joining me live to discuss this further now is chris bambery political analyst mr bambery welcome to the program good to see you as always now the kremlin list why do you think washington decided to create such a list. well i think there's clearly a split president trump only sign this off with ten minutes to the midnight deadline and he signed it off because it contains sanctions against both north korea and iran which are dear to his heart but he made it clear that he didn't really favor sanctions against these individuals so let's see if this actually goes through the however i think it's clear that sections of the united states military intelligence want to impose sanctions and as your report says this is literally a list of the a week of russian society both in terms of business and in terms of a poll of politicians and it doesn't seem to involve much imagination i mean for instance i'm speaking from london the owner of a chelsea football club roman abramovich is on that list which is slightly puzzling because i don't see him as being one of the key allies of putin maybe i've go

where we discuss the lift and what it means with political analyst chris bambery. people look at it i think and say this is a piece of lazy intelligence true taken a who's who of who's the rich and powerful in russia and corporate donor names it doesn't seem to have much substance to it president trump signed it off literally minutes the goal with no enthusiasm for these sanctions forward but he's under pressure he's under pressure i see from you know this is all intelligence from the military and from the democrats and we saw that on the phrase pressure president bottles of your true life two forces coming to go a bit of fortune here but the real question i repeat is why you know is russia the main threats at the moment to united states of america and the west i think the answer has to be no. there be no russian flags flying at either the twenty eighteen winter olympics or paralympics in south korea that's the heart of the international paralympic committee upheld its ban on team russia there it is allowing clean athletes to compete as neutrals two months ago a si