we have gabriel gavin he is a moscow based journalist covering central and eastern europe for a number of outlets including our team our across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you 1st here this is a very ominous situation that we're facing right now we have 10 tensions are escalating the rhetoric from kiev is quite harsh moscow is reacting and nato allies are reacting as well here what's going on here i mean who's driving this is this is it washington is that a combination of bold and what about the timing the early days of the biden ministration because the b. team that's running american foreign policy was the b. team over the obama administration same figures same people same names same agenda go ahead mary. well it was very very complicated for me to figure out what on earth is going 'd on because frankly as seen from london the whole. hue and cry about what was going on between russia and ukraine has been building rather slowly and i only sort of woke up to it last week that what we were looking at was ev

what to the west looks like saber rattling is viewed differently by russia from moscow it's a necessary reinforcement of its defenses against the west but young. for you the majority of the ukrainian military understand the fatal consequences of any actions that would lead to conflict. i hope they won't be provoked by politicians who in turn are being provoked by the west especially the united states. ukrainian president volodymyr selenski sees western troops especially those provided by nato as essential backup for his own forces. on the street here just as opposed to starts now there's an escalation in the donbass region it's a budget everyone can see it when our soldiers are attached and there are casualties obviously we must retaliate i mean if you put it that. a few days ago zelinsky paid a visit to nato secretary-general stoltenberg selenski stressed that the western military alliance is ukraine's only way to end the war in don't pass experts in moscow say that statement would not have gone down well in the kremlin. any cooperation between ukraine and nato any help from the north

our correspondent in moscow is near those protests. reporter: i'm here in the center of moscow, leading down to the kremlin at the end. the square at the end is where calling on people together for the protest. the was blocked off. there were barricades, barriers up from the early morning because this is also where president putin held his state of the nation address today. the crowd instead has been on the street here. they've also been disbursed around some key spots in the center of moscow, but they found it difficult to gather in one place. you talked about the heavy police presence, lots of arrests. i would say there's a much smaller and lower police presence here that we saw back in january when there were those protests after mr. navalny was arrested. there are far fewer protesters. the police are saying 6000, perhaps more. it is hard to tell because they keep moving around. they have been gathering at a point just behind us earlier this evening. they were shouting, chanting for a doctor to be allowed to see navalny, and people

official a politician sympathetic to moscow and some other politicians all right and so are moscow or is he is viewing this as a pressure. point and is. that one of your own on the specific level it's you as ok. to pressure the ukraine as a bargaining chip ok i can see there that the hi-lo is shaking his head i'll give you 15 seconds to come back in on some of that before we we move on to glenn ok i very quickly i mean at the end of the day you crane is not a bargaining chip ukraine is a country and it's very nice that you know president putin and psychoanalysts can probably have a field day with russian president thinks in terms of you know ukraine or excuse me russian u.s. rivalry that's all very fine and dandy but it's not u.s. soldiers that are dying on the ground in front and ukrainian soldiers they are defending their own country and this is nothing to do in fact i mean except we're you know in strange minds with geopolitics this is everything to do with a a very real war that is happening in a very real country that has nothing to do with you know wouldn't it be a fairy tale it

official politician sympathetic to moscow and some other politicians and so our moscow easy is viewing this as a pressure. point and is. that one of or on on the specific level it's you as ok. to pressure the ukraine and as a bargaining chip ok i can see there that is shaking his head i'll give you 15 seconds to come back in on some of that before we we move on to glenn ok i very quickly i mean at the end of the day is not a bargaining chip ukraine is a country and it's very nice that you know president putin and psychoanalysts can probably have a field day with russian president thinks in terms of you know ukraine or excuse me russian u.s. rivalry that's all very fine and dandy but it's not u.s. soldiers that are dying on the ground in front and ukrainian soldiers they are defending their own country and this is nothing to do in fact i mean except we're you know in strange minds with geopolitics this is everything to do with a a very real war that is happening in a very real country that has nothing to do with you know wouldn't it be a fairytale it wouldn't be fair though to say that

we have gabriel gavin he is a moscow based journalist covering central and eastern europe for a number of outlets including our team our cross talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime he wants i always appreciate mary let me go to you 1st here this is a very ominous situation that we're facing right now we have 10 tensions are escalating the rhetoric from kiev is quite harsh moscow is react. thing and nato allies are reacting as well here what's going on here i mean who's driving this is this is it washington is an accommodation of both and what about the timing the early days of the biden ministration because the b. team that's running american foreign policy was the b. team over the obama administration same figures same people same names same agenda go ahead mary. well it would very very complicated for me to figure out what on earth is going 'd on because frankly as seen from london the whole. hue and cry about what was going on between russia and ukraine has been building rather slowly and i only sort of woke up to it last week that what we were looking at was every

go back to gabriel here in moscow. i find it rather odd in many ways is that if you indeed ukraine is pushing is a landscape which essentially was selected as a. compromise figure they could reach out to russian speakers in the east of the country and even maybe some kind of negotiated settlement with russia amazing how things have changed haven't they and now you know he signs his presidential directive that i just pointed out in the beginning of our program and. he seems to be a war hawk right now the thing is is that his country is the battleground ok i mean it's all my sis say we want to be in the in the nato club we want to have arms deliveries all of this we want to be in the news we want to be liked but you're the battlefield ok and ukraine is a very. country i cannot impress. enough on our viewers here because the the illegal overthrow of the government in 2014 it is felt to this day that's why crimea is part of russia right now that is why the donbass wants to keep its arm's length from kiev because up to 1400

official politician sympathetic to moscow and some other politicians and so our moscow easy is viewing this as a pressure. point and is. that one of your on a on the specific level it's you as ok. to pressure the ukraine as a bargaining chip ok i can see there that is shaking his head i'll give you 15 seconds to come back in on some of that before we we move on to glenn ok i very quickly i mean and at the end of the day you crane is not a bargaining chip ukraine is a country and it's very nice that you know president putin and psychoanalysts can probably have a field day with russian president thinks in terms of you know ukraine or excuse me russian u.s. rivalry that's all very fine and dandy but it's not u.s. soldiers that are dying on the ground in front and ukrainian soldiers they are defending their own country and this is nothing to do in fact i mean except we're you know in strange minds with geopolitics this is everything to do with a a very real war that is happening in a very real country that has nothing to do with you know wouldn't it be a fairy tale it wouldn't be fair thou

warned western powers not to meddle in moscow's affairs. we just wiggling you could usually must we really don't want to burn any bridges. but if some mistake our good intentions for indifference or weakness and intend to burn or even lower those bridges themselves. russia's response will be even more forceful quick and tough. as was. in recent weeks russia has been building up its military presence on the ukrainian border and in crimea pouring fuel on a simmering territorial conflict between ukraine forces and russian backed separatists this escalation was met with condemnation from abroad. but as he delivered his warning to the west was facing headwinds at home across the country people gathered to protest at news of the deteriorating health of imprisoned opposition leader alexina found. a heavy police presence was supposed to deter those protests like he ate in a valley was snatched from the street in moscow and locked in a police van on the grounds of the interior ministry. is just this just that i think that everything that is happenin

we have gabriel gavin he is a moscow based journalist covering central and eastern europe for a number of outlets including our team our across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you 1st here this is a very ominous situation that we're facing right now we have 10 tensions are escalating the rhetoric from kiev is quite harsh moscow is reacting and nato allies are reacting as well here what's going on here i mean who's driving this is this is it washington is an accommodation of bowl and what about the timing the early days of the biden ministration because the b. team that's running american foreign policy was the b. team over the obama administration same figures same people same names same agenda go ahead mary. well it was very very complicated for me to figure out what on earth is going 'd on because frankly as seen from london the whole. hue and cry about what was going on between russia and ukraine has been building rather slowly and i only sort of woke up to it last week that what we were looking at was ever

on promise of friendship, moscow gets basin. on june 16th, 1940, the soviets issue an ultimatum, submit to occupation or be attacked. the red army moves in to complete the occupation of latvia. to initiate the new order, a public government is appointed. russia technicians are sent in with the troops. banners and signs prepared demand admit tense of latvia into the soviet union. the secretary of the lat vee yan party makes the formal request to the parliament. there are no oppose@xykykykibt÷. on august 3rd, a delegation of communists for the moscow supreme soviet. stalin and company applaud the communist delegates. they petition for acceptance of latvia as a soviet state. he speeds home to be welcomed by soviet troops, his new guard of honor. we are reminded of an item in the speech to the soviet in 1939, the nonsensecal talk about the sovietization of the baltic countries is only to the interest of our common enemies. the new constitution sent from moscow guarantees freedom from unreasonable arrest, unquote. however, enough re

from moscow that's for joining us tonight you are not international. with you till morning welcome to the program. before and the russian foreign ministry says washington bears full responsibility for worsening relations between the countries of the white house said it was expanding diplomatic staff on imposing a wave of new sanctions moscow says it has no choice but to retaliate. but there again as you there but such aggressive behavior will undoubtedly meet firm resistance a response to the sanctions will be inevitable washington has to understand that there will be a price for the degradation of bilateral relations and it is the us that is entirely responsible for what is happening or meanwhile the russian foreign ministry summoned the u.s. ambassador in moscow for talks he was through washington sanctions will be met like for like any attempts to discourage that would be totally inappropriate earlier my colleagues under foreign jacqueline who got talked through the day's developments. as the russian reaction makes clear this latest move from the us

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but warns western nations against confrontations moscow's response will be asymmetrical. red lines across the president also compared those who provoked russia to jungle book characters. little jackals run a room. just like in the kipling story howling with the ruler. child murder and ongoing trauma a damning new report sheds more light on how france quote nabl the foreseeable genocide hundreds of thousands in their wound $994.00 also on the way. clashes break out in berlin as police there disburse a 1000 strong rally offices and brought gear deployed to spray and make more than a 100 arrests. a very good evening and thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. russia's president has given his annual state of the nation address setting out his vision for the country as expected there was an international focus in putin urged western powers to stop trying to provoke russia and warned of an asymmetrical response. some countries have adopted the highly indecent habit of blaming russia with any excuse and usually without any reason it's turned into a kind of sporting com

between the us and moscow. washington this comes off for america and the expulsion of 10 russian diplomatic personnel i'll get more sanctions us from moscow for what the ministry. the us president said it's a symbolic deadline of september 11th for withdrawing u.s. troops from afghanistan saying it's time they came home. put the burden on afghanistan's neighbors with a long piece. in the french parliament passes a controversial security bill human rights groups threaten to reveal the lives of people. live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here on our teams and holkins with you till morning welcome to the program. the president joe biden has announced a new round the russian sanctions while at the same time saying the u.s. isn't looking to escalate tensions with moscow the russian foreign ministry though says washington bears full responsibility for those here ational relations and that russia has no choice but to retaliate. today you know i've been through several steps including the expulsion of severa

and in moscow, correspondent for a news agency in russia. if i could start in boston, glenn, do these sanctions indicate the biden administration is going to take a very different approach to russia then we saw under the donald trump administration? >> absolutely that is the case. it is a return to a more traditional kind of relationship, tit-for-tat, a carrot and stick relationship between rivals, which is how international relationships function. until biden took office, we had, for four years, someone who was at the very least compromised by russian intelligence and clearly involved with it, at the very least. 1 hal anchor: how do we know that -- anchor: how do we know he was compromised? i do we know for sure -- how do we know for sure? >> by observing every statement and policy action that he took for four years. you don't have to go behind curtains to see that when all 17 agencies of the u.s. intelligence community detect collusion it vied evidence to support it and the president then support the kremlin and vladimir putin, it is clear

over alleged russian cyber attacks and election interference from moscow has been at smith 10 u.s. diplomats here in russia will have to leave russia or is also sanctioning 8 washington administration officials this is because last month the u.s. sanctioned 8 russians it's going to stop the u.s. embassies and missions here hiring russians on other 3rd country nationals to work in their missions this can affect everything from drivers and cooks to analysis stuff and also it's been suggested by the russian foreign ministry that the u.s. ambassador here goes back to washington for consultations because russia's ambassador is in moscow for consultations several european leaders a russia to reverse a troop build up on its border with ukraine ukrainian president vladimir this is vilinsky is calling for a summit with that amir putin and european powers his statement follows a video conference with the leaders of germany france and ukraine. police in indianapolis identified the gunman who killed 8 fed-ex workers before killing himself 19 year old brandon home was a former employee of the k

on promise of friendship, moscow gets bases. on june 16th, 1940 the soviets issue an ultimatum, submit to occupation or be attacked. the red army in direct violation of previous treaties moves in to complete the occupation of latvia. from they appoint a public government. russian technicians are sent in with the troops. banners and signs prepared by sub versives demand at mince of latvia into the soviet union. in july the second secretary of the latvian communist party makes the formal request to the parliament. proceedings are watched carefully by the soviet secret police. there are no opposing votes. on august 3rd, he leaves riga with the delegation of latvian communist for the moscow supreme soviet. stalin and company applaud the latvian communist delegates. in the background is marshenko. in addition to stalin are khrushchev and others. he speeds home to be welcomed by soviet troops, his new guard of honor. we are reminded of a night of a speech to the supreme soviet. quote, the nonsensical talk about the sovietization of th

and moscow. washington this comes off america announced the expulsion of 10 russian diplomatic personnel while get more sanctions are slapped on moscow for what the administration brown's election. u.s. president said it's a symbolic deadline of september the 11th for withdrawing all u.s. troops from afghanistan and saying it's time they came home is also firmly put the burden on afghanistan's neighbors to chiva a lasting peace. and the french parliament has a controversial security bill human rights groups fear of. police abuse. from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here on down hawkins we did till morning welcome to the program. u.s. president joe biden has announced a new round of russian sanctions while at the same time calling for a deescalation of tensions with the country the russian foreign ministry though says washington is full responsibility for this here ation of relations and that moscow has no choice but to retaliate. today you know i've been through several steps including the

fake news or a failure to fact check those are the accusations moscow is leveling at c.n.n. comes after the channel broadcast footage claiming to show russia bolstering its military presence along the border with ukraine russia's foreign minister was quick to point out some clearers. cell phone footage is a merge of armored columns like this one. and of military hardware being transported by rail towards the border. do c.n.n. and its friendly team we understand that you have no time for fact checking they are so deeply involved into the ideological struggle for the triumph of liberalism but not that deep to present ukrainian tanks at a ukrainian station with a ukrainian train behind as the background for russia preparing for war. yeah well let's go through it the real way station you can see here which c.n.n. is in russia is actually located in eastern ukraine in its 4th largest city of you can see the same roof the columns in this photo of the station us for the train here well it supports the blue yellow livery of ukrainian trains on the outside of the courage you can in f

live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here on our to international. morning welcome to the program. and the russian foreign minister has published a sanctions list which includes top u.s. officials and direct response to new american restrictions imposed on moscow over alleged harmful activities russia's measures also include the expulsion of 10 u.s. diplomats and the possible reduction of washington's diplomatic mission in the capital earlier saskia taylor joined my colleague you know neal to assess russia's response let's take a look at the statement. the latest attack country by divided ministration cannot. it seems that washington does not want to accept the fact that in the new geo political realities there is no place for unilateral dictatorship and the broken scenarios of containing moscow which the us short sightedly continues to deploy when you risk further degrading russia u.s. relations we knew that this was coming in one form or another it was just a matter of time and on friday russia very demonstrative retaliated against those punitive m

on august 3rd they lead regal for the moscow supreme soviet. stalin and company applaud the latvian communist delegates. in the background is marshal callous inkle. they positions of acceptance of latvia as a soviet. state law he's beaten to be welcomed by soviet troops, his new guard of honor. we are reminded of a night in the molotov speech to the supreme soviet in 1930. nine talking about the soviet -ization of the ball can countries as some of the foreign press charge. the new constitution says from alaska guarantees freedom from unreasonable arrest unquote. however, enough reasonable charges are found to send thousands of latvian men women and children to slave labor camps in the soviet. union on this list are the names of 78 people arrested by the end cave e.d., the soviet secret police. the notation at the end of the list explain the quite result reasonable charges, not politically reliable, shoot them to death. the example of estonia, also in 1939, with more promises of the soviet union, the little country succeeds succeeds. and june, 1

diplomats from moscow and basically that's going to be most likely the end of the story both rome and moscow don't and they expressed that opinion that they don't want to really spoiler away sions because of this unfortunate event so no lasting things everyone understands that this is business as usual that's how the system gathering information were and it's not actually could that really clear that be information passed was really a sense that there was a report that the kalyan name officer was paid 5000 euro in cash and that's not really a lot of money in terms of kind. of where if it was really a sense of if it would be much more and it would be handled not by the russian diplomat i have my especially designate that case officer mark. i mean the italians should be offended in a way or another because the intelligence agency was. following the case of this officer this is someone who has been bribed something like 5000 euros for military information about the italian military what's the general sentiment in italy about this particular case. the general sentiment is that it does eas

video footage of moscow's response russian troops engaged in military exercises in crimea. what to the west looks like saber rattling is viewed differently by russia from moscow it's a necessary reinforcement of its defenses against the west or young. bush and seriously the majority of the ukrainian military understand the fatal consequences of any actions that would lead to conflict. you know i hope they won't be provoked by politicians who in turn are being provoked by the west especially the united states. that the. ukrainian president volodymyr selenski sees western troops especially those provided by nato as essential backup for his own forces. on the scene here this is almost starts and there's an escalation in the donbass region it's a budget everyone can see it when our soldiers are attached and there are casualties obviously we must retaliate i mean if you put it that. a few days ago zelinsky paid a visit to nato secretary-general un stoltenberg selenski stressed that the western military alliance is ukraine's only way to end the war in don bass experts in moscow s

is doing her dream job as a metro driver she started working at the moscow metro almost 18 years ago at the time she didn't know that women couldn't legally drive the subway trains now they finally can and the rena says for her it was worth the wait. this is my childhood dream i used to play with model ships and airplanes with the boys my father is a pilot i've liked the technical stuff since i was little so why the metro somehow it drew me in the fact that it's underground i guess it's like flying but underground. before every shift gives the metro train she'll be driving a once over she looks for damage and vandalism and checks that all the fire extinguishers are where they should be a moment of calm before the empty cars fill up with commuters again you rena has a lot of experience dealing with passengers she worked as a station guard on the platform for years now as a driver she tries to get a sense of each individual metro train her connection to the train she's driving feels almost spiritual to her. in russia people say the way a ship sails depends on what name you give it i tr

of sending thousands of troops to its eastern border and the crimean peninsula kiev and moscow have traded blame over the worsening situation in the donbass region ukrainian troops have fought pro russian separatists since 2014 clashes in the region have become more frequent and there are fears that the under a soft conflict between the 2 sides could flare up again. a russian military camps set up suddenly close to russia's border with ukraine witnesses have reported seeing rows of tanks in the area and artillery being moved by train and leaders in europe and the us are trying to find out why. russia's not denying the troop movements but says it's not threatening anyone. or spot over there it's obvious even the questions are being asked what is it that the russian federation is doing on the border with ukraine got the answer is very simple we live there it is our country some kremlin figures have gone further setting out conditions for a possible russian intervention against its neighbor which a beginning of military actions is the beginning of the end of ukraine. the build up seems

relations as both countries unleash sanctions on each other moscow expelled u.s. diplomats from russia and then advised the american ambassador to go. the latest attack country by divided ministration cannot. it seems that washington does not want to accept the fact that in the new geo political realities there is no place for unilateral dictatorship and the broken scenarios of containing moscow which the us short sightedly continues to deploy when you risk further degrading russia u.s. relations we knew that this was coming in one form or another it was just a matter of time and on friday russia very demonstrative retaliated against those punitive measures that washington announced against moscow earlier this week perhaps the most interesting part is that 8 top level washington officials have been banned from entering russian territory we're talking the head of the f.b.i. the director of national intelligence the secretary of homeland security to i people who are powerful decision makers in washington also a lot less to susan rice and john bolton historically to

businesses from moscow his bennett's met 10 u.s. diplomats in russia will have to leave russia or is also sanctioning 8 washington administration officials this is because last month the u.s. sanctioned 8 russians it's going to stop the u.s. embassies and missions who are hiring russians of a 3rd country nationals to work in their missions this can affect everything from drivers and cooks to analysis stuff. and also it's been suggested by the russian foreign ministry that the u.s. ambassador here goes back to washington for consultations because russia's ambassador is in moscow for consultations police in the u.s. city of indianapolis say it's still too early to know the motive behind says day's mass shooting a gunman killed 8 people and injured several others at a fed ex facility yet entity of the attacker who killed himself hasn't been released members of me at malls alstad political parties ethnic leaders an anti the protesters have formed a national unity government they say it's aimed at restoring democracy after the marriage s

even just on 7 o'clock here in moscow are you watching r.t. international now the russian foreign ministry says that washington bears full responsibility for harming relations with moscow after the white house said it was expelling diplomatic staff and imposing a wave of new sanctions the russian foreign ministry said that moscow would have no choice but to retaliate jackie bigger has been assessing the reaction from russia. such aggressive behavior will undoubtedly meet resistance and responds to the sanctions will be inevitable washington has to understand that there will be a price for the degradation of bilateral relations and it is the us that is entirely responsible for will it's happening i would also like to say that the us i'm best at has been summoned to the russian foreign ministry we will inform you of the results of this meeting which will be hard for the american side as the russian reaction makes clear this latest move from the us represents a sharp hit to relations between the 2 countries and the measures being announced are qu

also booted out 10 russian diplomats moscow has said further measures will follow well let's join dr michael record of all the professor of liberal studies joining us now live from pittsburgh good to see you today so russia says it's going to follow up on these explosions with further measures we don't know exactly what those might be but how far could this escalate do you think i'm not sure how hard he would go but i think it depends largely on the biden response 1st of all it's very ironic that biden would accused russia of election interference when the democratic party undertook election interference to the nth degree so it's a point in ironic it's a rich irony that this accusation has been leveled well this is one point i want to ask you the by the administration says russia tried to interfere in the 2020 alexion we've heard this time and time and time again are they just flogging a dead horse at this point is specially considering biden won the election well what they're trying to do is deflect attention away from what they undertook during the election so they're trying to bla

nazi germany comes to moscow to confer regarding the agreement. and later, the new soviet foreign minister molotov goes to berlin for further conferences with the nazis. august 23rd, 1939, the stalin hitler packed is announced, and the red army invades eastern poland. communists come out of hiding ready to consolidate their part in the takeover. these are some of the 250,000 prisoners of war being sent to russia. later, in 1943, the discovery of a mass grave of some 15,000 polish officers and intellectual leaders executed by the reds in a forest near small in school is announced. stalin state is a mask meeting to meet representatives of the allegedly liberated western ukraine. this parade was ordered to celebrate the incorporation of eastern poland into the ussr. it's an honor of nicki to khrushchev. he is now the new secretary of the central committee of the communist party of the ukraine. khrushchev falsely declares our political positions are well-known. we have held on hold to the position of non intervention in the internal affairs of other c

moscow says a response will be unavoidable. former police officer derek chauvin please the fifth and does not testify on the final day of evidence in his trial over george floyd's death. more than 1300 babies in brazil have died from covid. we have an exclusive access to a children's icu in the country. undocumented workers and america have suffered from the virus and feared deportation. a brooklyn church is a trusted place to get vaccinated. i will have a special report. ♪ laura: welcome to worlds america on pbs and around the globe. the united states is introducing sweeping sanctions against russia, expelling 10 diplomats accused of spying or trying to hurt moscow's ability to spend money. the russia has blamed -- the u.s. is concerned b the buildup of russian forces at the ukraine border. running is now is gary o'donoghue. justice: days ago president biden spoke to president putin and they were talking about it possible summit but president biden is chosen sanctions over the summit. reporter: i think this is a dual strateg

in conflict with russia moscow slaps the u.s. with sanctions. washington imposing restrictions on russia just. a week of on the rest of the u.s. state of minnesota anger over the police killing of. teen used to rage. also a c.n.n. director secretly failed in making his channel spread propaganda to spy the network slogan that it's the most trusted name in news. welcome to the program on this sunday here want to see international this is the weekly with the top stories of the week. and this week marked another low point in the russian u.s. relations as both countries unleashed sanctions on each other moscow expelled u.s. diplomats from russia and advised the american ambassador to go home. the latest attack country by divided ministration cannot. it seems that washington does not want to accept the fact that in the new geo political realities there is no place for you no less will dictatorship and have broken scenarios of containing which the us short sightedly continues to deploy when you risk further degrading russia u.s. relations we knew that

said that they suspected that moscow was behind the attack but investigations were still going on but now the finger of blame is being firmly pointed out russia but again with this caveat that the u.s. has high confidence quote unquote in the assessment that russia is to blame but no concrete evidence has been put forward and russia has all this time of course denied any involvement whatsoever isn't it a shop change in tone that we've heard from america over the last couple of days because you know if you going back to then the walls talk of a summit between america and russia well exactly just 2 days ago on tuesday biden and putin spoke by phone or biden once again said that his goal was to build a stable and predictable relationship with russia and at the time he also proposed a summit between the 2 leaders to take place and a 3rd country and the biden administration has said that that summit that meeting is vital to stop the ex escalation of tensions between the 2 powers but the russian foreign ministry says that he sees actions speak a whole lot louder than those sort of words joe

go back to gabriel here in moscow. i find it rather odd in many ways is that if you indeed ukraine is pushing is a landscape which essentially was elected as a. compromise figure prager they could reach out to russian speakers in the east of the country and even maybe some kind of negotiated settlement with russia amazing how things have changed haven't they and now you know he signs his presidential directive that i just pointed out in the beginning of our program and. seems to be a war hawk right now the thing is is that his country is the battleground ok i mean it's all my sis say we want to be in the in the nato club we want to have arms still. liveries all of this we want to be in the news we want to be liked but you're the battlefield ok and ukraine is a very fragile country i cannot impress. enough on our viewers here because the the illegal overthrow of the government in 2014 it is felt to this day that's why crimea is part of russia right now that is why the donbass wants to keep its arm's length from kiev bec

banks from buying russian debt moscow in turn kicked out 10 u.s. diplomats and banned a number of officials from entering russia shortly after announcing the new sanctions u.s. president joe biden said he wanted to deescalate tensions with more of the mixed messages coming from washington here is it was done with commentary big politics is all about big p.r. political marketing of trump america transitioned from sourcing nicknames for his opponents into the biden age which spearheads now shameless self promotion america is back america is back diplomacy is back biden diplomacy sounds like a classic personal brand to so what is it well for russia it apparently means a sanctions sledgehammer and i've been through several steps including the expulsion of several russian officials as a consequence of their actions i've also signed an executive order authorizing new measures including sanctions to address specific conference action is that russia has taken against u.s. interests well the man seems to be abundantly clear at least for ones right well he w

now and russian diplomatic personnel being expelled from the country by yet more sanctions a slap on moscow for election meddling also to come this hour the french parliament is a controversial bill on global security something which had already and good human rights groups who fear it threatens efforts to call out police abuse and c.n.n. direct risk caught on camera admitting these channels threats propaganda despite the network's slogan that it is the most trusted media outlet. whether welcome or start without breaking them because the russian foreign ministry says that washington bears full responsibility for harming relations with moscow that's after the white house said it was expelling diplomatic staff and imposing a wave of new sanctions the russian foreign ministry said that moscow would have no choice but to retaliate. such aggressive behavior will undoubtedly meet resistance and responds to the sanctions will be inevitable washington has to understand that there will be a price for the degradation of bilateral relations and it is the u.s. that is entirely responsible for what is h

straight to moscow than where we join d.w. our correspondent our until today welcome aren't so talk us through alexei navalny scores of pairs. well he appeared in court today via video link which is actually something that he had requested a sensibly to take part in the trial in the appeal process today but he also used the opportunity to greet his wife who was actually in attendance and it gave us our 1st opportunity to really take a look at him after he began his hunger strike of earlier in the week that was apparent to anybody taking a look at the video link that he had lost significant amount of weight by his own admission more than 10 kilograms and he also said that he's only able to take small portions of solid food basically saying that the prolonged effects of a through congress right make it impossible for him to eat large amounts now of course he was in court today as part of an appeal process against this slander conviction which was handed down against him earlier in the month and it's part of a kind of a broader c

sarah rainsford is in moscow. what more can you tell us about what is happening in the city this evening? is happening in the city this evenin: ? �* . ., evening? i'm right in the centre of moscow leading _ evening? i'm right in the centre of moscow leading down _ evening? i'm right in the centre of moscow leading down to _ evening? i'm right in the centre of moscow leading down to the - evening? i'm right in the centre of i moscow leading down to the kremlin at the end here, the score is where alexei navalny�*s team have called on people together for this protest. alexei navalny�*s team have called on people togetherfor this protest. at that whole square was blocked off. barricades of my barriers up from the early morning because it is also where president putin held his state of the nation address today. so the crowds instead have been on the street here, they've also been disbursed a brown key spots in the centre of moscow but they found it difficult to gather in one place. one thing i would say, you talk

international ready to retaliate moscow says it will expel 10 u.s. diplomats and may significantly shrink washington's diplomatic mission in russia it does come in response to the latest sanctions slapped on russia by the united states over alleged harmful activity but also to come angela merkel is a key to the attack on democracy after she pleads german parliament to grant powers to impose drop downs throughout the country and. twitter bans the founder of investigative journalist group project very task that after its latest expose a which the c.n.n. director let slip the channel's coverage is biased in favor of the black lives matter movement and words can kill brigade is now officially part of the british army one regiments told to use inclusive inclusive language to avoid causing offense. hello good evening and we'll start with that breaking news because the russian foreign minister has announced retaliating measures against the u.s. in direct response to new u.s. sanctions imposed yesterday on moscow over alleged harmful activities russia's meas

moscow says the allegations about its role in this expression moscow says the allegations about its role in this explosion are unfounded and far—fetched, but investigations into the activities of russian military intelligence are ongoing and more cases may still be uncovered, raising the pressure on moscow further. gordon corera, bbc news. 0ur correspondent sarah rainsford is in moscow for us tonight. sarah, russia is facing criticism for a number of acts in recent days. yeah, it's been quite a week for russia's relations with the west. it is notjust the czechs who have been expelling russian diplomats, the americans and the poles have done it too. all of it is meant to change the way the kremlin is thinking, but moscow has mirrored all of those moves and more, and the political mood here feels increasingly tense. there is still of course that russian troop deployment to ukraine's border, and the sense that russia is one of what it might do if pushed. and russia is still insisting that it is the west that is aggressive, trying to impose its agenda inside russia, so there has been a rea

moscow. cuban president miguel diaz canal has taken over as the head of the ruling communist party he replaces raul castro his stepping down says he will no longer hold high office but does canal's has castro will remain employed and chill an important decisions it's a new man has this report. the. old castro passing on his post as 1st secretary of the all powerful communist party to 60 year old president. an image that is supposed to signal the end of the castro era although not quite one year ago that comrade role for legitimacy and because cuba needs him will be consulted on the most important strategic decisions for the destiny of the nation. while billboard's hailed the communist party as the soul of the revolution its 8 congress transpired behind closed doors cubans waited to hear if a much promised generational change would finally take place. we expect positive changes because the younger generation is more modern in accordance with our times and open to changes that we need especiall

the latest in a string of recent spying allegations of moscow. so how will nations deal with this crisis? this is "inside story." ♪ >> hello, welcome to the program. the italian government has expelled the two russian officials and it follows police allegations that an italian naval officer was caught selling classified documents to a russian envoy. the accusations are the latest in a number of recent charges in espionage against russia. the stolen documents reportedly include top-secret information from nato and the italian military. moscow says it is unaware of the circumstances of the case that it take possible -- could take possible steps. >> what happened is unacceptable and there will be consequences. there is no doubt about it, because it is unacceptable that someone comes here to pay our navy officers to get to nato information. it is not just our security at risk, but that of the entire nato alliance and we cannot accept this. with the international actors we have to deal with, we must always have a channel of communication that allows

official politician sympathetic to moscow and some other politicians and so our moscow easy is viewing this as a pressure. point and is. that one of your on a on the specific level it's you as ok. to pressure on the ukraine as a bargaining chip ok i can see there that is shaking his head i'll give you 15 seconds to come back in on some of that before we we move on to glenn ok i very quickly i mean at the end of the day you create is not a bargaining chip ukraine is a country and it's very nice that you know president putin and psychoanalysts can probably have a field day with russian president thinks in terms of you know ukraine or excuse me russian u.s. rivalry that's all very fine and dandy but it's not u.s. soldiers that are dying on the ground in front and ukrainian soldiers they are defending their own country and this is nothing to do in fact i mean except we're you know in strange minds with geo politics this does everything to do with a a very real war that is happening in a very real country that has nothing to do with you know wouldn't it be a fairy tale it wouldn't be fair t

moscow strongly denies all the allegations. the accusations are absurd especially as early as the czech government laid the blame for the explosions at the door of the companies that own the depo so this hostile step is a continuation of a serious event of russian actions conducted over the last several years by the czech republic one cannot also fail to notice the american influence by trying to win washington's favor as the u.s. imposes sanctions against russia the czech all sorts he's haven't done their american mostest. meanwhile there was an intriguing development when czech police revealed they're looking for 2 russian suspects in connection with the explosion and the pair already have quite a reputation i think previously been accused by the u.k. of the novacek attack on their script pals back in 2018 meanwhile moscow has vowed to respond to prague's expulsion of the 18 diplomats and to a political analyst says the accusations need to be backed up with hard evidence. in my view it is at least possible that the explosion

but ima putin warns western nations against confrontation saying moscow's response will be asymmetrical and if its red lines across president compared those who provoke russia to jungle book character. all sorts of little jackals run a room. just like in the kipling story. with the. child murderer going to damning new report sheds more light on how france quote enabled the forseeable genocide hundreds of thousands of people in rwanda in 994 also on the way. clashes break out in berlin this police disperse a 1000 strong anti lock down rally opposition brian gear deployed pepper spray and make more than a 100 arrests. a good evening and thanks for joining us tonight. this president has given his annual state of the nation address setting out his vision for the country as expected there was an international focus but. western powers to stop trying to provoke russia warned of an asymmetrical response. some countries have adopted the highly indecent habit of blaming russia with any excuse and usually without any reason it's turned into a kind of sporting competition a new sport of who speaks

meanwhile in a week of strained international diplomacy moscow slaps the u.s. with sanctions in retaliation for washington imposing restrictions on russia earlier in the week which came at the same time as calls from president biden for deescalation we look into the mixed messages coming from america also ahead. a week of on the rest of the u.s. state of minnesota where anger over the fatal police shooting of dante wright continues to rage. and a c.n.n. director is secretly filmed admitting his channel spreads propaganda somewhat at odds with the network's slogan of the most trusted name in news. broadcasting live direct from studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international all right now russia has declared 20 czech diplomats persona non-grata amid a escalating diplomatic spat between the 2 countries it's in response to prague expelling 18 russian diplomats while accusing moscow of being behind a huge explosion at an ammunition depot back in 2014 russia firmly rejects the charges leveled. the accusations herb'

relations as both countries on leash sanctions on each other moscow expelled 10 u.s. diplomats from russia and the acting american ambassador to go home. the latest attack on a country by dubai didn't ministration cannot. it seems that washington does not want to accept the fact that in the new geo political realities there is no place for unilateral dictatorship and the broken scenarios of containing moscow which the us short sightedly continues to deploy when you risk further degrading russia u.s. relations we knew that this was coming in one form or another it was just a matter of time and on friday russia very demonstrative retaliated against these punitive measures that washington now nst against moscow earlier this week perhaps the most interesting part is that 8 top level washington officials have been banned from entering russian territory we're talking the head of the f.b.i. the director of national intelligence the secretary of homeland security to i people who are powerful decision makers in washington also a lot less to susan rice and john bolton historica

you're catching the program from today welcome to moscow and. in the news are all artsy my names you know neal. we begin with breaking news on art the russian foreign minister a retaliatory measures against the u.s. in direct response to new u.s. sanctions imposed yesterday on moscow over alleged harmful activities now russia's measures include the expulsion of 10 u.s. diplomats on the possible reduction of the american diplomatic mission in the capital the latest attack on our country by the biden ministration cannot go unanswered it seems that washington does not want to accept the fact that in the new geo political realities there is no place for unilateral dictatorship and the broken scenarios of containing moscow which the us short sightedly continues to deploy on your risk further degrading russia u.s. relations. joins me now in the studio to talk more on this think it's if this it's been a pretty eventful last 24 hours bring us up to speed on the latest developments we've been going through while the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov

but it's with al-jazeera moscow. all right let's bring in our guests in moscow alexander slow view of board member of open russia an opposition group in vancouver island michael busser q global affairs analyst and former spokesman for the organization for security and cooperation in europe or o s c e and back in moscow maria lipman senior associate at the institute for european russian and eurasian studies at george washington university a warm welcome to you all maria let me start with you today this move to ban all of all these political organizations to declare them extremist i mean not only supporters see this as an inevitability at this point right i mean that's why offices are in the process of being disbanded correct yes this is correct and i think the government is out to destroy. his organizations formal and informal and actually it is on a broad campaign to destroy anything and anyone who would dare is express open and vocal disloyalty to the regime it is not limited to the knob on himself and his organizat