russian dead.lls. these are children. mass murdered by orders of the high command. and there were other children, perhaps more fortunate, perhaps less. young girls, if not young now, the intentions of the nazi soldiers aged them very quickly. whoever resisted the invaders met with this. these are the things the russians can never forget. these are the things the russians will never forget. these are the reasons why every russian pledged his life to uphold this sacred oath. >> blood for blood. death for death. ♪ that is the reason the russians smashed on, deeper and deeper along the entire front from roskov to leningrad. nowhere for the tide of russian pressure to stop. and by spring of 1942, this area was delivered from the germans. but this was not the important result. not for this town village was retaken but that the whole legend of nazi invincebility had been shattered. german armies could retreat, too. german armies could be defeated. german troops could be captured. besides this crushing off

now, to russian journalists discuss the relationship between the russian government and russian media. this is about an hour and 40 minutes. >> thank you very much everyone for joining us today. can you hear me in the back? for joiningry much us today. i am call saunders, executive director of the center for national interest. we appreciate everyone being with us for this discussion of the russian state and the russian media. hasu.s.-russia relationship obviously did terrier rated sharply over the last two years and particularly over the last several months, with a variety of causes and precipitating events. beenat context, there has increasing attention certainly in the united states and other western countries to the russian media. both in the role of russian in what iide russia think many in the west at this point would call russian propaganda. but also in the role of the russian media inside the country. and its role in shaping public opinion, in mobilizing political support. element ofhat latter this question that i hope we will focus on today. we are very pleased to have two spe

we are sure it is the russians. second question asked his, tell me how you will keep this from escalating out of control? that one is some risk. the president of russia, perhaps not one of your more stable actors, although certainly better than kim of north korea. he could do something violent or unpleasant in response. the samebound by constraints. they are careful to do something that is both supported by fact and yet does not lead to a greater conflict. mark: our concern as journalists is not so much the law, is it legal? our concern, much more importantly, is it real? again, the united states government has tried to put out stories saying be very careful. they could be fake documents. that is entirely true. there could be fake documents planted by russia or assange. in terms of the wikileaks stuff, it's all real. james: this is a russian tactic amend documents but there appears to be no evidence so far. mark: it has been suggested that maybe what we are seeing is just selective and that there is other stuff in t

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the russians, the point of the book the russians take the near abroad much more seriously than we do. missiles in cuba or russians in cuba, you remember the cuban brigade in '78 or '79. the fallout, it was about that time and whether it was georgia, moldova, all of them together, it was a clear turning point in what had been in my perception on the ground out there for my own fox hole of a russia that we were able to cooperate with on some -- at some point or on some things and russia that was more suspicious and less willing to let westerners of various sort,, sorts in. the attitude whether this is accurate or not but certainly as week later, ivanov schemed at us, stating when you intervene in the balkins we didn't like it but didn't stop it and we get an agreement, settlement in our area and you wreck it and things went downhill from that time. but, you know, as you pointed out, they go up and they go down again. they go up again and go down d again but they remember it farup more than we do because it is really in their backyard. the position of kazak was equivalent to steve, so yo

but they also think russian. and they didn't feel comfortable to live in a country that has taken away from the government that is taken away from them. ability to preserve the identity to leave no apart as russian and next in ukraine. so the was decision made by them, and one has to remember, made by them that we embraced immediately your when it comes to minorities, i think as ukrainian are connected with ukraine, yourself, you might compare the conditions in which all the minority can exercise their national identity in crimea with that, that existed in the ukrainian time, including those that were created for this, including the equality of the languages to be used in crimea. there are three russian ukrainian and tatars. so i think that the rights of those who live there are protected significantly better than anything that they had no prior to that. what is the most important, same right as anybody in russian federation. >> yes. please wait for the mic make. >> thank you, mr. ambassador. my name is chris bar

i was astonished he interviews lots of russians that near the top of the list of russian complaints about the bush administration was the memorandum. i could ask for a show of hands of how many people know what it is. but it was an effort about armed forces and the russians were bitter by the way the bush administration handled that. and the decision to deploy missile defenses in poland and supporting the georgian government and it's actually much more complex than that and an important part of the puzzle is the memorandum believe it or not. and i think it became difficult to maintain that momentum and it had a lot to do with president putin and his effort to return russia to something like the role played in the past. maybe i'll stop there. >> thank you. do you want to take up the story? >> sure. we'll save the memorandum for the q and a. if you look at how arms control has played in the obama administration and it's relationship with russia over the last 8 years i guess i'd say there were three phases and the first phase was the reset from 2009 to 2011 and it was pretty clear that when

-- of russian people. in other words, the major -- the main message of my report was that although you are invited to vote for united russia do not be surprised because of your vote criminals are going to come to power. the idea of the split among elites is quite clear just for me. though i don't believe that neither me nor my fellow colleagues from the opposition movement are able to make a difference in this interelite processes. the split among putin's establishment can happen only due to objective reasons. and i can see the -- those reasons are taking shape now. because if you remember in the first stage of his rule, in the first phase of his rule, putin positioned himself as the person who was securing the interests of the russian oligarchs and high level officials. and today, putin's policies have harmed us -- those interests. basically, what is the nature of the oligarchs? they prefer to steal money in russia and spend them overseas. and as a result of putin's adventures in ukraine and syria, very o

-russian issue. so in 2010 yet a nato-russian summit. the agreed let's see if we can come up with a cooperative nato-russia defense. in early 2011 what it heard from both american and russian was there's a lot of convergence in thinking. agreed, there can't be a single system because nader does a lot of work for russia and russia doesn't work for nato. central command centers. what would be at data fusion center, we take early warning data from nato senses and from russian sensors, bring it, combined and enhanced back to both sides. the second center, and operations in which the threat to europe and how do you do with it. but the russians begin talking about they wanted a legal guarantee, a treaty that american missile defenses would not be going, oriented against russian strategic forces. they said it has to objective criteria. when you have that, limits on numbers, velocities, locations. it was the resurrection of the abm treaty. the obama administration didn't even pursue that, recognizing was no chance that treaty would not have cons

they monitor russian activity. and then when they see it coming in, they -- usually, i'm a little surprised at that. i think the victim not knowing for months is, that's common place. but normally the fbi's pretty straightforward. i know that they were very explicit in briefings to the hill some months ago. so why the delay? they may not have known. >> i mean, it's clear to me that what i told you i is true, the reasons behind it, i think have to do with sources and methods. it's absolutely clear to me because i've spoken to the democratic who actually directly dealt with them. they were confused for several months as to what this was about. >> guest: it's not that unusual because the russians hacked into both campaigns in both 2012 and 2008. what's different time is the release of the data. before they took e-mail donor lists, campaign strategy, opponent research. this is the third time they've done that. what's different now is the overt political use. >> host: but i don't mean to beat this, but, mr. lewis, you s

be influenced into my mind in the russian media intpra fracture is russian media constrain constraints. we can say it could be a persecution from the government. but we cannot deny that just many newspapers and many tv channels didn't have enough money. and now we see this week we have one more develop in the news. one of our best channels, life news, it was dissolved. and it was dissolved because they don't have enough money. they really sometimes it was positions that could be in the opposition to government. . the social aspects. sometimes we have the lack of economic news, social news. news, for example, about the hospitals and the quality of the news about the education and actually connected to the foreign affairs, the high politics. so this is our problem, the second problem in our constraints. between the government and the state media, i have to tell one thing. every week, we from the state media. not only we. we also have the echo of moscow, the liberal radio station which goes there. i won't tell where. as well. so every week we have the meeting at the government. so the chi

-russian relationship.with the arms control issues that are issues that contribute to that relationship. what happens if the russians and then the i nf treaty and it is dead? >> >> yes. therefore these tests are illegal. and certainly holding up that option. and with that bush administration they are unhappy with the treaty. mendoza of a certain range. with united states and russia china is said north korea isn't. so if you are russia in your purse for a is the missiles that are deploying. how are we supposed to respond to this from a different time? and that is pretty far away. i guess relations are how much patience would they have. and then some point the russians will point out. in serious and that was then taking steps and let's not do a favor so on the position was a yesterday? they took their head on that and let them know that decision and then should they deploy those missiles be. we anti-bien respect that decision. of a we should make it easier for the russians with those i enough range missiles a

with the russian russians those that would even solicit with those events happening. and afterwards when the edward snowden was stuck in the russian airport and we had no legal reasons that all to give him to the government of the united states. for the very simple reason we do not have that agreement for mutual extradition because they refuse to have won with less. and as they chose to cancel the russian president. and those things that lead to the situation in the ukraine with the forceful overthrow supported by the united states and we did not. we had dash huge disagreement to build a national unity that was in position. hopes so we have pressure for what we could not accept. to have significant disagreements on crimea. with the of willingness of the people to choose. and as an instrument of pressure. and as if i am properly asked. it is important to understand how things are developing now having said that i would not comment on the u.s. elections plan will make one small exception that we are very disappointed about the rhetoric about pressurized that is embedded

he went to the russian academy of sciences. there are many tell you a little bit about his early experience with trying to create a game on his very primitive computers that he have which were basically russian knockoff of american computers from ten or 15 years before. it was artificial intelligence, voice-recognition, things, things that people still struggle with today but his passion was re-creating puzzles. he had the idea of re-creating game experiences on the other machines he worked on and he found inspiration in the isle of children's world. the most famous toy store in moscow. it's been a landmark for decades. has breathtaking stone arches and just a short distance from kgb headquarters. when he searched the store shelves, something familiar caught his eye. it was a set of puzzle pieces. before he knew knew it the set had made his way into his hands and soon sat on his desk at the academy of sciences. he spent hours putting the pieces together trying to bridge the connection between the simple geometric design and the

and they also feel russian and think russian. they didn't feel comfortable to leave a country that has taken away from them, the ability to preserve the identity,. [inaudible] there was a decision made by them as we embraced. when it comes to minorities, i think as being connected with ukraine, you might compare the conditions in a way which only minorities can emphasize the national identity in crimea that exist, including the languages to be used in crimea. think the rights of those are protected significantly better than anything they have known prior to that. they have the same rights as anybody in russia that are it. >> please wait for the microphone. >> thank you mr. investor. my name is chris barnes and i actually just started studying the russian language for the first time, but i can't say anything yet with confidence. >> on your next visit. >> earlier this year, former chairman of the senate armed services committee, sam nunn gave a lecture in which he declared that with the recent deterioration of u.s. russia relations

according to a russian news organization, they have sort of taken the best of recent hacks. one involved her wall street speeches. a january 2016 e-mail detailed how she boasted of her great relationships with bankers in october 2013 speech, she spoke of how more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we do not kill or maim what works. but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here on wall street. many e-mails involved some of these paid speeches she has given to wall street groups, something her opponents were calling for the release. how big an impact is this making? guest: the first impact these e-mails are having, they have not been confirmed. the clinton campaign has been very explicit that they will not comment on the authenticity of stolen material. while they are largely being treated as accurate given that the clinton campaign is not saying this is false, that is an important distinction. with regards to the content about wall street that is in this

but a russian network to say the ongoing traffic. you could monitor with the help of nsa some domestic networks to see if they were hacked but it is hard to explain in the open and setting but if you knew what they russian attack looks like you could look for that attack on the network then trace that back. >> if you weeks ago there was a story in the new york times of a young man who has a set of servers in his office and was very open. >> is like a switchboard. >> the dutch or you name it. he is just the mailbox. >> does a lot of traffic going through a camera this type of traffic quick. >> the russians are good. that use multiple individuals like that around the world that they have used in the past and that was one thing that appointed them to be responsible this time is that, they do not call themselves fuzzy bear. that is something that was made up but i cannot imagine these guys to say they have the names fuzzy bear but they do have units and a collection program with the global scope that goes after politicians that emanates

we look at how russians are respond i responding. >> this is a video made by the russian government to promote the new law. >> following the enactment of the far east one hectare law, all russian citizens will be able to receive one hectare of land in the far east, free of charge. current residents of the far east can make applications from june 1st. applications can only be made in pilot districts. from february 1st, 2017, all russian citizens will be able to apply. application procedures can be completed online. if you access the site you can select a plot and apply. if you cannot use the internet, you can also apply by post. >> the government has selected nine areas of the far east region to pilot the scheme. one of them is the district of hanga. around 200 kilometers north of vladivostok. most people here are farmers, but their numbers are dwindling fast. the population stands at 22,000. that's down 20% from 10 years ago. we're in the village here at the district office people can apply for land under the far east one hectare law. staff tell us many people who come asking about fre

russian --from our the russian president's spokesperson. comments online. again, the question we are asking is the u.s. is considering cyber attacks against russia -- our phone lines are open. democrats, [indiscernible] -- (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. about is also writing this. the kremlin slamming the white house. vice president biden's remarks were denounced. moscow said it would safeguard interests in the face of unpredictability and aggressiveness. john is joining us on the democrat's line. caller: good morning, thanks for accepting my call. i'm a disabled veteran. i think this thing with russia, it is obvious to a blind man that russia is behind this and every time donald trump is presented with this he says, we don't know, it could be some that guy. we need to see his taxes. he has some types of ties to russia. he has too many people in his campaign affiliated with russia. enough is enough. his supporters keep coming up with far-fetched accusations against hillary and bill clinton. this is really getting

-russian issue. at the end of 2010 you had a nato-russian summit.ey met with nato leaders and agreed, let's eat we can come up with a cooperative nato-russian defense. in early 2000 water from both american and russian participants was there's a lot of winking. they agreed, there can be a single system because nader doesn't want with russia and russia doesn't work for nato but get to system that would interact jointly command center. what would be a david fusion center? we take early warning data from nato, centers and from russian census, bringing together can combined and it would be and as project back to both sides? the second center, talked about the threat to europe and had to deal with it? kind of impaled with a, the russians begin talking about they want a legal guarantee, a treaty that american missile defense would not be going against russian strategic forces. then they said it has to have criteria. las.. arms-control begins to drift a bit. you see the russians to bring other questions. we can talk about nuclear reductions but there has t

-russian relations. our bipartisan efforts to integrate russia as a free market democracy, developing a new approach should be one of the priorities of the next administration. mine three points. first, the world today is radically different from the one we faced twice five years ago. the global balance of power is shifting from europe to asia. new technologies are diffusing power and changing the way societies interact. in our interconnected world, it is beyond us, even in combination with allies, to isolate another major power. second, russia may be in a prolonged period of stagnation, but for any purpose and time span that makes sense for policymaking, it will remain a significant power. it has a world-class diplomatic port, talented scientific community, and capable military. arsenal and vast resources and its location in the heart of eurasia makes it a and an issue of importance in the united states, europe, the middle east, east asia, and the arctic. third, russia opposes the united states across a

russian is my mother tongue.orter: to become a latvian citizen, beata first had to pass a language test. this, even though she was born here. naturalization laws stipulate that you have to prove that you can speak latvian. it's the official language here. her prices also have to be listed in latvian. >> it's still a psychological problem for my mother's generation because throughout her life, she's hardly spoken any latvian. for many people, it's still like a foreign language. reporter: many of the inhabitants of the high-rise blocks on the outskirts of riga are of russian origin. and many are unhappy with the situation in today's latvia. sergey tyulemin is one of them. he vents his anger by drawing cartoons. for many years, he worked for russian-language newspapers. now he's a pensioner and has to survive on less than 200 euros a month. tjulemin is not a latvian citizen. for him, the idea of having to take a language test is humiliating. after all, he's lived here since he was a child. >> if i took this latvian

now is proud of his russian heritage. he is really number one star russian programmer.that was great. it's really interesting. how did he come to be, i remember playing it mostly on game boy and mostly because it came free with your game boy. how did it come to become free on the game boy and did anyone ever get paid for that. >> that's a great example of what we call the killer rat, the the match of the perfect hardware and software. it was like a secret r&d project at nintendo for years. hank rogers actually went and talked to them and said, i know you're working on the secret project. instead of putting on mario or something like that, that's great, but only, but only kids who like mario are going to buy it. what you put this game that i'm working on a computer version of for the japanese market. it's kind of a risk, i know that, but trust me on this. everyone eventually bought into the idea and that's part of the whole race to moscow for the handheld rights for that game. there's a lot of fights about money in the book. eventually the russians did get a lot of the m

have the russians ever tried to interfere in our elections?, to me, it seems pretty unare precedented. i mean they have always wanted to have some propaganda effect, but this is going to take it to a whole new level. >> the obama clinton argument is that donald trump is too close tho the russians and that he emulates them based on the comments that he has made and something disturbing about that, and we have seen the problems with the red baiting throughout our history and the idea that because of a view that you have politically and foreign policy or otherwise that you are associated with the enemy. this is obama basically saying that the trump idolizing trump. let's listen. >> if you have made a career of idolizing ronald reagan, where were when you your party's nominee was kissing up to vladimir putin the former kgb offic officer. >> and two piece, and one on the foreign policy, and barack obama ran with warming relations with iran and cuba and also places with bad leaders more or less, but he had a vision for, that and there is nothing aut

/russian agenda. if you got back to some kind of a dialogue between the united states and russia on arms control, if you wanted to move forward, you'd have to reconcile what are two very different approaches on what has been in the last eight years an american desire move to further reductions and also bring in nonstrategic nuclear weapons. there may be ways to bridge those differences. it will take quite a bit of work. >> university of washington. i was fascinating by the way you talked about how negotiation and enthusiasm and that element affect negotiations. i would like you to reflect a little more on the moment of unilateralism at this period of time. and unilaterally the united states decides one thing and the way you narrate it is the russians come and put it in a treaty, please, treat us as equal almost. and somehow there is a change in the context in moscow. the national context in moscow. there is more aggression moving forward. if you can piece these two episodes together, do you see that's

this is another diversion of the democrats to say it was the russians.me the proof that it is the russians, and not somebody from within. >> brad is a really good friend. but i asked brad this one question. if julian assange wasn't a criminal of the developed world, why is he living in the basement of the ecuadorian embassy seeking asylum. the fact that he's being aided by the russians makes this case uniquely worse. why is he living in the basement of the ecuadorian embassy. >> i i have no idea. >> because it's evading justice. >> and that may be true. but that doesn't make the release false. >> the fact that's the republican party and donald trump claim to be the law and order party, and the law and order candidate, why are they not look for law and order against wikileaks and julian assange who are enemies of this country. i repeat that. jon: i know how chris wallace felt at times last night. let's get to the comments donna brazile made. she was on with megan kelly after the debate. there are documents from the wikileaks emails that say she handled de

foreign minister is holding a one-on-one meeting with russian officials. both iran and russia being key financial and military supporters of syria's president, bashar al-assad. let's hear with the two men had to say. to reinstate the cease-fire in aleppo and the surrounding area. but only if we get guarantees that people will be able to benefit from it. >> i am pleased that in recent years, the relations between the islamic public of iran and the russian federation, two good neighbors and key players in the region, have made a lot of positive progress. annette: let's get more now from .homas lowe what has come out of all of these meetings? thomas: they have come out of the first one. there is a second want to go. that will be between the foreign ministers of russia and iran. we had a snippet there. really, the syrian foreign minister is thanking copiously russia oath before and after the meeting for its continued support in syria. without russia's military and political support, it is unlikely the russian regime regimetill be in -- the of bashar al-assad w

they monitor russian activity. when they see it coming in, usually i'm a little surprised that that. i think the victim not know them for months, that's, place. normally the got is pretty straightforward. i know that they were very explicit in briefings to the hill some months ago. so why the delay, they may not have known. >> it's good to me what i told is too big reason behind it has to do with sources. it's clear to me. i spoken to the democratic people who directed up with them and they said they did not tell us. in fact, they said we were very confused for several months as to what this is all about. >> guest: it's not that unusual because the russians that into both campaigns in both 2012 and 2008. what's different this time is the release of the data. before they took e-mail, donor lists, campaign strategy, a point research. this is the third time they've done that. what's different now is the overt political use. >> host: i don't mean to be this but you said the fbi has come to csis and said hey, you have b

connection to the russians.ll good questions, all valid points, but completely beside the point, to the really mounting pile of dirty laundry that we see in these e-mails. notably, they do not dispute the authenticity of these e-mails. they simply won't confirm it. >> anne, it's interesting to point out today that donald trump again went out and sang donald trump's praises on the campaign trail, giving the clinton campaign a little bit of a gift there. at what extent is campaign full yay aware? have they begun through all of the e-mails, know whag assange has so they can be prepared? >> well, god, you'd ophope so, right? just to know what the potential trove is that's out there. one thing we really don't know from the outside is exactly when it was clear to the campaign that this material had been stolen and exactly how much they knew about the size and scope of that theft. podesta, apparently, never deleted anything. he had many, many years of e-mails stored in his g-mail. so, with one -- apparently, one hack,

>> because the russian government changed its position two days ago.n five test votes since the -- since june, he got the most votes. but there was always one veto. the veto came from russia because russia had insisted there should be an eastern european, maybe a woman. russia gave this up. at the same time, the three very prominent leading women candidates were all receiving the nose -- vetoes. that made the way. chris: this unanimous support, even know it is after russia changed track, this unanimous support, is that a good sign, is a sign that perhaps more progress can be made for diplomatic process committee made the united nations next three months? >> i am skeptical. the unanimity you saw among presenting the results of the last vote is no indication that there might be any kind of agreement or at least compromise on the syria issue. he has much more profiled in the current secretary-general. he will be must -- much tougher. he will be more outspoken on violations, more demanding on the government doing more for refugees getting more money. but a

russian revenge. nbc news has learned the cia is poised for a major unprecedented operation, targeting covert plan to embarrass the russian. >>> also breaking, more accusers say they were sexually assaulted by donald trump, including a contestant from "the apprentice". >> he began my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively. >> trump calling his accusers liars looking for fame. >>> also a doctor's outrage. why an african american physician says a delta attendant barred her from passenger. >>> and young girls attacked in their beds. the fbi urging parents, lock your doors. "nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening. there will be no troop movements or a single shot fired, but nbc news has learned exclusively that the united states is poise said for an unprecedented response to its interference in the u.s. election. tonight, high level u.s. intelligence sources are describing to us details o

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what did the russians do? they bombed the oil supply. we have all this technology, 800 military bases over the world, and we could not stop isil and their oil supply, but the russians could? [indiscernible] give andrew parasiliti a chance to respond. guest: my reading of what is happening over the last 5.5 years, going on six in syria is that president obama has tried to steer a course that has kept the united states mostly out of the war. obviously, we have special forces on the ground, working with the groups that we support. this is a battlefield, no question about that. the obama administration has been cautious. i think, cautious with an eye towards what happened in iran. what have been the consequences in libya. and the difficulty in seeing a path in syria where the terrorist threat exists, and trying to bring the war to a close. i don't see what the u.s. government, and what the obama administration has done until this being one that looks to point, escalate syria. i think the obama administration wary of cautious and escalation,

call russian propaganda. but also in the role of the russian media inside the countries. and it's role in shaping public opinion in mobilizing political support. and it's that latter element of this question that i hope will focus on today. we're very pleased to have two speakers -- each of whom is a russian journalist. to my right we have maria, a columnist for the russian newspap newspaper. it is a business-oriented paper that until relatively recently was published jointly with the financial times, the "wall street journal," and some russian participation. a new media log in russia caused the wall street journal and the financial times to sell their states. however, the paper still often challenges russian official policy and perspectives on a number of issues. and maria will speak first. to my left is anna, she is the international news chief with russia 24, which is a 24-hour news channel and is part of the complex russian state media enterprise. she is also worked in the past for ria, which many know is

the alliances that have russians and syrians have is not long-standing.hey are partnerships of convenience. sarah: that was our analyst at the brookings institute in doha speaking to us a little earlier. to iraq now. elephants have killed more than 230 people in mosul for refusing orders to be a part of a human shield. jihadists have kidnapped and moved them to's strategic sites. humanitarian organizations expect hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee as the offensive continues. a landmark agreement has created the world's largest mersey -- marine reserve off the coast of antarctica. conservationists say it is one of the most pristine environments left. >> it is one of the world's most pristine wildernesses. home to thousands of species. now over one million square kilometers in antarctica is a protected reserve. that is thanks to a historic agreement of 24 countries. negotiations have been going on for years with russia a longtime holdout. >> i've always had a view that it would be a miracle to get 25 countries to agree. this is the better deal than

russian people, russian holiday makers and british holiday makers both face the threats of being blown out of the sky by terrorists. we have things we must do together. we have common interests. but at the moment, the behavior of the russian government is making it very, very difficult for us to pursue those interests together. >> last word on this subject before i get on to syria. what effect do you think the sanctions are having on russia with regard to ukraine? >> well -- >> specifically, are they changing russian policy. >> no. i mean, the sanctions are biting, as i said. the russian economy has shrunk, i mean, the effects of the sanctions is hard to distinguish from the result of the collapse in the price of hydrocarbons, but there's no doubt that the sanctions have hurt russians and their ability to raise finance. we must continue that pressure. and it's not uncontroversial with our european friends. there are plenty of my fellowing foreign ministers in the e.u. who have told me privately they that they feel their economies are feeling the pressure of these sanctions because, aft

russian people. we are not hostile to russia. as a country. far from it. and i look at it further and say i don't believe that russia is as, for allity -- it is doing many, many terrible things as you rightly say. but i didn't think that russia today could be compared with the soviet union members and i didn't think that it was as much of a threat to the stability of the world as the former soviet union. i don't think it is entirely right to talk -- i think it is right to talk about a new cold war but it is obvious and you quickly list the ways in which russia is being reckless and aggressive. it is obvious that we have a serious problem. and our sanctions are biting. the russian economy shrank by i think almost 3.5% more last year. it is tough for people in russia but the regime seems determined to remain on its present course. i think we have to remain very, very tough. and it's the uk that is in the lead both in the u.n. security council, in drafting passion resolutions on rush why's behavior. it

speaker because everybody speaks in ukraine perfect russian but they also think russian and they didn't feel comfortable to leave in the country that has taken away from the government that has taken away from them. and the normal part of russian part that speaks in ukraine. there was a decision made by them that one has to remember and made by them as we have embraced immediately. when it comes to minorities i think as the they're connected with ukraine, and the national identity in crimea that existed in the ukrainian time including the equality of the languages to be used in crimea and there are three russian ukrainians. so i think that they they are protected specifically better than anything prior to that but what was the most important is they enjoy the same rights as anybody in the russian federation. >> yes. please wait for the mike. >> thank you. my name is chris barns. i can't say anything with confidence. >> your next visit. earlier this year, former chairman of the senate armed services committee sam young and it's the highest level since at least the end of the cold war. bu

the russian defense minister said air strikes against aleppo stop today. the so-called humanitarian pause is meant to allow the wounded and sick to be evacuated. elizabeth palmer reports from syria. >> reporter: as day begins in syrian soldiers and opposition fighters shoot at each other across a front line that runs right through the city center. soldiers offered to show us where rebels have manufactured one of their signature weapons. so this is an ordinary cooking gas canister, sawed in half. it's designed so that explosives would fit in the top part. perhaps shrapnel in the bottom and then it would be reassembled with these mick makeshift fins which would help to guide it like a very primitive rocket. the rockets were launched and aimed, sort of, through an ordinary piece of steel pipe. the syrian army has homemade arms too like the now infamous and imprecise barrel bomb. as for its precise weapons there aren't enough well-trained soldiers to use them accurately. largely stalled. here on the city's southern edge it's taken the army three months to adva

we were unprepared for russian we were unprepared for russian response.t a russian response, and we were caught flat-footed. that is for policymaking. that is what we need to we need to engage russia and have a better idea of what they are really thinking about, whether capabilities are, and fashioning a policy that gets us where we want to get. if not tomorrow, over time. mr. saunders: and it has been bad for us but also bad for ukraine, because we are in a situation where we made this commitment we are not likely to follow through on anytime soon. at the same time, ukraine has had crimea taken away, has been subject to this very brutal conflict. it has not worked well for either -- amb. volker: alina, david, this is an interesting point. mr. kramer: it might be nice, might be even right to say, yes, if georgia or ukraine wants to be a member of nato, but if we cannot follow through and our allies do not have the stamina to follow through and we know that russia is going to react, in this case dismembering ukraine, isn't that getting sort of not being pr

russian: television has been full of the story. news of boris johnson's verbal assaults in the comments on the russian bombing as well as his call for demonstrations outside the russian embassy in london. words asnounced his hysteria and used images from the archive to ridicule the foreign secretary. in london, jeremy corbyn mighted protesters equally go to the american embassy. that angered some labor mps. apart from one lone protester, there is no sign of protesters amassing outside of any of rush's embassy buildings -- russia's embassy buildings. western governments are all but impotent in the face of russian military action in syria. humanitarian appeals to stop the bombing of aleppo are having no effect. the you when headaches rebel -- the un predicts rebel held areas will be completely destroyed by the end of the year. inls of a no-fly zone are question. they say it risks direct confrontation between the u.s. and russia. a quarter of a million face death by starvation. 100,000 of them are children. the former british spy chie

russian revenge. nbc news has learned the cia is poised for a major unprecedented operation, targeting putin. tonight inside the covert plan to embarrass the russians. >>> also breaking, more accusers say they were sexually assaulted by donald trump, including a contestant from "the apprentice." >> he then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me very aggressively. >> trump calling his accusers liars looking for fame. >>> also a doctor's outrage. an onbarred emergency. why an african-american physician says a delta attendant barred her from helping a sick passenger. >>> and manhunt for a possible serial kidnapper on the loose. young girls attacked in their beds. right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening. there will be no troop movements or a single shot fired, but nbc news has learned exclusively that the united states is poised for an unprecedented retaliatory assault against russia, in response to its interference in the

russian people. we are not hostile to russia. as a country. far from it. and i look at it further and say i don't believe that russia is as, for all its -- it is doing many, many terrible things as you rightly say. but i didn't think that russia today could be compared with the soviet union members and i didn't think that it was as much of a threat to the stability of the world as the former soviet union. i don't think it is entirely right to talk -- i think it is right to talk about a new cold war but it is obvious and you correctly list the ways in which russia is being reckless and aggressive. it is obvious that we have a serious problem. and our sanctions are biting. the russian economy shrank by i think almost 3.5% more last year. it is tough for people in russia but the regime seems determined to remain on its present course. i think we have to remain very, very tough. and it's the uk that is in the lead both in the u.n. security council, in drafting and passing resolutionio resolutions on russ

jennifer paul mary was on msnbc today, and basically everything she said was, the russians, the russiansyou get the sense that they planned to keep that up as their answer for the next two weeks, or is something going to force their hand? anne: they don't think something has forced their hand yet. it certainly appears that with 12 days left, they think they can get it out by just continually saying, "this is stolen property, stolen by the and "has anybody taken a good hard look at donald trump's connection to the russians?" all valid points, but completely beside the wind compared to the mounting pile of dirty laundry that we see in these e-mails area -- in these e-mails. do not dispute the authenticity of the e-mails, they simply will not confirm it. john: it is interesting to point out that donald trump went out again and giving vladimir putin raise on the campaign drill, giving the clinton campaign a little bit of a gift. to what extent is the clinton campaign fully aware -- have they gone all the way through john podesta's gmail now so they know what assange has and they will be prep