i've been to moscow. >> never spoken to him on the phone? >> i didn't meet him in moscow. where? >> never spoken to him on the phone? >> i have never spoken to him on the phone, no. i've spoken -- when we had the miss universe contest a number of years ago. we had miss universe in the moscow area. he was invited. he wanted to come. he wasn't able to come. that would have been a time i would have met him. >> i just want to clear this up. you did say on three different occasions that you had a relationship with him. now you say there is not. >> i don't know what it means by having a relationship. he was saying good things about me. i didn't meet him. i haven't spent time with him. i didn't have dinner with him. i didn't go hiking with him. i don't know him --

our reporter kerstin palzer went to taldom, north of moscow.servationists are working to rehydrate the peat bogs. kerstin: we're in one of the largest peatland regions north of moscow, an area of more than 40,000 hectares, about as big as the german city-state of bremen. biologist andrey sirin goes with us. he's been studying peatlands for more than 30 years and is considered one of the world's leading experts. the ground here is like a waterlogged sponge. andrey: peatlands cover only 3% of the land surface in the world, but they make up the largest on earth -- and second on the planet, after oceanic deposits -- long-term storage of carbon. kerstin: but only half of russia's peat bogs are still intact. the rest were drained more than a hundred years ago, to make the land suitable for agriculture, and especially for the peat itself. it's estimated there are more than 150 billion tons of peat around moscow. and it''s still extracted today for r use as fuel or p potting . drained peatlands present a permanent danger, because they're highly flammab

that is okay to be pro-moscow june 22nd, 1941 when hitler invaded russia it is okay to be pro-moscow. in then your home boy pat buchanan. so if washington vet -- could ally it is beyond the boundary reasons the washington would have none of it. but what takes place in 194846 and then wags of thing your against black people including soldiers in uniform harry truman's face was turning purple as the blood rushed to his temples but that was a turning point for his live and then beginning to see increased persecution. and that takes away the life blood of his career. and then plummeting from the six figures down to the four figures a concert and then was assaulted by a mob to physically mutilate him if not doing away with them all together with the organization led by patterson who by that time a so-called communist front pursuing those to their grave. he was barely able to escape with his body intact but it did not end there. but you will recall that they filed a petition which with the united nations and charging the authorities against black people the petition they published this auda

relations provided additional momentum for closer ties between beijing and moscow. for china the crisis forced the united states to refocus at least some of its attention back to europe as pivot to asia. beijing enjoyed more space, vis-a-vis u.s. and more leverage vis-a-vis russia, vulnerability and isolation increased. in addition to strengthening china's hand in energy negotiations, moscow has become at least more -- moscow has seemed to become more willing to cooperate in sectors that were previously restricted, for example contributing statements to beijing last month as an example the two sides confirmed the progress they have made and they will make the eastern route of the sino-russian gas pipeline, which is expected by both countries to become operational in 2018. russia's largest crude oil producer also reached several deals with chinese companies including signing of 20% stake of this unit to beijing and prices, 40% stake of the eastern petrochemical to china and a joint development of a petrochemical plant in russia's far east. china and russia also signe

we clearly have a mutual interest with moscow to settle the conflict in syria. creates terrorism, which is dangerous not only to the united states and our allies, it's creating a presence in russia. quite a few isa spider and senior commanders came from russia, so the russians, like united states, see this challenge. to put it mildly the russians-- [inaudible] [inaudible] >> here our interests coincide. we want, not just isis, we went to do it in a way that would not benefit bashar al-assad. the russians would not mind at this point for the destruction of these terrorist groups and at the minimum they told 22 look like people who are surrendering bashar al-assad. we have to understand where we stand in our relationship with russia. the relationship is bad. the administration is talking about diplomacy with moscow meaning that we don't have any linkages, we get most cooperation where we have mutual interests, but where we don't believe we have mutual interests , we will continue to increase sanctions and move infrastructure into all the baltic states. we are talk

brent: our moscow correspondent talking but the susummit. thank you very much.ere's aa look at some of the other stories making headlines. the so-called islamic state is claiming it has shut down a syrian government plane. this footage purportedly show the aircraft in flames today. images have also been released allegedly showing the dead pilot. a terrorist suspect heleld in a police station and kenny has killed four police officers. demand is still holed hold up in ththe building and holding hostages. police commandos are hoping to and the standoff. in italy, to railroad officials evan placed ununder investigatin as authorities are trying to determine the cause of a fatal plane crash earlier. two trains collided head-on killing 23 people and injuring many more. we're going to take a short rack -- short break. stick around. ♪ ♪ brent: welcome back. britain's new prime minister theresa may wasted no time just hours after taking the post to begin naming new cabinet members. among them, boris johnson as the new foreign secretary. reporter: he was one of the key fac

john kerry, he does not have the real ability to deliver on his promised to moscow. he negotiates deals but if doesn't look likely that the military would quite cooperate with him in terms of providing full assistance to russia in terms of any joint military action against any groups, rebel groups associated with al-nusrah and the way the united states would likely define who are legitimate, that would exclude a lot of groups, which russia considers terrorists. and that maktakes me to my fina point. so i think for the negotiations between the united states and russia to have a chance, we have to make our own choice. what is our priority in syria? is our priority isis or al-nusrah or to remove osad from power? this is not an easy choice. because again, we are not a free actor. the gulf states, turkey, there are a lot of countries in the region who are friends who do not want to see an arrangement, which would benefit president assad. but in the end of the day, my review of the leadership is to make difficult decisions. my assumption is this will be a job for the next

they committed financing for the moscow high-speed railway.if successful, the project could mark the beginning of a new page of russian infrastructure corporation. russia is trying to connect and integrate with a euro asian community in order to prevent exclusive or chinese dominance. it is not knew for china there are confirms about russia in china and vice versa because it is the peril of location and history. the chinese will always remember however much we dislike the united states it is russia who took most of our loss of territory. similarly in russia, there are forces weighing against china's territorial ambitions that lead to the chinese migration. putting nationalism in china is aimed at the west and also aimed at china. some observers speculate that is the reason why russia is reluctant to sell core military weapons to china and reluctant to open to trade and more participation in the russian parties. within southeast asia china is suspicious of and antagonized by russia's strategic and military ties with countries like vietnam and i

homework that we said that we'd do coming out of moscow, it has been constructive. so, we're going steadily and carefully down a road without making promises to people in public that we can't keep, because i think people are already frustrated enough by what has been happening in syria. so we're going to go methodically. there is a possibility if everybody does what they have said they are prepared to do, that this could change what is happening in syria. so that's our goal. i'm hopeful we can get there, and we're going to do everything in our power to work in good faith in order to try to do so, but nothing that we've done are or doing in this process is based on trusting the word of somebody. it's based on our ability to work out a series of measurable steps that each party would take in order to make this work. and the proof, as i said, will be not in the words, but in the final product, if there is one. >> final question today comes from dave clarke at afp. >> thank you very much, mr. secretary. how does the turmoil in neighboring turkey affect the plans that yo

a terse announcement picked up from radio moscow. >> the soviet union reports an accident at chernobylar power plant in the ukraine. >> the instinctive reaction of the soviet bureaucracy was to deny anything had really happened, as a result of which people died not only, not only soviets not getting the truth about chernobyl, the top leaders weren't getting the truth. gorbachev discovered he was also in the dark as the soviet leader. >> soviet news casters deliberately played down the incident, reporting it after the latest five-year plan and crop report. eight or nine minutes into the news, an announcer said only two people had been killed in the incident, contradicting one news report that casualties numbered in the thousands. >> chernobyl wasn't a flash in the pan. every few weeks there would be something like chernobyl because of structural defects of the soviet system. >> officials say because it took place at the newest reactor, it is another indication of inferiority of soviet technology and they say they brought on the accident not taking the same safety precautions taken in th

i did look at materials in moscow. we do have some very good gorbachev administration materials in oxford. there are some marvelous materials in simi valley and the reagan presidential library but above all it was the materials inside the institution over there, the hoover institution archives that i used more than anything else and they are so rich in showing us, to look at the end of the cold war, this very very dangerous period and world history not just through memoirs because as we know politicians write memoirs so as to look good to posterity and anyway there are bound to be somewhat one-sided. interviews are very very helpful i did have a disastrous interview with mikail gorbachev in the mid-90s before even thought of this book and i remember him saying at a point in the conversation, what are you interested in and i said well i writing a lacquer feel lenin at the moment and he said, very interesting and then he quickly cut the conversation short because to him soviet ideology and particularly the figure of leni

it is very difficult to do business in moscow.ve to know the right people and probably pay the right bribes. >> a couple years back he did take the miss universe pageant to moscow. did that help him? >> yeah. 2013. part of the history is donald trump tweets of course, an important part of the historical record. >> please say that facetiously. go ahead. >> he had some nice things to say and he even said i hope putin shows up, maybe he'll become my new best friend. putin did not show up. he says he has never met putin. after that pageant in 2013 he came back and he said again, he told the "new york post" i'm hoping to develop a trump tower in moscow. so it's something he's sort of had on his back burner, maybe on it is front burner for a long time, maybe he still says. >> is there some level of russian involvement in his business, investors perhaps? >> yeah. he has had some involvement with russian financiers who helped him with trump soho in new york. traditional banks don't really lend him money anymore so he gets money where he c

we know they have committed part of the financing for the moscow high-speed railway. if success, the project could mark the beginning of a new page of russian infrastructure corporations. it is also to connect and integrate with your community in order to prevent exclusive or chinese dominance. it is nothing new for china there are certains about russia in china and vice vers because it a peril of location. the chinese will remember however much we dislike the united states it is russia to took most of our loss of territory. similarly in russia, there are voices warnings against china's territorial ambition that lead us to chinese migration. putting nationalism in china is perceived to be aimed at the west and at china. some chinese observers spectilate that is the reason why russia is reluctant to sell core technology to cline china and open up the economy to chinese trade and investment and allow for more chinese participation in the russian parties. within south and southeast asia china is suspicious of countries like india and vietnam. they believe the interest in

an attempt to build a trump tower in moscow fell through before it began.ind no projects that were actually complete in russia. the only real ventures, an attempt to sell vodka to russians which failed. and in 2013, trump made millions when he partnered with a russian billionaire to host his miss universe pageant in moscow. trump appeared in a music video with his billionaire russian partners rock star son -- >> you're fired! >> reporter: and boasting of the pageant's success, trump even tweeted. trump tower moss ko is next. he trademarked not one but eight different combinations of his name in russia and that was it. >> he tried to negotiate wager deals. he was present in russia. he tried meeting with putin. it did not work out. >> reporter: dmetri says when it comes to any relations, especially in business between donald trump and russia, they are very hard to find. >> i'm not aware of any merger business endeavors from trump in russia. >> the real story may be that trump's business endeavors in russia turned out to be failures. >> what they can say with

reporter: near moscow today, they were battling for med als. it's the russian cup.event was supposed to be final preparation for the summer olympics, but russian track and field is banned from international cap petition -- competition because of doping allegations. today, more than 60 athletes lost their appeal in sports' highest court in switzerland. they won't be going to rio. >> it's like death for us. reporter: death? >> yes. because the aim for all professional athletes is to be a part of the olympic games, and to get medals. reporter: for maria, rio would have been one of her first olympic games. it's not fair, maria tells me. clean sports men should be allowed into the olympics. i should be there. russia's decision is being said to have robbed russian track and field athletes of their dream. but the nightmare scenario for moscow would be a ban on all russian sportsmen in rio, the entire team, and that would be for all of the committee to decide. that's because this week, the world anti-doping agency presented evidence of cheating by russia in 30 sports, the h

this morning, moscow is responding.onald trump igniting a firestorm. >> i wish i had that power. >> reporter: accusations he seemingly invites russia to meddle in the presidential election, others saying it's just sarcasm. >> russia, if you're listen, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. let's see if that happens. >> reporter: those missing e-mails from hillary clinton's private server when she was secretary of state, trump's comments come as speculation widens about russia's alleged involvement in the e-mail hacking of the democratic national convention committee. the republican presidential candidate standing firm after being pressed by reporters. >> do you have anany qualms abo asking a foreign government to interfere, to hack into a system of anybody's in this country. >> it's up to the president. let the president talk -- >> does that not give you puce. >> no, if they have them, they have them. what gives me more pause a person

yesterday, the president said whether moscow was trying to influence the presidential elections, he said anything is possible. can you tell us what you know nceut the relationship and what he campaign knows, and what donald trump believes? trum >> we have no relationship. this is an absurd attempt by the clinton campaign to try to get the focus off of what the real isn'tis. the real issue isn't the democratic server being hacked. the issue is her server sitting in a closet in her home in new york that was unsecured. so you can imagine if it was so easy to do the d in. c server, what the likelihood how many countries have hacked into that server, and that one had national security documents in it that are probably floating

moscow recently.rectly and directly with president putin, who could not have been nicer. >> reporter: and now trump's favorable comments about russia has u.s. allies worried about whether the u.s. would defend them against russian aggression. >> it's bothersome to our foreign partners. i hear that from my counterparts. >> reporter: jim sciutto, cnn, washington. >> thank you. >>> as jim mentioned, wikileaks published thousands of democratic party emails that russian hackers may have accessed. in an interview with cnn, wikileaks' founder, julian assange, indicated that a lot more material related to the u.s. election could soon be released. >> there has been multiple hacks of the dnc over the last two years. the dnc and the rnc, had been swiss cheese in terms of their security. the dnc has been notified quite some time ago that that is the case. and it has legal responsibilities it must carry out to notify its donors that it's aware that their confidentiality has been breached by a hack. >> assange also

and we are all mortal. >> kennedy and his people waited for any reaction from moscow at all. teletype saying that for the first and only time a speech of an american president covered a complete page of pravda, the party newspaper. >> khrushchev decided to change his world policy. the strategy of creating tension all around the american empire was dropped. and he said to his colleagues, you know what? let's give him the test ban treaty. >> the united states, the soviet union and great britain promise to end all nuclear test explosions in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater. >> big deal soviet union, the same as united states. and khrushchev was very proud that they stopped testing and poisoned atmosphere. >> man's long hopeful quest for peace will cease to be only a dream and will begin to acquire solid reality. is one of the truly great achievements of the kennedy presidency. >> we shall not regret that we have made this clear and honorable national commitment to the cause of man's survival. for under this treaty, we can and must still keep our vigilant defense of fre

moscow, kiev looking at wet weather, highs in the 20s. stockholm at 22 degrees. that's what i mean by depending where you are it may not be as warm. then back toward the west and london, paris, eveven madrid. madrid, high of 39 as we go throughout the day on tuesday. as we wrap things up with a look at north america, i want to point out a couple of areas we're looking at for the possibility of some severe weather. we do have a low pressure system moving in through the midwest of the united states. and then we have a cold front that's down towards the south. so both these areas looking at a marginal risk for somee severe thunderstorms as we go throughout the day on tuesday with some scattered rain and thunderstorms. and then back toward the west we're looking at rain to vancouver and seattle. we're still seeing wet weather there through the day. storms from d.c. down toward miami. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended outlook. >>> and we end this hour's nhk "newsline." for your comments go to our >> hello and welcome to live from paris. i

in a wide-ranging interview he asked about his relationship with russia and kerry's moscow meeting.was filmed by the presidential press office but there have been no editorial changes, no et cetera to the content. >> and you're not worried in the least about secretary kerry meeting vladimir putin and coming to an understanding in which you may have to leave power? >> no. for one reason. because their politics, i mean the russian politics is not based on making deals. it's based on values. and that's why you don't see any achievement between them and the american because different principle. the american politics based on making deals regardless of the values, which is not the case for the russians. >> and joining me now is nbc's chief global correspondent bill neely. bill, congratulations on the interview. there were so many lines in it. let me play one other very tough question you asked the syrian dictator after more than 250,000 people have died in that civil war and hundreds and hundreds of thousands more have become refugees, leaving his country. you confronted him about that.

moscow believes the u.s. orchestrated the pro-democracy protests in kiev in 2013 which deposed president yanukovych in favor of a more pro-western petro poroshenko. some see potential russian payback in the attack on the dnc. >> they want to undermine our information hegemony and win the battle in the information space. this is just another part of that effort. >> jim sciutto joins us live from washington right now. jim, do officials think other political servers were targeted as well? >> not the target of this attack but fact is, wolf, there has been an m.o. here of russian attacks, attacks on white house e-mails, state department e-mail, often the information being released to the public with something of an information goal here, right. the russians see this as an information war to some degree with the u.s. and that extends to political processes and they consider this kind of thing fair game. whether or not they're supporting an individual candidate to undermine confidence in the u.s. political system is

> reporter: moscow's former anti-doping detailed where russia cheated. the russians are said to have built a mouse hole, where dirty samples were passed through, emptied and replaced with clean samples. >> it's a level of corruption at the olympic games that we can't tolerate. >> reporter: it's now up to the international olympics committee to decide punishment. a ban would be unprecedented. today russia's president said the report is based on the testimony of one man. >> reporter: for katie uhlaender who lost bronze to a russian by .004 of a second, it's been a long time coming. >> when i lost, i was heartbroken, but it was more for my country. >> reporter: now with just 18 days until rio, the decision to keep russian athletes away from competition, could come as early as tomorrow. miguel almaguer, nbc news. >>> when we come back, she's rarely heard on the campaign trail, but tonight she will be the star of the rnc, melania trump takes center stage. >>> we're back from cleveland where tonight the woman who could be the next first lady of the united stat

it says starting in 2011, a moscow laboratory notified the deputy ministry of sports of every positive finding. he then decided whose results would be covered up or, in the report's language, saved and who would be quarantined or sent through the regular process. this graph from the report shows that more than half of the cases the investigative team looked at were covered up. many believe it includes medal winners or promising athletes. the world's anti-doping body called the report truly shocking. in a statement wada says russia should be banned from the rio olympics, paralympics, and other international events. russia's president reacted sharply. in a statement, vladimir putin called it dangerous political interference in sports. he says individual athletes should take responsibility for their own actions. but he also says that russian officials named in the report will be temporarily suspended. with the rio olympics just weeks away, the findings do nothing to boost people's faith in the games or international sport as a whole. the investigative team will continue its work. it says

>> reporter: boasting of the pageant's success, trump even tweeted, trump tower moscow is next.arked not one but eight different combinations of his brand and name in russia and that was it. >> he tried to negotiate major deals. he was present in russia. he tried to arrange a meeting with putin. it did not work out. >> reporter: the president of a washington think tank that encourages stronger relations between the u.s. and russia says when it comes to any relations, especially in business, between trump and russia, they are very hard to find. >> i'm not aware of any major business endeavor between trump and russia. >> the real story may be that trump's business endeavors in russia turned out to be failures. >> what i can say with certainty is that the trump organization is not a major presence in russia. when you talk to americans who invest in russia, they never mention the trump organization as a serious player in russia. >> reporter: trump has had better luck dealing with russians living in the u.s., sort of. he partnered with the bayrock group, a company run by soviet immig

for more on the controversy, we're joined now by former cnn moscow bureau chief, jill dougherty in moscow to see you, jill. it's incredible these developments, just two years after russia enjoyed olympic glory at the sochi olympics. how are officials reacting to this potential ban? >> reporter: this is huge for russia. it's huge for russia the country, and huge for president putin who after all was the face of the olympics in sochi. so right now i can tell you moscow really is bracing for this decision. and president putin has been taking kind of a, you know, a dual approach. he has definitely denied that there is any state-sponsored doping in russia. but on the other hand, he's been saying, look, we're taking this very seriously, it is a big problem in the world. and if there's any going on in russia, we're going to do something about it. so right at this point you have five officials who are temporarily sidelined, as this is being investigated. and then also president putin urging the russian olympic committee, which it did, to create an independent commission. we'll look into doping. t

meanwhile officials in moscow have criticized the court decisisi. russian sports minister says the decision lacks objectivity and has no legal basis. a spokesperson for the president says it's unacceptable that all russian track and field athletes have to bear responsibility. but he added russia's national teams will not boycott the rio games. the officials say they will discuss how to respond to the court decision. >>> for your thoughts and comments, log onto our website and click on contact us. we'll have more details for you at the top of the hour with aki shibuya on "newsroom tokyo." a a

john kerry in moscow. first, though, the appointment of boris johnson as britain's top diplomat has been met around the world with bafflement and, in some cases, outright shock. said the ayrault former brexit campaigner had lied to his country. his german counterpart described johnson's behavior as outrageous. johnson, who once likened the eu project to hitler, will attend his first foreign meeting of eu ministers in brussels on monday. within hours, british prime minister theresa may stood in front of her new home and called for unity. prime minister may: we will make britain a country that works not for a privileged few, but for every one of us. that will be the mission of the government i lead. reporter: among the fresh and firstnown faces in may's cabinet, leading brexit campaigner boris johnson. a controversial character, one of the former london mayor's first jobs will be to fix some personal relationships. a number ofgonized european heads of state with the rhetoric he used during campaigning ahead

the big question now is whether moscow was behind the hacking. >>> plus donald trump channels the beach

bar that said, why can't we must -- cooperate with moscow? they said, let's cooperate, and within a couple years, we get into problems, usually over some kind of issue in russia's domestic politics, how they treat their own people, or the former soviet countries and how russia tries to manipulate outcomes or accuses the u.s. of doing that. host: how might this incident combo kit our foreign relations with russia in terms of areas of cooperation, syria, for example, and a headlight in the wall china journal says that and russia pledged to drill in the south china sea. as far as china and russia are concerned, there is no doubt that the alienation of russia from western institutions, so russia has been kicked out of the g8, now the g7. russians and americans, russians and europeans, do not have the kind of regular summit meetings are used to have. the nato-russia council has not been functioning. not surprisingly, the russians are looking for other partners, and the chinese naturally present themselves. not an easy partner, to imagine a russian

failsafe system. >> the report confirmed allegations made by the former head of moscow's anti-doping laboratory. he alleged urine samples were switched for certain russian athletes competing in the games. in response, ioc president thomas bach issued a statement saying the body would not hesitate to implement the toughest available measures. russia's president vladimir putin reacted sharply. in a statement he says there's been a dangerous relapse of political interference in sport. he says individual athletes should take responsibility for their own actions, but he also says that russian officials named in the report will be temporarily suspended until the investigation is complete. >>> turkish authorities are continuing to round up suspects connected to a failed coup against president recep tayyip erdogan. they say more than 7,500 people have been detained. they include members of the armed forces and their judiciary. authorities carried out a massive raid on a military academy in istanbul on monday. officials say more than 10,000 public servants including police officers have been

just found video, donald trump in moscow with the miss your contestants. >> so many friends in russia. >> remember these kids? ♪ over here >> usa. >>> plus, boat brawl. wait until you see what these two knuckleheads did to each other. >>> and who gave this kid violinist

moscow annexed in the black sea so that moscow could have access to and use the black sea fleet to comeean. it comes out through the bosphorus. it is becoming dangerous and precarious. you have a situation potentially where russia can potentially see that the black sea fleet is going to get stuck in the black sea or at least get put in danger when they go to support troops in syria. if something were to happen to one of the russian vessels passing through the bosphorus, very narrow and very very dangerous. if something were to happen to a russian naval vessel it would be deeply troubling for moscow and it could put moscow at arms with nato allied turkey and with the rest of nato, the united states included. the international perspective away from what's happening on the streets, which is escalating more. there are worries that will grow with the militarization around the bosphorus. it is key for the russian navy to move it in and out of the mediterranean. remember, they annexed a whole country to be tiebl use that black sea fleet. >> you know, 24 hours ago we were reporting on the terro

we will look at the money trail from moscow to manhattan. changing memories of vladimi and how some on donald trump's team have cashed in from kremlin allies. >>> plus a new development in a murder mystery that captivated the nation. prosecutors dropped their case against a man facing a new trial in the 2001 killing of government intern chandra levy and what led to that decision and how levy's mother is responding. time to show you some of the morning's headlines from around the globe. >>> an emotional memorial for the three officers killed by a vice president joe biden spoke at the event and assured the officers' families that one day they would heal. the officers were targeted by a gunman who later was killed by police. >>> big profits on google's company alphabet and their second quarter profit increased 24% compared to a year ago to more than $4.8 billion. it was driven by mobile and pad sales. amazon growing grip on retail sales pushed profit up more than 8 hundred% to 857 million dollars and that sent amazon stocks soaring. forbes says