. >> we saw her warm up and medvedev. the free skate. >> she has owned ladies figure skating for two seasons until she lost. going into the free skate, she told me she wants to stay in her own bubble and not worry about the distractions of having a rival. she has warmth and presence and beautiful technical skills on the ice, as well. she can create that moment this rivalry transcends nations and sport because you can marvel at the art and beauty that is ladies' figure skating. >> and the battle. i like that. >> a special feel to that last night. let's talk about the americans. disappointing, struggling a little bit. you have mirai nagasu with the triple axel chenilshe nailed in team event. >> it was so good in the team event. she had a tough warm-up. you could see it on her face. she hit the ice pretty hard. when she was walking off, they had the camera right up there and you could see the worry. it's hard as a skater. you use that six-minute warm-up as your last pep talk before you go on the ice. and she didn't have the

winter olympics in south korea earlier today the first was set by figure skater you have getting a medvedev in the women short program but her score was then topped minutes later by her own teammate and then as you get over with the details in pyongyang is really a potential the younger russian figure skater had been hot on the heels of her older teammate for a very long time and there you have it again you need to be a devout could all the enjoy her world record for a few minutes because then i mean if they did even better and scored an extra point as to what it takes to set these kind of world records both figure skaters include some of the most sophisticated elements in the sport and we see them at the end of the program all these difficult jumps when the athletes are more worn out it's a higher risk but if everything goes smoothly it automatically adds skyrocketing points i guess something. precious for us journalists to take note of was the reaction of you gave the following her immaculate performance she said it was not my best but it was ok and apparently that ok was enough for a wor

from the winter olympics in south korea in the last few minutes russian figure skating is going to medvedev has set a new world record in the short program if actually broken our own record that you said earlier in these games now later today more sports the olympics athletes from russia hockey team is up against norway in the quarterfinal let's go live there now in a patrol is our man at the games either really or been dominated by drama this year's olympics of course what's the outlook for this match. call in the high end is finally the time for the quarterfinals of the ice hockey tournament at the young chang winter olympics and as you said in just a couple of hours the o.e.r. team will be taken on norway and everyone knows that without the an h l ors the russians are the strongest on paper but just remember how the team lost their first game to slovakia surprise surprise and as we all know being the absolute favorites always means extra pressure and a chance to underestimate your opponent and just listen to what the russian hockey legend tretiak had to say about that. this is the easies

singles fifteen year old alina as the gate of the edge over her teammate and close friend of gagne and medvedev are in the final standings after their points from the short and free skate programs were combined of the two actually tied in the free skate which is a rare occurrence but the gate of a perform better in the short program on wednesday the bronze went to canada's tate and altman games have been as a gauge of a little big debut as well here's what some of the fans had to say about their performance. and the girls have outperformed themselves you can see from their results the best of the season it was unclear who would come first until the final moment we knew was the goal to go to russia. it is right also supporting the two girls some like you gain are better than alina and vice versa but i do realize the second place would also be ours so none of that mattered at the bases out there is a good deal so when you. got the nibbles a lot of skating was insane the competition was very strong. and well them to both of them there's also been a bit of a buzz outside the in the stadium to donal

condolences coming from the kremlin from by the way putin and also from the prime minister as well dmitri medvedev but he made putin is supposed to be meeting the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas to morrow in sochi now he has canceled that trip to sort. the meeting with mahmoud abbas is now going to be taking place in moscow instead. and of course it is very early at this point to. look at what the cause of the crash might have been but there have been some reports that site possible well a technical problem and some communication with the pilot that he might have asked to land before before obviously things played out the way they did yeah i mean there have been numerous reports coming out over the course of the last few hours indicating difference things now one of them was that this plane could have crashed into a helicopter operated by the russian postal service well that was fairly quickly dismissed by the russian post postal services or they didn't actually have any any helicopters there could tooth something like that the facts that this plane seems to be burning when it came down will be s

athletes and coaches by the court of arbitration for sport last week russian prime minister dmitri medvedev says it's a shameful political decision he sports minister has also spoken out who is it really it is even more dangerous that this decision by the international olympic committee is i think a little bit weird i think it violates their own rules i'm sure it will adversely affect the sports and deliberate movement directly rival factions of south africa's ruling party have clashed during demonstrations outside the party's headquarters in johannesburg it came ahead of an urgent a.n.c. meeting to discuss the future of president jacob zuma after talks failed to secure his departure is we under pressure to resign since there are opposed to replace him as leader of the party of family there miller has more from johannesburg. the african national congress is continuing to grapple with what it calls a transitional period after sil remark was i was named president of the party while jacob zuma remains president of south africa and that's amid intensifying calls for zuma to step down this of co

the belief that we could work with putin and i was extremely critical of barack obama when he told medvedeva better deal on him after the election, when hillary gave the reset button. i think one of the worst foreign policy mistakes in decades is when president obama basically invited the russians into syria back in 2013. there's a lot of blame to go around. i think president trump was wrong during the campaign. i think he was well-intentioned but misguided to think we can deal with putin. he is kgb, will always be kgb. in talking with people in the intelligence community, the military community, there's no doubt in my mind we have a much tougher attitude. we can go back and forth on who is to blame and who did more. i believe there have been wake-up calls to the administration that putin is not the changed person they thought he was. we're seeing it in syria where the russian troops attacked a military unit knowing americans were there. i'm glad the americans went back and killed hundreds of them. >> one more beat on this. you do say you know the word has been passed on. what happened? who

medvedev, then president of russia and said after this election i will have more flexibility.e saw an american president, obama talking to russia as if there was northerly threat going on. >> arthel: david, was that diplomat you can move? we will work this out. was that the move. >> look, we also know that obama pulled putin aside while he was president in final months and said knock it off. something we know that this president has never said to vladimir putin. in fact if barack obama dropped the ball, donald trump has taken the ball and carried it into the end zone for the other team. so, yes, of course, it is clear that, you know, barack obama should have done more. but that doesn't let donald trump off the hook. there is enough blame to go around here. but there is certainly more blame with this president because he was the one whose election was affected by this. >> at the time. >> he needs to get over this hangup about the tie to the legitimacy question and be able to stand up as the president of the united states and say this country meddled in our election and it's not

old so i could tell that as the second youngest gold medalist in the events history fellow russian medvedev took silver. you're watching to w. news folks back in a minute. to call smart. take football or simply live your lives. he's gone from backyard play one game in two world champions the amazing career of zamboanga i tend. to say anything he hasn't accomplished yet. but tang tells old. wrestlers. in sixty minutes douglas. we make up oh but we watch as a focus the un does that to. the surface and. they want to shape the continent's future it's part of it and join our youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges of the seventy seven percent platform for africa in charge of. climate change. waist length. isn't it time for good news eco africa people and projects that are changing our lives are meant for the better it's up to us to make a difference. let's split the child are. going to go for the environment magazine play. d.w. . elaborates moments but. it's all about the still lives in sucks it's all about george chance to discover the world from different persp

one of them resigned, his closest ally alexander from whom estranged, and dmitry medvedev . he was unique and exceptional, which is what i want to underline in line of the conflict so far. what struck me was how much continuity the paper givers have concerned in the 100 years between 1917 and 2017. of course, there have been differences. stalin is not letting your putin. communist ideology is not letting your putin's return to the trinity of the czars. differences.y the detente was different from khrushchev's. to some degree, or sealed and is the exception. just to list a few of them that ever heard mentioned here. the soviet union and russia under vladimir putin, a sphere dominance, person in eastern europe, several of the papers talk about the soviet union and russia over and over again have seen the united dates as hypocritical, complaining if adherence and fealty to ideal and then a dohring them in it foreign policy practice. we have heard several times about how the soviets and now it in himself once to be treated as an eight ball -- wants to be treated as an equal by t

a way it's proving them right and the reactions today showed that you had prime minister dmitry medvedev saying that russia never doubted that our athletes earned the medals that they got in such he the kremlin spokesman said that this shows that appealing these decisions can work and that russia will move forward in protecting their athletes in with any measures possible including legal measures measures so russia obviously plans to continue to try to clear its athletes names after all this decision still leaves a levon athletes unable to take part in the upcoming. olympics and today the deputy prime minister who was of course the sports minister in truth in such as well said that russia plans to appeal each of those cases so russia kind of victorious there and it's definitely an encouraging sign for the country and for it's awfully it's except that it's not really is because the v.m.c. russian so it's like they didn't actually say very didn't do it they just said they didn't do it explicitly enough to ban them forever. right well but this sort of still plays into the the ongoing russia

the eighth olympic medal of his career and that same figure skating event two time world champion medvedev or achieve the highest ever score in the women's short program she's representing olympic athletes from russia this effort moving her teen up to second behind canada. now high winds forced the perspiring mints of one of the game's highest profile events the men's downhill will now take place on thursday gusts in excess of seventy kilometers an hour prompting the decision qualifying for the women's snowboarding slopestyle also called off. it's not unusual to for it to be changing is that it is a challenge. but we are clearly prepared for it there's no sign that we or you know this is take us on the way as we prepare beforehand for the eventuality which nearly always happens in the world cup event or of the olympic winter games germany are top of the medals table after two days of competition with three goals the netherlands are in second while france and austria have just joined the list of gold medal winning countries after victory in women's moguls and men's singles respectively elev

not just a random choice, all those who were appointed by the one-time substitute of putin, dmitry medvedev, all of them are under criminal investigation right now. the former government of the poorest area of the russian federation, who went to grovel to the local fsb, and is now awaiting a 10 year sends to jail. -- a ten-year sentence. the future of russia, it is a long talk. i just want to point out to you, that there is good and bad news. the good news is that tend tolistic regimes be more unpredictable and more prone to all types of war, revenge with the neighbors, like in the case of the annexation of crimea, or the war in eastern ukraine. corporative types of regimes are more stable, more persistent, and unfortunately more consolidated. therefore, it is much difficult to expect positive change in russia. i would be happy to answer your questions with respect to this issue. here, let me just say that there is one very interesting feature that we observe now among the new russian nomenklatura. kgbously, those who were in offices in soviet times, there already in the mid 60's and some o

to putin the president sending his condolences the prime minister dmitri medvedev has done that as well putin has basically changed his plans for monday he was going to be going down to sochi to meet with the the the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas that meeting is now going to be taking place in moscow where you can monitor the investigation also rory what about the relatives of the passengers on board this will be a very difficult time for them all they getting the help and support and information that they need. well it was because it is a small city in a fairly remote part of russia or it's down in the southern tip of the ural mountain range the year olds basically separates european russia from siberia and i think you know you're going to find that in a place like vats the local emergency services and the administration is not particularly well set up to deal with this kind of situation but you know they will be getting through it. of course i think the what will happen over the coming days will be crucial and of course when it's determined are what brought this plane out of the sk

that stayed with him to the end, edward sheranadza, alexander yakalif, his closest ally and vadim medvedev. he was unique. he was exceptional. that's what i want to underline in line of the conference so far. what struck me about many of the papers is how much continuity the paper givers have discerned between 1917 and 2017. stalin is not putin. it is not putin's return to the trinity of the czars. there are many differences. we talked about them all. there are these interesting parallels from which gorvachev and yelsin are the exception. the search of the soviet union and russia under putin for a sphere of, we called it by different names, influence, dominance, first in eastern europe he talked about after the war and now in the near abroad. several papers talked about how the soviet union and russia have seen the united states as hypocritical, proclaiming its adherence to eye deaideals and g them in foreign policy practice. we heard how the soviets and putin, himself, want to be treated as an equal of the united states. we have heard about how the liberal international order is promoted

edward, whom his closest ally with whom he grew estranged and vladim medvedev. he was unique and he was exceptional and that's what i want to enlighten in light of the conference so far because what struck me about many of the papers is how much continuity the paper givers have discerned in the hundred years between 1917 and 2017. of course, there have been differentes and stalin is wanot putin and the communist ideology is not to return to the trinity of the czars and the nationality and there are many differences and detant was different from khrushchev, we talked about them all, but there are these interesting parallels from which gorbachev and to some degree yeltsin is the exception and just to list a few of them that i heard mentioned here and the search of the soviet union and russia in the sphere of -- we call it by different names. influence, dominancer is ral of the papers talk about how the soviet union and russia over and over again have seen the united states as hypocritical, proclaiming its adherence to ideals and then ignoring them in his foreign a

not quite to the end because he did resign, his closest ally from who he grew estranged and vadim medvedev. so he was exceptional and that's what i want to underline in light of the conference so far because what struck me about many of the papers is how much continuity the paper-givers have discerned in the 100 years between 1917 and 2017. of course there have been differences. toll lynn is not putin, communist ideology is not putin's return to the trinity of the czar's autocracy, nationality. there are many differents, detente was different than kruschev. but there are interesting parallels from which gorbachev and to some degree yeltsin is the exception to list a few of them i've heard mentioned here. the search of the soviet union and russia under putin for a sphere of -- well, we called it by different names, influence, dominan dominance, first in eastern europe as was talked about after the war and now in the near abroad. several papers talk about how the soviet union and russia over and over again have seen the united states as hypocritical, proclaiming its adherence, fealty, to ide

this is my last election after my election i have more flexibility president obama to president medvedevmp impose sanctions congress passed. dagen: treasurer working on him steve mnuchin last week -- >> i think right now you have a fence where among democrats regret that president obama fearful that he would be seen as putting his hand on the scale or helping hillary clinton was not more effective in communicating to us the american people, what was going on with russia as president trump points out this started in 14 even before running. >> don't forget john podesta brother tony podesta consulting firm big business trying to get u.s. to remove sanctions against russia, about defending russians that is tony podesta john podesta tony podesta podesta group. >> tony not john but -- >> both owned firm. >> they owned the firm together. >> i think tony had -- is tony is a big owner not john. maria: point is they were working forget russians. >> yikes i get your point i hope you see are what i am saying too. maria: ask u -- juan williams. we'll be right back florida hig school 17 people gunned

him leaning over to medvedev and saying after this election we are going to be -- i will be free to doings. when all this stuff came up with james clapper in charge and john brennan running the cia. what move did they make on pushing back on russia? almost none. ainsley: even adam schiff was saying why didn't obama do something about this he is the leading member of the intel committee. steve: president obama knew at the time russians were trying to rig our elections. we know now that he knew? because a month earlier he said he had told putin knock it off. and he believed that putin did. at least that's what he told the press. but, nonetheless, listen to how the fact that the former president knew it was going on. yet, diminished the fact that people were talking about it. watch. >> there is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even -- you could even rig america's lebszs. there's no evidence that that has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time. and so i would invite mr. trump to stop whining and go try to mak

she said she's only starting so i do expect for more things for her as well as the silver medalist medvedev and mesmerizing stuff looking at that are team that we just still seemed russian on they could be getting another gold medal what happened and i say that's right they pretty much dominated the czech republic they won three male and you know they started to open up the score in the second period nikita who sat score first and that was followed up by vladislav grief cough. that's goosey right there celebrate use of celebrating in the next goal a bloody slough story in there and the third and final ilia kovach to go former n.h.l. player picked up his fourteenth career goal in the olympics so that's good and they are set up to either win gold or medal gold or silver scuse me they're waiting for the winner of a match is underway germany versus canada germany a long shot because canada is right number one in the world. but germany's in pole position they can walk away with possibly bronze or even better so a medal anyway for germany and of course if the underdogs as you said in that match o

she said she's only starting so i do expect for more things for her as well as the silver medalist medvedev and mesmerizing stuff looking at that or team that we just still seemed russian on they could be getting another gold medal what happened in the ice that's right they pretty much dominated the czech republic they won three male and you know they started to open up the score in the second period nikita who sat score first and that was followed up by vladislav grief cough. that's goosey right there celebrate use of celebrating in the next goal bloody sluff scoring there and the third and final call walczak a former n.h.l. player picked up his fourteenth career goal in the olympics so that's good and they are set up to either win gold or medal gold or silver scuse me they're waiting for the winner of a match as underweight. germany versus canada germany a long shot because canada's right number one in the world but germany's in pole position they can walk away with possibly bronze or even better so a medal anyway for germany and of course if the underdogs as you said in that match ok wha