there is significant proof that president trump himself told the new president of ukraine presence alinsky that he wanted him to investigate a political rival former vice president joe biden and you'll hear a lot about that today but that proof is only the tip of the iceberg there are so many more events and meetings and contemporaneous text messages e-mails other documents that show this happened and happened exactly as it is alleged and is clear that in this scheme to pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival the person at the center of that scheme was president donald trump the facts cannot be disputed president trump use the powers of government for a domestic political erin to put his political interests above that of the nation i want to turn to another expert that's turned to this to feel dr fiona hill the national security council senior director in the trump administration and she's going to explain what happened but it struck me one yesterday when you cut up on the screen just someone's e-mails on who was on these e-mails and he said these that people need to know that he

evidence of president trump without a meeting or security assistance in order to pressure president alinsky to investigate former v.p. biden witnesses who testified in the in korea have denied having awareness of criminal activity or even an impeachable offense on the key question of the president's state of mind there is no clear evidence that president trump acted with malicious intent overall at best the impeachment inquiry record is riddled with hearsay presumptions speculation there are conflicting and ambiguous facts throughout the record facts that could be interpreted in different ways the para for our eyes to paraphrase professor turley from last week the impeachment record is heavy on presumptions and empty on proof that's not me saying that that is professor turley so let me start with the best direct evidence of any potential quid pro quo or impeachable of ski scheme this is president trump's phone call with selenski for which the national security council and the white house situation room staff prepared a call summary according to testimony from tim morrison at the n.s.c. this

kiev fear most that european leaders are tired of the whore and sanctions against russia could force alinsky to accept a manger compromise to screen for example in the timing of the elections in the territories at the center of the conflict selenski insists they can only be health after the troops have pulled out but russia does not agree that facet of al-jazeera moscow. time for a short break here not as iraq when we come back the. protesting through song south take aim at columbia's government. and the 1st case of polio in malaysia in more than 25 years what it means for global eradication is more. hello there it is still are fairly quiet picture across much of china it is quiet and it is common temperatures are not too bad either we've got some good clear skies and so with those clear skies some nice amounts of sunshine 20 celsius in hong kong on monday a pleasant $22.00 across into northern vietnam hanoi at $22.16 celsius aap into shanghai it's a dry couple of days for the most part as well across into taiwan and still staying dry mostly into the northern philippines down there one or 2

ukraine's new president obama's alinsky is meeting face to face for the 1st time with russian president vladimir putin zelinsky is inexperienced and he wants peace in eastern ukraine putin is a master of his craft and he still claims that russian troops are not in eastern ukraine tonight from reality t.v. to reality politic the reality check for ukraine's new man in charge i burnt off in berlin this is the day. we're hoping for peace after all this time we need to resolve this war it's been 6 years since it all began. to live in harmony and friendship so they don't call us separatists but i do you think that nothing good will come from the troops pulling back not from some kind of talks from a position of weakness with the i don't understand what maclin maclin want to do so that skin putin should sit down together drinks on foot get together and put all this behind them we need a united ukraine and we need an end to this shit giving the other some weight making peace and that's going to be to. also coming up no lympics no world cup russia faces a 4 year ban from all sports a nation call

see on the july 25th call on page 4 is it the fact that president trump in his call with president alinsky said that he heard that former vice president joe biden had stopped the prosecution of a son that corrects or yes or no it's is the other thing there's a lot of talk about biden's son beau biden stop the prosecution a lot that is correct he said he stopped the prosecution point of order he's entitled to answers my question fully determined gentlemen you see need not think of you know there's a video of the former v.p. i think that's what the president's referring to is he was at the council on foreign relations and it was a little bit of. a you know the former v.p. was a little bit audacious in you know how he describes he went over to the i'm only asking you what it says on the transcript is that what it says or. says the other thing there's a lot of talk about biden's son and that biden stop the prosecution says that correct that's what it says here yes and then it also says it goes on to say president trouble asked president zelinsky if you can look into it correct is that that the

capital kiev if just one day before the paris meeting and it shows to pressure president followed emails alinsky is facing while many ukrainians want an end to what is described as europe's forgotten war these protesters accuse him of surrendering to russian president vladimir putin. zelinsky was elected in may on his promise to end the war that began in 2014 when russian backed separatists occupied cities in the east of ukraine. it's not only cost thousands of lives. but also destroyed large parts of the country taking a huge toll on the economy. in 2016 peace talks stalled with both ukraine and russia accusing each other of fire agreements but after becoming presidents alinsky broke the stalemate that is agreed to have elections in russian backed territories and allowing them a special status both nations exchange prisoners and some troops will withdraw all going to ships are in place for a return to the negotiating table but expectations for a major breakthrough are low yeah only they would cease fire violations and there's little trust between the 2 sides but analysts say the fact that the t

. 1st language that's the key to solving this reduce their standing ethnic basis in this company as alinsky a role in the center of ukraine and in the region he gets that the question is can he bring the consensus with him and keep what significance would you say talk of russian gas transit we're having discussions. i mean the russian gas is an existential matter for ukraine and europe because simply ukraine doesn't produce enough gas of example the e.u. for example or are our most of europe russia and norway are as far as i know i stand could be correct on this the only 2 countries that are you know producing more than they need i'm going to florida exports of norway can't. heat the entire continent so you know it's abuse of major issue for everybody if ukraine i'm not sure it is a deal breaker in the concerts tonight i mean if putin were able to willing to give some concessions on gas perhaps some price for example it might help soften the blow for a senate seat but the problem as well is that the western. partners as he would put it who are keeping ukraine financially afloat should the i

kiev fear most that european leaders are tired of the war and sanctions against russia could force alinsky to accept major compromises for example in the timing of the elections in the territories at the center of the conflict selenski insists they can only be healthy after troops have pulled out but russia does not agree that facet of al-jazeera moscow. the number of sudanese troops fighting in yemen has dropped by more than 10000 so dan's prime minister says 15000 soldiers were initially part of the saudi and iraq in the coalition battling who the rebels are that number is now down to $5000.00 on the lam doc says a political solution is the only way to end the 4 year conflict. taliban and u.s. negotiators have resume talks aimed at ending the war in afghanistan president donald trump halted those meetings in september following the killing of a u.s. soldier now he's hoping for a solution before the 2020 presidential election tony burke he has more now from kabul. when president trump abruptly canceled the talks with the taliban in september he said it was because of the killing of a u.s.

indication that in in a sense it is already a success that they are sitting down together clearly presidents alinsky in particular is facing a lot of pressure he's walking a tightrope because on the one hand he got elected in on the promise of ending this conflict but on the other hand there's a lot of concerns in ukraine that he might sell out that he might give away too much in order to make good on his election campaign promises and if you take a closer look at that document and i've listened throughout the press conference it remains clear that the key sticking points are still on the table as selenski make clear that there's a number of threats lines and he emphasized those red lines again that basically there is there will be no federal ization of ukraine he said and that he's not giving up any territory so that the key sticking point will remain and that we'll have to see in 4 months time is what my call said there will be another meeting of the source and we'll have to see if until then at the key issue can be resolved whether you will have 1st elections and then ground an autonomous status

what's happening there right it's a controversial part of the exchange which is really gonna missed as alinsky a lot of criticism especially from the opposition i've been working on a documentary concerning a prominent court case it involves the shootings on the my dime you might remember the end you know for a very 24 tane really convulses center of the city we had 48 people die on one morning and among people who were swapped today we had 5 police offices who were accused of killing the 48 protesters on my down. now this had been involved in the court case which had been going on since i pro $24.00 tane some of them and lawyers believe it was close to reaching a conclusion now the evidence against the offices is circumstantial still disputed the court hadn't got to the end but will now never hear from those offices they would do to give testimony before the trial wrapped up so no justice sense son not justice and that is really a blow to some of the families to the majority of the families i'd say i was still who especially those who have families in a sneak crime they understand why and dat

several 1000 people have gathered in the ukrainian capital kiev to urge president a lot of me as alinsky to resist pressure from russia the rally comes on the eve of a summit between selenski and russian leader vladimir putin the talks aimed to end the 5 year russian backed insurgency in eastern ukraine. the f.b.i. says it believes the shooter on for of in friday's air base attack carried out an act of terrorism the saudi air force officer killed 3 people and wounded several others before being shot by police the agency is questioning other saudis who were training at the base with him. finland is set to get its youngest ever prime minister 34 year old son of marin has been nominated by the social democrats to leave the 5 party coalition government parliament is likely to confirm her as the new head of government next week. there's been scuffles in istanbul between police and protesters at a demonstration against violence against women the issue of femicide shot to prominence in turkey last year this year after the murder of a woman by her ex-husband in a restaurant as her 10 year old da

met here today is already a positive sign i mean this is the 1st meeting between ukraine's president alinsky and russian president putin who holds the cards you're gay or. that of course is the big big question because on the one hand you have a real heavyweight in political bargaining and diplomatic bargaining flooded new putin and of course you have the newcomer president selenski a former comedian and actor who is really walking a tightrope here on the one hand he one his elections to become president on the back of promises to end this this this bloody conflict which has claims over 30000 lives and on the other hand he people are concerned that he might sell out to the more experienced leader which is fighting the putin our correspondent you know my thoughts on this report covering this force in paris tonight thank you. at least 5 people have been killed in a volcano eruption off the coast of new zealand's north island 8 others are known thought to still be missing the volcano which is also known as a white island erupted suddenly shortly after 2 pm local time on monday it sent plumes of

several 1000 people gathered in the ukrainian capital kiev to urge president lot of mir's alinsky to resist pressure from russia the rally comes on the eve of a summit in paris between selenski and his russian counterpart vladimir putin their talks are aimed at ending the russian backed insurgency in eastern ukraine which has raged for 5 years. north korea says it's carried out an important test at a missile launching site yang appears to have shut the door on further disarmament talks with the united states the north is warning it won't a restart of the nuclear negotiations of washington eases sanctions. firefighters are racing to contain almost $100.00 bush fires in eastern australia whether conditions have eased but a so-called make a fire close to the biggest cities sydney is still threatening homes by heat waves with strong winds is forecast this week authorities fear that will fuel more severe blazes. authorities in the u.s. say the gunman who carried out a fatal attack at a naval base had showed videos of mass shootings the night before the shooter killed 3 people before he wa

can't go there the pro russian separatists in control of the city aware e of the foreign press presence alinsky was elected earlier this year on a promise to bring down your back to ukrainian government control that's what this meeting in paris is all about. back in the front line it's quiet at least during daylight hours silence allows time to think about the future. of the. movie i'm not interested in this normandy summit what will happen will happen. this war needs to and i've lost so many comrades already. but they're giving the other side making peace and that's going to be tough. repercussions of this war will be felt for years to come it's not just about the minds of grenades the litter this landscape it's about the war in people's heads. well earlier we spoke to leon affix international affairs director at the chroma foundation she told us why this meeting with president putin is so important for ukraine's blog amir selenski to get right. it is very important and old so he wanted an aliyah summit he wanted summit only in september so it has been the russian side which has postponed the

ukraine's one big black market secondly why risk an escalation of the fighting what we should want is alinsky to do is to continue this peace process sometimes known as the minsk accord with russia to settle this dispute what's the point of sending more weapons to ukraine which by the way and it's warehouses has plenty of weapons do you support the. no no no no i don't support the a preacher in trouble for a whole lot of reasons but i think that at the end particularly with elections what 910 months away and this is not something that at that i don't see the crime for which. you know it's compelling to make an impeachment case i've looked at all this stuff in russian here i mean it may have been bad form he had a couple phone calls was allegedly which could have been better i don't think he's got great advisers in the white house some of the people he brought in the white house he didn't like but he brought him in to get the russia gate accusations he brought in hard liners like fiona and john bolton to make it look like he was tough i don't think it's good advice but you know i don't i don't

ukraine's one big black market secondly why risk an escalation of the fighting what we should want is alinsky to do is to continue this peace process sometimes known as the minsk accord with russia to settle this dispute what's the point of sending more weapons to ukraine which by the way and it's warehouses has plenty of weapons. do you support the sutra no no no no i don't support your preacher in trouble for a whole lot of reasons but i think that at the end particularly with elections what 910 months away this is not something that i don't see the crime for which. you know it's compelling to make an impeachment case i've looked at all this stuff and russian here i mean it may have been bad form he had a couple phone calls with selenski which could have been better i don't think he's got great advisors in the white house some of the people he brought in the white house he didn't like but he brought him in to get the russia gate accusations he brought in hard liners like fiona and john bolton to make it look like he was tough i don't think it's good advice but you know i don't i don't you t

ukraine's one big black market secondly why risk an escalation of the fighting what we should want is alinsky to do is to continue this peace process sometimes known as the minsk accord with russia to settle this dispute what's the point of sending more weapons to ukraine which by the way and it's warehouses has plenty of weapons. do you support the. no no no no i don't support the a preacher in trouble for a whole lot of reasons but i think that at the end particularly with elections what 910 months away this is not something that i don't see any crime for which. you know it's compelling to make an impeachment case i've looked at all this stuff in russian here i mean it may have been bad form he had a couple phone calls was a lesbian which could have been better i don't think it got great advisers in the white house some of the people he brought in the white house he didn't like but he brought him in to get the russia gate accusations he brought in hard liners like fiona and john bolton to make it look like he was tough i don't think it's good advice but you know i don't i don't you think pu

acting corruptly wrongfully abusing his power it was unlikely he was going to confess to presidents alinsky that he was asking for the investigation explicitly to help is 20 twentieth's lection prospects in my experience as 10 years as a prosecutor you almost never have a defendant or a someone who's engaging in misconduct who would ever explicitly say in this case president selenski i'm going to bribe you now or i'm going to ask for a bribe or i am now going to extort you that's not the way these things work thank you mr goldman mr caster got to get back to you you said that he said to set about 100 biden talked about a 100 biden and been on the board a breeze for going back to 2014 correct yes there's a little bit ponce 800 hours g.m.t. 1 pm in washington d.c. continuing coverage on al-jazeera the latest stage of the impeachment hearings in the house judiciary committee the 1st time in today's proceedings that we have had questions for both republican and democrat lawyers 2017 or 2080 iole did it the year before his lection in 2020 when both he and vice president joe biden were leading ca

president trying desperately to shake off the weight of 2 other presidents ukraine's president golda meir's alinsky was elected this year on. to bring peace and stability to his country a promise that he can keep only if the u.s. and russian presidents cooperate well how's that going so lynsey is at the center of an impeachment process against u.s. president donald trump claims that u.s. military aid for kiev became a weapon in the u.s. election politics now ukraine depends on military aid from the u.s. in its fight against russian sponsored separatists and that brings us to russian president vladimir putin who is in denies that russian troops are in eastern ukraine yet he remains the only leader who can bring peace to the region he and his ukrainian counterpart zelinsky now this conflict began nearly 6 years ago shortly after russia annexed crimea fighting between ukrainian forces and russian backed separatists has claimed more than 30000 lives and displaced more than a 1000000 the worst fighting has been in the donbass region our correspondent nick connelly traveled there and he sent us this repo

i grew up with in a recent interview the ukrainian leaders alinsky also dismissed these allegations about president trump's behavior and interactions with him look i never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo that's not my thing i don't want us to look like bagus now before this report was released on monday we had a report from the republicans that. released it was 123 pages long and it defended the actions of u.s. president donald trump saying that his dealings with ukraine had not been inappropriate and had not violated the law fact that donald trump is out of the country celebrating the 70th anniversary of nato the north atlantic treaty organization that many have pointed to the timing of the report as being somewhat suspicious however while some are looking at the report and saying it shows very very damning evidence against donald trump others are looking at the report and saying it's simply a rehash of long discredited allegations different views from different sides of the political spectrum here in the united states we discuss this topic with a legal analys

ukrainian capital kiev where they were welcomed by emotional family members and president lot of mir's alinsky exchange photos talks between ukraine and russia's leaders a few weeks ago in paris are those the headlines that he's continues on and says here after the listening post based. to old to 0 we were told to get to it without going through all the pressure has this been addressed by choking we listen what is the proposal. for a couple on you know we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter to 0. this documents is an official cia memorandum dated september $970.00 and is innocuously titled discussion of the chilean political situation but its contents what it exposes is pretty incriminating. on the 14th of september mr holmes met with edwards the owner of the independent newspaper. mr edwards expressed the following view on the chilean political situation. until 2017 nearly all of this paragraph was built out redacted meaning that for more than 40 years oh steven edwards the owner of the most influential newspaper in chile and they put your kid to a story that y

ukrainian presidents met for the 1st time almost 2 months earlier ukraine's president of la them is alinsky agreed to elections in separatist held parts of the dumbass region and in september russia and ukraine each exchanged 35 prisoners ukrainian government troops and russian backed separatists also withdrew from key frontline areas in eastern ukraine over several months. well let's bring in our guest for this edition of inside story well joining me from moscow is victor all of it the lead analyst at the think tank center for actual politics ilya bottom of it is the c.e.o. of trident acquisitions which focuses on investment in oil and gas in eastern europe he's also a former member of russia's parliament and the only member to vote against the alex ation of crimea in 2014 he joins us from kiev via skype darren is principal russia analyst at the global risk consultancy vest maker croft he joins us now from london gentlemen welcome to this edition of inside story ilya part amount of in the caravan to start with you i mean how significant is this in terms of a milestone in the fractious rela

arms deal then i'd like to add just one thing that alexander mackerras to said here we have president alinsky that actually ran on his campaign and successfully became president on anti-corruption and better a better relationship with russia so he has a lot at stake here as well alexander macarius is. right i would use a different term i think germany and france are exhausted by this situation they want to see something move forward the lewinsky wants to see something move forward of course there is the house has problems with his own deep state in the deep state in the us that wants to characterize this as a new cold war who has the most to gain who has the most to lose with this form of well i think i wish i were more optimistic his advice actually enterprise could go well actually i like their way cheney's. there are actually 3 variance the 1st is that pessimistic we're going that things just stay the way they are you know the 2nd is mildly optimistic that there can be a total exchange of prisoners a war between and and ukraine. certain issues can be resolved you know separating the fighte

i grew up with in a recent interview the ukrainian leaders alinsky also dismissed these allegations about president trump behavior and interactions with him look i never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo that's not my thing i don't want us to look like bagus now before this report was released on monday we had a report from the republicans that. released it was 123 pages long and it defended the actions of u.s. president donald trump saying that his dealings with ukraine had not been appropriate and had not violated the law fact that donald trump is out of the country celebrating the 70th anniversary of nato the north atlantic treaty organization that many have pointed to the timing of the report as being somewhat suspicious however while some are looking at the report and saying it shows very very damning evidence against donald trump others are looking at the report and saying it's simply a rehash of long discredited allegations different views from different sides of the political spectrum here in the united states we discuss this topic with legal analyst lion

the $1000000.00 question everyone expecting looking expectantly how this would pan out bullet in his alinsky the man who this time last year was a showman a comedian up against vladimir putin who's been in charge of russia for almost 20 years. they were scrupulously polite to each other but there was no overlooking the tension the speculation about whether they shook hands or not no confirmation of that at the press conference you had selenski and opposite ends of the table with merkel and mccall between them and very different accounts from the 2 presidents of what they saw to be the conclusion of this meeting so lots of space between them there but as i said an agreement to disagree and to keep talking and that is something that we didn't see on the previous administration q one of the big takeaways going forward can we expect to see more momentum in this drive to bring peace to eastern ukraine. well the leaders have put pressure on they say they will meet in the next 4 months at the level of the president and again that puts pressure on everyone further down the hierarchy to really delive

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points that donald trump conditioned ate up on this meeting and made political conditions to president alinsky of ukraine and furthermore that he you know he tampered with and obstructed the investigation by the house impeachment inquiry now essentially these allegations have been denied by president trump on numerous occasions and present zelinsky of ukraine has also come forward and says that they are simply untrue now on monday the democrats in prior to the release of the democrats report the republicans released a $123.00 page report of their own defending the actions of president donald trump when it came to his dealings with the ukrainian president now this report that has come out it's quite lengthy goes into great detail documenting these allegations against the president united states and many have noted the timing it seems like the report was released at the same time that donald trump is on the other side of the atlantic ocean celebre. 70th anniversary of the north atlantic treaty organization so the timing is something many have noted but the document is out it repeats the longstan

the russian president and who of them is alinsky the new ukrainian president french president emanuel and german chancellor angela merkel are brokering this meeting you see them all that there at the table the conflict started in eastern ukraine back in 2014 it has killed more than 13000 people displaced more than a 1000000 the worst fighting has been in the dawn bet's region our correspondent nick connelly traveled there and sent us this report. close enough to see what the other side having for lunch that's how these ukrainian troops have spent the last few years just 300 meters from the russian backed separatists spacing them that whole night without a single shot i don't remember a day like that maybe on the 1st night of the see saw and it's a strange when there's no financial you get all nervous we used to the shooting at the. the conflict may have fallen out of the headlines but the shooting and the death continues less than a 10 minute drive away a young woman out walking with a child was to be really wounded by a stray bullet just last week our guide through the trenches on xa

president trying desperately to shake off the weight of 2 other presidents ukraine's president golda meir's alinsky was elected this year on the problem. to bring peace and stability to his country a promise that he can keep only if the u.s. and russian presidents cooperate well how's that going so lynsey is at the center of an impeachment process against u.s. president dahlan trump claims that u.s. military aid for kiev became a weapon in u.s. election politics now ukraine depends on military aid from the us in its fight against russian sponsored separate says and that brings us to russian president vladimir putin who is in denies that russian troops are in eastern ukraine yet he remains the only leader who can bring peace to the region he and his ukrainian counterpart zelinsky now this conflict began nearly 6 years ago shortly after russia annexed crimea fighting between ukrainian forces and russian backed separatists has claimed more than 30000 lives in displaced more than a 1000000 the worst fighting has been in the donbass region our correspondent nick connelly traveled there and he sent us th

lots arms deal i'd like to add just one thing that alexander mackerras to said here we have president alinsky that actually ran on his campaign and successfully became president on anti-corruption and better a better relationship with russia so he has a lot at stake here as well alexander mackerras says. right i would use a different term i think germany and france are exhausted by this situation they want to see something move forward the lewinsky wants to see something move forward of course there is the house has problems with his own deep state in the deep state in the us that wants to characterize this as a new cold war who has the most to gain who has the most to lose with this form of well i think i wish i were more optimistic his advice actually enterprise could go well actually i like their way cheney's. there are actually 3 variance the 1st is that pessimistic we're going that things just stay the way they are you know the 2nd is mildly optimistic that there can be a total exchange of prisoners a war between and and ukraine. certain issues can be resolved you know separating the fig

was the $1000000.00 question everyone expecting looking expectantly how this would pan out polygamous alinsky the man who this time last year was a showman a comedian up against vladimir putin who's been in charge of russia for almost 20 years. they were scrupulously polite to each other but there was no overlooking the tension the speculation about whether they shook hands or not no confirmation of that at the press conference you had selenski opposite ends of the table with merkel and mccall between them and very different accounts from the 2 presidents of what they saw to be the conclusion of this meeting so lots of space between them there but as i said an agreement to disagree and to keep talking and if that is something that we didn't see and the previous administration make one of the big takeaways going forward can we expect to see more momentum in this drive to bring peace to eastern ukraine. well the leaders have put pressure on they say they will meet in the next 4 months at the level of the president and again that puts pressure on everyone further down the hierarchy to really del

ukraine's new president for them is alinsky is meeting face to face for the 1st time with russian president vladimir putin zelinsky is inexperienced and he wants peace in eastern ukraine putin is a master of his craft and he still claims that russian troops are not in eastern ukraine tonight from reality t.v. to reality politic the reality check for ukraine.

arms dealer and i'd like to add just one thing that alexander mackerras to said here we have president alinsky that actually ran on his campaign and successfully became president on anti-corruption and better a better relationship with russia so he has a lot at stake here as well alexander mackerras says. right i would use a different term i think germany and france are exhausted by this situation they want to see something move forward the lewinsky wants to see something move forward of course there is the house has problems with his own deep state in the deep state in the us that wants to characterize this as a new cold war who has the most to gain who has the most to lose with this form of well i think i wish i were more optimistic these advise actually enterprise could go well actually i like their way cheney's. look at that they're actually 3 variance the 1st is that pessimistic we're going that things just stay the way they are you know the 2nd is mildly optimistic that there can be a total exchange of prisoners or war between them and and ukraine. certain issues can be resolved you know

only then will i give you what you want which was that white house meeting with trump for president alinsky and the money for ukraine and trump did say on a phone call with ambassador gordon song lynn who was sort of the go between person between him and ukraine on this he said to some that there was no quid pro quo however the democrats say it doesn't have to be explicit to count as quid pro quo and in fact that the conversation in which trump denied a quid pro quo to someone happened immediately after press reports erupted in the united states that brought all of this ukrainian scheme to light and in fact right after trump deny the quid pro quo he went on to say that he still wanted the lewinsky to do what he asked get on a public box and announce these investigations that ultimately served only one purpose which in the democrats' ours was to damage the reelection damage the campaign of his reelection opponents and help the president politically in order to win re-election a year from now and else does to day high the. broadly speaking what happens the only sort of time limit here is a ve

the 1st one on one talks between the russian president and the new ukrainian leaders lead in his alinsky have just concluded the talks happened on the sidelines of a meeting with their counterparts from france and germany of the so-called normandy 4 summit which was convened to discuss the conflict in eastern ukraine not easily be trying to reports from paris. this monday is a very big day here at the palace in paris it's a very big day for europe a very big day for ukraine just a short while ago we saw the french president and manual macron welcoming his guests from ukraine russia and germany the 1st one to arrive was angle of merkel then it was full dimmers and then the ukrainian president and i'll tell you what we couldn't even understand if it was him for a moment because he came in on a plane run no minivan and the last of the 4 leaders to arrive was vladimir putin just an hour before that though a group of topless femen activists thought that they could try and spoil the day. let me just break down why the number one politicians from 4 countries are holding talks in that building i

ukrainian presidents met for the 1st time almost 2 months earlier ukraine's president of la them is alinsky agreed to elections in separatist held parts of the dumbass region and in september russia and ukraine each exchanged 35 prisoners ukrainian government troops and russian backed separatists also withdrew from key frontline areas in eastern ukraine over several months. well let's bring in our guest for this edition of inside story well joining me from moscow is victor all of which the lead analyst at the think tank center the actual politics ilya bottom of it is the c.e.o. of trident acquisitions which focuses on investment in oil and gas in eastern europe he's also a former member of russia's parliament and the only member to vote against the alex ation of crimea in 2014 he joins us from kiev via skype darrent deal is principal russia analyst at the global risk consultancy maker croft he joins us now from london gentlemen welcome to this edition of inside story ilya put amount of in the care plan to start with you i mean how significant is this in terms of a milestone in the fractious

ukrainian presidents met for the 1st time almost 2 months earlier ukraine's president of la them is alinsky agreed to elections in separatist held parts of the dumbass region and in september russia and ukraine each exchanged $35.00 prisoners ukrainian government troops and russian backed separatists also withdrew from key frontline areas in eastern ukraine over several months. well let's bring in our guest for this edition of inside story well joining me from moscow is victor all of which the lead analyst at the think tank center the actual politics ilya bottom of it is the c.e.o. of trident acquisitions which focuses on investment in oil and gas in eastern europe he's also a former member of russia's parliament and the only member to vote against the annexation of crimea in 2014 he joins us from kiev via skype darrent deal is principal russia analyst at the global risk consultancy make or crossed he joins us now from london gentlemen welcome to this edition of inside story ilya part amount of in the caravan to start with you i mean how significant is this in terms of a milestone in the fr

lugansk in the east of the country have completed the prisoner exchange ukrainian president for his alinsky has arrived in port to meet 76 people released by. more of the story. well we do have some financial figures finally we do know for a fact that more than a 100 people to part. in this war in the swamp in total for instance we do know that has sent some 61 people former prisoners to the territories of the self-proclaimed. people's republics and those breakaway regions in turn have sent the 76 of the former prisoners back to kiev now this whole thing was only possible because of the normandy for all of the latest round of the normandy for talks when vladimir putin for the 1st time. the ukrainian president for their missile lenski and a german chancellor angela merkel and the french president a manual necron being there as well this was one of the one of the things one of the agreements that they reached during that meeting in paris now this war has seen there have been a few hitches and if you said backs of to this what for instance we do know that at least 2 people 2 persons refused to

presents alinsky had to announce the investigations he didn't actually have to do them as i under. stood it and then he said i never heard mr goldman anyone say that the investigations had to start or had to be completed the only thing i heard from mr giuliani or otherwise was they had to be announced in some form and what i took that to mean was this was not about whether vice president biden actually committed corruption or not this was about injuring somebody who the president thinks of as a particularly a particularly hard opponent and that's for his private private beliefs because if i can say one last thing about the interests of the united states the constitution of the united states does not care whether the next president of the united states is donald trump or any one of the democrats or anybody running on a 3rd party the constitution is indifferent to that what the constitution cares about is that we have free elections and so it is only in the president's interest is not the national interest that a particular president be elected or be defeated at the next election the

ukrainian presidents met for the 1st time almost 2 months earlier ukraine's president of la them is alinsky agreed to elections in separatist held parts of the dumbass region and in september russia and ukraine each exchanged 35 prisoners ukrainian government troops and russian backed separatists also withdrew from key frontline areas in eastern ukraine over several months. well let's bring in our guest for this edition of inside story well joining me from moscow is victor all of which the lead analyst at the think tank center for actual politics ilya bottom of the earth is the c.e.o. of trident acquisitions which focuses on investment in oil and gas in eastern europe he's also a former member of russia's parliament and the only member to vote against the annexation of crimea in 2014 he joins us from kiev via skype darrent dual is principal russia analyst at the global risk consultancy maple croft he joins us now from london gentlemen welcome to this edition of inside story ilya put amount of in the care for i just start with you i mean how significant is this in terms of a milestone in the

testimony from 17 witnesses as well as examining the call transcript between trump and president alone has alinsky that the result of that report was what appears to be recommendations of articles focused on abuse of power as well as obstruction of congress which speaks to trump's efforts to not cooperate with these investigators in the impeachment inquiry now there's a bigger question though whether or not the house judiciary committee which is the body that will craft these articles whether the look back even further at the russia russia case in which mohler remember in the special counsel he cleared a triumph of can of colluding with russia saying there was no evidence of that however he strongly hinted that there may be a case of obstruction of justice he laid out different events and meetings that the president had which may play to that as a possible article of impeachment all of that is still an open question though and this is why the house judiciary committee will continue to meet as they draft up these articles and they've already announced that next monday the next step in their process

have been killed in the fighting the latest present strangers' part of ukrainian president bottom is alinsky push for peace but there is anger in ukraine as alexandra mentioned over the concessions being made to russia in order to secure that ceasefire will release riot police suspected of murdering during the 2014 uprising and they've agreed to pull out troops from contested regions in the east while we spoke to valentino nick a professor of political science at the national university of here of wailea academy he says they'll be no such quick solution to the ongoing conflict. in my view it's an absolutely positive step it's small step but very important step it's a step in humanistic direction exchange of all detained for all detained persons it's also one of the measures to be implemented like disengagement improving the truck transition from one ukrainian area to another ukrainian central government control area and separatist controlled area and stopping the war but i'm not optimistic as to quick solution of the jell strategic conflict in the east of ukraine there are 3 possible solutio

will be probably not one as well no sign of any ceasefire that was another thing that the president's alinsky very much wanted to achieve here but all the bigger things the status of the russian backed territories in eastern ukraine nothing has come out of that looks like it also about a timeline for elections in these territories and also the status of special status for this region that was supposed to be in the agreement as well there was a lot of sensitivities about it especially about the new control over the border in eastern ukraine selenski said ukraine should have control over the border when these elections were going to be held and all the armed troops backed by russia should have left that area probably to has not been any. result on that issue here in paris and what is always mean for the people in eastern ukraine. well at the moment they are still suffering the cease fire agreements are always violated nearly every day they're still shelling so really they want peace and really they want of a serious cease fire so if these talks basically have 2 more trust between the 2 nations

alinsky is push for peace but there is anger in you crying over concessions made to russia in order to secure a ceasefire kiev will release riot police suspected of murder during the $24.00 team uprising well journalist alexander gulf has more now from moscow. this prisoner swap is just just and one step in the very long process that was before it and that still longer that is going to come because what is supposed to be going on after this is 1st of all complete cease fire that there are something that has never been managed to achieve then they agreed also to have the elections under ukrainian law and verified by the noise see and also to give a special status to this areas and ukrainians should gain again the control of their own border with russia something they don't have since 2014 and this is exactly the point where kiev and moscow disagree here says 1st we want to have control over our border and then we'll have the elections in the russian separatists area and that moscow is saying but in the minsk agreements your president signed the previous one you agreed to have 1st electi

i grew up with in a recent interview the ukrainian leaders alinsky also dismissed these allegations about president trump's behavior and interactions with him look i never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo that's not my thing i don't want us to look like bagus now many witnesses testified during the impeachment inquiry hearings but observers wondered if they really. you made a strong case that donald trump had been inappropriate in his dealings with ukraine this is some of the testimony that was heard there was no mention of withholding aid on the call correct that's correct and there was no quid pro quo correct correct was there any reference to withholding aid you know there was not any reference to bribery you know there was not any reference to quid pro quo no there was not you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the united states has been involved with paddle. now before this report was released on monday we had a report from the republicans that was released it was 123 pages long and it defended the actions of u.s. pre

charge about a phone call that 100 people were listening to openly when he talked as alinsky i mean there is a factional sort of warfare in washington but there's no warfare when it comes to the military industrial complex and that they are all united and that they they they all genuflect at the altar militarism and that's what the real problem with american politics is whether you like republicans or like democrats the fact is both are addicted to war and militarism in the military and i don't comment therein lies the danger to world peace is that on that point we end the program and it was perfectly said here many thanks to my guests in washington and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember cross-talk rules . thank. you thank you thank you. thank you. thank. you. it was. it was. please. play. lists lists lists. lists. playing. and very well might continue watching on since last. my name is stuck. on the world social media let's just see what i don't see it's. up at the border you know if. you want to know we've got to get it out. because you need

this ridiculous charge about a phone call that 100 people were listening to openly when he talked as alinsky i mean there is a factional sort of warfare in washington but there's no warfare when it comes to the military industrial complex and that they are all united and that they they they all genuflect at the altar of militarism and that's what the real problem with american politics is whether you like republicans or like democrats the fact is both are addicted to war and militarism and the military industrial complex therein lies the danger to world peace and on that point we end the program and it was perfectly said here many thanks to my guests in washington and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember crosstalk rules . you make is like the child in the room it's impulsivity it's not a system it's us versus them it's fear the prefrontal cortex it's empathy it's compassion it's thinking about the future in terms of what we do today that's where we need to make our decisions based from from the prefrontal cortex unfortunately when we eat the modern

a group in a recent interview the ukrainian leaders alinsky also dismissed these allegations about president trump's behavior and interactions with him look i never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo that's not my thing i don't want us to look like bagus now many witnesses testified during the impeachment inquiry hearings but observers wondered if they really. you made a strong case that donald trump had been inappropriate in his dealings with ukraine this is some of the testimony that was heard there was no mention of withholding aid on the call correct that's correct and there was no quid pro quo correct correct was there any reference to withholding aid you know there was not any reference to bribery no there was not any reference to quid pro quo no there was not you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the united states has been involved with total. now before this report was released on monday we had a report from the republicans that was released it was 123 pages long and it defended the actions of u.s. president donald tru