that mr putin lead our country for this meeting because of. the foundation of our bilateral relations we have. just discussed certain for. it it is. exceptional certain exceptions where we have not achieved require that old an increased. tree. twenty two percent the number of russian tourists travelling to. seriously increase compared to previous year we have also. we can improve our economic indicators he was further. as you know. you reach the mark of one hundred million dollars in a tree. we hope to make progress on critical issues by a lateral relations. during the upcoming meeting i'll be doing some konami could commission. allergy is another. topic talked about. and the nuclear power plant. we still work on those we think it is very important to implement it goes abroad soon as possible to it so we discussed these projects at our meeting in copenhagen and we hope that our governments who will intensify their working to undermine. we also discussed the situation in iraq and syria territorial integrity of the. unity of the rock we think it

the effect on mr. putin will not be whether his feelings are hurt, it will be are the weapons making a difference. he'll decide based on that. >> i'd be remiss if i didn't give the other side a chance to respond to that. >> i agree with most of what you said except for the last part. [laughter] >> even the part about merkel? >> the idea this is going to have an instantaneous effect also, you're right, they will look at what happens on the ground, and we're not talking about giving boar schoen coe and the ukrainian armed forces a right to fight with military victory. you were right in quoting poroshenko's speech, it was not the right -- [inaudible] but i think what we've heard from him in recent days, we heard -- i was at the yes conference and, actually, we had a side meeting with him. he is focusing everything on this peace-keeping idea, trying to get to a place where you could actually see minsk implemented rather than become the cover for a permanent frozen conflict. unfortunately, putin may be precisely

which is why mr. putin wants them lifted. the biggest mistake he made in my view in beginning this insurgeacy and annexing crimea was he thought that the sanctions would not be kept in place by a motley crew of 36 countries. that was a big strategic mistake. the united states and europe have stayed together on this. on the other hand, at the risk of being academic, which is a profession i plead guilty to belonging to, there is a large -- there is a large luketure on sanctions, done with a lot of empirical data. i'll sum up the finding of the majority. it is at the hardest stakes, the greater the sum cost, the less likely that economic sanctions will work. in the united states think of international politics as economic. states go to war and do all manner of dastardly things or things that defy all economic logic. i don't think they're motivated simply by economics. it was something like what effect will this have on the european allies in terms of arms? it's interesting to note, isn't it, that in this town, there is a huge ca

the biggest mistake mr. putin made in my view in beginning this insurgency in crimea was that he thought the sanctions would not be kept in place by a motley crew of 36 countries. that was a big strategic mistake. europeted states and have stayed together on this. on the other hand at the risk of being happened -- at the risk of being academic, there is a large literature on sanctions. done with a lot of empirical data. i will sum up the findings of the majority. sum-cost, thee less likely economic sanctions will work. does think oftes international politics as economics. states go to war and do all inner of things that are defiance of logic. your question, what effect will this have on european allies in terms of arms? it is interesting to note that in this town there is a huge campaign to harm the ukrainians -- two arm the ukrainians. the public is not generally in favor. , i talkedl tell you to angela merkel, i talked to so and so, that is all well and good. ares interesting that they telling you this in privat

mr. putin and mr. moon are speaking. has denied he is going to recognize north korea in terms of their position. he has continued the diplomatic efforts on north korea. 7:44 is what time that hits. they condemn the north korea nuclear test. european equities are set for a lower opening. vix wrapped it in higher. by volatility in europe rose one point 2%. that gives you some perspective in terms of the markets. morgan stanley, classic line from the markets. markets have a terrible history. shallow the clients, although not enough to avoid being taken by complete supplies. that is the risk for markets that they get taken completely i surprise. the cash markets are open. london just going through the opening rotation. we will wait and see how the market trades further. you have got the dollar declining as well this morning. there is a plethora of different issues. you are seeing me stoxx 600 down by .2%. the bund futures open just that little bit higher this morning. through the opening. you have got volatility up a smidge i

and while it is arguable that mr. putin helped to put mr. trump in the white house, he is not getting the policies out of mr. trump and the white house because all of america, including the republican party that mr. trump might owe putin something, so he is blocked and checked and not going to be able to do favors to russia for a long time to come. >> i will give you 34 seconds if you want to follow up. gardiner: putin will be reelected over the next 18 months. do you see this rivalry heating up going into that? is this rivalry structural between the west and russia, or is it all based upon putin's anger over the breakup of the soviet union? do you foresee this ever getting better? mr. talbott: i'm not sure if this directly answers your question but i would be quite certain that the united states tit foroing to play tat, not least because it will not be a fair election. susan, i'm sure you know something, quite a bit about this. there is a sense in russia that brutal -- this society is brittle. there is civil society generating and there mig

mr. trump might go putin something, so he is blocked and checked and not going to be able do favors to russia for a long time to come. mr. harris: putin will be over the next 18 months. over the next 18 months. do you see this rivalry heating up going into that? is it structural joined the west and russia or all based upon putin's anger over the breakup. do you foresee this ever getting better? i'm not sure if this answers your question, but i would be quite certain that the u.s. is not going to play not leastp --tat, because it will not be a fair election. i'm sure you know something about this, there is a sense in russia that this society is original, there might be some interesting opposition. enough toe potent keep him from getting another term. i do think sense russia now is , it issent at russia modernizing to some degree and we can hope that maybe mr. putin , who has brought back some much of the past will be the last russian leader to do that. thank you for being our guest on newsmakers. after our is back conversation with strobe talbott. where we endedh which is russia. a lot is happ

about the main villain i think you know what i'm talking about ip addresses can simply be made up mr putin said referring to internet protocol addresses well showing the striking familiarity with how cyber attackers might cover their tracks president putin mentioned this can be masked and anyone can pretend to be someone else seems he knows way too much about how it all works there's even a spin off on twitter it turns out the russian bots reply directly to trump on twitter oh those clever russians clearly this was an effort to influence donald trump they know he reads tweets so what exactly does that prove. zilch zero zero zero well the title was so promising but it turned out to be the same old story with nothing proven and nothing tangible we go r.t. . on our facebook recently changed its view want to interfere and send influence leading some to question the credibility of the allegations right after the us elections c.e.o. mark zuckerberg said it was crazy to think that fake news could have influenced the outcome of the u.s. presidential vote you know personally i think the idea that.

not so good under mr. putin, owl though there are some changes going on there have to see how that plays out. but you cannot understand, russia, soviet heritage and legacy, one has to realize that mr. putin spent the first 41 years of his life under communism. the was ten years being trained by the kgb. so one lesson from the cold war is legacies matter, that ideology matters. you can't touch base with somebody like that without taking into account that he has spend most of his life under communism. >> host: here's the book "the brief history of the cold war." lee edwards and elizabeth edwards-spalding. this is booktv on c-span2. >> here's a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country... >>> book of the recently visit capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> right now i'm reading a book called "dream lean." this is a book about the history of opiates in our country. it's a nonfiction book but it's absolutely fascinating. we have an epidemic in o

mr putin wants to underline that sanctions don't work and it echoes sanctions don't work and it echoes that these sanctions didn't work as well. today he said that probably north koreans would eat gra55 but they won't give up their nuclear programme. he wants to underline that the diplomatic solution is preferable and that the influence that russia might have with the north korean leader.m also enjoying disagreeing with the americans again. absolutely. there was the recent row over the weekend. the americans closed russian consulate in san francisco and two other premises. there was a huge row, russians are very angry, they say that it's a violation of diplomatic rules and, of course, mr putin uses this attempt to play on those contradictions and wants to show that he is important in the international arena and there are certain que5tion5 which he can influence and he tries to tie up those questions. for instance, north korea, with other5. such as syria and ukraine. although be attempts to close the gap? it depends. russia will try to close hold its ground and will try to tie tho5e clo

mr putin interfere in the twenty sixteen election put himself ordered the attacks gave his cyber experts broad direction in the election . wow you might think this looks like a new t.v. show that's about your screens but no it's actually a new york times article use your imagination now kremlin bots turn into americans who influence the u.s. presidential elections since ational plot line the script must be amazing well here's a spoiler it was inspired by a post by facebook's security chief which said they had discovered hundreds of bots purchasing space for political ads our analysis suggests these accounts and pages were affiliated with one another and likely oprah rated out of russia this plotline also has a hint of mission impossible to sway the elections for just a hundred thousand dollars compare that with the whopping clinton campaign budget and what was the impact of that mish well facebook estimates that out of all the election related content posted on the platforms only one tenth of one percent resulted from information attacks like the alleged kremlin pain they'll need to do b

if he can but i have the feeling i just have a terrible terrible feeling that north korea's from mr. putin in this whole event and this is mr. putin's way of extending the new cold war and it scares me a lot. >> neil: it's interesting you say that because a lot of people were relieved when they heard that the chinese had made this commitment. of course we have to do the whole thing to verify leading putin aside for the time being, do you think that the chinese will act on that? >> well he may but i don't think they're reacting to trump here. i think they're reacting to north korea. trump is throwing words and no matter how upset the left gets he's not dropping missiles that's what north korea is doing see in the last 12 weeks five missiles, the last over japan's territories so that's what these folks are responding to and they should be because this is aggression. >> neil: do you know what's odd about it though charlie gasparin o, what if north korea is just unbound going broke and answering to no one? because hours after this promise on the part of the chinese and ben stein's right, but t

mr putin said that military escalation could end in a global catastrophe. you know i think he's right if you look at the capability of north korea but also because they have a military pact with china as well as the sort of rhetoric that has been coming out of washington president. donald trump when he tweeted a few weeks ago when he said this will be met with fire and fury he has sort of like taken up the rhetoric and also i think are by announcing sanctions against those or considering sanctions against those countries who are trading with north korea or that it is horseplay of oil and china clearly has a different view because this will affect civilians they don't want anything that will affect civilians and yes everybody condemns what the north korean regime is doing of course russia china other countries international. all want to condemn north korea but there has to be a diplomatic solution rather than looking for a military solution and any sanctions that will affect poor people more are already the u.n. is very concerned about the. general populatio

achieved in favor of it russia has absolutely no disagreements with south korea this is actually what mr putin said a couple of months ago when he does russia does have a problem with south korea because south korea wants to defend itself what the thing and system. plans to them is also supplied by one of the by another country to be sure russia has problems but so i'm not sure that whether the root cause here is the south korean relationship or then there is a leg work comes from of korea develop its own thing and system russia would still be opposed to it well because russia fears that doc would strengthen the american influence in the region if the united states wants to discuss that constructively i'm sure both russia and china would be on board i really oxana i totally i totally disagree with your premise this isn't about strength in american influence this is about keeping a nuclear war from breaking out there would hurt everybody including russia everybody has the same goal and that is. that in there is world peace the difference is that both china and russia pearlie are willing to stan

dialogue well that's fine but where's the peaceful dialogue mr mann so i don't i don't feel you quoted mr putin. to the fullest extent of his remarks because he also said that it would be foolish to expound on to expect from the north koreans to abandon the what is essentially their only security guarantee which is this nascent nuclear program nobody is approving of it but it is also if you consider that from a reality point of view and if you take into account recent american invasions of farris countries wouldn't that be a logical that north korea would be on path and adamant in developing in its nuclear program as the only protection against possible american strike. you have to listen very carefully to what you just said the. america has no desire to occupy north korea. to go in there in to take out the the president of north. america had no desire to take over libya and yet they did if they ever do the country in the in to care as it had no desire to occupy iraq or afghanistan even it did so you know why should the north korea be an exception axon i came here to talk about north korea and

curing personal slots on mr putin's payroll no in the future. because. we don't want to talk about pollutants from the conservatives what they're doing now how the is burned their money i mean we shouldn't do that. question i know you don't like the subject that that's clear but i think we have to the a. she's interest as germany good and constructive. and peaceful relationships with russia but that's a clear reference point for that and that is the cost of paris and everyone in europe sign up to in nineteen ninety. as a fundamental principle for how we work and live together estates in europe. renouncing violence as a political instrument respecting the territory integrity of states small and bigger. and i think as soon as russia is making cuba the willing to return. credit clean. to the principles of the of the cotte of paris. sanctions on on the required but let me remind you that ross left is that st blacklisted company under you you sanctions. and and i think it in the disgraceful german chancellor to accept a former german chancellor to accept a po

mr putin added it was a mistake to pressure pyongyang into halting its nuclear missile programme.nce —— the arab news says muslim anger is growing in asia as violence continues against myanmar‘s rohingya muslim refugees. the paper also reports rohingya communications spokesperson, salah abdulskoor ala ra kani, has criticised

mr putin added it was a mistake to pressure pyongyang into halting its nuclear missile programme. arab news says muslim anger is growing in asia as violence —— the arab news says muslim anger is growing in asia as violence continues against myanmar‘s rohingya muslim refugees. the paper also reports rohingya communications spokesperson, salah abdulskoor ala ra kani, has criticised myanmar state counsellor aung san suu kyi as being "a partner in crime" with the army against rohingya muslims in rakhine state. in the gulf news‘ business section, china has called on the brics group of emerging economies to promote global free trade. at the start of a 3—day summit in south—eastern china, beijing has sought to position itself against an america first agenda. the guardian reports on the ongoing brexit negotiations and comments made by the european union's chief negotiator michel barnier, who said the british people need to be taught a lesson about the consequences of leaving the eu single market. and in the guardian's financial pages, global asset managers schroders are predicting more th

time however it perhaps is more serious because it seems to be now be a mano a mano contest between mr putin and mr trump and there's not going to be anything left of interest to find quite frankly if there ever was anything other than confidential diplomatic materials which they're supposed to have there but the thing generally tends to be very tough finely tuned and balanced so that not too much offense is given because frankly things are already far too tense between the two countries already so there has to be great care taken when making gestures like this and to me again that means that anyone who's actually planning on raiding diplomatic premises in san francisco has lost their mind. black smoke was seen on friday pouring from a chimney consulate which do not go unnoticed by social media. a search is underway for the families of two young new arrivals at a baghdad orphanage. but lost their parents who are thought to a fled to iraq to join eisel fight as the children are so traumatized by their experience they're unwilling to speak. the you're going. to play lunch. at lunch. ninety. ni

contest between mr putin and mr trump and there's not going to be anything left of interest to find quite frankly if there ever was anything other than confidential diplomatic materials which they're supposed to have there but the thing generally tends to be very tough finely tuned and balanced so that not too much offense is given because frankly things are already far too tense between the two countries already so there has to be some great care taken when making gestures like this and to me again that means that anyone who's actually planning on raiding diplomatic premises in san francisco has lost their mind. black smoke was seen on friday pouring from a chimney at the consulate which not go unnoticed by those on social media. the good little. mother keep in mind. night to. night she. said the job was to smoke leave the nihilist go to the judge that i hate. and mohamed are among dozens of all friends at a shelter where he has been trying to reunite children with any family members back home reporting from iraq but i guess d.f. . we don't yet know deja and mohammed's fool stories but w

the president putin's live conference that we showed you earlier thanks for that case while joining us live from brussels now is dr ro independent political analyst welcome to the program mr dr ro so talking about putin is the suggestion to take us the u.s. to court over diplomatic properties issues now how unprecedented would be if that went ahead. or not a legal commentator so i cannot give you a judgment on that issue but i would like to talk about something very closely related which is what this press conference was all about and what it wasn't about the most peculiar and outstanding feature of the press conference bush has ended which i did watch is that it talked about everything except except the brick summit . that is remarkable in spots as there were some very interesting things about the summit in particular the godfather ring or sponsoring a five additional very important countries as close friends and associates of brics including egypt thailand. and mexico but that was not what the press conference reporters asked about and i imagine they got signals ahead what they should not be asking about which is precisely what brix had to say about the impending and ve

how well the highly praised she dishes system in the us works welcome to the american legal system mr putin has apparently met the legal system that in the united states over elections between moscow and washington are up for discussion and r.t. show selfing care with russia's new envoy to the un you can watch the full interview throughout the day here on our. present time but he was campaigning in the showdown afterwards he promised to deliver all improving u.s. russia relations but unfortunately due to many reasons i will not remember a the more or judge them he was not able to do so many countries privately and openly say that too much depends on the little ations and it's not appropriate there solo these days. they should be improved and that will be for the best for the better of the world i am committed to improving these relations working together for the better of the world working together with the united states another part of this of course to counsel an outside the security council i hope that step by step will lead us there if we see the the movement. in the the the movement on

contest between mr putin and mr trump there's not going to be anything left. of interest to find quite frankly if there ever was anything other than confidential diplomatic materials which they're supposed to have there but the thing generally tends to be very tough finely tuned and balanced so that not too much offense is given because frankly things are already far too tense between the two countries already so there has to be great care taken when making gestures like this and to me again that means that anyone who's actually planning on raiding diplomatic premises in san francisco has lost their mind. now the u.k. is home to more isn't this extremist in any country that's according to the blokes counter-terror coordinates he also warned future terror attacks in europe inevitable and see children has been looking at why britain tops the list. was. both but i was right was. recurring terrorist attacks in europe and the u.k. have become an unnerving fixture for europe's major cities as it turns out britain is at the top of the leaderboard when it comes to the

on monday we will come together with mr. putin. we will have a telephone call.n thursday we will have dinner together. we will talk about these developments, about what is happening in syria. look, right now there are some problems. we will talk about that. despite all these events, while it is being bombed, children right now -- [inaudible] outside of its borders there are towers of russian federation, police stations, and inside our police stations. all of this our soldiers are doing with the free syrian army. this will continue until piece is established. that, 100,000 syrians have already returned to their lands. our syrian friends staying with us will also to return to their lands. just to ask that question again of the troops in syria, these think he will keep that number of troops there or will you increase them? the turkish groups in syria? >> they will change according to conditions. it could increase. it could also decrease. the quality of our soldiers will also change accordingly. sometimes it could become an those, or other times it could be regular.

mr putin's you have. a lot of bilateral meetings on the margins of the summit for example you met with the gyptian president and he met with many other leaders could you please tell us more about your meetings. for example your meeting with the president of egypt did you discuss resuming direct air flights and did you accept his invitation to visit egypt. and attend the signing of the contract for the nuclear power plant there and also you talked to the japanese prime minister and to the president of south korea could you please tell us about those meetings as well because clearly if i go into details telling you about all my meetings and telephone conversations we'll run out of time with us that. we did if. you saw the reports about all those bilateral meetings for i started my visit with the middle east meeting with the chairman of the people's republic of china. breaks then. among the bric. countries i met with the prime minister of india i met with the president all to south africa. primarily we discu

mr putin also dismissed the value of imposing further sanctions on pyongyang, saying the country's leadershipts nuclear programme. meanwhile, south korea has been holding more live fire drills — and has been staging a major naval exercise off the country's east coast. a south korean commander said the north's forces would be "buried at sea" in the event of a further provocation. the country's president says he's open to dialogue with the north — but now is not the time for talks. china, the north's main ally, is still urging caution and has called for a return to negotiations. our correspondentjohn sudworth is in dandong, on the border between china and north korea. the chinese city of dandong is a very good place to contemplate china's position in the north korean nuclear crisis. if we panel across the river you can seejust nuclear crisis. if we panel across the river you can see just how close the river you can see just how close the two countries are at this point. they are connected by that iron bridge behind me. and almost all of north korea's trade in goods as well as it's vital crude o

mr putin you mentioned that you talked to the prime minister of japan and the president of south korea discussing north korea and i apologize for that story i want to go back to the building itself the diplomatic missions this is really unprecedented and you know i graduated from a law school in st petersburg so i can tell you. any lawyer can tell you that property rights consist of three elements of ownership. produce and the disposal ship. and so what the us did is a. property and this is a gross violation of property rights of the russian federation so to begin with which you know i will instruct the foreign ministry to go to court and let's see what you and how effective u.s. courts are next question. which is. let's go back to north korea as you said what is your position on this matter and it seems that the order to. diplomatic personnel talks or threats sanctions and nothing works solve it. sold the problem on the theory that it's a very easy question the easiest question today. but what you know when i have a private conversation i had a private conversations with my colleagues

works welcome to the american legal system mr putin has apparently met the legal system that in the united states. new ambassador to the u.s. on a chilly. u.s. president. part of that see him officially recognized as moscow's representative in washington i'm joined by senior who's in washington has been following the meeting syria tell us more. well a much anticipated meeting between russia's recently appointed ambassador to the u.s. and u.s. president donald trump has taken place anatoly antonov as well as other as twelve other ambassadors presented diplomatic credentials to president meaning they are now officially recognized as representatives of russian interests antonov predecessor was constantly targeted by the western media portrayed in a negative light over a number of allegations given the controversy surrounding the previous diplomat they are now many speculations around the new figure and as with all u.s. russia meetings this one also attracted media attention especially amid rising diplomatic tensions antonov in particular expressed russia's eagerness to normalize relations wit