of -- it has created a vacuum in russia -- and russia felt it was the right time to interfere. process isportant happening. there are two processes that russia's way. oil prices limited in 2015. it happened when the u.s. applied actions to russia. hinting thaty were the u.s. was behind the price plummeting directly by intelligence officers. they understood that if they do not make a deal with the gulf states or major exporters, the prices will go up -- will go further down. to the soviet in the 1980's will happen to the current regime as well. that kind of paranoia drew them closer. the way they made their way into the gulf was the power vacuum created by the strategy of the u.s. it was facilitated their, their interest in the market. one of the biggest success that they have achieved was the oil prices through this russia opec deal. it seemed incredible. nobody expected that to happen. first of all, the members of inc -- some members are constant confrontation. them to getted along and come up with a solution or a deal. russia managed to play between these two powers and comme

and russia. more than a month after president trump's helsinki meeting, we remain in the dark about what the two leaders discussed. we continue to hear more information, accurate or not, from the russian government and from our own. it is not only embarrassing, but i believe this lack of transparency has implications for our national security. i'm not convinced that those who need to know in our own executive branch have a full understanding of what happened. after more than three hours with secretary pompeo, this committee has little more insight and we did before the hearing. since the administration has failed to answer congressional information,rovide i am formally requesting the department to provide all classified and unclassified cable traffic related to the helsinki meeting. i won't spend time today running through russia's ongoing transgressions. i think president trump's and others have warned that russia continues to undermine our democracy. russia uses chemical weapons to attack its o

for really a confrontational position against russia and then he gets to russia i'm going to helsinki and meets with putin and the american media says this is the surrender some vendor some and acting as if you know here's a united states spend seven hundred eighty billion dollars on war every year russia spent sixty billion and you had russia's on the march you know early and rideable and russia is that then spending is on decline right now ok it's not being increased here early does the united states need brushes an enemy is this the because it to justify all of these expenditures ok i mean brian is a logic lee looking at it but logic good politics don't always parlay ok i mean sensually we need an enemy it justifies is here montenegro is good it is adding value added to nato defense ok montenegro his army is smaller than the new york police force ok but we need an enemy here is that would russia's purposes because it's really easy to paint russia is as an enemies because it because it really demands stubbornly its sovereignty go ahead irl. i agree pete peter i mean we meet we mean

relations with russia. state and treasury department officials discuss reports of russian interference in american , clarifying details into the july 2018 helsinki meeting between president trump and russian president putin. sen. corker: foreign relations committee will come to order. we want to thank our witnesses for being here today for the second in a series of hearings on russia. this committee is attempting to get a clearer sense of the administration's overall posture on russia. we thank you both for being here. we have outstanding witnesses today. we would like to understand what was agreed to when the leaders of our two countries sat down in helsinki. whether there were discussions about future arms agreements. today, we have received no real readout, even in a classified setting of this meeting. we would like to understand the administration's assessment of the threat posed by russia to us, to our allies and other countries and institutions around the world. finally, we need a better understanding

russia russia all the time rather than making the adjustments in their own policy to try to win an election so yeah that could be time for that november election but i don't see how that strategy works very well now despite what the actual concerns of. an actual americans we seem to be stuck in perpetual deja vu more accusations of meddling more sanctions coming forward is that all we have to look forward to in the future. i'm afraid that that's what it looks like right now but eventually there it will have to come to an end but this and i think it will be when they finally dawns on them that it's not working and that might not be until the two thousand and twenty presidential election when we'll see whether that insurgency on the right in the left that brought trump and brought standards to the to the door of the nomination and to the presidency if that starts up again in two thousand and twenty will they be able to still blame russia for this for this dissatisfaction inside the american population for issues that were created by american rules and american congress and american presidents

russia russia moments controversial causes and causes opposed to those causes. putin's thesis is the american constitution is an experiment that will fail if it is challenged in the right way from within. putin wants to break apart the american republic not by influencing an election or two but by systematically inflaming the faultlines in our society. accepting this is essential for developing a long-term response to the problem. the most dangerous thing we can do is politicize the challenge which would be a gift toputin. what russian efforts are about is geopolitics . nguyen and his self-justifying struggle for dominance. as stated by handbook of the russian armed forces, the goal is to carry out mass psychological campaigns against the population of a state in order to destabilize the society and the government and force that state to make decisions in the interest of its opponents. doing so involves an evil toolkit of statecraft, first employed by the whole civic and soviet state, upgraded for the digital age.the state department takes this threat seriously.

there have been, these states have been petro states, both russia, russia's not a petro state that the gulf countries have been there. why was it comply with russia successful in tapping into the market come in building these relations? i think there is a regional reason for this and also macro economic processes that happen simultaneously at the same time. first of all, the chaos that was created after the vacuum that was created after the arab spring and united states didn't interfere in the region that much, following the new conflicts in the region have greater of vacuum and russia felt the right time to interfere and to become a player in the region. but the more important process happen and there are two processes actually. the first was the oil prices plummeted in 2015, but what's interesting, it happened at the same time with yes, and the west applied sanctions to russia. so as russia is constantly in a state of paranoia, being encroached, a were saying, they were hinting that the united states was behind the price plummeting, directly by intelligence offices. so they understoo

because if the democrats lose it's going to be russia exactly it's going to be russia's fault so russia is the ultimate scapegoat you know it's the paranoia of not knowing what you don't know who there's going to be some meddling but how when where are the assumption that it's going to be reminded that the election has not yet happened and it's going to be in november going to solve something. but then of course is already a saint had over the national intelligence director saying that there is evidence about russian involvement and we have lindsey graham who has just advised president trump to check the so-called ball that putin gave him and house and get to check it for k.g.b. bugs we have this very same person elaborating with other senators this new draft of all which is called if i'm not mistaken or the translation protecting american security of from the kremlin sic ration books thousand and eighteen so these guys they can forsee the future they can see how russia is mad and interested every minute i really don't this remind me it's kind of a bad episode of the twilight zone ok th

russia. things some incredible that we just got out of russia for this exhibition specifically. you will not see it in any other space in the united states. i don't know if you can see it in any other space in russia. so now would be a great time to take a look. a no more timely time than now to get a better understanding about what's going on with the united states and russia, and i'm really excited about the speaker. i do love teachers in the front row. that's a really great idea. all the time. welcome not only to the teacher fellows that we are so set in to be partnership with, i look forward to seeing you guys on thursday, but also to those of you who are here from the seminar that's currently being hosted at the national world war i museum of memorial as well. outre so pleased and check all of his websites to find out more. if you are listening right now on c-span, you not want to miss a future truman teaching museumnity or what are at the world war.org. there really is such a pleasure t

which is called i hate religion i hate russia russia is the enemy and we almost. genuflect at the altar of this new religious icon and that's the way you can take the american people's money heart yearned tax dollars which could be used for housing and health care and education the things human beings need and shovel it over to the defense contractors you have to explain to them that it's an absolute national imperative to do that in order to carry out this looting of the national budget and that's what we're witnessing right and he let me go to let me go to earl before we go to the break you manufactured consent this is what be in its most recent incarnation it's manufactured consent and and and i want to talk about the intelligence committee in the second half of the program but the liberal media loves it and they they perpetrate it go ahead girl thirty seconds. it is manufactured consent and it and i believe it's probably orchestrated some somewhere in the dark corners as well i mean what will we have here we have mccarthyism two point zero even if you shake am

which is called i hate religion i hate russia russia is the enemy and we almost. genuflect at the altar of this new religious icon and that's the way you can take the american people's money heart yearned tax dollars which could be used for housing and health care and the education the things human beings need and shovel it over to the defense contractors you have to explain to them that it's an absolute national imperative to do that in order to carry out this looting of the national budget and that's what we're witnessing right and he let me go to let me go to earl before we go to the break you manufactured consent this is what be in its most recent incarnation it's a it's a manufactured consent and and and i want to talk about the intelligence committee in the second half of the program but the liberal media loves it and they they perpetrate it go ahead girl thirty seconds. if it is manufactured consent tenet and i believe it's probably orchestrated something somewhere in the dark corners as well i mean what we have here we have mccarthyism two point zero even

-russia relationships -- relations. they talked about sanctions, and last month's meeting in helsinki between president trump and russian president vladimir putin . this is just under two hours. sen. corker: foreign relations committee will come to order. we want to thank our witnesses for being here today for the second in a series of hearings on russia. this committee is attempting to get a clearer sense of the administration's overall posture on russia. we thank you both for being here. we have outstanding witnesses today. we would like to understand what was agreed to when the leaders of our two countries sat down in helsinki. whether there were discussions about future arms agreements. today, we have received no real readout, even in a classified setting of this meeting. we would like to understand the administration's assessment of the threat posed by russia to us, to our allies and other countries and institutions around the world. finally, we need a better understanding of how russian sanctions, despite strong o

sanctions on russia restrictions are in response to what washington says russia is poisoning of double agent. and his daughter back in march to face relies on the u.s. funded experts to tackle the influence on its platform we take a look at how it affects freedom of speech online also to kill many more i find these images just over forty civilians including children were reportedly killed to society airstrike their school bus in yemen the coalition says it was a legitimate military operation in accordance with international law and the straw island is demanding the return of a sacred statue more than one hundred years ago the supply of british museum we are service is it should be given. we've got a. british empire i think. but i think it's part of our heritage so it's just it's straight. hello there are seven pm here in moscow you're watching the international that moscow is calling on britain to make public its work on making star military toxic substances this comes after america. penalties for what it calls moscow's poisoning of double agents powell and his daughter in the u.k. bac

russia today. all of this goes back to the the question of, well, how did we get to an axis of autocracies. 9 putin understood that russia, again, could not operate alone, and he did not approve and appreciate democracy. so how do you become a competitor where you are allies around the world, particularly in the west, who will see it your way? and it's simple. you use these information and warfare systems and techniques and methodologies to allow western democracies who are now the bugaboo, right? of us a accurates and dictators the worldwide -- of autocrats and dictators worldwide to vote themselves out of democracy. you do that by using freedom of the press as a weapons system. you use free expression and public, you know, and public right to redress as its own internal cruise missile. and the way that you do that is you feed them information. information that they think is true. it may, in fact, be true but delivered to you in such a sequence that it'll turn the truth on its head. and you put th

which is called i hate religion i hate russia russia is the enemy and we almost. genuflect at the altar of this new religious icon and that's the way you can take the american people's money heart yearned tax dollars which could be used for housing and health care and the education the things human beings need and shovel it over to the defense contractors you have to explain to them that it's an absolute national imperative to do that in order to carry out this looting of the national budget and that's what we're witnessing right and he let me go to let me go to earl before we go to the break you manufactured consent this is what be in its most recent incarnation it's manufactured consent and and and i want to talk about the intelligence committee in the second half of the program but the liberal media loves it and they they perpetrate it go ahead girl thirty seconds. if it is manufactured consent tenet and i believe it's probably orchestrated some somewhere in the dark corners as well i mean look what we have here we have mccarthyism two point zero even if you sh

russia as a state sponsor of terror. from the kremlin aggression act, introduced by senators graham and others on august 2. i wrote an op-ed not long ago that the moral designation is -- case for a designation is sound. russia as a state sponsor of terror. russia has invaded its neighbors, georgia and ukraine and supports the murderous regime of bashar al-assad and is engaged in active information warfare against western democracies, putting meddling in the 2016 united states election. as we have talked about here, continuing to attempt to influence the elections going forward. to both of you, do you believe the russian federation has supported acts of international terrorism, including assassinations on foreign soil? mr. billingslea? yes or no? sec. billingslea: they have definitely engaged in outrageous behavior. -- salivary attack is salisbury attack. more than once. sen. gardner: secretary mitchell? sec. mitchell: i agree with the premise. i don't want to get ahead of our deliberative ross as about what to do about i

why are we fighting with russia. who knows the truth is obviously known only to being you know these tell you one thing but it could be do you have another reason for playing you know they've put sanctions on russia before and according to the officials it hasn't stopped their activities so do you think it's a good move to keep doing them to help them maybe more the cold war was terrible for everybody but you know we need to thread the delicate needle of not encouraging bad behavior while recognizing that there are a world power that needs to be respected for their capabilities and you know navigating through that is not simple i think it is important that we do they have to be and putting and eco substances into other countries that were allied with illegal substances in the u.k. it is prayed to be related to the gulf many russia anyway more than half of the americans want better relations between the two countries why do you think that should be more and and i mean you you think it be good for the usa and russia ge

now when it comes to that russia russia question the crowd is not unified but they are unified in denouncing these forces that are assembled in front of the white house there are a lot of signs invoking memories of what happened one year ago in charlottesville there are a lot of signs invoking the black lives matter movement and opposition to police brutality we're seeing a lot of different political forces represented out here community organizations school groups religious organizations a lot of different folks here to counter the very very small crowd of roughly twenty four individuals associated with white supremacist and white nationalist organizations so huge huge turnout here in d.c. to denounce the folks gathered around the white house where there unite the right two point zero rally huge mobilization lots of different forces here lots of different causes represented all of them denouncing the ku klux klan white supremacy ism so quite a diverse crowd out here so far we have not heard any reports of any by. and there anyone being injured huge police presence we are hearing the sound o

russia has absolutely rejected the mclaren reports finding not because they don't believe you russia's quite rightly said we want the evidence thomas bach himself as requested the evidence and so far nobody has city apart we presume from mclaren it is only a guess at this stage but i think the first steps to a reinstatement will be taking place towards the end of september when there is a big meeting of water and i think the outcome will be that russia will be readmitted i think it will be an unconditional reinstatement but eventually on i think people will just have to say well ok russia are not admitting the been state sponsored doping but we need them anyway they are a world power in sports and sport needs russia keeping sports clean is something that both the i.o.c. president and ahead of us anti-doping agency are striving to achieve but can you really demand one thing from another country when similar dopping scandals break out in your own backyard one thing's for sure the next water meeting in the seychelles is looking like politics and doping will go down the finish line. and an

with respect to russia. russia has undertaken a campaign of malign activities in its attempt to compete with us, our allies and our partners. and catsa 231 gives us more tools with which to respond. we focus in particular on transactions with the russian arms industry. for multiple reasons. first of all, these are often the same arms that russia itself uses, continues to use for aggression against ukraine, for example. the world should shun transactions of that sort. second, as willy sutton is reported that when he robbed banks, that is where the money is. high-technology military equipment is one of the only competitive sectors of the russian economy these days. and moscow makes a good deal of money from selling arms abroad. these funds fuel the malign activities spread influence and support russia's development of new and even more deadly weapons. so use sanctions tools to go after those revenues. more broadly, russia continues to use its arms transactions as a tool of geopolitical influence. for russia, i

because if the democrats lose it's going to be russia exactly it's going to be russia's fault so russia is the ultimate scapegoat you know it's the paranoia of not knowing what you don't know there's going to be some meddling but how when where the assumption that it's going to be we remind you that the election has not yet happened and it's going to be in november themselves and by then. this is already saying the head of the national intelligence director saying that there is evidence about russians involvement and we have lindsey graham who has just advised president trump to check the so-called ball that putin gave him and house and get to check it for k.g.b. bugs we have this very same person elaborating with other senators this new draft of all that just called if i'm not mistaken or the translation protecting american security of from the kremlin said gretchen two thousand and eighteen so these guys they can forsee the future they can see how russia is mad and into a little different i mean i really don't this remind me it's kind of a bad episode of the twilight zone ok this is t

which is called i hate religion i hate russia russia is the enemy and we almost. genuflect at the altar of this new religious icon and that's the way you can take the american people's money heart yearned tax dollars which could be used for housing and health care and the education the things human beings need and shovel it over to the defense contractors you have to explain to them that it's an absolute national imperative to do that in order to carry out this looting of the national budget and that's what we're witnessing rather than he let me go to let me go to earl before we go to the break you manufactured consent this is what be in its most recent incarnation it's manufactured consent and and and i want to talk about the intelligence committee in the second half of the program but the liberal media loves it and they perpetrated go ahead girl thirty seconds. if it is manufactured consent to it and i believe it's probably orchestrated some somewhere in the dark corners as well i mean look what we have here we have mccarthyism two point zero even if you shake a

military assistance to russia what effect if any will they have on russia. well i believe president putin was right that these sacked lose will have no effect there counterproductive they only lay only build out a monster the hysteria among the population russia does not need us military assistance or russia has developed coming age cutting edge i should say aircraft cutting edge tanks cutting edge anti aircraft systems which are in demand all over the world and by imposing sanctions on russia all the how all the u.s. is really doing is forcing russia to become even more self-sufficient than it was before and becoming more creative and more dynamic and developing its own system so all these sanctions these military sanctions against russia are going to be have exactly the opposite effect that the u.s. administration foresaw and in your opinion to what extent is this sentients push being driven by domestic pets call considerations rather than any action that russia may have taken for example. i don't believe russia has done anything in violation of internatio

said as well that it was highly likely that russia was hardly attack saying that only russia had the motives means and raechel to target the scruples and moscow's repeatedly denied any involvement like he said before offering cooperation on the investigation. because these are two this is an attack on two russian nationals that happened but as far as we know the chemicals weapons watchdog the a p c w one porton down haven't been able to confirm the origin of the new agent let's take a listen to what they say we have not verified the precise source but we provided the scientific information to the government but you have not been able to establish at porton down that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular and their region is but it's not our job to see we are actually was money for. analysis. p.c. w.'s report i did to find the country. of origin of the agent used in this attack. and if you're doing all of this you know where the script pounds why aren't they talking it seems again and again th

sanctions on russia restrictions are a response to what washington abuses russia's poisoning of double agents powell and his daughter in march also. relies on us from the experts to tackle foreign influence on its platform we take a look at how it effects freedom of speech online also and you might find the upcoming pictures just being over forty civilians including children reportedly killed as a saudi airstrike the school bus in yemen the coalition says it was a legitimate military operation in accordance with international law. demanding the return of the sacred statues of stone more than one hundred years ago and now on display at the british museum we are physics is there it should be given back. we've got a. british empire. and i think it's part of our heritage so it's just our history. for the welcome just gone six pm here in moscow you with r.t. international. is calling on britain to make public its work on making stars military toxic substances this comes after america unveiled fresh penalties for what it calls moscow's poisoning of double agents powell and his daughter in th

in russia condemns the latest u.s. sanctions imposed over moscow's alleged role in the poisoning of double agents. screwball and his daughter in the u.k. . are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our national john thomas and glad to have you with us as really airstrikes have injured at least eighteen people in gaza according to local medics. i and one of the latest bombing raids a cultural center in gaza city was destroyed by the i.d.f. launched the operation after palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets into southern israel. or our sea was. on wednesday night an i.d.f. strike killed at least three people including a pregnant woman as well as her eighteen month old child a local journalist was present at their funeral. we are now and did it by left city in the middle of the gaza city where we are attending the funeral of we now it's and beyond us and beyond were killed yesterday during that abstracts launch from gaza strip and that is a twenty three year old mother that was pregnant with a

you know misled by russia or russia is behind it and you know even though there are genuine grievances to be had with you know all sorts of things that and russia plays a minor role if any in you know on the internet do you buy the idea that all this racism and all this division and all these protests are all caused by russia. no i honestly think it's just what i want to highlight is the intersectionality of what happened today like there were a small amount of white supremacists here but there are a lot of people who are coming to counter protest them so i don't blame russia well i was just a run of straw poll but the russia did it montrose of course but i quit for some time now even russophobe has gotten increasingly out of the swallow. i. mean time with a new still in the states a hacking contest has revealed that it doesn't take a top notch rushing computer expert to get into america's election infrastructure turns out in fact seems an eleven year old can do it perfectly well as you leap to trying to report. learn more about the twenty hacking contest that's what the link says and

spent sixty billion and you had russia's on the march you know early and rideable and russia is that then spending is on decline right now ok it's not being increased here early does the united states need brushes an enemy is this the it because it to justify all of these expenditures ok i mean brian is a logic lee looking at it but logic good politics don't always parlay ok i need a sensually we need an enemy justifies is here montenegro. it is good it is adding value added to nato defense ok montenegro's army is smaller than the new york police force ok but we need an enemy here is that would russia's purposes because it's really easy to paint russia is as an enemies because because it really demands stubbornly its sovereignty go ahead. and i agree pete peter i mean we mean we mean let's face it it's the fence industry we need an enemy. nato is searching for a new mission i mean really it's a good defense grouping but you know should russia be included in that as well and and what's the real mission the mission has is is not there i don't think there's any fear for russia invading

biological weapon russia denies the claims. the u.s. senate asked to interview the head of wiki leaks on alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixth the election. has repeatedly denied that moscow had anything to do with election related documents exposed by wiki leaks. and social media giants are accused of silencing debate after twitter suspends several prominent libertarian and conservative figures for alleged hate speech. thanks for joining us here on r.t. to match the life from moscow and. welcome to the program. moscow has responded to the new u.s. sanctions over the poisoning of. his daughter in the u.k. in a statement the russian embassy in washington said the u.s. has provided no evidence that moscow was in any way involved this comes after some serious accusations were leveled at moscow. the united states the six two thousand and eighteen determined that the government of the russian federation has used chemical biological weapons against its own nationals following a fifteen day congressional that if you cation peri

that russia attacked our democracy. russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. russia is constantly working to divide america. the facts are there. the intelligence agencies are saying it. they all are saying it. and they're doing a pretty good job of it, russia is. so why doesn't this president, why won't he in the words of his own fbi director, take the threat seriously? it's no coincidence that all of this is happening as the mueller investigation is moving into the oval office, as mueller is pressing for a sit-down interview with the president himself. as former trump campaign manager paul manafort is on trial. the first trial to come out of the mueller investigation. and as the president brands the whole thing a witch hunt. the fact is this is no witch hunt. robert mueller is doing what the president should be doing. he's working to get the facts. the truth about what russia did in 2016. and about what russia is still doing right now. that's the only way, the only way we can defend our democracy. i'm going to bring in chris soliza and josh campbell. gentlem

imposes new sanctions on russia in the case of the poison the excess body and his daughter how will this affect president trump's efforts to improve relations with the kremlin we'll get the latest from washington. and bell are also arrests journalists among them w.'s correspondent paul york because he could be the beginning of a crackdown on the media there. i'm dr thomas thanks so much for joining us we're starting this program with the story of a former officer of the turkish navy now living as a refugee in belgium now this man is one of thousands of military personnel purged by the turkish government for allegedly taking part in the failed coup two years ago many other officers like him have been accused of terrorism and are now behind bars in turkey in this exclusive report terry scholz talks with the former turkish officer and former nato diplomat who fears he could be snatched up at any time by turkish government agents. peaceful days with his family are something former turkish naval officer just for talking wasn't sure he'd ever happen again after president relative tie a pair to

russia slams newly enforced u.s. sanctions a slow witted in baseless vowing a response congress is also reviewing even more aggressive measures to get small scale that could hit later in the year. we can bring even more economic pain into the we will not hesitate to do so and its contract does not demonstrably and significantly change. also the migration center staff who said they face almost daily violence and abuse now from asylum seekers and they care to make the claims to local media after a series of incidents also. i i . protesters pulled out a controversial confederate statue in the university of north carolina in the u.s. as anger flares over links to white supremacist. historical context or forgetting why those statues stand trial statues were not nice. morning eight am wednesday the twenty second of august here in moscow when i was kevin oh and you live with r.t. international smalling so first than the first batch of the most recent us sanctions against russia come into force today they focus on exports of

airspace mopin has been gauging what americans make of the latest moves against russia. well if you watch the recent hearings on capitol hill american politicians or rather al spoke out about what they think about these new moves against russia ongoing efforts to interfere in our sacrosanct election process seize and those of our allies are just some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime putin wants to break apart the american republic russia's attempts to interfere in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election are well and widely known russia has undertaken a campaign of malign activities in its attempt to compete with us our allies and our partners and cats up to thirty one gives us more tools with which to respond however a new gallup poll shows that among the u.s. public fifty eight percent that's well over half favor improving relations between the usa and russia and that it's just over a third thirty six percent that say they want further steps against moscow and now we decided to go out on the streets of new york and talk to people about t

she's saying, russia, russia, russia, but i don't -- maybe it was. i mean, it could be russia, but it could also be china. it also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. okay? >> there's the 400-pound thing. then as a candidate and now more than a year and a half into his presidency donald trump has let russia off the hook again and again and again. calling into question the assessments of his own intelligence chiefs that russia interfered in the 2016 election and will do the same thing again. even in today's let's call it what it really is, kabuki theater in the briefing room, the national security adviser john bolton could only point to what putin said about election interference, not what president trump said. >> in fact, president putin said, i thought at the press conference but certainly in the expanded bilateral meeting when the two leaders got together with their senior advisers, president putin said the first issue that president trump raised was election meddling. >> so take off your tribal hats and your conservative

our democracy itself is in the crosshairs of pain by russia to try to weaken and divide united states threat is not going away prevent foreign interference in our elections to prevent russian and other foreign influence and the russians try to hack into and steal information candidates and government officials alike cyber attacks against voting infrastructure along with computer intrusions malicious cyber actors are getting elected officials it goes beyond the elections it goes to russia's intent to undermine our democratic values. content is created tested and hosted on platforms such as you tube reddit and pinterest its push to twitter and facebook with their standing audiences in the hundreds of millions and it's targeted at the most receptive this is a problem of the entire information ecosystem this is cross-platform reddit confirm hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did it. a lot of pride pride related content less news more memes this isn't just a couple of platforms this is music apps this is video games this is me i'm sharing it it's much broader than twitter and google.

-- russia. companies like blackstone were mainly -- mainly involved in information that these guys are doing mission. they are trying to stay under the radar while creating havoc wherever they go. whether they do so by political na or in with buti actual combat operations as in syria and the central african republic. and that's probably not the only place they are look dated. every infrica because we have seen in the middle east is happening in a. you are seeing growing russian influence an enormous chinese and the lengths. finally, latin america. we have two states on the verge of failing. venezuela and nicaragua. nicaragua has major political strife going on. russian military and clause i military versus a and involved there were years. used private military contractors. i wrote about this years ago. it's as relevant now as it is -- as it was then. a privatealer, entrepreneur, sitting in moscow even though interpol wants them, goes out of his secure perch to be with the agents to run weapons t

facebook hundreds of pages groups in a counseling to iran and russia for alleged political. for. the terror suspect allegedly involved in planning an attack was freed by a court because of the bureaucratic. video of a british policeman slapping a teenage girl during the rest. of this debate about what constitutes reasonable force to meet with. two grown place officers can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old go back to them. tell us fourteen year old girls just like anybody else. relations between the e.u. and the us to germany's foreign minister now suggesting a european alternative to the swiss global payment system to give the block financial independence from the u.s. pressure. hi there for good morning just after ten in the morning moscow time is thursday the twenty third of august welcome to the program watching out international with me kevin first facebook recently launched a crusade didn't it against the spread of misinformation and fake news and now it's banned hundreds of pages linked to iran and russia for what it describes a coordinated in authentic behavior

miscarriage of speech in the name of a hoax call russia gate. i'm jealous still so good good if you want to comment on up to two points on first of all if you look at what facebook did the other day right with banning these thirty two pages or so across their platforms nay said specifically we cannot link these to russia that's what they set and then of course mark warner you know who's this big russia gator democrat from virginia senator he comes out and says see this is proof that the kremlin is continuing to meddle with our democracy yet facebook themselves said they couldn't tie it to russia so that's what happens is something you know facebook gives them a little bit of a breadcrumb and then they start making up stories linking it to russia it's absolute madness but here's where also gets interesting in that piece that you referred to in his moto you know these activists were trying to figure out well what makes you think these things are suspicious and apparently it has to do with people running these pages using v p n's or two or and then

just to your life not just in russia but. you know in perenchio russia it's a challenge the first six months were really kind of hard in part because i was alone in the dormitory once i got a cat and start making friends and i had people to meet.

good food russia sharing goodness. facebook hundreds of pages groups in the coyotes linked to iran and russia for alleged political meddling. french interior ministry admits that the terrorist suspect allegedly involved in planning the attack was caught because of a bureaucratic failure. from a video of a british police from a party slapping a teenage girl during the arrest course triggers debate about what constitutes reasonable force doing with your two grown police officers can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old go back to them he's a fourteen year old girls just like anybody else. and as relations between the e.u. and us to tear at germany's foreign ministers just a european alternative to that swift global.

campaign going on there marianna here in russia because. russia seems to be pushing for international cooperation on syrian refugees returning now they say that the war is basically over the so-called islamic state has been basically defeated that's a line that we hear in russia again and again and it would be a big diplomatic win for russia if they could be playing a key part in having those refugees returned they have been holding press briefings here in the ministry of defense nearly every week for the last month or so they've set up a refugee center and they also have made a proposal to the u.s. to to draw up a joint action plan on the return of refugees so perhaps. putin will make some sort of proposal to america today when it comes to that as well particularly taking into consideration as well that that has been a difficult issue for america all at home as well refugee paul policy refugee policy has really come under a lot of criticism at home including from her political allies so perhaps putin sees a bargaining chip there that he ca

and russia. under the figures you know on the report of the international is to go through the studies in london the budget the military budget year of the united kingdom is fifty six billion dollars and the russian through budget is only forty six and who is aggressive what do you make then of when the british government says international leaders agree there is no plausible alternative explanation it is highly likely russia was responsible for this attack well we prefer you know to do with effect for example if somebody comes to the british court you know he has to present the case. in the in the situation with the soles very nothing was presented we look reading now would be mostly would be leaks in the newspapers there are no official statements and there are no proofs and today the foreign office is not answering to our diplomatic notes with all the questions with almost sixty diplomatic notes still no answers so we don't have evidence and the british government is not ready to present anyth

capitol on how best to punish russia. on capitol hill it was all about sanctions three high profile events subtle differences but the main thrust in all of them was punish russia the u.k. foreign secretary even flew into town to make his case those. values need to know there will always be a serious price to pay if red lines across and today the united kingdom asks its allies to go further by calling on the european union to ensure its sanctions against russia on a comprehensive and that we truly stand shoulder to shoulder with the u.s. to different hearings on capitol hill about russia's supposed moen line actions now the two things named are u.s. alexion meddling and the poisoning in britain of survey and yulia screen paul with nova chalk now no proof has ever been presented ongoing efforts to interfere in our sacrosanct election process seize and those of our allies are just some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime putin wants to break apart the american republic russia's attempts to interfere in the two

and russia. under the figures you know on the report of the international is to go through the studies in london the budget the military budget year of the united kingdom is fifty six billion dollars and the russian through budget is only forty six and who is aggressive what do you make then of when the british government says international leaders agree there is no plausible alternative explanation it is highly likely russia was responsible for this attack well we prefer you know to do with effect for example if somebody comes to the british court you know he has to present the case. in the in the situation with the souls very nothing was presented we look really now would be mostly would be leaks in the newspapers there are no official statements. and there are no proofs and to do the foreign office is not answering to our diplomatic notes with all the questions with almost sixty diplomatic notes still no answers so we don't have evidence and the british government is not ready to present anyth

in terms of sanctions and obviously they you relations with russia more economic relations with russia are more intense than the u.s. relations because you and the russia have economic alim are complimentary in the terms of the products they deliver show so even though the ruble may have plunged certainly over the last twenty four hours or so you don't see any long term major problems to be with the russian economy as a consequence of these sanctions no i don't think so as long as the doesn't jump on the band bang on a bend and continues to tighten the sanctions but i don't see this either like because many countries like australia also actually want to come improve their relations with russia and improve trade relations with russia because obviously we have have a lot to gain from that. and. it's a little bit strange that the american president is always talking about morals i mean i don't see. the president travels so much as a moralist see him more as a businessman and in effect he always says russian but i don't buy bad the russian gas by good american over the price of american ga

russia's isolation through those sanctions. the former while we don't know each other well enough but i'm amazed by her ability to listen to. this because there was so little sister who does know that the russian president likes to drink german beer and sometimes there is a possibility that we can make exchanges i have also gotten very good smoked fish because. i know from time to time since a couple of pulls off round the back. of the flight from moscow to berlin is quite a few i was at a bit of a shorter journey here he was until very recently in neighboring austria where he was attending the wedding of the foreign minister cody and close to the business one. may linger that was a personal invite by the austrian foreign minister despite the can trouble seeing criticism about inviting mr putin to help pass the wedding from various parties that didn't stop stop by mr putin having a bit of a celebration a bit of a dog with the maid to before he made his way out signing the limousine with his autograph i say left and wishing me a

and russia. under the figures you know on the report of the international is to go through the studies in london the budget the military budget the year of the united kingdom is fifty six billion dollars and the russian through budget is only forty six and who is aggressive what do you make then of when the british government says international leaders agree there is no plausible alternative explanation it is highly likely russia was responsible for this attack well we prefer you know to do with effect for example if somebody comes to the british court you know he has to present the case. in the in the situation with the souls very nothing was presented we look really now would be mostly would be leaks in the newspapers there are no official statements and there are no proofs and today the foreign office is not answering to our diplomatic notes with all the questions with almost sixty diplomatic notes still no answers so we don't have evidence and the british government is not ready to present an

you know misled by russia or russia is behind it and you know even. so there are genuine grievances to be had with you know all sorts of things that in russia plays a minor role if any and you know on the internet do you buy the idea that all this racism and all this division and all these protests are all caused by russia. no i honestly think it's just what i want to highlight is the intersectionality of what happened like there were a small amount of white supremacists here but there are a lot of people who are coming to counter protest them so i don't blame russia very wide variety of causes represented here in front of the white house says thousands of people that come out the other night unified around much but when it comes to opposing the ku klux klan opposing the white nationalist that is one thing that has brought all these people together caleb mopping archie washington d.c. . russia's prime minister has warned that if the u.s. goes ahead with sanctions against russia's major banks it will be viewed as an act of economic war that was after a

urged western partners to increase the pressure on russia. those who do. need to know that there will always be a serious price to pay if red lines across but today the united kingdom its allies to go further by calling on the european union to ensure its sanctions against russia a comprehensive and that we truly stand shoulder to shoulder with the u.s. we heard him speak to the u.s. peace institute he made his remarks and essentially he called for more hostility to russia in athens and it's interesting because his speech was actually leaked to the press ahead of time so people knew what he was going to say before he said it then he followed the draft of his speech that was leaked pretty pretty closely and now just two weeks ago we saw a new sanctions imposed on russia by the united states in response to the accusation about the involvement in the chemical weapons attacks now the latest measures will come into rounds those sanctions are they limit financing and exports they specifically banned the sale of national security goods that are sensitive like tec

russia, $1.5gdp of trillion. we have to states that have a gdp bigger in russia, and yet you would think we were in a bipolar world. do i want to throw that out? i would love to hear what you think about that. , bettere that russia than any nation in the world, use the elements of national power better. they know exactly how any western nation is doing. diplomacy, information and military economics. the elements that we never talk about our location, resources and population. i bring that up because russia only gotten smaller, the population is declining just like every other european nation. the average lifespan of a russian mail is 60 years old. ale. we can argue about this but we guess whatabout -- their economies based on? a single commodity economy. interest-earning to designeds it in a way to amplify their strength and men fought -- minimize their weakness. at the end we would use only economic power. callanipulation is what we hyper warfare. i would argue. i hope that inspires some questions. nation thats