-russia relationship. there's of course, as there always is, a prehistory to this, and in this case i would say the important part of the prehistory goes back to the cold war when the soviet union was a key player in the middle east and had a number of client states in the region, including syria, but also iraq in the bath just regime, egypt under nasr and the pl expo others. the soviet union support for these regimes was part of the globalization of the cold war in the the 1960s and. it was -- the middle east became this kind of chessboard on which some of the latter day cold war conflicts, the proxy conflicts between moscow and washington, played out. when the soviet union collapsed in 1991 moscow lost its regional hinterland and also the role as the leading pat trop of regimes in the middle east. it lost its influence in that part of the world. to the extent that when the united states led the coalition to push the iraqi army out of kuwait in 1991 it got the soviet union onboard with that campaign despi

has ever signed with russia. observers have stated that rushes has developed and produced and tested missiles in violation of the inf treaty. russian violation of the inf treaty, or the violation of any treaty would be a serious matter. i look forward to further details regarding the particular russian weapon system at issue and the discussion of what its deployment would mean for russia in terms of its military strategy and how it would impact the security in europe and in asia, importantly, if russia is found noncompliant with the treaty. the united states in conjunction with our allies should use tools, all the tools that artists also, to ending these activities. while the question of noncompliance might be dealt with, it's critical that the united states, for the time being continue to observe the treaty. a withdrawal would only free russia to legally pursue testing and deployment. we look forward to hearing from our panel. with that i yield back. >> the chair recognizes five minutes to summarize your opening

so what is russia trying to do? and those with the long-term impact and since then with this press conference. so what does russia tried to do? bin that they understand these external distractions from public opinion. that the diversionary policies with a very short period of time. end having some kind of confusion over this. that nobody talks about it anymore. likin the shutdown. so they say this is isis. somehow we are connected. but then to get significant it vintages. and then just part of that. with the reports from though why pg after that incident but i could not confirm this but then they would talk about that. so russia goes on as if it is victimized and then to say they are victimized for the foreign policy. so turkey tried to ds believe the prices. and it address of so-called. there was the expectation and with the social so turkey but i am not sure about that the escalation. and said that to support isis. said that the u.s. has something to do this. to say something as well. from those international rela

to cooperate with russia. you can do all three of those at the same time. it's simply a reality that either the u.s., the west russia or for that matter iran and has a conclusive tool in his hand to solve the syrian issue or to deal with isis alone. we are going to have to do all of that at the same time. the real question isn't whether we do that. the real question is are we going to pursue crisis management or conflict resolution and they are two different things. that applies to the isis issue and applies to the syrian issue. depending on whether we decide we want to limit the damage to solve the problem is a level of cooperation that we can achieve without pushing it. on the other hand if you are trying to resolve the problem then there's going to have to be a grand bargain not only between the u.s. and russia but also regional players because they will all have to make serious compromises. but by strategic rather than tactical. >> with that go back a little bit. i'm always provoked by my background that g

russia denies that took place.key has refused to apologize, russia has laid on economic sanctions. al jazeera america claimed responsibility for the paris attacks. france is fighting back hard. >> we would like to see russia concentrating its efforts to fight our common enemy isil. >> an unconventional war with an unusual enemy. nato says russia is targeting syrian rebels other than isil. in an effort to prop up syrian president bashar al-assad. some of those rebels are receiving military support from the u.s. and its allies. >> i would like to see russia playing a constructive role in syria, and fighting isil. >> last week, turkey used american-made f-16 fighter jets to shoot down a russian war plain that turkey says it briefly violated its air space. >> the protection of our air space, land border is not only a right, but a duty for my government. and no turkish prime minister or president or authority will apologize because of committing -- because of protecting our border. >> reporter: shortly after the jet cra

andrey: that is a problem for russia.-rlie rose: we have andrey: we have failed in many areas of converting the economy, and innovative economy. we have brains and people. charlie rose: when you look back and i close on this, when you look back at the transition of the following soviet union -- at the fall of the soviet union and there was an opportunity to let russia grow, was there not? with the rest of the world trying to help russia emerged from the collapse of the soviet empire, some argue that there was a real missed opportunity. andrey: we did not expect a marshall plan for russia. my personal opinion on certain usets the west started to too many politics in our economic relationship. it happened with the eu. to a lesser extent america because in america we don't have too much economic relationship. working inompanies equity like citibank or coca-cola or pepsi-cola. they have quite a big operation in russia. charlie rose: pepsi-cola got a head start. andrey: yes, buffer pepsi is the is the -- but for pepsi second-l

in russia as well. so for that reason moscow was quite opposed to the change of the context of the arab spring and was very worried that u.s. foreign policy was promoting chaos and instability and could have effects, blowback effects. where the u.s. has gotten involved, moscow says that it has only contributed to instability. and that includes in favor of uncontrolled chaos and it will emerge in its place. given that background, that only in part, possibly in small part, this has been a very reliable partner from moscow and there is an interest in preserving the rule to some extent. but i think that there is a bigger set of issues here for intervention. one is about maintaining the coherence and the institutions of the syrian state whether they are ultimately going to be headed or not. so i think that the fate of the sherman act as a bargaining chip that it's seeking to play in ways that help to secure its own larger interests. the same time it's not only about establishing or reasserted control in the

-russia nuclear agreement and whether russia has violated the agreement. also on capitol hill both the house and senate are in the senate working on repealing parts of the health care law. you can watch the senate live on c-span 2 and the house working today on getting rid of epa rules on emissions and the clean power plan. we spoke with a reporter on capitol hill for more details. >> as president obama meets with world leaders in paris for the climate talks, the house is debating climate change and also energy bills, and joining us to talk about u.s. energy policy environmental reporter antho anthony adgrana, let's start with what the administration's climate goals specifically to reduce greenhouse gas initiatives. >> president obama has done several things to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the nation's power plants and pursued international agreements with china and india and other major countries around the world to try to get them to take actions to reduce their green house gas emissions and tackle climate change. >> and kevin mccarthy sent out a me

has ever signed with russia. state department and numerous observers have stated that russia's developed, produced and flight tested a ground launched cruise missile in violation of the inf treaty. a russian violation of the treaty, with the violation of any treaty, would be a serious matter. a look forward to further details regarding the russian weapons system at issue and a discussion of what is the point that would mean for russia in terms of its military strategy and how it would impact the security in europe and in asia. if russia has found noncompliant with a treaty, the u.s. in conjunction with our allies, should use the tools at our disposal to pressure the russians into ending these offending activities. while the question of noncompliance by russia must squarely in seriously be dealt with, it is critical the u.s. for the time being continue to observe the treaty. would only allow russia to legally pursue testing and violation of the treating -- of the treaty. i look forward to the panel this afternoon.

china could send them to russia. i mean there's always different scenarios on the short range capability of these missiles. does that fact alone concern us? as a nation? mr. mckeon you can answer it. >> mr. chairman, if i could first address part of your question, which is, the inf treaty only bans a type of missile, a ground launch cruise missile and associated launcher. it doesn't ban a number of other types of missiles. and we have an ample supply of sea launch and air launch conventional cruise missiles in our inventory. so we're not limited in any respect from those capabilities. as undersecretary gottemoeller said iran has a missile program which we're quite concerned about medium range program that they've engaged some testing and they have ambitions for a longer range system that's part of the reason for the european phase adaptive approach to missile defense in europe. which is progressing. we are concerned about north korea's missile program. there's no question about that. so it's why we made some of the i

russia has a right to be at table. he believes that the united states has try today deny him this right for the past 25 years. he wants to show that he is back and to insist that the u.s. and its allies recognize that russia's interest are legitimate, it's not more light mate than -- legitimate gol. right now he's the sort of go-to man if you want to get something right on syria as we saw with secretary kerry's visit to moscow a few days ago. putin does believe that not only russia has influence in the post soviet space and he's been trying to get the west to recognize this. he talks about the need and things like that. russia has a right to reestablish areas beyond russia where the soviet union has quite a lot of union where russia lost after the soviet union. if you look at the last six months, we had the leaders of egypt, saudi arabia, jordan, kuwait, the united arab republic and israel and saudi arabia signing a 20-billion dollar investment. we were talking with mark katz beforehand. it would be the largest single

why don't you come to russia"? so 1927 my grandfather goes to russia. he ends up meeting-- a russian girl who becomes my grandmother. my father is born there. and then five years later, in 1932, the communist party sends him back to america to become the general secretary of the america communist party. he runs for president in 1936 and '40 against roosevelt. he's imprisoned by roosevelt in '41, pardoned the next year. and then ultimately kicked out of the communist party in 1945 for being too capitalist. and one would've thought that would be the end of the story. but then in the 1950s he was persecuted for being a communist. they did-- they didn't deter-- they didn't distinguish between good communists and-- >> right. >> bad communists. >> what was your upbringing like? you have-- a highly educated family. everybody in your family-- has really excelled in their fields. >> well, so-- so-- so we-- yeah. i mean, if you come from a family of communists-- it just perm-- permeates everything. at the dinner table, you know, the discussion was how all busines

russia has been battered by the westsanctions from in response to russia's annexation of crimea in persistentlyow oil prices and 2014. other geopolitical risks also pose a severe threat. on thursday, president putin will meet with the president of france, francois hollande, in moscow to discuss opportunities for a united front against isis. they took credit for downing a russian airliner over egypt last month, killing all 224 passengers. i am pleased to have andre back at this table. let's begin with some thing you know a lot about, the russian economy. assess where it is today. andre: the russian economy is in negative growth this year but starting from next year, we expect some economic growth. after the first shockwave of lower oil prices and sanctions and bad commodity prices for other russian commodities and slow growth in china, all the sectors -- i think we understand the economy will be growing. it will have to adjust to new conditions. charlie rose: the decline of oil prices and the expected gas prices as well is the most severe threat to the russian economy? andre: it is but already t

george, if you don't know that, so, russia, if i was russia i would have wanted that deal done, too, because the money by the united states run by incompetent people is giving to iran, a lot of that money is going to russia and other countries to buy armaments. you don't know that, george, but that's the way it is. >> i do that. i'm just not sure it's our fault. i'm afraid that's all the time we have time for this morning. always a lively

> russia today. >> russia today. russia is experiencing cash for the first time in putin's years of rule. he keeps spending more money on military, on security apparatus, and on propaganda. and russia today, alongside with domestic propaganda machine, they are just the great beneficiaries. following this will not give you a good picture of the world because you become a hostage of putin's views of what's happening inside of russia and outside of russia. i'm a bit troubled by your claims that assad has not used chemicals against his people. i'm sure he did. and i am more troubled by your claim that putin solved the syrian problem. two years ago syria was in trouble. but today it's a total disaster. and it's because putin's engagement, putin's attempts to prop up assad. now russian planes have been steadily bombing not the islamic state by assad-backed rebels and killing civilians. now we have refugees leaving t europe, thus helping putin to destabilize the situation and to create new opportunities for

russia cannot be vulnerable. we should see what we need to get done, we should use our competencies, our advantages, which may not be there tomorrow, of course the government should listen and explain to people what is happening. why are we doing what we are doing. we should regard people as our equal partners. what should be our key priorities? first, we are still concentrated in commodities producing industries. if we trained the structure of our economy this will allow us to address different social issues, create jobs and improve the living centers of our people. we have successful new agriculture industry. but the most important issue is to increase the numbers and certainly in the institution and export programs must achieve, must work hard to achieve the goal. number two, the number of industries and construction life industry and railroad, the government needs to provide specific target programs and financing has been allocated. we need to support low-income people, the most vulnerable groups for our popu

the only place they can go is russia. it is possible that they will decide if only for the cause of interoperability with iran to purchase a new russian conventional order of battle and add up numbers , you're talking about grocery money, looking out over ten years. that may not sound like a lot of money to the united states but in russia with the military-industrial complex being plugged in, that's a lot of money. two sets of three motives that i think explain with the russians are doing. the problem is it is easy to list motives. the problem is to assign what the priorities are in the minds of the decision-makers in moscow and then to say how these various motives interact. we don't have any hard evidence about how that works. i would defer to the russian experts to counsel. last comment. what does this mean for the united states? just let me say briefly, if you think about the problems long enough you come to the following. asia is a problem. people can argue but after what has happened the last couple of weeks it is d

to cooperate with russia.at the same time. it's simply a reality that either the u.s., the west russia or for that matter iran and has a conclusive tool in his hand to solve the syrian issue or to deal with isis alone. we are going to have to do all of that at the same time. the real question isn't whether we do that. the real question is are we going to pursue crisis management or conflict resolution and they are two different things. that applies to the isis issue and applies to the syrian issue. depending on whether we decide we want to limit the damage to solve the problem is a level of cooperation that we can achieve without pushing it. on the other hand if you are trying to resolve the problem then there's going to have to be a grand bargain not only between the u.s. and russia but also regional players because they will all have to make serious compromises. but by strategic rather than tactical. >> with that go back a little bit. i'm always provoked by my background that goes along with with -- people t

petersburg, russia.es the streets to flood. >> you've got small lake in the middle of this neighborhood and then all of a sudden you see a car coming through, the trunk is open, and then you realize it's because somebody's wakeboarding off the back of this car. >> guy's really taking to the next level. what i used to do growing up in russia, hold on to a bread truck when it was snowy and kind of skate behind it. >> snow is fun to slide on, but this water could cause a lot of damage. >> i certainly would not mind being the wakeboarder, i don't want to be the driver. have you ever seen what happens to care when the engine intake sucks up all of the water? that engine block is done. insurance company's not going to cover you for being a dumb ass. >> if i knew how to wakeboard, i'd do something like this. you have to know what you're doing. this is totally cool. i love this guy. >> coming up -- keep your eyes on the road. and romance gone wrong. >> i don't understand how cow sex works but these cows in parti

china could send them to russia. i mean there's always different scenarios on the short range capability of these missiles. does that fact alone concern us? as a nation? mr. mckeon you can answer it. >> mr. chairman, if i could first address part of your question, which is, the inf treaty only bans a type of missile, a ground launch cruise missile and associated launcher. it doesn't ban a number of other types of missiles. and we have an ample supply of sea launch and air launch conventional cruise missiles in our inventory. so we're not limited in any respect from those capabilities. as undersecretary gottemoeller said iran has a missile program which we're quite concerned about medium range program that they've engaged some testing and they have ambitions for a longer range system that's part of the reason for the european phase adaptive approach to missile defense in europe. which is progressing. we are concerned about north korea's missile program. there's no question about that. so it's why we made some of the i

led coalition in russia have weakened the group. it said the group is getting closer to fighting israel. america's national security contributor, former director at the security council. joining us from washington dc. thank you for being with us during the holidays. you have more kids than me so i know it's not easy. i want to talk about the death of the rebel commander in syria. there are so many players in the war there. can you layout for our viewers who jaysh al-islam is, vis-a-vis i.s.i.l. and the u.s.? >> sure. zahran alloush was the leader of jaysh al-islam which is a group that is what we would normally call part of the moderate opposition. of course, others would contest how moderate they are. nonetheless, they're not an al-qaeda affiliate, they're not i.s.i.l. and yet they are fighting against the bashar al-assad regime for its over flow >>> moderate, does that mean it's a connection to the u.s. or funded by the c.i.a.? >> unclear if they're funded by the c.i.a. but certainly backed by saudi and gulf states >>> what do you

advantage moscow. >> russia put an enormous amount of money in launching russia today. now rt. as the channel that will give the russian message to international audience using english speakers and treating in various languages, turkey, again, didn't have that. >> turkey has fewer resources. their resources don compare with rt. maybe after the incident turkey will strengthen its presence in the international media, just as russia has done >>> journalists in both countries who contest the respective narratives can pay the price. the two governments go about it differently. both have the primary focus on tv news. however, the turkish authorities go after critical print journalists, like the editor and ankara correspondent of jim hooul yacht. several months ago the pailer published a story about shipments into syria. on november 26, two days after the plane was shut down and after the russian media reported on links, the journalists were gaoled, following a critical complaint foldoed by recep tayyip erdogan himself. >> they reported how turkey sent weapons to some opposition fight

it would be interesting to know from russia what more evidence they would like.ause there is a ton of evidence at their doorstep that they have committed probable war crimes. >> peter sharp is live in moscow for us right now. tell us more about this response from russia to those accusations. >> reporter: since the bombing started the defense ministry has refused to comment on claims that civilians were getting caught up in the fighting, but such was the deaths in the wake of the amnesty international report that the defense ministry called a sudden briefing session this afternoon, and the spokesman there just totally denied all of the allegations, the claims made in the report. he said that once again there is nothing new, the same cliches and fakes, nothing but a flood of lies and empty information. he said the russians had been openly cooperative, and doing what they needed to do to being open in their conduct of the actual fighting. but they said there was no cluster bombs at any of the bases, and basically said that the amnesty report was just malicious and a

now it's got to live with russia. but, frankly, i think the sooner we get to a truce in that country, the better. because the more the violence goes on, the more terrorism we're going to have in europe and the united states. >> you say russia calling the shots there. this u.n. security council resolution will call for a cease-fire, at the same time we're hearing from the russian president that he is prepared to pour more military power into syria. how do the two -- how do you square the circle there? >> i think putin is dragging along the united states because we don't have a solution. we do not have an alternative to assad. they've been overshadowed by the islamic state. you know simply, we can either get engaged in the united states or defer to countries that really do have troops on the ground there and that would be iran as well as russia. the way things have turned out is pretty much inevitable. >> but does it look to you as if the united states and russia are starting to work together a little better than before

the only place they can go is russia. it is possible that they will decide if only for the cause of interoperability with iran to purchase a new russian conventional order of battle and add up numbers , you're talking about grocery money, looking out over ten years. that may not sound like a lot of money to the united states but in russia with the military-industrial complex being plugged in, that's a lot of money. two sets of three motives that i think explain with the russians are doing. the problem is it is easy to list motives. the problem is to assign what the priorities are in the minds of the decision-makers in moscow and then to say how these various motives interact. we don't have any hard evidence about how that works. i would defer to the russian experts to counsel. last comment. what does this mean for the united states? just let me say briefly, if you think about the problems long enough you come to the following. asia is a problem. people can argue but after what has happened the last couple of weeks it is d

four years ago mitt romney said russia was our biggest strategic enemy. president obama said he would reach out to adversarie adversa phone. could you understand why some would wonder for years russia has been our greatest adversary dealing with iran and syria and obviously, the actions. it would seem to be troubling to have putin praise you as he has and i understand your comments. tell me how you would work with him better to make us safer and perhaps make europe and the rest of the world safer. >> sure. look, i'm a deal maker. i make deals. really good deals. if you study what i've done, that's when i file my financials, people get it. i'm a deal person. sure, i could see if you want to be tough guys and everything, i could see russia being a big problem and mitt romney making that statement, frankly. i can also see russia being a big asset to our country and i think that's the way it's going to be. they're a powerful nation and they have a big military base and force and i think they can be a lot of good things happen with russia if we get along well

russia began bombing syria in september.says it is targeting isil, but the institute for the study of war says the russian air campaign has mainly hit syrian opposition groups. >> translator: the russian and syrian air strikes on eastern and duma have increased recently. they pretend their are targeting terrorists, but most killed are women and children. >> reporter: these are scenes that the people of syria have become familiar with. what started assen a uprising has long descended into civil war. that cycle of violence has played out across the country for almost five years now, and killed at least 200,000 people. victoria gatenby, al jazeera. >>> live now to moscow and our al jazeerast correspondent peter sharp. what is the defense ministry saying about that? >> well, they have held their fire for some days now, but this afternoon they totally rejected any of the allegations and claims actually made in the amnesty report. the spokesman said once again there's nothing new or concrete. he said it's the same old cliches, and

interesting that russia is key to any peace manoeuvres in syria, do you think russia could put pressure on the regime to stop this happening? >> yes, we are convinced that russia has the ability, if it decides to, to put the issue to the syrian government for them to allow monitors. and we are releasing the report yesterday. we know that negotiations are resuming tomorrow in new york. and we believe that the file needs to be a priority on the negotiations. we know people are dying in detention. we don't know the scale. it is deflected in august 2013, and there has been three deflections since. there's no reason to believe that things have gone better. it's urgent that the situation is top priority, and the answer is easy, allowing independent monitors in, and assure that those that stigmatize that. >> it will be good to hear the response when you present this. thank you for talking to us. >> thank you >>> in the next hour, representatives of libya's two rival parliament is expected to sign a deal to the former unity government. it is aimed at ending years of chaos since the revolution i

of putin's russia.e last week he has been increasingly outspoken in his attacks on the government. president putin, he says has driven russia into a position where revolution is inevitable and necessary. and he adds, i'll help bring it about. on wednesday he reacted to being charged in absentia. they have gone mad, he said. emma haywood, al jazeera. >>> france's prime minister has outlined proposals to change the constitution in response to last month's attacks in paris. special policing powers put in place could become part of the country's constitution. the bill also includes a proposal to strip duel citizenship of people convicted of terrorism charges. >> translator: it's a heavy sang shown which our nation can impose on someone who has betrayed it in the worst possible way. blind killing of fellow citizens in the name of ideology, is a deny of any will to live together. it amounts to denying the soul of our nation. >>> starting next year, there will be more health warnings on cigarette packets sold

russia and iran may come to see bashar al-assad as expendable.john kerry may persuade them that a continuing illegal role for this regime is indeed poisons to the prospect of a united syrian front against isil. i think they already know this. it's just that their interests lie elsewhere. this is just my opinion. on the other hand, of the russians, they actually think that the turkmen that are currently pounding in northern province really are isil. maybe iran thinks that there is a genuine appetite in syria for subordination that transcends the assad family. so because my assumptions may be wrong i have tried to devise an alternate syria strategy for obama administration consideration that would not, would not be at odds with the current vienna process. may propose alternative is based on come is based on an assumption about the kind of syria resident barack obama ideally would like to hand off to his successor. such a syria i think would have the following characteristics. one, isil would be gone. number two, assad and his entourage would be gon

syrian rebels are blaming russia for the death of a top rebel commander. the leader of a major syrian opposition group talks to al jazeera about what happens next for the peace process it syria. plus a look at a year of setbacks for i.s.i.l. large area of lands are lost, tens of thousands of fighters killed and what could lie ahead in 2016. will not reproductive rights. why same sex companies have to fight their insurance companies to cover infertility treatments. a look back at some of our weekly discussions in a deeper look. those stories in a moment. first, we begin with an al jazeera exclusive. al jazeera's investigative unit has infiltrated the world of sports doping, working with an undercover british athlete, we have raised serious questions about possible questions between medical professions and professional adds leitz. the-- professionals and professional attests leads. -- athletes. >> they are all urine tests >> reporter: this hidden camera footage shows an american baseball player talking about using drugs banned in sport, in particular a stero

russia. what can we expect the relations to be on the foreign policy with turkey? >> a lot of people in russia were surprised when putin reacted in such a radical way to what happened on the syrian-turkish border. usually he been - before that he had been more patient with the western countries, with the united states and the european union and suddenly this out burst with turkey which was an important economic partner for russia. i'm sure that there will be questions, probably also from the turkish journalists. i would like to point your attention to the fact that despite all the hostile rhetoric, russia did not schedule the contract on the gas supply nor the atomic nuclear power station which the they signed up to. it there is a lot of talk, but the economic ties remain the same >>> for the moment, thank you very much. of course, we will be speaking to you throughout the next few hours here on al jazeera as we continue to listen to president vladimir putin's annual press conference. we will

now talk of russia international isolation is observe over blown but it has lost key allies in the last years. responding to russian allegations that turkey has been buying oil from i.s.i.l., president erdogan is back with accusations of his own. >> translator: who is buying that oil? let me tell you, a syrian who has a russian passport, george rory is the biggest trader and buys oil from da'esh and sells it to the syrian regime and international oil trayers, most recently the u.s. department of the treasury made it public and it's like the russian chess player also in the oil trade and we have documents and will make them public to the world. >> reporter: russia is demanding an apology for turkey for the loss of the plane and turkey is urging russia to keep a cool head but for now the war of words goes on, rory with al jazeera, moscow. >> reporter: a molotov cocktail hurled at a nightclub in the capitol killed 16 people and told local media an attacker was an employee who had been dismissed from his job at the nightclub. police are searching for three men. this happened close to cairo

how can we do this when russia continues to send weapons to iran? how can we do this when putin continues to violate the 1987 intermediate range nuclear forces treaty? how can we do this when putin is bombing u.s.-backed forces in syria fighting the murderous assad regime? i understand that some constituents of senator shelby and senator durbin believe they would benefit from this provision, but as "the new york times" editorial board stated earlier this year, when sanctions are necessary, the countries that impose them must be willing to pay a cost too. after leaning on france to cancel a sale of two ships to russia because of the invasion of the ukraine, the united states can hardly insist on continuing to buy national security hardware from one of mr. putin's cronies. i repeat, that is in "the new york times." mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the article -- the editorial entitled don't back down on russian sanctions by "the new york times" be included in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: on the record, i make

condemnation of putin's russia.hodorkovsky has become increasingly outspoken in attacks towards the government. putin has driven russia into a position where revolution is inevitable and necessary, and he as, i'll help bring it about. remarks that has incensed the crime len. cord could havcord could have the kremlin. >> you have to be a pessimist by nature. >> investors looking to put their money in trailer parks. >> russia has rejected an amnesty international report that suggested its airstrikes in syria could constitute war crimes. an international arrest warrant has been issued for russian mikhail khodorkovsky for murder in the 1990s. >>> in isil the military claims to have taken a few neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city. >> progress is slow, but it's progress nonetheless. >> iraqi security courses closing in on isil fighters. the government is portraying the bottle as a final push to recapture the capital of anbar province. spirits are high. >> it is very slow. but it is very well organized, and very wel

russia first faced it in the mid '90s, and the people of russia, when the people of russia were a target of terrorist attacks, we remember terrorist attacks in moscow, express bombing, terrorist attacks at the airport and in the moscow natural. those attacks took away thousands of lives and we will always remember what happened back then. it took us almost ten years to defeat terrorists. we basically forced them to leave russia. we drove them out of our country, but we are still fighting some remaining cells and still from time to time we face terrorism. we had terrorist attacks in belgrade and just recently a plane was bombed over the sinai peninsula. it is impossible to defeat international terrorism alone, especially when borders are open and the world is witnessing mass movements of population from country to country. and in a situation where terrorists receive financial support on a massive scale -- we haven't resolved the issue of afghanistan. the situation in afghanistan is far from promising and countries in the middle east like iraq, libya, and syria who looked actually quite go

the only place they can really go is russia. it's even possible the government can decide if only for the cause of interoperability to purchase a new russian conventional order of battle and if you add up these numbers you are talking about grocery money and probably talking about looking out over a ten-year period something like 50 to $60 billion that may not sound like a lot of money but russia that is the industrialized and being plugged into the oligarchy that is the powerful amount of money so to me those are the two sets of three motives that i think explains what they are doing. the problem of course is it's easier to list motives. the problem is to assign what the priorities are and then to say how these areas interacts. i don't have time to discuss that but we don't have any hard evidence about how that works and i would defer to the experts to counsel me on what they think the interaction into the priorities really are. last comment dennis will talk about this at more length. if you think about the problem in syria lon

and russia. yes, i agree that were some prerequisites for cooperation in early 2000s but you mentioned nato, other things i think there have been exhausted since then. and now, i -- we can try to raise the connections but i think it's too late. mr. putin is on completely different course than he was 15 years ago. so i can't see any productive coalition under such circumstances as today. and the question about syrian refugees in russia there are not so many of them. i would say there are very few. said about russia clalhsia claiming to help syriaa no. russia doesn't care about syrian refugees because moscow's helping assad, not syria. >> concluding comment? >> just a couple of comments. i would say, first of all if a -- if a coalition of truly professional military forces in sufficient numbers, cannot defeat isil in eastern syria, what has this world come to? do we think -- do we think local indigenous forces are going to be able to do the job if professionals cannot do it? there was an interestin

russia and prudent at this stage and for the foreseeable future is not going to be a global arbiter russia as we have seen in recent years is going to have a more robust policy, project power and in the neighborhood and certain circumstances and take advantage of opportunities like the one offered by the syrian civil war but i do not see the economic political and even domestic grounds in russia, the reemergence of a kind of global superpower in the form of russia. secondly, i also am a little bit skeptical of motive of somehow russia taking this action and syria as a way of destabilizing the eu through migration. the one country arguably that has been perhaps most destabilized and politically affected by the salt -- flows of immigrants is germany, almost a million migrants in germany today. from germany to come a critical country in terms of his strategy, working and trying to deal with the european union. i have not heard one german leader express that concern. it is highly unlikely and i do not think it is credible to suggest that he is trying to find ten politics and western europe by

et cetera in the united states can fully kind of take any of that pressure off russia, but russia has been going through a few problems over the last few years, various rockets have been going wrong. luckily, no lives have been lost in any of those areas, but it is worrying time for the space industry as the financial impact of the 2008 crisis and other geopolitical issues have been kind of reverberating around the world and cutting countries budget. >> scientists have carried out a series of controls explosions to test a bomb proof lining material. researchers developed a fabric bag which can contain the force and heat of a blast using multiple layers of synthetic fibers. they are already used in the aero space industry. the material can fairly well withstand an explosion. >> a lot of time and attention has been focused on mitigating the risk of people getting things on an aircraft. the fly bag actually accept that is there may be an instance where somebody is successful in getting some onboard an aircraft. therefore, the next question becomes how can we mitigate an explosive device

george, if you don't know that, so, russia, if i was russia i would have wanted that deal done, too, because the money by the united states run by incompetent people is giving to iran, a lot of that money is going to russia and other countries to buy armaments. you don't know that, george, but that's the way it is. >> i do that. m just not sure it's our fault. i'm afraid that's all the time we have time for this morning. always a lively conversation. thank you, mr. trump. >> thank you very much. >>> we're just getting started from here in new hampshire. bernie sanders is up next. we're going to hear from the clinton camp too and the republican making his move now in new hampshire with chris george stephanopoulos brought to you by abreva. right when you feel a cold sore, abreva can heal it in as few as two and a half days when used at the first sign. without it the virus spreads from cell to cell. only abreva penetrates deep and starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. you could heal your cold sore, fast, as fast as two and a half days when used at the

russia claim these show oil tankers heading to turkey.urkish president has repeatedly denied the allegations. we'll get reaction from bernard smith from istanbul, but first rory challands from moscow. >> reporter: essentially what it was doing was laying out what it says is the evidence supporting claims that it has been making for some days now. the claim is this, that isil is involved in a $2 billion a year trade in illegal oil. oil that it steals from the territories it occupies in syria and iraq. turkey according to russia is the principal buyer of this oil, and it gets into turkey by three main smuggling routes, and after that it's then sold on. the revenues from this are then channelled back to isil in the form of mercenaries and ammunition and weapons, but the main controversial plank of its allegation is not this. the main controversial plank is this is not some casual smuggling operation, this is something that the turkish state is involved in and the president and his family directly profit from. erdogan recently has said that i

russia says it is not actually trying to get that to happen.it is doing here, it insists, is trying to lay the evidence out for international journalists like myself to investigate, and also the foreign military attaches who are present at this military briefing as well, for them to take away and act on. what russia it is trying to do it says is shut down isil's illegal trade in oil and it is in doing this, that the biggest blow against the organization will be struck. >>> so that's the view from moscow. meanwhile the turkish president has again been denying the accusations during a speech in doha. >> translator: no one has the right to slander turkey. turkey is not lost its ethical values so as to buy oil from a terrorist organization. i said the same thing in paris. those who throw this slander are obliged to prove it. i will not spend an extra minute in the seat of the presidency should they prove it. however, those who throw this slander should not continue sitting in their seats either. we do not want this matter to cause more harm to our