was. it was. president trump says he looks forward to more dialogue with russia after meeting foreign minister sergey lavrov at the white house nuclear arms reduction was a key focus of those colds. meanwhile as democrats go all in on impeachment the u.s. president claims the russian collusion case was also an attempt to overthrow him plus. the. protesters in france take a stand against pension reforms ahead of a speech by the prime minister on bus issue.

life most scarce today where it's currently just a minute past 4 in the morning this is international welcome to the program now in a rare visit to the u.s. the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has held talks with president trump and secretary of state mike pompei or so will trump described the talks is very good and said he wants more dialogue with russia. just had a very good meeting with foreign minister sergey lavrov and representatives of russia discussed many items including trade iran north korea i n f treaty nuclear arms control and election meddling look forward to continuing the dialogue in the near future from the outset it became clear how much room for improvement there is in the relations between russia and the united states for instance one of the cases election meddling the secretary of state might pompei as being very adamant that any interference in america's relations is unacceptable by a foreign power to which russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov stressed that all

such accusations still exist in the realm of speculation. it was for meddling or not is suggested to simply read the movie report we read it there is no proof of any collusion. also has repeatedly said that russia is ready to release whole transcript as to what was said by the russians and by the members of the trump team via a special communication channel that had been established back in 2618 but according to the russian foreign minister those attempts to make those transcripts see the light of day have so far been stopped by the trumpet ministration. to do the ration of donald trump which suggested our colleagues to dispel all baseless suspicions let us publish that close channel correspondent starting from october 26th seen 2 nov 27th seen so it would become all very clear to people unfortunately

the current administration refused to do so. we all ready to publish that correspondence and over he talked about that. nationalism and our suggestion is to publish i repeated for a 4th time to publish that data that would show how russia responded to the special channel which was designed for reviewing threats also i've been it work. another bone of contention between russia and the united states is the i.m.f. or rather the absence of the deal now and both parties of both ministers have kind of clashed as to how they see the moving forward for instance the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has again said that we could use that the countries could use the start treaty that had been signed back in 2010 but might bump a 0 has voiced his concerns and has made it clear what the united states don't like about that deal it can't be the case that that can be the sole focus that's agreement that was entered into many years ago when powers were very different on

a relative basis around the globe. it was at a time that the weapons systems the threats were very different than they are today to the risks to strategic instability today are different it's no longer just missiles just bombers just submarines just warheads there are many other tools which can create strategic instability so we believe not only do the conversations need to be broadened to include the chinese communist party as you study this russian president spoke again about russia's preparedness to run them agree on its extension to alleviate the tension for the global community instruments of ohms control between the u.s. and russia will not be destroyed the simply not enforced we're prepared to do that even today on the other hand circular labral has reiterated that russia has been making unilateral steps of good faith for instance the russian president had previously said that russia wasn't going to deploy any weapons that had been banned under the i.n.f. treaty in europe unless washington or its allies decide to do that 1st but it

wasn't all negative there are some points where russia and the united states do see eye to eye on where they do see each other as valuable partners syria afghanistan north korea all those aspects all those political crises see russia and the united states working together. both countries it seemed did their best both ministers at least did their best to try and move that train for what as much as they could. of a genius state senator richard black thinks the russian foreign ministry to washington comes at a particularly difficult time for president trump keep in mind that. all of this is taking place with the backdrop of the impeachment hearings and it has been one of the strategies of the administration to appear to be as tough with russia as possible and it's very unfortunate but that's just the the domestic

policy ramifications of this there's only so long that you can continue talking about russian meddling and so far the only evidence that i've seen is that there were $100000.00 in facebook ads that were placed some of them for hillary clinton some of them for trump and they were placed out of russia well i'm going to tell you $100000.00 did not buy you a drop in the ocean in terms of facebook ads so. the democrats will continue to insist that the russians meddled the republicans are and condensed i don't think i don't think it's an issue that's particularly relevant to the american people. but in the meantime the democrats in congress have revealed that articles of impeachment against president trump. and has more on the

reaction and the timing of those accusations. meeting has taken place between the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and us president donald trump and it just so happens that this meeting is taking place on the very day that articles of impeachment have been drawn up against the american president the 1st article is for abuse of power it is an impeachable offense 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 now this is not the 1st attempt to bring charges against donald trump the bob muller investigation alleging that donald trump had colluded with russia failed to bring any charges against u.s. president trump so now articles of impeachment have been drawn up against donald trump over a phone call he had with the ukrainian leader and allegations that he obstructed the congressional investigation into that phone call now despite the fact that the

russian investigation has concluded that didn't stop democrats from speaking up regarding today's meeting trump is meeting with russia's foreign minister in the oval office again on this he's invited in towns last time they laughed about troops firing of komi today they can celebrate the success of russian propaganda reagan wouldn't recognize this g.o.p. trump lead rope and compare our meeting in bing this afternoon what conspiracy are they cooking up today. now the foreign minister of russia gave his reaction to these words from american media and political figures congress or congress seems to have been captured by a desire to destroy us russian relations to splurge and sue if adam schiff describes normal bilateral contacts between countries in particular the reception of a foreign minister one country by the president of another country as a triumph of russian diplomacy and then that's just absurd. this is somewhat of

a pattern whenever a high level meeting takes place but it seems that it's followed by a harsh attacks on the president and accusations of some kind of inappropriate relationship between trump and russia the most extreme example was after the meeting between trump and putin that took place in 2017 former cia director john brennan was among the 1st to float the d. word treason officials and pundits even begin speculating whether russia had something on trump that would cause him to so publicly side with putin those harsh words related mainly to the investigation conducted by bob muller regarding allegations of collusion now interestingly a new report has just been released regarding how that investigation was carried out the new report seems to indicate that the f.b.i. made great errors and how they what about investigating donald trump during this this probe into alleged collusion donald trump spoke critically of the f.b.i. and pointed toward the report the report actually in especially when you look into

it in the details of the report are far worse than anything i would have even imagine. what they were doing and what they would have. invited make a certain a certain move that was a very important move because it would have been even worse if that's possible and they might have been able to succeed this was an overthrow of a government this was an attempted overthrow of the meeting focused on nuclear nonproliferation as well as other international issues but it appears. that negotiations and moving forward on these vital international matters is being held back by some internal turmoil within the united states of america where we discuss the latest steps in the impeachment process with legal analyst jennifer the monster the democrats have absolutely no desire to solve the problems for the america and for the world they had one desire and that was to vilify and demonize donald trump the president and states and to use russia to do that they use russia as their own

unwitting pawn to say this country is evil and trump worked with them and that is why it must be stopped but they cannot let it go it is like a child that wants a cookie before dinner time if the parent says no you can't have that the child just sits and cries and all they want is a cookie even after their dinner is served and they could have a cookie afterwards they still want to cry and pound their feet and their fists into the table that's what the democrats look like now to the world is that all they want to do is pound their fists and the table in order to remove donald trump as the president and that's the scariest part because they're not trying to do anything on behalf of the american people besides creating these lies and these false narratives and this is true when we see 2 leaders even leaders of countries that haven't always been friends with russia in the united states we've had issues but the main way to move forward to move out of that is to try to work together even if they're talking about important topics that hey look we're going to say russia the united states are still kind of it odds on some areas but there are some areas that we're working together on finally that's

a good thing for the world. it gives president plans to overhaul the pension system more than a dozen arrests have been made and in recent days the country seemed bond of protests in a number of cities with more from the french capital his. 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 it now says their final plans for pension reform in france although we did hear from the country's prime minister that for them for now there is no intention to change their plans if we don't make serious profound and progressive reforms date someone else will make a 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 orange and 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 son like that has already been facing that at one point almost 85 percent of the railway staff members white rice said this really caused the country's transport system. to study about iran and world war i can tell you that the professions range from air traffic controllers to actually police officers and lawyers so this is just how

vast it is. 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 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 over but this comes soon may be. everybody those do not come here to prove money 1st but the reforms we impart to everybody see idea for the pension reform is to introduce a universal point system we're told make the pension sums universal for different layers of the society but some of them in france do fear that

they will lose their privileges they want to give us a time to fool all the systems you have every. dollar you forms but all much. so with brings you a point never knows where now this is. it's 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. russian athletes have condemned the 4 year ban imposed by the world anti-doping agency will have that story and more after this short break. impeachment mania has dives drawn on both sides of the political divide the i.g. report clearly demonstrates the f.b.i. abused its powers when targeting trump the world the judiciary committee is hell

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russian athletes have expressed anger and frustration over the country's exclusion from all major world torments for the next 4 years and that decision was made by the world on to dipping agency water while the took that step after it ruled moscow had tampered with a drug test database and while clean athletes will still be able to compete they'll be forced to do so under a neutral flag russian officials however all prohibited from attending major events while the country would be allowed to host any tournament's the list of doors now. slam shut in russia space is extensive it includes the olympic and paralympic games in tokyo in 2020 and football's fee for world cup and cat are 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 we heard from long distance way about marco hendricks he believes the doping

a best occasions have been unfairly focused on russia. the russian flag behind me that's a symbol of solidarity of support for russian athletes what's important is that russian athletes should know that they're not alone and in international sport too there are a lot of athletes who are standing on the side of the russian federation there are a lot of germans who say it's all a political case since relations between russia and the west soured there have been investigations almost exclusively into doping in russia i see a methodology behind this it's no coincidence i see it as a government order to present russia in their beauty of light and athlete who has indeed used doping should be banned no question for those who haven't should have the right to take part in competitions only equal footing with all the other nations without restrictions when you're at the starting line together with all the others say americans chinese germans french are all flying their flags but you're being singled out as the bad russia who doesn't have this right this animosity towards this athlete this animosity and this alienation put enormous pressure and to start to swim to run under such pressure is not exactly an easy task or water

has given the russian anti-doping agency $21.00 days to decide if it wants to appeal and if it helps to do so the case will be taken to the court of arbitration for sport. breaks down the wada ruling for us. imagine a person that robs a bank steals let's say a $1000000.00 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 imprisoned 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 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 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 you 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 it comes sanction russian politicians rule it can do sanction resettling and take actions relative to schools so it's come up with this

international standard to code compliance or signatories which is used to sanction russia this time round. on top of everything it seems that water's 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 2. is again within the competence of your for 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 cast 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 elim big 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 called insists that all the information for the reinstatement of has been provided to the world anti-doping agency. experts who provided convincing on says unfortunately they haven't heard us resign or 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 object of 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 russian sports it might. send 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 and 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 people asian on the russians who is guaranteeing that data's from the restall blower were not money police that it causes a reputational damage to russians board because everybody is now

thinking that the russian at least or all daughters which is of course not true and . put only on russia we all know a lot of doping cases are coming also from all the nationality clits and that means. now actually easily to beat one side that. another news this hour russian forces have entered the syrian city of raka better known as islamic states former capital the troops delivered food aid to locals and they also brought in medical personnel to help those still living there it comes to months after the sudden withdrawal of u.s. armed forces from the area contributed 3 al monitor a new side alley where it's believed a lack of strategies one of the reasons that led to that u.s. withdrawal. i think that now the situation in the uk is going to improve because you do have players are entering who have a clearly. clear strategy so they have

a you know they have a clear strategy put in place the problem with the other states. was it they had never had a clear strategy you know and there's confusion between it so it speaks about fighting our sources speaks about fighting iran and iran and isis and i mean so i would describe the u.s. policy in syria and for that matter in the wider region as being confused and when you have a confused policy that tennis through to make the situation not very stable in the ground russia on the other hand has a clear sort of goals a clear sort of policy and so that's why i think the more russia comes into the picture in places like cook and elsewhere the more that will contribute to stabilizing the situation. well as you update you now will be back here at the top of the hour with more news from around the world see that.

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impeachment mania has died drawn on both sides of the political divide the i.g. report clearly demonstrates the f.b.i. a big. used its powers when targeting trump world the judiciary committee is hell bent on impeachment articles ideological obsession is the name of the game. ross talking impeachment i'm joined by my guest graham elwood in los angeles he's a regular on the jimmy doris show as well as host of the political. you tube in palm beach we have current turks she is a t.v. and radio host and in chattanooga we crossed to brian joyce he is the host of the brian joe show aren't cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate card let me go to you 1st in palm beach i'm going to date myself with my 1st question to everyone here i remember very clearly the watergate hearings i played hooky from school pretended i was sick and i would

watch it on a little tiny black and white t.v. watching the hearings peter regino i remember him very carefully and it was world historic and then we all remember bill clinton and certain things like blue dresses and stuff like that and the reason why i bring up those 2 examples because there were facts facts that everyone agreed to facts that were dealt with obstruction and other crimes high crimes and misdemeanors by the way so i was watching jerry nad lawyer and unfortunately a week before that adam shift and i think i'm kind of a normal pretty smart guy you know i like politics always have i don't understand what's going on here what are these hearings about why are lawyers interviewing lawyers where are fact witnesses ok and i'm not god i'm not taking a partisan side here i'm looking at the process here i don't understand the process caryn go ahead in palm beach. i think most of america doesn't.