and. so join us in the death. or inmate in the showers. president putin warned that he donbass region in eastern ukraine could face a massacre at camp restores full control over the area. also this hour tightening the noose on donald trump the house democrats would roll out 2 articles of impeachment against the president accusing him of abuse of power and obstructing congress. and refusing to back down protesters in france continue to make a stand against the government's plans to overhaul the pension system had a speech by the prime minister on the issue.

here watching our 2 international bring you here live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program a lot of reporting has expressed fears of a massacre if kiev takes back control over the rest of donbass territory in the east of ukraine without guaranteeing safety to citizens living there. the mc law has made put in place yet we decided on that 2015 some decisions have been made by hasn't been put into force the ukrainian side is always saying let us close the border with force i can imagine what happens then srebrenica nothing more. we're joined live by our correspondent daniel hawkins for more now daniel those are some rather surprising words from the russian president coming off the back of the successful normandy for a meeting yesterday you know very strong was indeed given there was some movement forward yesterday with agreements on the prisoner exchange on some disengagement zones even a potential cease fire the key sticking point though as we heard there remains that

question of full control but all the ukrainian russian border ukrainian military forces why is this such a concern for putin. that the ability to control fall right. parliament paramilitary groups stationed in the region as the density of course rose to power on a platform of uniting the country of healing political civil riffs and divisions between nationalists in ukrainian politics seem to be uninterested in this they view any sort of resolution of the donbass conflict with russia through negotiation as a relation as a surrender a regular expressed their disdain and anger over any attempt to negotiate or compromise with moscow holding protests across the country in fact there was a protests in kiev just on the eve of this summit where thousands of nationalists rallied to oppose these negotiations and this is a concern for the russian president. we've

seen zelinsky holding talks with nationalists it's unclear who is stronger and what happens there and who will be leading those nationalists when they enter that territory without any guarantees for people this is one of the problems which surely is of the political nature. this was also a very strong comparison by president putin of course was a particularly dark moment in the yugoslav wars of the ninety's 9095 when thousands of bosniak men and teenage boys were massacred by bosnian paramilitary forces recognized as genocide by some international and european bodies. these far right militias why the comparison took place the far right militias stationed in the area that have risen to prominence over the last 5 years in ukraine a group such as the as of the donbass but they've been accused of many human rights violations even war crimes by international and european bodies and they've often

refused to stand down or even to listen to the warders from the ukrainian political leadership sort of having their own command structure and agenda and of course allowing these paramilitary forces into an area with around 3 and a half 1000000. billions with those sort of guarantees is of course a cause for concern. now the takeover of the ukraine russian border by ukrainian forces is part of the road map but moscow and kiev don't see eye to eye on this one sees this as a final step in the long side amnesties elections and a host of other political political resolutions were as key of insists this must

come soon or something that moscow seems unable to compromise over so far though so this is going to be the main political sticking point in those normandy format talks in the minsk agreements how to go about reining in those far right part of militaries stopping them having their own their own rain their own agenda in the region putting civilians at risk and somehow moving forward on a road map that seems to have stalled now since 2016. artie's daniel hawkins reporting live from central moscow thank you. seems to be very much something against the tide this week today the house has announced 2 specific articles of impeachment against the president. the 1st article is for abuse of power it is an impeachable offense for the president to exercise the powers of his public office to obtain improper personal benefits while ignoring or in

injuring the national interest and when he was caught when the house investigated and opened an impeachment inquiry president should be engaged in an unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inquiry. this gives rise to the 2nd article of impeachment for obstruction of congress. in addition to that yesterday a long awaited report was released that the president was hoping would prove the intelligence services was biased against him but didn't quite pan out that way and it's here to tell us why caleb what was in the report. well the 476 page horowitz report doesn't seem to be fully confirming what many had expected that there was some kind of conspiracy by the intelligence agencies against donald trump the report comes to a pretty solid conclusion that the justice department acted within the guidelines

when it started an investigation of trump during the 2016 campaign however it is important to note that the threshold for whether or not such an investigation was proper is rather low essential the all that's required is articulable facts and apparently this this report does conclude that there were articulable facts to justify an investigation now what is interesting is that the report seems to show that cia director john brennan who served as cia director under barack obama apparently gave inaccurate information to the u.s. public regarding the steel dossier folklore member of the salacious dot ca regarding u.s. president donald trump that was released and apparently when he was before congress speaking about this dossier he gave in inaccurate information this was john brennan speaking about the steel dossier. and you know if the bureau ever relied on

a steel dossier is as part of any court filings occasions petitions pleadings have no awareness. to the cia rely on no one. because we did it wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had it was not in any way uses a basis for the until screen assessment that was done. it was it was not. now page 179 of the horowitz report seems to indicate very clearly that what john brennan was saying was not accurate according to the report they did indeed think it was important enough and consistent enough that it ought to be part of the package the report quotes james komi the former f.b.i. director and it's important to point out that the fact that this report was used by

the intelligence agencies raises a lot of questions given the fact that the steel dossier was commissioned by fusion g.p.'s a firm that later admits that the da it was not a finished product so the impeachment inquiry and hearings will be proceeding we now have official articles of impeachment against us president donald trump 2 articles of impeachment have been drawn up the next step would be the senate convening an impeachment trial however the republicans have a solid majority in the senate so it remains to be seen whether or not a trial will actually be convened in the senate we do have the house of representatives the house judiciary committee has at this point drawn up the articles are to kill mup and breaking down this story for us thank you. french people have again taken to the streets against president micron's plans to overhaul the pension system authorities say more than a dozen arrests have already been made and recent days the country seen violent

protests and a number of cities with more from paris here's. well as you can see we are in the thick of it the country is trying to deliver their message to the government just one day before in ounces their final plans for pension reform in france although we did hear from the country's prime minister that for them for now there's no intention to change their plans if we don't make serious profound and progressive reform today someone else will make much more brutal reform tomorrow i hope that we can convince a majority of french people that our reform is fair it is universal it makes the special pension plans gradually disappear and is financially balanced not just for a moment let me give you a clearer picture of who these people are for instance i mean we've already been used to the yellow vests but as you can see these are more of what it says on them is s.n.c.f.

this is the french railway company which is by the way one of the main driving forces of the protests you can imagine what happens if the entire system. railroad workers what if they go on strike the law that has already happened they say that at one point almost 85 percent of the railway staff members white rice said this is really causing chaos in the country's transport system. but it's not only have about a grand world war i can tell you that the professions range from air traffic controllers to actually police officers and warriors so this is just how vast it is. you know. like i said before even police union support the strike and actually in fact

different opinion polls say that from 50 to 70 percent of the french population are supporting what's going on in the street in the streets of france right now but i do have to mention though that a last week protests in various cities of these countries did turn ugly and violent . i can tell you that most of the slogans that we are hearing in these protests are aimed directly against the president emanuel macron one you can see right here it

says macro don't touch my retirement i can tell you that the pension reform is pretty much his brainchild and that's why so many people are angry at him specifically for this come soon may be. the people did those do not come here to prove money 1st but the reforms we impart everybody's the idea for the pension reform is to introduce a universal point system which will make the pension sums universal for different layers of the society but some of them in france do fear that the. they will lose their privileges but they want to give us a tone to a food system you have every. dollar you forms but

almost. no with brings you a point never knows more now this is just a warning for the government but it's not hard to predict what's going to happen if emanuel macron and his team decides to stick to the plan. still to come the russian foreign minister is in washington d.c. to meet with his u.s. counterpart and president trump we'll go live there with all the details after the break. to globalization day dollars a shot you know this happening as the world is kind of drifting apart in a lot of different ways we look into it because there's an economic force behind it is always.

true. welcome back russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov is in washington d.c.

for a working visit the country's top diplomat is meeting secretary of state my compare and likely president trump as well to go live now to ours easier for the details here what is expected from this visit. well jackie to quote circle of of himself he doesn't expect anything in fact he says that russia just comes here to washington to deliver its position to make known to make the united states to make sure that the united states is aware as to what russia thinks in fact he has just met with the pump a all he is meeting with his counterpart right now as i speak if you look behind me this is the building of the state department and if you zoom in on to be top floor behind those very walls the 2 ministers are sitting there right now and in the form of a business lunch they are well they have plenty to discuss that's for sure and arguably topping the agenda is the situation about the i.m.f.

deal or rather about its nonexistence anymore the i.n.f. treaty of course i'm talking about it was seen as the key document preventing a cold war style arms race between russia and the u.s. but the 2 countries both countries accused each other over violating the terms of the agreement and eventually the united states decided to pull out of the deal and russia followed suit but the respect the responsibility of finding common ground there is positiveness in this whole situation because it does look like both countries seem eager to go back on track to go back on the oh not allowing the arms race to happen here's how donald trump put it. to say it is russia wants. it make if you're an arms control rush you want to make a deal of the reason leaders think we should go russia wants to make you feel very much on arms control and you will also certainly really. you know. we may be

related or very very very. well as if to corroborate those words russia has in turn put forward some of some of its proposals as well the russian president vladimir putin for instance he suggested that maybe a star deal a deal called start it's an abbreviation that was signed back in 2010 could be expanded could be could be expanded to serve the purpose of the new i.m.f. . russia is ready to par long the new start treaty as soon as possible before the end of the year without any preconditions. well on the geo political spectrum on the international stage there's plenty to discuss as well now with the

key focus it seems should be on the protests in iran because this is where the points of view of most school in washington are staggeringly different for instance the united states they have been siding with the protesters all along and accusing the tehran government of handling of mishandling the protests while in most school has been pointing out that the disenchantment on all the unhappiness all the unrest that was caused by the economic instability by the economic hardship of tehran was in turn caused by the by the policy of sanctions pushed by the united states on to that nation. you see the problem with iran is undergoing some very serious problems largely u.s. sanctions the room absolutely illegal. the americans withdrew from iran you could see you expect the sites to implement it well. and again he's right behind those walls so he could deliver that message to my own pale directly now but iran is far

from the only country in the whole of latin america with countries like venezuela or a bolivia where moscow and washington again don't see eye to eye one washington is supporting the uprisings and more schools saying that it is a gravel power take it to the middle east to the situation in syria to the situation in ukraine to be hiking to the most recent hacking scandal that russia is being accused of being behind and of course the rest of the diplomatic properties here in washington russia's diplomatic property all of that and not even mentioning the impeachment proceedings here in the united states so it does look that this day is going to be packed with events and at least with statements something is bound to come out of it with sergey lavrov meeting both with my pump aoe and donald trump r.t. as it goes on of saying across those talks in the u.s.

capital bank you. russian athletes have expressed both anger and frustration after the continuing fallout from the doping scandal saw the country banned from all major world tournaments for the next 4 years the decision was made by the world anti-doping agency bottom or putin has given his backing to russia's athletes because then you move punishment must not be collective affected people who have nothing to do with certain violations there are new complaints against the russian olympic committee if there are no complaints the country should compete under its national flag as stated in the olympic charter it means that one of his decision contradicts the olympic charter and we have grounds to appeal to cas. water took the action after it ruled moscow had tampered with a key drug test database but while clean athletes will still be able to compete they'll be forced to do so under a neutral flag russian officials however are prohibited from attending major events

in the country it won't be allowed to host any tournaments the list of doors now slammed in russia's face is rather extensive and includes the olympic and paralympic games in tokyo in 2020 and football's fifa world cup 2 years after that russia was the last host of that event and its players will now have to go as neutrals if they qualify water has given the russian anti-doping agency $21.00 days to decide if it wants to appeal it up to do so the case will be taken to the court of arbitration for sport. breaks down the ruling for us. imagine a person who robs a bank steals let's say a 1000000 dollars gets caught gets prison time gets out like a near your early for good behavior but then the police tells them you know we're not sure you actually stole 1000000 maybe your stole more so we're going to push imprison back again or that is basically the logic which the world anti-doping agency applied to the whole nation of russia in their decision on monday to ban the

country from major sports competitions in the world saying that the russian athletes can compete individually but they have to again prove that they have not used any kind of doping by. the position of the russian olympic committee stays the same the sanctions are inadequate not logical and too severe we would do our best for the russian olympic team to participate in the upcoming games in japan under the colors of the russian trickle or due to the terms of the olympic charter. whether someone committed a crime fair enough he or she should be punished for that but it is quite unclear how exactly stripping a nation of its flag in a major sports competitions across the planet can actually solve 'd the problem of fighting against doping you're not. proven guilty and i'm in and you don't do to you're guilty until you can prove you're innocent complete reversal of justice system but it's always been that way you've got to think about what's on the world

anti-doping agency has jurisdiction but it doesn't at yours dictionary to the russian authorities become sanction russian politicians are all it can do is censure resettling and take actions relative to schools so it's come up with this international standard to code compliance signatories which is used to sanction russia this time round. on top of everything it seems that waters decision from monday was made in such a haste that they have no clue how to actually navigate in that decision the biggest example of that is probably the situation with you wait for and feel for tournament where were you where you quite expect to. be sanctions will not affect in any way russian part of the upcoming your. first of all it's a continental tournament not of world qualification for or for compartmented to.

is again within the competence of us but should it make it to the 2022 world cup in qatar it may be stripped of its flag of its anthem and it may be participating as a neutral country and if you're not yet confused enough they already said directly that should russia appeal to cas the court for arbitration of sports and this process takes longer than the official preparation for next summer's olympics russia will go to next summer's olympics in tokyo as a full fledged nation but then if the ban is implemented late it might miss out on the 2024 summer olympic games in paris so this is all surrounded by a lot of confusion and at the same time russia says that it's not planning to give up the sports minister of the country bible club golf insists that all the information for the reinstatement of that has been provided to the world anti-doping agency says ring and able to experts who provided convincing on says unfortunately they haven't responded has time to appeal initially when we handed

over the database we said let's investigate the database together so that we can make a full decision we wanted to have a kind of mechanism if we don't want to be objective decision let's do it like this was saddam has all the necessary opportunities he could have taken a different approach from whichever side you look at it monday's decision by water looks like a vocal and very harsh indictment of the russian sports it might. shock waves and reverberations in the country sport for many years to come but it might actually be the beginning of a new struggle of a new battle the legal one when russia takes its case to cast the court of arbitration for sports in laws on switzerland and we are expecting this to be made quite quickly before the end of this year where the decision was balanced on the basis of the proofs i have my doubts here because what is not clear to me is how they did find out that there should be many

felician on the russians who is guaranteeing that data's from the restall blow were were not money fully that it causes a reputational damage to the russians board because everybody is now thinking that the russian at least or although purse which is of course not true and. put only on russia we all know a lot of the open cases or coming also from all the nationalities clits and that means. now actually easily to beat one side. that's a global news break down for this hour thanks for tuning in. max

kaiser this is the kaiser report to globalization big dollars ation you know it's happening as the world is kind of drifting apart in a lot of different ways we look into it because there's an economic force behind it as always stays max santa claus is coming soon so you know what that means it's a season of make believe that some fat guy is going to fly around the world on a with a reindeer is them put some presents down our chimneys and make believe is becoming very real i notice around the world. we have now in the past week or 2

you know down trump has said that argentina and brazil where we're going next week that they have their currency manipulator and so he slapped some tariffs on their steel and aluminum or as the brits like to pretend it's pronounced alan many m they've some tariffs on that at a minimum that not english they can't talk good right so this tit for tat tariffs and it claims that there's a currency problem you know that the currency that they're driving their currency lower there is a dig dollars ation going on there's a currency crisis happening all over the world currencies are in massive flux massive volatility argentina and other countries are trying to grapple with the fact that the world is moving away from us dollar reserve reserve currency and the idea that the u.s. is going to tear of son only encourages more to it for tat trump also said he's

looking for the federal reserve to take interest rates negative which is confiscation by any other means member back in the thirty's the u.s. confiscated gold trump is into confiscating people savings right out of their account just taking it from their accounts using. negative rates well the notion that argentina one of the currency to collapse by over 50 percent when they just took out a $5060000000000.00 loan from the i m f in u.s. dollars not in their peso is absurd because that doubles the size of it in real terms for them and terms of how much they now have to pay back so he's just basically punishing somebody who's already in a precarious situation speaking of precarious situations a negative rates here is the headline where the real you know we've had make believe for so long and that it's becoming more and more real that we're all just going to get lumps of coal the dallas fed president believes ballooning debt could suddenly be.