now, moscow's relations with the us and the west are so bad that the russian prime minister dmitri medvedev of them as "ruined". that was after america's response to the recent chemical attack in syria. but even before that, there was the stand—off in ukraine, and accusations of russian interference in american elections. now there are fears the russians could meddle in the french elections and other european votes this year. my guest is vladimir chizhov, russia's ambassador to the eu. will russia promise not to pervert democracy in europe? vladimir chizhov, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. france's foreign minister jean—marc ayrault has accused russia of meddling in french democratic life. is that true? of course it's not. well, i'm afraid that this wave of anti—russian rhetoric has become contagious, and has spread across the atlantic ocean. that's very bad for our relations with our countries involved, but i think it's bad for those countries themselves, including their democratic procedures and processes. but the accusation is being levelled against russia for a reason. if we look at som

also, is it not confirmed, we know prime minister dmitry medvedev, has been suggesting this is a terror attack, has that been confirmed? they are at various stages of naming this a terror attack. the investigative committee has lost an investigation concerning the act of terror. the statement by prime minister is probably less formal. he posted on facebook saying he expresses his condolences to the victim of the terror attack, but none of the officials have actually spoken firmly, colin is an act of terror. it has to be said, this took place just after lunchtime. the casualty rate could have been even higher had it been any time during the rush hour. yes. st petersburg metro is usually very packed. the station where this happened serves a lot of learning institutions and there are lots of students at this station during the day. the casualty rate could have been much higher with every casualty is a tragedy. ten people confirmed dead. several of the people there are now critically wounded. the health authority is reporting. it may be that the death toll will go higher, at the moment, it

you quoted the russian prime minister dmitry medvedev, i've been doing this for two years, i don't remember soviet or post-soviet leader saying this, he said american russian relations are absolutely ruined, ruined. what is important is dmitry medvedev is considered to be the most pro-western member of the putin leadership. he's the guy that obama and clinton try to base the reset o on. your previous guest, i don't mean to be rude to him, but first of all he doesn't know what he's talking about, secondly, he excludes the reality that russia has a politics and the politics of russia today as we talk. the if not the conviction, the concern that america is preparing war against russia. if not in syria, then on the two other cold war fronts. ukraine or the baltic where nato is building up in an unprecedented way. russia is really, really wound tight and this is not good because they have nuclear weapons and because accidents happen. the one tiny piece of good news is that the new american secretary of state rex tillerson who has been slurred in this country as putin's friend because he made a w

also, is it not confirmed, we know prime minister dmitry medvedev, has been suggesting this is a terrorvarious stages of naming this a terror attack. the investigative committee has lost an investigation concerning the act of terror. the statement by prime minister is probably less formal. he posted on facebook saying he expresses his condolences to the victim of the terror attack, but none of the officials have actually spoken firmly, colin is an act of terror. it has to be said, this took place just after lunchtime. the casualty rate could have

the prime minister of russia, dmitry medvedev, is now saying this was a terrorist attack.has been a mixed bag across the uk as is often the case. lovely sunshine in much of england and wales. he is the view from london. we got to 18 degrees east of london and the pollen count was quite high in much of england. both the temperature and the pollen count because toward the north west we have cloud, that is a cold front, which will edge in and it will change the air. we will see more in atla ntic change the air. we will see more in atlantic air coming change the air. we will see more in atlantic aircoming in change the air. we will see more in atlantic air coming in for the next few days with limited cold. the pollen count will be back down to moderate levels. here is the weather front bringing grains tonight over england and wales and quite a lot of cloud, some of it quite low. that will help keep temperatures in comparison with last night whereas in scotland and northern ireland we have clearing skies and it would be chilly. it's the morning and in the south—west of england

prime minister dmitry medvedev has condemned the incident as a terrorist attack, but other possible causes are being investigated. the explosion happened in a train travelling between two stations. the blast coincided with a visit by president putin to the city. he is seen here laying flowers at a vigil. reporters say the device may have been detonated by a suicide bomber from central asia. steve rosenberg has this report. a woman is shouting, "are there any children?". a train carriage torn to shreds and a desperate effort to pull people from the wreckage. from the safety of a passing train, a hint of the devastation it is leaving behind. at least ten passengers were killed today and dozens more wounded. the blast occurred in the tunnel but the wrecked train sped on and managed to reach the next station. this was the scene one stop behind. the platform filled with thick, choking smoke and the stench of explosives. translation: there was a huge bang, it was deafening. i was sitting next to a metal railing and i think it saved my life. everyone was knocked in one direction by the blast. the

relatively small number of politicians to publicly oppose president putin, produced a report accusing dmitry medvedevd president turned prime minister again, of corruption. he urged people to take to the streets to protest. for muscovites, that resulted in more than 1,000 arrests. the week ended with mr navalny serving the start of a 15—day prison sentence. "those who go outside the law must be punished", growled mr putin, from the arctic. lexander, there are going to be more protests, inevitably. that is the nature of the beast, once protests have started, they always continue. what will be the russian response? we're already seeing handcuffs on mr navalny. do keep ratcheting up that reaction? first of all, corruption is a problem in russia. nobody will deny this. but russia is one of the few countries in the world, maybe china as well, where a big politicians, or cabinet ministers, actually, bankers, governors of vast regions are arrested and put injailfor corruption. give me another example of any country in the western world where such things happen? i do not know about such things. there is a wa

russia's prime minister, dmitry medvedev, has said the strikes have brought moscow and washington to clash. britain's un ambassador criticised russia's continuing support for bashar al—assad. russia needs to listen to this council, listen to the arab world, listen to the rest of the international community. above all, listen to the syrian people. and the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, has pulled out of a visit to moscow next week, saying development in syria had changed the situation fundamentally. he said he would instead focus on building coordinated international support to secure a ceasefire and an intensified political process. but moscow has said it will strengthen syria's anti—aircraft defences. it has also suspended a deal which is designed to prevent incidents between us and russian warplanes over the country, while washington says it is preparing further economic sanctions against syria. earlier, i spoke to our correspondent rajini vaidya nathan at president trump's residence in florida, and i asked how the trump administration is responding to international reaction to t

russian prime minister dmitry medvedev said the strikes have brought moscow and washington to the vergelash. the british un ambassador criticised russia's continuing support for bashar al—assad. continuing support for bashar al-assad. russia needs to listen to this council, listen to the arab world, listen to the rest of the international community. above all, listen to the syrian people. but moscow has said it will strengthen syria's anti—aircraft defences. it has also suspended a deal designed to prevent incidents between us and russian warplanes over the country, while washington says it is preparing further economic sanctions against syria. daniel boettcher, bbc news. workers at three rail companies have begun a 24—hour strike on the day of the grand national race at aintree, near liverpool. the action, involving southern, merseyrail and arriva rail north, is part of an ongoing dispute over staffing and the role of conductors. merseyrail said choosing to strike on the day of the race meeting would damage liverpool's reputation. there are just over four hours to go before the start o

let's get that sound bite, president obama said to then russia president dmitry medvedev in 2012 he would be morflexible let's listen to that. liz: do you see any evidence like that supporting theory of trump and putin on coo looting on syria. >> no. if we have a hot tape like that he would be impeached. there a bizarre conspiracy theories that putin somehow wanted to help trump by staging this gas attack. i do believe it likely that russians were complicit because they had personnel at the airbase, they are not doing it to help trump, they are doing it to swash -- squash opposition in syria, they have been trying that for years. liz: your opinions and thoughts are not facts. message, the fbi and other probes into this case about russian collusion with president trump, still ongoing with quick paid to the lie about what in a said -- >> we know carter page had a fisa warrant against him, and marginal to the trump campaign. liz: do the probes, it is okay. >> yes. liz: get to the facts. switching topics, a new report, u.s. sending two additional aircraft carriers to the korean peninsula as p

russian-language site thinks it might be this one, which also features russian prime minister, dmitry medvedev. and it's not like medvedev's particularly progressive, either. in fact, late in 2014, he signed an order banning transgender people from driving. so in russia, you can drive a car with a stick shift, but you can't shift your own stick. ( laughter ) and i'm not sure the banned picture is either of those, because we found another picture of vladimir putin that some would say is by far the gayest. i could see that guy leading a pride parade easily. you be you. because this is america-- for now and we can do anything we want, "the late show"" has put together our own artistic interpretation of vladimir putin, gay icon. >> i like boys. ♪ do your thing on the runway >> putin! >> you said to work it. wet your lips and make love. seriously, you must work or i will have you killed. >> stephen: stick around, everybody. we'll be right back with mandy patinkin! when you have the new at&t unlimited plus plan. yeah, i just saved a whole lot of money by swhuh.ing to geico. we should take a closer l

russians this response, they are still going all in back bashar al-assad, we had statements from dmitry medvedev, the spokesman for vladimir putin, all condemning the attacks i am told there is a lot of public bluster going on here. that include sending the russian frigate into the eastern part of the mediterranean. for the official diplomatic channels, there hasn't been a whole lot of blowback from russia over this. they've got two cracks here, they've got the public posture telling their populace that they are strong, they're going to be talking about this in very strident terms with the united states in the diplomatic side, it seems like they are much more muted in their response. we will get a greater sense next week exactly what the relationship with russia is in regards to this end where it might be going forward when it rex tillerson the secretary of state meets with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov in moscow. >> sean: it's very interesting because we know russian earlier this week they said that there for bashar al-assad was not unconditional. they distanced themselves a little bit

you had the prime minister, dmitry medvedev, saying, look, how does this help us fight isis? they are saying the united states and russia are this close to a conflict in syria, and behind the scenes, you know, this is a few days that the kremlin wants to forget. they had everything they wanted in syria. they were the brokers. you know, it was notable last week, jake, when they were bringing together the parties in the cease-fire the united states was nowhere to be found and you had secretary of state tillerson and nikki haley saying perhaps assad need to give in power. what does this give russia, geopolitically the foothold back in the middle east that they have been trying to get a year and a half. it was mission accomplished until this happened and the explosive allegations out of the pentagon yet to be proven will definitely heat things up for when tillerson comes here the middle of next week. >> all right. paula newton, thank you so much. >>> key members of the house and senate were just briefed by the administration on these strikes against the syrian regime. what did th

there's a worry that president trump in the words of dmitri medvedev is being sucked back into the swamp of the washington establishment, as he put it today. but i think there is still hope that there can be some meeting of minds. so i think, yes. limited air strikes today. limited condemnation from russia and a dispute, i think, that is being contained. >> bill neely in moscow for us. thank you. now let me to go chris jansing. on the beat at mar-a-lago with the president. he is there with the chinese president. today, chris, they were ready with an answer. was this the start of a campaign or a message to be sent and we'll deal with what the policy is going forward in the future? >> reporter: a little bit of could not, conflicting response. nikki haley said we're prepared to do more. on the other hand you have rex tillerson saying don't extrapolate anything. this isn't a change in policy and this is a please didn't want to get involved in messy affairs overseas. steve mnuchin saying the treasury department is prepared for sanctions. they'll be serious, targeted, meant to send a message t

attack in syria overnight, this from the prime minister, dmitry medvedev.aid the attack put the united states and russia on the brink of military clashes. he added, despite the u.s. policy of a joint fight with a common enemy, isis, the trump administration has proven that it will fiercely fight against the legal government of syria. again, that from russia. >> yeah, another divide, a widening gap between the u.s. and russia on all of this. we're getting a lot of reaction this morning from around the world. the united kingdom, prime minister theresa may very supportive of this strike, also france and germany, saying mass crimes cannot go unpunished. other u.s. allies like canada, australia, italy, calling the strike proportional. meanwhile, syria saying the strike makes the u.s. an ally of isis. russia calling it an act of aggression. china and iran also opposing it. here to weigh in, no one better than fareed zakaria, host of "fareed zakaria gps." so nice to have you here with us live this morning. how does this change the situation fundamentally in syria?

the number two man in the kremlin leadership, the prime minister of russia, dmitry medvedev. he is considered to be the most pro-western membership of the leadership. he is the man on whom president obama and secretary of state clinton based their entire so-called reset. he was sitting in the presidency at the moment. or we keep him in power. so everybody liked prime minister medvedev. set in the aftermath of this, we are on the brink of war and american-russian relations are utterly ruined. so the pro-western faction in the kremlin is saying that, need i tell you what the so-called state patriots are telling putin about what is going on. that is why what tillerson said is so important. amy: we're going to go to break and come back to this discussion. , weddition to stephen cohen will be joined by jonathan steele, former correspondent for the guardian moscow for years and now working with middle east eye. we will be back in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: "there's a new world coming." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nerm

has led dmitry medvedev the pro western leader in russia to say that we're on the verge of a military clash. i think we need some sobriety. because what you see with trump is incoherence, chaos, crudity, contradiction. and i think it's incumbent upon particularly progressives to lay out a common sense security foreign policy that is not an indispensable nation or policing the world. i think we can do better with nonmilitary solutions. look at the front page "the times" today. famine, drought, refugees. these are not going to be solve beside i military solution. >> we're going have to get a break in here. wesley clark, katrina vanden heuvel, thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, new developments in the investigation into the trump team's connections to russia, especially paul manafort. big developments on that front. >>> and what lessons will republicans learn from last night's congressional election in kansas? nate silver says if the republicans keep going like this, the democrats will win over 100 house seats. there's nothing more important to me than my vacation. so when i need to

his name is dmitry medvedev. he sat in for putin as president when secretary of state clinton and obama tried the so-called reset. he is inside russia, in the power league, considered the most pro-western member of the putin leadership, all right? yesterday he said, it may have been the day before, because of the time difference, he said, in the aftermath of this syrian event, but also in connection with what people are calling kremlingate in washington, he said, russian-american relations are utterly ruined. i don't ever remember a soviet or russian leader saying that. and secondly, he said, you probably noticed this, we are at the brink of war with the united states. keep in mind that this is the most pro-western member of the leadership. and imagine what the non-pro-western leadership are telling putin, as -- so for the straight talk, that's what mr. tillerson is -- russia has two questions on their mind. and he's going to have to answer them in a way that's credible to them. they don't pay any attention to sp

>> some of the strongest reaction, kate, actually coming from the prime minister, dmitry medvedev. he put in a facebook post that this action actually brings the united states and russia on the verge of having conflict, and translated from russian, saying on the verge of having conflict with each other. he also accuses the united states of not only violating international law, but also its own laws by not going to congress. and key here, kate, he's saying, look, how does this help us fight isis? having said that, kate, vladimir putin had some strong comments as well through his spokesperson, saying that, look, this was an aggression. what have they done, though in terms of deeds? they have suspended what is the air defense command or what they call the deconfliction. what does that mean? that open line of communication so that they do not conflict with each other in the air in syria. that has been suspended. having said that, this is still quite a nuanced response, especially when it comes to actions, and many people knowing that when rex tillerson hits the ground here in the middl

for example, dmitry medvedev saying, ah, it only took president trump 2 1/2 months before he was sucked back into the swamps of the washington establishment as medvedev put it. look, secretary of state rex tillerson is due here next week. he said some pretty harsh things today including either russia was complicit in syria's use of chemical weapons or it was incompetent. but he'll still sit down next week with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov who said today i don't think this missile strike will lead to an irreversible situation. so the russians are still holding out, i think, some hope that they can reach some new beginning of a relationship with the u.s. yes, there were the predictable acts of, and statements of condemnation today. president putin saying, for example, that this was an act of aggression against a sovereign state and against international law. but, you know, president putin didn't say that on camera. he didn't appear. that's significant. also at the u.n. today, we had the predictable very visible anger of russia's deputy ambassador at the u.n. saying that this

yet dmitry medvedev he said instead of an overworked statement about a joint fight against the enemyhe trump administration proved that it will fiercely fight the legitimate syrian government. beyond that mistrust. really sad for our now completely ruined relations and which is good news for terrorists. clayton: talking about the rebels, right, that isis and al qaeda make up a large portion of these rebels. abby: they continue to claim that when we attack bashar al assad. we. pete: assad has been saying all along fighting for. fighting for survival. it's the rebels we are backing that are hitting isis. there is a lookout of double speak. you have got the medvedev saying that ultimately our relations are ruined. it's just ironic that okay, president trump, the president who is in cahoots with the russian also do anything for them no matter. what. abby: weren't they in bed together for a while. pete: in collusion. working against interest in contentious area. russia has swiped back. warship mediterranean. deconfliction airspace. they don't want to talk to us anymore in realtime. we wil