no real effort i mean maybe he did for the 1st month or 2 when there was a couple of talks held in minsk whatever but he made no effort in the last 3 or 4 years really to bring peace to donbass because he was either unwilling or unable to fulfill the site of the bargain that he had signed up to i mean maybe he made a mistake in minsk maybe he agreed to stuff he would never been able to implement there's that site too but the point is that we had to come in the last 3 years of. we had no nationalism we had an obsession with all kinds of weird stuff that ukrainians was particularly interested in like an independent ukrainian church in ukraine is a largely agnostic country i mean that was never going to win votes he campaigned for reelection on a slogan that said army language faith so for him a strong military in the aggressive posture sense the ukrainian language having primacy over russian which about half the population still speak and faith which is not really important to most ukrainians were the 3 things he campaigned on he was not campaigning on bringing peace the donbass i mean zel

of the communist party rule his day will be the main event and massive military parade in town in minsk with that they are worries the celebrations could be either settled by pro-democracy protests in hong kong. on the eve of the anniversary a ceremony to honor the birth of the communist state and the heroes of the civil war chinese president xi jinping paid his respects to the fallen. in the evening he attended a theatrical celebration that recalled china's rise from despair to the world's 2nd largest economy. october 1st 1949 7 7 mosley dong declared the founding of the people's republic of china and transformed the country his great leap forward aimed to industrialize the country but instead left it devastated famine was widespread and tens of millions of people die most cultural revolution followed opponents were sent to camps were executed in his attempt to purge china of counter-revolutionaries. after decades of isolation beijing took steps to open the country and its market up to the world. today china's on the podium of the world's leading nations. but rapid growth has come at a

between russia and ukraine is a sign of hope it's worth continuing the hard work to implement the minsk court and the french foreign minister john so this is a gesture that reflects the willingness to russia and ukraine to resume dialogue that allows people to see an end to a 5 year conflict which continues to kill dozens of people every month more now from step she's in moscow with details on the prisoner swap. this is the 1st major positive move between russia and ukraine since the conflict started in 2014 a prisoner exchange including a person who was sentenced to jail for 20 years all accents of ukrainian filmmaker who has also been on a hunger strike 445 days managed to get home today meeting his family after 45 years in prison here in the north of russia has really seen as a major concession by russia by vladimir putin and it shows that putin is willing to negotiate with presidents alinsky off ukraine but he wanted something in return and the person who went back from ukraine to moscow is. a key witness in the 17 downer of malaysian. in 2014 to kill that killed 298 people russia i

come we have the minsk agreement. we should be able to build lasting peace by working on the ground in the next few weeks we will have the normandy format summit. topics, theof these same question is asked of us, how to create an effective framework of cooperation between states and i believe it is possible. don't believe the problems we resolved byan be diluting responsibility or seeing a globalization that disregards our peoples and nations. back to what mr. -- what president trump said this morning. i don't believe the crises we are experiencing can be resolved by turning inward by isolationism, i truly believe in patriotism. combines athat universal location. i truly believe in sovereignty, a sovereignty that ensures autonomy and independence for oneself. but also with the need to cooperate, what we need to -- what is to reinvent called a strong multilateralism in my last statement to you. multilateralism that was repeated but rather a multilateralism based on cooperations that strives to produce concrete results.

has annoyed french climate activists by telling them to move their rallies from paris to poland to minsk you delve deeper into the story. president matt corner fronts has a once again called the banners to help in the fight against climate change speaking at the u.n. climate change emergency summit he said he understood the frustrations of the millions of schoolchildren who had been striking on fridays xom and if you did. it for months and months now we've heard the young people speaking and i think they've identified an absolute urgency that we have to respond to here but while much corn understands their frustrations his government didn't seem too keen on those climate activists who protested in paris over the weekend with some alleging brute force was used by the police as the violence spiraled out of control. and much corn has made it clear he really wants the protesters to go away well from false at least as what you really really wants is for them to take their anger out on another you country poland's. mulching every friday to say that the planet is burning that's nice but that is

compromise some experts say that this is still a force that if signed for the implementation of the minsk remains which are effectively the only viable option for you as viewed by russia and ukraine 2 and the bloodshed to the civil war in the east of ukraine. ard earlier you know neal my colleague discussed the developments with r.t. is donald quarter. this prisoner exchange was a very significant moment for the young political administration of ukraine's president vladimir selenski and he actually went there early to the airport to visit the prisoners as they were coming down from the from the airplane to greet them and he even gave a small speech talking about the significance of this exchange for the future relations between russia and ukraine. ukrainian president voted him are zelinsky and russian president vladimir putin have done everything we have promised and did not change over agreements that. will ship and we heard this kind of sentiment echoed pretty much all over the world actually we heard the council of europe say that this was a really important step in normalizing relatio

market signal that they're getting it's more of a panic signal or let's say the minsky you know i'm in minsk in hysteria that markets start to feed on each other and you use the plated asset value to borrow money to inflate the asset again until you have that minsky moment of a crash where was 1900. in the bond market 93 dot com in 2001 sub prime mortgage 2008 and i think we're at a minsky moment right now do you agree with that and if so where will it pop up where will we see it we and others have been talking about the everything bubble and everything bubble is perhaps the ha stage of a series of bubbles which. a few of them you mentioned just know that everything bubble is probably in its sent to the bones the bone bubble and if you have 17 trillion bones with with negative feuds what if not that is a clear indication of a bubble right so i mean us austria-hungary empire going back a few 100 years that the interest rates have not been this low and the bonds are at a higher price than they've ever been in 300 years so lichtenstein's been around for what 300 years you've never had a bond bu

they see it as a very positive step towards an implementation of the minsk agreement and finally bringing peace to ukraine. thanks for taking us through all valid to be just imagine the hugs from the. children the parents after years abroad can too thank you very much for igor is that the nick of our international airport yet not to one side that was the russians coming but of course the prisoner swap and all the other side as well double quarter is across the outside of the vellum force indeed like in moscow 35 prisoners have arrived within the past couple of hours what kind of welcome awaited them well you know the russian human rights commissioner was certainly correct when she said that this was a historic moment not just for russia but for ukraine as well the ukrainian president vladimir selenski came to greet the prisoners as they filed off the plane and he even gave a short speech talking about this exchange is important for the future relations between russia and ukraine. ukrainian president bull dimmers alinsky and russian president vladimir putin have done everything we have pro

on the post count soviet era territory including the need to strictly follow the provisions of the minsk package of measures to settle the crisis in the east of the grain in syria where major success in combat in terrorism has been achieved a top priority now is the advancement of the political process led by the syrians with the assistance of the un with a decisive contribution of russia turkey and iran as guarantors of the santa format the establishment of the constitutional committee has been finished which was announced by the un secretary general antonio good terrorists a few days ago past post conflict reconstruction and creation of conditions for the return of refugees can now be tackled here the un system is to play an important role here on the whole the middle east and north africa still face many challenges we are witnessing what is happening in libya in yemen the prospects for the palestinian peace process and implementing the arab peace initiative are on the verge of collapse efforts to play the kurdish card which is combustible for many countries are alarming there. gulf re

readiness for compromise some experts say that this is so we have signed for the implementation of the minsk agreements which are effectively the only viable option you as viewed by russia and ukraine and the bloodshed and the civil war in the east of ukraine. with what was happening earlier ethnic of or a port just outside moscow let's now look at similar scenes that played it in ukraine double quarter he joins me now i was across at that for us a little while ago don like in moscow you have 35 prisoners arriving in kiev what kind of welcome was there for them while this prisoner exchange was a very significant moment for the young political administration of ukraine's president. zelinsky vladimir zelinsky and he actually went there early to the airport to visit the prisoners as they were coming down from the from the airplane to greet them and he even gave a small speech talking about the significance of this exchange for the future relation. between russia and ukraine. for example you crane in president told him or zelinsky and russian president vladimir putin have done everything we have

we have the minsk agreement. we should be able to build lasting peace by working on the ground. we will have the normative .ormat on each one of these topics, the same question is asked of us. create an effective framework of cooperation between states and i believe it is possible. i don't believe the problems that we are facing can be resolved by diluting responsibilities. go back to what president trump said this morning. i don't believe the crises we are experiencing can be resolved by turning inward. not by isolationism. i truly believe in patriotism. patriotism that combines a love of one's nation and a universal vocation. i truly believe in sovereignty. 70 that enjoys autonomy and dependence for oneself but also conjugated with a need to cooperate. what we need today is to reinvent what i call not in this -- what i call strong multilateral is in. multilateralism that has been repeated at infinity him but one -- infinity um. we showed this on the climate. we show this after the united states made the decision to withdraw from the paris agreement. we decided to act with othe

this exchange of prisoners is a sign of hope it's worth continuing the hard work to implement the minsk accord. and it comes a day before controversial elections in moscow when voters will elect their regional parliament a number of opposition candidates have been banned from running their barring has provoked weeks of protests in which hundreds of arrests have been made and the number of people have been jailed opposition leader alexei navalny is urging voters to cast the ballots for the candidates with the best chance of beating the governing party all the candidates in president putin's party are presenting themselves as independent to avoid being damaged by the united russia brand. united russia is trying to hold on to power using the bottoms of the via police for the only pillar of support that are free to allow candidates to vote in the election let alone have a fair competition and we think the only way to make this election meaningful is to turn it into a sort of referendum on the government. let's go to the bahamas now where search and rescue teams are trying to reach communiti

we have the minsk agreement. about. and we should be able to build a lasting peace by working on the ground in the next few weeks we will have the north normandy format summit heads of state and government you. on each one of these topics this is james the question is asked of us how do you create an effective framework cooperation of cooperation between states and i believe it's possible but i don't believe them that you know the problems that we are facing. can be resolved by deluding diluting responsibility or kind of a single globalization that that disregards our peoples our nations and i if you go back to what mr trump president trump said this morning and i don't believe that the crisis that we're experiencing can be resolved by turning inward. by a solution is and i truly believe in patriotism one lemuel but it patriotism lives on a love of one's nation and in the same time universal vocation i truly believe in the sovereignty. sovereignty that ensures autonomy and independence for oneself and also but also conj

countries also some experts saying that this is also a positive sign for the implementation of the minsk agreement which effectively the only viable option for you as viewed by russia and ukraine and the bloodshed and the civil war in the east of ukraine. a lot of knock on ramifications well let's not look out the similar developments in ukraine are teased all quarter is across that auspex 1st don't like in moscow 35 prisoners arrived in kiev what kind of welcome was there for them while the council of europe statement that this was a huge step forward in normalization of relations is something that has been more or less ak owed by all parties involved in this ukraine's president vladimir selenski even came early to the reception to see the people the ukrainian detainees come off the plane and he even gave a short speech talking about the significance of the prisoner exchange in the future relations between ukraine and russia. ukrainian president valdemar selenski and russian president vladimir putin have done everything we have promised and did not change our agreements they can make. t

they out of things where all the or the west particularly let's say for example when we had the minsk agreements that was largely done the behest of russia ukraine france and germany they excluded for example the u.k. and the u.s. from those negotiations and from that process and a peace agreement or cease fire not perfect but one was able to be achieved and we've got a similar situation here where russia and ukraine together have got differences put aside on this particular issue and have produced some progress which is sunny's producing humanitarian progress i suspect both sides will use this as. a negotiation point they will pretend that they are going to make further concessions but i think both sides particular with the new ukraine process president after he's got a election commitment to this want to put the ukraine situation to bed and resolve it one way or another of course that isn't necessarily what many countries in the west want and some of the interest groups within those and we're talking about the u.s. for example where there are so many interest groups that want to sto

this exchange of prisoners is a sign of hope it's worth continuing the hard work to implement the minsk accord well joining us now in the studio is an immature vo who is a visiting senior research fellow at kings college here in london thank you so much for being with us so do you agree with president trump that this could be a 1st a giant step to peace between russia and ukraine yes absolutely but the actually if can be a historical moment we should not forget that this is not the 1st time the prisoners were changed between russia and ukraine that happened on the previous president passion but the spirit in which this exchange has been done is different and it's much more positive there's much more straight talk that is less this ayat or score a political you little political point falcon i mean you say there were other prisoner swaps i mean correct me if i'm wrong the names here seem to be quite prominent so there's all exempt so it was a ukrainian filmmaker he was actually in prison for plotting a terrorist act in crimea as a presumably you know a prisoner that russia took seriously

between russia and ukraine is a sign of hope it's worth continuing the hard work to implement the minsk a court and the french foreign minister. said this is a gesture that reflects the willingness of russia and ukraine to resume dialogue that allows people to see an end to a 5 year conflict which continues to kill dozens of people every month let's start with said danson in moscow with more details on the prisoner swap. this is the 1st major positive move between russia and ukraine since the conflict started in 2014 prisoners exchange including a person who was sentenced to jail for 20 years all accents also ukrainian filmmaker who has also been on a hunger strike 445 days a manage to get home today meeting his family after 45 years in prison here in the north of russia his release is seen as a major concession by russia by vladimir putin and it shows that was and is willing to negotiate with presidents alinsky off ukraine but he wanted something in return and the person who went back from ukraine to moscow is vladimir the same a key witness in the n.h.s. and seen as a downer of a mala

it's also imf loans, it's also whether or not states will participate at it minsk processes about the crimea. if the president of the united states is saying we are holding this over your head like a sort of damocles unless you give me information on my opponent, in effect, the whole conversation is a quid pro quo. it's implied. >> ned, i just want to pull back one step here. let's assume no problem, no quid pro quo, just the president of the united states saying to the president of a foreign country i need you to investigate the person who i think i will be running against for re-election. let's just say it's nothing but that without any promise that if you do that investigation, i will then do something positive for your country. what does that mean? >> lawrence, let's suspend disbelief for just a moment and conjure a country somewhere in this world that doesn't need something from the united states of america. i say you have to suspend disbelief from every country needs something from the united states of america. but let's just play devil's advocate here. it would still be a massi

between russia and ukraine is a sign of hope it's worth continuing the hard work to implement the minsk accords well from step in moscow with details about the prisoner swap. this is the 1st major positive move between russia and ukraine since the conflict started in 2014 prisoners exchange including a person who was sentenced to jail for 20 years all accents of ukrainian filmmaker who has also been on a hunger strike 445 days a manage to get home today meeting his family after 45 years in prison here in the north of russia his release is seen as a major concession by russia by vladimir putin and it shows that was and is willing to negotiate with presidents alinsky off ukraine but he wanted something in return and the person who went back from ukraine to moscow is vladimir the same a key witness in the n.h.s. and seen as a downer of a malaysian airliner in 2014 will kill that killed 298 people russia insisted of having this person was actually a ukrainian national and was captured by ukrainian security forces a few months ago to be brought to moscow where he arrived today especially dut