russian leadership is not monolithic there are different interests involved in the russian leadership and there are some circles particularly related with the military industrial complex like the ones in the u.k. or those in the united states who profit from confrontation so actually what we need to address is that we have both sides people who are clearly interested not to find a rapprochement not to solve problems but to make things worse now you wrote in one of your recent articles that russia if russia. wants to see any improvement in mutual relations with europe it needs to make concessions do you have anything specific in mind what kind of concessions could russia make in order to try to build bridges into europe well i think for the e.u. russian relations to most pressing problem is ukraine not so much crimea because most western governments simply not the euro but the fact to accept that crimea is part of russia and will be for a very long time if not for ever but the real issue is eastern ukraine is there a chance to find a solution to those territories in the regions of don'

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in march when russians -- when it is believed that russians attacked the former british spy and russian intelligence officer. everything changed after that. and then when the fbi started seeing what some of the russians were doing here in this country, including what evan just said, the idea that they may have found people who defected and some of the people -- we have allowed to settle here supposedly safely, we've given them new identity in some cases, the fact that the russians and some cases were able to find the people and perhaps through their own surveillance raised a lot of concern. especially after the march attack in the u.k., because the concern on a lot of law enforcement is well what were the russia yanz here doing and what was the purpose of collecting this information. >> because the concern, evan, correct me if i'm wrong, this could fit into a larger pattern of russians going after defectors or others around the world for assassination. >> right. exactly. there is a trail of suspicious deaths among russians, people critical of vladimir putin in europe and elsewhere and t

russian roulette is about? is abousaid that help russia ind in a much more sophisticated way can anybody realized at the time and the impact it had itself. >> and a part of the back story that led up to that point. it was to wage information warfare on the western liberal democracies to undermine the democracy in the west. >> you came up with something and said i wish i had just read the book but it was very readable. the start of the book is the pageant in moscow. >> the moment the story comes together you have donald trump in moscow and secondarily, a part of that is to meet vladimir putin for the relationship. >> because you are describing him on a quest at this point. >> he was obsessed with getting a meeting. after the pageant itself he's asking everybody around him have we heard from putin yet and he was obsessed with meeting with putin. why? this is one of the big mysteries throughout the book. he would aspire to the way putin runs the country but in order to get the trump tower bill >> getting it passed

eventually with a lot of sign language in my kitchen russian and a kind russian they were and they can tell on the clueless journalist and can't find my way to the pole. they're there to show me an escort man. they want to show me how everybody's ideas being checked. they're offering me coffee and the big thing is there trying to make it a fair carnival atmosphere. it's a fun thing to do putin wants turnout. so they're serving coffee and smoke fish outside i go back and report this on npr. but i thought as a western journalists you have access and people are leaving the polls into a fall most everybody who i stopped and stuck a microphone in the face. and tell me who they voted for and why. you never quite know if they're being monitored as a journalist. >> it is true in the last 15 or 20 years russians are more willing to deal with foreigners now than they ever have been. you're at a time when food was trying to make a point. exactly. one other point is when i was there with protest and watching security guards club protesters and drake them off. i stood there witnessing it looking ar

this is part of a wider pattern sadly of a responsible russian behavior russian russian discredited the joint investigation mechanism into use of chemical weapons in syria. ok right we're butting into this for just about a minute or so to let r.t. america go on a you can continue watching this online r.t. dot com karen pierce the u.k. representative there to the security council of that extraordinary meeting that's being called by russia in view of the ongoing scruple investigation. with more covering more of this because the u.s. is going to speak so in just a minutes time. henry kissinger once said the brochure in the united states went into the ukrainian crisis acting rationally based on mutual misconceptions with tensions heightened over the scruple case other sites guided by misconceptions were deliberate misrepresentation. they've been waiting. for a long time because it talked about the dollar back that is the world reserve currency countries are tired of funding in america's wars because ever there's got to be trainer in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first

., jared kushner met with a whole bunch of russians, ostensibly to receive delivery of russian government dirt on hillary clinton which the russians said they were providing to the trump campaign to help them win the election. now, that meeting of course has remained a real focus in the russia investigation but it's also still kind of a black box. i mean, after concealing for almost a year that that meeting had ever happened in the first place, once it came out everybody involved in that meeting has said yeah, nothing to see here, it was no big deal, it was all one big nothing, we kept it secret, sure, but not for any reason, nothing happened. well, tonight nbc news chief -- tonight nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel has a scoop about one of the participants in that meeting. it is a scoop that may get us a step closer to understanding why that whole thing happened and why that exact cast of characters turned up that day for that meeting. tonight we are going to tallinn, estonia, where our own richard engel is live on assignment. >> good evening tonight from tallinn. we're

probing russian money. in a cnn exclusive, we're learning at least two wealthy russians have been stopped on trips to the united states as the united states tries to find out if they funneled cash to the campaign. we're learning the president's lawyers learn that the president is the subject of the russia probe. and federal would be, quote, devastating to the clinton campaign. that happened on the same day he claimed to have met with the founder of wikileaks what did roger stone know? border guard. president trump is sending national guard troops to the u.s./mexico border immediately. and why are there no details how many will be sent and for how long? and the president insists he isn't entering into a trade war with china but after china matches the threats with their own. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news in a cnn exclusive. cnn has learned the special counsel team has been questioning wealthy russians, asking if they legally chaneled money into donald trump's presidentia

this is part of a wider pattern sadly of a responsible russian behavior russian russia discredited the joint investigation mechanism into use of chemical weapons in syria members of the council will be familiar with a pattern of aggression over the years in georgia and crimea there has been the shooting down of a makes seventeen and there has been a bungled attempt at a coup in months. and each time mr president these acts are accompanied by distortion and dissing from ation the same sort of distortion and this information we saw yesterday in the hague in the russian press conferences and in the security council today. mr president whilst we ourselves would not have called this meeting today we hope to be able to brief the council further once we see receive the report from o p c w we do believe that it is right that the security council remained seized of this flagrant use of chemical weapons and it is that use which veterans international peace and security the threats to the chemical weapons convention from attacks in syria in malaysia and now the united kingdom pays a very serious

(hype russian music) - [gfoeller] russians view them as countrymen. they don't really believe in the dissolution of the soviet union. certainly... (laughs) ethnic balks in the baltic states don't see it that way. (ominous music) - [narrator] in 2008, war broke out between russia and georgia. that five day war foreshadowed russia's annexation of crimea in 2014. - [nikolayenko] putin decided to take action and stop georgia's close cooperation with nato and the european union. so they decided to advance and create turmoil in the former soviet republic. - the west was basically looking at its shoes as he conducted this invasion, and he mistakenly assumed that he could do the same thing in eastern ukraine. and there he was surprised by ukrainian resistance. - [narrator] in another proxy war, russian troops and syria are defending president bashar al-assad. (explosion) - we had over the decades thousands of jihadists from the broader middle east including syria fighting in chechnya against russia. so for russia, the outcome of the syrian civil war is as muc

one russian hackers are preparing a global attack moscow denies the claims experts say get ready for a new cold war in cyberspace and watch out caffeine addict your local starbucks might be closing down for an afternoon that is the coffee giant says it will shut eight thousand stalls for racial awareness training. and daniel winter and this is a business update the international monetary fund is predicting a global slowdown in growth in the next few years that's due to aging populations lackluster productivity as well as the threat coming from protectionist trade policies in the short term things look rosy the lending agency predicts a worldwide growth of nearly four percent that's this year and next and that would be the fastest pace since twenty eleven the u.s. economy will benefit from president trumps tax cuts which are likely to boost the country's economy through to twenty twenty growth is predicted to move up to almost three percent however those tax cuts combined with increased spending could be damaging in a few years' time the i.m.f. warns the eurozone is expected to benefi

the russian citizens to get screwed powell and his daughter yulia were found unconscious. and these have chemical weapons if this did indeed take place is a threat to nonproliferation and as such it is a topic that deserves to be considered by the security council especially since we do have quite a bit to say and we do have some questions to ask our british colleagues so what do we know about the crime and its victims. sergei's group who was convicted in two thousand and six for spying for great britain who after being amnesty in two thousand and ten lived in the united kingdom while maintaining his russian citizenship periodically his daughter yulia citizen of russia visited him. according to the versions spread by the british side russia did not forgive him is treason and decided to eliminate him. given that there was no threat that this individual represented for russia that is obvious so a number of questions begs to be asked first of all. if we speak very cynically. why did we have to wait eight years and decided to do this two weeks before the presidential elections

those russian air defenses are ostensibly there to protect the russians who are in the country. and one of the questions here in moscow in the build-up to this has been whether the russian air defenses would engage. it sounds as if from that reporting from syrian television perhaps they are not. we have been texting multiple and trying to contact multiple russian government officials here in moscow. as you say, it is 4:00 in the morning. we haven't heard back from them. perhaps understandably. i did have one message from an official at the russian foreign ministry saying the question of course we are asking each of them is were the russians given advance notice of these strikes. the message back from one foreign ministry official saying we'll soon find out. that slightly dark russian sense of humor there doesn't tell us necessarily whether that kind of communication is taking place. we were told in the build-up to this that there were communications between the russian military and between the western military to try to avoid russian casualties because that clearly would be run

the russians do it. it was hard for the clinton campaign to credibly make the point to the press that they were the victims here because it look like, quite rightly, they were trying to deflect from the own trouble. >> in a way i see some of the clinton people, we describe in the book, it's like they are the hitchcockian anxiety driven. the gc was and we do believe, and i think early on maybe even and exactly since which proves to be true that the russians are attacking them. they are the target hillary clinton is the target speedy are you saying there waiting anxiously day after day anticipating this dump of e-mails? >> yeah, after the first dumpy for the democratic convention -- after the dump of the democratic convention they know, there are strong reasonably john podesta is emails have been hacked as well and probably others. so every day of the campaign they are waiting for not the next shoe but the next shoe store to dump to fall on them. they are trying to get other people to take this seriously.

the russian ambassador is russian. let me just clarify that too to lovers of logic and lovers of proof and lovers of justice i apologize and completely absent myself from anybody and anything any organization that would think that in any way remotely represents anything of worth this is so sad so pathetic so embarrassing now all of the harm that was done from the accusations all of the the talk about discord diplomatic discord embassies two superpowers and gauged in this are about back and forth how do we undo this how do we how do you ever do sponsible for this there is an old expression in this country there was a fellow who was acquitted of a charge and he said where do i go to get my good name back where you lovers of logic and justice go to to we deem ourselves from this this goes to show you that and i want everybody to understand the reason why this was done was not to necessarily investigate russian collusion or involve origin or the spreading of seeds of gov of descended discord it was to try to justify how hi

-russian relations. ever since donald trump arrived few years ago, his dealings with vladimir putin have fascinated and frightened people everywhere. was it really a "bromance" or did putin have something on trump? why did he intervene in the presidential elections? andtrump naive about putin his sharp elbow policy? what was going on? of clear answers, relations between the countries have soured badly. there's been talk of a new cold war. the might of russian and american military machines have been almost a daily display in the middle east, in syria and the balkan regions. what is going on? i have assembled a panel of four well-informed people to come up with an answer and i'm going to give them the better part of one hour to do so. geographic, only a designation, john allen, a retired marine general and now president of the brookings institution. his career spans war and diplomacy, commander of the troops, in the afghan war from 2011 to 2013 and he served as a special envoy to the middle east in the fi

russian diplomats in the united kingdom which she as a russian citizen wish ask to see if she wants to so i mean we don't know we don't exactly know her health this point we don't know if the reporting was her what we all know is that she wishes to see russian diplomats she isn't to see them if she doesn't wish to see russian diplomats that match could be an indication that she believes that the russian government was involved. we have heard from u.k. authorities that britain cannot release the details of the intelligence that make up the compelling case that points to russian involvement what could that intelligence be. well i think there's a few things i mean it could be how the poison was placed least in this these are these are very very dangerous materials so we're not quite sure they've been different theories as to how it was actually put in a location where where this the sergeant the subject could be attacked and if they released perhaps the method by which the wesen was put into his house or his arms or that might be an indication of who was involved with it so that's the kin

to interact with the russian president or other russians russian industry or anything like that he felt i think pressure to criticize them whenever he had the opportunity to in order to kind of make it show that he was not in the pocket of the russians and certainly you know and only donald trump is in the pocket of anybody but donald trump. but yes i mean this this should free his ability to converse and tweet freely. karen greatly appreciate your time and your views and i guess karen get our ski story writer political activist and former u.s. air force lieutenant colonel. that being. said to the middle east now where three people are being confirmed killed and eight hundred ninety three more wounded in the latest palestinian anti occupation rallies in gaza that information coming from the palestinian health ministry the protests are part of the six week long great moment you were to. go. in if. we are in the central hospital in gaza strip where this hospital receive all the injuries from the fat fans fans that area from the five locations that are protesting and the fifth friday of th

>> i think the russian dimension is important because there's been a series of russian actions against which the west has pushed back. we talked about the skripal case and i think the russians were surprised that it wasn't just britain that responded but 26 countries as well as the nato headquarters, that it expelled russian intelligence officers and the united states has taken action in response to russian meddling in the u.s. elections with a whole series of sanctions against oligarchs and russian companies and we're now seeing this action in syria. now, this isn't part of a concerted plot against russia. but the russians might see it that way. so one thing we -- that's really important here is clarity about what this is about to the russians. we had that during the cold war. it's decayed a bit, frankly, over the last 20 years. and i think the crisis in ukraine in 2014 was in part a consequence of poor quality communications between above all washington and moscow between the west and moscow generally. >> but what about the fear that russia has basically vetoed what the u.s. and its

version the russian version though says. a lot of a lot of criticism but not very much actual. action that is being taken here so you know he's going through what has been happening is saying that yes again the united states like it did shire at airports a year ago has used toxic toxic substances against the civilian population stage that as an excuse for air strikes that the united states and its allies should at least have waited for the o.p.c. w. chemical weapons experts on the ground in syria at the moment to do their investigation at duma. but that also the us the us the united states should have gone to the united nations security council to get approval for anything like this and of course they didn't do that therefore it's a it is breaking international law the only concrete action that we can see here in terms of russian pushback is calling for a u.n. security council meeting to condemn these attacks and if that's the case of that's all the russians are going to do i think it suggests that they're looking at what's

the russian government. the russia lawyer who met with trump campaign officials in 2016 touted as having dirt on hillary clinton now admits she had closer ties to the kremlin than she previously disclosed. in fact she calls herself an informant for the russian government citing newly surfaces e-mails, reports that are net -- natalia veselnitskaya said i'm a lawyer and informant she told nbc news. since 2013 i've been communicating with the russian prosecutor gem. just last year she said just the opposite. >> have you ever worked for the russian government? do you have connections to the russian government? >> no. >> reporter: the trump tower meeting of is interest to robert mueller for two potential reasons. first, to see if there is evidence the trump campaign colluded with the russian government during the campaign. and second, to see if the president attempted to obstruct justice by helping to draft a misleading explanation for what was discussed meeting and adam schiff said it makes russia's intentions c

prosecutor, the russian prosecutor general. if anyone is going to be the direct link to putin, it's going to be chaika and he kind of made reversing the magnitsky act which of course has to do with u.s. sanctions on russia for human rights abuses and corruption, he made that on behalf of vladimir putin one of his main goals when he entered office as the russian prosecutor. veselnitskaya was used as basically his agent of that goal. so, he dispatched veselnitskaya essentially to new york to meet with the trump campaign to discuss overturning these sanctions, essentially they said that they spoke about adoption, but of course that's code for removing these sanctions that are really a thorn in putin's side. they're one of his biggest foreign policy objectives is to overturn the magnitsky act sanctions. so, if anyone is going to be called kind of a fixer here, i would say that it's more accurate to describe him as acting on putin's behalf and him using veselnitskaya to, you know, disseminate what the kremlin's talking points. of co

russian diplomats in the united kingdom which she as a russian citizen could wish ask to see if she wants so i mean we don't know we don't exactly know her health this point we don't know if the reporting was her what we all know is that she wishes to see russian diplomats she isn't to see them if she doesn't wish to see russian diplomats that matter could be an indication that she believes that the russian government was involved. we have heard from u.k. authorities that britain cannot release the details of the intelligence they make up the compelling case that points to russian involvement what could that intelligence be. well i think there's a few things i mean it could be how the poison was placed used in this these are these are very very dangerous materials so we're not quite sure that in different theories as to how it was actually put in a location where where this the sergeant the subject could be attacked if they released perhaps the method by which the poison was put into his house or his arms or that might be an indication of who was involved with it so that's the kind of int

are russian cutouts. we discuss trump and his anxious and doing a business deal. >> host: you're talking about carter page. >> paul manafort the campaign chairman. >> host: who was also a victim of the dumping. >> guest: when she finds out that manafort is the chairman of the trump campaign he has been a russian stooge for years. she knew this because manafort had been a very major presence in ukraine as the consultant to the pro russia political party and yanukovich the pro russian president of russia and ukraine collected for that. as the chief assistant constantine colin nick we write about in the book who was a known russian and colleges agent in the recent filing by robert mueller the fbi says he has ties to the russian military intelligence agency. >> host: paul manafort ends up --a russian oligarchs. >> guest: it's something we are learning more about as days go on. he had been a business partner of a guy who was the oligarchs who was as close to putin as anybody and also blocked him from the count

the allegations of russian cyber meddling are not new. last year because in russia believed to have targeted companies that had connections with ukraine the attacks caused billions of dollars in damage and earlier this year germany blamed russia for a hack of government computer networks in belin. the joint announcement by washington and london comes at a time of increasing tensions in britain the poisoning of an ex russian spy and his daughter recent gas attacks on civilians in syria relations with moscow time line. and russian officials are making further moves to block people in the country from using the popular message app telegram is one of russia's best known technology products but it has angered the government but by refusing to hand over its encryption keys a court last week to say telegram must be kept out of russia until it complies with such requests well comment from deja vu social media does joins me now to explain all of this for us so call how is russia blocking the app now and all the moves affect it is effective it's ve

russian diplomats in the united kingdom which she as a russian citizen could wish ask to see if she wants so i mean we don't know we don't exactly know her health this point we don't know if the reporting was her what we all know is that she wishes to see russian diplomats she isn't to see them if she doesn't wish to see russian diplomats that match could be an indication that she believes that the russian government was involved in this. we have heard from u.k. authorities that britain cannot release the details of the intelligence that make up the compelling case that points to russian involvement what could that intelligence be. well i think there's a few things i mean it could be how the poison was placed used in this these are these are very very dangerous materials so we're not quite sure they've been different theories as to how it was actually put in a location where where this the sergeant the subject could be attacked and if they released perhaps the method by which the poison was put into his house or his arms or that might be an indication of who was involved with it so that's

agents you know i'm supposed to be a russian agent not a fraud is a russian agent donald trump is a russian age i mean mustn't a very interesting year at the k.g.b. that year where they recruiters all but. all of media in the united states appears to believe that that that is the case right and i think it's the old adage of the boy who cried wolf that all of this stuff that has gone in the past has come to nothing has been a load of nonsense by feeble establishment that want to use it as an excuse for their defeat and breck's it or the defeat of hillary clinton another that's really interesting to me because it seems to me that there is motive on the side of the british government to try to look tough like you're saying that talks many people feel embroiled lots of other problems with this them all in domestic policy here's a chance for treason made to start looking strong and yet as you've said a minute or two ago she's done this really fast where i would disagree with you as perhaps that there isn't an urgency in my view to be the judge and jury now there was an urgency to get the

at an extraordinary news conference, here at the russian embassy, for almost two hours, the russian ambassador denied that russia was involved in the salisbury attack, denied that they ever even made novichok nerve agent and denied that russia was internationally isolated. and tonight, russia will step up that defiance at the united nations, calling a meeting of the security council to challenge the accusations laid at its door. james landale, bbc news. let's ta ke let's take a look at what is happening at the united nations as jamesjust mentioned happening at the united nations as james just mentioned the security council convening this evening. this was at moscow's request. they want to discuss the british accusations around the salisbury attack. russia continuing to deny it had any involvement in the use of a nerve agent on yulia skripal and her father. britain's envoy to the un saying london fears it will be another step in russia's pattern of obfuscation and contempt for international institutions. but the deputy un ambassador of russia said those who spread lies about alleged russian inv

while recent actions to dispel russian diplomats after the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter on british soil and a decision to implement sanctions targeted against putin's base of power are encouraging they do not add up to a policy of effective deterrence. in this regard i would note a former defense department cyber policymaker recently testified to the armed services committee that a standing joint interagency task force is required to bring to bear the right capabilities and resources spread across the government to respond effectively to russian aggression. such a task force would utilize expertise from across our government, including the intelligence community, the department of defense, the state department, the department of homeland security, and the treasury department and would allow effective coordination and collaboration on policy to counter russia. the minority staff report for the senate foreign relations committee on russian asymmetric operations in europe recommended a similar mechanism. i think this is a good way forward and intend to continue to

rights as the native russian population. during the german occupation of crimea in the second world war that status meant the car its were largely spared the persecution that their fellow jews suffered during the holocaust . s.s. mobile killing units murdered almost all of the crimea's other jewish inhabitants. the reemergence of a jewish community in the region is nothing short of remarkable. the fact that crimean jews recently acquired russian citizenship doesn't seem to bother anyone here on the contrary. the only one you look at the studies which are mentally and spiritually we have always remained cringe chon we were never ukrainians nor were we ever russians we have always been crimean jews and i don't wish to say anything bad about ukraine but like others in the crimea it was as if we had been hung out to dry now legislation has been adopted to ensure that money's no longer siphoned off from crimea instead funds will be invested in regional development i get the feeling they are now pulling out all the stops to ensure

i was contacted in 2015 by a russian family called -- russian family who had a successful pulp and paper business in russia near st. petersburg, russia. many people, like myself, the russians came to them and tried to take their business away. they refused. their 16-year-old daughter was kidnapped and raped. they finally got her back, and they eventually took over the business and threatened the family with death. the family fled, and the first to latvia,ey went turkey, and were looking for a country as far away as possible that did not have an extradition treaty with russia where they could be brought back. they went to the little latin american country of guatemala. they settled there, they paid a thefirm to help with immigration documents. mother became a drawing teacher, the father became a math teacher at the high school, and they had another child in guatemala. and the russians tracked them down in guatemala. here is where the story gets twisted. theressians convinced -- is an organization in guatemala, a u.n. organization called u.n. organization set up to fight human rights viola

officials been concerned that russians, the russian espionage agents might be tracking russians who have resettled here in the united states. >> it's probably fair to say this concern has been around for some time. everything changed after the attack in the uk in march where it was the british spy, russian intelligence officer who was an attempt to kill him. nerve agent that was used to try to kill him. everything changed after that. when the fbi and u.s. officials starting seeing what some of the russians here were doing, it changed everything. they grew very concerned that perhaps they were collecting intelligence on the whereabouts of some of these people and so it became a matter of national security for them. look, there's no secret here that the russians would try to pull off something like this here. there's great concern among law enforcecement officials and peoe at the fbi. >> congress has been concerned about this for a while. >> that's right. i think it's no secret there's a long list of suspicious deaths in the united kingdom and europe. the concern among officials over there

the russian. put a tweet and facebook story that did not encourage armed revolt by the american citizens that i want to intervene it merely presented allegedly the point zero zero two whatever percent of this but presented stories that other american actors and politicians and folks in an activist were alleging as well so it just so happened that this horrible russian examiner's of dissent or whatever was or sowing discord happen to me are exactly the same thoughts and sentiments of actual americans who may have had a different opinion from hillary clinton it's the only story in town and the american public has been so habituated to this mean that they want to hear more of it they believe there is evidence when there is no evidence oh no no i'm sorry to say this isn't stopping i hope it does but i'm afraid it was. one of france's largest buying says facing about clash with one of its employees as a spokesperson for a right wing political movement. we don't know who she is therefore. we won't know

federation he has expanded the russian federation you know like this deals because. there is a very good institute international institute of strategic studies which is based in london and they just released a report and if you look at that you know about the military budgets you will find that the budget of russia one year is forty six billion dollars the budget of the u.k. is fifty two billion dollars so the british are spending more than we're doing and the budget of the united states military budget for one year it's seven hundred billion dollars it means that the whole nato spends almost a trillion against forty six billion dollars so roughly twenty times more so make your own conclusions another context of this course is what we're hearing about for the united states. and rex tillerson this existence as you will be meddling with us but you already have plans for the twenty twenty lectures in the united states and of course we here in british media repeatedly that you. meddled and i suppose i can give you that one they haven't got proof of that the rex address f

russians and that's killing russian soldiers. 0n syria for the russians and that's killing russian soldiers. on this occasion, we are told the russians weren't free words that the attacks we re weren't free words that the attacks were coming. —— a red line. if russian pilots, that would change the dynamic. that's the balance we have to get. jeremy corbyn keeps banging on about talks but what he either doesn't know or doesn't understand is the main venue for talks is the united nations. the russians have been told talks every time. we have to put pressure on them in order to bring them to the table. this is the real world. then we have to address the bigger issues in the region which affect us. iranians proxies, in some regards, or using the muslim brotherhood to subvert groups here in the uk. have to invite the qataris with whom we are friendly to desist and stop. top funding these groups in the uk, to back off. what about the decision to go ahead with out prior approval from parliaments? we havejust had a statement from jere

those clear messaging on all levels, professional russian media, local media and social media and russian government statements, it showed that capacity of the states to control information. i agree that domestically is has alreadyind out started and now they have a mandate to really close it down in the same way they closed down their society and independent media. i think the message is if i was sitting in the kremlin i would be able -- i would feel terrified. i know that russia is isolated. are people coming into the administration and you have to be very careful with trump. we haven'tlicy front seen putin say anything about donald trump the same thing he said about obama. the last comments we saw about the potential summit at the white house. there is a discussion going on in the west about russia's dirty money. ways has to be a very good manager of all the competing interests within the kremlin. to providehe is able the cover for them to secure the assets, they are not going to be to their assets being frozen in their lives and chateau's and other property katie -- being taken away f

federation so the russians have. united states are not ready to meet those conditions now just this morning i've seen several prominent russian foreign policy experts warn that we are in the midst of the worst crisis since the cuban missile standoff some of them suggested that the possibility of a direct military confrontation between russia and the west and by the west i mean primarily the united states and to some extent the united kingdom is now higher than we've seen in the last thirty forty years do you share those concerns or do you think the russians are just being paranoid i don't want to call them paranoid but i simply do not agree or not in the situation leigh in october nine hundred sixty two when the very very close to a new clue war. conventional war between united states and the soviet union we are not there we're not there yet and it's not very likely that he will be there in the coming years you're saying that nowhere close to that crisis and yet if you look at the number of big gun ships in the seas

that is will the russian interference continue. we know that the russians are still interfering. we have all the social media and something bad happens every day. i get that russian trolls are involved. that will continue. rather the more nefarious cyber interference that we've seen and also including, i think they will continue to try it. frankly i think we should go back to paper ballots in the old days and they couldn't do anything. let me just say that again, having spent a number of years were you sit down and look at the fundamentals, whether it's the phobia economy or russian economy and you say this can continue. this is a petro state, it hasn't diversified its economy, it has made her democratic and infrastructure problems and you've always said they can't go on like this and yet they do. you shouldn't underestimate historically their ability to muddle through and become less modernized. if the united states does pull its troops out of syria, this is only to russia and iran's gate. i find it very curious in the administration that so concerned about uranian power that th

the russians provide us with gas. the provision orders britain's royal air force would also likely join a strike on syria all the indications are that the syrian regime was responsible and we will be working with our closest allies on how we can ensure that those who are responsible are held to account how we can prevent it with monetary catastrophe that comes with use of chemical weapons in the future the continued use of chemical weapons can challenge british ministers have been holding a special cabinet meeting to discuss joining possible military action against syria the prime minister would not need the approval of parliament to give the go ahead for strikes. meanwhile germany has ruled out taking part in any military strikes in syria but also anglo-american said germany would help send a signal that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable her words for echoed today by the german foreign minister. in brussels. is unexceptable that russia has now twelve un security council resolutions on syria just to maintain

the pro-russian nature of these laws, there is something inherently anti-russian. i think a lot of us have been by the russo phobic, propaganda machine. there is nobody more russo power,than the people in the way they talk about the people as dom and crazy. kind oft give them any decision-making power because they are like wild animals. uselessly as far away from them as possible but take their money. >> which also explains the image where healked about visited the victims. let me take it may be two more questions together. their and their. -- there and there. i am a reporter from germany. one reason why we are here, i guess, is the meddling in the election. what do you expect for the midterms? will they be cautious? exactly the same? are there any consequences if they are being cut again? >> thank you, another question. the striped sweater. >> i have a question on economics. australia's gnp is roughly the same as russia's. how long can he support his establishment before they go bankrupt? >> let me take a third. >> i am a student across the street. a couple years

david and others of the bush russian book russian roulette. let me ask you, david first, how did you come up with this title? >> you're asking the right person not because i came up with it but we struggled through a lot of places which will not reveal but in the middle of the process my 17 -year-old daughter, i think she was 16 at the time, said dad, russian roulette. >> does she get royalties? [laughter] >> in fact, today she actually negotiated with me and her terms and she wanted a subscription to "the new york times" crossword puzzle. i said i am getting off cheap here is that we pay her for the title. >> everyone who reads this book will have their own answer to this question but i think it's important to have the authors so let me ask you russian roulette is a book about -- >> 's about what happened in the 2016 election and how a foreign power, russia, intervened in our election in a much more conservative a sophisticated way than i think anyone realized at the time. and the impact it had on the election itself. >> also, i would say the

one russian hackers are preparing a global attack moscow denies the claims experts say get ready for a new cold war in cyberspace and watch out caffeine addict or local starbucks might be closing down for an afternoon that is the coffee giant says it will shut thousands stalls for racial awareness training. and daniel winter and this is a business update the international monetary fund is predicting a global slowdown in growth in the next few years that's due to aging populations lackluster productivity as well as the threat coming from protectionist trade policies in the short term things look rosy the lending agency predicts a worldwide growth of nearly four percent that's this year and next and that would be the fastest pace since twenty eleven the u.s. economy will benefit from president trumps tax cuts which are likely to boost the country's economy through to twenty twenty growth is predicted to move up to almost three percent however those tax cuts combined with increased spending could be damaging in a few years' time the i.m.f. warns the eurozone is expected to benefit from

federation so the russians have. conditions united states are not ready to meet those conditions now just this morning i've seen several prominent russian foreign policy experts warn that we are in the midst of the worst crisis since the cuban missile standoff some of them suggested that the possibility of a direct military confrontation between russia and the west and by the west i mean primarily the united states and to some extent the united kingdom is now higher than we've seen in the last thirty forty years do you share those concerns or do you think the russians are just being paranoid i don't want to call them paranoid but i simply do not agree we are not in the situation leigh you know over nine hundred sixty two one very very close to a new club war at least conventional war between united states and the soviet union we are not there we're not there yet and it's not very likely that he will be there in the coming years you're saying that nowhere close to that crisis and yet if you look at the number of big g

russian government russian actors people with russian names i don't know but these people that we will collectively call the russian. put a tweet facebook story that did not encourage armed revolt by the american citizens about what happens i think it merely presented allegedly the point zero zero to whatever percent of this but presented stories that other omeri can actors and politicians in folkson and activists were alleging as well. so it just so happened that this horrible russian example of dissent or whatever was a story discord happened to me you are exactly the same thoughts and sentiments of actual americans who may have had a different opinion from hillary clinton it's the least doorway in town and the american public has been so had better waited to this mean that they want to hear more of it they believe there is evidence when there is no evidence oh no no i'm sorry to say this isn't stopping i hope it does but i'm afraid it will. on this day fifteen years ago u.s. troops fired on civilian protesters in the iraqi city of fallujah in suing first battle for fallujah would se

i think that signifies to me that the russians are probably unwilling to ta ke russians are probably unwilling to take on the us with their aircraft and their sophisticated air defence systems and that means they are much less likely to see escalation in the future if there are more strikes in the coming days. do you think bashar al—assad cares that his military assets are being targeted in this way? certainly he cares because his assets are being degraded. whether this serves as being these strong deterrent to prevent future use of chemical weapons, again, if there's any self—governance motive here then it's the principle that chemical weapons or weapons of mass destruction act should never be used on the battlefield under any circumstances and that's a strong us, french and us motive —— weapons of mass destruction act. saying he may not be deterred at all, he may continue in the future. that remains to be seen. michael, want to bring you a statement from anatoly antonov, who is the russian politician, you know him currently as the us ambassador to the... the russian ambassa

russians. some may be iranian. the iranians and russians are clear in their phraseology that this has been a successful syrian air defense operation. frankly, if they were able to intercept that level of u.s. missiles, then the pentagon has an enormous problem on their hands. we're seeing shows of damage to the research facility struck near damascus. haven't seen so much out of homes yet. but syrian state tv is able to sort of say, look at us. we're all back to normal. this didn't really hurt. i think this was part of the strategy. it was real in the pentagon to make sure they didn't get wildly upset and do something irrational but the message has been sent because there were three nations here acting in concert. report is seen that before in the six messy years of this war from the west at all. and that is a key signal, i think, to miss coscow, tehran a damascus. it won't change the battle on the ground. this was also about chemical weapons and possibly somebody in moscow calling somebody in d