booker's many investors are suspicious of russia they don't know much about russia russia gets bad press from the american government as you know and some other governments so all of the things that you can bring out that are positive for russia and low debt is a very strong positive in 2019 since so many major countries have huge debts it's also positive and it's all great for russia and maybe people will start listening you mentioned that the russian economy stable but that doesn't necessarily mean that it will grow well yes russia has a lot of things going for you know about the oil or it's not going to get worse it's making a bomb now so that is not certainly not a negative anymore russia has that group called you know russian agriculture is booming because of the sanctions every day russian farmers they thank you mr trump thank you mr trump because russia and i can quote here is booming russia has many thanks to the rest of the world overall and i know people are painting a positive picture of the russian economy but you know i tried to do some research before talking to you and als

russia's real reasons of which are. repaired or. your system goggle will be used to record whereas reacher so. you call us cheapish we don't have your shoes on when you stand. she will washington heights you are not old he really has always been remind you mukherjee of the blues just you know what present you so what you do sloan you pretty ugly 1000000 to. war. now we are now. you are pushing from them into your credits and we should use it. at the end of yeltsin 2nd term he appointed a successor who has become very popular in russia but who is no disillusioned with the west yet it is true most of our show i hear. on my arm all my hearing you. for damn uncited bureau i feel. bad i had my build up as. well as bear but i was a. very bored can. simplify you'll need to call us too much because all but it's new college because there was . a she used this all. goes well you know. you're sure to chill it was for us you dropped the reform was going to be too. which would be a short dress you duck a clue to but a story. that even put in is

there was an imaginary ghost then an enemy out there called the russia during the russia game hoax meanwhile huawei another 5 g. technology is coming out of china and other technology of china time is actually leapfrogging ahead of the us economically and now b. is basically the currency war so now that whole period of focusing on russia it would be is just a waste of time which had been focusing on the actual rival to the americas very dominant in the u.s. now with the kind of. i'm. going to make. a major policy over the whole the u.s. to claims that it no longer views israeli settlements in the occupied west bank as a legal. establishment of israeli civilian settlements in the west bank is not per se inconsistent with international law iran accuses the u.s. of hypocrisy for supporting mass protest spot by a hike in fuel prices. and it led to russian interference is said to be on point to fumble in a still classified u.k. intelligence report has russian media outlets including r.t. also get a mention.

take into account russia's interests and the russia's positions on various international topics russia has to be strong russia has to be assertive and at times russia. has to be proactive in. stating its goals and promoting them on the international stage and that's one of the reasons that the russians moscow's foreign policy. since the beginning of 2000 has become more assertive and more vigorous ok as far as your links with. with its western counterparts it is about peru i mean for a few years after the fall of the berlin wall america didn't have any major competitors let me ask you how has that changed and are we now seeing super powers like china mount serious challenges to u.s. dominance yes we absolutely are and we have to remember how incredibly fragile in those early years after german reunification were when. soviet soldiers and then subsequently russian soldiers were still station in the stone and i was a student there at the time eastern germany i should say and soviet so and so just were being gradually withdrawn but they were still there in the 9094 and we are very lucky t

take into account russia's interests and the russia's positions on various international topics russia has to be strong russia has to be assertive and at times russia. has to be proactive in. stating its goals and promoting them on the international stage and that's one of the reasons that the russians moscow's foreign policy. since the beginning of 2000 has become more assertive and more vigorous ok as far as your links with. with its western counterparts it is about peru i mean for a few years after the fall of the berlin wall america didn't have any major competitors let me ask you how has that changed and are we now seeing super powers like china mount serious challenges to u.s. dominance yes we absolutely are and we have to remember how incredibly fragile in those early years after german reunification were when. soviet soldiers and then subsequently russian soldiers were still station in the stone and i was a student there at the time eastern germany i should say and soviet so and so just were being gradually withdrawn but they were still there and in 1904 and we are very lucky t

, benefit to russia. the u.s. special envoy to ukraine which was specifically tasked to help ukraine in its war, in its negotiations against russia, that was this guy kurt volker who resigned when he was called in to testify in the impeachment hearings. we just learned the trump administration isn't going to fill that job. they're getting rid of that job now. no more dedicated u.s. envoy for helping ukraine with their war on russia. i'm sure russia is delighted by that, too. we learned from christopher anderson, that when russia attacked ukrainian ships and took a whole bunch of ukrainians pr prisoner they trump white house blocked a statement condemning russia. why did the white house block a statement condemning russia seizing ukrainian ships and stealing ukrainian sailors? trump blocked that. when a cnn story ran last year about the u.s. navy doing an exercise in the black sea that was portrayed as the u.s. military standing up to the russia in the black sea, president trump saw that report and called

because russia mainly that russia has all of the force and the exportation from russia a pretty good week for it so for a lot of years russia got. a very high dependency on the dollar because they're selling oil and oil is 40 in the world war markets. what they did buying gold increasing the reserve overall basically set out dollars weeks basically means that the potential of russia right now is they have reviews that dependency on dollar and by that they are probably not actually one of the top countries you have a lot of industry all technology to to develop energy so basically i think that's that's the. sort of russia they cover themselves against any kind of. drop down on the value of the law and they all sing groups that are sort of on board. and you want to very systemic abuse and then next year's russian bonds have become a must have despite sanctions that's according to that article what's your take on that. well again if we take in consideration the other options we've got in the case of europe or united states debt in the lead the russian balls are basically because if you

the president of france says that nato is brain dead and that terrorism is now the enemy of the not russia and the neo mccall wants his criticism to be a wakeup call for the military alliance so what does it mean for nato is future an organization the us president also once described as obsolete this is inside story . hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan after world war 2 and facing a rising threat from the soviet union a group of european and north american countries banded together and signed up to the north atlantic treaty they believed a collective defense was the best way to ensure future peace in the is that followed the organizations membership and goals expanded there are now 29 countries committed to protecting the security if they chose members but on the alliances 70th anniversary some a questioning its effectiveness just weeks after calling nato brain dead france's president a manual mccraw that the organizations boss for talks in paris as erasmus national buffer reports from the french capital. it was a longer handshake than usual for the french president it seemed

this one has to create huge conflicts with russia so i do think that this effort to. change the language in the sense of beginning to bring ukraine gradually in. reflects something much deeper than merely this working against trump it what's really interesting here team is that if you if you kind of step back and you look at what's going on under the new president's alinsky he is making steps mall steps making steps to resolve the issue in the dharm pass it seems to me the american official them would be very happy with that they don't want to see peace as a matter they like to see this tension because they think it is a an impediment to russia an irritant to russia of course the people of the donbass don't simply exist in their minds they have no agency actually do have a lot of agency in it and over 13000 people have been killed most of them in the dark about so they know what this is all about here that dovetails into something that trump of said ever since that campaign resolving issues and i think that minsky and trump see each other is partners in possibly doing

this one has the creator which conflicts with russia so do you think that this effort to. change the language in the sense of beginning to bring ukraine gradually in. reflects something much deeper than merely this community gets trump it what's really interesting your team is if you if you kind of step back and you look at what's going on under the new president alinsky he is making steps mall steps making steps to resolve the issue in the dharm pass it seems to me the american official them would be very happy with that they don't want to see peace as a matter they like to see this tension because they think it is a an impediment to russia an irritant to russia of course the people of the donbass don't simply exist in their minds they have no agency actually do have a lot of agency in it and over 13000 people have been killed most of them in the dark about so they know what this is all about here that dovetails into something that trump of said ever since that campaign resolving issues and i think there's a minsky and trump see each other is partners in possibly doing th

russia's really becomes of which your. group. or. yours will be used to the horde whereas reacher so. you call us cheapish we don't have our shoes on when used to. chew washington heights you're not old it is always been remarked you mukherjee with the police just you know what goes into so what you do sloan you pretty ugly morgan told me i'm your. war. now we are now. don't you want to hurt us and we should use it. at the end of yeltsin's 2nd term he appointed a successor who has become very popular in russia but who is no disillusioned with the west yet it is true most of our show i hear. on my arm all my hearing you. for graham uncited all your. data out here by build up as. well as bear but i see. why you marry board can. simplify your need to call us to whom this goes all but if you call it because there was be achieved as all. the news goes well you know. you're sure to chill it was for us you dropped the reform was going to be too. which would be a shorter issue duck a clue to be able to sort it. but even put in is no excuse f

russia relations. it's good to talk to you think you very much for your time my pleasure now we russians are no strangers to acrimony and we think we know that americans while but i have to say i'm constantly surprised sometimes even shocked at what i see play out in the american politics the fact that a simple phone call between 2 halves of state and a pretty big now phone call a dive could trigger impeachment proceedings that's pretty mind boggling to me is it the same to you absolutely and not only to me. congressman steve scully's. a republican. that compared to what's what's going on. is reminding him you're ceasar. i slightly disagree with him because in the u.s.s.r. . can and leaders are saying something no one believed a single wart and actually people who said it also didn't believe what they were saying but no you see that half of the country believe it just. people say those things they don't believe it so it's not exactly your ceasar but there's some resemblance. well it's not exactly the y

war with russia because i think as weak as russia was back in the early ninety's it would never give up on the idea of its own army like japan and would never sees part of its sovereignty to the united states like west germany so was that ever a realistic scenario. no what we're talking about it's not to russia becoming like a junior partner we were talking about equal partnership so as i sat here i was carrying a lot of messages from russian leadership and. who have x. as their excess to the white house he was delivering them to president bush and there was a message that russia is ready to become american ally now in terms of course should be negotiated and again i don't think that russia would agree to be a junior partner but you can be allies equal partners and 6 it would be good for russia it would be good for america said george bush it's really. inclined to accept this idea but he. lost elections in $1.00 to $2.00 and assume he lost elections new team clinton and then george bush jr and obama went on the pass of each actually was devastating to the united states has sent and t

the president of france says that nato is brain dead and that terrorism is now the enemy of not russia and the neo mccall wants his criticism to be a wakeup call for the military alliance so what does it mean for nato his future and organization the us president also once described as obsolete this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan after world war 2 and facing a rising threat from the soviet union a group of european and north american countries banded together and signed up to the north atlantic treaty they believed a collective defense was the best way to ensure future peace in the is that followed the organizations membership and goals expanded there are now 29 countries committed to protecting the security of nato as members but on the alliances 70th anniversary some a questioning its effectiveness just weeks after calling nato brain dead france's president emmanuel mccraw but the organizations boss for talks in paris and as erasmus russia butler reports from the french capital. it was a longer handshake than usual for the french president it seemed

in europe into russia of course the people of the donbass don't simply. exist in their minds they have no agency actually do have a lot of agency and over 13000 people have been killed most of them in the dark about so they know what this is all about here that dovetails into something that trump of said ever since the campaign resolving issues and i think that minsky and trumps each other is partners in possibly doing that not this side show that we're seeing go ahead well you are right when you said 13000 people died and gone bust but you wouldn't know all of our dead from the hearings you know i read the hearings and they see just inaccurate information. of the state department says that ukraine isn't. just it's not just an abuse of power by the president but the harm he inflicted on ukraine a critical ally are the constant assault by russian forces more than $13000.00 ukrainians have died on your cranium soil defending their territorial integrity against the russian aggression fiction well so again 1000 people were killed this is the general number of

russia and china. into media trains rockets have you discussed arms control at all i will start with the latter question ask for a seat in the beltaine agreements so i think you should rather ask him only nature will i know his position we have discounted but once again you should rather ask him directly. and so when we have. learned about the position of china from the. foreign minister. but. that china has. as of now it's different significantly different from the nicholas that russian the united states have so there are obviously we're seeing these 3 guards so in chinese leadership thing that it's not time yet. for china to take part in these talks and negotiations but i want to tell you 1st of all that's true that's absolutely right russia and the united states are the big is nuclear in this saw of power in the world and secondly so i just thought about the if we include china then why just china then lats involved france and great britain and other countries that are not known as officially nuclea

has with russia. and it's really -- it's really startling that russia is dictating what our foreign policy is. >> ambassador, help us understand the difference here because you just heard that congressman to jim last month saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, but the obama administration didn't give those lethal weapons, didn't sell them to ukraine, javelins, et cetera. i believe the line from the obama administration was they were concerned about retaliation from russia to ukraine should they have sold those weapons. is that markedly an importantly different than mick mulvaney's -- catherine croft saying the concern was russia would react negatively, not see the u.s. favorably? >> no, i think there's a big difference here. but there's a broader question which is, you have this policy that's been conducted by the last 2 1/2 years by the trump administration which i think has been fairly supportive of ukraine and has taken a tough stance towards russia. the question is, it seems pretty clear that the president d

when the relations between turkey and russia deteriorated because of the downing of russia's plane or was syria. but economy of turkey experienced a very serious problems. later on america and europe tried to freshen urge. that did not undermine turkey's economy well sure russia's actions did though. i think it is good that turkey and russia copywrite today. it also means that we can count on some greater understanding here. because before turkey only supported the bosniaks on the muslims there. were good relations between turkey and russia could help the balkans and that's quite natural but i think that this cooperation that turkey and russia have today are a very good example of how things can get normal. but this does not of course rule out these basic political problems more of a post or you know the basic political problem here in bosnia herzegovina that serbs do not think that will mostly inherits a government is their country the problem. serbia is our country. so are the republicans serbska remains committed to certain amee reporter go through the best possible relations with

at a top forum in russia. how she sent to military police to kill us like animals we're not animals for them to kill us like now the death toll in bolivia and tycoon protests rises to 27 as the country's self-proclaimed leader gives the security forces impunity when it comes to dealing with unrest. and french police are accused of using weapons of war a by a journalist left with severe facial injuries who claims he was hit by a tear gas grenades reporting. you're watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. what amir putin has spoken at the economic forum a russia calling the global and national economy sanctions and international actions where they focus across life now to our notion of who has all the bells so what dominated the discussions. hi tech lane well widely reported has been unser in questions from participants of the 11th annual russia calling investment for a hit moscow they say are the event gathered guests from 80 countries f

pediment to russia and to russia of course the people of the donbass don't simply exist in their minds they have no agency actually do have a lot of agency in it and over 13000 people have been killed most of them in the dark about so they know what this is all about here that dovetails into something that trump of said ever since the campaign in resolving issues and i think that minsky and trumps each other is partners in possibly doing that not this side show that we're seeing go ahead well you are right when you said the 13000 people died and gone bust but you wouldn't know about or ahead from the hearings you know i read the hearings and they see just inaccurate information george of the state department says that ukraine isn't. just it's not just an abuse of power by the president but the harm he inflicted on ukraine a critical ally are the constant assault by russian forces more than $13000.00 ukrainians have died on your cranium soil defending their territorial integrity against the russian aggression fiction well so again 1000 people were killed this is the general number of pe

for me when the relations between turkey and russia deteriorated because of the downing of russia's plane or was syria. but economy of turkey experienced a very serious problems. later on america and europe tried to pressure. did not undermine turkey's economy will show russia's actions did though. i think it is good that turkey and russia copyright today. but it also means that we can count on some greater understanding here. because before the only supported the bosniaks on the muslims there. are good relations between turkey and russia could help the balkans and that's quite natural. i think that this cooperation that turkey and russia have today are a very good example of how things can get normal. but this does not of course rule out these basic political problems more of a poor story a number of the basic political problem here in bosnia herzegovina that serbs do not think that will mostly inherits a government is their country the problem. serbia is our country. so are the republicans serbska remains committed to its autonomy reporter go through the best possible relations with ser

the view from russia. relations between russia and the west have never been as tense since they ended the cold war. the fighting in the eastern ukraine is ongoing and after 5 years there are 13000 deaths and 30000 wounded. as a result the west has imposed harsher and harsher sanctions on russia's businesses abuse assume some super merely various television he was due to stall i mean sure. this would just become a bigger stall are going to get. the premier bunkers because he was responsible for q 4 because just after. the slurs told us we should hear. bush at the oscars last one as long as also for. the mirror mirror she's trying to bully pretty early to get these missional. was because she when you've been you mired the zakat leave this whole dispute a legitimate penske leading a number of roads cut us quickly up when you might join in you've been you might at any point in my own store you we up with the ring and i see you see your whiz which wes is going out of as a machine here so it's the medium you see

worked with russia because i think as weak as russia was back in the early ninety's it would never give up on the idea of its own army like japan and would never sees part of its sovereignty to the united states like west germany so was that ever a realistic scenario. no what we're talking about it's not to russia becoming like a junior partner we were talking about equal partnership so as i sat. i was carrying a lot of messages from russian leadership and. who have x. as their access to the white house he was delivering them to president bush and there was a message that russia is ready to become american ally now in terms of course should be negotiated and again i don't think that russia would agree to be a junior partner but you can be allies equal partners and 6 it would be good for russia it would be good for america said george bush but it's really. inclined to accept this idea but he. lost elections in $92.00 and assume he lost elections new team clinton and then george bush jr and obama went on the pass of each actually was devastating to the united states has sent and then in t

treaty the relationship with russia the subject was talking who is the enemy so injuries or decision let's not negotiate cost sharing a burden sharing maybe we needed a wake up call if you permit english expressions stoltenberg said nato members often had different opinions but that didn't mean the alliance has no future so the policy is that while questions are 'd being asked about the strength of the transatlantic north america and europe i dream or together than we have done for decades it's clear that my comment that nato is brain dead didn't go down well with stoltenberg pretty certainly shaken up the alliance and focused minds on coming up with some new ideas germany's foreign minister has suggested that a group of experts from outside nato could be created to review the organization some analysts say such a move would be constructive it was war in ukraine there's a huge problem in middle east their war in syria iraq or iran is behaving differently so this is something very useful and it's much better to discuss the problem together with experts inside the alliance than than cr

for me when the relations between turkey and russia deteriorated because of the downing of russia's plane or was syria. but economy of turkey experienced a very serious problems. later on america and europe tried to. that did not undermine turkey's economy will show russia's actions did though. i think it is good that turkey and russia copyright today. it also means that we can count on some greater understanding here. because before turkey only supported the bosniaks on the muslims there. were good relations between turkey and russia could help the balkans broken and that's quite natural but i think that this cooperation that turkey and russia have today are a very good example of how things can get normal. but this does not of course rule out these basic political problems more of a poor story number the basic political problem here in bosnia herzegovina that serbs do not think that will mostly inherits a government is their country the problem. serbia is our country. so are the republicans serbska remains committed to certain amee reporter go through the best possible relations with se

russia's actions did though. i think it is good that turkey and russia copyright today. but it also means that we can count on some greater understanding here. because before turkey only supported the bosniaks on the muslims there. were good relations between turkey and russia could help the balkans and that's quite natural but i think that this cooperation that turkey and russia have today are a very good example of how things can get normal. but this does not of course rule out these basic political problems more of a poor story a number of the basic political problem here in bosnia herzegovina that serbs do not think that will mostly inherits a government is their country the problem. is serbia is our country. so are the republicans serbska remains committed to its autonomy reporter go through the best possible relations with serbia. we do not. you want to do any harm to the bosnians which are modest about the bosniaks must live but bosnia herzegovina it's not this it's for all of us here inside that country and there's republika srpska is exclusively ours and when th

within russia the reason why. range of opinion on these events but definitional position is the opposite of the west here. deputy foreign minister sergei volkov deals with the russian western relationship 1st hand. to get assistance up us leave me good for this i see a loss up there with with the gullies are growing they're going to someone who doesn't have any kind michelin is dealing but i mean we know we've got i see if yes that would be you might see me hail not serving as chairman good in the bridge from pitching you to your convenience and i still got a good tug or the email of those we missed that missed in timea room when numbers go we screen commuter media. mcguckin at night vision in iraq she's based around noise not as in the cool of that but she must be a shared deal is creepily reach a deal with sears and the suspect was a way in with new kind of a new style she mistreats on me to gonski rebut it near to not know where she was read the book up to whom we knew but it stated we should we should be seein

if russia and the west are still engaged in a cold war take a listen to how he responded. but surely but still a war. in different places. and yet there is shooting it have craft and it was not being said he would do that and everywhere glued this is not the kind of situation we want to turn over the. when gorbachev was foreshadowing in 2006 what he was describing today in 2019 i mean it seems that he was a minority at the time why do you think that was the case. i think that he could see clearly the tensions that were rising and they had been up over things like the iraq war and russia was on the other side but he could also see i think the root of nationalism in russia with which he would be quite uncomfortable he's been very careful over the years not to be too critical of vladimir putin as having said which he is critical of him because he doesn't recognize a real democrat but he's really quite right in saying that no good we the west export our democracy you know as a ready made model to them after all they've been through 70 years of communism as we've also seen in t

embassy in russia. why would it be to vladimir putin's advantage to promote this theory of ukraine interference? >> first of all to deflect from the allegations of russian interference. second of all to drive a wedge between the united states and ukraine, which russia wants to essentially get back into its sphere of influence. >> so at these open hearings we have this dramatic warning from fiona hill that makes headlines nationwide, right? she's warning congress, particularly warning the republicans on the impeachment committee that this theory that ukraine is the real entity that interfered in our 2016 election, that theory is not only false, it's a false piece of information being presented by and promoted by russian intelligence. do not try to rope me into spreading that fake theory. if you do so, you are helping russia in a campaign they designed to hurt us, to hurt us. do you want to hurt the united states and help russia, if so keep spreading that. right? we get similar warnings from the top ukrai

russia's actions did though. i think it is good that turkey and russia copyright today. it also means that we can count on some greater understanding here. because before turkey only supported the bosniaks on the muslims there. were good relations between turkey and russia could help the balkans and that's quite natural. i think that this cooperation that turkey and russia have today are a very good example of how things can get normal. but this does not of course rule out these basic political problems more of a post or you know the basic political problem here in bosnia herzegovina that serbs do not think that will mostly inherits a government is their country the problem. serbia is our country. so are the republicans serbska remains committed to certain amee reporter go through the best possible relations with serbia. we do not. you want to do any harm to that wasn't it was what your model smudgy bosniaks must learn the bosnian herzegovina is not there it's for all of us here inside that country and there's republika srpska is exclusively ours and when they learn that

russia's actions did though. i think it is good that turkey and russia copyright today. but it also means that we can count on some greater understanding here. because before turkey only supported the bosniaks on the muslims there. were good relations between turkey and russia could help the balkans broken and that's quite natural but i think that this cooperation that turkey and russia have today are a very good example of how things can get normal. but this does not of course rule out these basic political problems more of a post or you know the basic political problem here in bosnia herzegovina that serbs do not think that was the inherits a government is their country the problem. serbia is our country. so are the republicans serbska remains committed to certain amee reporter go through the best possible relations with serbia. we do not want to do any harm to the bosnians which are most of the bosniaks must learn. to govern is not there it's for all of us here inside the country and that's. it is exclusively ours and when they learn that lesson from all those that wi

and there is again a connection to russia. his alleged attempt to extort the president of ukraine has sparked impeachment hearings and it may also be yet one more gift to vladimir putin. >> donald trump has witnessingly or unwittingly walked into the warm embrace of vladimir putin. >> reporter: trump withheld desperately needed aid from ukraine, aid that ukraine depends on to defend itself against an ongoing russia invasion. >> i have been far tougher on russia than any president in many, many years. >> reporter: trump has now made that claim repeatedly. >> i would certainly think about it. president putin -- >> reporter: and still he said he may accept an invitation to join putin in moscow next may. for a parade showcasing russia's military might. jim sciutto, cnn, new york. >> and coming up, north korea says no thanks to president trump's latest twitter diplomacy. something new: introducing pick two tuesday. and, enjoy a different deal every weekday. like endless shrimp monday four-course feast wednesday and more. just fifte

embassy in russia. why would it be to vladimir putin's advantage to promote this theory of ukraine interference? >> first of all to deflect from the allegations of russian interference. second of all to drive a wedge between the united states and ukraine, which russia wants to essentially get back into its sphere of influence. >> so at these open hearings we have this dramatic warning from fiona hill that makes headlines nationwide, right? she's warning congress, particularly warning the republicans on the impeachment committee that this theory that ukraine is the real entity that interfered in our 2016 election, that theory is not only false, but a false piece of information being presented by and promoted by russian intelligence. do not try to rope me into spreading that fake theory. if you do so, you are helping russia in a campaign they designed to hurt us, to hurt us. do you want to hurt the united states and help russia, if so keep spreading that. right? we get similar warnings from the top ukrain

-russia dynamic. from there the american people have only learned more about the trump campaign's ties to russia and russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. as the intelligence community -- i should say as the intelligence communities unclassified report concluded, and i'm quoting, we assess russian president vladimir putin ordered an influenced campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the u.s.-democratic process, denigrate secretary clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president-elect trump. unquote. the interference with our election process by a hostile government was an attack on our democracy and a threat to our national security carried out by russian operatives at the direction of vladimir putin himself. since special counsel mueller's appointment and special counsel to investigate russia's attack, 34 indic

and russia and there are multiple at. ization that president which is has been is european power controlling of the media etc but he also appointed the 1st openly gay prime minister which is a major progressive milestone for this country is serbia indeed more european that is then it used to be is it being europeanized or is it just trying to look at a part you know. prime minister who is openly gay but that's will say i mean they could terms of. promoting european values because the major thing states capture extraction of publicly sources from private ben and this is what's going on right now even a gay prime minister is not really putting be seen then ger the political elite these 5 with and with many other things right as as long as extraction is untouched the state capture is untouched everything is acceptable and even the european union is acceptable at the moment in this i think that the major thing that european officials have to understand the moment european officials seriously questions about extraction about s

there are not that hook and eyes in russia offer surely but. practically there are taking part in the conflict in libya with one side with the general have thought and. of course they do that to get money and a large amount of money millions of does so they would pay this money if any for half that and his supporters will pay them the money and the tasks that they exist in this fight is that that the tasks that some places special targets and so i think that russia is. not officially supporting have thought of but it's practically through right now a group doing a good job from the start have started to advance in india and. well we have heard this number of about 200 mess neris potentially in in libya and we've been also hearing reports from hospitals seeing who are now seeing different kinds of gunshot wounds that look like they're coming from sniper rifles various different reports like that so honest tell me what do you think russia is trying to achieve here what do they want to achieve out of this conflict. russia is playing a very very pr

they're not there who can eyes in russia offer surely but. practically there are taking part in the conflict in libya with one side with general have thought and. of course they do that to get money and a large amount of money millions of does so they would pay the money ready for half that and his supporters will pay them the money and the task that they are cute in this fight is that that the tasks that some places special targets and so i think that 'd russia is the is not officially supporting have thought of but it's practically through right now a group doing a good job too from the start have started to advance in india and. well we have heard this number of about 200 mess neris potentially in in libya and we've been also hearing reports from hospitals seeing who are now seeing different kinds of gunshot wounds that look like they're coming from sniper rifles various different reports like that so honest tell me what do you think russia is trying to achieve here what do they want to achieve out of this conflict. russia is playing a ver

if russia and the west are still engaged in the cold war take a listen to how he responded. in the machete but still a war. in different places. near there is shooting it have craft and it was that being said he would do that and everywhere glued this is not the kind of situation we want to turn over the. was foreshadowing in 2006 what he was describing today in 2019 i mean it seems that he was a minority at the time why do you think that was the case. i think that he could see clearly the tensions that were rising and they had been up over things like the iraq war and russia was on the other side but he could also see i think the return of nationalism in russia with which he would be quite uncomfortable he's been very careful over the is not to be too critical of vladimir putin as having said which he is critical of him because he doesn't recognize a real democrat but he's really quite right in saying that no one could we the west export our democracy you know as a ready made model to them after all they've been through 70 years of communism and as we've also seen in the fo

war with russia because i think as weak as russia was back in the early ninety's it would never give up on the idea of its own army like to pan it would never sees part of its sovereignty to the united states like west germany so was that ever a realistic scenario. no what we're talking about it's not russia becoming like a junior partner we were talking about equal partnership so as i sat here i was carrying a lot of messages from russian leadership and. white or who have x. as their excess to the white house he was delivering them to president bush. and there was a message that russia is ready to become american ally now in terms of course should be negotiated and again i don't think that russia would agree to be a junior partner but you can be allies equal partners and 6 it would be good for russia it would be good for america said george bush but it's really. inclined to accept this idea but he. lost elections in $92.00 and assume he lost elections new team clinton and then george bush jr and obama went on the pass of each actually was devastating to the united states has sent an

you know similar what you hear in the crudest form of propaganda from from russia today. i served as u.s. ambassador to nato and yes people. listen very carefully to what the american ambassador has to say but it is a genuine alliance where there's give and take and compromises and all decisions are taken by consensus it is certainly trying to show that a different i don't know that i could jump in on the law it's amazing to me that a lot of the rights of the logic of some of the tweets by the current us president you might be led to think that maybe he wants to see europe carry its own military responsibilities without the u.s. having to shoulder at least part of that i think that's. what president trump has been saying and he's not he's not entirely wrong if you want to have an alliance that lasts that is seen as in the interest of all of its members then the birds have to be shared more more equitably. but when my prior suggested is kind of that europe should go on its own and while that may sound i do think europe and do you think europe account and it sounded. not to

other countries especially russia and maybe some some other countries. i think the. in 1809 when the berlin wall came down i think that the during the ninety's and even after 2000 the majority the prevalent mood in discounted is was that they want to join european. paul and sort of example i mean this goes without saying just like paul rudd so they wanted to join european union more than anything else because they want to solve some kind of protection from russia you know this is all that matters it's only about the countries wanting to join i mean obviously much of eastern europe and that i wanted to join not only because of the quality of democratic institutions but i assume also because of the quality of life and economic benefits but speaking about poland you mentioned that there has been a deterioration in democratic progress across eastern until within 5 cross western europe lately and. you know the popular narrative in the west is that in countries where russia is present that's understandable because russia is supporting autocratic tendencies etc but poland i

embassy in russia. why would it be to vladimir putin's advantage to promote this theory of ukraine interference? >> first of all, to deflect from the allegations of russian interference. second of all, to drive a wedge between the united states and ukraine, which russia wants to essentially get back into its sphere of influence. >> so at these open hearings we have this dramatic warning from fiona hill that makes headlines nationwide, right? she's warning congress, particularly warning the republicans on the impeachment committee that this theory that ukraine is the real entity that interfered in our 2016 election, that theory is not only false, it is a false piece of information invented by and promoted by russian intelligence. do not try to rope me into spreading that fake theory. if you do so, you are helping russia in a campaign they designed to hurt us, to hurt us. do you want to hurt the united states and help russia? if so keep spreading that. otherwise, don't do that. right? we get similar warni

the hope inside of russia. we can all build something like that. there is a special statement about that. they have some people that were getting back. they decided not to get back and it was a disaster. some descendents of the first wave of immigration mostly, they sort of discovered that now because the count is open there is some new opportunities. they speak language they understand it. they can come from their knowledge of both worlds and they can open the gate between russia and the west. it's kind of an interesting thing. as part of the book they have the foreign investment. and then the second one with the russian money to the west. i also want to see in the country. this is a process by immigrants. i was a big scandal back then. this demonstrated the different generations of immigrants that walk together. and the descendents. they have immigrated after the resolution. another part of the story. this different generation of russian immigration. for this process they calculated that brilliantly. >> we have these types of things. to open the

it is spent inside russia. you can't estimate that. >> rather than the amount of money, what are the kinds of activities that these kinds cover. and supporting certain russian-american groups or heritage groups organizations, media spending. >> back when it was much easier because you had the state spending, and now you have the state, the government spending the oligarchs who might be asked about some money or some resources and also the torch, the situation in the church completely changed, the russian church abroad is part of the church in moscow and we know for instance a big manifestation in new york, some church facilities we use by groups to manifest and others so these kinds of things cannot be assessed. there are so many lives that might be used. >> tens of millions of dollars. >> the testimony -- >> the idea of intermediaries is interesting and there is deniability too. okay? next question. don't be shy. >> i wrote a book on the red orchestra so i was very interested in berlin and the station there be

russia irrational airplane he not this that if he doesn't he if he doesn't have russia on his back nobody's going to protect you if russia invades because near as i said natal not going to protect him if there is a russian aggression against him question lower lower and middle east analyst thank you for sharing your thoughts with us on r.t. international we appreciate it thank you very much still ahead in the program china gives a warning to washington over a bill in support of protests in hong kong one that after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is also a spear in dramatic development the only really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back to new york professor has started an online crusade against what he calls collective hysteria surrounding russia related stories michael writes in a walled initially created an anonymous twitter page which he used to criticize political correctness but after his identity was discovered the pro

that will help russia. that is what she just testified to. >> she's welcome to her opinion. >> we know that russia meddled in the election but that doesn't mean that ukraine didn't try to influence the election. >> and ken mccarthy told me, i think they did. referring to ukraine meddling in the elections after fiona hill, the top russia adviser for president trump, testified and said very clearly, quote, this is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the russian security services themselves. and of course, wolf, this is central to the impeachment inquiry because president trump asked the ukrainian president to investigate whether or not ukraine played a role in interfering in the 2016 elections and that is cited by a number of witnesses as a precondition for the security assistance of roughly $400 million as well as a key meeting that the ukrainian president sought with president trump at the white house. but nevertheless, republicans siding with the president as he demanded loyal

can she be sure you know russia by crania feel when the he'll was in russia she traveled to these vile day club discussions many times and give you would put it many times i'm sure she was in crimea she knows that this is not the truth that crimea is one of it's really interesting but it's go back to and you can see what's interesting here is that you've seen the rhetoric of patriotism being. shown on the liberal corporate media and this is what's really orwellian about it because these people are actually traders they act in a. in such a way that undermines the electoral decisions of the american people nobody elected these people none of them and having been a russian watch an eastern european watcher for almost my entire adult life the testimony i heard from these characters was lame at best and ideologically possessed and most go ahead alex yeah we heard the word a lot peter during the in test testimony from everybody there about official us foreign policy who sets us foreign policy that's the president not these guys what america saw they saw these mid-level managers who are hell

presidency she said that russia wants to deal it in my eyes the u.s. presidency regardless of who who would have been their president and that they want to paint ukraine in a bad and a bad light because the goal is to drive away between the u.s. and its allies it seems that russia at least from what we can see has it has been effective in that regard how do you think that this will be received by the white house. well i think the headline here from dr fiona hill's testimony is not only sort of her expertise but the swipe that she took at the president she was very clear in denouncing what she says is a false narrative that she believes has been perpetuated by president trump and also by some members of the committee namely the republicans she fact at one point which was particularly powerful spoke to republican members of the house intelligence committee accusing it of up promoting politically driven false hoods i believe is the phrase she used for domestic political purposes it as is what she's saying is that they have been perpetuating a sort of a ar

and predatory russia when when when the opposite is true russia is not the aggressor russia is being aggressed upon if you look at all the military bases surrounding russia thanks to nato you can't you would logically conclude that russia is under attack not the other way around same 2 and if same thing in the feet money world russia is acquiring hundreds of tons of gold they're now in the top $5.00 biggest gold holders in the world that implies huge strength in the economy they were able to do so even despite the sanctions so the truth is that they have a very strong resource base gold backed ruble and any notion otherwise is pure propaganda from the likes of primarily us mainstream media and of british mainstream media the b.b.c. is an enormously. detrimental propaganda organ of the british government and they spread a lot of fake news when you look at the russian economy where do you see the most potential for growth. entrepreneurial ism i think this is the one area that is lacking is that if you look at crypto currency for example and if you think bitcoin was a new sputnik moment

russia is the key actor. we have that situation solely because of russia's actions. i saw a little shift in the russian position a few months ago when they agreed to the .risoner exchange treaties the sailors they had illegally attacked and seized, but there has not been the follow-up we have been hoping for. i would expect the u.s. ambassador to russia would be involved in engaging with the russian government in coordination with colleagues at the department of state and the nsc on this extremely important issue. sen. portman: my time has expired. you will have the opportunity to play a central role in this because of your experience and the respect you have here on the hill, so i hope you will use that aggressively to resolve some of these issues, particularly with regard to the eastern border of ukraine. thank you, mr. chairman. senator shaheen: thank you, mr. chairman. secretary sullivan. you talked about the need for principal engagement with russia that includes sustained with russia where they undermine the interest of the and our partners. you believe this is