russia relations. we shouldn't aim any higher than that, because we don't have stability, that's potentially dangerous not just for the two countries, but for the rest of the world. under that rubric, you can imagine a number of different tracks, be of prolonging the start when it comes up for possible extension in 2021, or salvaging other arms-control treaties that are on life support, or having a more regular strategic stability exchange in terms of meetings, and taking this the confliction mechanism that has worked in syria that they are referred to, and trying to see if that kind of thing can't be done in the baltic or the black seas, things like that. conflict avoidance, and having a degree of confidence that we are not one step away from things devolving into direct conflict would be an important, that should be our objective. we do have signs that the russians are, potentially, for the reasons mentioned, more open to this than we are. they've already proposed extending new starts for the five ye

-russia relations, the impact of sanctions against russia, and for developing relationship between russia and china. this is just over an hour. >> we will have c-span recording or broadcasting, so when we get to questions and answers, make sure you get a microphone so they can hear the question as well. before i go to introductions of our panel, i want to have a special guest here who is going to join us online on the telephone. you will recognize the voice as soon as you hear it. >> thank you. i am from the alumni association. i want to welcome you each of you and apologize for my lack of attendance. i am working hard on innovation called the transporter beam that in staram me up like wars, so he hasn't got there yet. we have one of these events i will get there quickly. i know you will enjoy the program. thank you for giving me these couple of minutes. enjoy the evening, folks. >> always great to hear from you. the 70thelebrating anniversary as a research and analysis organization. our goal is to take on the world's hardest problems and to be working in a way that would make the way --

russia is interested in. mining in the mining sector there is a platinum resources in which russians are greatly interested. this is a project in which the russian cooperation. measure common interest. on the. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov visited a number of different countries on the continent one of them was zimbabwe and this is what the zimbabwean foreign minister. had to say about this relationship with russia have a listen it is the desire of zimbabweans that we came. a little knowledge with the russians are quite competent so that we can also develop in terms of a bloody through the. whole for example has been asked so that we can industrialize it and then create value in what we do. paul that was very upbeat that many says zimbabwe he sounded positively excited. he did and i think i'll be very interesting to see what happens in the long term between zimbabwe and russia there's a lot of promises that have been made but what we see in a lot of russian engagement with africa is lots of you know

i think russia's stakes are much higher than american states and the generally russia has been you know. making no one favorable comments about this sort of mini person and that's that sensible i'd say the more interesting case though as you mention is our media so you know there's learning maybe on on several sides the united states seem to have been minimal minimally involved in this whole process process russia observed with some anxiety i suppose but it in the end didn't interfere moreover the army since themselves i think. agreed that the last thing they wanted to do under the circumstances was provoke russia and so i don't know where armenian foreign policy will eventually end up but it's certainly you know they've been careful to to maintain sort of a good tone with with. with moscow and so there's indication here learning that all sides basically are medio there's another point which is that the government that was overthrown actually managed to get russian approval for signing a significant agreement with the e.u. so it's not an association agreement actually it's not a full sc

that russia is seriously about. to say will benefit from that i don't know maybe a taking this vacated by western partners or russia. i'm very happy that russia is paying closer attention to the east including korea korea used to be russia's partners we cooperated see as well it would be nice to rebuild all that but we definitely needs both starts. i very much hope that we will meet many times in the future here and at the eastern economic forum that russian made possible in ten years i think russia will be a true asian country not only in the job graphical sense yes and also economically that is why i think. the economy. right now the u.s. is south korea's closest partner any country which is out of tune with american foreign policy towards russia is heavily criticized by united states and this could pressure on for instance there is a number of european countries which are not that eager to impose sanctions on russia but what is pressured by the u.s. so. under american influence they have to obey and imposed sanct

relations with russia, sanctions against russia and china's relationship with russia. this is just over an hour. >>> welcome, everyone. i'm andy hoehn, senior vice president and research analyst here at rand. wee we're going to start our program in just a couple minutes. this would be a good time to put your phone on silent if you haven't already done so. we'll have c-span broadcasting our program, so when we get to questions and answers, you'll want to make sure that you get a microphone first so they can hear the questions as well. but before i go to introductions of our panel, i want to have a special guest here who is going to join us on line on the telephone. you'll recognize the voice as soon as you hear it. >> thank you, andy. this is natalie crawford. i'm president of the rand alumni association. i just want to welcome each of you who has come to this event tonight and apologize for my lack of attendance, but i'm working really hard on an innovation called a transporter beam that will beam me up like scotty did during "star wars" and i haven't gotten there yet.

-russia relations -- the economic relationship between the eu and russia is far, far more significant than ours with russia, and, of course, they're our neighbors in a way that only alaskans are. and, you know, therefore this -- the broader west relationship with russia is sort of a more palpable thing for a lot of eu countries. so generally speaking, that has been somewhat of a force for moderation in the broader western position in the context of collective decision-making bodies like nato and the eu. if we dial back a couple years, there was a very united us-eu front on russian policy coming from the ukraine crisis, and even going back to the soviet period where there was coordination on sanctions and the eu was taking much more of an economic hit and policy on how to deal with the ukraine crisis and so on. now because of broader tensions with the u.s.-russia relationship, the sort of the foundations of that unity are to a certain extent eroding and particularly on sanctions where the piece of legislation i mentioned actually targets european companies for doing business with russi

so russia has a sensible policy and i do believe that the rest of the world comparing russia's policy with the united states and and some of its european partners sees that so that even if you have to take public stances. in favor of policies that are not sensible in the long run your own national interest dictates a more sensible approach and that brings you willy nilly closer to russia you know it's unfortunately we have no assistance zero sum game one side wins one side loses and it's black and white but that i mean you can go through the great power rivalries of the the seventeenth eighteenth nineteenth century and then even in the early twentieth century we've never had a complete zero so. you know it's some point you know going back to national interests you should be able to find your national interests and be able to co-exist with your adversary always keeping your national interests there there's no reason why it should be. that's a political choice that's a choice. but political choices and. a foreign policy that is based on on respect mutual respect creates a positive dynam

the united states says it's time to pull out of a nuclear arms pact with russia so i moved in thirty years ago helped end the cold war but president donald trump wants to rip it up why now and does it mean a return to the nuclear arms race and an increase in the risk of conflict this is a story. hello i'm wrong this is inside story from the united states and the old soviet union once on the brink of nuclear war they called it the cold war and it dragged on for decades but in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven u.s. president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev signed the into mediate range of nuclear forces or i.n.f. treaty defusing the arms race now there are more phase another one could be about to start because president donald trump wants out of the agreement we'll speak to all guests shortly but first let's take a look at what the i.n.f. treaty achieved. because hopeless reports from trondheim in norway. i'm here in norway as nato runs the largest war games it's held since the end of the cold war and as president trump threatens to pull out of the i.n.f. treaty

reserve the russia including sanctions on very contrived reasons without any evidence provided of russia allegedly using chemical weapons so there's no evidence what steps are being taken against russia and now we see a murder and it's you know steps are being taken we need to sort out our single approach to cases like these. in the little washington chimed in then so what's stopping them now. they are ordering military equipment everybody. in the world one of that order we got it and we are all of it every bit of it i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country spending one hundred ten billion dollars on military what they. think is that create jobs like jobs and others for this country while europe and even some american senators who believe arms sales and need to be stopped by some of firstly we're outraged by this case we made it clear secondly there is an urgent need for details and those responsible are still not being held accountable and thirdly i agree with all those who say that arms exports which are already limited must not take place in

>> why would russia -- how would russia be a threat to sne ?big a threat as the chinese. >> what about the russian inquiry -- >> poppycock. >> in 2011 maria butina founded the right to bear arms with the stated aim of lobbying for gun rights in russia. but it wasn't russians she was courting. it was americans. in 2013, butina held a concealed carry fashion show in moscow. the stars of america's second amendment movement flew in to spend time with their new best friends. >> they're more like americans than russians. we value the same kinds of things. >> at the same event, butina met paul eriksson, an american political consultant with long-standing connections to the republican party. >>> they started a working relationship that turned into a relationship. >> everything she was doing was essentially political operative 101, go out and build friendships, get people who are willing to do favors for you. >> soon butina was rubbing shoulders with some of the republican establishment's heavy hitters. future national security advisor john bolton even

>> why would russia -- how would russia be a threat to me. >> do you think the russians are a threat?t as the chinese. >> what about the russian inquiry. >> poppy dock. >> in 2011, she founded an organization called the right to bare arms. lobbying for gun rights in russia. it wasn't russians she was courting, it was americans. in 2013 she held a concealed carry fashion show in moscow, the stars of america's second amendment movement flew in to spend time with their new best friends. >> there are no people who are more alike than americans and russians. >> at the same event butina met paul ericson, with longstanding ties to the republican party. they started a working relationship that turned into a relationship. >> everything she was doing was essentially political operative 101. go out and build friendships, get people who are willing to do favors for you. >> reporter: soon she was rubbing shoulders with some of the republican establishment heavy hitters, john bolton even recorded a patriotic video endorsement -- >> we never forget the joyful optimism that marked the beginning of ou

russia is country with. very serious strengths in the region and we have lots of problems with the russian federation so but this is a very important from my point of view we have to discuss these issues and problems with the russia when you have problems you have to discuss and only in this way the people are calling me a suppression politician but was out a day or so you are here on your show russia as much as you're willing to talk to russia i wanted to speak with russia i want to find solution was a russian and georgian no problems i want to go establish friendly relations with russia because i am sure that this is important for my country let me ask you specifically about friendly relations because the political relationship between the two countries is still very tenuous but this year we have witnessed a significant increase in bilateral trade and in tourism the number of russians visiting your country so far this year. or has exceeded a million and that's from what i understand. a quarter more than la

confidence i mean russia china. is a need railway system and if american invests in it with their capital and their technology joins in i believe that will guarantee high efficiency and mutually beneficial. thank you very much for the conversation and i wish. some plot thickens the saudis now would. died in their custody after an interrogation that went wrong turkish media claim they have evidence of intentional murder nonetheless trump declares he's not going to walk away from saudi arabia will there ever be justice for. president i don't have space in the system. i've got. the system. very. different. most people in philadelphia only about two paychecks away from homelessness. seem wrong. but old rules just don't. let me. get to shape our disdain to come to educate and in. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. pranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a tea

has accused russia of violating the treaty on its part has the u.s. stuck to the agreements towards the terms of the agreement what we know there. is a thinking about producing deploying a new messiah was to account for as i said that china's activities and sells china sea but so far the pentagon has only begun research and development into such as that would be banned by this treaty and research is not prohibited by under this pact. now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump say all in all it's all being made to stop the progress of thousands of undoing migrants making their way to the u.s. border he say's they have to apply for asylum in mexico and if they do and the u.s. will turn them away the group crossed into mexico from guatemala over the weekend. eighteen people have been killed and more than one hundred seventy injured off to a train derailed in northeastern taiwan some of the carriages overturned in the crash which you could when the cause ran with the tracks on have been near a station investi

treaty with russia which requires both sides to eliminate medium range nuclear missiles. russia has violated the agreement they've been violated here for many years and we're not going to let them violate the nuclear agreement so we're going to terminate agreement we're going to. saudi arabia claims that the missing journalist. was killed in a fight inside its consulate in istanbul. and a series of deadly bombings targeting polling stations across afghanistan overshadowing the country's parliament elections. it's one o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from last year with me in a day or two to a very warm welcome to the program and we start the program with breaking news the u.s. is pulling out of a nuclear missile pact with russia the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty has been in place for more than thirty years president trump accused moscow of violating the deal russia as violated the agreement they'd been violating here for many years that i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate for full out. we're not going to let the

do you think i would call russia, i need help in idaho. i need help in iowa. let's call russia. it's a con job. it's a total con job. it's a disgrace. this is the democrats losing the electoral college they should have won easily. they lost and they come up with this excuse we lost because of let's see, russia. yeah, russia. i didn't make one call. the whole thing is so disgraceful. so it continues. it's a witch hunt. it's nothing for more than a witch hunt. most of people get it. including democrats. they look at me and wing at me. the democrats get it, too. it continues onward. jeff sessions should have never led it happen. he shouldn't have recused himself. he said i am going to recuse myself i wouldn't have put him in that position. trish: is he going to stay in that position? president trump: i'm not going to tell you that. my enemies, people on the other side said for him to have taken the job and immediately recused himself is a disgrace. they say trump is right about that. trish: do you think that in ways vladimir putin is getting what he may have wanted? i say that beca

threatens to scrap a landmark nuclear arms treaty with russia president trump's national security advisor is in moscow for talks. saudi arabia admits dissidence journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered in its consulate in istanbul but as international pressure grows washington stop short of repercussions for now saying any talk of sanctions is premature. toil and trouble as spelled by the night in new york is a couple of which is a former hexing ritual on supreme court judge brett kavanaugh event is met with protesters condemning the black magic. by the thanks for joining us for this half hour briefing has just turned three pm monday afternoon in moscow one of kevin i mean this is r.t. international live with the first them donald trump's national security advisor john bolton is here in moscow for talks with russia's foreign minister today the visit comes after president trump announced he was taking the u.s. out of the crucial nuclear arms treaty with russia while also value to develop new weapons to the treaty was signed back in one nine hundred eighty seven between the then soviet union

>> why would russia -- how would russia be a threat to sne ?>> not as big a threat as the chinese. >> what about the russian inquiry -- >> poppycock. >> in 2011 maria butina founded the right to bear arms with the stated aim of lobbying for gun rights in russia. but it wasn't russians she was courting. it was americans. in 2013, butina held a concealed carry fashion show in moscow. the stars of america's second amendment movement flew in to spend time with their new best friends. >> they're more like americans than russians. we value the same kinds of things. >> at the same event, butina met paul eriksson, an american political consultant with long-standing connections to the republican party. >>> they started a working relationship that turned into a relationship. >> everything she was doing was essentially political operative 101, go out and build friendships, get people who are willing to do favors for you. >> soon butina was rubbing shoulders with some of the republican establishment's heavy hitters. future national security advisor john bo

russia is interested in. mining in the mining sector there is a platinum resources in which russians are greatly interested. this is a project in which russian cooperation. measure common interest ok so i'll get. on the. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov visited a number of different countries on the continent one of them was zimbabwe and this is what the zimbabwean foreign minister. had to say about this relationship with russia have a listen it is the desire of zimbabweans that we came. a little knowledge with the russians are quite competent so that we can also develop in terms of a bloody through the. whole for example has been asked so that we can industrialize it and then create value in what we do. paul that was very upbeat foreign ministers zimbabwe he sounded positively to it and he did and i think a very very interesting to see what happens in the long term between zimbabwe and russia there's a lot of promises that have been made but what we see in a lot of russian engagement with africa is lot

russia can really be blamed for everything and. sophia of course has some serious cases but it's going to walk into the colonies don't because if you remember well my my favorite i think was last week was blaming the poor star wars movie on the kremlin because you know there were russian boats were out there give one size fits all told the western culture probably my favorite was george to start your kid like he was accused of sexual harassment and essentially he turned around saying well. a lot of this traffic is obviously russian bought and because he's you know being quite old well spoken about the rights. took a personal offense to it so putin is coming after him so he sent out this week to try to reassure him and run their friends and let me just reassure you that i will stand up against the russians are coming for me i will continue to fight for you so so he went from being a sexual predator to essentially being a victim and fighting for justice and so there was something like really good works that russia the model in the u.

what is russia nowadays is russia. a democracy as we may consider any other western european country probably not to in russia that is a special democracy the school like this very often my opinion is that. the western european counties and nato counters they tended to emphasize the danger of the. the rash of presents in order to create in a name me that would produce the five i knew further actions toward that that kind of me if somebody knows or russia. are we sure that of russia would like to invade the stone you're lucky would be to india i personally don't think so are we sure that russia wanted to include you karim me if there was not a coupe in craning two thousand and fourteen that was allowed even by european counters in the european union this is the problem the problem is that sometimes we also have interference from the. western counties in the internal affairs of the former soviet republics and this is because this strategy of nato and of the western counties is to grow to include more counter losing their

measures against russia so to say to a tech russia themselves this is in the making and this will be ex think accelerated after this new experience that was due to brussels correspondent band break at let's get the reaction from russia now and i'm joined by deductive correspondent who is in moscow the man drug how are these accusations going down in russia. well the russian government is basically saying with nothing to do with it there was no attack that led to a geisha is our observer there talking about spy mania in the west and president putin has repeatedly rejected similar charges but have also spoken to think tankers and the intelligence community in moscow and someone told me that washington is eager to impose even tougher sanctions on russia by the end of november so he asked me if russia has nothing to lose why should they why should we russians behave the way the west wants them to behave somebody else told me that the defense department is acting aggressively because they want the situation to become more tense as you know president putin said just a couple of days ago th

want to have more capability just because if you look at their european situation it changed to russia's disadvantage in one thousand ages seven when the treaty was signed poor and czech republic. germany they were all part of the soviet walk and of course now these nations have governments which are very hostile to russia or they call russia of course their own nation we don't consider them hostile we never use that word but obviously a from a military point of view it would make sense for atia to have there are intermediate range missiles directed at these countries because for let me bring in let me bring in lawrence. over here on air which is a blind guy you're hearing that is what he's saying in almost no so although obviously russia is interested in that you're hearing what i guess is saying in moscow that the troops are your. usual cover allowed me to let you all have plenty of time we have to bring in all of the guess i'm really sorry about that but i just want to bring your point out with i didn't finish my thought ok well let me bring in you can answer lawrence's point after th

this is due to the news live from berlin nuclear talks in russia in the drafts of a new arms race the united states dispatches its national security advisor to moscow for tough talks on arms control that's after washington says it is ready to withdraw for him and his store treaty on intermediate range missiles. also coming up german chancellor angela merkel says she is ready to suspend arms exports to saudi arabia critics have condemned riyadh for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. also coming up the terrible choices facing families fleeing syria. i stopped going to school and it's been great because i got engaged my mother noticed him he came and told her that he wanted me and now that. we're going to tell the story of a syrian child bride living in london on a mother seems marrying off for a fourteen year old as the only option to pay the bill. and donald trump's worst nightmare thousands of migrants from central america march towards the u.s. border they've reached mexico but trump says he could deploy the army to stop them from getting any. time soon it's almost gone but i

russia has acted to leave huge. stright in relation to the writing process so that gives me some hope for the future. what the ukrainian nationalists going to do and concerned about the west and meddling in the conflict but i'm hopeful that russia is going to try and consign and control the whole discussion in russia during all of this in juxtaposition in the west is that putin is doing too little i mean that's how far apart we are at looking at this they're going to follow up on this point. the chords are the consensus view of all the signatories including russia that the boss must become part of ukraine again. the question arises why has that not yet happened. i think one serious concern is that the ukrainian government is extremely reluctant to see forty five million voters enter the pl the political spectrum in ukraine that are essentially opposite in opposition to their view of ukraine and as long as they can keep that at bay. they can continue their current policies. so essentially that would be. i'm not assum

you can reference in my statement where we stand with russia's actions. >> uss that russia makes the to reconstitute a large-scale chemical weapon production capability, or do you think it's goal is the smaller scale program that allows it to carry out a tax like the one that recently happened in the united kingdom. i would be interested in both your opinions. >> i don't anticipate they will continue. as we saw from the attacks, continue to expand from technologies as well. >> would you agree that there is a distinction between a large-scale production in terms of capability, to improve and deploy chemical weapons as opposed to the ability to carry out small-scale attacks? >> i would agree. >> i would agree with that as well. i would also think that anything that the russians do in the area of chemical weapons, they will do with a clear intent to try to hide what they are doing, from detection. and i think the results of the attack in saulsberry earlier this year, was an absolutely atrocious demonstration of regardless of whether they had large or small arsenals, the willingness to a

confidence i mean russia china. is a need railway system and if americans invest in it with their capital and their technology joins in i believe that would guarantee high efficiency and mutually beneficial. effects. thank you very much for the conversation and i wish. the grim reaper of the bond market has appeared with this with the sky looking up the global bond market. it's a tsunami bad paper and it's. going to be the greatest. ever love . the saudis now with. i did their custody after an interrogation that went wrong turkish media claim they have evidence of intentional murder nonetheless trump declares he's not going to walk away from saudi arabia will there ever be justice for jamal khashoggi. saudi arabia claims that a journalist who went missing in istanbul more than two weeks ago died in a fight the. russian woman is charged in the u.s. for allegedly trying to in the upcoming midterm elections through social media. funerals are held in crimea for some of the twenty people shot and killed by a student at a

russia is interested in. mining in the mining sector there is a human resources in which russians are greatly interested. this is a project in which russian cooperation. is interest. on the. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov visited a number of different countries on the continent one of them was zimbabwe and this is what the zimbabwean foreign minister. had to say about this relationship with russia have a listen it is the desire of zimbabweans that we can. feed our little knowledge with the russians are quite competent so that we can also develop in terms of a bloody through the. whole for example has been asked so that we can industrialized it and then create value in what we do. paul that was very upbeat that many says zimbabwe he sounded positively to it. he did and i think a very very interesting to see what happens in the long term between zimbabwe and russia there's a lot of promises that have been made but what we see in a lot of russian engagement with africa is lots of you know exciting deals

still talks that because of russia or is russia now talk stick because it's trump. well i guess it's a bit of both you know this is the going on now for two years. there's been a lot of back and forth and there are so many i would say moving parts right now that it's the you know the causal arrows are very hard to follow neatly the said the notion of whether it's correct or not that you know trump won the election. to some degree because of russian assistance has taken hold in many quarters we will now see because mr miller's report as you know should be with us and within several months what he concludes and so that i think does tend to stick and and the irony is of course as i'm sure is apparent to russians as well this that. the very fact that donald trump is associated with this effort means that it very much limits his freedom to improve relationship with russia i mean one of the few consistent. points that he made on on the campaign trail was we should have a better relationship with russia he's been able to do quite a bit. on the trade front you know you can

president donald trump's announcement that he plans to abandon the decades old control treaty with russia the concern is that by scrapping the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or i n f as it is known moscow and washington could return to cold war levels of hostility and nuclear stockpiling so question on quadriga this week is trump versus bolton a new nuclear arms race in times past that question i'm joined here in the studio by three just to develop service an analyst's beginning with berlin based paediatrician alex rosen who's president of the german section of the organization international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war and dr rosen says a new nuclear arms race has already begun nuclear weapons are incompatible with international humanitarian law and should be back also with us is there a. journalist who writes for the los angeles times. all those people in western europe who are so worried about every new nuclear arms race where if they've been since two thousand and eight when russia started testing cruise missiles in violation of the i am. them and very well b

released a vast number of tweets supposedly showing russia meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election has a story. remember those big bad russian trolls you've heard about for what feels like years now who are alleged to have up and that the u.s. presidential election the so-called troll factory a secretive technology firm that created and distributed both fake news and divisive stories and posts these were accounts that really looked like american citizens well in a bid for transparency twitter has published some nine million tweets from thousands of accounts they believe were run by stud trolls and if you like us find the data more than a bit difficult to interpret were not conclusions have already been drawn by the digital forensic research lab twitter gave the group early access to the database and they put out a four part report where they outlined the major takeaways and some may surprise you for example the russian internet research agency's main target was apparently in fact russian speakers a chart breaking down what language tweets were written and shows that for ye

tightening the screws on russia isolating russia is its own reward that is the purpose of the policy is it is not a means to some other end and trust me it's going to get a lot worse especially over the next few weeks we have some very very strong saying sions on the american side that are due to kick in and of ember that really bring us to the brink of it's the kind of thing countries do when they're about to go to war with each other even downgrading diplomatic relations this this is much worse i think that a lot of people really appreciate from a u.s. diplomat to just last thank you for your time. now in other news is now less than five weeks before america goes to the polls in the midterm election and it seems the continuing arguments around trump supremes courts nominee brett kavanaugh are having an influence on the f.b.i. provided the results of a probe into the sexual misconduct accusations against the judge republicans seem satisfied but the democrats are sounding the alarm it looks to be a product of an incomplete investigation that was limited perhaps by the white house i d

well it certainly looks like the united states and russia did as much as they could to resolve their differences when it comes to the i.n.f. treaty in the course of the past couple of days in front john bolton came here to this media venue in central moscow not far from the kremlin just after a nine hour and a half long conversation with president putin and he revealed john bolton i mean revealed two main factors as to why the united states still looks to abandon the deal one he says that russia has already deployed in europe some missiles that a band under the deal and to the united states see this treaty as outdated and he says that the deal should include other nations like for example china and also john bolton talked about the key difference between russia and the united states when it comes to the understanding of the agreement with respect to the question of russian compliance as i said it is the american position that russia is in violation it is russia's position that they're not violated so one has to ask how do you convince the russians to come back into compliance with ob

and russia. they answered questions on current relations between the two countries and the status of mornlting under agreements such as the 2011 stark treaty. the senate foreign relations committee, this is about an hour, 45 minutes. >> i want to thank everybody for being here. i think because we need 11 people to vote, we're going to go ahead and give the opening statement. as soon as we get to 11 folks, we'll stop and vote on the noms and i want to thank everybody for their cooperation. but first, i want to thank our witnesses for being here with us today. we're fortunate to have such an experienced and distinguished panel. as our members know, this is a fourth in a series of hearings on russia since july with today's hearing considering the current status of and prospects for arms control efforts. current situation is not encouraging. out of four agreements, new start, the inf treaty, the open skies treaty, and the chemical weapons convention, we have significant problems with russian complian

agreement and russia says that actually the missile can't fly as far as the u.s. think thinks and therefore it's not prohibited under under this agreement so russia today as well and in the last few days has certainly been denying those accusations again. when forest from moscow thank you ali. let's catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the world nineteen people are dead and dozens more injured after two buses crashed in eastern point job in pakistan police say both buses were speeding when they collided twelve members of one family died in the accident and authorities said the death toll may rise. israeli security forces have shot dead a palestinian man who attacked a soldier with a knife in the israeli occupied west bank the soldier survived the attack it is the latest in a series of deadly incidents that have increased tensions in the west bank this month. australian prime minister scott morrison has officially apologized to thousands of victims of child sexual abuse he admitted the state had failed to protect children in institutions like

become more evident this targeting russia russia is a counter it somehow but also this this an interceptor missiles can be converted into your this intermediate range nuclear missiles so they can actually be used to target russia so russia already warned us market point out all of it in two thousand and seven put in. enough treaty would have to be reconsidered because they can't live with it anymore cause the with the little distance of it leaving these arms control agreements. is that does that. mean we're going to have a new arms race believes that it will be inclusion here means where it is not which would preferable here but i want to have something of war so we're going to have caves because let me remind our viewers what the i.m.f. treaty is it was signed in the end of one thousand nine hundred seven by a regular gorbachev when the warsaw treaty was still in existence and no one could you wouldn't dream or. store near one hundred kilometers from st petersburg actually hostile to to russia and even american troops on their territory and british troops on their territory no one could i

military confrontation between the us and russia this is going to take place here in europe and that was the reason why in the one nine hundred eighty s. there were hundreds of thousands of people in germany in europe protesting against the deployment of of these intermediates range nuclear missiles and for europe that is safer without these missiles and to go back to that time just seems like an absolute folly at this time where we are moving towards a more in secure an unsafe a world what we need right now is not less peace and security architecture not less international treaties but more and we would actually need the leaders of russia and us to sit down at a table and discuss the problems that each have with their i n f treaty both of them are accusing each other of violating the treaty of this needs to be discussed in negotiations and not through threats or ultimatums erika's from how serious is the situation the new york times says that people in europe in the united states a calling it a cold war that has already begun to emerge is that public talk well i mean i think the col

disrupted a lot because for russia they really needed to. develop a new a new weapons as well because for the west or for nato they keep saying that the a.b.m. treaty and other. missile defense shield are building is simply to you know intercept this non-existent missiles from iran but it's. become more evident as targeting russia the russian is a counter it somehow but also this is an interceptor missiles can be converted into your this intermediate range nuclear missiles so they can actually be used to target russia so russia already warned us marcie pointed out all of it in two thousand and seven put in that. treaty would have to be reconsidered because they can't live with it anymore because the with the senator what is this other believing these are controls agreements. is that does that. mean we're going to have a new arms race really is that the illusion here means where it is now which would preferable near where i want to have something war us we're going to have caves because let me remind our viewers what that i never treaty as it

agreement we're going to pull out president trump threatens to pull out of a nuclear missile treaty with russia accusing it of violating the pact moscow says and should washington withdraw it would be a major blow to global security. some of the stories that shaped the week from us to grieving friends and relatives who said their final goodbyes to those twenty victims of that college shooting and bomb attack in crimea in the week just gone one of the worst such masochism brushes. and saudi arabia finally admits that missing journalist jamal khashoggi died in a fight that says inside its consulate in istanbul for almost three weeks of denying any involvement. by the just a five pm early sunday evening here in moscow hoping stay with me kevin owen for the next thirty minutes for seven days roundup of the big stories we covered for you the first one from today brian when you fight another dimension to it germany's foreign minister knows head to donald trump's announcement this weekend that the u.s. is threatening to ditch a decade's old nuclear pact requiring washington and moscow to eliminate the