zero reaction from the kremlin. zero reaction from the kremlin.lso, also you had the two two important facts that to this day putin has not congratulated zelensky on his victory, and more important than that, putin sends a little provocation zelensky's way when he is president-elect with the passport game in donbass, the same game the kremlin has played in all the frozen conflicts. so zelensky has extended a hand and he has gotten nothing back. and zelensky again, he's a guy who learns from his experience. last point here, which is off this specific theme, which is this, some people, more than some people, were concerned as president zelensky was emerging as this juggernaut destined to win the presidency, that it would be putin's patsy, right? long-term kgb versus the naive. well, zelensky showed in the passport thing that he was not going to be an easy guy for putin to manage. because zelensky said, hey, guys, take the passport. that's a passport to life of repression, repressive society. we have no control over leadership. and putin who loves to

zero reaction from from the kremlin. you have the two important facts that to this day putin has not congratulated zelensky on his victory and more important than that, put in sent publication dolinsky's way when he was president elect with the passport game in dunbar. the same game the kremlin has played in all the frozen conflicts. zelensky extended a hand and his got nothing back. zelensky again he is a guy who learns from his experience. last point here, which is a little bit off the specific theme, which is this. some people, more than some people, were concerned as president zielinski was emerging. destined to win the presidency that he would be prudent passing. the long-term kpd Ãbkgb versus the 98. zelensky showed in the passport thing that he was not going to be an easy guy for putin to manage. zelensky put putin on his rear end when he said take the passport. that's passport to a life in repressive society we have no control of your leadership. putin, who loves to have the last word he lacks the colorful expres

this is a major problem for the kremlin. sanctions cost the russian economy of gdp, given the fact, and there is a third point. we breached, donald trump breached the supply of lethal weapons in december 2017 and you will see more stuff heading ukraine's way. to use an old marxist phrase the correlation of forces is on the side of ukrainians. if you watch carefully kremlin activities and the moscow political conversation about the war over the past several years you see the following. and the immense negotiations are and are certified largely irrelevant process. when interesting ideas come from the russian side in those talks. there were more than a few. there have been two periods of real negotiations of the conflict. they did it in 6 months. the first one in 2016 until june of that year. the cirque off new lynn channel. it is worth what was going on at that time. the kremlin is engaged in syria since asad's troubles emerged in 2011. in the fall of 2015 which is the first time since the seizure of crimea that ukraine was bu

it was also kremlin-connected oligarchs who seemed to have been kind much deputized by the kremlin to run parts of that complex operation. it was, for example, kremlin-connected oligarchs who were running seemingly private businesses who, during the campaign, took it upon themselves to stove-pipe russian-made propaganda to u.s. voters. it was oligarchs running ostensibly private businesses who were creating fake american political groups and organizing provoking artificial online fights among american voters. they were even organizing real-world u.s. protests in american streets to try to wind up and screw with the american public as much as possible, all to help trump's campaign for the american presidency, as much as they could, while dividing and weakening the american polity as much as they could. >>> one kremlin connected oligarch in particular had a whole bunch of odd and strange contacts and connections with the highest reaches of trump's campaign. in a state department cable from way back in 2006, which was leaked by wikileaks years ago, this oligarch, guy named oleg deripaska

and the kremlin essentially said it has nothing to do with us.hey're cheap and they're expendable. they're an expeditionary force. they don't have to be very good at what they do as long as they're able to secure oil fields or secure diamond mines. they could be used for all sorts of military ventures. that's what we're seeing now and what we'll be talking about in part two tomorrow, looking at their expansion into africa, central african republic. this is not stopping anytime soon. >> that's excellent reporting. already struck a major nerve, judging by the elaborate russian smear campaign levelled against you personally. >> we were a little surprised. all of us in this industry at this stage i think are familiar with the russian propaganda machine. this video was 15 minutes in length, a lot of it showing hidden camera footage that had clearly been taken of our team as we were working in the central african republic, footage of us in our hotel lobby, in the airport, footage of a man in my hotel room claiming i was sitting on a chair offering him

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, by the hard-line kremlin anymore.ple go to the street b becaue they are fed up. they are tired. they want to have more dignity. they want to have a say in those comfortable cities that putin made or putin's p people made. they want to have a a say in wht can a politics they have. and that is why i call a rather thanp opposition because i it is not n opposition movement. it is a movement of people who are tired of the same system and what its renewal. amy: nina khrushcheva, thank you for being with us professor of , international affairs at the new school here in new york. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] ♪ ♪ >>> china. population 1.3

missile packed with russia washington claims moscow was in violation of the accord something the kremlin has consistently denied. civil servants in hong kong defy government directive into their waited behind anti government protesters mas demonstrations are expected to grip the city. over the weekend. and pressure mounts on the french government after the body of a twenty four year old who had been missing since a police raid at the end of june. was found. thank you very much for joining us on france twenty four first the united states has formally pulled out of a landmark n nuclr missile packeded. with russia washington claims a moscow was in violation of the court's something the kremlin has repeatedly denied. the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or i. n. f. was negotiated at the end of the cold war. and introduce both countries ability to launch a nuclear strike at short notice sound okay reports. it may be the end of an era one where the r risk of a costly ars race or even nuclear warfare between the united states and russia was relatively low. on friday nato chief jens stol

as far as the kremlin is concerned, they do not officially exist.ccording to one member, the mercenaries are part of putin's plan to replace the u.s. as a world power. cnn's chief international correspondent clarissa ward brings never before seen footage inside this mysterious enforcement group. >> this is oleg, for years he worked as a hired gun in syria for a shadowy group that has become a valuable tool for the kremlin. >> vogner is putin's by force, urgently in the most concealed way possible. >> it's a fighting unit that will do anything that putin says. >> this is the first time a former vogner employee has agreed to speak on camera, and oleg asked us to hide his identity. primary military contractors are illegal in russia officially wagner doesn't exist but the group has hundreds of fighters operating on three different continents, and this is the man believed to be behind that expansion. dubbed putin's chef because of lucrative catering contractors with the kremlin, evgeni is also sanctioned by the u.s. for funding the internet research agen

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a favorite backdrop is the lennon maza liam in front of the kremlin's mighty brick walls and lennon isn't just in his to. go to the wake up by the way that i'm going to offer you on the list. of earns a living here as a lennon double for tourists he says that over a quarter century after the soviet union's fall people still want to see the former communist revolutionary. i knew it was jimmy the tourists remember me the leader of the proletariat who turned the world on its head they asked me. why did you do that with group was. the name red square actually predates the communists by centuries originally the russian word for red also meant beautiful mr lenin though offers a different explanation. because. it's the idea that red square is simply the in bottom and the center of moscow some of the things that happened on the square and why is it called the red square. because it used to be almost a graveyard. people were executed here and it was called red because of the blood that flowed here back then. from its bloody history to its architectural splendor there's a reason for everyone to vis

and that's an escalation in itself so the reaction has been short what the kremlin probably according to everything that i've been reading so far is going to wait and see what the u.s. does next what does this actually mean when they say they pulled out the i.m.f. treaty does it mean that they will start deploying missiles and then you'll see a much stronger reaction come from the kremlin from the defense ministry here in moscow and run thanks very much. it is a political standoff that's plunged relations between japan and south korea done to the lowest level in years south korea says it will remove japan from its list of preferential trading partners that's in response to tokyo's earlier decision to drop south korea's fast track export status brian has more now from seoul. at an emergency cabinet meeting call to discuss the deepening rift with japan president moon j.n. of south korea laid the blame squarely with his neighbor. japan's decision is a reckless decision that projects diplomatic efforts to solve the problem and rather worsens the situation i express my deep regret he was r

them, they need to keep the kremlin, putin, the russian government happy.re deals that will be in its interest. so it is often things that they think putin will be pleased with. also by investing in things that will gain leverage with particular elite. so one of the most frequently cited cases is actually in germany where one of the former chance lors of germany has joined the board of a russian state owned energy company. they basically capture an elite. it has its own term. schroederization. bring them into the political circuit. so at that point they begin to advocate for the interests of not germany but the kremlin. >> in terms of what is happening in kentucky right now, obviously this is still an evolving situation there. but we are already seeing right now that because of deripaska's concern in northeastern kentucky, that is already sort of being leveraged in washington regardless of the circumstances of how that investment got there. now that rusal is a big investor, they've already signals to the u.s. senate. if this is going to be reviewed. if the

that a lot of these tactics that the kremlin uses aren't necessarily illegal.ey look for places where they see vulnerabilities. they look for places where we don't respond with force. i don't mean military force, but in terms of a forcible pushback. they look for places where they see soft edges. and when they see that, they push harder. one of the things that really concerns me right now is when we see these kinds of deals going forward, when we see concerns like this being raised and don't see pushback from political leadership, that's only going to further embolden russian companies and their proxies to take more steps like this, to seek out more political leverage. the russian company involved here, rusal, has put out requests to a number of other states seeking these very same kind of deals. i think that that's exactly the kind of thing that, frankly, i would expect if i were using the russian playbook. and when we see this happening in other countries, there is a lot of really interesting work that's been done by some of my colleagues looking at actually

saying washington doesn't have to abide by its rulings the kremlin now said in a reaction if the u.s. pulls out what's the point of the w g o can it be rescued yes of course it can be rescued i mean the w t o essentially rests on 2 pillows one of them is negotiations among the 164 member states in the of a pillar is dispute settlement and now we're talking about a block of the dispute settlement body the 2nd stage of the body so the most important one it is a crucial one it's been crucial since the founding of the w t u n 995 but there are plenty of suggestions on how to rescue the body i mean the you itself is promoting reform proposals that it has come up with and already last december and there are other countries also japan and other asian nations that are trying to come up with reforms because it's but at this point the u.s. is simply denying that there's any way out of this crisis what. if what if it happens if the u.s. really says we're pulling out of the w t o i mean anything can happen under the and the trump administration the biggest economy in the world wouldn't that sever

but according to it kremlin they don't exist.is a key putin ally and not only that accusing our chief national correspondent clarissa ward of being a spy. clulissa ward, not a russian asset joins me now. you spoke to a former fighter. why was he willing to talk to you? >> well, it did take some time and we had to go through some connections before he essentially began to trust us and agreed to talk to us. we had to go through great pains to disguise his identity as well because officially the kremlin says it has nothing to do with these mercenary forces being used more and more in these unstable countries across the world. they are there to boost russian influence but also to outmaneuver political rivals like the u.s. take a look. this is oleg. for years he says he worked as a hired gun in syria for a shadowy russian mercenary group and had become a valuable tool for the kremlin. >> translator: it's putin's instrument for resolving issues by force. when action has to be taken immediately, urge lntly and in the most concealed way

bigger picture in view and the bigger picture is indeed the keys to the conflict resolution are in the kremlin and if russia wanted to do skull 8 it would be possible but this is not the case so what about i mean search has also said he called he would call the french and german presidents what can we expect from them at this stage it's important that the talks at the international level continue because then it gives the start of the score inflict as something that concerns european and u.s. administrations the crimea was changed by by force but also sanctions something that the west has the leverage over russia are tied to the implementation of means of course it's right now in the stalemate but it's important to reinvigorate and put facts on the table and to inform what's happening in the us i mean you talk about a stalemate what what's the likelihood of it actually if they don't achieve any progress at this stage of it getting worse and for the conflict to kind of escalate and where do you see this going if it does if they can't resolve it now i think all options are on the table in the kr

haven for speech free speech is where you can go to see a video of these protests or to hear anti kremlin opinions the best example really of youtube's power in russia is alexina all the himself this big opposition figure he really became famous from his you tube videos i mean take a look at what he was up to on you tube this really launched into stardom he has 3000000 subscribers they come to watch these sorts of investigations you might remember this one in the state corruption looking at the prime minister potentially using dirty money to buy buy mansions and other property that has 30000000 views in a country where you really cannot safely talk that much openly about anti kremlin viewpoints so you tube and google in general they are being targeted by russia and the government in general we've seen this before so this letter not coming out of nowhere certainly in the crosshairs of the russian government certainly in the crosshairs of the russian government report a call now from thank you as always in india nearly 200 people have died in severe monsoon floods and mudslides the rains a

minded candidates for the next months city elections in moscow the council controlled by the pro kremlin united's russia party is responsible for a last minute simple budget the vote comes at a time when putin's approval rating although still high at more than 60 percent has actually dropped that's been put down to discontent over the economy and falling incomes we'll discuss all this with our guests shortly but 1st imran khan reports on saturday's events. from the police operation designed to stop large numbers of protesters coming to central moscow did exactly that still some did manage to get through the detentions was swift so all throughout saturday they've been arresting people like this they pick them up. and they take them into. a van where the idea is will be to. the protesters are normally take also a police station so then they register journalists were also detained but released almost immediately once they showed proper accreditation protesters are worried the upcoming last go city council elections are being rigged in favor of the governing party united russia most of the o

their next move they cues the kremlin of interference in trying to rig the city council election in favor of the candidates of the ruling party united russia thousands have been arrested but they say that won't stop them. only time will show how people will react to the authorities actions and their fate but we are full of fear if we lead to fair control we are truly living well because when we are calm our fearless and i understand the risks to me and my family but i don't see how to resolve this issue in any other way to understand what people want you have to give them. the moscow city council is an administrative body not a political one and it's elections rarely triggered control bisi this time it's different the banning of opposition candidates by the government has angered most courts and that's spilling out into the streets maria lipman is a political analyst and says the government crackdown is designed to prevent the public becoming aware of the protests and from it spreading nationwide every thing at their disposal. unfortunately sounds like a real prospect right now the

here is a kremlin press service.oned this earlier, russian president assessed a move about fighting wildfires on the part of the u.s. president, a guarantee of future restoration of bilateral relakes, the russian u.s. president agreed to continue these contacts. how striking is it as a country we're getting this only from the kremlin? and does it concern you? >> certainly i can't get into any details about these kinds of classified matters, but again, let's talk about what we know on the record. i mean, the trump campaign was not straight with the american people during the campaign of 2016 with respect to the moscow tower project where clearly there was an interest in trying to secure opportunities for the trump family because they didn't think they were going to win the election. so i can't get into this breaking story. can't get into classified matters. but just look at what's on the record. >> very interesting, and sometimes in washington the people who know a bit more have to say a little less, but i have to put

don't forget what kiev is doing is not according to the plan ukraine is moving in a direction the kremlin does not like and so far the plan to subvert and wreck ukraine is failing so all options on the table that's why the current leadership in gave us to be very vigilant has to report all the acts of escalations and make sure that media and international community is aware what is going.

approval, an official nod of ownership from the kremlin as well.hink they quickly became ununcomfortable when they saw okay maybe these guys have been doing homework, spent the better part of a year trying to report this out. once they knew we were leaching the capital trying to get to the mines that's when things got kmuvl. you are only seeing half in the television piece. that was non-stop harassment stopped at checkpoints, stopped by police accused of having false papers. smuggle diamonds. really it was relentless. >> what are u.s. officials saying about putin's army of mercenaries moving into africa? >> there are real concerns. the new head of afri cromme general steven townsend is concerns. we haved heard it echoed by john bolton. but how do you deal with a fighting force with no official ownership. >> thanks for doing that courageous exempt reporting for us. we are grateful to youen at crew. thank you so so much. >>> much more ahead right after this. all money managers might seem the same, but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios.

the kremlin has only said some kind of liquid fuel ignited. say satellite imnls showed russia moving a ship used to clean up spills. >> basically a nuclear reactor on top of a missile. when putin unveiled this in a speech he gave some time ago, some people called it chernobyl on wings. >> tonight, experts believe putin may well be using what some call the chernobyl strategy. based on how the soviet union responded when a nuclear reactor blew up in 1986. the soviet regime covered up the damage, didn't acknowledge it even happened until western nations discovered higher radiation levels in europe. a strategy of dodging, deflection, and denial deflicted on the series on chernobyl. >> our power comes on the perception of our power. do you understand the damage this has done? do you understand what's at stake? >> tonight, one nuclear experts says in addition to concerns about the hiding of potential health risks to nearby residents, putin's government is shielding the world from the dangers involved in developing the new missile. >> obviously, the

right now, what we're seeing from the kremlin is they're letting their army do the talking. here's what we're learning. >> reporter: tonight, vladimir putin is making good on his promise to strike back at the u.s., test firing nuclear-capable missiles from a submarine near nato's borders. vladimir putin's spokesman confirming they intend to beef up their forces after they pulled out of the treaty with russia and test fired their own missile. >> you have surely heard the president's instructions. thechb given. in general, there has been quite intensive activity lately. >> reporter: in a span of about 48 hours, russia has conducted a flurry of military drills. fighter jets launching air-to-air missiles, flying out of occupied crimea. the army practicing the so-called stealth deployment of medium-range nuclear-capable eskarnd missiles in clinic grad, and practicing missile defense in the far east. all of this as president trump at the g-7 summit in france voiced his desire to invite russia to the next meeting to the group of leading industrial nations in the u.s. next year. fre

russian environmentalists are calling on the kremlin to release the details of a reported radioactiveeak. and we stay in russia, where that country's interior ministry says it has launched a probe after a video of a riot police officer punching a female protester in the stomach went viral. the video w was shared by severa russiacelebrbrits onon socl medidia and has an viewewed milo ofof times. it comeses amidd accususions tht authoritie havave be u using cessive force to break up denstrations andnd cling for fr electionsns in moscow. protesesters have gathered for e past four weekends in the capital and other cities. social media has been playing a central role in drawing attention to the purchase and out the media regulator is demanding that youtube stop promoting livestream's of the demonstrations. reporter carl nasman joins us now. what do they want youtube to do in this case? carl: they were a big deal, 60,000 protesters and 200 arrested, including the woman we saw in the disturbing video. russia's communications watchdog sends a letter to google, youtube's parent company and it s

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but the kremlin is also furious. an international nuclear watch dog tweeted this map of a potential radiation plume spreading across russia. the kremlin calls that absurd warning the watch dog to back off, claiming it can withhold any data nuclear experts say russia's real aim is to hide secrets about this, a nuclear-powered cruise missile that president putin boasts could evade american defenses. russia concealing from the u.s. exact data on its nuclear fuel >>> two of the russian radiation monitoring stations are now working again, but russia has proved once again that when it comes to its national security, it will hide what the world might want to know lester >> bill neely tonight, thank you. >>> and now viral video showing high school students singing a nazi song and giving a nazi salute is sparking outrage ahead of a school board meeting tonight in california. miguel almaguer has details now on what appears to be an escalating and alarming trend in america. >> reporter: the short video obtained by "the daily be

colored revolutions in georgia in serbia in ukraine and then in the near east because putin and kremlin's elite really fear that that they can also face the same fate as assad and other also retiree and leaders. will come to. i'm interested in what it was about putin that boris yeltsin saw because putin was was his 4th prime minister i think in less than 18 months so what was yeltsin looking for yes he was looking for a faceless technocrat bureaucrat who can protect him from a political demise and a political decline so what he needed in the time of crisis after the fine and crisis you should remember the finance crisis 998. needed someone who is loyal who is young but who is faceless and who is who was seen by not to be a rival to him yes and what is a very important that putin. these years and this time for putin was very important because putin managed in a very short time to bring back his colleagues from the effort from the k.g.b. into the higher ranks of presidential presidential administrations we talked briefly about what's next the 66 years old he can go on for ever is there any

the kremlin says accidents happen. but that's about all they're saying. this test, nick payton walsh has more. >> as often the case in russia, slow drip of information about exactly what happened near the arctic circle, where this explosion seems to have caused raised yags, some of it appears may be drifting in the direction of scandinavia. people learning more and more about the missile fueled reactor. a bid for russia to find a new generation of cruise missiles. >> the tiniest races of radiation recorded on the coast. from an unknown source, which isn't harmful to people. could this be more fallout from russia's accident in the arctic. sent radiation levels soaring during an apparent missile test. what is the sky fall known as the 9m-. 0. announced by president putin in march, it was lauded as a new generation of unstoppable powered cruise missile. they claim it had unlimited change and can fly around the world multiple times before approaching its target from an unpredictable anger. technology is secret, yet most analysts believe it uses a nuclear reac

that has 30000000 views in a country where you really cannot safely talk that much openly about anti kremlin viewpoints so you tube and google in general they are being targeted by russia and the government in general we've seen this before so this letter not coming out of the country the worst hit states are maharashtra current talk and kerala and it's only been a year since kerala suffered its worst ever flooding. the tour venture rains just keep coming teams across india's southern and western states have mounted major rescue and relief efforts more than 300000 people have been evacuated in the worst affected areas carola karnataka and maharastra to provide assistance in the prevailing persecution to the drought that modest or so 1st miracle bond is deployed to focus india faces rain related disasters during the monsoon season which kills hundreds of people in each year flood waters and landslides have made roads impassable have cut off and even in some cases downed bridges and have made traveling by bus and train impossible. people are forced to seek shelter and safety at relief camps so

minded candidates for the next month's city elections in moscow the council controlled by the pro kremlin united's russia party is responsible for a last minute simple budget the vote comes at a time when putin's approval rating although still high at more than 60 percent has actually dropped that's been put down to discontent over the economy and falling incomes we'll discuss all this with our guest shortly but 1st imran khan reports on saturday's events. from the police operation designed to stop large numbers of protesters coming to central moscow did exactly that still some did manage to get through the detentions was swift so all throughout saturday they've been arresting people like this they pick them up. and they take them into. a van where the idea is a return of the protesters are normally take also a police station so then the register journalists were also detained but released almost immediately once they showed proper accreditation protesters are worried the upcoming last go city council elections are being rigged in favor of the governing party united russia most of the opp

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the kremlin says accidents happen but has said little else.ssile test involve strategic weapons touted by none other than vladimir putin? here's cnn's nick paton walsh. >> as always the case in russia, slow drip information about exactly what happened up near the arctic circle where this explosion seems to have caused radiation. some of it now appears it may be drifting in the direction of scandinavia, but slowly people learning more and more about the missile, potentially something fueled and driven by a nuclear reactor. it's one that so far doesn't appear to have been entirely successful. the tinniest traces of radiation recorded on the norweigianon northern coast, radioactive i.d.'d from an unknown source. could this be more fallout from russia's experiment in the arctic which killed five scientists during an apparent missile test? and what is the missile known as the 970? it was lauded as a missile that would render u.s. defenses obsolete. they claim it has an unlimited range and can fly around the world multiple times before approaching i

as an unregistered agent working op behalf of the kremlin.te a ton of reporting on russia and butina and the russian efforts to influence the nra, we never heard of what became of that reported fbi investigation into whether part of what was going on with the nra is that russia was using the group to funnel foreign money into the 2016 election to help trump. soon after that story first appeared, a watchdog group filed a complaint asking the fec to look into the complaint. it was never clear what the response amounted to. today we got a little bit of an answer to that with an exclamation point. the commissioner has just gone public with this statement. saying the republican appointees on the fec basically throttled the investigation to make sure the allegations were never really looked into. quote, this agency barely lifted a finger to find out the truth behind one of the most block buster campaign finance allegations in recent memory. the fec's republican commissioners have blocked the commission from taking even the smallest step to investig

dubbed putin's chef because of lucrative catering contracts with the kremlin, pregozin is sanctioned by the u.s. for funding the internet research agency accused of meddling in the 2016 election. >> translator: i'm a mercenary, and 90% of participants of the company were like me and they were motivated by money. >> what sort of training was it? where did it take place? >> reporte >> translator: you know, i didn't have any training as such. not then. i spent six days in the training camp. i went to a firing range twice and shot a machine gun once. >> reporter: cnn travelled to molkino to try to get to wagner's training camp and found the group has a surprisingly close relationship with the russian military. the only way to get into the wagner barracks is to get through that checkpoint which is manned by the russian military because this actually belongs to a russian special forces unit. not far from molkino there's a monument to faller wagner fighters. visitors are not welcome, so we approached with a hidden camera. it looks less like a memorial than a fortress. a guard soon comes up