politics in the context of post communist eastern europe what do you make of russia particularly moscow in this regard yeah i mean there's certainly a lot of politics in architecture and in planning in moscow today the been planning also the sort of the construction in the in the planning of public spaces has been elevated more and more into a kind of priority issue and as you said quite. interesting in the beginning there is also there's also a sort of there's a sort of a new wave of kind of social engineering as if there's a new wave. of a kind of desire that you can that you can engineer it's a second type of consciousness or a certain type of human being through architecture you know i'm a big fan of a soviet era memoirs and almost all foreign there is at that time describe moscow as a gray gloomy a drab and welcoming city reach should be a historical paradox given that the soviet theorists explicitly asserted that environment was critical for shaping and maintaining ideology do you think that is chu do you think those unappealing aspects of the soviet the being ultimately played an

how does the current mayor of moscow is actually much better at plugging moscow into google purchases and global kind of economic trends perhaps than the previous might was well mr after we have to take a very short break now but we will be back in just a few moments statement. what politicians to. put themselves on the line they did accept or reject. so when you're the president and should. want. to do it. this is what the. people. interested. in. welcome back to worlds apart with me call murawski anthropologist of architecture at university college london mr murawski there are many people here in russia who can nag these new wave of our been improvements to the protests of two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve in moscow and other big russian cities when the urban middle class took to the streets to protest against the results of the parliamentary elections as well as vladimir putin's intention to run for yet another term do you think in terms of political capital responding to those protests with increased. spending didn't pay they didn't pay off politically i mean i think

to describe this city well i mean i suppose the main trend in moscow in the last two decades. certainly has been has been the increasing of inequalities in the city has been has been the sort of rapid rise in income inequality in the city and this sort of turning of the city center gradually into this into this space for for rich muscovites in the pushing of the of muscovites further and further out of the center of the city so moscow is becoming a much more stratified place than it was before and if anything that process is going to be is going to be is definitely going to be exacerbated by the by the by the so-called renovation project by the by the project of the destruction of the host ophira mass housing well it's really striking to me that you would that's the first thing that comes to you it comes to your mind in describing moscow because. urban improvements i said do not believe it limited to the city center in fact over the last year or so they have moved to the suburbs i mean i live in the suburbs and all the four parks around my house have been renovated to be very

why did you leave the moscow patriarch it and join the kyiv patriarchate? —— moscow patriarchate.quiet on the front line. and the petrovic music is playing as he heads off to forward positions. the trenches here mark where the ukrainian forces stopped the pro— russian advancing 2014. a soldier called andre is on duty, he tells the father he is not much of a church—goer. hundreds of miles from the frontline in ukraine's capital, kiev, the experience of war has left its mark on many people ‘s lives. every week, the kyiv patriarchate provides a room for some of those who feel the need to talk. tonight, it is the turn of the group of veterans wise. they have agreed to tell me something of how the war has affected them. i told my little son, he was three years old, i told him that our daddy goes to defend our country because there is war and my son understands it and says "mummy, iam son understands it and says "mummy, i am with you". when this war began, did you think it would be as brutal as it has been and would last for as long as it has. and how conflicted were you then, as a fami

decade in moscow has also been there has been as of democratizing functions. on the streets where like the streets where my street was sort of completed there's a whole bunch of new affordable cafes and restaurants opened that's also true in pubs is almost put into even into the sky where previously there were these kind of foreboding silos there's now the sort of supermarkets and there's and there's a more sort of democratic kind of slightly more got a tarion. a gala tarion streets emerging but these are these are streets for consumers first of middle class consumers that are not streets from kind of from poorer muscovites from the suburbs of muster and they're certainly not good towards the vast migrant population which which exists in moscow but the. i mean even if you are just want to take a stroll i think nobody for beats people from any economic strata to get out there and take a walk anyway you mentioned statics and this change in appearance has become a running theme for a western journalist but they almost invariably file stories along the lines of ye

trump's dealings in moscow. president trump's former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, has left his old boss in a fix. leaving for the g20 summit, the president lashed out at cohen's decision to plead guilty to lying to congress about mr. trump's business dealings in moscow. >> he's a weak person, and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so he's lying, very simply, to get a reduced sentence, okay. >> reporter: cohen admitted to the special counsel's office that his discussions with mr. trump about a possible real estate project in moscow lasted until at least june, 2016, well into the campaign, and five months longer than what he told congress. the president's outside lawyer rudy giuliani said, "michael cohen is a liar, it's no surprise that cohen lied to congress. it is hardly coincidental that the special counsel once again files a charge just as the president is leaving for a meeting with world leaders at the g20 summit in argentina. with regard to the hotel proposal in moscow, the president has b

everybody did not know about the trump tower moscow project. the proposal came to light long after it was canceled and after president trump took office. leaving the white house for argentina yesterday, the president expanded on the view of cohen's motives and made the remarkable claim he could do anything he wanted before taking office. >> it's very simple. he's got himself a big prison sentence and he's trying to get a lesser prison sentence by making up a story. here's the thing. even if he was right, it doesn't matter. i was allowed to do whatever i wanted to do during the campaign. >> the ranking democrats on the house senate intelligence committee which cohen admits he lied to wanted to bring the fixer back for this time what they hope would be truthful answers. >> he had no business interests in russia and that wasn't true. >> if anything the president has said is true and there is no "there" there, why are all of his closest allies lying about russia? >> cohen is scheduled to be sentenced on december 12th. >>> and james comey is looking

he's now telling what he knew about the trump moscow tower project. eel speak with mike turner of the house intelligence and armed services committee and our analysts and specialists are also standing bit. first, let's get details on the breaking news. joining us right now, our cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. we now know that cohen spoke to the mueller time for 70 hours, 70 hours, and a well-placed source tells me now that mueller knows everything. >> reporter: >> that's right, wolf, and all of the interviews coming over the course of seven meetings dating from september to just last week. cohen says he initially gave false statements to protect the president from any fallout in this ongoing probe, but tonight we now know cohen has been cooperating extensively with the special counsel. tonight the president's former fixer michael cohen once again flipping on the president in federal court, revealing trump while campaigning to become president of the united states knew more about a deal to build a trump tower in moscow than cohen has previ

-- trump tower moscow.has information to corroborate a number of other things. and this puts other people in jeopardy. it also stood out to me, and we haven't stdiscussed this today, that the acting attorney general whitaker wasn't able to stop this. and you know, this was the big fear, and i was one of the whitaker optimists that said i think this is too big, and the wheels of justice are rolling, and he won't be able to stop it. i think that's been, at least this has been shown to be true. i worry that the president is going to become even more unhinged if he was banking on that being the brakes. and it's not happening. >> i want to hear your thoughts, paul, today. one of the interesting things, about the documents that mueller put out, he put a lot of details this this document that he didn't need to actually put in. there's some belief that there's a concern is a report ever going to be made public. this is a way for mueller, and correct me if i'm wrong, to put in details that might end up in a report t

sitters you can check them out at the palace of the romanov lawyers in moscow. while we stay in the russian capital now for our ongoing series euro max extra tool you the viewers can send us all over europe to explore top travel destinations for about the overall us quest lives in santo domingo in the dominican republic and he'd like to know more about moscow a city almost ten thousand kilometers away the metropolis is the second largest city in europe boasting a population of twelve million people it's the perfect place to get a taste of russian history and culture but there's also plenty of diversity as around ninety eight percent of the city's population and originally from moscow we explored this beautiful city by night. russians just love bright twinkling lights maybe it has to do with the long dark winters there where for about three months the sun sets in mid afternoon after work many muscovites like to take a stroll downtown especially on the course gaius street families in moscow it starts getting interest in the evening that's when buses always play on

cohen claims the moscow project ended in january 2016. he said he never agreed to travel to russia in connection with the moscow project and never considered asking individual one who we know is the president of the united states, to travel for the project. cohen said he did not recall any government russian official response or contact about the moscow project. here is the truth and here is what he said today according to the filing. the moscow project was discussed multiple times within the company and did not end in january 2016. cohen efforted the project as late as june 2016 and discussed the status and progress of the moscow project with individual one. again, that's president trump. he briefed family members about the project. also, cohen did agree to travel to russia and he took steps in contemplation of trump's possible travel to russia as well. he said the trip before cleveland. that's what he told an interimmediate individual one once he becomes the nominee after the convention. donald trump traveling to russia to talk about th

i had a chat with moscow.uming the trip does happen, question is before or after the convention. cohen writes back, trump, once he becomes the nominee, after. that very same text message which was first reported by buzzfeed news in may, now today six months later, it turned up again in today's criminal charges against michael cohen. anthony cormier and jason leopold had this story before anybody else figured it out, and now they're reporting once again is born out by what mueller's office just charged michael cohen with in federal court. well, now tonight, as cohen has just plead guilty, these same reporters from buzzfeed have broken something new on the same story, and as a little public service announcement, if you are drinking or eating anything rights now, pause. swallow. i don't want you to spit anything out on your nice couch. i like your couch. this is their headline tonight "the trump organization planned to give vladimir putin the $50 million penthouse in trump tower moscow." quote, president donald t

meetings with moscow, there are two parties to that. there's a moscow side and a u.s.t does putin have? what people are in the soviet union who can actually ratify cohen's claims here? >> correct. putin has a lot of leverage to use against the president in future negotiations. >> so who oversees the mueller probe now? matt whitaker? secondly, what did the president retweet last night, a meme with rod rosenstein who had previously overseen the probe behind bars saying he should have never hired the special counsel. >> republicans blocked even a vote on the senate floor to pass legislation to protect rear-view mirror -- robert mueller, didn't even get a vote. >> i think that this is -- its going to be interesting to see how trump responds to the fact that whitaker hasn't stopped any of this if that's what he expected. the wheels of justice continue to turn. >> mueller is a tough adversary. thanks to all of you. so much to digest these past hours. >> the breaking news continues. thank you for being with us. i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim scuitto, alec baldwin continues

red square is not only the heart of moscow but symbolically of all russia. its most recognizable landmark is the over four hundred fifty year old st basil's cathedral built to commemorate a victory over the tartarus. stalingrad seriously considered tearing it down in the one nine hundred thirty s. because it stood in the way of his military parades fortunately you never happened now it's a major attraction for tourists and locals a line you know what i'm married and have two children so i generally spend my evenings the time but my job brought me here tonight and i'm enjoying it and relaxing to. another place to relax is one of the myriad hairdressers. many of them stay open too late in the evening. to push into the woods to my working day usually goes to ten pm but if it's crowded we can work through to midnight to sit through the phone was just. i love going to the stylist whether early or late in the evening i'm also for manicures or pedicures it's just pure relaxation i go when i need to at any time of day or night of the wording was a bit of. and of cou

s role in pursuing the trump tower deal in moscow.w, hunter walker, white house correspondent for yahoo news. he broke the story. and by the way, he reported earlier this year that cohen's discussions, you know, lasted longer than he was claiming, right, this whole january, june thing, hunter, obviously, you had this a long time ago, and what have you learned tonight about ivanka and don junior? >> right, so, all the focus today has been on michael cohen's work with felix to build a trump skyscraper in moscow and what i've learned is that don junior and ivanka trump were separately pursuing efforts to make a trump branded skyscraper in moscow. they also both did have involvement with michael cohen's work. ivanka was recommending architects and as a source familiar with the trump organization put it to me, don junior was, quote, peripherally aware. >> so, let me ask you about this. i mean, how do you interpret this? they're working separately and my understanding from your reporting is they basically didn't succeed, right, that those t

that it could face fresh sanctions over the crimea crisis tensions have escalated between moscow and kiev after russia sees three ukrainian naval vessels in a skirmish on sunday at least a dozen sailors have been detained for trial ukraine's president has warned its neighbor is preparing for war and has turned up turned to berlin for help. speaking on ukrainian state television president petro poroshenko said he turned to berlin after the kremlin failed to respond to his request for dialogue it wasn't. immediately that night i ordered a phone conversation with the president of russia vladimir putin. we did not receive any response and i had to turn to the german chancellor so that she could talk to prudent on the immediate release of ukrainian servicemen and ukrainian ships. poroshenko also said the authorities would take all necessary steps to release the ukrainian sailors detained on sunday when russia ceased three vessels off the crimean coast captured sailors appeared in a russian court and were charged with unlawfully entering the country carrying weapons they face up to six yea

to get the details on that day what happens in moscow. back to our top story now the continuing saga of brigs it in the u.k. and the prime minister's fight not just for her draft deal but also her political future george galloway british politician author and broadcaster joins on the line now very good evening to you george you seem to resume a living battling it out she says she's not going anywhere though. do you think she will stay. it's very hard to see her staying perhaps even beyond the weekend because at least forty eight conservative m.p.'s have i understand. of no confidence in her which trigger us a no confidence debate and then vote and even if she won it as mrs that should did i remind you if a sufficiently large minority votes that they have no confidence in her i would have thought her goose was cooked it's been a series of cabinet resignations government minister resignations parliamentary private secretary of resignations even the vice chairman of the conservative party itself has resigned saw it's very hard to see how som

this is more than this moscow project, though. the other big piece of news is with cohen's plea deal with mueller, you've been learning that this goes well beyond this moscow trump tower. >> yeah. pamela brown and i have been doing some reporting on that today. we know michael cohen has had 70 hours of discussions, 7-0. that's a lot. that is about a lot more than trump tower moscow. and, you know, possible top, that have been thrown out there are the questions about whether michael cohen ever discussed a pardon with the president, whether the president knew about wikileaks in advance or whether, you know, he knew about the don jr. meeting in trump tower in advance. we know from dana bash's reporting yesterday that the trump tower meeting at least is a question that mueller put to donald trump in writing. so you can see where michael cohen could be a very handy witness for bob mueller. although as you know, he's not the most credible person in the world. so there is that. but michael cohen, who once said he would take a bullet for

it's called the moscow project.h from now the president will face a democratic-led house of representatives. how will they lose their subpoena power to dig deeper into trump's business relationships with russia? is let's bring in tonight's roundtable. illinois democratic congresswoman sherry bustos who got elected today chair of the dccc, democratic congressional campaign committee, a real lly g deal. eugene, columnist for the "washington post." let me ask you this. you must be having your -- the new power, when nixon got re-elected in '72, he cold colson, oceh my god, i lost the subpoena power again. you have it in your hands. what are you going to find autoabout truautout about trump's business dealings in russia? >> we have three incoming chairmen. jerry nadler will take over judiciary. adam schiff, intelligence. and elijah cummings on oversight. they are three very smart men. they are very good. they are very fair men. i have complete confidence they will be driven by finding the truth. and i think we'll be in g

over its fair up with ukraine accord detained supreme incidence captured in a neighbor's the weekend moscow also insists the clash in waters of the and its crimean peninsula orchestrated by. a taliban leader dismisses a qana songs plan for peace settlement this is it now gone the some confidence in geneva to find ways to stabilize the country after seventeen years of conflict. and reseal from a young german muslim hoping to shape the future of concrete and steel feed this as chile brings together political religious and academic leaders in a conference focused on integration and. on the thought she must go has shrugged off suggestions by european officials that it could face fresh sanctions over the crimean crisis tensions escalated between moscow and kiev off to russia sees three ukrainian naval vessels in a skirmish on sunday at least a dozen sailors have been detained for trial ukraine's president has warned its neighbor is for bread and for war and requested bowen's help. speaking on ukrainian state television president petro poroshenko said he turned to berlin after the kremlin failed

to get the details on that day what happens in moscow. a man who could have his wife's hands in a premeditated attack and then gloated about has been sentenced to fourteen years in a high security jail in russia or to a correspondent in a coach has a story. from this picture you'd think margaret and maitreya lived in blissful happiness they've been together for five years and even had two young sons but behind the smiles slate another story some of their friends say that they were in fact colostrum divorce margarita often complained that her husband had episodes of uncontrolled roy. he was enraged that i was getting my nails done he'd think i was cheating on him if my bra in my pants matched he emptied out all my shampoos and creams and left empty choose in their place he was angry that i was doing well at work apparently he even kept her whole phone messages i woke her up during the night and asked who it was she said to drive in from work but i didn't believe her i was on edge his suspicions fueled his anger so he forced her into the ca

that wouldn't be true in moscow or st. petersburg but it is true in much of the city and many people might say, as they say of donald trump perhaps, you know, good luck to him if he's made money. of course in vladimir putin's case, the money has come from build of business dealings through the state. remember where this man came from. he was a junior kgb officer at the beginning of his career. now he is a multibillionaire perhaps. and president of russia. stephanie. >> indeed, he is. bill, you got to go inside, it's cold out there. >> it certainly is. >>> when we come back, police raided the headquarters of my professional alma mater deutsche bank today as part of a global money laundering investigation. why is this so important? well, it is the only major global bank that would do business with trump trump in recent years. and special counsel mueller has already subpoenaed records relating to the trump family. just another thread in this tangled web. yeah, this is bob barnett in chicago. (john foley) i was there when bob

in moscow.hy don't we do that instead? he went, let's do it. you'll have your concert. rob will organize it, and that's it. >> the idea went all the way to the top of the miss universe organization. to donald trump. >> donald trump loved the idea, said, make it work. >> the agolarovs traveled to the states in june 2013. goldstone was on hand for the introductions. >> i remember i was in the lobby of the trump hotel in vegas waiting for the agalorovs to arrive. they walked through the door. donald trump was at the other end of the lobby and screamed, bellowed, the richest man in russia has come to see me. i thought that was hilarious. i think at the time, aras was the 54th richest man in russia. >> he sounds giddy about the whole thing. >> he was a bit excited. i supposed i thought he was making a fuss of him. he was trying to make them feel welcome, which he did. >> goldstone says that while celebrating the pageant deal during dinner, the conversation took an off-color turn. >> said to amin, som

was he informed of anything related to the moscow project?d contradict what he told the senate intelligence committee. remember also that donald trump jr.'s position and donald trump sr.'s position is that they never discussed the trump tower meeting which was also in june of 2016. that has always seemed highly questionable to me. today's developments put that in -- in question as well, plus the trump position is that roger stone may have talked to donald trump frequently during the campaign but they never discussed wikileaks which was obsessive interest to both donald trump and roger stone, the fact -- i mean, all of these things come together make the trump position factually more difficult to maintain. >> kim, i want to ask you because there was something the end of this document. it ends like one of the writers and producers here described it as a cliffhanger. mueller walks through cohen's false statements over eight pages and ends with this. the day after cohen's call with assistant one, someone who works with dmitry peskov, individual t

this was a sweetheart deal he was going to be getting in moscow. were his children paying attention to this? there was going to be a spa named after ivanka. did they testify -- did don junior testify, for example, to congressional committee about this or anything else that now mueller might be looking at because now for the first time he is saying, i'm willing to take up lying to congress as something that i'm willing to pursue -- >> gloria, when you think of michael cohen lying to congress and being caught and then now he is the biggest potential threat to the president of the united states in this investigation, i mean, the parallels are so very clearly there, is michael cohen turning into the john dean of this story? >> right. its kind of shakespearian, you know, in a way. the man -- the man we all knew during the campaign who described donald trump as the greatest person in the universe is suddenly now the person armed, potentially, with enough who could really cause the president great damage and it is shakespearian in nature because of their

the president for pushing co to shore up his declining popularity and bring more sanctions against moscow. it may be that while ukraine was planning the provocation and no one has any doubt this was done with the goodwill and probably a direct order from the highest leaderships they were counting on additional benefits they wanted to get out of this situation first of all they were counting on the fact that the u.s. and europe as always recklessly take the side of the provocative words. to moscow and our correspondent rory challenge how much of a boost is the situation for president poroshenko. well the important has got two things that he was seeking he was seeking his martial law and he was also seeking to get condemnation of russia in the u.n. security council and a show of support from the united states but i think there would be concerns as well that on both of these fronts he didn't quite get the full extent of what he was working towards so on is martial law the parliamentarians who are voting in the rod basically chopped it down from sixty days to thirty days and they made sure th

project, and contemplated travel to russia in connection with the moscow project. the judge says, do you understand the nature of that charge, mr. cohen? michael cohen says, i do, your honor. the judge, do you have any questions for me before we continue? no, your honor. defense counsel, are you aware of any reason why your client should not plead guilty? defense counsel guy petrillo says, no, your honor. the judge says, are you aware of any legal defense to the charge? cohen's defense lawyer guy petrillo says, not that would prevail at trial. the judge says, mr. cohen, are you satisfied with your legal representation up to this point? michael cohen, yes, your honor. the judge, mr. cohen, are you willing to give up your rights to a trial and all the other rights we have discussed? cohen, yes, sir. the judge, how do you plead to the sole count of the information? michael cohen, guilty, your honor. and then it gets a little confusing. so the judge says how do you plead? michael cohen says, guilty, your honor. the judge says guilty or not guilty? and then michael cohe

well with russia on blocking the straits it does seem that moscow is trying to draw down the temperature of this crisis at least when it comes to the possibility of military clashes but you know the political and the diplomatic reverberations of this are still continuing this has been the worst engagement between russian and ukrainian military since the dark days of two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and fifteen the annexation of crimea in the worst of the fighting in eastern ukraine. so that we have a situation where ukraine is calling for a u.n. security council meeting it's getting that later on monday and it is also considering in its parliament the imposition of martial law this would have numerous impacts on the ukrainian body politic it would mean that you can hold elections we do have press the presidential elections actually coming up shuttle for the end of march you can't change the constitution under martial law you can't remove senior politicians including the president you can hold political rallies circular of the russian foreign minister is making much of this they

this is an earthquake from moscow the ukrainian ukrainian also docs parishes represent a third of the total of russian orthodox parishes russia loses a third of its parishes and they'd also lose is very important historically religious objectively like the monish of the case sense of fear is cathedral in kiev it loses its kind of power and influence in the also ducks world and and it's it's a step forward for ukrainian spiritual independence from moscow because the new ukrainian also got church which will be set up next month. will be of course not pro russian will be pro european and so all of this creates a real concerns in moscow that things in ukraine are not going its own way or i just want finals on the question of all the crimea wasn't an issue until two thousand and fourteen i'm sorry but my colleague in moscow is obviously somebody also doesn't understand ukraine doesn't know ukraine history and throughout the one nine hundred ninety s. never mind of the putin under boris yeltsin the russian parliament both houses of the russian parliament. a territorial claims rights the cri

today's plea deal was about a proposed trump tower project in moscow.en testified the conversations ended in january of 2016, but court documents detail cohen was talking and coordinating regarding this project as late as june of that year with multiple people, including then-presumed republican nominee donald trump. a short time after cohen appeared at that plea hearing in downtown manhattan this morning, the president defended himself by going after michael cohen. >> he was given a fairly long jail sentence and he's a weak person. and by being weak, unlike other people that you have watch, he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about. i mean, we were very open with it. we were thinking about building a building. i guess we had in a form it was an option. >> i don't know what you call it. we decided -- i decided ultimately not to do it. if i did do it, there would have been nothing wrong. it was my business. he's lying, very simply, to get a reduced sentence. >> quick f

there is no timeline on when you can build a building in moscow. if your priorities are -- if your priority is to win the presidency, to do the business of the people of the united states, basically become an employee of you and me, the people of the united states, then why not do that? that's where your priorities should be. his, according to him, his daughters, his sons are perfectly capable of running the business without him and if there -- if it even smacked some some sort of impropriety or of some sort of collusion as he says then maybe he should have not done it and wait until he figures out or until it's determined if he's going to be the president of the united states. there is no timeline. >> right. right, of course that's what he should have done but he didn't want to do that. >> but he didn't. >> and you say, well, the kids could have run the business. i don't think the president believes that. we don't even have any proof for all the papers they showed us that day, all the mountains of trees he had in papers, i don't know what was in t

yeah i mean the a lot of politics in architecture and planning in moscow today. been planning also the sort of the construction in the in the planning of public spaces has been elevated more and more into a kind of priority issue. interesting at the beginning there is a sort of there's a sort of a new wave of kind of social engineering as if there's a new wave. of a kind of design that you can do you can engineer it's a certain type of consciousness or a certain type of human being through architecture you know i'm a big fan of a soviet era memoirs and almost all foreign there is at that time describe moscow as a gray gloomy a drab and welcoming city which should be a historical paradox given that the soviet theorists explicitly asserted that environment was critical for shaping and maintaining ideology do you think that is chu do you think those unappealing aspects of the soviet the being ultimately played any role in in on demining of the soviet consciousness i mean i was never in moscow. during the soviet period i've seen those photographs. read memoirs and bo

maybe it's not surprising that they department just discuss trump tower moscow. this is the tip of the iceberg. >> michael cohen was in a lot of trouble of his own volition and reached on the to the special counsel and said i have things i need to tell you. over those 70 hours, they clearly discussed a lot of topics and these are all topics that could be potentially dangering to the president since the timing is interesting which is that the president filled out his that he got from bob mueller's pam has done reporting on what the other topics might be. >> we may not know all of them, but what do we know? >> there are several areas where we know robert mueller is interested in as it pertains to donald trump and where michael cohen could be helpful. some of the questions included whether he had advanced knowledge of the don, jr. meeting with russians and our reporting is he said no, he didn't. wikileaks. whether he had advanced knowledge or knew of anyone who said he would jump john podesta's e-mails. michael cohen could very well be shedding light on the other ar

good morning terry well the line from moscow has been fairly consistent and yesterday a provocation from the ukrainian side is what the russian security service is a calling this they say that the coach straight was closed they had closed the straight to civilian and military shipping on sunday and that ukrainians had failed to heed this they obviously assert their right to control transit through the strait given that they control the eastern side of the strait and crimea something obviously that kiev and the west doesn't see as legitimate following to an extension of crimea twenty fourteen but they have also been fairly consistent in stressing the fact they have provided medical support to three wounded ukrainians say listen trying to diffuse the tone a bit there but really placing the blame with kiev for what they call a provocation david the russian navy recently escorted a ukrainian vessel through the carriage straight seeming to assert its dominance in the region is kiev worried that moscow may be trying to take control of these shared waters. oh yes the ukrainians concerns are man

provocation in turn is preparing the country for conflict over what it calls an act of aggression by moscow. and the world chess championship finally produces a winner in a nail biting series of fire tie breakers magnus carlsen defends his crown beating fabiano caruana. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us we begin at the u.s. mexican border there more than seven thousand central american migrants are living in squalid conditions piles of trash open sewers and. risk of disease or of daily reality authorities say the camp is on the brink of a health crisis the migrants are trying to get into the u.s. but with tight security on both sides of the border their hopes for a better life are all on hold and their numbers are growing this week a second caravan arrived in the border town of. some americans though have little or no sympathy for their plight. correspondent stuff met with a group of self-styled patriots who are voluntarily patrolling the border near the town in california. we're following a member of a private and controversial border watch project called minutemen robert cro

project and discussions about the trump tower moscow project.s was a project that cohen was involved with starting in the fall of 2015 when trump was beginning his presidential bid and that he told congress that it ended in january 2016, you know, when the president was really getting underway with his bid for the then candidate. but cohen is now saying that he lied about this. so the question is what did he lie about and what did the president know about this project. this was, though, a critical meeting. it was, as we have seen, michael cohen has provided cnn previously with the letter of intent about this deal that he has -- trump has signed in the end of 2015. and this was all plans to build a luxury condominium tower where they would make $4 million off that project. michael cohen has said to congress that he reached out to spokesmen for vladimir putin trying to get a deal, and he has told us previously that that had gone nowhere. so now we're learning that some of these statements that cohen had made were not true. we don't know the detail

i had it in moscow a long time ago. but other than that, i have nothing to do with russia. >> i could, but i didn't because i think it would be a conflict. he said it right there. listen to what happened when cbs's nor a o'donnell asked then campaign chairman paul manafort about russia back in 2016. >> so, to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> that's what he said, that's obviously what our position is. >> this is a little awkward. we've got to play it one more time. let's play it, please. >> so, to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> that's what he said -- that's what i -- that's obviously what our position is. >> oh, that was really, really awkward. i still have no idea what he said there, but doesn't that just sum all of this up, the whole day, just all of it? that's what he said, if that's what, that's what -- i mean, if that's what he said, that's what happened. but as we always say around here, facts matter. and as more fac

only i spoke to russian military analyst pavane felgenhauer in moscow i asked him of russia's refusal to release the ukrainian vessels it's making the situation but these are very small ships only with a group of members each. actually you know these are. river guns but. be used against smugglers but they didn't really pose and they're going through the straits out into the r.c.s. of us all first of all they have the legal right to do that. and second of all they would not threaten themselves the russian total dominance military in air and sea in their reach but brush up that he's very very concerned that they trade with ukrainian plans to build a naval base in. their indianans on the sea of us all and they are actually afraid that nato ships may come to visit and overtake the sierras closing the route for russian say naval ships which right now move to the costly and to the black sea to the mediterranean back again ships carrying long break. and i could even better cruise missiles so that's actually be very bad and that would be a good use of if you're in so such a case most likely s

the fsb followed him and his family throughout moscow. tv broadcast stories about him, inciting revolution against the government. and then mcfaul recounts during a meeting at putin's residence he felt physically intimidated. >> and just out of the blue he kind of turned to me and, you know, this guy is causing trouble for us. and he stared at me. it seemed like for 15 minutes. it was probably 15 seconds. but it was a scary moment. he was angry at me. >> mcfaul wasn't the only object of putin's ire. since sergei magnitsky's death bill browder had been lobbying western governments including the united states congress to punish those responsible. >> i took this idea to senator benjamin cardin and senator john mccain, and i said can we ban the people who killed sergei magnitsky from coming into the country and can we freeze their assets? and they said we can. and that was the genesis of the magnitsky act. >> browder's theory is that the magnitsky act affects putin directly. >> vladimir putin doesn't keep any money in his own name. he keeps m

welcome the gorbachev got it can be very positive but sophie i tell you you must know sitting in moscow you must sense that we are in an unprecedented situation the bad feeling the hatred the loathing of rush or at least the kremlin or putin in the united states is so strong it's hard to imagine what's going to happen when mr putin and president putin comes there i don't think it's the greatest idea they'd probably be better off continuing to meet in foreign capitals capitals but you mentioned the treaty of trump ministration wants to pull out of the u.s. russia treaty banning short and mint range nuclear missiles but judging by the latest examples like nafta a for instance attempts to deal with north korea and the tariff war with china transpersonal art of the deal can be described as break first and then create a problem and then find a solution on his terms in case of iran after eighty are we seeing the same game play out here. maybe i think you're right it is possible we don't know if this decision announced to leave and trump announced it and then his national security advisor john

project, this trump hotel in moscow, he said that was incorrect. he told congress, look, all the discussions that i had about this project they all wrapped up before the wyomiiowa caucus in . that wasn't true. he said these discussions continued on into june of 2016 and in addition to that i briefed the president and the family members, the trump family members that worked for the trump organization. so that's new information today. on top of that, we now know from michael cohen he said that he was not accurate and he was not telling the truth to congress when he admitted a conversation had he with what is dmitry peskov's office pp. and he is a lot more than a spokesperson. who is someone who is very close to vladimir putin. so i think you now have a lot more communication and a lot more discussions about this project than we knew about this court appearance this morning. >> remarkable set of facts and ones that could potentially ensnare others. tom winter, thank you for the long day that you have put in explaining this to us. and kristen welker jo

in moscow. still ahead on al-jazeera one and a half million children need urgent aid in central african republic we have the latest on an alarming reports by the un's children organization and fuel shortages mean more bad news was in bad ways troubling economy stay with us. hello again and welcome back well this i do want to start here across parts of central asia we are picking up a few showers across much of china and those are going to be on the crease as we go towards the rest of the weekend a couple showers down here across parts of the south hong kong you're going to be picking up a shower just to the north of you with the temperature not too bad of about twenty five degrees but we do expect to see heavier showers as we go towards sunday particular here across the central regions but over towards shanghai it is still going to be relatively quiet few where the temperature there of twenty two degrees a little bit further towards the west we are going to be seeing much of india clear over the