constantine branco vanny grown too powerful for the ottoman sultans liking is to be executed there with his sons the youngest tells a soldier he will convert to islam with his life his spirited whereupon his father tells him it is better to die a thousand deaths than to renounce jesus christ on the fifteenth of august seventeen fourteen the heads of bank of man and his sons are struck off by the sultan's execution. it was to have been a day of celebration the day of my death was also my sixtieth birthday i hope to spend it here amidst the new year go to an all new hills below the southern copper atheists and this was to have been my message to the catholic kings in the north and the heed muslims to the south a monastery conceived entirely in my spirit that every symbol of the age the monastery affords. the project mattered deeply to me two years after i took the office of voivode of the foundation stone was laid the monastery of hundreds who in its adjunct chapels were seven years in that building. you will say that it does not look particularly like a monastery from the outside troops

vacheron constantin is the world's oldest watchmaker, founded in 1755.itage director at vacheron constantin. he has brought with him some very old timepieces. 0n he has brought with him some very old timepieces. on sale in london, is that right? yes, absolutely. we have this beautiful exhibition of around 20 watches, from our heritage and visa watches we have fully restored and serviced and we are offering for sale. just looking at them now, what would you have to pa rt them now, what would you have to part with to have one of those in terms of money? we have prices starting at around £10,000 for simple pocket watch. up to this, on the left, from 192a. simple pocket watch. up to this, on the left, from 1924. around £50,000. absolutely beautiful. they range in age, from the oldest one from 1924, they go up to 1953. aside from the age, what makes this collection so special? i think there is a strong interest for watches. we have seen in the recent results of swiss exports. and there is a huge interest into the vintage market of timepieces. it is a great op

in our meet a local slice we have travel tips from a spectator constantine from georgia shows us the highlights of his hometown let's go to but to me on the black sea. government job my name is constantine and i would like to welcome you and the black sea coast of georgia and its amazing city but to me. i love but to me because it is a unique place to leave it. i love to walk the old part of the but to the streets a cozy and charming and i can feel the great historical part. but to me you can find a cathartic cathedral a muesli most in the jewish synagogue but of course there are some of the majority of georgians are christian orthodox the nicest of the local churches is the one on my back which was built in nineteenth century by a greek community. here are. georgian alpha bit is one on the fourteenth unique about so with the world in respect to the east and to show how much we value our language this alphabet tower was built. from here you can enjoy the view on the but to me boulevard that is straight along side coast for nine kilometers. this is our famous but to me boulevard the p

what are today apartmen's indic against paul manafort and constantine mean for those men and the investigation itself? joyce? joyce, can you hear us? joyce can't hear us. let me ask you to pick up the same question, david chris. what do these charges from -- i'm sorry, against paul manafort mean for the special counsel investigation? >> well, the first thing they mean is that paul manafort is in deep trouble and it's only getting deeper. these two new charges that have been added, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice, are as you

also charged today, manafort's long-time russian aide constantine clem nick. this brings the total number of individuals charged in the mueller investigation to 20 and the total number of charges facing trump's one-time campaign chairman to 25. it also serves as another glimpse behind the curtain of the mueller investigation itself where despite the near daily harassment and disparagement from the president, his lawyer and their surrogates and conservative media circles, mueller's investigators are following the facts and finding plenty of evidence of wrongdoing. from that 32-page indictment today, quote, from february 23rd, 2018 and april 2018, the defendants, paul manafort and constantine ka little elm nick knowingly and intentionally conspired to corruptly persuade another person with the intent to influence, delay and prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding. to help us understand the significance of these brand-new indictments and what they mean for the special counsel investigation into russian collusion and obstruction of justice, s

that i'm now joined by a prominent russian economist and a professor at the university of chicago constantine soni and mr sun is good to talk to you thank you very much for your time from her and now i know that the your a big football buff and i know that you are very enthusiastic about the world cup in russia not as a way of bringing russia to do world but there's a way of bringing the world to russia particularly the provinces do you seeing all these open this all this hospitality the smiles. all disappear in a few weeks or do you think it will be more lasting economists try to measure the impact of three world cups and one thing that we know is that they make people they make people could be this company this will be maybe in a couple of months or maybe a year that's two people and they think in the example of open some tolerance brought to russia. is a good thing even for two weeks now like most economist i know you're quite skeptical of the state's massive presence and the economy because it's supposed to be. more corrupt and i suppose last sufficient and yet the free take the example o

he and this guy constantine kilimnik essentially we want to get our stories straight. went straight to mueller. these guys are trying to tamper with us. one of the guys allegedly told an fbi agent filed in the declaration manafort was trying touborn perjury. this shows people turning on manafort and the increasing pressure that that is amounting to that is allowing mueller to wield against him. >> let's talk for a second about e broader investigation where they stand. the president tweeted as he was on his way -- all of the events of the past couple of days have sort of melded together so i'm not sure if this tweet came when he was going to canada or singapore -- yeah, canada. i'm heading to canada and the g7, then singapore and north korea. won't be talking about the russian witch hunt hoax for a while. >> that lasted for 20 minutes, right? i think he tweeted like half an hour later witch hunt or something. >> certainly yes, possible. not likely. >> i think this week we had -- i think it was this week, every week blurs into one. there was this truly bizarre 48-hour ne

s that constantine kalemnick, who has ties to russian intelligence. that's a new person that we see named. but in the past he has been referred to under a pseudohim in in previous indictments or court filings. now we see him named on the record. >> the reason you will remember his name, he was connected to alex vander swan, who is finishing his jail sentence. >> that's correct. also a long time business partner with paul manafort. he was in ukraine doing the work with paul manafort when he was representing the regime. this is tied to what we saw earlier this week, when there were allegations of went tampering. these two working together to try the guide people -- according to the government filings, trying to guide people as far as hey this is how thing worked, remember? >> right. >> they were trying to guide their testimony in the charges he was hit with today directly reflect that. >> danny, people could lose track but with manafort the official charges against him were all paper trail stuff, easy to prove. lawyers came here and said this isn't goin

but constantine shows up throughout this indictment in trying the defraud the u.s. think we are going to see more of that. >> tom winter thank you. mimi, john, caitlyn and gabe stay with us. >>> ahead the latest on the senate intel committee drama. a top staffer arrested in connection with the leak of classified information. the newest developments next. ♪ ♪ ♪ hais not always easy. severe plaque psoriasis it's a long-distance run and you have the determination to keep going. humira has a proven track record of being prescribed for over ten years. it's the #1 prescribed biologic by dermatologists. more than 250,000 patients have chosen humira to fight their psoriasis. and they're not backing down. for most patients clearer skin is the proof. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma have happened, as have blood, liver and nervous system problems. serious allergic reactions and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you'

in his first public appearance since saturday's grenade attack zimbabwe's vice president constantine says he suffered minor injuries and tells party supporters next month's general election will go ahead as planned. the vice president was among politicians party supporters and security officials injured by the explosion at a political rally in below where president was near the blast but escaped unhurt no one's claimed responsibility for the attack so for a good number of people we have been injured or fourteen mine in there currently receiving treatment it might at the. israel is united. while police investigations continue preparations are continuing for the first elections since the army forced to resign last nov the run up to this year's vote had been relatively peaceful unlike previous elections after marred by violence saturday's attack at the president's rally him below well has made some people nervous. when god was promised a presidential and parliamentary elections will be free and fair security will also be increased during campaigning and voting. indication of. a situatio

describe the two men's relationship for us. >> well, constantine kilimnik who can goes by kk or kostia an friends started with manafort back in 2005. he was recruited from the international republican institute's moscow office where he was -- had been fired actually, depending on who you listen to because of suspected ties to russian intelligence even back then but when he starred with manafort, he started as a translator and gradually worked his way up becoming integral to manafort's kiev operation and actually playing a huge role in implementing of this lobbying plan on behalf viktor yanukovych who is manafort's client, the pro-russian president strong mann president of ukraine, kk was very much involved in this effort that manafort helped fund and implement to essentially buff the reputation of viktor yanukovych on the world stage at a time when he was under mounting criticism from the u.s. and from our allies for both his pivot towards russia, his corruption and his prosecution of his former rival timoshenko, kk was pivotal in executing that strategy. >> this is the first time that

what's happening in america and how the process happens zingales and this is actually a piece from constantine there are also some metric incentives for the firms to engage in rent seeking as in galley's notes if the ability to influence a political power increases with economic power so doesn't need to do so because the greater the market power a firm has the greater the fear of expiration by the political power this sounds extreme but it is quite intuitive as a firm gains market power its prices rise above the marginal cost yielding abnormal economic profits to the firm at the expense of consumers the governments can and do claim political mandate to limit these profits by taxing the market dominant firms profits either through regulation or direct taxation thus explain it in part of the abnormal returns i want to point out that you know trump is a business guy first and now he's president and you know you saw that tweet trump said. major drug companies to announce massive voluntary price decreases in two weeks this is part of that fear of these pharmaceutical companies who have intellectual

prosecutors have accused constantine of having ties to russian intelligence. the world health organization says strong progress has been made stemming the ebola outbreak. working the vaccine is and new cases have slowed. thedeath toll is now -- infected number now stands at 58 including 13 deaths. health workers are at high risk of catching the deadly virus. the boston mayor says his city does not have a partner in the federal government. speaking today at the 86th annual meeting of the u.s. conference of mayors, he sat down with bloomberg and complained about the trump administration's lack of involvement on several issues. what has happened in the past is the administration and the obama administration would send secretaries to be here. you would have the cabinet meeting with us and talking about issues that pertain to the country. administration, we have seen one cabinet secretary in my time as mayor since the new administration has come in. mark: mayor walsh says president trump has not delivered on his campaign progress -- promised to upgrade infrastructu

we here about constantine. he tried to help manafort with this op-ed. she took him to task on that saying look, you're not allowed to do this. you're violating the gag order. he's witness tampering, trying to tell these two associates of his that look, guys, we didn't do lobbying work in the united states. right? everything that we did was in europe. that's just not going to fly. manafort's attorneys did a good job of saying that manafort didn't know who the potential witnesses would be so he couldn't witness tamper. she was not buying that. i'll say that this is really going to affect his ability to prepare for the two trials coming up. one in d.c., one in the eastern district of virginia, this is a very big deal. >> if you go back, the president makes a decent point. this goes back 13 years. you have a lot of legal experts saying that's the reason there's a problem with the special counsel. the scope is so wide. the question would be, how does all of this lead back to president trump? so far there's no connection to collusion or obstruction. >> yeah,

he also added constantine: nick -- konstantin kalimnik to the charges. mueller's prosecutors claim that the men used encrypted messaging to contact former business managers to influence their business dealings. metaphor is chargedne with mo laundering, fraud, and failing ose hisover -- to dis network. he maintains his innocence and is failing to cooperate. . his trial begins in president trump tweeted days ago th metaphor came into the campaign very late and was with us for a short period of when you think about what the special counsel is doing with paul manafort, with these initial indictments, is bob mueller trying to break paul manafort to get him to cooperate ? >> that is what everybody thinks. bob mueer is the sphinkx. he does not speak. they're putting escalating pressure on paul manafort has the likeliest link if there was any collusion who would have been in a position to know. now this looks like a move toward revoking his bail and sending himri back ton before the trial would start. at the same time we have president trump talking about sendis

one german russian at least plans to give his all for russians world cup aspirations constantine's i wish at the age of six he and his family left russia for germany he went pro at hanover and played for various german news teams but russia remained in his heart last fall he played his first international match for russia although he didn't make the world cup squad playing for russia is still an honor. in the club order. does it in. a moment of. for me or. for my my as a. spider man as for. been through. has been the. like all other russian national players mouse to have to deal with the issue of doping russia's athletes are often regarded with suspicion and football players and no exception. at the last world cup in brazil allegations of doping were made against the russian scene russia was accused of manipulating urine samples to cover up doping. richard mclaren a special prosecutor on behalf of the world anti-doping agency named the number of affected cases. and there are also or one hundred fifty five samples awaiting analysis and were seized by water and we also reported those t

special counsel robert mueller indicted manafort as well as co constantine culimnic.me now, ladies welcome to you both. katie, to you first here. these new charges against manafort not directly linked to the russia investigation of election meddling, but they did come from the investigation. so what happens now with manafort's case? >> well, manafort's case has actually gotten stronger if you're robert mueller. and why? because these two new charges added in this third superseding indictment potentially add time and exposure for mueller but it is a direct link between an alleged codefendant between an american and a russian, the russian being constantine kilimnik. if you think about it, alex, if you're out on bail and a significant one for paul manafort and you're able to prepare for your defense to go to trial at the end of late july and then your bond gets revoked and your in jail you have more incentive to perhaps flip on people higher up in the food chain. there was a late night filing on friday by the manafort defense team in response of attempts to revoke the ba

or constantine. a free shift he joins us from the capital. welcome to why has suddenly changed its mind. load leverage let me try again it's like we're having some communication difficulties. groaned and. why has changed its mind about accepting this ruling. well first of all as you correctly mentioned that is one of the most entrenched conflicts on the african continent and for eighteen years there have been no movement whatsoever and i was out of this the. situation between eritrea and ethiopia and i think there's a lot of lot of influence of the new prime minister abi ahmed here now it's your guy who is trying to turn the page to either nationally or less like a message obviously dismissiveness still got a hostile internationally and he obviously knows very well that that border conflict with their injury as one of the most important challenges domestic policy that is that it's your guys facing at the moment so dressing this issue is that why we move you know already reached out to him to be at its inaugural speech. in the parliament two m

chronicling the tribune story the struggle for constantine a. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. african heads of state and government will gather in mauritania with a thirty post assembly of the african union ongoing conflicts in the fight against corruption will take center stage al-jazeera will bring you extensive coverage of the summit and its outcomes the african union summit on al-jazeera. on counting the cost the european union is trying to change we'll look at the reasons why the economic cost of violence in mexico plus the timber companies accused of endangering the world's second largest rainforest. counting the cost on our visit. every year in pakistan hundreds of women are victims of so-called honor killing one on one east searches for the truth in a case that exposes the growing clash between old beliefs and modern life on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. that's. where ever you. you're watching al-jazeera i'm so robin and these are all top news stories more than one hundred refugees and migrants are missing feared drowned after their boa

that i'm now joined by a prominent russian economist and a professor at the university of chicago constantine soni and mr sun is good to talk to you thank you very much for your time from him now i know that your a big football buff and i know that you are very enthusiastic about the world cup in russia not as a way of bringing russia to do world by there's a way of bringing the world to russia particularly the provinces do you seeing all these openness all this hospitality the smiles bildad all disappear in a few weeks or do you think it will be more lasting economists try to measure the impact of three world cups and one thing that we know is that they make people they make people this company this will fade away maybe in a couple of months or maybe a year but two people and i think any example of open some tolerance brought tour. is a good thing even for two weeks now like most economists i know you're quite skeptical of the state's massive presence in the economy because it's supposed to be. more corrupt and i suppose less efficient and yet the few. take the example of the world cup. was

welcome back to worlds apart that constantine son and professor at the university of chicago's harris school of public policy it is just one in three just before the break we started talking about the reform to increase or the proposal to increase the retirement age. for the russians and i think everybody agreed that this kind of proposal is motivated by one of the most accurate challenges for the russian economy the prospect that shrinking it in its labor force i saw some of the speakers cited for example by a russian economist alexei kudrin that russia may lose about ten million also it's working age population over the next ten or fifteen years. i suppose an increase in retirement age should not solve the problem long do you expect it to be sort of a stand alone policy or would it have to be accompanied by some i think this is sort of a technical adjustment so mrs clear there is some happiness at the highest level with the economic situation is there is no desire to make reforms these sequence some accountant contestants for example there is not enough money to pay pensions these t

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swedish con princess victoriana husband constantin all celebrated the country's national holiday on wednesday with the rest of the country. i'm very happy to be here on sweden's national day in this unique environment. the swedish flag could be seen at parties large and small points a story and i don't know why national day exists but it's still a day of the people. on jena six fifteen twenty three sweden dissolved its union the denmark and became an independent nation. to. a room at florence's renowned gallery has reopened with a collection of works by renaissance masters michelangelo and raphael. the hanging is designed to highlight the artistic exchange between the two contemporaries so viewers can better recognize the artistic influence they exercise on one another. michelangelo and rephase both lived in the wealthy city in european center of ot for four years. on wednesday the national museum of natural history in paris unveiled its newest display a fossilised forest rex estimated to be about sixty seven million years old the skeleton is twelve and a half metres long and four metres high

what's happening in america and how the process happens zingales and this is actually a piece from constantine there are also symmetric incentives for the firms to engage in rent seeking as in galley's notes if the ability to influence a political power increases with economic power so doesn't need to do so because the greater the market power a firm has the greater the fear of expiration by the political power this sounds extreme but it is quite intuitive as a firm gains market power its prices rise above the marginal cost yielding abnormal economic profits to the firm at the expense of consumers the governments can and do claim political mandate to limit these profits by taxing the market dominant firms profits either through regulation or direct taxation thus express in part of the abnormal returns i want to point out that you know trump is a business guy first and now he's president and you know you saw that tweet trump said. meijer drug companies to announce massive voluntary price decreases in two weeks this is part of that fear of these pharmaceutical companies who have intellectual pro

stop the upcoming election as police investigate a grenade attack at a campaign rally on saturday constantine urging wenger was one of the forty nine people injured in the explosion which targeted president amberson millon guard one security is now being stepped up ahead of next month's vote and england have beaten panama six one in their biggest win the football world cup. the results fired up five six a kills their team's place in the last sixteen of the tournament and russia captain hurricane seal a deal with the hatrick those were the headlines i'll be back with more news in half an hour next it's inside story do stay with us. is the battle for the rock decisive for the war in syria the province which was the cradle of the syrian revolution is under massive bombardment would rick tree for the government signal an end to more than seven years of fighting and what are the regional implications of the battle this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm dennis though it was graffiti in the city of daraa that spot syria's revolution in twenty eleven but what started as a peaceful

to change their story that's why these new charges have been raised also and the indictment is constantine minnick who is an all time friend of paul from his stint in ukraine what there for ten years as a pollster a translator essentially a political fixer for poor mother forte and he becomes the twentieth person and dated by the robert miller russia investigation this is all part of robert miller's investigation into alleged corruption into possible collusion between the campaign and the russians during the twenty sixteen election campaign and the charges also added to those that. are already faces which include tax and bank fraud and money laundering and of course on all of these charges paul metaphor pleads not guilty or allan thanks very much indeed and fischer reporting there from washington d.c. four palestinians have been killed in gaza including a fifteen year old boy after israeli forces fired tear gas and live bullets of protesters at the border medics say more than six hundred others have been injured in the violence on thursday israeli military planes dropped leaflets into the

constantine fraser, analyst, european research at t5 lombard. nice to see you.his idea and the companies that might be involved and see parts of their assets up for sale, give your ta ke their assets up for sale, give your take on emmanuel macron‘s plans. their assets up for sale, give your take on emmanuel macron's plans. the french government owns about 100 ileum poems were of equity —— 100 billion of equity in companies chose adp, gambling company fdj and energy company engie. the idea is to start selling off parts of the french government's the french state's sta ke government's the french state's stake in these firms to raise money to invest in riskier and more cutting—edge technology. to invest in riskier and more cutting—edge technologym to invest in riskier and more cutting-edge technology. it sounds 0k in theory, what about in practice in france, a lot of opposition? this is going to be controversial with some parts of the political spectrum in france, especially on the left and the far right. i don't think it should pose too much of a problem for the p

that i'm now joined by a prominent russian economist and a professor at the university of chicago constantin soni and the son is good to talk to you thank you very much for your time for her and now i know that your a big football buff and i know that you are very enthusiastic about the world cup in russia not as a way of bringing russia to do world but there's a way of bringing the world to russia particularly the provinces do you seeing all of these open this all this hospitality the smiles bildad all disappear in a few weeks or do you think it will be more lasting economists try to measure the impact of the world cups and one thing that we know is that they make people they make people this campaign this will fade to leave maybe in a couple of months or maybe in the year that's two people and i think any example of open some tolerance by. to russia. is a good thing even for two weeks now like most economists i know you're quite skeptical of the state's massive presence in the economy because it's supposed to be. more corrupt and i suppose last efficient and yet the free take the example o

that i'm now joined by a prominent russian economist and a professor at the university of chicago constantin soni and the son is good to talk to you thank you very much for your time for permits.

and he was allegedly trying to get them to change their story now also on this indictment is constantine kilmeny who's an auld friend of mine a fourth what does his political pour stuff his political fixer his translator on paul matter for what in the ukraine for the best part of ten years and he becomes the twentieth person indicted by robert miller's investigation into possible russian collusion with the trump campaign this all comes under that umbrella of ford is also facing charges of tax fraud of bank fraud and of money laundering and all of these charges you have to remember that says he is innocent over schneider is a professor of public policy at george mason university says the new charges give mueller more leverage in understanding the inner workings of the trunk campaign. well the case against man of ford is a bit separate from the investigation of president trump because man of fort the crimes he's been accused of doing are things he did in his lobbying firm like money laundering and tax evasion before he was so sweet with the trump campaign but it in what these charges do is

and he was allegedly trying to get them to change their story now also on this indictment is constantine kill mimic an auld friend of mine a fourth what does his political pour stuff his political fixer his translator on paul matter for what in the ukraine for the best part of ten years and he becomes the twentieth person indicted by robert miller's investigation into possible russian collusion with the trump campaign this all comes under that umbrella. is also facing charges of tax fraud of bank fraud and of money laundering and all of these charges you have to remember that paul says he is innocent. the world health organization says that the better outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is stabilizing the director general. says he is cautiously optimistic after a decrease in the number of cases reported in the past week more than one thousand eight hundred health workers have received an experimental vaccine for the virus and the agency says it's also day nancy more than fifty million dollars to countries bordering the d.l.c. to help improve much and seek have. the united states

and he was allegedly trying to get them to change their story now also on this indictment is constantine kilmeny who's an old friend of mine a fort's what does his political pull stuff his political fixer his translator on pomona for what in the ukraine for the best part of ten years and he becomes the twentieth person indicted by robert miller's investigation into possible russian collusion with the trump campaign this all comes under that umbrella. is also facing charges of tax fraud of bank fraud and of money laundering and all of these charges you have to remember that says he is innocent. and the co-founder of the animation giant pixar is to leave the company by the end of the year john lasseter has been on a six month leave of absence over what he called missteps which included giving unwanted hugs that made female colleagues uncomfortable last attila's the creative mind behind box office favorites like toy story frozen and finding he'll take on a consulting role with pixel's parent company disney until the end of the year. now there's an ancient practice in the middle east during