russia, iibrated but russia woulde balance china with united states or of china would balance russia with the united states. another thing to say about this technology, we are witnessing more and more chinese technological competition. this is a strategic factor that should be taken into account. because, as russia is having guessing, there are no other moree may have russia-china technological cooperation, so russia would have no other option but to have more technological cooperation with china than europe. i guess russia would rather have it with europe. but it is not the auction. -- it is not the option. foret me commend csis inviting a russian speaker and giving us a chance to listen to the other side of the story. quick question about academics in russia. is russia producing a sufficient amount of chinese and far eastern experts to support what is clearly a burgeoning and important relationship? and closely related to that, do you feel the russian academic community and think tanks are having an effect on russian foreign policy formation, or are the two realms compartmentalized

but russia isn't north korea. mr valinsky, when you go home, you can speak to newspapers, there are certain radio stations that will put you on air. it's not north korea. i can speak to one newspaper into one radio station. i can't make that kind of interview on russian television. it's not possible at all, at all. that's why i was taking part in the so—called presidential elections, to be able to say something to the people. now, secondly, what i want to say, not only problem with opinion polls but also sometimes it happens that, for a long time, you are, looks like a complete failure in politics. mr churchill was in that position some time. so you're are saying to me, your time is yet to come, despite the fact you've been in politics for the last 30 years? what i want to say, my time, i'm not sure, but the time for my ideas will come. let's think about russia's status one more time, let's think about what we see and again, you say surveys aren't important. to me, they sometimes can be telling. 70% of russians

with russia. completion of this transaction would be devastating. not only does the program in which the west has placed its air capability, but it would potentially rupture turkish interoperability with nato, a key aspect. let's be clear, the s 400 is a russian system designed to shoot down an aircraft. it is inconceivable to imagine russia not taking advantage of that opportunity. russia's largely uncontested intervention in syria has rippling ramifications across the fence relationships and facilitated one of their key goals. undermining nato cohesion. russiaeuropean partners remains an unreliable partner by striving to accommodate the regional disputes russia shows that cannot be trusted when should choices need to be made and friends need to be known. unlike the relationship with united states, it comes with long-term commitments of maintenance and interoperability that the united states routinely provides. russia is a transactional partners seeking its own benefits, it thrives in chaos and t

and in soviet russia, 1914 to 1917. we have two revolutions in 1917. russia is becoming a failed state, in a sense, by 1917 and 1918. in 1918, the inevitable civil war. the bolsheviks were trying to hold onto power. the reds. and on the periphery, the white armies are trying to dislodge them from power. the lights will inevitably or eventually be unsuccessful. for a time the whites control the grain growing regions of russia and the reds led by lenin and trotsky, control a small piece of territory. people in the cities of soviet russia starved in 1918 and particularly 1920. to add all of these problems the war revolution and civil war, the bolsheviks have an idea when they come in to wipe out the free market. in other words to prevent peasants from trading their surplus grain. the bolsheviks began requisitioning grain. the idea is they are a communist government. trade should be outlawed under a communist regime. so this as well forces peasants to stop planting grain because they know it's going to be confiscated. the h

oftentimes, when we talk let'sly about russia, start with russia, with russia's approach to its nuclear forces and the concept that they might be willing to escalate to de-escalate, we get pushback. there is no evidence of that. there is no evidence in official documentation. i won't talk about sources, but if you can talk about why your assessment is in fact a fact that they are testing in this manner and we are confident that this is in fact russia's approach to why it is organizing their entire arsenal this way and their strategy that they have lowered the threshold of when they might consider nuclear use in a purely conventional conflict. >> part of their doctrine goes back to the 90's. there is no first use policy asm russia and they see that an ability -- and you hear different ways. some contexts, you'll hear it escalate to de-escalate. it has been written about as de-escalation control, where they think that using a low yield nonstrategic nuclear weapon would bring other powers, it would be inviting conflict to the table, where they can control the escalation and talks that ensu

/russia relations. prepared talking points and briefing memos on russia and proposed that candidate trump meet with president vladimir putin in moscow. in communications with the campaign officials, page also repeatedly touted his high level contacts in russia and his ability to forge connections between candidate trump and senior russian government officials. for example, on january 30th, 2016, page sent an email to senior campaign officials stating that he had spent the past week in europe and had been in discussions with some individuals with close ties to the kremlin who recognized that trump could have a game-changing effect in bringing the end the new cold war. the emails stated that through his discussions with these high-level contacts, page believed that a direct meeting in moscow between mr. trump and putin could be arranged. page closed the email by criticizing u.s. actions on russia. grand jury redaction. on march 21st, 2016, candidate putin formally and publicly identified page as a member

state secretary to work through russia. to help ukraine russia and we know how difficult it is to work between our 2 to work out the problems between our 2 countries and we both want to resolve many of the issues that we have. and. that we can continue our conversation and our diplomats will be able to work. in an open manner assured on the basis of the vienna accords and those are slow to and we hope that there will be nobody interfering in the in this conversation in this political conversations. and i'd like. to remind you how 933 president. roosevelt and. russia's ambassador libyan officials exchange notes where the diplomatic notes where they agreed to. the show that exclude any kind of interference. in domestic affairs of each country and this was actually launched and initiated by the us so i hope that we can proceed in this fashion can see we have some disagreements on this issue i promise not to go back to history from the early thirty's. but i made clear to foreign minister lavrov as we've made clear for the past

parliament and takes a clear stance on russia. continuing the policy of sanctions punishes europe and our own farmers as much as russia but suicide. observers say russia seeks to expand its influence in europe by supporting right wing populist leaders as well as their extremist voter base. these sort of the idea is to fan the flames constantly with gasoline and as people who already stood up against each other well it's by remaining propaganda a propaganda aimed at fracturing our society. in france the yellow vests protests against the populists room to maneuver almost every weekend people take to the streets of france to demonstrate. a court proceeding in this southern polish city has thrown unexpected light on russia suppose it methods of peddling its influence to europe's right wing base the defendant is michelle p a right wing radical on trial for terrorism since early 2019. he's accused of having organized an arson attack in neighboring ukraine. specifically in western ukraine home of many ukrainian citizens from the hungary

parliament and takes a clear stance on russia. continuing the policy of sanctions punishes europe and our own farmers as much as russia but suicide. observers say russia seeks to expand its influence in europe by supporting right wing populist leaders as well as their extremist voter base. is that the state or the idea is to fan the flames constantly with gasoline and his people who already stood up against each other well it's by remaining propaganda a propaganda aimed at fracturing our society. in france the yellow vests protests against the populists room to maneuver almost every weekend people take to the streets of france to demonstrate. a court proceeding in this southern polish city has thrown unexpected light on russia suppose it methods of peddling its influence to europe's right wing base the defendant is michelle p a right wing radical on trial for terrorism since early 2019. he's accused of having organized an arson attack in neighboring ukraine. specifically in western ukraine home of many ukrainian citizens from the

which took us for our position russia's position and answering your question why russia holds this but your specific position on supporting the dialogue and and resulting all the shiz by the historian people themselves. this weapons this position is based on the fact that you cannot impose democracy on somebody by force. the threats are coming. it's coming from the officials the u.s. officials yes but you know where you're coming from mr b. why do this where you constantly reminds us of his right to invite a military intervention from the outside this has nothing to do with democracy we all remember what happened 20 years. 22003 most of. them would you do we've heard in me 22003 how george bush sad that there is no democracy in iraq and we remember how. 2011 it was said that. more. market after he was. basically gone. and now there's democracy in libya and we all know 1st hand what kind of democracy now exists either in iraq and in libya we know that nothing good came out of it all of this after it's. russia 26 general that you can all of us. in the past have one question is to build m

russia hits back at u.s. claims that it is probably conducting nuclear tests in the arctic calling the allegations baseless. and the magic surgery in a knife crime in london leads in some of the somali community to send their children to east africa to live in study. they feel for the safety. they feel safe it's. themselves it's created very dangerous for you. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international and sean thomas with us aren't a busy british court has postponed an extradition hearing for julian assange is after the health of the wiki leaks founder sharply deteriorated a song he is currently in prison in london are spying boyko has more. the extradition hearing isn't taking place any longer today the sound was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pair via video link but he's not even well enough to appear via video link 10 minutes on has been moved to the hospital waiting all belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison where 7 out of 53 eccentric

russia is interested in how to save russia and euro economic relations. and the economic partnership it has with many countries in the european union. could -- the neal arms treaty? as i understand, russia has chinased the topic with the-- how have we not seen -- until the chinese part? talks with china -- step with chinese partners. on.crisis is going russia is going forward to. [indiscernible] i do not see that. russia would criticize china in not joining the treaty although russia would like to update new arms control and regime -- as far as i am concerts. our military experts also to be part of the foreman. so i guess this is the picture that we have now and russia , russiave -- well thinks that it would be better for everyone if we negotiates but ate arms control this stage there is nothing we can really do. action we canar do now basically. and the last thing about the standards in the arctic -- this is an adjusting question because china -- has grown and china would like to step up its presence and even if you look at the maps, you will see this is

has in venezuela from russia's standpoint the russia's ambassador to the u.s. he said he doesn't understand why that these discussions go on going through the correct channels the correct diplomatic channels from the u.s. point of view they've made it absolutely clear that they do not trust the way that russia is doing its nuclear testing and developments and the question is are they going to be able to sort out this latest batch behind closed doors or are we going to continue to see them wash their dirty laundry in public international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes the u.s. should provide evidence to support its allegations. but if they said there is strong evidence there's convinced you know that in secret sound better than just to say. probably is to very. it's based on intelligence which is to be fooled anyway well this is standard us unilateralism i mean if you come on to the iranian scene it's the same thing is it should be done with visions at a press conference which everybody has a chance to ask questions to him favorite media outlets an

if you look this was all about russia, russia, russia. they don't talk about russia anymore because it turned out to be a hoax. it was all a hoax. and then they say, gee, he fought back, isn't that terrible? he fought back. of course i fought back because it was a false accusation, a totally false accusation and it's a disgrace and it's a very -- it's a very sad period for this country. i think in the end i will consider what's happening now to be one of my greatest achievements, exposing this corruption. [ inaudible question ] >> i don't see how they can because they're possibly -- although i can't imagine the courts allowing it. i've never gone into it. i never thought that would even be possible to be using that word, to me it's a dirty word, the word impeach. it's a dirty, filthy, disgusting word and it had nothing to do with me. so i don't think so because there was no crime. you know, high crimes and -- not with or or -- it's high crimes and misdemeanors, there was no high crime and no misdemeanor. how do you impeach based on that?

trump responded to questions about possible connections to russia by denying any involvement in russia even though the trump organization had pursued a business project in russia as late as june, 2016. trump also expressed skepticism that russia had hacked the emails at the same time he and other campaign advisors privately sought information redaction about any further planned wikileaks after election question persisted about possible links and russian trump campaign. president-elect continued to deny any connections to russian privately expressed concern the reports of russian election interference might lead the public to question his legitimacy of his election. press reports alleged links between trump campaign in russia. june 16, 2015, donald j trump declared his intent to seek nomination as a republican candidate for president. by early 2016, he distinguished himself among republican candidates by speaking of closer ties with russia saying he would get along well with russian president battle mayor pruden questioning whether nato alliance was obsolete and praising putin as a stro

and russia over nuclear testing claims in the arctic short. this in petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing the key economic issues facing russia emerging markets the world thousands of business community members attend a forum to address today's final issues. or just actual forum coverage on r.t. . in orwell the state puts the surveillance cameras in. our present day for a well 19 eighty-four dystopian nightmare we put in the cameras we install the cameras on the nest cameras on our doors and our mantle pieces on spying devices in our hands and in our homes with another of these mass surveillance technologies that's the difference between orwell and today it is the worst nightmares would never think that we will imprison ourselves. russia's foreign ministry house firmly denied us allegations that moscow is probably conducting tests of low yield nuclear weapons in the arctic on there by violating its legal obligatio

on his 1st trip to russia the u.s. secretary of state might compel arrives for talks with his counterpart sergei lavrov finding the long lasting suspicions between the 2 countries. but as little brand a u.s. police raid on a former embassy in washington d.c. a violation of international law activists in the compound saying they are trying to prevent an illegal takeover a u.s. military school publishes a decades long history of washington's intervention in other countries by some as a guide. and a saudi arabian ship is counted by protests in european courts failing to pick up in arms to liberate the activists say could be used to kill civilians in yemen. you're watching aren't international bringing you your live news update from our studio here and moscow welcome to the program. ready to fight suspicion and prejudice those were the words of russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov as he welcomed the u.s. secretary of state to the black sea resort city of sochi during my company's 1st official visit to the country both s

has in venezuela from russia's standpoint the russia's ambassador to the u.s. he said he doesn't understand why these discussions go on going through the correct channels the correct diplomatic channels from the u.s. point of view they've made it absolutely clear that they do not trust the way that russia is doing its nuclear testing and developments and the question is are they going to be able to sort out this latest batch behind closed doors or are we going to continue to see them wash their dirty laundry in public. well international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes the us all to provide evidence to support its allegations but if they said there is strong evidence there's convince you know. just to say. it is true very. it's based on intelligence which is. well this is. us unilateralism i mean if you come on to the again you think it's the same story is good should be done. at a press conference which everybody else christian. statement. of. intelligence assessment. of the. u.s. special counsel robert muller did in his resignation 2 years after

secretary of state saying the reason for telling it russia's ready to fully restored between. talks between the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov which were described as being productive in. the u.s. police raid on his former embassy in washington d.c. a violation of international law and the compound trying to prevent an illegal takeover. the u.s. military school publishes a decade's long history of washington's interventions in other countries. saudi arabian ship is hounded by protests the european ports failing to pick up an arms delivery that activists say could be used to kill civilians in yemen. for joining us to see this is. ready to restore relations russia's president vladimir putin said that moscow is willing to resolve pressing issues that stop productive dialogue with washington his words follow a 3 hour face to face meeting between russia's foreign minister. american counterpart branded frank and detailed by both sides. there is a capability. we also want to restore relations with the u.s. i hope all the conditions for that are now being created this by the e

russia hits back at u.s. claims that it's probably conducting nuclear tests in the arctic dismissing washington's allegations as baseless. seeking safety a dramatic surge in knife crime in london leads some in the somali community that had to send their children to east africa and live and study. the field for the city for 2 of those children they fear of safety. themselves it's pretty very dangerous for them. called for impeachment to declarations of case closed counsel robert moses final settlement from russian investigation proved to be no less polarizing than the report itself. although from moscow called embraer the r.c.a. news room in the russian capital with the world news this hour a 1st for you a british court house put the end of an extradition hearing for julian a songs after the health of the wiki leaks founder shopping deteriorated in london's belmarsh prison he was then placed under medical supervision reporting from westminster magistrates court. exhibition hearing isn't taking place any longer

russia will sanction and as a response to those same russia would try to interfere in the elections. even at that time putin was establishing contact with the head of italy's far right leg a north party my tail so the me now in a high position in the italian government. 5 years later with the european election approaching salvini is promoting closer cooperation between the right wing populist parties including germany's a.f.d. . and remember if we join salvini struck her look penn and others in one big group will have the political clout that a lone warrior doesn't have to form policy and the company took the a.f.d. decided to take a pro russian stance falling in line with all other european right wing populist they rejected western sanctions against russia over its interference in the conflict in eastern ukraine and after 5 years of building alliances with europe's right wing extremists moscow scored a victory among the key operators were various shadowy figures such as manual oxen . in november 2014 he was photographed in eastern ukraine together with a frenchman victoria lanta an

has in venezuela from russia's standpoint the russia's ambassador to the u.s. he said he doesn't understand why these discussions go on going through the correct channels the correct diplomatic channels from the u.s. point of view they've made it absolutely clear that they do not trust the way that russia is doing its nuclear testing and developments and the question is are they going to be able to sort out this latest blast behind closed doors or are we going to continue to see them wash their dirty laundry in public international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes the u.s. will to provide evidence to support its allegations. but if they said there is strong evidence there's convincing evidence of that just to say highly likely or probably is too very. it's based on intelligence which is the florida anyway well this is standard us unilateralism i mean if you come onto the iranian scene it's the same thing is it should be done with vigilance at a press conference which everybody has a chance to ask questions she can favorite media outlets and giving t

had developed a partyline that trump had no business with russia and no connections to russia. in addition to denying any connections with russia, the trump campaign reacted to reports of russian election interference in aid of the campaign by seeking to distance himself from the russian contacts. for example, on august 26 in august 2016, foreign policy advisor jade d gordon declined an invitation to russian ambassador mr. kislyak's timing was not optimal. about russian interference. on august 19, 2016 manafort was asked to resign amid media coverage scrutinizing his ties to a russian political party in ukraine and links to russian business. and when the media published stories about pages connections to russia in september 2016, trump campaigned officials terminated pages associated with the campaign and told the press that he had played no role in the campaign. on october 7, 2016, wikileaks released the first set of emails stolen by russian intelligence agencies from clinton campaign chairman john podesta. the same day the federal government announce russian government direct

and russia that was a speech that we just saw by the u.s. defense intelligence agency director left and general robert ashley at the hudson institute in washington and he was talking about moscow's questionable approach when it comes to nuclear testing and they say that it's helped russia enhance new warheads now what we have seen is russia categorically denying that they violated anything to do with that accord and perhaps on this occasion the russians have a point they have got the backing of an organization called the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty that the c t b t a bit of a mouthful there exactly that the question is where's the hard evidence this time it has been backed up let's have a quick listen to. the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization has full confidence in the ability of the international monitoring system to detect nuclear test explosions here when we have seen this language time and time again but on this occasion now we've seen. the words like probably russia probably not adhering to an international tr

many reformists and many beautiful come from russia to participate because you see it russia's contribution to that festival so you know it is enormous you know not russia is a traditional participant and so could be a pleasure to see you there and again thank you for inviting me here to sochi i was really pleased to see this place this is a new place for me it's been another traditional visit to the capital is something different thank you for the future. of these years from. now we'll have an opportunity to for austrian and russian journalists to ask 2 questions each one starts with our friends from austria. seen through the press agency. yeah. plenty. ask me good afternoon. if you haven't guessed i would live to ask you a question about the meeting with you mr president you said that both sides take interest in restoring their lation between russia and the united states. what kind of environment should be established for that to happen are you already. have a one on one meeting with. traumatic stress what do you think about such a meeting taking place in the end there where the joint gov

too much dependence on china economically expensive russia -- at the expense of russia. there is a concept of division of labor. anda can provide economics, russia can provide politics and security. this is seen by many as a flawed concept from the beginning. it is unlikely that china would like to provide only the economic role. years, sooner or later, china would like to andide a future security in centralenefits asia. we can already see it happening in pakistan. how touite an issue actually make this interest meat. there is general understanding and russia that cooperation is the best, at least trying to find how we can cooperate and contribute everyone should be on the agenda, at least at the top political level. again, it is not going to be easy. it is a very difficult task. i think the russian government understands well it is not going to be easy. just still better than .aking some balancing acts actually, a lot of countries, including central asian countries want infrastructure, want major powers to provide more incentives and to cooperate. >> great. let's open i

. >> and phil, he keeps calling it the russia hoax. still, he's talking about the russia hoax. you saw some of his tweets today. >> yeah, i think if you look at this, quickly, you look at the president has asked, or the u.s. government has asked the british to extradite someone who was involved in that election activity. that is julian assange. now we have another country that has a dozen people in its military intelligence service involved in subverting american democracy and the president, who has obviously the department of justice below him can't even say, what about the 12 people we have under indictment. his question for himself is, i wasn't implicated in the report, therefore, it doesn't matter. so putin gets a get out of jail free card, and the gru, the russian intelligence service says, let's bring on the next round, 2020. >> that's the concern, maybe because the president was silent, putin will say, let's do some more. >> every intelligence service has said that the russians are planning to do this again. but this goes back to the president always equating the russia

. >> i rise today to discuss robert mueller's recent report entitledrf with russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election the mueller investigation with a full and thorough investigation of the russian government's efforts to interfere the 2016 presidential election as well as any length of coronation with that campaign of donald trump the deputy attorney general rosenstein said while appointing the special counsel that public interest requires hoe investigation under the authority of a person who exercises the degree of independence from the normal chain of command for i'm confident special counsel mueller will follow the facts and apply the law to reach a just result. i encourage all americans to read the redacted version and to draw their own conclusions. the report lays out in detail russia's attack on our country before and during the 2016 elections. the special counsel rightly concluded the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a sweeping and systematic fashion. january 2018 i issued a report on behalf of the democrats on the senate foreig

with europe without russia and they're creating a ukraine without russia also so yes allied ourself with yes very unsavory people and indeed when you see the house of battalion here with their s.s. spraycan and their helmets this is the same people that the nazis force here with no money in the looters to say much about it does it or is that just a freedom of expression issue but. i mean i believe that makes me furious makes me fear you know i think. on the right you grow your business you know politically. from up on it's not surprising but these one thing buffy there's a lot of discord in western countries about some of the stuff that's actually going on in. i think you know a little should be more than disquiet ok ok let's talk about revisionism because i mean you know there is there is effort to to diminish the soviet war effort i think you know i lived in poland for many years before i lived in russia and the removing war memorials. from those things you know that's kind of moving into this secret area ok. so be it more war memorials like in hungry with six hundred thousand sov

because russia tends to be a bit of a unifier if things go wrong we can always point to russia and unity against a common other serious i guess the incentive not to talk up. the threat as we have this disunity in the west i think it doesn't work jeff it isn't work i don't see that it works ok i'm just going there. was a moment of unity in europe and that moment was off the collapse of the so you collapse of communism or in the immediate post soviet post cold war era the ninety's when you have to magically translate into hostility towards russia about just point you know you know so you had this expansion of the you had this expansion that efforts to actually unify the count of the continent so that was the moment of unity but of course it was at the expense of russia and what should have happened in the nine hundred ninety s. but didn't we're paying the price now is the show you're russia should have been integrated into that unifying moment you said it was kept a distance not you treated treated very badly it was really it was really interesting doing the there in the cold war they had

russia didn't help me at all. russia, if anything, i think, helped the other side. do you think the media helped hillary clinton get elected? she didn't make it, but you take a look at collusion between hillary clinton and the media. barabara plett usher by washington, why now this? and why so aggressive? i think he isjust why now this? and why so aggressive? i think he is just very frustrated that this continues to overshadow his presidency and cannot get rid of this so when there was no delusion with russia and the findings, they did not charge him with obstruction of justice, he did not charge him with obstruction ofjustice, he said ok, fine. but then robert mueller came back and had his public statement and that reignited the whole thing. not to mention most americans and many americans will have seen the public statement by robert mueller in which he essentially says that donald trump had not been exonerated from charges of obstruction and the reason he was not charged was because it was not an option because he was a sitting president, so donald trump came bac

and russia that was a speech that we just saw by the u.s. defense intelligence agency director left and general robert ashley at the hudson institute in washington and he was talking about moscow's questionable approach when it comes to nuclear testing and they say that it's helped russia enhance new warheads now what we have seen is that russia categorically denying that they violated anything to do with that accord and perhaps on this occasion the russians have a point they have got the backing of an organization called the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty that the c t b t a a bit of a mouthful there exactly that there question is where's the hard evidence this time it has been backed up let's have a quick listen the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization has full confidence in the ability of the international monitoring system to detect nuclear test explosions here when we have seen this language time and time again but on this occasion now we've seen. in the words like probably russia probably not adhering to an internat

medals and russia. russia's elections it meddles in every other country's elections on earth the us actually has an agency the so-called national endowment for democracy that's medals and other people's elections says it has a democratic component a republican component so each of the political parties can be in on the loot but it's. the right. remember when when time magazine heralded the election of boris yeltsin by saying no we it will act our man are we got our man in as the president of russia and the issue of time magazine talked about what the us had done to bring about the election of yeltsin the corrupt and poor drunken guy so it's this is what the u.s. does that meddle everywhere they seek to be the world government and they can't stand russia they can't stand china can't stand iran anybody who says we're not going to go along we're not going to take orders so i would look to see the u.s. become a country of peace. or what kind of chance that is i don't know but they can at least not have a wa

the roots of today's tensions can be found in russia's recent history. presidents gorbachev and reagan start of the process of dismantling the iron curtain. me as office and as you say i don't see any threat for us from the west. the troops withdrew from east to the europe peacefully they were dismantling their own and by it. was the end of the cold war years of isolation and separation from the west were at and then the berlin wall fell to jubilation in the west. boris yeltsin russia's 1st elected leader transformed the country from the one party's for the system to multi-party democracy. so what went wrong the way the west treated russia would play a powerful role in the course the country would follow my good friend alexander bono expert at the carnegie moscow center has been considering these issues for a long time. or i'm glad that all manner of the why are you going on there i can still use the russian. stock income because of walsh that option which. he's going yeah because of. his one years says. anything near city or similar simply things that d

like to say on russia there russia is not a monolith there are high level officials in russia that are not definitely not pleased with how some people are handling the us own situation in russia it is in the very interest of russia and china to restore democracy in venice well because the fact of the matter is that russia or china will never get its investment back under the regime it will have an open and frank discussion with the democratic forces in the future once democracy is the store for its good markets political advisor to get its way liz opposition leader born gordon francisco we've taken the time to talk with this to. talk again soon thank you. thank you for having me. israel today marked its annual holocaust. stay the nation came to a standstill as people paused to remember the six million jews murdered by the nazis during world war two. this comes amid the largest spike in anti-semitic violence in decades experts say part of the reason is that memories of the holocaust are fading now there's a new project with an innovative way to keep those memories alive assman is here t

present in the middle east in syria russia is defending looking after its bases which are for russia independent from turkey. which are for the russian conception important yes i understand it it's a defensive position at the end but there think russia could be much more active towards a solution of this conflict and should act together with the americans i have in mind still. of one conviction it's not proven i know but if the russians and be americans. it would have acted in very beginning over the entranced syrian crisis and if advent time lovers off and kerry would have gone to damascus and told bush to please stop your behavior be quiet i think we would hold and would not have got to see a real conflict and the civil war we've in syria and i think invest been someone who has been telling to both to moscow and to washington please steyn from acting there ok well i mean there are a lot of have not owing to your making the a lot of points you're making there obviously in syria as far as the moscow another in beijing and they consider the war one against nature powers in syria and y

out of fear of provoking russia. we worked against pipeline projects that would further expand vladimir putin's influence. we strengthened reforming nato so the alliance can present a united front. we approve russia's noncompliance with the inf and walked away from a treaty that moscow had turned into a sham. the trump administration has, over russian objections, twice, and forced president obama's redline in syria after asad's use of chemical weapons. with respect to election security congress appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars in state governments to shore up their systems. the administration increased information sharing, department of homeland security and cooperation with the states and according to press reports the department of defense expanded its capabilities and authorities toward cyberthreats to our democracy. no longer do we just hope moscow respects our sovereignty. these are a few examples and there is evidence there having an effect. we had the 2018 midterm elections. we just had the 2018 mi

russia knew that iran was coming in, because iran had already been in there when russia intervened in the fall of 2015. that iran would provide essentially first class infantry to make up for the problems of the assad fighting forces such as hezbollah movement out of lebanon and some of the maliciousas -- mr. castro: in the fact we disagree on assad, what other differences between the united states and russia with respect to syria? as far as the administration's concerned. is that the totality of our differences? mr. jeffrey: basically it is the future of the assad regime. we think that this regime needs to subject itself to the u.n. process, free and fair elections, a new constitution or reformed constitution, and a nationwide cease-fire. we think that that is a political result that will meet russia's interests and meet ours. we're still trying to persuade them of that. r. castro: i yield back. >> the chair recognizes himself for five minutes. just building on the gentleman from texas' inquiry. i assume one of the things the russians also want is to maintain and expand their naval b

give us an overview of russia's involvement right now in venezuela. well i think the most important thing to point out here is that at the end of march we officially got confirmation from russian officials that there are actually russian troops in venezuela now that comes after months of reports that there were troops kind of being flown in military equipment as well and at the end of march russia finally did actually confirm that they did however say that it was military experts that were being flown in rather than troops that would be active in fighting they said that these would be military experts that would carry out consultations of some sort we don't know how many of those military experts or of those troops are on the ground but it is clear that russia seems to be willing to back to the end they also cited the fact that they have this military greenman between them this whale and russia that was signed in two thousand and one so very much emphasizing that they as opposed to the u.s. as they say are legitimately in the country and legitimately

russia today isa system of mafia state. russia today is a kind of a mafia state. right, but in the mid— 90s 30% of russians lived in poverty, now it's down to 1296 lived in poverty, now it's down to 12% or 13%. russia's people measure the reality of putin pass russia today against what they remember of that chaotic. and frankly they still stick with putin today. yes, this is right, but it doesn't mean that this is their choice forever. it is interesting to compare along the strong propaganda. it is the understandable outcome of that. but you can recall what happens in europe in the 1930s with italy, with mousseline e, for example. i'm not thinking about germany. it's a very special case. but let's speak about italy, let speak about mussolini, everybody was so happy with him, everybody was so happy with him, everybody was so happy with him, everybody was voting for him, everybody was voting for him, everybody was voting for him, everybody was supporting him. western countries were so happy because there was no unemployment, economic growth. but that is the way to

and russia. would have to clearly have the upper hand in any deal he would have to look as if he and the united states come out the big. that's a really interesting question because the fact is you're right you're completely wrong to me the only way because of the fact that so many people in america bizarrely think that trump is somehow compromised by russia which in turn has forced him to be far more hardline and russia than his predecessor but i hope obama was which is probably why. the election my main benefit russia overall at the point is that the only way to is going to be able to get it through with russia is if it looks like a complete victory for the united states and also that's probably going to be on except the bill in the in moscow so i mean as i said earlier what they're basically trying to do here in russia as far as i can see as far as the russian russian expert community and you know political class are saying is to try to stop relations getting any worse because as i mentioned l

russia and iran u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo has visited the black sea resort of sochi he held meetings with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov and russian president vladimir putin now speaking ahead of those talks putin found words of praise for the recently published a report on russian meddling in the 26000 u.s. election russian leader also expressed his desire to completely restored the bad relations between his country and the united states a feeling that he said that he sense is reset for kate by donald trump people are this talk about that. a bit more joining me here the big table is sarah palin she is a political analyst and russia expert with the german council on foreign relations it's good to have you on the show so let's talk about what we're looking at the u.s. in the russia and russia they disagree on many things still they value to improve their relationship how are they going to do that they're probably not really going to do that as leverage and they want to they want to improve

all smiles as russia's leader and the p u.s. diplomat meet, and want to work together, but they are far apart on iran, venezuela, a election meddling. could roundup pose a risk? how cancer claims from a popular weedkiller lead to a multibillion-dollar verdict. plus, a refugee's life through the lens. hoouphotography is helping y migrants tell their stories. laura: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. the u.s. secretary of state met russia's president in a sochi todaigh-stakes meeting given moscow and washington are at odds over so many aspects of foreign policy. vladimir putin says he derstands president trum wants to begin restoring ties now the mueller report has been released. abou the issue of russian interference in the 2016 election will not go away. here is what russia's prime minister and the u.s. secretary of state had to say about that. >> we spoke about the question ofcnterference in our domes affairs. i conveyed that there are things russia that these types of activities are a

then there is russia. as a fellow arctic councilmember, russia, the other arctic states have fruitfully cooperated in a number of areas. expansive conservation efforts, those are to be applauded. we want cooperation to continue. but we cannot have one side cooperate and the other side derogate its duties. we are concerned about russia's claim over the international waters of the northern sea route, including the newly announced plans to connect it with the china's maritime silk road. in the northern sea route, moscow already illegally demands other nations request permission to pass, requires russian maritime pilots to be aboard foreign ships, and threatens to use military force to sink any that fail to comply with their demands. these provocative actions are part of a pattern of aggressive russian behavior in the arctic. and russia is already leaving snow prints in the form of army boots. russia formally announced its intent to increase military presence in the region in 2014, when they reopened the cold

there is nothing legal whatsoever about russia's action. it's an early test for ukraine's new president, volodymyr zelensky, who was sworn in on monday. mr volker said he believed mr zelensky would stand up to moscow on this issue and others. some critics fear he might be more accommodating to russia than the previous incumbent. mr zelensky himself said that by allowing the servicemen and boats to return, russia could send the signal on stopping the conflict with ukraine in a civilised way. we will see, he said, what path the kremlin chooses. danny aeberhard, bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news. exit polls in the irish republic suggest voters have overwhelmingly backed reforms to make it easier to divorce. at the moment couples need to wait four years before they can divorce. in the referendum, voters were asked to remove time frames and to allow parliament to decide the issue. if approved, the new rules would halve this time. cyril ramaphosa has taken the oath of office in pretoria, beginning his first full term as president o

russia did attack our democracy. it was an incredibly huge demonstration of what a foreign power can do when he sit back and let it happen. that's what he's doing going into 2020. this was a huge cyberattack on our democracy and on our elections. if he can't even admit it happened in 2016, what does that mean for 2020? >> i have a theory, victor, perhaps he didn't even talk to putin about it because he wants and needs them to do it again in order to win in 2020. there really is no explanation to it. >> hold on a minute. if we want to look at a president and what they're doing to russia, with regard to meddle, i hate to play what about-ism? let's bo back to barack obama he simply said, cut it out. see how much good that did. >> come on, alice. >> this is the president thursday night on fox news, making that point. >> president obama in september before the november election, my november election, if you look, he was told by the fbi and others about russia. he did nothing about it. >> what could he have done? >> he cou

has in venezuela from russia's standpoint the russia's ambassador to the u.s. he said he doesn't understand why these discussions go on going through the correct channels the correct diplomatic channels from the u.s. point of view they've made it absolutely clear that they do not trust the way that russia is doing its nuclear testing and developments and the question is are they going to be able to sort out this latest blast behind closed doors or are we going to continue to see them wash their dirty laundry in public international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes the united states should provide evidence to support its allegations them. i mean if they said there is strong evidence there's convince you know that it's better to just say i like you know probably is true very. it's based on intelligence which is always liable to do anyway well this is standard u.s. unilateralism i mean if you come onto the range the same thing is is highly damaging and should be done with open your vigilance at a press conference which everybody has a chance to ask que

we are grateful to russia for its participation in the process and where we are grateful to russia. to rate this. we are appealing to the remaining signatories to the a joint comprehensive plan of action and. we emphasize the role of our russian and trying to cheney's counterparts in maintaining this agreement and keeping it afloat. as for the remaining signatories. u.k. france and germany they have not complied with their obligations so far. and we appeal to know. with the purpose of holding them to their obligations. in that i will comply with them with the help of a minister of our of who holds the negotiations with them as well that means and in case they do comply with their obligations we will be happy to continue our participation in the plan. if. you don't. after days yes an hour submerged to a drug is going to scale back on the number of us commitments voluntary could tell us what that will be the practical steps which russia and iran will be making in your opinion is that it. is it possible to maintain. these conditions and i would like to ask both with his sister answer t

by russia, syria, russia has put weapons in space targeting u.s. space assets, arms control, russia just pulled out of a major missile treaty. what is the common ground that the trump administration thinks is there? >> you know, i feel, jim, number one it's good they're talking because both sides say they want to do it, they really aren't talking for the most part. so this is good news. now, what can they actually agree on? i think they can both agree on the fact that the mueller investigation is over and as the president sees it and also as president putin sees it that's the end of the story. you know, essentially they won, they feel, and so they can go on to try to repair this relationship. when you get into the details of what they will be discussing, you are right, i mean, on almost everything it's a very difficult picture. witness iran, i mean, russia absolutely is saying that the united states created this chaos, created this instability in the middle east with iran. and other issues, you know, don't forget ukraine, that's another issue on wh