putin did not agree to answer my questions, but his closest aide, dmitry peskov did.the answer is very simple, no. you're humiliating yourselves saying a country can intervene in your election process. america, a huge country, country number with the most powerful country in the world, that's simply impossible. >> reporter: we will get at the truth of all this, but to do that, we need to go back to the final days of the country vladimir putin loved. >> i think that down deep in putin, there is this sense of extraordinary humiliation over the collapse of the soviet union. because it wasn't just the soviet union, it was the russian empire. [ chanting ] >> reporter: putin returned home from his kgb posting in 1990 to a country he did not recognize. the ussr had been transformed. by the policy of openness. >> a lot of things happened very quickly. >> coca-cola. coca-co coca-cola. >> the romance with things western. [ chanting ] >> reporter: freedom came fast, and it exposed the rock at the heart of soviet communiscommuni. across the soviet union, hundreds of thousands of

diplomats they said this is an unfriendly act and will not go without consequences from and spokesman dmitri peskov said that president putin would make the final decision about how moscow is going to respond so we will see some sort of tit for tat in the days to come if germany expels for russian diplomats moscow is going to do the same and they will definitely expel more americans after washington is kicking out more than sixty russian diplomats that being said moscow has the konami interests germany and the e.u. are still very important trade partners so i don't think that russia is interested right now in making a bad situation worse but really gets it in brussels what do we learn from the fact that only hof of a you countries have backed this move. that means of the other is still in doubt if these measures are really necessary and really effective and that's why e.u. council president on interest could only say that is highly likely that russia is behind the attacks with the nerve agent there is for him no other plausible explanation but there's still no real evidence for some of the countrie

russian double agent and his daughter as an act of terrorism russian presidential spokesperson dmitri peskov spoke to sophie shevardnadze about the case . first we have to remember and the starting point is the you know words of president putin that russia has nothing to do with this accident. this is number one number two. we're not speaking about no attempt to murder to murder a russian spy in great britain where speaking about attempt to murder a british spy in great britain he was handed in to britain as a result of exchange so why would russia and eighteen a man that is of any importance or that is of any value it's unimaginable number three. the first blaming came from politicians just a couple of hours after the accident a couple of hours after the accident and now what we see we see words of experts and experts of organization for four or four. p.c. w. . that say that the preliminary examining of this agent will take about three weeks . is it contradictory yes it is. on the blame game has extended into areas once considered beyond the political point scoring. churkin to find an educa

british diplomats he'll do it in his own good time i can tell you in the meantime though that dmitri peskov president putin's spokesman has responded to boris johnson's comments that you run just a moment there go directly accusing putin himself of ordering likely ordering the use of this chemical weapon on british soil dmitry peskov calling that shocking and unforgiving ball you know in circumstances like this and they have been plenty like them where the kremlin is issued accusations of wrongdoing by outside countries particularly the west it tends either to massively escalate in response in the hope that the opposite side will fold first which they often do or in perhaps more complicated situations plead innocence repeatedly deny any involvement and then reach for a sort of more reasonable if not moral high ground and that seems to be the situation here mr peskov earlier saying this is no time for the apocalyptic language of the cold war essentially russia has done nothing wrong it has offered its help in resolving this in the investigation if these london that has failed to produce evid

russian presidential spokesman dmitri peskov spoke exclusively to sophie shevardnadze about the script case. first we have to remember the starting point is the you know words of president putin that russia has nothing to do with this accident. the first blaming. came from politicians just a couple of hours after the accident. and now what we see we see words of experts and experts of organization for four or four. p.c. w. . that say that the preliminary examining of this agent will take about three weeks . is it contradictory yes it is. four people were killed in southern france when a gunmen hijacked a car and took hostages of a supermarket in a small town on friday the attacker pledged allegiance to islamic state before he was shot dead by special forces. in the movie i went shopping with my wife and sister in law after some time we had an explosion well several. i saw a man lying on the floor and another person who was very agitated with a handgun in one hand and a knife in the other and yelling allahu akbar. after that i took my wife and my sister in law and some customers nearby

the kremlin spokes person dmitri peskov told a russian t.v. channel that britain's campaign against russia is unparalleled. in your the new what we're seeing now is unprecedented affront or even think there's never been a case where a country's being accused of something which the accusers cannot even articulate themselves and they're not even trying to articulate it all i can say is this whole case is unprecedented it verges on a sort of gangsterism in international affairs as to what's behind this it's either the ukase internal issues all the problems london may be facing in relation with its allies or maybe something else that's probably none of our business we're focused on how to handle these provocations president putin is keeping a cool head in this situation and unlike his british counterpart isn't going beyond diplomatically appropriate rhetoric putin laid out his position of the very beginning he said our internal affairs are our first and foremost priority and the poisoning incident happened on british soil you have to first get you

sophie shevardnadze discussed in an exclusive interview with russian presidential spokesperson dmitri peskov and you can watch the full interview all day friday for now a quick preview. we have to remember the starting point is the you know words of president putin that russia has nothing to do with this accident and maybe it's a very rude comparison especially in this situation i don't think that anything can be big can be ruder than their reality but nonetheless just imagine moscow city car accident. there is a victim of the car accident and we see what was the car and the car was a british me car let's say a range rover and just imagine that myself or foreign ministry spokeswoman makes a statement that the man was killed by a british made car in a car accident in center of moscow and highly likely a prime minister of prime minister of great britain may be responsible of that murder. is it crazy is it crazy it is crazy. we're not speaking about. attempt to murder or to murder a russian spy in great britain where spinning about attempt to murder a british spy in great britain if he's handed

the issues that they discussed and exclusive interview with russian presidential spokesperson dmitri peskov you can watch the full interview on friday for now here's a preview. first we we have to remember the starting point is the words of president putin that russia has nothing to do with this accident. this is number one number two. we're now speaking about. attempt to murder to murder russian spy in great britain where speaking about attempt to murder a british spy and great britain he was a british spy he's a british spy he's not a russian spy. well he's a russian citizen but he's no directions but he was and did in. to britain as a result of exchange so why would russia hand in command that is of any importance or that is of any value it's unimaginable so even if he's handed in so russia quits with him he's of zero value of zero importance go ahead so this is number one number two. words of president putin. where not as crazy as to is to even to think about something of that kind. before presidential elections and before such important event global event as. football championship. num

meantime kremlin spokes person dmitri peskov been talking exclusively to r.t. sophie shevardnadze about this cripple case. first we have to remember and this turning point is the words of president putin that russia has nothing to do with this accident. the first blaming. came from politicians just a couple of hours after the accident. and now we're see we see words of experts and experts of organization for four or four. p.c. w. . that see that the preliminary examining of this agent will take about three weeks is it contradictory yes it is. france was struck by terrorism again on friday want to government hijacked a car and took hostages at a supermarket in a small southern town three people died that day while a fourth succumbed to his injuries on saturday the attacker had pledged allegiance to islamic state and was eventually shot dead by special forces. in the movie i went shopping with my wife and sister in law after some time we had an explosion well several. i saw a man lying on the floor and another person who was very agitated with a handgun in one ha

sophie shevardnadze discussed in an exclusive interview with russian presidential spokesperson dmitri peskov you can watch the full interview here on friday all day long on friday about his for now though a quick preview. first we we have to remember the starting point is the words of president putin that russia has nothing to do with this accident. this is number one number two. we're now speaking about. attempt to murder to murder russian spy in great britain where speaking about attempt to murder a british spy and great britain if he's handed in so russia quits with him he's going to zero value of zero importance. go ahead so this is number one number two. words of president putin. so we're not as crazy as to is to even to think about something of that kind. before presidential elections and before such an important event global event as. football championship. number three. the first blaming came from politicians just a couple of hours after the accident and now we see we see words of experts and experts of forgiveness in four four four. p.c. w. that say that the preliminary examining of

one of the few in europe that pushes to lift sanctions imposed on russia kremlin spokesperson dmitri peskov has said that in this situation any role and a voice that will be especially to british counterparts to take a more adequate situation in this matter is in the mountains he's been talking about whether a mediator is needed in this situation but all strip is an outside most of the western countries of course sided with the u.k. an expulsion of a one hundred russian diplomats including the u.s. canada france and australia now this whole diplomatic standoff has been ongoing now for a few weeks since a case crippled or was found unconscious on a park bench in seoul on march the fourth and it was later revealed by u.k. authorities that they were subjected to and the agents allegedly a type produced in the save it union but in this investigation that is still ongoing of course and russia has repeatedly denied any involvement and repeatedly offered assistance in the investigation. ok thanks to an issue that was r.t. this is sethi there with the latest for moscow house call the expulsion of r

government is one of the few in europe that pushes to lift sanctions on russia and kremlin spokesperson dmitri peskov has said that in this situation any role any voice that will spend british counterparts to be more adequate in the situation is needed he's been talking about whether a mediator is really needed in a situation like this but all strip is an outside most western country sided with the u.k. expelling over one hundred russian diplomats including the us canada and australia as well now this whole diplomatic standoff now it's been ongoing for about three weeks since his daughter were found and conscious on the bench in seoul three now it was later revealed by u.k. authorities that they suspected the never agent was allegedly a type produced in the savior teenie and in this. investigation though that is still ongoing of course and russia has repeatedly denied any involvement and repeatedly offered assistance and cooperation as well moscow has called the expulsion of russian diplomats a baseless sanction and judging by what the u.k. has offered as evidence so far the allegations were based no

sophie shevardnadze discussed in an exclusive interview with russian presidential spokesperson dmitri peskov and you can watch the full interview all day friday for now a preview. we have to remember the starting point is the you know words of president putin that russia has nothing to do with this accident. we're not speaking about. attempt to murder or to murder a russian spy in great britain where speaking about attempt to murder a british spy in great britain if he's handed in so russia quits with him he is of zero value of zero importance go ahead. we're not as crazy as to is to even to think about something of that kind. before presidential elections and before such important event global event as. football championship. the first blaming came from politicians just a couple of hours after the accident and now what we see we see words of experts and experts of organization for p.c. w. . that say that the preliminary examining of this agent will take about three weeks . is it contradictory yes it is. i've. just one example is the our facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg has now for t

no plausible alternative explanation other than russia being to blame the kremlin spokesperson dmitri peskovsaid that russia will respond to expunge expulsion but i'm reminded that the chemical weapons body who are conducting this investigation said it will take another two to three weeks to finalize the analysis and finalize results the kremlin has denied involvement with the attack this month but we are yet to receive more official statements from european governments ok thank you for giving us. thank you to both of our correspondents those nations that the in berlin. in washington thank you. in other news facebook's mark zuckerberg to cancel a series of newspaper archives in the u.s. and britain on sunday apologizing for his failure to protect users data he says the company will now do its best to ensure it doesn't happen again a poll conducted for reuters in the u.s. last week suggests facebook is the least trusted major american tech company only forty one percent of respondents said they had faith in the social network following the recent scandal several i.t. specialists claim that fa

is there any evidence please show it to us so if there is no evidence why do you punish us and dmitri peskov spokesman spokesperson all the problems that president putin is going to announce in the days to come how russia is going to react. absolutely and also how the e.u. may react further we'll go to you that with that burnt because how unified is the e.u. really in its response because we know that not all member states have decided to take part have they. of the member states participating in that effort so you can say the glass is half empty but you quote could also say the glass is half full and that it's certainly the e.u. institutions doing because never this effect the not all on board the biggest member states namely germany france spain poland italy all participating in these concerted effort and this consortium is as such is a big success or it's if you say if you see that the united states canada australia and others on board so the west is has closed its ratings and this is seen here in brussels as a huge success and a show of solidarity for the british despite the fact that br

kremlin is wearing it's world weary here we go again nothing to do with us hats at the moment dmitri peskov of the spokes person says the it hasn't taken long for claims to be made in the u.k. that there was some kind of malign russian influence here he says u.k. authorities have mostly approached moscow for any assistance yet but that of course there would be interaction given if such a request was received beyond that so the kremlin there's not really much to say because they don't actually have any more information there's been pithy response from elsewhere in russian official them the russian embassy in london has hit back the comments made by boris johnson the u.k. foreign minister now the embassy there says that one gets a strong impression that a sonar you have it yet another anti russian campaign has already been written also comments from russian parliamentarian calls lugovoy who says that britain's suffer from phobias if something happens to a russian they immediately start looking for a russian trial well if that name andre lugovoy is familiar to anyone in our audience that's pro

dmitri peskov president putin's spokesman has directly and very swiftly responded to those comments by boris johnson the foreign secretary in london pretty much directly accusing putin of giving the order to use not be chocolate nerve agent on u.k. soil mr peskov calling those comments shocking and unforgivably the war of words clearly escalating what happens in terms of moscow's response remains in the air we know from two days of comments from love rob saying basically sergey lavrov the foreign minister saying basically the same thing that he is going to expel british diplomats but not yet saying how many or when we await a more concrete response from moscow in situations like this and they have been periods precedence where the kremlin is accused by the west of some wrongdoing or other they tend to go down one of two avenues either escalate frantically in the hope that the other side concedes folds or if the situation is more difficult perhaps plead innocence repeatedly denied involvement and then reach for a sort of more reasonable high ground which seems to be the situation in thi

essentially is being portrayed as a kind of anti russian media campaign in the united kingdom dmitry peskov who's the kremlin spokesperson said earlier on today that the british media are not always famed for their impartiality so that's the kind of official message but yes beyond that of course i think the kremlin is going to be certainly working out where britain is likely to strike back what kind of measures they may take and they're probably looking i think what's going on in the in the british media the moments in the kind of measures that are being talked about over there barnaby was just going through some of them i mean if this was a state sanctioned attack within the united kingdom that came from the kremlin or bodies just below it then i would have thought that there would have been some kind of risk assessment done before that was taken into account before the actual assassins were sent on their way and therefore the russians must already have calculated again i say if this was a state attack. that the u.k. response would be limited and that therefore whatever measures that russi

the allegations against russia absolutely boorish and an example of russophobia in the meantime dmitri peskov the russian president's spokesman has said that you can and you can expect an answer from us any time you won't have to wait long but he pointed out that russia considers britain's position absolutely irresponsible and simply doesn't understand british britain's position and what seems to be happening here is that russia is increasingly falling back settling on a position to do with correct procedure correct obligate obligations being fulfilled in terms of the chemical weapons convention membership of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons in terms of which russia believes a sample of this nerve agent must be submitted to the o.p.c. w. all members to the convention must have time to consider it and russia must have ten days worth of time to give its considered response britain essentially has jumped the gun as far as moscow is concerned it stands ready to cooperate with any investigation but it won't be dictated to that is russia's position currently as we await furt

more reasonable upper hand and that seems to be what's going on in this case we've heard from dmitri peskov the presidential spokesman in the last hour also saying there's no need for talk of a new cold war here he called such talk apocalyptic and unnecessary for the time being though he did say the kremlin was surprised by london's actions which he said contradict not just international frameworks but also common sense london he said will simply have to engage with russia at some point to sort all this out and you could read that as the kremlin saying let's everybody just carm things down now there's an election in forty eight hours here let's take the pot off the boil for the moment and resume sometime next week jonah thanks very much let's talk to barnaby phillips who's in london for us this hour on the b. obviously the u.k. government knew this was coming and i guess they'll be trying to second guess what may happen next. yes i mean that they'll be anticipating the these explosions peter that's right i think what's interesting here in the u.k. is the fact that a lone dissenting voice ha

finally the call comes not from putin but from dmitri peskov. putin apologizes.doesn't have time meet him. he has to meet with the king of will holland but he hopes he can come to the upcoming olympics in sochi. trump is keenly disappointed. why? what he was doing there was trying to do a business deal. he was trying to do this deal for a trump tower in moscow. he knows he needs putin's approval for that to go through and meeting putin was a key part of that. i know the final chapters of the story have not been written. >> do you think there was collusion? was there direct coordination about releasing the wikileaks e-mails et cetera in fr? >> did donald trump sit down with russian agents and decide what dnc e-mails to sxhak release? no. that's pretty unlikely. throughout the campaign, part of the purpose of the book was pulling together the things that you and i reported on and lived through and give a bigger picture. a bigger idea of what happened during the campaign. and you saw it, trump himself kept denying that anything was going on in terms of russian meddl

here we go again nothing to do with us hats it has said in a statement earlier today coming from dmitri peskov who's the kremlin spokesperson for the you know claims in the u.k. of a russian connection here haven't taken long in coming that the u.k. or thorazine is haven't yet to moscow for any help but that moscow is always open to interaction that is something that i think will raise eyebrows in london given the history of the libyan yanker case beyond that the kremlin says that it has no more information and can therefore give no more comment we have had something a little more pithy from a duma deputy here called on great lugovoy now he says that the britons suffer from phobias and that if something happens to a russian they immediately start looking for a russian trail one cannot rule out he says that the media will try to stir up another scandal around this putting further forward accusations against the russian special services now if lugovoy is a familiar name for any of our view is that is because he is one of the two russians that is wanted in the united kingdom for the murder of ale

phone call with agalaroff, his cell phone rings, trump hopes it's going to be putin, in fact, it's dmitry peskovs press spokesman, who gets on the phone, apologizes to trump and says, sorry, the president is tide ed up, but he hopes trump can go to the sochi olympics, and also he has a gift for him. which is then delivered shortly thereafter back in new york by agalaroff's daughter to the miss universe pageant. it's that black lacquered box. inside is a personal note from vladimir putin to donald trump. what did the note say? what was in that gift? that's one of the many mysteries that are still have yet to be unraveled here. you know, i've got to say, in some respects, this whole story is like one of those russian nesting dolls. you know, you take out one and then there's another, and below it, you keep going until you get to the bottom. we haven't gotten to the bottom. we haven't yet figured out what's in that black lacquered box and what that note said. >> i want to ask about something you write about in the book, when you talk about a trip that trump took to las vegas. that happened about fi

the best part of a week now and we heard more of it from the kremlin just an hour or so ago with dmitri peskov who is the kremlin spokesperson saying we haven't heard statements by british politicians or official representatives that russia is somehow involved in this case the matter concerns let's put it this way he says various informational exercises by the british media which are not always famed for their impartiality what's the kremlin and the foreign ministry has been saying for days now is that this is an anti russian media campaign coming out of the united kingdom now there is of course i think behind all that bluster the awareness that this is. a matter that i think is is playing very heavily on the minds of british politicians and they are going to have to do something so we have russian correspondents reporting from the u.k. that ciena russians are finding it difficult to sort of speak in public in their mother tongue there that there's a certain atmosphere in the russian community where they're preparing themselves for some kind of retribution some kind of pushback i have to say t

protocol in these sorts of matters whether they'll go further than that we'll have to wait and see dmitri peskov the the presidential spokesman saying you won't have to wait long for our answer calling britain's position absolutely irresponsible and saying that moscow simply doesn't understand the british position and more and more it looks as though moscow is falling back on this position that there is a protocol that there is a procedure to be followed in these sorts of matters with the o.p.c. w.'s cousin was talking about there in terms of which britain needs to supply an example of this nerve agent a sample of it to the o.p.c. w. all the parties then to the convention will have a look at it and have a think about it and russia will have ten days to respond that is russia's position it will it will help the investigation but it's not going to be dictated to now boris johnson says that he has indeed now sent a sample to the o.p.c. w indeed france one of britain's closest allies has said that whilst it is outraged by the use of a military grade nerve agent on british soil it's not prepared to t

the allegations against russia absolutely boorish and an example of russophobia in the meantime dmitri peskov the russian president's spokesman has said that you can and you can expect an answer from us any time you won't have to wait long but he pointed out that russia considers britain's position absolutely irresponsible and simply doesn't understand british britain's position and what seems to be happening here is that russia is increasingly falling back settling on a position to do with correct procedure correct obligate obligations being fulfilled in terms of the chemical weapons convention membership of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons in terms of which russia believes a sample of this nerve agent must be submitted to the o.p.c. w. all members to the convention must have time to consider it and russia must have ten days worth of time to give its considered response britain essentially has jumped the gun as far as moscow is concerned it stands ready to cooperate with any investigation but it won't be dictated to that is russia's position currently as we await furt

order for this military grade nerve agent to be used on british soil he's put in spokesman that is dmitri peskov shot back pretty quickly that that was shocking and unforgivably language to implicate the president directly something he said he'd never known any other nation ever to do so as the rhetoric goes up meanwhile we await concrete responses from the russian side to of course to reason may's decision to expel twenty three diplomats from the russian embassy in london we know that mr lavrov is intent on doing something similar here as fits with protocol in these matters and history and precedent but we haven't heard yet how many or who they may be or when and as to when that may come well the answer is all in good time at the moment though russia seems to be engaged in a policy of sort of denial and deflection simply deny denying any involvement in any of this pleading innocence at deflecting blame it entirely on to london saying look we've said from the start we are willing to cooperate in the investigation we've offered our help it is london that has failed to provide us with any informat

a russian presidential spokesperson dmitri peskov spoke exclusively to sophie shevardnadze about the script al case. first we we have to remember and the starting point is the words of president putin that russia has nothing to do with this accident. the first blaming came from politicians just a couple of hours after the accident and now we're see we see words of experts and experts of organization for four or four. p.c. w. . that say that the preliminary examining of this agent will take about three weeks is it contradictory yes it is. four people were killed in southern france when a gunman hijacked a car and took hostages of a supermarket in a small town on friday the attacker pledged allegiance to islamic state before he was shot dead by special forces. in the movie i went shopping with my wife and sister in law after some time we had an explosion well several. i saw a man lying on the floor and another person who was very agitated with a handgun in one hand and a knife in the other and yelling allahu akbar. after that i took my wife and my sister in law and some customers nearb

the establishment who has spoken is the establishment who has spoken is the kremlin spokesman, dmitry peskovc and russian media, and says russia did not know what sergei skripal was up to in the years which followed his release. he called the incident tragic, he said moscow would cooperate if asked, but noted that so far it has not requested any assistance from the uk. he has stressed that the figure of agitation from some western media will already be pointing towards russia, she said he didn't take that that like they did it take them long tojump to the that like they did it take them long to jump to the conclusion. the only other people who spoke on the subject where those connected to alexander lived jin—young ko, subject where those connected to alexander livedjin—young ko, this was an mp and a businessman who are both directly connected to the british enquiry and the previous murder. both of the incident in england could be used as a provocation to tar russia, to diminish russia's reputation. with me now is lord ricketts, the former national security advisor. and also heidi blake, edit