this at a war of the kremlin against ukrainian people.i put it that way because the ukrainian people by a large majority understand the moscow at conducting more and done boss and the support their country his policy. government his policy of resisting from an aggression. we move the russian people want no part of this war. we move the putin continues the fiction of the russian army at not in ukraine. that this war at not jammed up by carmen offers. people's republic to butter diet, at the president. not to mention the officers fighting a war right now. and of course he hides russian casualties from the russian people. so this at a major vulnerability to the bone. i think ukraine has the upper hand. to because they got adequate i don't think sufficient to adequate support from the west. the sanctions are held for five years was by pontifications of the contrary. it just been extension of the sanctions just move from six months to a year. then open the champagne after the decision by parliamentary and castle of europe. thought joining thin

and so the kremlin. is well aware of what happened with the moscow city election commission now. and the political ambitions of mr. gagnon could very well be curtailed as a result of this and there were many protests in moscow this past summer because of the discontent that opposition politicians looking to get on the ballot were disqualified and were able to run in the election of course there was anger at how the authorities dealt with those protests did that feed in from your vantage point into the results of the election to some extent a yes a because of those people who are would have voted for this kind of candidates young people perhaps would not have gone to the polls if they did have that kind of stimulus but we have to also say that the elections are left in many more specific areas of those completely cold hearted that we have very low turnout just over 21 percent. or also i think quite significant that the pros aswat not that much opposed to whether candidates were registered or not but what group what made people who redeploy in this proportional security response wh

pro-kremlin political parties in cr ukraine. pro-kremlin politicians including paying for paul manafort to run the party of regions and get victor yanukovych installed as ukraine's president. manafort reportedly owed millions of dollars to those two guys and the reason he owed them money is because of various business entanglements. he got involved with each of them. he had separate business deals with each of them. but there was one deal that they had in common. a supposed plan to spend almost a billion dollars turning a park avenue hotel site into a new bulgari tower in new york city. that one actually involved manafort and both of those kremlin-connected oligarchs. jackpot. now, that deal never came to fruition but it was the source of huge controversy in ukraine because it was seen as basically a bway, an effort, to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of ill-gotten gains through new york city real estate. but as with deripaska, it's not just the money and the kremlin connections and the unexplained financial ties to trum

both are financially connected to the kremlin. at the same time this guy brings all that baggage over here with him from ukraine to start running a u.s. presidential campaign. at that same time, the kremlin starts intervening to help the candidate to elect the president of the united states. how does it work out in the end for all of these guys? >> one of them goes to jail. manafort is in jail in part for not paying taxes on any of these secret payments that he received for party of the region. one of the kremlin connected oligarchs got himself sanctioned by the u.s. government which looks like it may be financially devastating from him. he was rescued by mitch mcconnell of kentucky where deripaska, building a aluminum plant in mitch mcconnell's home safe. >> firtash is still fighting extradition in the united states. he does not want to face federal prosecutors who have said formally in writing to the court they believed him to be an upper echelon. >> in june of this year, firtash could be extradited in the u.s. now in the midst

a pro-kremlin candidate was elected there. people are saying that this was wrong, that it was electoral fraud, and that race should be rerun. we can expect to see more political activity coming up. have issuedremlin balmy -- against the of othernd a couple opposition candidates. we don't know what for. haxie: thank you very much indeed. staying in russia, france's foreign minister defense ministers are in moscow to sit down with their russian counterparts. meaning is aimed at strengthening diplomatic and military relations between the global powers. the last comparable roundtable came five years ago, when russia sparked international outcry when it indexed crimea from ukraine. reporter: it was a symbolic moment, the opening of an exhibition marking 300 years since peter the great's trip to versailles. mccrone rolledt out the red carpet for his russian counterpart. onstarted the aim of a reset france's relationship with russia after years of strain over russia's annexation of crimea in 2014. or the french president, the countri

third is the kremlin's complicity in bashar assad's war crimes in syria. an untold number of syrian civilians have been killed by russian air strikes long in support of assad. those responsible should be tried in the haig on war crimes charges. this is not the behavior of a g-7 country. fourth, in recent weeks, russian forces have ramped up their pressure on the country of georgia. more than 11 years after russia's invasion, the georgian people suffer under its ongoing aggression. that is not the behavior of a g-7 country. fifth is the recent russian crackdown on demonstrators exercising their basic political rights. throughout the summer, putin oversaw the brutal beatings of children, women, and men and subjected everyday russian citizens to arbitrary arrests and detention. what was their plea? that they be able to register their own local candidates for their own local elections. mr. president, the kremlin's ongoing and too often violent oppression of the russian people is not the behavior of a g-7 country. no country in the g-7 acts this way. this behav

in their own lives and what matters around them and then it doesn't necessarily mean they're anti kremlin i mean you know for some it's absolutely that they want more of the same and so forth but nonetheless the point is our voices need to be heard that lets me come to say she can tell the 3rd element which is which is actually the kind of the role of the kremlin which again is too often characterized simply as well we want to control what's going on it's not this is not a regime in my opinion that wants to just simply rig everything it wants it needs enthusiasm it needs legitimacy it wants change on the controlled what it was said was to improve the system but it was. to kibitz perhaps sometimes too tight control of the process is that a fair summation it is you now i want to ask you specifically about the moscow developments in moscow elections and the response to them i personally decided that i'm not going to be voting because i think the system out for italy demonstrated its bias and if you look at the pauls the majority of moscow it's sort of tend to agree of bab they look positivel

suggest that the data problem has is something that the kremlin or the authorities may view totally differently perhaps through the prism of national security which is you know the priority here for all governments and russia show but look i mean again i would absolutely agree that i'm sure that the majority of the high profile candidates who are trying to stand in these elections were not doing so because of the excitement about those moves you talk about being but that it's entirely normal for people to regard local politics as a stepping stone for national politics the whole thing about that. gas in countries but i think it has somewhat different traditions on to things i mean from a point of view of society as a whole do you think it's worthwhile to make saab those. you know those causes i mean if you really want to have genuine democracy more transparency in the system doesn't it make sense to kind of grow it from from the grassroots and allow this broader representation at least on the local level and in this case the local level is the entire city of moscow the thing about de

from deep inside the kremlin. tonight, news on the reported mission to get him out alive and where its believed he is now. >>> and the american family trapped atop a waterfall. putting a message for help on a bottle and sending it down the falls. what happens next. >>> and good evening tonight from houston, where the stage is set for the democratic debate right here on abc, just two days from now. and we're going to have much more on that in just a moment. but we do begin tonight with the other political bombshell, the major shakeup at the white house tonight. president trump firing his national security adviser, john bolton. the president tweeting that he disagreed strongly with many of bolton's suggestions, saying, your services are no longer needed. bolton actually sending a text to a fox news host while he was on the air, contradicting the president. and tonight, who will be the fourth national security adviser for president trump? abc's terry moran is at the white house. >> reporter: in a curt tweet this afte

i wouldn't say in kremlin because the all domestic politics departments of common trying to stay sight of all of the of the of the whole story so i think. as far as i know 0 mayor had some visits and graham and not just the president but the head of his administration of course castro had asked for help and i don't know whether he asked for political help or he asked for it for physical force in the end we saw what we saw now you yourself wrote about how the relatively low level of political of reps russian is one of the redeeming qualities of the current absolutely system and. this is not because the people who operate dot system are particularly soft target i think that's because they understand you dense 3rd law very well that any action is bound to produce an equal and opposite reaction why do you think they decided to sidestep this time around he didn't have public support on that there's no news as it's there if you screw the house population just doesn't interest him like that so what is this point down it means that you can go further it means you can not bring more troops and

the national parliament which basically doesn't pay much political role and doesn't challenge the kremlin that all is relatively easy to deal with but long that dissatisfaction that desire for greater engagement we saw bring thousands of people out and streets this summer that's not going away and as i said if there is no kind of constitutional way for these people to engage then that is certainly a very difficult. situation for russia and united russia as it seems is a brand that is increasingly toxic with even though its top figure is not running on the party names they will definitely likely see some kind of rejects some kind of new name some new branding as it were to try and. create a bit of new momentum but this is a difficult situation with the economy stalling and people across russia seeing their living standards fall i mean the interesting thing will be to look out to see whether they'll be some kind of tactical union cooperation between the moscow liberals and people at the valley on the one hand and working people across russia who are saying that's not a living falling and mi

and so the kremlin. is well aware of what happened with the moscow city election commission now. and the political ambitions of mr. gagnon could very well be curtailed as a result of this and there were many protests in moscow this past summer because of the discontent that opposition politicians looking to get on the ballot were disqualified and were able to run in the election of course there was anger at how the authorities dealt with those protests did that feed in from your vantage point into the results of the election to some extent a yes a because of those people who are would have voted for this kind of candidates young people perhaps would not have gone to the polls if they did have that kind of stimulus but we have to also say that the elections are left in many more specific areas of those completely cold hearted we have very low turnout just over 21 percent. or was i think quite significant that the prose us was not that much opposed to whether candidates were registered or not but what group or what made people to redeploy in this proportional security response when

the national parliament which basically doesn't pay much political role and doesn't challenge the kremlin that all is relatively easy to deal with but long that dissatisfaction that desire for greater engagement we saw bring thousands of people out and streets this summer that's not going away and as i said if there is no kind of constitutional way for these people to engage then that is certainly a very difficult. situation for russia and united russia as it seems is a brand that is increasingly toxic with even though its top figure is not running on the party names they will definitely likely see some kind of reject some kind of new name some new branding as it were to try and. create a bit of new momentum but this is a difficult situation with the economy stalling and people across russia seeing their living standards fall i mean the interesting thing will be to look out to see whether they'll be some kind of tactical union cooperation between the moscow liberals and people at the valley of the one hand and working people across russia who are seeing definite living falling and might f

the weakening of kremlin control had different consequences. in ukraine a nationalistic political organization. or people's movement emerged in 1989 due to this openness. they advocated for independence of ukraine from the u.s.s.r. and became an incubator for leaders of ukrainian citizens. in 19011 of them new book founded svoboda an openly radical nationalist party preaching the good old principles of bondage era. just to. purge ukraine from the jews in russia ukraine for ukrainians and so on his statements got him 5th place in the simon visa center top 10 anti-semitic world leader rankings of 2012. it also sadly attracted numerous follow ups. dimitry are founded another extreme right organization treason or trident in 1904. in april 2013 became an assistant to a member of parliament from the opposition party who died. later that same year he would become the leader of the most radical ukrainian nazi group the right sector. laundry paro be would soon appear leading a whole army of ultra nationalist warriors. in the torch marches would once aga

it raised concerns that the kremlin had authorized revenge on american soil. i know this is spy movie stuff? scary, dangerous and dark stuff attempting to protect people and to help the u.s. people have gathered in the law in order to help the united states, new york to help the u.s. intelligence community. well, the news this week from berlin that according to u.s. officials, it was the russian government that tracked them down but in germany in the capital city of germany just steps away from the office of the german chancellor. that news along with the outing of a man who is reported to be a former russian spy now living in the u.s. under american protection after he provided key information to u.s. intelligence for decades, including the key central information that led to the investigation. the confluence of those two stories, by of wish i have been raising the worry that russia might go after this u.s. intelligence source that's just been outed, maybe even here in the u.s. a former cia official who has worked on resettling defectors, who has been in char

intelligence experts worry it will be much harder for the cia to recruit another kremlin insider, making it more difficult to track russia's efforts to interfere with the 2020 election campaign lester >> fascinating story, andrea thank you. >>> tonight eight students are recovering from injuries, four in serious condition after a school bus crash that left their driver dead in northern mississippi. the coroner says the driver likely suffered a cardiac event, and witnesses saw him grab his chest before the wreck his granddaughter was reportedly on the bus and among those injured. no other vehicles were involved. >>> and just outside phoenix, stunning images after a plane crashed into an airport building tonight authorities say it's a miracle the two on board and a third on the ground all survived we get more from nbc's miguel almaguer >> reporter: this was the jaw-dropping scene discovered by first responders a small plane wedged nose-down into an airport building the two people aboard, the pilot and a student, somehow made it out alive. it happened just after takeoff in maricopa, arizona

i'm sure that the kremlin couldn't be happier. this must be a stroke of genius. killing two birds with one stone by redirecting the funds. he's dividing us from our european allies for the face of russian aggression and dividing the american people with the politics. i've said it before and i will say it again. investing in donald trump's was the best decision to attend ever made. 1600 pennsylvania avenue was taught nothing to repay the debt and edith might be the only effect that businessman donald trump has never worked so hard to repay. my friends, we have what is a summer of love between trump and putin. it is with the united states voice at the table, so tragically have we lost the confidence of our closest allies and so predictably did our president once again make an appeal on behalf of the patron in moscow repeatedly calling for the expansion to include russia. sometimes i wonder does he actuallysi think that russia isa democracy? does he think that they live in freedom but you see it as an advanced economy and that they share the interest? i have to say

intelligence' own guy, own source inside the kremlin. the washington post in 2017, bob woodward's book "fear" and other news results all reported the existence of an important source somewhere inside the russian government that had given u.s. law enforcement key information about the russian government that they really couldn't have obtained any other way. key information about the russian attack on the 2016 election, including specific documentation showing that putin himself had ordered it, signed off on it and that is not put continue specific information. so the fact that that source existed inside the russian government, inside the kremlin had been previously reported. but then apparently this week some sort of trip wire was tripped and in very big discussion that blew up. we got the reporting not only did that source exist but he had been exfiltrated in part because of concerns that president trump might burn him, might identify him to the russians. we got "the new york times" reporting that this source had been providing valuable

had in the kremlin. the spy had access to vladimir putin and could provide pictures of documents on his desk. one source says there was no equal alternative inside the kremlin. president trump said yesterday he knows nothing about reports that he mishandled intel. >>> democrats are teaming up to deliver a power message on guns. >> gun violence is literally life and death. >> it has become so numbingly common. >> we have kids going to school wondering if they will be physically safe. >> learning how to duck, cover, hide. >> for fear there's a mass shooter roaming the hallways of their school. that is wrong. >> candidates are speaking out in support of former congresswoman gabby giffords. it's part of an ad. the candidates have differences on how to combat gun violence but they deliver a unified message in an increasingly hostile primary. >>> after mass shoots in texas and ohio, president trump asked the justice department to prepare a list for lawmakers. it did not include universal background checks. att

to see host in question when it comes to making claims about the kremlin. welcome to the week ahead on our national where we bring you the latest headlines top stories from last week. u.s. secretary of state mike compare has accused iran of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the wild energy supply saying that iran is behind attacks on saudi arabia's oil production tehran denies any involvement in the attack calling the u.s. accusations a lot i here's the exact wording from the u.s. we call on all nations to publicly and unequivocally condemn iran's attacks the united states without partners and allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and iran is held accountable for its aggression. having failed at max pressure secretary of state pompei is turning to max to seat the u.s. and its clients are stuck in yemen because i'm illusion that weapon superiority will lead to military victory blaming iran won't end disaster except april 15th proposal to end the war and begin talks may all refining in saudi arabia has now been hard as a result of

only 21 percent city council elections 2 candidates from the governing united russia party and other kremlin friendly parties but many opposition candidates were kept off the ballot president vladimir putin cast his vote early the lack of choice didn't bother him too much was that in some countries there are 3050 even 100 candidates but that doesn't mean to say they do better work it's quality not quantity that counts i think we have with the candidates to. the exclusion of dozens of opposition candidates has inspired weekly protests since mid-summer the police have crackdown hard more than 2000 demonstrators have been arrested the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party i didn't you know look at every single vote for a party doesn't get is good even if it's not for us but we hope that we can do more to count to them the. local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. for more let's bring in our correspon

kremlin kemal or harris and other democrats are embracing vladimir putin's preferred u.s. energy policy the new conspiracy theory even went viral on twitter many in fracking and use of natural gas would do more damage to america and make lead to more prudent heavier than anything donald trump has ever said or done so good job democrats you are being pro russia pro putin and program wind by wanting to ban natural gas of course the senator isn't the only 2020 democrat calling for this from russia with love ban on fracking the most reliable of k.g.b. useful idiots bernie sanders is even clearer now this notion that opposition to hydraulic fracking is all a big plot from moscow is nothing new in fact we've even heard it from the halls of the u.s. congress we have seen evidence of campaigns targeting culture and energy as 2 to. industries of interest to foreign powers on energy we've seen anti fracking narratives so it seems like nowadays the only way to really play it safe in american politics is to find out what a lot of your putin wants and do the exact opposite so let's hop

paid russian propaganda when you look at her track record when it comes to making claims about the kremlin. a group of independent u.s. journalists that are being criticised for a visit to government controlled parts of syria. any time anybody visits a government or the syrian government side and offers a realistic perspective they can expect to be attacked what we've been able to see and report already has the narrative that's been conveyed by western corporate media. and video agency brought police to launch a special multi-platform project which you can explore the mystery surrounding the deaths of 9 hikers in the ural mountains 60 years ago which emerged theories still being debated today. very good morning welcome here in moscow you're watching international senior journalists are once again fighting over russia with one t.v. network suing the host of another for alleging they are pro kremlin agenda and it's not the 1st time such accusations have been made as a prank explains. here comes a familiar voice which becomes even more familiar if we hear words like russia or russian the most

in the national parliament which basically doesn't pay much political role doesn't challenge the kremlin that all is ready easy to deal with but long that dissatisfaction that desire for greater engagement we saw bring thousands of people out and streets this summer that's not going away and as i said if there is no kind of constitutional way for these people to engage then that is certainly a very difficult. situation for russia and united russia as it seems is a brand that is increasingly toxic with even though its top figure is not running on the party names they will definitely likely see some kind of reject some kind of new names some new branding as it were to try and. create a bit of new momentum but this is a difficult situation with the economy stalling and people across russia seeing their living standards fall i mean the interesting thing will be to look out to see whether they'll be some kind of tactical union cooperation between the moscow liberals and people at the valley on the one hand and working people across russia who are saying that's not a living falling and might f

and the kremlin has now basically confirmed that yes, that's the guy. at least they're confirming that was his name and he was a russian government official and yes, he mysteriously ended up living in the united states and is no electronicer a russian government official. when this whole story comes out, it's going to be an amazing spy novel. it's halfway there already. but i mentioned a somewhat ominous development in this story today is that russia has now put out an interpol notice seeking international assistance for the russian government to locate this person who, again, has just been named in multiple western media outlets as somebody who was working as a spy for the united states inside the kremlin. now, that news is ominous because of the well-documented history of russia tracking down and killing its dissidents and critics and spies all over the world. this report about them looking for this guy through interpol comes hot on the heels of this gonzo reporting in the "wall street journal" yesterday that u.s. officials now believe that the russia

arthel: so kremlin is saying russia is hoping president trump's conversation with vladimir putin willot be made public after the white house declassified the transcript after the call or partially did so of the call with ukrainian president following the whistleblower complaint alleging mr. trump's abuse of power, the wall street journal, he has headline embarrassing leaks led to clamp down on president trump's records, dan hoffman, former cia station chief who served in moscow, iran and pakistan and now fox news contributor, always good to have you, dan. >> great to be here. arthel: why would the kremlin not want calls between president trump and president putin made public? >> so first, if the kremlin wanted them to be made public i'm sure that they would find a way to do so whether by leaking them or stating the records of the transcript publicly, but they really want to do inject conspiracy into our public discourse, they know that if they express an opinion, if the kremlin say that is the crypts shouldn't be released, that's ammunition for the president's opponents who will argue

we will stay on it on this show. >> let's get reaction from the kremlin, cnn mathew chance in moscow, the president's spokesman asked directly about this reporting today. >> yes, he was. basically, you will be happy to hear he described your reporting jim as a pulp fiction. cheap sensationalist, nonsense, essentially. you should be flattened by that because it's a sign of how sensitive this issue is. because, remember, what was undoubtedly a major intelligence coup for the authorities in the united states, you can see it from the russian point of view. a major embarrassment having revealed in this way that there was a mole working for the united states so high up in the echelons of power right in the sort of corridors of the kremlin, communicating important, sensitive information back to the handlers back in the united states. that's not something that the russians want to talk about. they're embarrassed about this they do not like it. remember, russia has ruthless record when it comes to dealing with its traitors. we don't have to go back very far to see evidence of that, sergei scri

propaganda look at the track record of the presenter in question when it comes to making claims about the kremlin. meanwhile 2 u.s. journalists hit back after being criticized for visiting parts of syria controlled by the country's government anytime visit anybody visits a government of a syrian government side and offers a realistic perspective they can expect to be attacked what we've been able to see and report already has threatened the narrative that's been conveyed by western corporate media. plus help solve a decades old mystery parties a video agency roughly launches a special projects running the strange deaths of a group of hikers in the year old mountain 60 years ago which spawned countless theories as to just what happened. you're watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. senior u.s. journalists are once again fighting over russia with one t.v. network now suing the host of another for describing them as paid russian propaganda has a story. here comes a familiar voice which becomes even more familiar if we hear