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

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

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

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

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

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

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

in which the russian state security forces the russian olympic committee the russian sports ministry collaborated to create a system there which no russian athlete could give up a a tainted sample mystically they would have clean urine stored in advance and it would be swapped with the tainted urine so that when the tests were undertaken russian athletes would always pass with flying colors this evidence was out and has been out for at least two years since the mclaren report last year the i.o.c. wanted to take another closer look at that evidence that evidence has held up and here we are emily what about reaction from russia there are reports that moscow plans to appeal this ban right. well the kremlin spokesman his cough said that they would be waiting for a decision he even said that they might wait for that decision in writing so they're kind of buying time there hasn't been an official reaction yet but the school of said earlier today that they would protect athletes and there has been some indication that they might appeal a decision in in the courts but it's not clear now with

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

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

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

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

it the russians are. very good with turkey supposed to be an hour. the west. have been as the at odds with the kurds and they have been. sort of giving access to supplying haddest with or intentionally or not but in the heat and also at odds with the president assad then the arsenal pretty good relation with the ship with the iranians we have seen a visit from the king of saudi arabia we have seen agreements now to call the russian forces to these european bases to the island with asia where no other superpower actually. is and that's number one number two i've said. since the russian intervention on the invitation of the muskets that the russians have to really plans one is to give the geographical in figurative syria as it is obvious that russian interests and most important the second one is to reshape a moderate islam because the islamic culture there's a lot of islamic heritage within the russian russian society itself and has been facing lot of problem for many many years for terrorism at home so th

including the ministry of sporting clued in the russian olympic committee and including the the russian anti doping lab that participated in this process so they too have recognized that there were multiple players involved in this effort to subvert the doping system no i don't dispute that that particular conclusion there was indeed a recognition that officials have been involved in the i think where the contradiction lies is what was the highest level of authorization of doc kind of program and i think the i.c. didn't point specifically to the kremlin as a thing as many what officials have done in the areas well my reading of the schmidt report and the decision the i o. i.o.c. took was that the the ministry of sport had some officials involved and i believe one of the disciplinary actions they took was the then minister of sport at the time should be held responsible for the activities of the officials in the ministry of sport and that's where the that's the limit to which certainly i now know would comment on is reflected in in the reports from professor mclaren and and now the schmi

from russia well this may be disappointment it's clear that the visibility of the russian athletes as the i.o.c. and none of its headquarters in switzerland had no house to make the decision on whether to boycott the games entirely. also ahead this r t the us president prepares to recognize jerusalem as the capital city of israel a move likely to provoke fury among many in the mideast. live from moscow every hour of the day this is r.t. international mining's you know neil welcome to the program our top story this hour the russian winter olympic squad has been banned from competing at the twenty eighteen games the international olympic committee announced it's the sit in on a years long doping scandal on tuesday night resorting to want it earlier called the nuclear option however individual that can prove their plane will be allowed to participate in neutral flying named as olympic athletes from russia. these you know i did ask lee so will participate be to an individual or team competitions under the name olympic else lead from russia. they will compete with a uniform bearing this na

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

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

flag no russian no russian uniforms and this is something that's been causing quite a sort of lots of discussion of course back in russia because it refuses to accept this is a possibility with some saying that to avoid caught would be a possibility because it's important for athletes to be able to have their national anthem played and so forth so all of these are seen as the most kind of likely two options and we're going to be learning what exactly is going to happen within the next half an hour we do know that the option of allowing some athletes to compete under a neutral flag is one that's been supported by as many as thirty seven world anti-doping . agencies of certain kind. is including the west so it is being speculated that this could be the most likely outcome still not favored by russia whatsoever russia has called this in the miscible it's described this whole situation as one that's being politicized and really saying that the situation that's been leveling when it comes to so many issues of attempts to try to accuse russia in many different ways that what course we've se

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

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

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

now to the russian presence annual q. and a from earlier in the day that it may appear to a fairly close to four hours of nonstop and very diverse questions from the press our correspondent there but the things that particularly stude out for me this time is that the share of questions that you might want to call challenging for white america about corruption about the silencing of political opponents in russia was perhaps a bit larger this time then previously he was indeed grilled about the lack of competition in russian politics and one question came from perhaps his direct opponent a person who wants to become a presidential candidate in russia in twenty train a subject that's a major issue for those who want to represent that system opposition they have to offer not a short lived and shrill agenda but a real one why is it so difficult to be nothing vision maybe the government is frightened of fact competition and. the opposition should present a program of positive action that's clear to the public do you want someon

russian interference in the elections in. germany. from. america but as i say there is new evidence of any successful russian into theories. in the u.k. other highlights of the press conference included boris johnson speaking russian a few times saying that he has committed to fall in response to another question by me the u.k. foreign secretary confirmed that once he was in tehran a couple of weeks ago he visited the russian embassy secretly to see the venue of the famous tehran conference during the second world war he was also asked about moscow travel advice that he received from one of the british m.p.'s which included warnings about drinking challenge again. names and honey traps many other things so the question was about trust and the question was about whether he had encountered any of these threats so far in the russian capital. you know i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. to soon as i got into this. for a loose try mediately handed mike my hand my gloves i mean did everything that was in my pocket secret or other

russian hysteria? the ads that russian companies is worth like .1% or something compared with huge numbers by american companies. you can't just compare it. even to some, it seems that it is way too much. and take the situation with the .ussian media, like rt, sputnik their share of the total market is really tiny compared to they haveedia, what been doing globally and in russia. what about the freedom of press? of the u.s.ant democracy? well, someone -- some are more successful. some are less successful. you just need to do your homework to draw the right conclusions. we should not attack each other. so, let's think about it and draw the right conclusions. ok, let's move to the other wing. >> associated press. with your permission, i will ask the question in english. >> the u.s. wants russia to do more to persuade north korea to halt its missile programs. would russia support tougher sanctions against north korea? and do you think that cooperation on north korea could warm up u.s.-russia relations? or

russian athletes won't give up on their country or their flag as this is always in their hearts. the decision to ban russian athletes follows the results of two special commissions launched to investigate alleged doping in russian support artie's kade partridge and you know nail earlier discussed how it all unfolded. basically what it amounted to as we heard there thomas frank the president of the i.o.c. effectively banned russia for the winter olympics which start on the night of february and that doesn't give them a great deal of time in the athletes then to appeal against those decisions they've been twenty two athletes have already appealed twenty five were banned in the buildup to this decision twenty two an hour and as i say not a great deal of time either to appeal all or to prove whether or not you're innocent and be able to say what the store was the great compromise was being able to compete on during neutral flying but there's a number of issues surrounding the time constraints that you just said and also the the prestige of of actual competing for your country that wi

would take this decision to support those russian athletes who choose to take pa rt russian athletes who choose to take part in the winter games in south korea. vladimir putin had come up last week and medically he would not stand in the way of russian athletes who want to take part. it became clear then that there would be no russian boycott of the winter games because what the kremlin says happens, that is a feature of the system of power in russia, whether they are talking about the russian parliament or the russian olympic committee. but of course it will be the international olympic committee that will decide which russian athletes will be allowed to take pa rt athletes will be allowed to take part in the winter games and those athletes that do compete will be referred to as olympic athletes for russia. they won‘t be the russian flag or the national anthem in those ceremonies. australia will look to wrap up the ashes series with victory in the third test in perth, which starts on thursday. 2—0 down with three tests to play, it feels like damage limitation for england, with a

have you heard about the russian doping scandal no i haven't heard. i don't know about is this a repeat yeah yeah i'm never on anything but i i heard to use some medicine yeah ok i don't know that it's true each kind of in your sleep. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit for us so the strongest country. you have is like. international soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't even see right there. i think it's unfair. that just well based on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia. than a whole country that's so few political stuff. in the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first winter olympics that could happen without team russia. and we'll know very soon that decision will be known in just a couple of hours from now so we're keeping close watch on i.o.c. headquarters for when it is announced will be live and listen to learn what fate awaits russia's winter. without. next the german foreig

russian customers as i said earlier on of buying. british things fruit from kettle crisps to believe that . somebody has just given me a food for their only solution gives a puzzle stew that you get i guess that's the fs be. so when it comes to trust or trust the poorest and trust him so much i'm ready to throw him overboard but plenty. of money. thank you very much sir get your generosity hospitality welcoming me in my tea days perceive the bolshoi. the british foreign secretary also visited red square as well as sing central moscow landmarks to lay the flowers of the tomb of the unknown soldier a second world war memorial next to the kremlin during the war in the soviet union fought together against nazi germany roger broadcaster married to jeff skilling johnson's visit will bring the positive results eventually but only with time. you can see maybe some glimmer of hope on the horizon just in terms of the sort of growing report that there seem to be at that meeting between boris johnson and sergei lavrov but i also think that the t

i think that the investigation into russian collusion between the trump campaign and russian actors is a hoax. >> it's also an investigation into how the russians meddled in this election. it's not just an investigation into the trump campaign. >> oh, i don't believe he thinks that's a hoax. in fact, he's said on the record that he believes his national security advisers on that topic. and i think when the investigations conclude into russian meddling in our elections, as opposed to the trump -- the fake trump/russia collusion narrative, we'll find out more about it. there's no question that russia does this kind of meddling in the elections of all, let's say, nations who are members of the u.n. security council. they do it everywhere. and they're much more advanced on electronic meddling, you know, social media and hacking, perhaps than we are. i don't believe we do that kind of stuff. perhaps we should start. >> former trump campaign adviser, michael caputo. michael, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> joining me now is ken vogel, a "new york times" political reporte

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by the russian sports. so. just as a human being and as a hockey player i'm going to ask you questions and i just want your personal opinion on this then know that hockey players the russian hockey players have all passed the doping test and the witness there says that the hockey players weren't part of the doping scandal anyway why force them to wear neutral colors i mean can they just if they're not part of the doping scandal can they just where their national. sports wear and compete on their own flag. well i hope the good but. i think this is a good story why why this has happened in the i.o.c. . has done the a lot of work and study through the sheet to ation. how much joy for the right person told well i know enough to say. you know they say it's been tough time for them the russian sports five million of the hockey you are stupid. if it was strong but to just it's not one thing that we do go that way. because emotionally russians are very split about this most of the athletes say they going to go to the o

have you heard about the russian doping scandal no i haven't heard. i don't know about is this a repeat yeah yeah i've never heard this i don't the lack of any stuff but i. heard he used some medicine. and her face i don't know that it's true needs to be seen. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit more i says to stronger country. but i. feel people everybody is like a. national soccer game spain the england it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't even see right there so i think it's unfair on the. dates as well this is going to be productive the winter olympics but you know russia is not a whole country that's so few political stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will happen without team russia. i will continue discussing the future of russian olympics after a short break you are watching r t international. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the decision to pull on. the only sh

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

russians on the russian air force the syrians i'm outta luck to retake ad lib and then the. extremists as i'm just getting actually. and i get on with russian involvement in diplomatic work with that i want to see. you know without all the corporation building russia in the states iraq iran and saudi arabia we can defeat terrorists with a comprehensive plan and comprehensive diplomatic really hard work it's worth recognizing a significant chapter may be closing but it's just said it's certainly not over yet another adult i was already appreciate coming on the program thank you thank you. this is r.t. international that's it for me andrew pharma will be here in just a couple of minutes with our breaking headline news on r.t. international. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and obviously he's a guest of the world of politics score business i'm show business i'll see you then . elliston is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissive to do it long before you like a million little pieces and

russian interference in the elections in. germany. from. america but as i say there is no evidence of any successful russian into theories. in the u.k. other highlights of the press conference included boris johnson speaking russian a few times saying that he has committed to fall in response to another question by me the u.k. foreign secretary confirmed that once he was in tehran a couple weeks ago he visited the russian embassy secretly to see the venue of the famous tehran conference during the second world war he was also asked about moscow travel advice that he received from one of the british m.p.'s which included warnings about drinking challenge again. and honey traps many other things so the question was about trust and the question was about whether he had encountered any of these threats so far in the russian capital. you know i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. to students not going to into this. for a loose try mediately handed my coat my hand my gloves i mean that everything that was in my pocket secret or oth

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

athletes to me the russian my soccer team to play they need to. contact a hockey league to release their players because if they don't the russian the winter olympics loses lose it's cash cow and that's been the biggest problem is because when they split the two olympics this summer i'm going every two years it's been a disaster and revenues have fallen and people have been not watching numbers that they should be so they have forged they have forged this removal state sponsor which i know is a pair of money money people and something that i detested from the start. the very key not to blame people at the top of it don't want to bring people in the kremlin now they have made a scapegoat in the tally more to go that was always going to come down. you know even dan it makes no sense. it's you're buying him to say all the credit weren't involved in this whole world of sports ministry were involved in they weren't involved they've been very political with their language but the i.o.c. needs russia more than russia in this moment if they need russia wh

investigates both the russian collusion probe. investigation the f.b.i. and the do you engage in a willful attempt to thwart constitutional oversight responsibility now donald trump is spoken up on twitter he's spoken out against the f.b.i. said that their behavior is disgraceful that the reputation of the federal bureau of investigation is in tatters definitely spoken up in quite critical of the f.b.i. now at this point the f.b.i. has not provided the information requested by the congressional committee so we're waiting to see will they be taken to court will they be hit with a contempt charges as was threatened now the agency's did a life or two witnesses to be interviewed on the clinton e-mail alleged russian meddling cases the foreign policy attorney jennifer braden if you will sufficient. if course it's not enough because you're talking about this this does this person peter struck has actually he was caught having multiple phone conversations with a mistress of his who was also a lie and so there are multiple not only ethical violations but legal vi

million russians. but in march, 1923, lenin suffers a stroke. the following january, he is dead. stalin and zinn nov yef force him into exile. three successive five year plans are designed to emphasize constructive capacity. especially heavy industry and power output. russian industrial capacity rises nearly 300%. hydroelectric output is up nearly 8%. housing starts are less than population increase. if you're an average russian, this means more work, not enough to eat and less and less living space per family. if you don't work hard enough or if you plain there are plenty of trains to siberia where many hydroelectric dams are being built. on the other hand, if you work hard, you can get a metdal and small wage increase. that's better than a trip to the reindeer country. these are also the years of the great executions. how many people are permanently removed from circulation no one knows. in some provinces, as much as 4% of the population vanishes. zinoviev, who helped stalin seize power, is quickly d

and russian warplanes. two american stealth fighters intercepting a pair of russian jets over syria, firing multiple warning flares. we're covering all of that and much more at this hour with our guests including the top democrat on the house intelligence adam schiff. first, let's go to our cnn correspondent jeff sgrzeleny. what are you learning about this new phone call about trump and vladimir putin. >> reporter: we just learned that president trump and vladimir putin had a phone call earlier today talking about the threat of a north korea and other matters. this is coming on the same day as president putin held his annual end-of-the-year news conference. he called them espionage mania. he credited president trump for the stock market and other successes here so i'm told there will be a readout in more detail of that phone call coming up here in the coming hours. but all of this is coming on a day when the white house is trying to push for tax reform. the president also working behind the scenes on the ph

according to russian media, one russian politician said that flynn was a scapegoat and another called it a sack of smoke. despite the denials from russia, the fact is michael flynn cut a deal facing serious legal jeopardy, cnn's pamela brown explains. >> reporter: president trump's former national security adviser arriving at a federal courthouse in washington today, before pleading guilty to lie to get fbi. making him the first person who worked inside the white house to be charged in the russia probe. and the fourth campaign official to face charges so far. the charge and plea agreement center around conversations he had with then russian ambassador to the u.s., serge kickleback in december of last year. court documents show that others on the trump team knew of flynn's efforts. on december 29th, flynn called former deputy national security adviser k.t. mcfarland at mar-a-lago about the sanctions imposed by the obama administration. according to flynn, russian officials did not want them to escalate the situation. flynn immediately called kickleback. shortly after that call, flynn b

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

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

putin was there briefly before he gave a speech and russian. there were no translators at the table. i spent the entire dinner speaking to the person on my right. the person on my left did not speak english. the person on my right was a german former diplomat. we talked a little bit about international relations and international law. other than that, there's nothing substantive at the dinner. "the new yorker" reported that exchanged onen sentence, which went something to the effect of "how's it going?" "ok." the one person who spoke both english and russian was sitting next to flynn. flynn introduced himself to me just before we sat down at the dinner. i thought it was curious there was curious there's a military person at his comments that largely seem to be peace advocates, and i should mention, by the way, ray mcgovern was there, rocky anderson, jesse ventura, thom hartmann, max blumenthal. it was really a who's who of the peace community that regrettably has to resort to a foreign tv network in order to be heard in this country. ,uan: jill

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

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

well quite frankly this is an internal matter for the russian federation the russian federation is a independent suffering country and if the russian people next year during the presidential election choose to reelect president who's in that lead then they have every right to do that and it has nothing to do with america or britain or any other country in the west or indeed any other country in the world with people in america and britain needs one to stand. requires a very strong lead. people historically support the need for a very strong leader back country that mightn't be to the taste of american and british politicians and journalists but that is irrelevant all that matches is that russia is kept on the very strong leadership of president putin provides that strong leadership one of the points russia is not the west and there is no reason why bosses should be like the west given that we're at an age where countries complain of interference in their own actions and it's been several of them over the paul feig is is that anything that you think might trouble the shelf. whoa i thi