russian greatness. >> it was the kind of pageantry which putin and russians in general loved.s riding very high. this was, you know, a moment of personal and national triumph from his point of view. (cheers and applause) >> narrator: the games were an announcement that the world needed to pay attention to russia and vladimir putin. (putin speaking russian) (cheers and applause) >> sochi was a huge moment for vladimir putin, and it was meant to be his validation and crowning moment of acceptance on the world stage as, you know, sort of the new russian tsar. (cheers and applause) >> narrator: but putin's moment of glory was tarnished by troubles just over russia's border: in ukraine. >> ukraine is stuck very much in the middle both geographically... >>> ...with the protests in neighboring ukraine, what is russian president... >> narrator: to putin, the crowds were a repudiation. the protesters demanded their government move away from russia and toward the west. coming in the midst of his olympics, putin saw something else. >> putin was sure that that was a real conspiracy to rai

he denies the allegations and then now deleted tweet takei said russian bought. the allegations against him he attached a charge which claimed to show he was targeted by russian trolls however he didn't seem to win over the backing of those on social media. he should have said the cling on may have done it no he says russian bots so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true they're not making this up they're not lying they're not crafting some story of you having been and all they're doing is repeating all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this this absolutely specious idea that somebody is going to go through all of this work to make some some strange and some cryptic association with some has been star trek actor or what an accusation is forty years old i mean it doesn't make any sense but it's great commentary. the head of the world and he doping agency has admitted it's almost impossible to separate sport and politics craig read his comments follow

the russians do.t's who you go to, the other organized crime group. >> there is something particular about the multiple bankrupbankru unlike other real estate developers. he was squeezed off from the traditional sources of capital and real estate, the entire game is that you borrow money. you invest it. you hope to make money and get out. that's basically out. if you can't borrow money, you have a harder time. >> one of the most interesting things to the sale was the timing of it. it happened in 2008 when trump was going through essentially multiple bankruptcies. nobody would loan to him. this was a huge infusion of cash into his bank account, so, you know, when you look at the circumstances surrounding the sale and more questionable. >> can you imagine a world in which there is -- game out the possibility of some kind of indictments related to these offenses that don't relate back to the sort of core question about russian political. >> i would say highly likely. we know for certain the president is

and we saw a lot of the evidence that russian hackers and russian advertisers were playing in our electionsto the right and the left, entangled in a very bitter war trying to really promote that. so the rnc maybe should have been a little more pro active, joy, you're right. but what about the fec and what about getting them to get a little bit more reactive and a little bit more proactive and trying to be, you know, prevent some of this? >> richard painter, a lot of democrats doing a lot of soul searching wishing the obama administration had been more aggressive trying to combat this. we have examples in other countries, richard, same thing happ happening. an aggressive attempt to hack into e-mails of the french, the candidates running for the president in france. hackers came after them, but the french were prepared, headline in the "new york times." we had finland and estonia attacked by the same exact kind of campaign. but the difference is, that in those countries and in germany and other places, both of the political parties came together and were very public about saying, we don't car

and a russian military intelligence veteran and a russian oligarch, and russian energy executives and also the russian deputy prime minister. and, of course, the russian ambassador. attorney general jeff sessions today upgraded his memory stick once again to declare to the house judiciary committee that despite his previous denials that he'd had any information about there being any russian contact by members of the trump campaign, he now does recall that he may have been aware about some of those contacts during the campaign. he insists that his evolving statements on these matters is all truthful. is all true. it's all innocent. he insists that he's consistently told the truth, even though his story has consistently changed. we don't know everything the trump campaign was doing with all of these russian contacts, while russia was interfering in the election to help trump win it. but after russia interfered to help trump win the election and then trump won the election, the trump administration has continued to behave toward russia in ways we don't have to speculate about. we don't h

about properties russians have bought, russian oilgarches.u go beyond the collusion thing, we'll flip out, we'll fire the special prosecutor, and there's something there they're sensitive about. i think if you're looking now at this investigation and it's clear mueller is looking at people with financial experience and money laundering and your top campaign guy got nabbed it's super worrisome. >> there's a lot of russian oilgarches in the global luxury real estate market around the world, buying lots of properties because it's a useful asset to park prept. how much do you think trump is a person selling and they're parking money there. how much do you have a sense that russian oilgarches that are doing that are in contact? >> i think what you said is correct. i think rugs love to buy property to park their cash abroad and to have a place to flee. in you're successful in russia, if you reach a certain level of success, then you have been blessed by the state. does that mean you must participate to get trump elected? not necessarily. it teams t

we got russian ambassador, russian banker, russian ex-con, mil military, russian lawyer, russian lobbyistssian money laundering suspect. russian billionaire son and connected academic, oil executive, russian foreign ministry official, russian president's fake niece and now new guy head of russia's fund. that's too big for a band. that's too big for a marching band in most towns. i mean, but there is one more thing to say about the russian sovereign wealth fund that met with eric prince. the russian direct investment fund, the fund he runs is one of many russian government institutions under u.s. sanctions. since russia invaded crimea in 2014 which means that no american business person even eric prince should be doing business with that fund. prince's explanation about that meeting in the seychelles is it had nothing to do with the trump transition. it was just business. it couldn't have been business with that guy from the russian sovereign wealth fund, at least it couldn't have been business if it was legal business. eric prince scheduled to testify before the house intelligence committ

are russian government to kremlin flatter me or putin who for the last time are these russian thereby it's so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true they're not making this up they're not lying they're not crafting some story of you having been and all they're doing is repeating all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this who is going to say i was yes george tech guy yes yes this was the man who years ago spoke against russia through l g b t policies ah ha who thinks like that nobody would have thought of that until you bring. it up and it's patently absurd and this also goes to this notion of how does this russian interference work is what more facebook ads does anybody ever stop and ask what is this mean who is believing this it is an example of our new law is an example of things changing slightly because given the russian hysteria he might have been entitle to think you might get some sympathy for accusing russian boats for doing this but that wasn't the case was it i

new york city russian bank branch. sam clovis is credited with bringing carter page on to the trump campaign and also credited with bringing on to the campaign george papadopoulos, who has now become quite famous for lying with the fbi about his contacts with russia during the trump campaign. in the plea agreement revealed by a judge on money, it was apparently sam clovis who was george papadopoulos's supervisor who told him he was doing great work when he initiated and maintained contact with russian sources. when george papadopoulos suggested that there be an off-the-record meeting between trump campaign personnel and russian officials up to and including people from putin's office, sam clovis is reportedly the campaign supervisor who encouraged george papadopoulos to take that trip. well, now we've learned that m clovis has not only spoken to investigators on the russia investigation, we've learned that he's also reportedly testified to the grand jury in the mueller investigation. now, this happened while sam clovis

interference in the vote one example used to suppose that russian who's profile didn't fit a typical british political observer however the person posted or retreated nearly one hundred posts mentioning that the political and media scare mongering may have actually now how can effect as poorly boyko reports in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress the braggs it talks and the problems facing to raise them a government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story. london do you think four hundred twitter accounts from from russia is enough to change the outcome of the referendum here in the u.k. well i think it could i think it could sort of and there could be a lot more yeah so you think it's only the tip of the iceberg yes i think it's just the tip of the iceberg i believe there is something at the bottom of it and i'm being very careful with

five more russian police receive lifetime bans from the winter olympics as fears grow the whole of russia could be prevented from competing in the twenty eight games here the latest verdict on the doping scandal from sports chiefs. but the. claims it doesn't prove you want to. give them some time. and germany could be on track for the same coalition government that it had before september's elections three way talks with other parties collapsed last week. police in the french city of concern over a. crime more than a year after the closure of the notorious jungle. here police officers are more than fed up i cannot remember times when so many call came to me to say that they wanted to leave the police. global headlines every hour on the hour you're watching are to international live with me. thanks for joining us tonight five more russian athletes have been given lifetime bans from the winter olympics that brings the total number of disqualified athletes to nineteen the decision was made off the retesting doping samples from the twenty fourteen sochi games based on the findings of the repo

plan of money would you make of the russian plan or if it's just a plan to push russia to the front of everything that's happening in syria to manage what syria is just part of the big game that's happening in the middle east and on not only in the middle east for russia the main thing is to build an anti american coalition with iran and hopefully with turkey on the basis of this syrian campaign of course iran and russia are already kind of anti american russian military both by the poor and forces in syria russia outflanked nato but ultimate goal would be to part possibly pull turkey away from the united states and nato and of course syria is important because an asset is important for russia because he can guarantee that russia will retain military naval base on the syrian mediterranean coast and even more importantly and their base there so this is just part of it and russia is using what's happening right now in syria to promote its overall strategic intentions which are even much wider than the entire middle east sammael ramani. this plan it seems when you listen to both of the

for manafort he was a client. >> the pro-russian candidate, was proteching russian language, church,iticians and regime, is advised by paul manafort, who was citizen of united states. >> he was one of the leaders of the uprising. he said everyone in the square was determined to stay there for as long as it took to hold their ground. yanukovich responded with force. he sent in the riot troops, the protesters responded with rocks and molotov cocktails. >> the protesters here put themselves in the center of a ring of fire and said they will hold this square, even if it costs them their lives. and cost them it did. around 100 were killed. i watched as the wounded were rushed to a make-shift hospital. not everyone could be saved. but where was paul manafort? we obtained his travel logs and confirmed them with a source of ukrainian border patrol, leaving just two weeks before his client, the ukrainian client ordered police to turn guns on the protesters. >> he didn't say anything. >> as people were being shot in the streets, i was here i saw their bodies manafort was -- >> he was year and

election twitter and google representatives told a senate hearing they found evidence of russian backed posts trying to influence the vote it's inside story next so stay with us. if you are president donald trump visit to asia the goal is to forge relations and strengthen the resolve to confront the threat from north korea but what impact could this visit really have that we'll be live across asia to bring you the very latest coverage here on al-jazeera. three of donald trump's former advisors are indicted the probe into russia's involvement in the u.s. election is digging deeper so whose name could be honest next and could this investigation sink the u.s. president's administration this is inside story. i welcome to the program i'm jane dutton critics of donald trump have been calling for his impeachment since he became the u.s. president ten months ago now some say a step has been taken in that direction three of his former advisers were charged with federal crimes on monday including tax evasion conspiracy against the u.s. and lying to the f.b.i. about contacts with alleged middlemen

and pressure on the russian media doesn't end there u.s. lawmakers are now considering a bill proposing cable and satellite providers not be required to carry video content that somehow link to the kremlin that would mean providers could decide for themselves whether or not to show such content and what's important to note here is that that belief yet to be approved or russia has promised a similar response from some top politicians proposing a tit for tat move if the bill is adopted journalist and writer neil clark believes the pressure on the russian media is because of his recent success. well this is absolutely outrageous i think we could quit mcafee's and it really is mccarthyism on steroids now and it's a significant escalation in this cold war launched by the us against russian media r.t. as a growing audience share in america around the world in r.t. puts a different narrative out to the war party narrative on issues like the syrian conflict for example so i think the war mongers in the us are very angry that artie's been so success

leaks is claiming that the cia's created a computer program that impersonates the software of the russian antivirus companies kaspersky loved let's get more details on this story on correspondent david morgan kaleb good to see you what else then is in these revelations. well we've got a new batch of documents from the vault eight of wiki leaks this new batch of documents that's been released showing some of the internal workings of the cia particularly in relation to software now what was released is a program called a hive and essentially this is a major component of cia infrastructure and malware and it provides a covert communications about how the cia operates and what kind of software and malware that they're using now one thing that was revealed in these in these documents is that a century the cia had a program to imitate kaspersky laboratory now this is a huge popular russian software company and it's recently been subject to scandal u.s. authorities have actually banned. any government agencies from using kaspersky laboratories citing concerns about national security this happene

your mention team russia being dealt a number of blows this november six russians. yours have been banned for life for doping violations while the former head of the moscow anti doping law who was the first to allege a state sponsored doping program has put forward new information on the claims i'm nuts led to some officials calling for russia to be completely bombed from the twenty eighteen winter olympics the experts we spoke to though stressed the need for a case by case approach. i think the most important thing is a case by case decision and that means that every athlete that is proven to be clean should be to discuss any older decision like the quality of ban as it was decided that against russian paralympic members is not illegal and i think we should aim at a proportionate decision that russia is not putting up its hands and saying we accept the mclaren reports finding that there is state sponsored doping it's held the line throughout the whole to ing and fro ing that we've experienced over the past two three years it's always said we want hard evidence that

election twitter and google representatives told a senate hearing that they found evidence of russian backed posts trying to influence the vote ten people six of them children have been killed in the shelling of several rebel held areas in syria one of the attacks in east and east of the capital damascus hit a school it happened in one of the so-called deescalation zones which are backed by russia and iran at least three people have been killed in a bomb blast near the u.s. embassy in kabul afghanistan as defense ministry says that fifteen others were injured. kenya's opposition leader has called for the result of the presidential election rerun to be an old president who took in the ass or was declared the winner but the election was widely boycotted by opposition supporters are doing it made no mention of a legal challenge but warned that the election results will undermine the public's faith in democracy. and those are the headlines we'll have more news here here on al-jazeera after today's edition of inside story next. you with the the earth. three of donald trump's forma advisors

army russian ideology and the russian world. me. most belarussians still accept the monopoly of their russian neighbors and have left look i shan't go to walk a fine line between solidarity and independence. but georgia was a different case. after the rose revolution it quickly developed into a pluralistic comparatively well functioning country. the tax system was simplified and the banking sector and public services modernized its cities were transformed. mikhail saakashvili the new president completely renovated the center of tbilisi. the city will soon move after the rez revolution of foreign capital began to flow into the country it felt like a new era was coming people had a great visions that our country would become a new switzerland or singapore or that an economic miracle would happen. and a big boom really did start and things that were worth a million dollars now cost one hundred million apartments in tbilisi were more expensive than in moscow we had an enormous growth in our client base and hired new stuff and really

his bella russian is worse than his russian years ago so he needs two official languages. he's a course badly educated dictator if they're gonna think that it's a group where mullah brazil ejector. opposition is largely for britain in belarus. in the one nine hundred ninety s. just gave rich stood as a candidate for a new party but he didn't stand a chance. at that time he still hoped to supplant the old values with new ones. it was a vain hope that the. overwhelming majority of people in belarus support democratic principles our leadership only came to power with russia's help. he would deliver is there has to be if he does what he wants and everyone else shuts up and accept that. if they have jacked he removes them from the fi trough and a fast buck but the west doesn't understand that we're not a state based on law and order and that the way to becoming one has been blocked we're not a country where the government is democratically elected and we were moving towards it but then we were stopped. in. the will of the liquid a bottomless no problem. so at least russia got o

russian lawmakers vote in favor of getting media register as foreign agents. in the united states. in response to washington's actions the self appointed global press freedom stay quiet on the treatment of. also ahead this hour u.s. officials from using bestselling russian security software on the alleged espionage threat but there's no evidence to suspicions. volunteers trying to help refugees are being considered. from the humanitarian aid. to the world this is r t international my names you not only a welcome to the program this hour's top story russian lawmakers have voted in favor of forcing media outlets to register as foreign agents it's in response to similar pressure placed on r.t. america in the united states. has been following developments for us just bring us up to spec about what a fact that these amendments could have. didn't hi well we wouldn't be hearing this news from the russian parliament if it wasn't for the american department of justice that demanded that r.t. america register as a foreign agent in the us the russian government promised to fight back and we'r

athlete being only two points short of fulfilling the road map to continue to spend has seen russian officials make their feelings a very clear first up the russian olympic committee chief alexander as you call. relevance to restart his book the mclaren report itself created a clash of opinions it was contested by the russians who claimed that the report lacks sufficient proof to be deemed it legitimate and water itself did speak out when they cleared ninety five out of the ninety six russian athletes accused of various doping allegations in the report their reason being yes you guessed it lack of evidence and hence their cases were closed the russian sports minister has said his disappointment to these two demands are obviously of a political nature we want dialogue not addict out however. has made it clear there is a doping problem and has since become one of only five european countries that have criminalized doping austria france italy and spain being the others president putin had a clear message on the issue in russia when he spoke out some of the main thing is that we have to

you say not all were russian related. have you cross-checked those russian-related accounts that you took down in france to see if those were active in the american election? >> senator, the 30,000 accounts that we took down -- >> the accounts that were related to russian accounts that you took down, your leadership bragged about how proactively you were in the french election process. did you check those accounts to see if any of them were active in the american election? >> the system that ran to take down those accounts which were fake accounts of really all type and for purpose, has -- is now active worldwide. >> have you -- just please answer my question. have you reviewed the accounts you took down in france that were russian related to see if they had -- played any role in the american election. >> i apologize. i'm trying to answer the question. >> the answer is yes or no. i don't want a long explanation. i want to know -- i've been signaling this to you for some time. we wanted to make sure you would review those

russian clears the way for cruisers.base and vast amounts of [indiscernible] narrator: french communists sabotaged the electrical system on the french fighter plane. with the fall of france, hillard decides tohitler invade the territory of the recent partner, russia. ♪ narrator: the turning point of the german invasion of russia grads at belgrade -- volgo or stalingrad. besarake eastern poland, sakhalin, portions of finland. latvia, lithuania, and estonia are incorporated as soviet republics, and much of the native population is deported. there are russian occupations pending final peace treaties and austria and north korea. the russians have the right to maintain garrisons in poland, hungary, and bulgaria. how did we get from here to there, the present situation? with the iron curtain dividing europe and communist outposts through much of the world? what is the secret to their postwar expansion? what method to the use? the answer is, they use them all. occupying troops remain after political achievement in hungary. want

the russians for the. and we have a lot like you nice these are all ideas from the beginning for example let me give you an example of an idea that could be made better or was by his origin you know in the soviet union right doesn't are divided into proletarian ones and bush wants so now when russians hear about. writing even have a very skeptical way to do it and we say be a good writer. be a woman be good right the cool happens to be believe god made the world we could learn something from. the environment so sure there are certain. immunization that we've got from these three religions and one of them is that without any kind of religious you know rapidly running out of time you know just from one of the things i think is very interesting is during the cold war we had this captive nations concept in the west you know a lot of people don't understand how much the russians suffered during the revolution during the civil war during the second world war and you know when one could make the argument that the

was aware of attempted russian hacking in u.s. voter registration databases in june two thousand and sixteen now. i was also involved in new revelations as where the cia and national security agency reports leaked to us media organizations sparked months of investigations and trumped denials a joint report by the f.b.i. cia and n.s.a. in january concluded russian president vladimir putin personally ordered a so-called influence campaign because the kremlin preferred trump in the white house instead of hillary clinton a special investigator robert miller was assigned to look into relations between russia and trump and so far well there's indicted two of trump's election campaign managers paul manifold and rick gates and charged a third person george papadopoulos the question scott they want to put you next is what's next in miller's investigation we've got these three men already indicted and charged who's next on the hippest. well robert mueller is very capable and he'll move step by step so let's first of all he will not bring ne

pressure on the russian media doesn't and their u.s. lawmakers are now considering a bill proposing cable and satellite providers not be required to carry video content somehow linked to the kremlin means providers could decide for themselves whether to show such content or not what's important to note here though is that the belief yet to be approved. and russia has promised a similar response with some top politicians proposing a tit for tat move if the bill gets adopted journalist the writer neil clogg believes the pressure on the russian media is down to its recent success. sure this is absolutely outrageous i think we could quit mcafee's and it really is mccarthyism on steroids now it's a signal from the escalation in this cold war launched by the us against russian media r.t. as a growing audience share in america around the world in r.t. puts a different narrative out to the war party narrative on issues like the syrian conflict for example so i think the war mongers in the us are very angry that artie's been so successful and i

back to join olympic chiefs they dismissed media claims as premature that the russian national anthem will be banned at the upcoming winter games. revelations about the offshore tax avoidance and money making schemes of the super rich become a goldmine for the media with many publications rooting out and focusing on links to russia. are broadcasting live direct for our studios in moscow this is our to international thomas is certainly glad to have you with us now the un back to joint mission investigating the chemical attack into syria is it believed the province back in april has found the watchdog says that they have looked into various scenarios questioned hundreds of witnesses and examined thousands up to the actual site of the attack the leadership panel has identified ice add responsible for the use of sulfur mustard in. and the syrian arab republic that's responsible for the use of sarin at conseco and their studies showed that the samples from handshake koon match with a particular chemical from the syrian arab republic stockpile that is required to make sarin hard to correspo

the international olympic committee makes another ruling in the russian doping scandal banning four russian skeleton athletes for life. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital only care and good to have you with us. with the tide it now turned against islamic state in syria there's renewed hope that a political solution can finally bring peace war torn syria has now got a real chance to stop the six year long civil war in the country that's the message from vladimir putin speaking at a summit in sochi attended by russia iran and turkey our correspondent in the trunk is there for is what have the leaders said. nagy hello again well we've seen the president's vladimir putin type aired on and has saw me at one big negotiating table smiling and looking quite determined the foreign ministers were there the heads of the military as well so there you have it we got to the point when i saw almost got completely erased from the map of syria and serious to biggest regional neighbors as well as russia whose air strikes were a really big

a tangential association with the russians or with anything russian for fear of being branded by their political opponents it's ridiculous it's max of the one nine hundred fifty s. to tell you the truth i wish that i had better understood what was happening as it was happening but like i said a moment ago i thought it was a joke in the beginning and before i could even process what was going on two of jacked the decision had been made to remove me and it wasn't until i was doing the television interview that i finally said to the m.e.p. wait a minute did i get thrown off that panel and he said well we didn't want to make a problem with the other guests and and i thought wow ok well american politics rears its ugly head even in brussels but sputnik and ati guests have had to endure all that share of naming and shaming and your pain think tank recently branded them useful idiots. because we're useful idiot i mean useful idiot you called me a useful idiot useful idiot useful idiots great stress in my opinions r t there are thousands of us doing it behind his record is a simple strategy we

they're just pro-russian. and in this election they happen to find a candidate who is also very much pro-russian. and so i hope that moves all to understand that in the next election, for whatever reasons the russian maybe be antirepublican. and that my republican colleagues too could be subject to attack. just as we saw in a smaller less significant way. that one of their own presidential candidates was part of russia's propaganda campaign. i yield back. >> mr. heck, five minutes. >> i have a simple question for each of you. do you acknowledge and recognize that the magnitude and nature of efforts under taken by the russians to interfere in the elections last year constitute an exten shl and material threat to the health of the democracy? >> we recognize that and obviously a threat to all of our platforms. >> mr. stretch? >> yes. >> the activity that we saw in the platform was limited. we're not in position to take a broader view. when you look at the whole picture. >> you do not acknowledge is represents an

russians are waking up to their history. they'rejust trying to remember it. it's time for the final part of myjourney. i'm off to the other end of russia, to khabarovsk, seven time zones away from where my trip began. this is the capital of the russian far east. here, china is closer than most of russia. the cradle of the revolution feels a world away. but then, i am more than 6,000 kilometres east of saint petersburg. liev lepovich lives here. he and the russian revolution have one thing in common, they both are 100 years old. born in 1917, lievhas survived three famines, he's fought in four wars. in his lifetime, his country has disappeared twice. first, tsarist russia, and then, soviet russia. how does a nationa survive that kind of century? after the revolution, it would take five years and a brutal civil war before the bolsheviks conquered the russian far east. the decisive battle was near khabarovsk, at volochayevka. there's a giant panoramic painting of it at the local museum. soviet mythology painted the reds as triu

officials or any russian nationals? attorney general sessions replied, quote, i don't recall that. just last month during the attorney general's most recent appearance before the judiciary committee, senator lindsey graham asked him, quote, did anybody in the campaign, did you ever overhear a conversation between you and anybody on the campaign who talked about meeting with the russians? this time attorney general sessions replied quite carefully. he said, quote, i have not seen anything that would indicate collusion with russians to impact the campaign. but when i asked him to clarify his shifting explanations for his own interactions with russian ambassador, attorney general sections said that when he first -- general sections said that when he first heard of reports of, quote, continuing information between russians and the campaign, he was taken aback by this dramatic statement that i never heard before and knew nothing about. he said that, quote, a continuing exchange of information between trump's surrogates and i

russian federation in fact there is one culture that has one language the russian on their ease. like almost on history. russia provided for this time a lot of a lot of assistance. the existence of transnistria is based on the old pillars of the soviet union the army a common language and a policy of dependency on. moscow pays for part of the pensions of transnistria and retirees which certainly doesn't harm their love for russia. many of them long for the good old days back when. john as a grandmother is a typical example. moves. when you look at a hand for example you have five fingers with five fingers it's easier to take or carry something try doing the same with one finger. the soviet union was like a single powerful hand today it's different all that is gone. everyone pulls in his own direction everyone has his own household i don't like this was never going to happen again but many people of her generation see only disadvantages in the way things are now and advantages in the way things work and the soviet system of values is still hanging on. already i mean what i said i

is simply giving the russian perspective on the news the way c.n.n. and the new york times gives an american perspective on the news and b.b.c. a british perspective of course american journalist don't think that when they think they're giving a universal truth they don't see that they are speaking from within their own national perspective so to call r.t. propaganda and sputnik is a joke in my opinion and worse than that is to lump them both of them in sputnik in archie with info wars i mean this shows you the quality of the mind to wrote that article it's delusional because in four wars is nowhere near journalism r t is a news channel and if you want to understand what's happening in the world you've got to look at the different perspectives from russia from iran from the u.s. from britain and take these all into consideration so to cold one russian television r t propaganda and to lump it in one in four words is just extraordinary and it really shows the depth of the despair i think that the people who are pushing the russia gate story are getting

this hour's headlines stories russian lawmakers voted in favor of giving moscow the power to classify media foreign agents and similar to those made against. the united states. the response to washington's actions the self-appointed guardians of global press freedom usually quiet on the treatment of artes u.s. channel. reveals that volunteers attempting to help refugees crossing international borders are being treated as criminals but. we hear from one humanitarian aid worker who fell foul of the authorities. believe. the humanitarian. help. your chiming in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow into r.t.e. international my names you know neal good to have your company our top story lawmakers in russia's lower of parliament have voted in favor of requiring media outlets which are funded from abroad to register as foreign agents in eight days in response to similar pressure placed on our team in the united states breaking down the details for us. first of all we wouldn't be hearing this news from the russian parliament if it wasn't for the american department of justic