. putin might say he has made russia great again. sound familiar? >> we will make america great again. like putin, trump has used nationalism to boost his support. but many believe donald trump is no vladimir putin. >> putin is a much more practiced, subtle, coning player. he's playing in poker terms a couple of deuces a

mara lives on moscow street, and the street does indeed lead to moscow. she moved here 12 years ago nonetheless. now she lives as a latvian in maskatschka -- "little moscow". she also had her two children here. it's a neighborhood that doesn't really feel like part of the eu. mara loves the area, but acknowledges its less positive aspects. there are few jobs -- and drug-dealers on every other street corner. it's a world unto itself, where people watch russian television. hardly anyone speaks latvian, even though it's impossible to vote, get a passport or work for the government without the language. until the outbreak of the crimean conflict, latavian tv had no russian-language programming -- a gap exploited by moscow. now, state tv has a special new service catering to that audience. >> it's never to late to do something. we've waited 25 years in latvia to have russian language tv for our minority. we lost a lot of people to russian tv. reporter: in their attempt to compete with russian media, the russian language latvian broadcaster has found allies in

: moscow, the kremlin, the seat of power in vladimir putin's russia. we are headed to the outskirts of the city. and keeping a low profile. >> the person we're about to meet is taking a risk. >> reporter: we're on our way to a secret safe house. >> we don't know where we're going. >> reporter: to meet two men who say they've been forced into hiding, their lives in danger because they're gay. this is what is happening in russia. these disturbing images collected by human rights watch. showing men allegedly being choked, beaten, violated, targeted allegedly because of their sexuality. in the past few years, bigotry has been on the rise. and repressive government policies have fueled the hatred. but it is in southern russia, in chechnya, a semi autonomous republic where high school rights groups say vigilanty hate has evolved into something far worse. a coordinated government campaign to round up and eliminate gay men. a mass persecution. here in that moscow safe house we're about to meet two of the men who say they are survivors. they tell us they're so

studied at the moscow academy of finance and also got an mba from the university of new haven in connecticut according to his website. kaveladze is a u.s. citizen. according to his attorney and worked for the agalarov business since 2004, meaning with the company when it partnered with the trump administration to pull off the 2013 miss universe pageant in moscow. appears, wolf, he is sneen video from 2013 exclusively obtained by cnn with the agalarov family and with now president trump. so he is seen in this video we obtained exclusively and presented last week. so he apparently goes way back with the agalarovs. the special council investigators reached out to his attorney seeking information from kaveladze as part of this russia probe and his attorney says that he is fully cooperating, wolf. >> all right.

in moscow. they are specifically looking for the stamps, seals and certificates. someone was using those stamps, seals and certificates to defraud the russian treasury out of $230 million in tax refunds. >> it worked. it was the largest tax refund in the history of russia. it paid out one day later. >> the tax officials and police officers who he says were in on the heist. they retaliated by going after him charging him with fraud and locking him up in one of the most notorious prisons. >> they wanted to break him down. they wanted him to withdraw his testimony against police officers and wanted him to sign a false confession. and he turned into this unbelievable man of steel. he refused to buckle. the mild mannered tax lawyer detailed torturous conditions. the treatment harsher. his health fading. according to brouder that wasn't enough. >> chained him to a bed and eight guards beat him to death. >> if he was dying anyway why would they do such an act? why chain the bed? >> that is what they do

in moscow. and they're specifically looking for the stamps, seals and certificates. >> a lawyer for browder was tasked with finding out why. he quickly figured it out. someone was using those stamps, seals and certificates to defraud the russian treasury out of $230 million in tax refunds. and it worked? >> it worked remarkably. it was the largest tax refund in the history of russia and approved the next day and paid out one day later. >> he sent the evidence he was gathering back to london where browder was building a case against the judges, tax officials and police offers he swho s were in the heist. they retaliated by going after magnitsky charging him with fraud and locking him up in one of moscow's most notorious prisons. >> they wanted to break him down, wanted him to withdraw his testimony against the police officers and wanted him to sign a false confession that he stole the $230 million and he did so on my instruction. and sergey refused to buckle. >> he detailed torturous conditions.

it's six o'clock am in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from austin to you with me welcome to the program. thousands have turned out in the british capital for the not one day more antigovernment marshawn we're going to cross live to ati's and a sister who's been following the demonstration as it happens last year what's the update on this. well if you're out you know there's certainly been quite a handful of protest recently especially following the snap election that theresa may held but i have to say this is definitely the biggest we've seen recently we've seen thousands and thousands of people turn up today in central london a huge march that started outside the b.b.c. headquarters where people walked all the way through central london to hear their parliament square and they're continuing to gather here this entire square here is filled with people who are coming out to say they don't want to reset mase government anymore now there's certainly a handful of concerns that people have been talking to us about starting

this is breaking news moscow tells the u.s. diplomatic staff in russia after the senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new round of sanctions. human rights watch claims an iraqi army division previously trained by the u.s. has carried out extrajudicial killings in mosul. attacks of the cia's post nine eleven torture program could be set to go on trial in the u.s. we speak exclusively to a former colleague of one of the men. are there for me in the team here at the new center in moscow my name's called embrace how three pm friday afternoon keeping in touch with the biggest stories from around the world first for you russia's told the u.s. to cut the number of diplomatic staff that it has in the country by the first of september the move follows the approval of a new russian anti russian sanctions bill by the senate it was overwhelmingly voted for for more details we can talk to a. strongly worded statement what else did it say hi there colleen yes it's a really hot day here in moscow and it said be hotting up in diplomatic c

the reporter went to moscow where he met with survivors who say they fled for their >> reporter: moscow, the kremlin, the seat of power in vladimir putin's russia. we are headed to the outskirts of the city. and keeping a low profile. >> the person we're about to meet is taking a risk. >> reporter: we're on our way to a secret safe house. >> we don't know where we're going. >> reporter: to meet two men who say they've been forced into hiding, their lives in danger because they're gay. this is what is happening in russia. these disturbing images collected by human rights watch. showing men allegedly being choked, beaten, violated, targeted allegedly because of their sexuality. in the past few years, bigotry has been on the rise. and repressive government policies have fueled the hatred. but it is in southern russia, in chechnya, a semi autonomous republic wre has evolved into something far worse. a coordinated government campaign to round up and eliminate gay men. a mass persecution. here in that moscow safe house we're about to meet two of the men who say they are survivors. they tell u

steve rosenberg is in moscow. well, in recent days, moscow has been dropping not so subtle hints that it may be about to expel dozens of american diplomats and close down a couple of american diplomatic compounds in moscow. why? well, last december, president obama did something similar. he ordered 35 russian diplomats out of the country unclosed two russian of the country and closed two russian diplomatic compounds. his response, he said, to russian cyber attacks aimed at influencing the outcome of the us presidential election. now, russia cried foul and accused america of violating international law, but at the time, the kremlin didn't retaliate. president putin knew that president obama was on his way out and that there'd soon be a new man in the white house, donald trump. so we decided not to react immediately, to give trump the possibility to do something to solve this problem somehow. we were ready for that. but if he cannot do that, we have to do something for ourselves. nothing personal, just business. thi

it's never happened in moscow. when he came back the first time you see his presidential ambitions. >> the waning days of the soviet union, ronald reagan is president. >> right. and he goes back a couple of times, but you quote him praising the soviet leaders in comparison to the american leaders. >> right. he is -- i mean, you know, it's interesting. he has watched russia become a mafia state. rather than being appalled by it, it seems to me he's embracing it. the mafia state putin's put together, it's an interesting phrase, but what does it really mean? and what you see is a system of oligarchs and mafia crime bosses, and putin allows them to work, allows them to become wealthy. as long as they're serving putin's interests and as long as they don't challenge him politically. >> you make the case that, when trump really had his financial crisis, when atlantic city went south in the late '80s, that it was russian money that, in part, helped bail him out. >> right. how so? e was 4 billion in debt, had 800 million in

morning on monday here in moscow watching r.t. international a very warm welcome to you. venezuela's electoral council says the turnout in sunday's vote for a new constituent assembly was more than forty percent the election deadly wave of violence across the country. i i. i. an explosion on a street in caracas entered a number of people among them seven police officers also six people were wounded when a grenade was thrown into a polling station the opposition is calling for more protests as it regards the election as illegal. if you know the ball again we know if we don't have a republic we have nothing we may have a home food we can start a family raise children die so there's no need if we don't have a republic that's why we went to vote. this is a legal no one asked the people where they wanted or not i don't think you know you know people are tired of they can ask the government to fix the things that should be fixed but basically we need peace. president nicolas maduro to called on venezuelans to throw their support behind the new assembly which will be formed afte

about trump positions on moscow. again, sessions is adamantly denying this. as the post points out, just because he reported it back to his superiors doesn't prove that it happened. >> and again, let me make sure this is clear. sessions is denying there is any conversation or is sessions acknowledging, there was some kind of conversation that tangentially involved the campaign? how much is he denying here? >> you're asking a very interesting question. initially his people were adamantly denying that there was any meeting. when he was asked under oath, when he testified before congress, he did hedge a little bit. he said i can't recall every conversation. i can't recall meeting sergei kislyak but it might have happened. so under oath he didn't completely deny it. if there was a substantive conversation about the trump campaign of interest to the russians, that would be a hard thing for anyone to seemingly failing to recall. especially when he had already gotten into trouble for previous contact with kislyak. if did it happen, that could be a big problem for je

thank you matthew chance in moscow. joining us to discuss all of this and more retired rear admiral john kirby, cnn military and diplomatic analyst and former spokesman for the pentagon and state department, also with us fareed zakaria, the host of "fareed zacaria gps" gps. were you surprised by the scope and extent of what the russians have now done? >> i am. and i think it represents a realization in russia that this, the administration, the trump administration, has not worked out as they anticipated. they were clearly ecstatic about trump's victory. you remember the scenes of moscow legislators celebrating, breaking out the champagne. putin giving a, comments on saying nobody in the world expected this, except we did. we predicted it, we expected it. he talked about how patriotic russians might have taken part in this because they might have seen it would be good for their country, well, because trump has sort of boxed himself in on russia, essentially what is happening is, he has no room to maneuver to seem more co

we have our chief correspondent in washington and moscow. the plan was to have a meeting for 30 minutes, it went on for two hours. what can we read into that? >> certainly that the media went beyond the kind of general pleasantries that we heard at the outset. there was a brief few minutes of public statements at the very beginning where the leaders said how glad they were to meet. many people expected that would be more or less the gyst of the meeting. up until today, people are not sure if this would even be a real bilateral. clearly they did speak about substantial matters and they went over time. the first lady went and after about an hour and said time was up but nevertheless mr. putin and trump continued talking for another hour. the issues they addressed, not only syria, which is an area where they had common interest but also north korea, ukraine and that russian interference in the u.s. election. something many people thought they would not touch on. a question was asked by the press who were there to take pictures and mr. trump bru

well number one countries are beating a path still to washington not to moscow despite the fact that in the united states we have a bit of a political mess number two the united states is still a country that is generally upholding the order trying to uphold the order that emerged after after world war two and so i think it would be a kind of misrepresentation to say that everybody is coming to moscow and not to what i want you if you if we just take the number of visited moscow over the last let's say four months and compare it to the number of leaders will visit washington i think it's i mean those would be just pure figures but i'm absolutely sure that they are in favor of russia but it's a little let's not compare the numbers because elvis of the united states is. it is an important player it's recognized even this country and i'm sure you heard foreign minister lavrov saying that russia is counting on having some sort of pragmatic relationship with the united states. what do you think pragmatism even mean to the americans and those they made because for the russians it's a give

in moscow. the fight for now is an economic fie fight as this country struggles to rebuild. >> the nation's entire economy was being privatized on the cheap. >> this stuffbeing given away for free and all you had to do was show up. >> when vladimir putin took off, he promised to stop the gold rush. >> he came in at a time of total chaos. the oligarchies had taken over russia. 22 guys owning everything in the country and 150 million people eating dirt. putin said we're going to get rid of these 22 guys and we're going to clean up russia. >> and you believed it? >> i clapped along with everybody else. we thought oh, this is going to be so much better. >> he cheered and made a fortune as one oligarchy after another was jailed, or muscled out until of course they came for him. >> i arrived at the main moscow airport and four heavily armed officials said follow me, sir, in russia. i had officially been deported because i was considered a threat to national security. >> putin was tightening his grip o

we saw president putin and president xi jinping drinking vodka at the in moscow just before the g. twenty summit is is that close relationship closer relationship between moscow and beijing a symptom of the end of globalization i don't think it's a symptom of the end of globalization by the way maybe is a. symptom or a recognition that the u.s. prime. morrill role as leader of the system is no longer the case. for some time we've been moving to a more collective leadership for the global economy and what we've seen with president trump in place now is is that the move towards that has accelerated and so the confidence in the us administration and the u.s. president as reflected in various recent global polls has suffered dramatically and i think we're going to be looking at more leadership from china and potentially from from parts of europe from from chancellor merkel from makarov in france and from justin trudeau and. you think it's the beginning of the end of the i.m.f. and world bank institutions you of course were representative of the i.m.f. many as we see the rise of the new

diplomats in moscow to celebrate christmas at the kremlin now it seems moscow's patience though has run out according to the foreign ministry spokesman where he has a horrible this is what could happen take a listen. to problem of this report it's been half a year but we do not see any concrete steps from washington to resolve these issues however nothing impeached a new administration from showing independence and taking steps time is running out we do have ways to retaliate the personnel in the u.s. embassy in moscow greatly exceeds the number of our embassy staff in washington. both the president sure the spokeswoman spokesman the press corps finally has a heart over there as you heard have taken great pains to emphasize that this is unrelated to any other issues which may be ongoing between russia and the u.s. diplomatically political differences and they've also strive to make very clear that this is a flexible issue nothing is set in stone and much would depend for example on the meeting on monday between deputy foreign minister of course and u.s. undersecretary of state thomas sh

the goal was to find any evidence of tradecraft and figure out how they were communicating with moscow center. >> that's a high risk operation. that's the point at which the most things can go wrong for us. >> we had to be very careful not to upset traps when we went into places. foreign intelligence officers will do certain things like vacuuming a rug as they back out of the door so they can see if anybody came in or not. >> so it was a major, major point in the investigation when we would do that, because so much was at stake for us. >> we saw a lot of things with these couples. during the searches, we found invisible ink. they had specially treated paper and shortwave radios. >> these were materials they were using to communicate to sbr, which was referred to as "center." >> what kind of information were they sending? >> the broadcasts were essentially unbreakable. we couldn't see into their communications system. at certain times we did have a microphone in the house. >> so we were always monitoring what they might be doing in their routine lives, how they talked to their children,

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in recent weeks moscow has been battered by gale force winds and storms that have uprooted trees and filled the russian capital's river with debris. but the authorities say they're managing to keep the city's river clean thanks to moscow's fleet of russian—built refuse collection boats. our correspondent steve rosenberg waited for a sunny day and went on board. i don't know about you but i find it challenging keeping my own little home neat and tidy with a vacuum cleaner and a dustpan and brush, so how on earth do the russians keep all of this clean — a0 miles of moscow river? the answer is this thing — rubbish collector number three — essentially, the moscow litter launch, or the bin boat and it fishes out the items that shouldn't be there in the first place. this man has a long rubbish scraper and he has helped to collect leagues and branches and leaves and put them into the big scooper —— leaves. sometimes the rubbish boat finds other objects, like fridges, ca rs finds other objects, like fridges, cars or dogs. oh, and it seems that they have caught a fish. so, this is

international live from our moscow studio with me welcome to the program. u.s. democrats on the media have rounded on donald trump's son over a meeting he held last year with a russian lawyer in response he's released the full email exchange from june twenty sixth detailing how the get together was set up trump jr was initially contacted by an intermediary who talked about handing over quote very high level and sensitive information via russian noir the info supposedly incriminated hillary clinton and was part of moscow's effort to aid his father's campaign it apparently originated from a crown prosecutor of russia although that job titles raised more than a few eyebrows in the media first because there is in fact a no such official position in russia the country not being a monarchy and there are other confusing aspects to the story to the scale of more explains the stories like a war shack test meaning that everyone sees a different picture and most of the media sees a picture of collusion in trees. i think he was about to get help from a russian. or with ties

let me track him down in moscow, what number he could call. don junior replies, he can call his cell. goldstone replies, he's on stage in moscow but should be off within 20 minutes, so i'm sure can call. that was june 6th. nearly an hour later, don junior replies, rob, thanks for the help, raising the question of whether a phone call might have taken place during that time. 24 hours later, goldstone sent another meeting saying, they asked that i schedule a meeting, you and the russian government, attorney, i believe you are aware of the meeting. the attorney for donald junior told cnn that his client has no recollection of a phone call. >> that attorney is scott valver and he joins us live tonight from new york. he represents two of the men in donald trump's e-mails. thank you very much for taking the time. >> my pleasure. >> did your client aguilara speak to don jr. over the phone before or after the meeting with the russian lawyer? >> at some point before the meeting. he has no recollection of any conversation by telephone or otherwise in th

donald trump jr rejects allegations of collusion with moscow over a meeting with a russian lawyer last year with credit in saying she has no ties to the government . amid reports that displaced mosul residents are starting to return home fears are growing that they have nowhere to go because the iraqi cities liberation has that sways of the city in ruins. and the british government comes under fire after revealing it was published a much delayed report on the funding of extremism citing national security reasons . welcome to r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. us democrats on the media have rounded on donald trump's son after a meeting he held last year with a russian lawyer in response he's released the full e-mail exchange from june twenty sixth in detail in how the encounter was set up while john jr was initially contacted by an intermediary who talked about handing over very high level and sensitive information via a russian oil well info supposedly incriminated hillary clinton and was considered part of moscow's efforts to

from moscow to the world this is our international my names you know neal good to have you with us this hour our top story there has been another major shake up in donald trump's top team this time he's had his chief of staff run priebus and you might have guessed the president announced it on twitter that homeland security secretary john kelly the job is the latest in a string of high profile officials to head for the exit in the past six months or so a week ago the white house press secretary sean spicer also abruptly left his position that didn't come as a complete surprise to many as he hadn't been appearing at briefings for some time however the. f.b.i. director james cole me back in may did come as a major shock one of the reasons trump gave up the city will see intelligence chiefs handling of the probe into hillary clinton using a private e-mail server while secretary of state and before the. his national security advisor michael flynn was forced to resign over contacts with russia just takes a look at how relationships in the white house are starting to resemble a notable t.v. s

trump junior claims he link between the three men and moscow. trumpjunior claims he has no knowledge of what the meeting was called to be about what knowledge was being supplied. the russian lawyer spoke to nbc news to deny that she is a kremlin stooge. have you ever worked for the russian government, do you have connections to the russian government? translation: no. they had the oppression, it appears, that they were going to be told information that you had, but the dnc. they had the impression. added they get that impression? translation: it is possible they were looking for such information, they wanted it so badly. joining us now from washington to try and unravel all this, our north american reporter. let's ta ke this, our north american reporter. let's take a look at what goldstone actually promised in his e—mail to continue. he said, some official documents and if information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. this is obviously very high—level. .. donald trump jr's do

we saw president putin and president xi jinping drinking vodka at the in moscow just before the g. twenty summit is is that close relationship closer relationship between moscow and beijing a symptom of the end of globalization i don't think it's a symptom of the end of globalization by the way maybe is a. symptom or a recognition that the u.s. . primordial role as leader of the system is no longer the case. for some time we've been moving to a more collective leadership for the global economy and what we've seen with president trump in place now is is that the move towards that has accelerated and so the confidence in the us administration and the us president as reflected in various recent global polls has suffered dramatically and i think we're going to be looking at more leadership from china and potentially from from parts of europe from from chancellor merkel from mccraw in france and from justin trudeau and. you think it's the beginning of the end of the i.m.f. and world bank institutions you of course were representative of the i.m.f. many as we see the rise of the new new

nine in the morning here in moscow and this is the week. a new round of sanctions is just a signature away as congress waits for president trump to put pen to paper the senate passed the bill on thursday washington says they're in response to what they call russian aggression in syria and ukraine and for alleged meddling in the u.s. election but it. might be much more behind the initiative to. the sanctions bill that was passed it targets many parts of russia's economy it targets mining targets finance and russia metal manufacturing but one part of the bill that was specifically singled out was the energy sector of russia's economy the bill penalizes any company that cooperates with russia's pipeline projects it's about sending a message to russia to hold mr putin accountable for his actions we will take tough action against russia the bill is targeting the construction of a key natural gas pipeline into europe citing what it calls detrimental impact on european energy security furthermore in the same paragraph the bill talks about exportin

rejects allegations of collusion with moscow over a meeting with a russian lawyer last year with the kremlin saying she has no ties to the government. i mean reports the displaced. to return home. they have nowhere to go with the iraqi cities liberated has left to utterly devastated. and a cold front close behind the warm meeting between the two hundred twenty with the u.s. now apparently back tracking on plans to restore relations with russia.

moscow tells the united states to reduce its diplomatic staff in russia after the senate from washington voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new round of sanctions. and human rights watch claims a u.s. trained iraqi army unit has carried out extrajudicial killings in mosul. with the new center in moscow where it's now seven pm it's six pm in germany which is where we start with the breaking news we got in the last ninety minutes or so of a stabbing attack in a supermarket in the northern port city of hamburg has left one person dead and at least four others injured our europe correspondent peter. ok peter any more that we know at this point. well the police spokesperson has been talking to the press he confirmed that one person has been killed and four people have been wounded after this knife attack took place in a supermarket in hamburg the suspect who carried out this attack is in police custody however as of yet police haven't spoken about any motive behind the they have said that they're investigating all possible motives including terror now some eyewitnesses at the scene said that

here in that moscow safe house we're about to meet two of the men who say they are survivors. they tell us they're so afraid, even here, they've asked that we obscure their faces and change their voices. >> were you happy? in grozny. >> translator: because they started rounding up homosexuals. and it was getting to a new level. >> when you say they were rounding up and arresting gay people, who is they? >> translator: the authorities. militias. >> reporter: this man, we'll call him danil, says he is no stranger to discrimination and violence. he says as a gay man in chechnya he could take the risk of dating very rarely. >> we would meet in public places so that in case of danger we could run away or ask for help. >> reporter: the threat of being exposed then blackmailed or baent always present. he tells us of one terrifying setup. >> we met three times before. he came out to meet me. i gave him my hand to say hi and then i saw three men. they dragged me into the apartment. someone was holding me. someone was punching me. i started to resist and i ran down stairs. >> reporter:

the workers here in moscow to celebrate christmas the kremlin it seems now that moscow's patience is finally running out today the foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is a horrible made a statement describing what could happen next the problem of the border it's been half a year but we do not see any concrete steps from washington to resolve these issues however nothing impedes the new administration from showing independence and taking steps time is running out we do have ways to retaliate the personnel in the u.s. embassy in moscow greatly exceeds the number of our embassy staff in washington. now both marias all of. the presidential spokesman have made very clear that this potential move is unrelated to any other differences political disagreements that the u.s. and russia have it's linked purely to this ongoing scandal and they've also tried to very much emphasize that these measures this issue rather is flexible it's not set in stone. next on the ship of nerves it talks social media with andrew keen about whether it's driving us to abandon our real line identities. fifty years ag

donald trump jr rejects allegations of collusion with moscow over a meeting with a russian lawyer last year with the kremlin saying she has no ties to the government. i mean reports that displaced mosul residents are starting to return home fears are growing that they have nowhere to go as the iraqi cities liberated has left to utterly devastated. and a cold front blows in behind the warm meeting behind between trump and putin and he with the u.s. now apparently backtracking on plans to restore relations with russia. you're watching r t international live from our moscow studio with me. welcome to the program. democrats on the media have rounded on donald trump's son over a meeting he held last year with a russian lawyer in response he has released the full email exchange from june twenty sixth detailing how the get together was set up trouble jr was initially contacted by an intermediary who talked about handing over quote very high level and sensitive information via russian noir the info supposedly incriminated hillary clinton and was part of moscow's effort to aid his father's camp

a terse announcement picked up from radio moscow. >> they report an accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant in the ukraine. >> the instinctive reaction of the soviet bureaucracy was to deny that anything had really happened. as a result of which, people tied not only were ordinary soviets not getting the truth about chernobyl, the top leaders were not getting the truth. gorbachev discovered that he was also in the dark as the soviet leader. >> soviet news casters deliberately played down the incident, reporting it after the latest five-year plan and crop report. eight or nine minutes into the news, an announcer said that only two people had been killed in the incident, contradicting one news report that casualties numbered in the thousands. >> chernobyl wasn't a flash in the pan. every few weeks there would be something like chernobyl because of structural defects of the soviet system. >> officials say because it took place at the newest reactor, it is another indication of the inferiority of soviet technology and they say they brought on the accident not taking the same safety

our team was there in moscow when she emerges. now our senior investigative correspondent, brian ross. >> reporter: the big question tonight is, what did the president know about the meeting here at trump tower and when did he know it. the white house says he only became aware of it a few days ago. but we now know the russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya, well connected to the kremlin, and a familiar figure in washington lobbying against russian sanctions. here she is at a congressional hearing last june. she flew in especially from moscow for the meeting with trump's inner circle, on the 25th floor of trump tower, one floor below the office of donald trump sr. democrats in congress tonight are asking, how could he not know what was going on. especially since the meeting was set up by people working for a russian billionaire who was a former business partner of trump also, and also close to vladimir putin. tonight in moscow, the lawyer veselnitskaya, denied her purpose was to provide compromising information on hillary clinton. n

let's look at how these measures are going down on the streets of moscow. the stakes are high for russia. a fresh set of sanctions would hit major industries. the prospect of further isolation has left some feeling on edge. >> i am not ready for this. it is simply impossible to live isolation and for what values? it w would mean letting go of values which are essential to us. on the other hand some russians say the sanctions have boosted some sectors. with the sanctions we now have our own agricultural products. this is good. we have started to get imports where fruit and vegetatables are very tasty. there is nothing bad about it. eu leaders back sanctions in principle, they fear new measures could harm energy cocompanies by restricting acces to u.s. banks. germany has voiced concern over the popoible impact on pipeline products. therere are many suppliers who e part of such projects s will be susubject to sanctions. as tension mounts many are hoping the new law won't be approved by the u.s. senate. >> chances of the senate not approving it very small. what

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