what game is putin playing. there is a common argument among realists saying this is a great power doing what great powers do. russia has always been a great power, geography is destiny, covers essentially a continent. as a realist, the game they are playing is power maximization, the relative size of the country, its resources determine its foreign policy interest in winners and losers. if that is true then russian behavior should be immutable over time, shouldn't matter if it is putin, yeltsin, gorbachev, czar nicholas ii, it is structurally determined so by this reckoning russia is doomed to be against the west regardless who is in power but given that we have more of everything russia shouldn't be like that. it is trying. it is a significant threat. recall russia trying to rewrite the cold war, or an exit essential threat or joe biden saying in terms of national security it is the biggest threat. so all of this led me to think about how to think about russia, look to see what had been written about powering

thieves, do you understand that putin — and we know his nature — putin is going to regard this as deeplyny, maybe even yourself here in london, in a very personal way? we wouldn't be in this line of work if we were thinking about security and what's better. it's not politics as in western countries, where you participate in elections, you run campaigns, you talk to the media. the political work in russia involves risks, and navalny understands it, all our team members understand it. we are building our campaigns on transparency and accountability, and that means that we need to live by this principle as well, so our audience expects straight talk from us. if we think putin is a crook, we'll say it. but there is a pragmatic context as well. you need to be able to operate in some form or other. we now see that the russian authorities are contemplating, within the next few days, declaring you an extremist organisation. the implication of that is that anybody involved with your organisation faces at least six years in prison and, essentially, will be treated as something akin to a terrorist.

how big a problem do you think he poses for president putin?— for president putin? of course he is _ for president putin? well, of course he is in _ for president putin? well, of course he is injail_ for president putin? well, of course he is in jail now - for president putin? well, of course he is in jail now and l for president putin? well, ofl course he is in jail now and on course he is injail now and on his last legs, potentially. it is a shocking situation in which his life hangs in the balance, so he is not in a position to threaten putin directly, but the demonstrations today which really crossed the whole of russia, all 11 time zones, demonstrates that's the way he is being treated doesn't strike a chord and does anger many russians including many who don't generally support his political positions. there is just a huge sense among part of the population that the state deals with its opponents in a very uncivilised and inhumane way. very uncivilised and inhumane wa . ~ ., , ., way. well, if the worst were to ha en, way. well, if the worst were to happen. th

things are considered i'm peter lavelle in his annual address to the nation russian president vladimir putin reminded his citizens and the world in fact russia has red lines when it comes to foreign policy interests and those red lines need to be taken seriously and there lays the problem the west refuses to acknowledge russia has its own national interests. cross talking russia's red lines i'm joined by my guess and washington is an r.t. column this i mean we have petro he is a visiting fellow at the institute band studies at the university of long yet. and here in moscow we cross through andrew career go he is a moscow based american political analyst all right gentlemen crosstalk rules and a fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate you let me go to you 1st here i'm sure you either read or watched putin's address yesterday to the nation and i was quite struck how he actually used the term red lines i think he really wants to get people's attention here there are red lines here because it's always western countries the nato alliance they have their red lines

for the putin. i'm sure he's not at all worried about a country that may not be all that into him anymore as he tries to maneuver more power for himself as he tries to kill everybody who opposes him. given the kind of threat russian security services are posing to these people at the protests. more than a thousand people were arrested today by russian security services. here at home, in the aftermath of yesterday's dramatic guilty verdicts for the former minneapolis police officer who killed george floyd last spring, a killing that of course set off nationwide and ultimately worldwide protests, today attorney general merrick garland said the justice department will start an investigation into the minneapolis police department, into whether that department as a whole engages in what they call a pattern or practice of using excessive force. it is a serious thing for a whole police department, particularly a whole police department in a big city like minneapolis, to come under federal justice departmen

ok let's take you back to live it to putin and his state of the nation address. is the fact that he has became known attempt to organize and beller. as such a nation of the president of the country. and even such glanton to actions are not condemned by the so cold western nations it seems like no one even. not as. one pretends that nothing is going on in a good place and you can. say whatever you want about the president of ukraine ghana called bitch or about mature in venezuela but was once again you can. have whatever opinion you want to call the who was all the way is killed and who was overthrown. you are in plenty coups you can have whatever opinion you want about the political views of the president of belarus alexander look us in co but argan izing plotting coup planning a political acis a nation of. leaders of the country well it's too much you would do it because in the news that you didn't go to plan just listen to the admissions made by the participants of the coup that means cause supposed to be seized including the city infrastructure. in that it is

putin is a dictator and, _ russian custody? putin is a dictator and, yes, - russian custody?a l dictator and, yes, what biden did and much better, it could be defective five years ago but now it is not 2014, it is 2021 and it is too little too late and it is too little too late and again, even biden admitted that the sanctions were measured response and putin read between the lines and did not see an immediate price to pay and the sanctions have so many backpedalled mechanisms. and from putin's perspective, there is nothing for him to worry about immediately because he does not care about russia or the russian people. because in the about power and money. so far the measures suggested by biden don't go far enough and don't forget, europeans are notjoining the sanctions and recently we had macron talking about the ukrainian crisis. president putin would obviously argue against your assertions but what more would you want europe and the us to do? because there would be no appetite for all—out conflict. president putin is a killer. that is what biden said was right. every dictat

i didn't neat putin's help. but that seems to blow that out of the water. >> nicolle, it sure looks like collusion, doesn't it? which of course we know that president trump denied repeatedly, that was his mantra, no collusion, no collusion. but you're right. this is extraordinary evidence. this is a significant development today by far, the furthest that we have heard, that any of the last three administrations, how far the biden administration was willing to go to suggest a link between the russians and donald trump's campaign. we know the obama administration was largely silent during 2016. trump himself of course and his administration didn't do anything about it. but now we're seeing a change. and it is significant. as you just laid out, that's very prized data, the campaign that ended in mr. kilimnik's hands. that's something in a campaign very few staffers have access to because it is so important. so it does team that at least in some measure, the russians were interested in perhaps trying to help the tru

well let's get the sequence in here right president zine ski proposed to president putin that he will go to moscow to talk about peace in the don't buy us putin responded that he'd love disease olinsky any time but not to talk about the dots newton says that this is an internal ukrainian issue and that selenski needs to talk to the so-called separatists this is a device that russia is using to misc or trade to create dissin from ation and make it appear that there is an internal ukrainian government with separatism spontaneously decided to to fight against the ukrainian government that has fought a false narrative russia invaded ukraine created the separatists arms them trains them equip them controls them controls and ham pixilated ministrations there as well and then is trying to force a let's deal with them as if russia has nothing to do with the problem so his refusal to meet with zelinsky about the don't bus is really the significant part of that statement you say that putin is telling using this file to narrative president biden also says that he's now in the white house what sh

most of those russian businessmen, the ones close to putin and the ones who aren't so close to putin,ady been sanctioned. you can only sanction people so many times and it's not going to be effective. the better course of action is actually what the biden white house has done in the last couple of weeks which is to create a new executive order that creates capabilities, not yet used, but clearly demonstrated to target russian financial systems and, in particular, sovereign debt, and that would really create significant costs for the putin leadership, and i think that that's where the biden administration rightly has focused its signaling and its capabilities to be able to send a message to the russian leadership that it needs to desist not just on the internal front with its actions against navalny and his supporters but also in interference in our elections and our political systems in the united states. >> reporter: celeste wallander, formerly of the national security council staff under president obama, thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> woodruff: the biden

thinks in terms of end games putin thinks in terms of position how does he amass power and influence and how does the apply that over time opportunistically without any end in sight and i think what he's done with the accumulation of military force here is to demonstrate that he has substantial military capability and the political will to act if he wants to and he's trying to demonstrate on the opposite side that the west is not willing to use force and is not why didn't match that and therefore ukraine had better watch out so what do you make then of russia's announcement that it will pull back its troops is putin finished this time beating his chest. i think we have to really think hard about what tolling backed the troops means what the defense minister said as to their points of permanently cation it's not clear that those are the same places they came from you may be moving them to new permanent locations more find out and secondly some of the things that he's done such as declare parts of the black sea and parts of the sea and as of off limits to foreign vessels those are mean

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thanjust president putin might be doing more than just posturing.now you are the senior adviser to the supreme allied commander in europe. could you tell us what you make of what russia is doing? you make of what russia is doinu ? , ~ , ., doing? yes, i think first of all it is possible _ doing? yes, i think first of all it is possible the - doing? yes, i think first of. all it is possible the russians are willing to conduct another military invasion into ukraine. it might be something relatively minor or it could be something major. the forces they have notjust on the border but also in crimea are a great cause for alarm. and it includes a maritime component. we have to think about the fact this is a direct challenge, of course, a test to president biden, as well as the entire west, all of the democracies against autocracies like russia and china. it is a test of the entire world is watching, and added to that the timing has something to do with putin's internal domestic pressures. we can talk about that.— can talk about that. some analysts _ can t

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violence nato and europe are urging russia to stand down and we ask russia ukraine crisis what does putin want. to meet. the minimum. hello and welcome to the point it's a pleasure to welcome our guests zena dong flute is a freelance journalist who has reported extensively on and from russia for german public broadcasters she says we have seen it all before the kremlin triggers an escalation then blames the west of moscow was the aggressor and there must be consequences and i'm very glad to welcome alex undercard he's an author and analyst who also does political consulting for russian firms including gospel he says the phone call between presidents biden and putin helped to deescalate the crisis and avoid a pasta. well full blown conflict and joining us virtually from d.w. is von bureau is my colleague roman gonchar manco he's an editor in our russian department and was born in the ukraine region of what was then the soviet union he says russia is using bullying tactics to press ahead with its creeping on the station of donbass ukraine must stay calm. so let me begin by asking all 3 of y

and russia without putin. and to show their support for the opposition leader navalny who putin has jailed, it is apparently starving to death inside a russian prison. tens of thousands of russians turning out on the street today to support him. to demand his release. to demand to be given medical care. and i'm sure putin is actually quite unhinged threats to annihilate all his enemies today. i'm sure that was just par for the putin. i'm sure he's not at all worried about a country that really may not be all that into him anymore, as he maneuvers to try to hold on to power for another 20 years or so. in part by trying to kill everybody who opposes him. we will have more on that ahead tonight as well the pictures of the protester kind of amazing, giving the kind of threat the russian security services are posing to the people who they arrest at this protests. today reporting that more than 1000 people were arrested today by russian security services. here at home, in the aftermath of yesterday's dramatic guilty

insulting for russian firms including gospel he says the phone call between presidents biden and putin helped to deescalate the crisis and avoid a possible full blown conflict and joining us virtually from d.w. is gone bureau is my colleague roman gonchar manco he's an editor in our russian department and was born in the ukraine region of what was then the soviet union he says russia is using bullying tactics to press ahead with its creeping and extension of. ukraine must stay calm. so let me begin by asking all 3 of you whether you think this is mostly just saber rattling or indeed something more and because in a drawn to your opening statement certainly suggests you see a very real danger of a russian offensive. well not necessarily i think it's saber wrestling and it's you know directive for impressing the west it's a signal to the west and to presidents to lansky from ukraine and. i think russia is trying to build up the stakes and all that to have a better position for further. what is $101.00 for. the eastern ukraine exact as a negotiating card you also said in your opening state

defended putin from that exact same charge. >> so you know vladimir putin.llers. you think our country is so innocent? >> while trump was complicit in the face of russian aggression, biden's hard line has left putin rattled. now putin is acting out using ukraine as a pawn in his game of chicken against the u.s. he's amassing troops on the border of that country in an attempt to provoke a confrontation. russian state tv is warning that an all-out cyber war with the u.s. is inevitable. it comes after putin threw his chief political rival, alexander navalny, in prison where he's threatened with force feeding during his hunger strike and deteriorating healthwise. just last week putin signed a law allowing him to stay in power for another 15 years until 2036. meanwhile today's announcement on sanctions included other explosive news. for the first time the u.s. government confirmed that russian intelligence actually received privileged campaign data that trump campaign chairman paul manafort handed over to his associate, konstantin kilimnick in 2016. if that's not

biden says he will talk about that call with putin in a little bit. before these sanctions came out earlier today, putin spokesman, jake, says they considered them to be illegal. >> alex marquardt, thank you very much. adam schiff of california, chairman of the house committee on intelligence. thank you for joining us. the intent of these new sanctions is to deter russia. you say these sanctions are not enough. what other actions do you think the biden administration needs to take? >> particularly in the cyber arena, there are certain things that sanction just aren't going to deter. if the russians think it's in their advantage to steal certain information, whether it's trade secrets or national security secrets, they're going to try. and we are just going to have to really harden our cyber defenses. if we're really, really good, we might detect in advance maybe, i don't know, 25, 50, even 75% of planned attacks by russia or china. probably a lot less, frankly. the rest are going to get through. and so we need to make sure that, first and foremost, ou

if you cast your mind back to that press conference in helsinki with president trump and vladimir putinhe threw his own intelligent services under the bus saying they were wrong that russia had not interfered in the 2016 election, very much different tone from joe biden and an indication that the norms of great power rivalry are reasserting themselves and pivot away from the war on terrorism back toward a focus on russia and china as the great adversaries and competitors facing america today. anchor: thank you. that is the view from washington. let's go now to moscow where our correspondent steve rosenberg as more on how these sanctions are received by the kremlin. reporter: there has been an anger response in moscow. the russian foreign ministry h accused america of aggressive behavior and of dangerously raising the temperature of confrontation between the 2 countries. there has been reaction from the russian foreign intelligence service, which washington believes was behind the hacks, and svr describe the accusation as meaningless weather. what did russian state television say tonight

that's because of vladimir putin now because of us.id, i don't think we should look forward here, i don't think that we should be going to look for cyber escalation upon escalation. the big complex relationship between u.s. and russia has enabled for corruption -- sorry for cooperation on things like the iran nuclear deal or nuclear arm control, at the same time, we're confronting each other in other areas. again, i do think that we have to do certain things because we care about the, not just in russia, but globally. >> the reason to go after corruption and autocracy is not because we're seeking to get rid of putin and russia is because we're seeking to get rid of those things globally, and the united states can take a stand on those principle not just an opposition putting but everywhere. >> the point about money laundering is very well said. ben rhodes, thank you so much. that is all in on this tonight, the rachel meadow show starts right now. rt right now. happy to have you here. >>> a big news day today, president biden announcing

is that something you think could change the behavior of president putin potentially?ainly think the aggression in crime era -- crimea is a major reason for the sanctions imposed, and economic sanctions could be particularly detrimental to russia. as i said earlier, i do believe they are significant. i believe the economic sanctions will help to change behavior and also keep it in mind that a functional relationship between russia and the united states is what is necessary, and i do believe that it will get president putin's attention and it will be beneficial. anchor: are you concerned though, congresswoman, that ssia might be trying to draw the united states and nato into some kind of conflict over ukraine? >> you know, let me say this. is difficult i think to be absolutely certain about exactly what president putin is willing to do, but as i also said, russia really does not want conflict with the united states, because it is not really to their benefit, and we see what the conflict is created, economic sanctions, removal of the diplomats for what i believe are good

this statement of biden that he wants to meet putin has been welcomed. but it makes russia specht of partner it makes russia. look strong on the international agenda it doesn't isolate russia the greatest fear of russia to be isolated to be completely neglected to be disrespected by the west and here by this suggestion of biden to meet maybe in geneva or in vienna in the next weeks i think it will happen. and biden will meet the russian leader before he meets the european leaders in paris and berlin or in brussels is a clear sign which russia cannot ignore and i want to come back to that a little bit later on but let me go now to. your opening statement refers to the creeping alex station of the eastern ukrainian region of. in fact an all out invasion is. not generally moscow style until now. infiltration hybrid warfare has been the preferred methods so do you think that is changing would you expect to see a true military offensive here. i would not exclude that but i think it's about 80 percent or 70 percent and. muscle flexing. and threatening ukraine

this statement of biden that he wants to meet putin has been welcomed. but it makes russia specht of partner it makes russia. look strong on the international agenda it doesn't isolate russia the greatest fear of russia to be isolated to be completely neglected to be disrespected by the west and here by this gesture by and to meet maybe in geneva or in vienna in the next weeks i think it will happen. and biden will meet the russian leader before he meets the european leaders in paris and berlin or in brussels as a sign which russia cannot ignore and i want to come back to that a little bit later on but let me go now to. your opening statement refers to the creeping alex ation of the eastern ukrainian region of. in fact an all out invasion is. not generally moscow style until now. infiltration hybrid warfare has been their preferred methods so do you think that is changing would you expect to see a true military offensive here. i would not exclude that but i think it's about 80 percent or 70 percent and. muscle flexing. and threatening ukraine and the wes

that we have the joke that mr in a violent poisoned himself in order to overthrow putin's putin's regime to create a background for accusing mr putin's and airy guarding. regarding where there's a large scale war may happen i don't want to get here with military and political analysis by by partial but to be sure the member indoor sauza and full team net a few people who would predict to russia russian irregular forces would it be a instant on us that the russians would. ukrainians very few people actually. predicted center russia would and next craney a so at zip time if you ask me i'm ukrainian speaking russian so if you ask me do i believe that the russian soldiers would be p.-a in ukraine killing ukrainians i would say no maybe i'm a better analyst but many people would say no it's impossible and unfortunately. so dealing with russia yes there is some you know actual seeing which seeing which says that's no it's not going to be a large scale military operation but you never sure richard there by the ministrations been working hard to rebuild alliances with nato countries in the wake

well let's get the sequencing here right president zelinsky proposed to president putin that he would go to moscow to talk about peace in the don't buy us putin responded that he'd love disease lansky any time but not to talk about the dots newton says that this is an internal ukrainian issue and that selenski needs to talk to the so-called separatists this is a device that russia is using to misc for trade to create dissin from asia and make it appear that there is an internal ukrainian government led with separatism spontaneously decided to fight against the ukrainian government that has fought a false narrative russia invaded ukraine created the separatists arms them trains them equip them controls them controls in hand pixilated ministrations there as well and then is trying to force a let's deal with them as if russia has nothing to do with the problem so his refusal to meet with zamansky about the don't bus is really the significant part of that statement you say that putin is is telling using this false narrative of president biden also says that he's now in the white house wha

well let's get the sequencing here right president zine ski proposed to president putin that he will go to moscow to talk about peace in the don't buy us putin responded that he'd love disease alinsky any time but not to talk about the dots newton says that this is an internal ukrainian issue and that selenski needs to talk to the so-called separatists this is a device that russia is using to misc trade to create dissin from asian and make it appear that there is an internal ukrainian gunflint with separatism spontaneously decided to to fight against the ukrainian government that has fought a false narrative russia invaded ukraine created the separatists arms them trains them equips them controls them controls in hand pixilated ministrations there as well and then is trying to force a let's deal with them as if russia has nothing to do with the problem so his refusal to meet with zamansky about the don't bus is really the significant part of that statement and you say that putin is this telling is using this fall to narrative president biden also says that he's now in the white house

is putin destined to rule for as long as he wants? >> well, russian security services survey and intimidate the entire population. it takes real courage to demonstrate the way the russians do now. remember, these are regimes that murder their opponents. both at home and abroad. >> does it -- is putin's hold on his people, is the basic bargain he made with them, i give you stability and i give you reasonable economic conditions and you back me, is that still holding? >> i think the basic deal, until five years ago, i give you rising standard of living and stability and you don't mind my thieving and my autocracy, but standards of living have been dropping for five years. the new deal is, your standards of living are sagging but i give you successes. georgia, crimea, syria. perhaps in future, belarus, ukraine or baltic states. >> is biden handling putin correctly? he has been fairly tough on him, even agreeing to call him or the characterization of putin as a killer is accurate. >> look, putin has responded by wanting to talk to him. in

people gathered in towns chanting, "putin is a thief."t a doctor to navalny." his wife also took to the streets. one human rights group says 1,500 people were arrested in russia as the government cracked down on protesters. incredibly brave, what those folks are doing. there's a new administration in the white house that is no longer openly deferential to vladimir putin but still, there's the same set of intractable problems between the two countries. the biden administration imposed new sanctions on russia. nearly 100,000 russian troops are on the border. how does the u.s. manage to create some kind of workable bilateral relationship with putin's russia? ben rhodes served as the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications under president barack obama. he has closely been following developments in russia and tweeted out, it's hard to capture the profound sadism and broad ramifications of slowly killing your most powerful and popular opponent in front of the entire world. ben rhodes joins me now. you know, ben, i think ob

that corruption is dangerous for putin.as you yourself have written about it at length. >> it's true. it's dangerous for him. it's an achilles' heel for him both in terms of the way the exposure of that undercuts him with the russian people. it's also an achilles heel he doesn't want that power from him to be taken away. thank you so much for being here, ben. it's good to talk to you about this stuff. >> thanks, rachel. >> all right, we'll be right back. stay with us. hel. >> all right, we'll be right back stay with us ♪ ♪ there's more to a yard than freshly cut grass. (sounds of mower cutting grass) there's real life. full of twists and turns, and some shenanigans too. which is exactly why we built these mowers, to clear the way for stuff like this, right here. run with us, because the best yards are planted with real memories. nothing runs like a deere. search john deere mowers for more. it's a wishlist on wheels. a choice that requires no explanation. it's where safe and daring seamlessly intersect. it's understated, yet

putin has failed in ukraine.e wanted to integrate the whole country into his uroasia union and when that fails he occupied 7% of ukraine. but 93% of ukraine is integrated with the west. >> and do you think that when you say it is a dress rehearsal, there is an actual plan in his mind that he might try to take more of ukraine? >> oh, i have no doubt about that. but you know, all militaries have contingency plans. remember that back in 2014, the russians were very close to carrying out operation nove oro sia which would have been taking over half of ukraine and cutting it off of the black sea. and i think those plans are still being considered. >> yeah, that was odessa and i think he realized that the russias speaking were not particularly pro-russian. >> that is a mistake, you see, to assume that if you speak russian in ukraine that means you are a russian and you want to live in russia and that turns out to be wrong. >> i've got so much to get to with you. what about the protests? the alexei navalny arrest and mi

it was a good thing to have a good relationship with putin. president biden is sending a different message by taking ownership over the action today. the actions today were relatively modest. i think they're not going to have the kind of bite that will necessarily suddenly change putin's behavior, but they send a message at a time when there are 80,000 russian troops gathering on the border of ukraine, and everybody is quite concerned about what that means. biden is trying to send a signal that this is not something he's going to let go without some sort of response. at the same time, of course, president biden is talking about having a summit with president putin. what president biden is trying to say is there are ways to do business with russia even as we're trying to hold them accountable. if you can find a balance where it is today, that's a huge challenge. >> something tells me we're about to spend a lot of air time talking about ukraine all over again. professor butler, back we go to minneapolis and the ongoing trial. what do you make of

i think putin believes _ biden administration. i think putin believes that - biden administration.ation. i think putin believes that the west j putin believes that the west actually is a paper tiger, that they have tough language but not willing to step up militarily or in any other way to confront russia. so he is trying to prove the hollowness of the western position as he sees it. , ., ., sees it. does he have a point, to an extent? _ sees it. does he have a point, to an extent? i _ sees it. does he have a point, to an extent? i think - sees it. does he have a point, to an extent? i think that. - sees it. does he have a point, to an extent? i think that. i i to an extent? i think that. i think it is — to an extent? i think that. i think it is conflict _ to an extent? i think that. i think it is conflict with - think it is conflict with russia about ukraine. no—one is going to go to war over that. for its part, vladimir putin says there is nothing wrong with moving troops and it been responding to aggression from the west. translation: interest bonds to the latest military action

this is come from putin personally.s —— putin has a ready decided he wants to kill the valley and this is what they are doing, slowly, not with an urge agent by administrating him in prison and the prison hospital. this has been — and the prison hospital. this has been pretty _ and the prison hospital. this has been pretty depressing all round. is there any ray of light you can see, any opportunity? i light you can see, any opportunity?- light you can see, any opportunity? light you can see, any o- ortuni ? ~ . opportunity? i think there are some limited _ opportunity? i think there are some limited opportunities i opportunity? i think there are| some limited opportunities on cooperation. the obvious one is on the iran nuclear programme where the united states needs russia to make it happen for the jcpoa thejcpoa plan of action to be working again. there is some talk about climate change and former secretary kerry has engaged in conversations with the russians but i would say that overall, in the grand scheme of things,

is this damaging in russia to putin right now. well the damage is limited and i should say. that by his support in russia we have to admit that is also limited his support is usually estimated by pollsters at about 20 percent we should not underestimate the way the broad public in russia is responsive to. the kremlin line and the west is there to do harm to russia in every possible way and the west is using opponents to their is emas they are instruments that those who oppose there is are either sponsored or funded or inspired who are the why otherwise abetted by the west it's not that everyone believes that but there is a constituency that doesn't there is a constituency that remains indifferent. and his allies his supporters. and there are also those who believe the troublemakers such as of course the file is unique but there are other troublemakers in russia that they have bound to make things worse not better there is a very strong clinging to our status quo in russia and the government of course is taking advantage of that al

he has called putin a killer. he's made that very plain. he's said earlier that he's looked into putin's soul and discovered he doesn't have a soul, in contrast to what george w. bush said many years ago. this is going to be a very difficult, probably insoluble problem, one that biden just has to manage. the bigger one, though, is china. and again, the tensions there have been extremely high. they've been ratcheting up. the vulnerability of taiwan is, i think, the most potentially explosive problem of the biden years, but they can talk on other stuff, like climate change, which they did again at the end of last week, biden held a virtual climate change meeting that xi jinping, china's leader attended. john kerry, biden's global warming czar, envoy, has visited china. it's going to be a much more frustrating and back and forth yo-yoing kind of foreign policy than we're seeing in terms of biden's much more radical, much more ambitious domestic policy. so we're not going to get to the big hundred-day moment here. but it marks a pretty dramatic

or ukraine's leader has challenged russian president vladimir putin to meet him in ukraine's war torn east to discuss ending the conflict there a lot of his lenski also urged ukraine's western backers to signal they are willing to support here in its standoff with russia has already. meanwhile vladimir putin has been delivering his annual state of the nation address he warned that moscow would respond in a swift and harsh way to any foreign provocations putin speech comes as tensions with the western creasing over russian military build up near the border with ukraine as also growing international concern about russian opposition leader alexei navalny is deteriorating health but speech focused mainly on internal issues like fighting the pandemic. i'm joined by our correspondent emily sherman who is covering the story for us from moscow emily speech mainly focused on domestic issues there why. well guess what you have to remember the timing of the speech really these federal assembly speeches that putin holds every year take place much earlier in the year but this time the speech kept

joe biden has called vladimir putin a thug.e relationship with russia going forward. give me 30 seconds on what stable relationship looks like. >> joe biden said it should be possible to walk and chew gum at the same time. one of the key issues, of the forthcoming personal meeting between president biden and vladimir putin, should be the issue of political prisoners and the top of that list is alexei navalny, who is now as we speak entering the third week of his hunger strike in protest at deliberate denial of medical care. navalny just a few months ago was poisoned by russian security services. he is being denied medical care, and this should be among the top of the issues on the list when biden and putin meet this summer in european. >> you put a lot into a short amount of time. we'll continue discussing this. the one thing you remind us we should always be reminded of, we're not talking about the russians. we're talking about the administration and the regime of vladimir putin and that's a discussion because there's a whole

russian president vladimir putin addresses the nation amid of rising tensions with ukraine and growing concern for the health of dissident leader who was on hunger strike in prison. and was covered 19 cases soaring in india and oxygen supplies dwindling people are camping outside the hospitals where their loved ones are being treated. plus it is game over for a proposed european super league after an exodus of elite football clubs from the controversial project even its founders are having 2nd thoughts. welcome to the program a jury in minneapolis has found former police officer. guilty of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter in the death of george floyd last year he was filmed killing floyd a black man but pressing his knee on floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes the murder spot global outrage and protests against racism and police brutality people in minneapolis celebrated the verdict we the jury in the above entitled matter as to count one unintentional 2nd degree murder while committing a felony find the defendant guilty to the words so many had been hoping and waiting for their guil

president biden calling russian president putin and suggesting the 2 leaders meet in a summit to talk about where they can work together that was monday today the white house told russian diplomats suspected of being spies to leave the country and it's left new sanctions on companies as well as people inside the inner orbit of leather mir putin the u.s. says the russian secret service was behind interference in november's national election and it is blaming the kremlin for a cyber security breach inside the u.s. government known as the solar winds hack here's how the white house press secretary summed it up earlier today our objective here is not to escalate our objective here is to impose costs for what we feel are. unacceptable actions by the russian government some of these are done in court nation with our european partners and allies in the past and our view is that when there are actions that are taken that are unacceptable that are not aligned with our interests that we feel. go beyond what should be acceptable from any country you have a partner ever lation ship with then ther

putin lexi mercurial and unpredictable. this episode communicating that if i want to kill alexei navalny, i can. he's in my custody. if i want to move those troops in ukraine, i can. i think that means it's incumbent on everybody to make clear to him what the cost will be. it's not out of russia. from the u.s., it should be loved, if election volley, if you try to silence this man, there are not with the global rise up in russia, but around the world to expose vladimir putin's corruption. to spotlight vladimir putin and the support around him. to make him think twice about is this a time i might push too far and invite a backlash that fundamentally threatens this ability of this country? that's ultimately the only thing that is going to get some of that putin's attention, and that's why navalny has been so challenging to him. it's not a coincidence he was arrested the same day he put out a video. it expose the fact putin owns the most luxurious possible residents in the world. that corruption is dangerous for putin. it's we