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barbara was aiming for st petersburg moscow and kiev ukraine 3 destinations of major significance. ukraine with its rich lands and resources was an important industrial and economic source for the u.s.s.r. to cut it off from the soviet union would strike a big blow indeed. for most of the soviet union the 2nd world war was about fighting the invaders of the land. but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war 2 broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. c. and not to go and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than $80000.00 people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galad seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the

the world seem to busy welcoming this new democracy in kiev. to notice what was being done as it spread its wings over the country. many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january 2014 the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at an

this led to the pro russian demonstrations rejecting the new government in kiev. on february 27th the government buildings in the capital of crimea were seized by pro russian protesters. the current crimean government was dismissed and the new leader surrogate acciona was assigned as the leader of the crimean. autonomy's republic when you. go to war so you has this should be. on march 16th the crimean referendum morsi held and the people voted to leave ukraine and enter the russian federation. the situation in crimea is being presented as a russian invasion and again nobody who looks at the seriously and looks at the poll numbers and some of the poll numbers done by the u.s. government agencies themselves showing that the people of crimea prefer being part of russia in the u.s. news media it's all been presented as the russians invaded they then station sham election with people with guns at their backs somehow the big the ballot boxes to get 96 percent approval for rejoining russia idea of a referendum in crimea is just quite simply unconstitutional but it does r

at the one protesting the new government in kiev. on april 6th the crimean scenario began repeating eastern ukraine where protesters seized government buildings. and the next day the full 7 day proclaimed don't yet see people's republic kiev replied by announcing the beginning of an anti-terrorist operation in eastern ukraine. by that time the international media was screaming about a russian invasion in ukraine russia could now be on the verge of invading ukraine but strong words state only in the media the ukrainian authorities never announced a war like situation why i.m.f. cannot give money to countries and gaged an ongoing war that's roboto shango. when you go to of showable go to geneva too much money was already invested in ukraine to stop halfway had invested over $5000000000.00 to assist. ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic train. mccarthy writes in a city. new democracy just. some of them but obviously the funds had to keep coming and the conflict had to keep going. and m

violent clashes erupted in the ukrainian capital kiev as more than 100000 people protested against a government decision to delay an association deal with. the tele you were minister of interior affairs for the ukraine during this period and you were chief of police essentially of the country can you tell me your version of what happened from november protests through february protests in middle school in 4 months or. so who do these issues but not some of them nor. does all of. them. mean you throw. but decide you're. going to be as consumers are semi outs a new leader of the opposite. party father in that book leader of the opposition nationalist far right political parties vitali klitschko leader of the opposition party who die both e.u. and ukrainian officials said on thursday the suspension of talks on closer ties could be revived after the 2 day meeting but officials said the deal was off the table. for a. pro e.u. protests on the streets of kiev and to their 2nd day the crowd of a round of 1000 protesters were joined by the leader of the opposition or any well boxing champion

you go back to kiev the next day after the meeting with merkel. and protests are up my right can you take me through that period. by the minute the worst with the mutiny ox see. more snow. yet at the mobil have. to go to. me a pretty much. for the little move on you bill to grow. up just in the coming few months what you see is little bizarre i don't like the interest of the least a little to shift my ground. robert perry is a longtime investigative journalist based in washington d.c. best known for his major disclosures about the iran contra scandal in the 1980 s. he is the founder of consortium news where he has reported extensively on the crisis in ukraine and the forces behind the unrest and in geo is a non-governmental organization how many n.g.o.s are quite legitimate they represent good causes that maybe they help people in a country the door deal with water problems or deal with various kinds of social problems but there are some n.g.o.s that have become funded by government entities and serve more the purpose of that government rather tha

is erupted in the ukrainian capital kiev fast rules and 100000 people protested against a government decision to delay an association deal with the e.u. . the tele you are a minister of interior affairs for the ukraine during this period when you were chief of police essentially of the country can you tell me your version of what happened from november protests through february protests. these are ship with. them. and putting it. right but this on your. see it appears consumers are semi a new leader of the opposition party fatherland book leader of the opposition nationalist far right political party vitali klitschko leader of the opposition party you. both e.u. and ukrainian officials said on thursday the suspension of talks on closer ties could be revived after the 2 day meeting but officials said the deal was off the table for. war. pro e.u. protests on the streets of kiev and to their 2nd day the crowd of iran a 1000 protesters were joined by the leader of the opposition or any well boxing champion vitaly klitschko he called on the demonstrators to maintain pressure on the govern

as nick connolly joins us from outside the ukrainian parliament in kiev nick a t.v. sitcom actor who played the president is about to be sworn in as as the real thing is supposed to be a surreal moment for ukraine. good morning terry well he has just walked down the red carpet since ukraine's parliament behind me to begin his inauguration this has indeed been a pretty surreal couple of weeks here the campaign it was often difficult to tell what was fact and fiction so let's give the candidate using clips of himself from the series in which he played a president to become the president for real something which he did very successfully but it seems ukrainians have got used to that thought of the comedian being then you present extraordinarily quickly i think it really takes that outside perspective to really remember quite how unusual situation is let's take a look at how we got that i want you expecting. my. it was a result that even zelinsky himself seen you couldn't quite believe 73 percent almost 3 quarters of ukraine voters had put their trust in him as the politi

it's a practical point in terms of it's not what kiev does. it is what the kremlin thinks it is in their short-term interest to do there. they currently test this guy, think of him as a russian speaker, he can speak directly through russians. you worry about that, the kremlin is, i would always argue, it's priority one through five through ten. bible, then it's may believe about russian self-interests, economic, it's about regime survival. putin has been in power for almost 20 years. it's remarkable. it can't last. how it goes probably on his mind all the time. and i guess the west is also thinking it's really just about russia. it's about our relationship with russia, how can we manage putin's aggression, the driving impetus behind ukraine in 2014 but it was also about how do we not provoke anything that would lead to war. the obama administration decided not to give ukrainians arms because russia has more at stake in ukraine than we ever will. there's a feeling that if ukraine falls somehow, the post cold war order that we have created alway

here in kiev but that's because that's the persons of interest he's a trust to clean up. sort of the sense of corruption objectives that are facing him with mr wharton was just that the more it is the most politically experienced guy and he is appointed to the position or for office for mr zinni else king or if the person who they call the back office stuff all the dirty work for this purpose i think that that he fits perfectly now our ukrainians are known for their exquisite sense of humor and i think the success of his lenski is a testament to that but i think you would also perhaps agree that what people in ukraine and in many other post soviet countries want to see is some sort of meritocracy rather than a new leader coming in and appointing his close friends in the position of power big arliss of what they have. a necessary experience on not it's understandable in the 1st few days of administration but do you think that approach would have to change as mrs m m's q moves forward more again. was a promise that was absolutely clear stated in the movie that time will com

nick thank you so much they do as nick connelly there in kiev . well elections to the european parliament take place this week and opinion polls suggest populist and nationalist parties could do very well on sunday tens of thousands of people rallied in cities across europe to protest against the surge of the far right to support show their support for the e.u. . a show of love for the european union. but tough love. in cities across europe tens of thousands join pro e.u. an anti nationalist rallies like here in germany urging people to not vote for nationalists but also urging europe to do much better many protesters worry that nationalist parties could make substantial gains across the continent. as i think you have to send a signal against nationalism you just have to make it public i don't know if there's anything to stop people from choosing an end to democratic party but we have to show that many are against it and. i think through the european parliament election a signal can already be sent about it and i think it would clearly be against

between moscow and kiev of course i think that's. always been if you fall. the question is well these being if you really help to fight the war ukraine can both afford the. first step which needs to be taken to the. eastern ukraine stop in the face or. in the blood of the shootings. i think i would i would agree with you but the statement about both sides of the division line i think that's critical taking both sides to convict based upon a matter of it's always fun talking to you we have to leave it there thank you very much for making yourself available thanks for having me i might have yours to keep this conversation going in our social media pages and hope to see you again same place same time here on worlds apart. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. experience dramatic development only mostly exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or bu

to his plans and how he meets the many challenges facing the country we talk to a correspondent in kiev. coming up. chinese smop full makeup is just a fresh blow from the united states as tech china google says it's cutting ties with the company the consumers really wants to lose the most to. us and of us 3 inches the document at the core of the country's democracy. was inactive 70 years ago to examine what it means for germany today. i don't have a warm welcome to you. former comedian vaulting resilin ski has been sworn in as the president of ukraine this gave me to announce he would dissolve parliament and hold a new election in 2 months time he said his 1st challenge was to end the conflict would russia and the east of the country. i picked a whole lot of ms lewinsky and for as many supporters. the beaming president elect on his way to being sworn in embracing the enthusiastic crowd you know gracious a reality check for me not so long ago played the role of president in a popular t.v. comedy show. yes i have been voted in on the promise of change. and the country do not have to wait

full clancy's in ukraine's capital kiev. absolutely no you shall start to tell what you are caricature everybody would then . do. now on the brink of a civil war at least 70 dead so far and the death toll rising. to. a new music. hall we saw here today was a revolution. said to. have invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in knees and other goals with. nato has expanded into 13 countries up to the borders of russia 13 countries. focus that's the be on not allowing buy into whole cloth.

as ukraine's new leader he faces a raft of challenges so what's his plan for the country go live to kiev. after 6 weeks of voting in india this marathon election is finally over it's being called a referendum on prime minister narendra modi so is he headed for a 2nd term. also coming up now the 1st 3 here in germany the document at the core of the country's democracy the basic law was enacted 70 years ago g.w. speaks of one is talking president book on short about what it means for germany today. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us we begin in ukraine where the former actor and comedian belong to me as alinsky has just been sworn in as president and his 1st statement at his inauguration selenski said he would dissolve parliament and hold new elections the political novice takes over after defeating the forests in a landslide victory last month is the porters see him as breaking with the previous political establishment but critics fear his it inexperience could be exploited by neighboring russia. so people's. nick conley joins us now from outside the ukrainian parliament in k

why do you think rudy giuliani didn't pull off his trip to kiev, congresswoman? do you think it was the embarrassment, everybody thought you look like an idiot going over there looking for more dirt when the whole colossal scandal over the last few years and about getting dirt from an eastern party? >> so, a couple of things. first of all, he is not a member of the executive branch. so was he going to fly over there on a campaign credit card from donald trump? i think clearly he was probably violating the logan act. the president's been throwing the logan act around, but he is not a member of the administration, and is going to a foreign country to negotiate with that foreign country. once again, i think the president is operating off the seat of his pants and probably what happened is there was a lot of blowback. >> yeah. >> because they got off of it very fast. >> and i don't think rudy giuliani -- speaking of pants, i don't think he was spending any personal funds on this trip to go to ukraine. my guess. >> this is, you know, we laugh about it, but this is wha

relations between moscow and kiev well of course i think that's. always been if you fall. the question is well these being if you really help to fight the war ukraine for the. first step which needs to be. liberating eastern ukraine stop in the face or. in the blood. or. i think i would i would agree with you but this statement about both sides of the division line i think that's critical taking both sides to caen but this has been a matter of it's always fun talking to you we have to leave it there thank you very much for making yourself available thanks for having me i might our viewers to keep this conversation going in our social media pages and. same place same time here on the part of. dish you will not obey the voice of the lord your god will be careful to do. in all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. and then the people to stone him property and the point must be returned to class people. only problems will go away. with and the. people being tortured to death. people in the. white horse will find themselves. in. teams and greens it's all sweat and

full clancy's in ukraine's capital kiev. there is absolutely no doubt hard to tell what you are caricature everybody. at the. now on the brink of a civil war at least 70 dead so far and the death toll rising it you know what would you use a new music. for we saw here today was a revolution. 7 to. have invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in knees and articles with. nato has expanded into 13 countries up to the borders of russia 13 countries. focus has to be on not allowing. into hot war between ukraine and russia. but. that the team of boys in the city would book women if the new buildings to be truthful.

on his plans and how did he meet the many challenges you facing we'll speak to our correspondent in kiev also coming up. chinese smartphone maker is still the fresh locally united states as a tech giant google say it's cutting ties with the company to consumers be the ones to lose the most. class an anniversary in germany the document at the core of the country the country's democracy the busiek york was in that did the 17 years ago to examine what it means for germany today to. kind of welcome i've of the touchy we begin in ukraine where of all jimmy's alinsky has been sworn in as president it is inaugural speech announced that he would immediately dissolve parliament and called early elections. the former actor and comedian takes over after defeating threats reporter shanklin alliance to victory last month but he does not come on a majority in parliament. but it obviously economy joins me now from the ukrainian capital kiev nick quite a bombshell in the president's inauguration speech is dissolving parliament what else is he said why is it taking this step. get off the number it's a we

but in the final months of 2013 things were staring in the ukrainian capital kiev. then president viktor yushchenko vits well known for his sympathies towards moscow rejected closer ties with the european union in favor of placing ukraine effectively under russia's wing. resulting protests brought hundreds of thousands into my down square in the center of kiev as well as other cities across the country. the russian media called all the protesters neo nazis and pro-government militia supported by snipers were ordered to put down these protests with brute force. 121 demonstrators were killed hundreds more wounded. the qana to quickly turn the tide against janak over the church and he was forced to flee eventually turning up in moscow. on february 26th 2014 crimean tatars clashed with their russian neighbors outside the parliament in the regional capital some for are convinced that russia was planning to grab crimea. that it had to take its just you didn't like it it was up to him but the most of which are not built up but you know the school system those that died. ju

exiled ukrainian politicians may all for some hope to you because a lot of them have been returning to kiev these days after a few years of self exile in israel or in the europe the most prominent one the one that's attracting a lot of attention is obviously eager kalinowski what do you think is the nature of his relationship with the new president. since the part of course because mr t. was the or when they're off t.v. channel one plus one we're 50 quarter of the. 4 mr sills key was go into life. as far as an enormous took almost he was heavily in the frontal for life for 5 words or less why he had to support me so i don't get your intellectuals and that's what what he did and i suppose this is not where the. connection ends at least in public imagination because president selenski has made a number of controversial appointments recently but they want that attracted most attention is the bog down colombo person the lawyer who is now serving as the lansky they had of the land skis. actual administration do you think this appointment is consistent with. promise to put an end to politics as u

and correspondent david stern is in the ukrainian capital kiev he joins us now so tell us a little bit more about these political novices who are now set to be in high office. well we knew that mr selenski was going to bring new faces into the government but perhaps not exactly these new faces as you say these are people that work with him in his production company and in his hit comedy show 4 of them in fact the most prominent being gay chef here he who is the 1st assistant to the president now he's mr selenski partner in his production company some people see this as an indication that mr selenski is in fact bringing new blood into the into the administration new faces not the same old faces that we've been seeing before but other people obviously are questioning what exactly these people bring to the job and there's also been a lot of controversy about the appointment of a lawyer who used to work for ukraine's or one of ukraine's richest man why is that . right that's mr andre book don he was a close advisor to mr selenski during the campaign and now he's been named the head of the

completely different to kiev where fa ns completely different to kiev where fans turned up on the day are expecting hundred 50,000 for the game on saturday night. —— 150,000. we can talk game on saturday night. ——150,000. we can talk to some fans now. why did you have to be here because you haven't got a ticket? i wanted to absorb the atmosphere. i got the train from valencia today. why is liverpool a special team for the fans? we have won all over europe, we have to do it again. tell us about tottenham. you have a special story. you got your tickets booked early. we picked tickets early. i think it was written in the that we are going to take it home. you backed tottenham hotspur when were 3-0 backed tottenham hotspur when were 3—0 down on aggregate. i can't imagine he has got much to say. he has not been on tv for a long time. as you can tell, things building up nicely. as you said, the players will be out training at the stadium later on. we will know if harry kane will be featuring from the beginning of the game. he says he is ready but we will find out from his manager if he is r

plans of how we believe the many challenges facing the country be going live to our correspondent in kiev also coming up. chinese smartphone maker for real is dealt a fresh blow from the united states as tech china google says it's cutting ties with the company and the consumer has to be the one to lose out the most. and after 6 weeks of voting india's matam election is finally over it's been a wonder referendum on privatised in the interim or d.c. so is he headed for a 2nd tell. hello and welcome to you i'm a touchy we begin in ukraine revealed to me is the lenski has been sworn in as president in his inaugural speech selenski announced he would immediately dissolve parliament and hold of the elections. fortunately great. the former actor and comedian takes over after defeating petro poroshenko in a landslide victory last month but he does not command a majority in parliament. now the job is nick ali joins me now from the ukrainian capital of kiev nick quite a bombshell in the president's inauguration speech is dissolving bottom line as it is said why is it taking this step that often i'

but in the final months of 2013 things were staring in the ukrainian capital kiev. then president viktor yushchenko vits well known for his sympathies towards moscow rejected closer ties with the european union in favor of placing ukraine effectively under russia's way. resulting protests brought hundreds of thousands into my down square in the center of kiev as well as other cities across the country. the russian media called all the protesters neo nazis and pro-government militia supported by snipers were ordered to put down these protests with brute force. 121 demonstrators were killed hundreds more wounded. the carnage quickly turned the tide against unocal the church and he was forced to flee eventually turning up in moscow. on february 26th 2014 crimean tatars clashed with their russian neighbors outside the parliament in the regional capital some for are convinced that russia was planning to grab crimea. that it had that i just didn't like if it was up to them but the most of which are not built up but you know the school system those that died. just like you

full clancy's in ukraine's capital kiev. absolutely no doubt hard to tell what you are caricature everybody would then. do. now on the brink of a civil war at least 70 dead so far and the death toll rising it you can allude you . a new music.

ukraine's deputy foreign minister argued her country's case and humbug kiev had requested that the international tribunal for the north of the city make a ruling on the incident and the court's ruling came on saturday the russian federation immediately released the $24.00 detained ukrainian silversmith and allowed them to return to ukraine the tribunals also found that 3 confiscated naval ships must be returned to ukraine but whether russia will comply remains unclear moscow refuses to recognize the bodies jurisdiction the russian foreign ministry says that in november 28th seen the ukrainian naval vessels violated its maritime border in the sea of as of therefore according to the moscow ministry the case is an issue for the russian judicial system the ukrainian sailors in custody i currently facing a possible 6 year prison sentence in russia the ukrainian government however hopes that the tribunals ruling could persuade moscow to back down the whole international community here is for ukraine and that they will press on russian president to release our crew members and know that russia has unti

he arranged for a hostile in kiev, for a limousine to come to the house and pick him out.ount and out the same day. i never saw it. he's so smart. so he had $250 in cash. >> kevlar plates. >> sleeping bags, everything, ready to go. >> so sad. >> i mean, i know what a go bag looks like. >> after they discovered andr andrew's plan, they intervened and talked him out of it. but he remained isolated an disconnected except for online. >> in august of 2016, i started to hear about this kid jeremy. and i was like, this is kind of nice. you know, andrew is fanning out and being social. >> it was just a sigh of relief. >> and you're hopeful because the last thing you want is to see your kid sitting there with no friends. and before he died, he talked to chris and said, mom, how do you make friends? >> did he say that? >> we went out for dinner together and he's like, mom, tell me. >> i had no idea he said that. >> yeah. >> so when you look at it, some of the things that were probably warning signs, alarm bells, you may have disregarded because you're like, oh, okay, you know, he's

low pressure making its way up here towards ukraine now you can see the circulation right there over kiev so the heavy rain will continue there on wednesday it could be even gusty winds we're going to talk about that but as we go towards thursday going to be seeing that air of low pressure make its way towards western russia and things start to clear up a little bit we do have a isolated areas of pockets of rain right across the region nothing too bad but we are going to be seeing still some lower clouds across much of the region too well here across the west unfortunate for paris you did have a nice day there on wednesday twenty one degrees but now coming down to about fourteen degrees as we go towards thursday with rain in the forecast there well cross the northwestern part of africa we are talking about clouds here across morocco but as we go towards the end of the week.

is nick conley joins us now from outside the ukrainian parliament in kiev nick what the new president have to say there's no gration speech what priorities has he set for himself. well good morning terry it started off very conventionally lots of pomp and ceremony the anthem being sung several times the great seal of state being handed over words about unity keeping the country together and then he dropped a bombshell he not only said he would be dissolving parliament with immediate effect to the very faces of the members of parliament who face a very tough election for them given that selenski is riding high in the polls he also said they now have 2 months to pass a law stripping themselves of immunity from prosecution and also to pass a new law that would make getting back into politics of many the much harder and you long proportional representation and he fired the head of ukraine security service who was standing in the podium a couple of meters away from him so lots of very straight expressions of incredulity on the faces of ukraine's elites who really had been expecting somethi

the event lead together meeting are as follow pl on july 28, 2016 kilimnik flew from kiev to moscow. next day kilimnik wrote to manafort requesting that they meet using coded language about a conversation he had that day. in an email with a subject line, black caviar, kilimnik wrote, i met today with the guy who gave you your biggest black caviar several years ago. we spent about five hours talking about his story and i have several important messages from him to you. he asked me to go and brief you on conversation. i said i have to run it by you first but in principle i'm prepared to do it. it has to do about the future of his country is quite interesting. manaforted identified the guy who gave you your biggest black caviar jar as yanukovych. he explained that in 2010 he and yanukovych had lunch to celebrate the recent presidential election. yanukovych game are gave manafort a large jar of black caviar worth approximately 30 to $40,000. manafort's identification of yanukovych was the guy who gave you your biggest black caviar jar is consistent with kilimnik being in moscow where yan