regard for the bottle for more civil war more flowers for maria putin. you know if you think you're very much i want to be at home i need some time to adapt as. the moment i only want to be reunited with my family and thank everyone was supported to me i would not have made it without my people citizens of my country thank you very much feel it to you it's just i think she's now a free woman by her father's side with the foreign ministry watching closely. but if you watch the united states she's a convicted russian agent who confessed to infiltrating the american gun lobby in order to gather conservative political contacts sight reading the same face he paid for so gun rights i mean it was like oh. god i mean this knowledge rush hour carol asked rush out yeah that whole thing just like the mission was to promote russia's interests among senior republicans it got her as far as direct contact with donald trump before his election as well as with one of his sons putin has said that she's innocent the foreign ministry says she was humiliated as a human being

dawn of the east and the world political order when we go live to our correspondent maria who is there for us president putin is expected to speak today what's been on the at the about so far. well hi is a clean it has become indeed a tradition that on the last day of discussion club gathering russia's president vladimir putin joins the conversation it stop it is just sad is there is to this year including asia and the middle east 3 days of intensive discussions with high ranking politicians experts analysts from 37 countries are behind on how to maintain peace how to avoid conflicts and violence how to boost development in these strategic i large regions how to cultivate international efforts to achieve common goals and get better results apart from vladimir putin the leaders of as it is by john jordan kazakhstan and the philippines of also here exchange and they are used and through their shoes before sitting all together the old have tete a tetes we've ludmer putin to discuss bilateral as well as global issues and weeks back to the major event of today's. gathering of valdai discussion clock this is by th

maria bettina's case rose to prominence around the same time as the mother investigation into alleged russian meddling into the u.s. presidential election well she end russia's president vladimir putin still insists she did nothing wrong. well for the puddle forceable don't want flowers for maria bettina. you know if you think you very much i want to be at home i need some time to adapt at the moment i only want to be reunited with my family and thank everyone was supported me i would not have made it without my people citizens of my country thank you very much still feel that you exist but she's now a free woman by her father's side with the foreign ministry watching closely. but if you asked the united states she's a convicted russian agent who confessed to infiltrating the american gun lobby in order to gather conservative political contacts site the same face the. gun rights company like for. the smallish rush hour carol rush hour yeah if you like the mission was to promote russia's interests among senior republicans it got her as far as direct contact with donald trump before his election as well as with one of his sons putin has said that she's innocent the foreign ministry sa

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sanctions, and he thinks he'll get along great with vladimir putin, the person who teed him up to say that who asked him that question was maria butina who is currently in federal prison for being a russian agent and, fun fact, she's due to be released the day after tomorrow. she's due to get out of federal jail and be deported back to moscow on friday of this week. after that weird, auspicious beginning in terms of him talking about russian sanctions, that candidate would go on to secure the republican presidential nomination. when his campaign hit some turbulence in advance of the republican convention, the candidate made a surprise decision to hire a new guy to run his campaign. someone who hadn't worked on u.s. politics in years. trump hired a new campaign chairman who he didn't know. his only recent experience in presidential politics was presidential politics in ukraine where he was working for pro-putin political parties. specifically, working for a ukrainian president who tried to turn that country away from the west and instead secure its alliance with moscow. that work that manafort did for pro-putin interests in ukr

maria international 1st question for dear mr chairman shah gloom mr editor got and miss to put 1st question for dear mr chairman shah gloom mr editor gun and mr putin agreed on a 150 hours ceasefire when the curtain agreed on a 150 hours ceasefire when the kurdish forces complete withdrawal from 30 kilometer wide british forces complete withdrawal from 30 kilometer wide a safe zone along the syrian turkish border with a deadline earlier today safe zone along the syrian turkish border with a deadline earlier today's turkey satisfied with how it went and said if we thought we heard a different way toward. that end and if we heard from turkey earlier that that is a permanent ceasefire does that mean we're not going to see any military operation in the border any more and since the situation east off the euphrates is now better is it a permanent cease fire or does that mean we're not going to see any military operation in the border any more and since the situation east off the euphrates is now better what can we expect next can we expect turkey to help russia and syria what can we expect next can we expect turkey to help russia and syria resolve the p

maria: switch gestures middle east tensions turkey signaling that it will hold back, on incursion into syria as vladimir putinr cease-fire expired does it concern you russia an turkey are partnering here. >> i am very concerned, maria a member of nato turkey is partnering, russia nato was -- created in order to stand up against threat from soviet union now russia, so what.has done stepped into a vacuum um what erdogan wanting all along 30 mile buffer between turkey and sir i have been there reasonable, he is not good guy there are three allies working with to develop that didn't happen in frame everybody thought it would so turkey stepped in now putin stepped into that vacuum i am very troubled by that i don't think this changes our mission in syria though that is to make sure that isis does not get redeveloped we give counterer to iran we continue to protect iraq most troubling how iraq is responding to movement of troops right now in and out of sir. >> they don't want troops there. >> proud emory law school you a aluminum love for atlanta i have been shocked how simplistic the analysis has been as you appoi

maria: but some of the president's supporters are not happy. what's your reaction to this? >> well, i tell you, the person who is most happy about this deal right now is vladimir putin. for vladimir putin that he could have ever gotten. all of a sudden, he and his syrian ally, mr. assad, basically can control all of syria right up to the border and they were showing on russian television, they were all laughing and giggling as they were walking through these hayes aabondonned u.s. -- abandoned u. camps where the troops were. it's an unmitigated disaster for anybody who is looking at foreign policy to see who is benefiting from this whole thing. i don't understand why it had to happen. there was like a couple hundred troops there who were basically keeping the world from going up in flames and now they had to leave on a moment's notice and it's just burning now. maria: let me point out there is a rasmussen poll out today saying most likely voters tend to side with president trump on this saying that the u.s. is too involved in the middle east conflicts, 37% said so. having said that, you're right, a lot of people are pushing back, saying the u.s. needs to be there to