we would certainly discuss this issue in helsinki but back to your question regarding the ideal outcome ideal outcome would be to agree to in gauge all the channels on all the issues which are devised if on the one hand trying to see whether we can get closer on those exact topics and also on those issues where we now can usefully cope the rate for the sake of interest of the two countries and for the sake of interest of international community like a strategic stability for example i optimistic about. well i'm not paid to be optimistic or pessimistic i'm paid to be realistic and really try to stick to the reality we'll see what the reality looks like. miss the lab are all false minutes so i rush stay right there we'll be right back

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up was a change agent writes about is a nice way to say he's crazy in any and he's going to go into any situation and just over turn the table and say let's start from scratch was exactly what is needed for the united states because the united states was very poorly positioned to head into the twenty first century so we need a guy like trump come in there and just you know knock over all the pieces on the chess board and start playing checkers i mean and start all over again. beyond a gainst any kind of president of the united states you know region if they want to continue there as human or human equal you see we against of it you and he know region you know region. you know region that's quote quite understandable

goal the president. of the united states is trying to be you know region of your negates any kind of spanks you need them in any kind of a you know any way i think any of that but. back to this special edition of politicking on larry king and we're talking with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov it's a great pleasure to have him with us on the eve of this is style rick summit because the foreign minister what does your country think of. the state since. sort of agreement with north korea. well i think it's good for the world

we strongly support the efforts undertaken by president thrum also by by the president of south korea to build up the atmosphere that must fear which would be conducive to resolving the nuclear issue of the korean peninsula and to bring all of us to denote there is a sion and to from the very beginning we suggest that the good that was china that a first step was because for them to build. and the second step should be some confidence building measures like freezing lunches and tests like freezing the military gains and i believe that what is going on is going in the right direction i know that the outcome of the meeting can seem to pour between president trump and leader of the north of north korea is being criticized by many as just you know being empty wards of paper without any. leaf in it

late secretary from peril visited pyongyang. and then he was also criticized for not delivering any specific hard commitments for general clear ization but i think serious analysts understand that this thing cannot be done overnight it has been a very deep crisis which is very serious consequences which might affect many countries if things went wrong and we have to build confidence gradually and that's i believe what the president trump and secretary powell help help to do we support this efforts and we try to contribute in our contacts with north koreans and with other players in that region it's good to hear ok. the anonymous conclusion by the entire american

intelligence community and is that your government and influenced the american elections in twenty sixteen. and that president trump will tell president putin to not do it again how do you react to all of this and your country's involvement and american elections your reaction. well i've seen those reports but it was all respect larry i cannot agree that this was the report as you said by the entire american intelligence community . those who are interested can take a look at the piece written by former american ambassador to moscow object medlock who described the report produced regarding the alleged russian interference

and. showed in the fish and says send in that curious and inconsistences in fighting this report without for example expressing the view which we cheered the military intelligence had it's a report signed only by three agencies out of a dozen of intelligence agencies and the united states has and will who normally would participate in anything called that binion of the entire intelligence community of the united states then i saw the report of the senate intelligence committee which asserted and you know. allege that russia has been interfering with elections that there is proof and then no single fact was produced and then it was announced that the full report would be made secret

because of sensitive information it's exactly the same approach as we see in our relations with the united kingdom who accused us ten years ago off poisoning one of the four main dungeon so officer who reside that in london mr litvinenko and the trail which gunk looted that the russian was responsible was also secret. now the investigation of these souls of very poisoning is also going on without any transparent information being provided to the public without anything given to us including access to the russian citizen and so on and so forth now the this this is becoming contagious i believe and highly likely and the assertion that there is no other credible explanation is becoming a rule on which the western friends try to base their policy on russian

the the latest the latest event greece is absolutely going in the same vein highly likely we are not given any huge effect on the backs of the american elections i've spent some time in the united states so i believe i understand how the system is working and when a year and a half or even more. investigation goes on hearings go on. the special counsel or mr knoller dozens of people but dissipating in the hearing being interrogated. and the only think the public gets is they're searching in that it has proven again and again that russia did mental vestal thinking whether this meddling did have effect on the outcome of elections or not and so on and so forth but apart from this assertion there is no single fact and knowing their merits and system i. i'm

convinced that with so many people involved you know this hearing school owes public secret not secret it is impossible that no single fact has been leaked so five yet into the public debate the us system is leaking. very often and very well and the special on the show like this meant so many people involved it's impossible not to not to have any single fact the presented to the public one way or another. so you have all i can say you can vote on a sure you have to it that is most involved. present put in address this issue several times he once again confirmed a few days ago actually a few couple of weeks ago that the russian government has nothing to do with what

was going on during the american elections we have been reading about somebody else's meddling with the democratic party site but this fact which has been proven by is not mentioned it all when this electoral. campaign issue is being discussed what what we did see was that we are ready to answer any questions that american administration might have regarding this matter this was should have proper offered by us when president putin met with president drum while year ago in the margins of g twenty in cumbered. and there we thought there was an agreement that group of experts would be meeting that americans would put on the table all the issues which they believe that russia must explain and then the experts would would do this

somehow few days after the summit under the pressure of those who believe that the administration should not discuss anything on cyber security was russia this deal was postponed lately there was signals that the americans are ready to resume this attempt and we would be ready to discuss any concerns regarding cyber security which the united states might have speaking of cyber security. and the freedom of expression and so on and so forth we are concerned that r.t. which is not foreign to you is being labeled by for example the french government as agents of influence. and the same french government introduced a draft law to their parliament which is intended to compile a bleck least of media outlets we just suspected of spreading fake news

and even most seriously. bleck least would be accompanied by combining on at the government level at the legislature level at least of media resources which would be recommended to national regulators of cyberspace as reliable sources if it does not censorship if it is not an attempt to squeeze the space of expression then i don't understand much in this life. i want to add one more thing mr foreign minister. how marlee how can you support someone like assad in syria who is been so brutal to his own people how how can you support him in there in

a civilization how these supporters. well i think i think you being a politician. i mean some people say being a politician is being cynical something a healthy cynicism is good i believe because to be realistic and we have to be responsible just to fall for the will security for security of our countries for the cooperation was obvious which would create conditions making our people safer and if you take a look in retrospect at that region saddam hussein was a dictator moammar gadhafi was a dictator. but if you can peer the sufferings of the people of iraq and libya respectively and the beast the dictators and the president after the

american the nato intervention in iraq and the new libya in violation of international law then i believe the numbers of those who were killed who were wounded who fled their homes would be probably hundreds of thousands more than those who suffered under these regimes. and the same is true for syria the people who ruined iraq who ruined libya now it's right to invite the international community to share responsibility for the migrants crisis the same people draw no conclusions and they wanted to put syria in the same in the same state some end of his say that the united states might be interested in keeping this region in turmoil so that it can fish in this muddy waters

i don't believe this is this is what the united states wants but when you look at defects it's what's happening. it's what's happening and this is not the say that we want to justify dictators but it's to say that before you start an adventure. you must. make every step not to be reckless and to find a way to promote democracy changes peacefully like being knighted states do in many countries of the same very region i don't need to lose that so my point is that we condemn any violations of human rights any of oil a chanst of international humanitarian law of a commute it can be them governments opposition foreign countries interfering

but we have to see the entire picture and we have to think about the price of being moral just for the sake of being moral so you include syria in that statement. yes that's what you asked me about. now. i'm very glad to hear that mr prime minister thank you so much for giving us your time today have a successful trip to helsinki and let's hope that when we meet in person we have peace in the world would be nice. thank you larry thank you very much for the invitation. and thank you for joining us on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at king's things and don't forget use the politicking hash tag and

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belgium beat england to finish third world cup we look ahead to sunday's final in moscow with either france or croatia set to be twenty eight champions. in other headlines this hour the u.s. charges twelve russians with hocking offenses linked to the twenty sixteen presidential election just days before a highly anticipated summit between president strong. really military launches its largest campaign against twenty eight fourteen reportedly hitting dozens of facilities.

wherever you're churning in from around the world. to moscow and to r.t. international i mean only we are focusing on the football first it's the weekend the world cup has been building towards today's scene the penultimate much in st petersburg with belgium taking third place after beating england. thank. god. thank. god. thank.

god he can thank . god i welcome back to manchester with me and reform and also say reading i demand for you know if. he's been watching that match that we've just taken place belgian securing the best ever finish out of world cup finals beating england saying the judges they were saying at half time were hoping things would get better and in the end it turned out to be quite a night and just the result. was not the result that england. wants but the performance was much better the game was bad was want to game of a sort of fourth place without any kind of pressure in the end england was was

dominant and had the best chance to score but. as a talent. made it for them and to neil and looking to the match probably within one second of. these of the extra time but talking to the performance. and the results in the globality of the world cup icing belgium deserves to be sorts. in seven matches belgium won six. they lost against france in the in the semi final in win seven matches once three last three and drew one and the three matches that england won two of them or against panama in tunisia. overall belgium is a surplus sure when you talk about that i know when you talk about that defeat

against france i sense that you believe that belgium perhaps could be in the final they were that close darts i think the problem was clearly was clearly that some of the players and the perform in the match where they need to extra perform and i think for the players if they want to be on the street themselves which sometimes they aren't because especially a new generation of players it's easier for them to find excuses everywhere but always run away from their own responsibilities but if they want to be honest i think they would they would feel and seeing. some of the important belgium players they were not there against france because in terms of the talent of the generation the talent of the players. the quality bayshore the in all the other matches also in the qualification matches belgium is not inferior to front sure and even in today's game i felt so you just watching it as

a fan is an observer that he was always looking to bring yet and has it will make him helping take for belgium and they all. it threatening you know from the first minute to the end they always looked that's where they go was going to come from no they are they're different players and good complement each other and behind them they have also all good players we'd so. organizes very well and then we can from the team to play with with this three center defenders and to bring the ball all the to do the ball. with the ball on your project some sort of very well from the right side that will keep it is top of the world and belgium has an incredible generation of position is not is not a surprise and with the way the world cup was of lot of teams with more prestige with more know how we probably more potential going out and out and out when they

see themselves in in the quarter final and then in the semi finals i think they dreamed we. would the world title which they could have to talk about final tomorrow france gracious france favorites but i tell you what croatia keep surprising this world cup that makes no certainty that france will lift the world cup tomorrow i don't think you know i think you can say france is favorite by little details yes you can but you can also see that in finals that are not favorites to reach i agree totally. of course i lost a few finals but i think until the end of my career i would always say the finals are not to be played finals are two in the spirit that you go to the final is that you are going to win of course i lost and everybody loses but the feeling has to be that one and i believe that crew issues are going with that with that feeling. of

course of course the fact that france played only. five matches. i say five because that last match in the group phase displays they didn't play and the fact that. croatia they placed seven because sikhs sri in the group phase with the same players the three in the knockout plus three extra times makes an extra match one team played in one month's five matches another team placed seven can these make a difference can can can and should sink is not also fair more twenty four hours more twenty four hours to tourist but this is the power of the money you see is the power of the broadcasters i love tennis and i also think it is not fair that anderson played yesterday in another

island and your coverage will killing each other today and deals three or four o'clock in the play the final tomorrow but i think that can play that can play a part in in the final tomorrow but croatia. has it was in one thousand nine hundred eight i think it was when the plea semifinal against france is a fantastic for the ration nor was. colonel's love and but. look at these phenomenon where i keep the pair is huge all the age they are in a fantastic generation so they can win spite of i give advantage to france i think as seen through asia we will give them a hard time specially if the result is in a certain balance if the result for some reason gets a little bit collage and then they sink by their physical point of view they will

not react but their spirit the spirit of of the small country that is not expected to to be there the players are ready for sure they're ready to give a resume the more. being a good month has in it and hopefully it ends with a crack at tomorrow frankie for watching t will hand you back to moscow. it's another beautiful day we're going to miss the when the world cup has gone the biggest people of english is ever seen it's been an emotional roller coaster and dissipating for the french for a sure game on sunday for the say that guy we've also had a legendary ivory coast striker didier drogba here in the studio today very exciting that's all part of our special coverage this saturday struck by played some of his best football while marino with his manager at chelsea and he had a very warm message for his old boss a couple of hours ago thought over the years they spent working together you were one of the best managers of the modern era because of what you say because we're

about to go live in manchester in a moment. a message back. giving . the biggest opportunity of his career to change from march to to the premier league so i gave him something very important but he gave me. every minute he was on the pitch for me. and my kid is my kid in spite of he looks older than me. ok good stuff this year's final it's a repeat of a classic survey from back in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight another case in france run out to one witness that was on home soil and it seems. quite let it go even after twenty years with the memory of french defender leant around equalizing then giving france the lead still you.