how do we know it was russia? guest: well, we can't be 100% certain, first of all, that it was russia. the evidence that we have so far points strongly in that direction. the u.s. government, certainly the administration has been careful because they don't want to politicize the domestic side of this to the extent they have avoid it, but hints have been dropped pretty strong that will the evidence persuasive that the hackers who did this, they may have been private actors, but that they were acting at the direction of the russian state. that kind of plugs into a history that we know about of hacking by the russian state, where a lot of the cyberattacks we see against high-profile, political other targets, sometimes what seems to be hackivism, but may have an ulterior motive as well, is also state-linked. it's very commonly coming from russian territory, if you can trace the servers back and sometimes chain sandeeze other ajor state actors. host: what does russia have to gain? guest: the mode of question is very, v

the most gorgeous women are in russia. welcome to russia.kind of sober. uned we stand. >> chef: i prepared today special for you: "russian tapas." >> zamir: russian tapas. >> chef: specially for vodka drinking. with the small pancakes, like blinis. >> anthony: nice. >> zamir and anthony: nice. >> chef: and uh, astrakhan caviar. looks like winter. salted cucumber with honey. and this is baltic sprats, smoked one with beet root. and this one is a muksun, this is a white -- whitefish. >> zamir: ooh! white fish from -- >> chef: whitefish frozen with malden salt and a little bit of pepper. and you can eat it raw. >> anthony: thank you, chef. >> chef: yeah. >> anthony: i'm hitting the caviar and the bellini. >> zair: oy, yoy, yoy. >> anthony: mmm. >> zamir: maybe some more vodka. thank you. and your smile makes it like -- feel like it's water. [ anthony burps ] >> zamir: what do you think? what is the perception of mr. putin these days? after 14 years, he's in power, just think about, his personal -- >> anthony: my -- my perception? do you really

it was a chaotic time in russia.the presidential elections were about to take place and the bombing of chechnya in response to the supposed that terrorist acts was being escalated as was the invasion of the country itself. but doubts remained and they were raised by at that time the still relatively free russian media, but in the fast-moving flow of quite dramatic events, the subject managed to get buried in there were not the forces in russian society which is not like american society, replete with ngos, independent press and people with a democratic tradition and a readiness to challenge authorities proved itself not to be capable of raising the issue on a sustained basis. there were motions in the state duma to investigate the strange events that those motions were voted down with the help of the monolithic support of the pro putin united party as it was then called, an independent commission was formed to investigate the offense and its members began to be murdered one by one. the first person to die was sergei

us russia is not the tension. it is the occupation and the territory. the u.n.country's in reject this attempt, and still we are at front for a restoring international law. unfortunately from my point of view, there is compromise -- a compromise, but not enough of a position of international community -- community by means. means leavematic russia open to another attack on the eastern part of ukraine. the main problem -- which means should be used to restore international order, territorial integrity? are -- maybe it is good. it was one of the reasons we have lost 10,000 in the region, and the ukrainian people are asking us what we should do, what we plan to do? that is why i also want to ask the international community will we need to do additionally to stop russia from this occupation of crimea. jill: we had an interview with a defense analyst recently from iscow said the basis of this advocating for russians in ukraine. how do you respond to that claim? once again, i wanted to bring attention to the situation,

that is russia, iran, u.s. partnership. >> i'm in today's offense did not mean we would stop those discussions. thank you for trying to clarify. don't want to jump ahead to far. we will continue to have those conversations. we believe it is the best way of creating a coordination cell with russia that we talked about before. we believe that is the best mechanism to get back on track in syria. we don't know all the details about today's events. forink we are still looking clarification on that. this just a one event? is it happening in the past? is toner: the reason why they acknowledge it was happening today. the department of defense has acknowledged they did give us notification. >> first of all do you have any reason to believe this is going to be one event or part of a future problem that may go on? second, do you have the luxury to tell russia you cannot cooperate with iranians to bomb whatever targets you want to bomb? mr. toner: of course not. that is a very frank answer. we can only pursue dialogue and

and that's kind of russia. they keep moving in on crimea, on maldova, et cetera, whatever, without being checked and when they are checked, and when one is going through a period of getting along with them, which i was lucky enough to write after the berlin wall fell, they can be cordial, reasonable folks to work with. they're a complicated country, and we need to be firm with them. we need to be fair. but we always need to keep an eye pealed for kbg connections, oligarchs that can really distort our dealings with them whether that's been distorted in the case of manafort here, i have absolutely no idea. as i said, it seems to me some of these press releases are a bit early in the process before anybody has really looked into the facts. >> thank you, all. wish we had more time. thank you so much, everyone. >>> when we come right back, donald trump's war of words against isis, can he stay on message or will his own past statements come back to haunt him? clean food. words you don't often hear. words we at panera

i think that hillary clinton said she's going to talk tough to russia. but that sort of went out the window with her e-mail scandal. and on the flip side, we have trump who seems to have surrendered already to russia. and the rnc went along with it. this is very concerning. i don't see really one is better than the other at this point. >> to silicon valley. rich, when she was secretary of state, she had this plan of working with the russians. this is kind of in the crony capitalism sphere, where she wanted the russians and she as secretary of state to encourage u.s. businesses to go russia and create a little silicon valley outside of moscow. it was called skulvoko. i may have that a little bit wrong. it turned out -- and she got cisco, for example, to put in $1 billion over a ten-year period. this wasn't chump change. turns out the russians used that facility to develop military hardware, and in some cases to steal our secrets. here's what the army foreign military study says. "the skolkovo foundation been involved in defense-related activities since de

you lived in russia. you reported for condition on russia and its relationship with the rest of the world for many years. what do you make of this story about paul manafort's dealing in ukraine? >> well, i mean, i think objectively you can say that he was hired, it appears, to do a makeover for the party of regions. the party of regions is important because that, of course, was the party that yanukovych was in. it was known as kind of this party that was aligned with oligarchs and kind of criminal elements that had a very bad reputation. and also mr. yanukovych, himself, was very let's call him rough around the edges and needed some sanding off. so apparently the job was to create a better candidate, somebody who'd come across more smoothly, who would talk about economics. and would say the right things to the people in the eastern and the southern parts of ukraine which are kind of more russian-speaking areas. so that doesn't surprise me. i mean, we know that. i think the difficulty here is that they hav

, installed a russia friendly viktor yanukovych, and this pro-russia pro-putin dictator in ukraine as his top political advisor in ukraine an american, experienced american political pro who kept an office in kiev, moved to kev part-time, this american political guru who basically orchestrated yanukovych's rise to power as putin's guy as president in ukraine. popular upriings in ukraine ultimately threw yanukovych out. after that he went scurrying back to russia and thanked putin for rescing him after he was thrown out of power in his own country. after that, that american political advisor kept working with viktor yanukovych's old party in ukraine to re-brand themselves and gave them a new name to helpet them back in power. if you care about ukraine politics and russia busting out of its western borders and taking over parts of neighboring countries and whether there is a nato and russia war because they will push into some russian countries on the western border and treaty bound to defend them, if you care about this stuff, it has always been this juicy interesting creepy american s

they want to show that conditions that our bad in the west does spend a lot of time defending russia anymore so they do achieve success when they expose in their view the social problems in the united states as well and they do that and they get an audience for that because that is for those democratic societies for the criticism of the status quo would ever that happens to be the real issues with the u.s. could be doing to have a greater influence on the public that is in a state controlled russian television and with gun-control issues those are peripheral as far as russia is concerned there is talk of gun-control it has very tight control so it doesn't prevent anybody from getting them but the argument to make them more freely available with those legal challenge comes up on the fact russia has an extremely high murder rate to fall people were murdered in russia were tallied it would be the highest in the world it is a culture of which arguments are settled by force, not by agreement but what impressions russians of the united states that does are freely available and so few peopl

that i what russia wants. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e e-mailshat are missing. >> he may not be the kremlin's man, but he might prove a useful distraction from what the kremlin does. >> matthew chance joins us now from st. petersburg with more on how russians view trump. is trump being played by russia as some suggest, and if he is, what does this say about how they feel about hillary clinton? >> reporter: i think there's little evidence that i have seen that russia is actively trying to play donald trump or is active ll lly supporting him ov hillary clinton. but certainly, the view from inside the kremlin from people i have spoken to close to that situation indicate that, yeah, he's the one who has the most thick views, it seems on a range of issues, towards nato expansion, the situation in crimea. so in that sense, yes, he reflects some of the views that the kremlin itselves a pouss. but there's also a snens which he's seen as unreliable and unpredictable. even though the russians are saying they might like the idea, the plit kl system being fl

one positive for russia, one not so positive for russia.s positive is that deepening its involvement with the middle east. with a huge player. that is not in our interest. downside is that russia does want to have a relationship with the suni gulf states. this is going to be noticed in and alli and cairo, those other places, right? their big enemy in their mind is iran. for putin to be doing this, will be made -- making it more difficult for putin -- it will endanger your relationship with erin -- arab counties? mike: here's the point i would make -- a lot people see putin as this chess player, a great strategic center. no, he is not. it is much more of a long-term interest of the united states to have a strong relationship with the arab states. --se are not the narratives the air state narrative, they are very different in terms of their relationship and the potential of their relationship. am asking how you see relationship with iran and measure -- and i'm using this any carefully -- equivalency in a relationship to the arab states? the p

want to keep russia in the war, and to to save the monarchy. without that they would probably leave the war. many people believe the moniker would be destroyed if rasputin continued his dark influence. so somehow british agents were involved in this plot. what really happened was they went into the house, they shot him once but it didn't kill him, he ran outside and someone from behind and fired at him and brought him down with the second shot it was not fatal. and this is interesting, at this point someone got up with a huge magnum and put it right against rasputin support head, point blank and blew him away. like that. it was not this romantic sort of gothic story the way you see in hollywood movies, it was more like a cold-blooded execution. >> here's the famous picture of rasputin on the screen. what affected this have on him and what exact year was he killed. >> guest: december sixteenth. he he actually they found the body underneath the ice in the river. they threw him under the ice and took a while to find him. and then what's interestin

we have got to have russia to this day, our military has high level relations with russia, so if someone actually do something, some senior military man, maybe somebody like the general, could make a phone call to someone and said sort of stand down, we'll handle this, we don't have that kind of sophisticated relationship with china, certainly don't have it with korea or other places or iran or syria. so we continue decide russia is the enemy on al fronts, we do have to decide in certain areas, particularly our nato alliance, russia is a threat and it's expansionist. russia is neither your closest ally or your friend, nor is it your greatest enemy, it's somewhere in the middle. >> and the one thing we know about russia was that hillary's reset about russia was unsuggest saysful. the idea that president obama's seven point plan against isis is in the true. you have hillary say -- a lot of americans look at them as -- they have struck again in new york, my job is public opinion, and many people in the public feel this is a growing threat and i think in the polling, when you look at get out

and russia's dangerous actions. at her core, she is a pragmatist trying to work with russia when and where we can. as i was trying to explain with the isis fight, she probably would have a more robust response, whether in the crimea peninsula in the ukraine, her response in syria would be slightly different. one thing i am besides especially the summer, i talk about this being a big issue. things i the biggest would talk about besides this summer about being a big issue would be russia. many analysts trace that back to moscow and russia and we have seen what happened right in advance of the democratic convention this summer, i think one of the biggest issues globally is going to be cyber security and clearly, evidence demonstrates the trail to a lot of problems we see here at home and in the world with cyber sick cybersecurity come from russia and a little bit from china as well. she has learned from the experience of sitting across the table from russian negotiators to negotiate a nuclear arms agreement that led to

they forced him to stay and russia and use the fact he was in russia to depict him as somehow of a nefarioussian agent. they have done the same to wikileakaks, especially s since wikileaks' disclosure seven damaging to the e democratic p y and the clininton campaign. it is amazing that wikileaks last disclosure resulted in the resignation of the top five officials of the democratic national committee, including the dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz. wikileaks has become an enemy of the democratic party and they seem to have one tactic with her adversaries and enemies, which is to accuse them of being russian enemies. -- russian agents. that is being used against wikileaks now as well. a very disturbing strategy that is not justice disturbing in an of itself, but will have consequences and the likelihood that hillary clinton will win because when you constantly inflame the public by telling them that russia is this enemy, has agents operating in the u.s. , that is going to have lots of long-term implications and terms of how the u.s. government treats russia, how the american media and peopl

that donald trump didn't know that russia was in crimea. >> russia hasn't been in the middle east for red lines and saying if assad grocrossed those lines he would do something. assad did. he used chemical weapons and obama backed down. he brought putin in. >> what about any connections to russia? should he be cleared. >> donald trump has no substantial connections to russia that i know of. >> substantial. >> he has no substantial connections to russia. >> releasing his taxes would offer that clarity, would it not? >> first of all, the reality is the taxes wouldn't tell you whether or not you have investments in russia. you'd have to do quite an examination of the business books and records. there's also this whole issue of -- there are a lot of people, a lot of russians who are anti-putin who have invested in the united states. i happen to represent some of them, by the way. the fact is if you've got russian money, doesn't necessarily mean you're aligned with putin. putin is very much against money leaving russia. if you're telling me money is coming out of russia, i would tell you y

russia, at times, though, russia is deeply involved in the middle east. one of the things we have to recognize is how do we work if a smart way, in an effective way, to be able to operate and to deal with this problem of radical islamism? we have to stop kidding ourselves. most of your audience has seen some of the actions from the russians just recently flying out of iran as an example and conducting operations into syria. so there's a problem, russia is part of this problem. we have to figure out ways that we're going to have to deal with them in some cases to be able to solve this rapidly expanding problem of radical islamism, as well as what's happening in the middle east and what's happening here in the homeland. so again, good discussions. you know, going in my expectations were that i would walk away knowing that we have a problem and that problem is not getting any better. >> general flynn, much on the plate for the next president, whoever he or she may be. thank you for your service to this country and making time for us today. >> thank you, shan

but in russia that's a habit. there are a network of websites, that aggressively cover news in russia or on the outside by various exiles, types, so you can get access to information. but the information has been thoroughly man up in piloted -- it's fascinating to watch the coverage since the war, in your crane began. people have written accounts of if you just listened to the news in russia, what do you hear? you hear, an aller nat factual reality. the downing of the malaysian airways, plane, that's all a western conspire pray. russia had nothing to do with this. no russian troops, in ukraine, despite the document tasting and the war in syria, there's an alternate reality that's presented. of course this is a very powerful tool, in many ways, it's not new. in fact, if you look at the historical accounts of how the the soviet union took power, and maintained influence after world war ii, great book, that came out just a few years ago, that could be read as a guide to the approach information operations, that they

the other question is what happens in the middle east and russia? how much bandwidth will the next president have to continue this work? i'm optimistic, actually. >> i will add briefly, i think it will be enduring, although a lot will depend on the new leadership coming in with the new administration, as mike says. i see within or decisions, within the pentagon but within other agencies as well just a real shift in focus on priorities and programs in real frameworks and agreements towards southeast asia in particular compared to previous administrations. to take defense, for example, first of all he do have a very knowledgeable and committed leader in secretary carter. but over the last couple of years it hasn't just been secretary carter's engagement of president obama's engagement on defense and secure the cooperation. it's been the whole of the department, a combination to baltimore to a focus on southeast asia and asean in particular. we develop new frameworks with particular country. we negotiated access to grants with the philippines and with

that is not the case of the russia. russia has made a different decision could russia has made the decision to pull back from relationships in the world and th ont a distinct pa foreign policy. they are much smaller economy. they have much less space. engagement directly, public statements and then we have in the federal government authorities to engage in proportion think is against the country. >> it sounds like what you are saying is that we don't have the tools to hit back at russia because they don't have the incentive to cooperate. to have a going conversation that the tools we have. >> i tried. [laughter] >> that would not be appropriate. [laughter] the general approach i've laid out is what you would do. back here.ke a step donald trump has called into question whether the united states would live up to its article five commitments under nato. what are the consequences of statements like that? >> the risk of that is the whole purpose of article five guaranteeing to deter so you don't have to enforce and executed

russia, at times, though, russia is deeply involved in the middle east.he things we have to recognize is how do we work if a smart way, in an effective way, to be able to operate and to deal with this problem of radical islamism? we have to stop kidding ourselves. most of your audience has seen some of the actions from the russians just recently flying out of iran as an example and conducting operations into syria. so there's a problem, russia is part of this problem. we have to figure out ways that we're going to have to deal with them in some cases to be able to solve this rapidly expanding problem of radical islamism, as well as what's happening in the middle east and what's happening here in the homeland. so again, good discussions. you know, going in my expectations were that i would walk away knowing that we have a problem and that problem is not getting any better. >> general flynn, much on the plate for the next president, whoever he or she may be. thank you for your service to this country and making time for us today. >> thank you, shannon. >>>

has sunkanction russia because of that act.o that would be a distinct shift in policy, one that republicans are very against. republican officials have criticized the obama administration for not doing enough when it comes to trying to push back on what vladimir putin has done in ukraine and crimea. >> all right, phil mattingly, thanks so much. >>> a russian helicopter is shot down in syria killing all five on board. cnn senior international correspondent, matthew chance, live from moscow with more on this. hi, matthew. >> reporter: the russian defense ministry says they were just coming back from delivering humanitarian supplies to aleppo. there has been a siege underway in northern syria in which the government is laying seeiege of the city by antigovernment rebels and the russian armed forces have been backing the syrian government with air strikes. you can see the pictures that have come to us on social media, black plume of spoke, twisted wreckage of this m-8 helicopter, a transport helicopter. they're often armed and it s

talk about russia.illary clinton's views on russia, donald trump, even take it to all manafort, who "the new york times" has been running pieces exposing ties to the russian-fridley former head of ukraine. story came out yesterday in "the new york times" that had a couple of scoops in it, one sort of links trump's campaign manager paul manafort to pro-kremlin forces who supported the regime and ukraine. there were details about dealings that manafort had with the figure who is sort of one of the earliest russian oligarchs, a much feared figure during the 191990's and d throughout the 2000's. these us stories are interesting. it was interesting that trump chose to keep his remarks about working with russia in his speech yesterday after the pseudo-bombshell report in "the ew york times." i think a different campaign might hahave edited d those rems the spopotlighte away from russia for a day or two. but he has been out in the open and talking about how he was to continue working with russia. incidentally,

one positive for russia, one not so positive for russia. the positive thing is it is deepening its involvement in the middle east. >> rose: with a huge player. >> with a huge player, right. that's not in our interest. the downside is that russia does want to have a relationship with the sunni gulf states. this will-- is going to get noticed in ree ad and abu dhabi and-- . >> rose: the emirates. >> and cairo. and all of those other places, right. >> rose: right. >> an their big enemy, right, their big enemy in their mind is iran. and for putin to be doing this is going to make it more difficult for put toin make inroads. >> rose: you are saying it is short sighted to be sealding up to iran because, because it will endanger your relationships relh with arab countries. >> yeah. and here's the point i would make, charlie. is that a lot of people see putin as this great chess player, right, this great strategic thinker. no, he's not the tack tition, right. so he's doing this, he's doing this iran thing for two reasons. one is that the tactical m

what seems to be missing is a willingness to push back against russia when russia violates the normsternational society. charlie: you think he has a rose-colored vision of -- richard: there seems to be a benign view of let a widespread acceptance of what russia has and the middle east in the case of syria. what is hard for me is that the focus on russia. think about it. russia is a country of one hundred 43 million. it has a one-dimensional economy that has shrunk 10% over the last couple years. it is not a great power. it is exercising more it -- more influence than recently. richard: putin is looking for foreign policy to compensate richard: putin is looking for foreign policy to compensate what they don't have. he is good at exploiting opportunities. there was a new york times piece of office two. what you saw was speaker after speaker that he is no comprehension of american values. you saw democrats take on the american exceptionalism argument that have been frequently expressed by republicans. richard: i still left but i am a george herbert walker bush republican. a realist who

candidate tells crowds he will shut down isis on social media and that he will work with nato and russia to defeat them on the ground. the speech marks trump's attempt to stop his slide in the opinion polls. also coming up, another french seaside resort banned the so-called burkini, a modest swimsuit popular with muslims. and finally, kidnapped as a newborn and raised by strangers. the incredible case of a girl in capetown, as the woman she thought was her mother is sent to jail. sarah: i'm sarah kelly, welcome to the program. last week, donald trump said that barack obama and hillary clinton found the -- founded the islamic state. this week, he's telling america how to shut the terrorist organization down. in a major security speech in ohio, trump laid out his plans to fight the islamist group on all fronts. in a moment, we will cross live to d.w.'s richard walker for analysis. first, let's hear the tough words he had on u.s. immigration policy under a trump presidency. mr. trump: the time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today. i call it extreme vettin

a ukrainian province russia annexed in 2014. russia says the attempted incursions were aimed at hitting key infrastructures and were boarded despite the test of a soldier and russian intelligence officer. the attacks reportedly happened last weekend. russian authorities have not explained why it has taken three days to release the details. ukraine has called the information fake. our correspondent is standing by in moscow. what more do we know about this? guest: what we do know is the russian president reacted almost immediately to the a legend attack. -- a legend attack. he accused the ukrainian government of terrorism and said they valued terror over the. he said we cannot let this go unnoticed. that is a clear threat from putin there. what is interesting is that before he made that announcement, he was speaking at a press conference with the armenian president. before that, the head of the russian tourism agency said crimea is not dangerous for tourists and tourists who planned a visit to crimea should not cancel their plans.

you know, russia like us has nuclear weapons, folks.s: all of a sudden it's all about russia. richard, you and i talk about this all the time. we all have seen interview,b what role do you think we should be playing with respect to russia. bad guy, good guy. where do you think we should be here? >> i dealt with the russians a long time at the u.n. they respond to tough pressure. they respond to leadership, and they respond to money. they can be convinced by having some sort of economic deal. i'm sceptical of the russians. i think their motive are the not pure. they always try to involve themselves in every election. it should be no surprise to hillary clinton or anyone else. i have been uncomfortable with how hillary clinton has consistently unde underestimatee russians. they have taken advantage of her and run over her. you can look at the russian reset, you look at the iran deal and you look at the syria policy, and the current crisis that we are talking about in ukraine. they don't respect president obama. so let's start from the pre

the opinion poll shows 34% of people in russia say they think relations with russia and the united statesould get better if trump was elected to become the next u.s. president. only 6% want to see hillary clinton as the next president. there is an overriding sense that many feel trump is the favored candidate. >> another colorful sidebar for the race for president. matthew, thank you. >>> breaking overnight. the 83-year-old emperor of japan says if his health worsens, he won't be able to fulfill his duties. in a rare televised address, emperor akihito told the people he is in good health, but fitness level is declining. prime minister abe said he will think about how to ease the emperor's burden. this is the third time a japanese emperor made a speech on broadcast media. >>> iran's government revealed it executed a nuclear scientist for treason. he was convicted of spying for the united states. he resurfaced a year later in the u.s. claiming he was abducted by the cia. and at the time, u.s. officials said he defected voluntarily. in 2011, he returned to iran where he was tried and convict

. >> eastward -- stories from russia. giant country facing giant challenges. from the black sea over the ural mountains to st. petersburg. we take you on a journey to sinking cities, ancient cultures -- to a nation full of contradictions. what are the dreams, fears and hopes of the russian people? join us for "eastward -- stories from russia." michelle: that's it for today. thank you for watching. we hope you enjoyed today's program and look forward to our upcoming series. don't forget that you can watch any of those reports again on our website. in the meantime it's goodbye from all of us on the "focus on europe" team. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] . >>> hello there, and welcome to nhk "newsline." it is tuesday, august 30th, 9:00 a.m. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. people in japan are making preparations for the approaching typhoon. it will be the fourth storm system to hit the country in less than two weeks. it

. >> eastward -- stories from russia.giant country facing giant challenges. from the black sea over the ural mountains to st. petersburg. we take you on a journey to sinking cities, ancient cultures -- to a nation full of contradictions. what are the dreams, fears and hopes of the russian people? join us for "eastward -- stories from russia." michelle: that's it for today. thank you for watching. we hope you enjoyed today's program and look forward to our upcoming series. don't forget that you can watch any of those reports again on our website. in the meantime it's goodbye from all of us on the "focus on europe" team. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] xbq (applause) manuel: so, i want to thank rachel for that kind introduction, although as a nerd for social justice, i feel like i should have a pocket protector on right now. um, so, uh, and i also understand the qualifications about economists. it's said if you took all

transform russia, simply denouncing communism has not been not enough. expectations 20-yes ago, when a lot of people, hundreds of thousands, millions, believed that w collapse of the communist regime, russia would inevitably become a free, democratic state. a prosperous state with equal opportunities for everybody. and to the contrary these expectations, russia today is a corrupt state run by it's putin's dictatorship on the political side and for the majority of russians it ended up with great, great disappointment." coming up, we take a look at the fall out of the cold war, years after theollapse of the soviet union. a double agent still spying for russia inside the u.s. e "throu the decades." "throu the decades." i know you! [laughs] welcome! hi! we're your neighbors. we live across the street. thanks for this. i see you've got time warner cable like the rest of the hood. genius. yeah, they offer tons of free hd channels. and you can record six shows at the same time. and with the super fast internet, entertainment nirvana! wow. nirvana. switch to tim

what seems to be missing is a willingness to push back against russia when russia violates the norms of international society. >> rose: so you think he has a rose-colored vision of russia. >> there sales to be a benign view both of putin, respect for the man and a wide spread acceptance of what russia has done in europe, what it has done in the middle east. in the case of syria. what's sad to me though about all this is this focus on russia. think about it. russia's a country with 143 million people. it's got a one-dimensional economy oil and gas that shrunk. >> rose: it has in recent times. >> putin is looking for foreign policy to compensate for what he can't deliver at home. he's very good tactically exploiting opportunities, whether it's georgia, ukraine or syria. >> rose: the "new york times" piece about this too but at the democratic convention, i mean what you saw was speaker after speaker suggests that he has no comprehension of american values. you saw democrats take on the american exceptionism argument that it had been for a long time more frequently, pressed by republican

russia controls four islands that japan claims. the japanese government maintains the islands are an inherit part of japan's territory, it says they were illegally occupied after world war ii. #. >>> investors have been waiting for the latest u.s. inflation data saying it is a big factor for the federal reserve when it decides to raise its key interest rates. now they learn that con excuse meer prices were unchanged in july. the consumer index was flat from the believous month. the figure is in lightning with market expectations. meanwhile the core consumer price index for july excluding food and energy was up 2.2% from one year ago. the index remained above the 2% level for the ninth month in a row. cars continued to get cheaper but medical care is on the rise. now wall street ended lower after that data came out. all three major indexes were down, one stay after hitting all-time highs. speculation about an early rate hike in the u.s. weighed on markets. the dow jones industrial average finished nearly half a percent lower, the na

russia says it deployed an air defense system to crimea. the territory was annexed from ukraine two years ago. comes after russia accused ukraine of mounting an incursion into crimea. for more on what this escalation could mean, i spoke a brief time ago with a former state department official, now at the mccain institute. why is this flaring up now? >> the russians claim the ukrainians are trying to launch an incursion and stage terrorist acts in crimea. the ukrainians have denied this. let's remember that a little over two years ago russia a nnexed crimea from ukraine. they invaded it rather stealthily, annexed it and moved further into eastern ukraine after the success in crimea. this is recognized by the international community as ukrainian territory. but it is currently occupied by russia. rajini: things are escalating. could this be the brink of war? >> tensions are certainly heightened, no doubt about it. we have seen military movements. it could be a normal rotation of forces by the russians in crimea, but the ukrainians have upped r