larry i'll tell you what it adds up to it's russia gate without russia russia isn't there hardly at all it ends up to tax fraud and sex so we're now talking about i didn't pay my taxes gate and sex gate please larry how long have we lived you know any other politicians who have tried to make sexual escapades go away and one instance it has to do with russia and that's when general flynn flynn flynn remember he was trump's national security advisor for about eighteen days i would he do he rang up the russian in basher. and he said don't do anything exciting when we get into office we're going to review our policy toward you know every american president elect since at least nixon has told his national security adviser to have such a back channel talk kissinger did it for nixon michael book fall did it for obama flynn did nothing wrong he did it on the orders of trump who was following the advice of henry kissinger perfectly normal why did flynn lie that the f.b.i. that's a different question what do you think of who. i now i step back i cease to be a very worried american a citizen a

as you say in russia if they were. religiously mad at the else and because he forgot it this is an important point about sebastopol you said that in one of your interviews that russia's actions in crimea were triggered by the fears that nato ships would be one has said so himself i mean. seeing the the kind of politics that ukraine has right now do you think those fears were justified you know i think we have to understand one important thing and that this day. to the sanctions stemming from down exceptional to crimea and ninety nine to two russia's president boris yeltsin asked for an enlargement of the hasn't k. treaty of seventy five it was the treaty got on seeing the post-war borders in europe yes an os that this monday be enlarged also to be valid for the buddhists between the formally soviet republics fifteen countries this was done it was ratified also by russia so by going in and. taking over the crimea in two thousand and fourteen russia broke international law russia could have got to crimea without weapons

all oh yes partially yes of course russia believes that that is. great power should be reckoned with and that the west is trying to kind of eyes away at russia move it to the side kind of. cordon it off somewhere in the steps of eurasia and make it their relevant but there are also other things internally which are very important when you consider russian foreign policy and defense policy decision making there's the so-called economic liberal party the fortunes of ministration and government who are clamoring actually to stop this standoff with the west to cut defense spending which are opposed to the defense industrial complex so there's a lot of infighting within the russian the administration within the russian ruling smallish weak but they are i mean these people are all loyal to ports and sort of but they have incompatible understandings and beliefs on where russia should go and how it should develop so there is so you should always take into account that washington is split but my moscow is also split and that should be taken in the to accoun

that russia should not give in. that russia should go on. russia should be independent.ountries would we like to take this example from... emulate, i guess? emulate, yes. it's... it's, first of all, western countries. so, this is it, ourfinal morning in russia. we're on our way to the airport now. if i'm honest, before i came here, i did have a slight nervous preconception as to what it might be like. probably because of all the negative news stories about russia that have been kicking around. now, we've only been in moscow, so we can'tjudge the whole country, but it's not been like that at all. just walking around, it feels like any other city. and, to be honest, ifeel a bit stupid for having that nervous preconception at all. that being said, after you've been here for a few days, you do sense an undercurrent of fear, i think, it's fair to say, among people? we went to a football match in some of our downtime the other day. we went to see spartak moscow. and i've never seen a crowd being so well behaved, as they filed out of the stadium, in my life. but it's because th

taking over the crimea in two thousand and fourteen russia broke international law russia could have got to crimea without weapons because seventy percent of the population on the crimea the russians no one but all due respect i mean. there are people who investor who agree that russia broke international law but indisputable but in this world everybody breaks international law so you cannot demand one single country to a pal that when everybody else including russia main rival sending the same. book optimist i remain an optimist he writes that the only solution to the conflict with ukraine is the fulfilling of the two diplomatic process russia has been failing to do not because the pro russian. separatists in southeast your present should be. cooled down down send thousand lives lost my point is that. and in doing what putin did in two thousand and fourteen many people and notably all the western countries think that he really how police say the debris doctrine defending the invasion of czechoslovakia twenty first of august one isn't at once and that was why he did. i think that put

reports on russia the world bank states that russia should achieved its hardening of policy by twenty thirty it's going to be in a very good position in that it has low debt with the. international world has high natural reserves money to increase growth between one point three and one point eight percent with doubling but it went to thirty so those are some very strong positives the for the russian economy there are negatives the increase in the sea your population issues it's getting older and not placing of young people and also international trade in the grocery store very dependent on its own internal market and not exporting enough outside of of natural resources so the determination of nations. will create problems but i think you could achieve this if you continue on this track i mean build your own we really appreciate all your time this our brilliant stuff thanks for coming independent british stephen wealth we return to our q. and a present britain is just feeling nother question let's listen in for their detention system for the prison system so what is going to be done ab

don't matter to western know russia poorly as a mention to you don't mistake relationships in russia fascinate me to distaste much more than foreign policy and putin he was wrong publishing a very interesting book in the spring or month in two thousand appeared from the first mom of the states. and then he is describing his period a sick age of the major in the east germany in the autumn of eighty nine we speak for the downfall of the berlin wall and he writes in the book that we were sitting and they take a dissident tool in the burning secret documents until the oval one two zero and is said we didn't quite understand what happened in germany but we did have a feeling that the soviet union was mortally it was called the power lies of governments one of the most quoted and misquoted sayings of putin is that because of the soviet union it was one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century you saw that in real time when you were stationed in russia back then what was it like for you and that experience of the whole universe i suppose collapsing came very abruptly but i underst

cold war and remind you it's a post communist russia it's a russia that says it's capitalist the old cold war was peoples explained by ideology i'm not so sure about that that's a separate discussion but how do we explain a cold war more dangerous than the last war with a russia that says it shares our capitalist beliefs and even our religious beliefs how do you explain that. something happened back in the one nine hundred ninety s. on bill clinton's watch and it was called nato expansion that's a kind of cliche we've lived with it for more than twenty years but it is the geo political original sense the decision to move us led western military power all the way to russia's borders and it's on russia's borders now in the baltic states in ukraine what did they think russia's reaction was going to be well ok fine put all your weapons on our border or we'll forget about the german invasion in one hundred forty one we don't have any memory of russia didn't move any power anywhere so much of what's happened has been a reaction of russia and of europe to the expansion of nato that's the or

russia and now china and it will do anything but it's almost equal for russia it's not the prosperity of expediential it's not security of its border this it is to ensure that russia is one of those great powers deciding on all major us international relations. this particular oil out this particular treaty aggregation is just is one element of a much wider dispute whereby russia believes it is analogous to the u.s. and that is really only true insofar as numbers of nuclear weapons are concerned ironically. i'm interested in your take on that is this about russia and vladimir putin insisting that they deserve a seat at the table with with with the u.s. and other countries is that what this is about. all oh yes partially yes of course russia believes that that is. great power should be reckoned with and that the west is trying to kind of eyes away at russia move it to the side kind of. cordon it off somewhere in the steps of eurasia and make it their relevant but there are also other things internally which are very important when you consider russian foreign policy and defense policy

borders and it's on russia's borders now in the baltic states in ukraine what did they think russia's reaction was going to be well ok fine put all your weapons on our border or we'll forget about the german invasion in one hundred forty one we don't have any memory of russia to move any power anywhere so march of world to the expansion of nato that's the original sentence now there have been other of its and you could say well russia reacted on watchfully maybe so but i would argue. in response to all this talk that putin is an aggressive foreign policy leader that on the contrary he's a reactive leader and in fact i was in moscow two weeks ago i guess policy class in moscow who is criticized for being too reactive not anticipating what the west was going to do i think that's how historians will write in this what these last fourteen or fifteen years you know that's interesting when you mention you know how we're going to look back on these you know last fourteen or fifteen years and to me what what or what is the biggest misconception that's either under reported or just not being t

turkey and russia.working hard stablish a constitutional committee for syria to establish a new constitution writes a new constitution or amended existing one. to allow for all inclusive syrian elections and the united states has been absent. looted the fact that the united states is trying to impede the work of the constitutional committee so. interesting thought with syria there. but the issue of i came right thanks for that recap but we're expecting plenty more interesting topics intriguing questions come up more isaac of escaping across all of those developments for us though don't worry if you have to keep dipping in and out yourself we're keeping across this press conference live for us russian relations is expected to dominate a lot of the questions in this press conference this year but of course russia has been in the headlines quite a lot this year with the script powell case maria the russian woman who's been accused of being a spy in the u.s. and also the coach straight incident has dominate

troops have to believe in turkey russia relations. i don't think it's going to affect turkey russia relations negatively as some people think many people many experts are trying to state that this is a warming of relations between the u.s. and turkey since they're withdrawing in supposedly giving a green light to the op a turkey's operation of the euphrates but when we look at the turkey russia relationship it's become a very deep relationship and it's a very strategic relationship right now you have the s four hundred deal you have the nuclear power plant deal you have gas pipelines you have working together on these are high level strategic and security agreements that you don't make these agreements based on a friendship that you expect to last for years you make these agreements based on friendships that you expect to last for decades so i don't see it affecting the turkey of russia relationship negatively turkey and russia did not become friends because turkey's relationship with america deteriorated turkey and russia became frie

halt the menace of an expansionist russia which i think is. not the case i mean there is a view that russia is this global menace so you have nato on the borders of the baltic countries it's a trip wire for more conflict nato should have been abolished at the end of the soviet union i mean it was there to designed to counter the warsaw pact right now i think what should happen with nato is it should halt its expansion ukraine should become nonaligned the future of ukraine should be as a bridge between east and west that was the hope not as a proxy country for war between civil war between the united states and russia so you know when trump says things like nato attacks nato he's both right but he's the wrong messenger because people think he's doesn't know what he's talking about well he is so. nato has been brought up recently while some german and french politicians were pondering over the idea of creating a common european army. if that happens and trump wants europeans to take care of their own security with that make nato obsolete i don't

russia is not a the look on. europe is not. based on theories but. somebody on the web creating an injury sources indoors so i believe that we should think about switching at least two euro and go to see which is more common russians and or the europeans mr ashton your government body is called the ministry of economic development what or who is the greatest enemy of the economic development in russia inside the country and outside the country well. if you look once again on the you know just on the statistics you'll find that the do you more would have here is one of the key challenges because of the those transferred to a form to ninety's of the previous century and the heating of the one they mean and we have limited. supply of new labor coming into market so. solving the world's. interest will of course will be just talk harp and it will be a long lasting you know effect the fall of a new meter that is implemented in this area so this is one of the factors which is substantially missing the good old story the second story is of course all the fac

-russia foundation. and of course ambassador alexander, and running this show today is one of our very own melinda herring who's an editor extraordinaire. i hope you all enjoy this conversation. we're looking forward not only to the recommendations the team has. this is not a tactical response that requires short taxicctical replies, but we'll be gathering again and again for comparable conversations. so how do we right that ship? let me turn it over to mulineli to steward the ship. >> good afternoon. my name is melinda herring and i'm delighted to beal here with i think the four top sexperts in the united states to discuss this timely crisis. our four experts will give open statements. we'll have 35 minutes of a discussion and then we'll kick it over to you to ask questions. so please start thinking of questions now, but right now it's my pleasure to give the stage to dr. celeste. >> it's also disconcerting to once again be here to address these issues but it's our responsibility and it is important to

contemplates yet more economic war with moscow we talk to russia's presidential commission and russia's trade on the voice of the u.k. about british business in the largest country on earth that's all coming up in part two of going on the ground. we should start again to discuss where read can call quoted chancellor merkel runs we have a lot of. between germany and europe and russia. to destroy the bridge to see it's quite easy and very fast. to reprove the whole lot of. welcome back u.k. back ukrainian president petro poroshenko doesn't only want martial law he's today urging nato nations like britain to send warships to the sea of as of to provide security against russia but here in london the talk at this week's russian british business forum in the queen elizabeth the second center media partnered by all the tea has been forging closer ties between russia. and the u.k. we spoke the russian trade on voice to britain boris abramov who with more than twenty years experience in shaping russian u.k. going to a corporation advocates for a new era of trade in the face of to raise him a san

and russia have over russia interfering with our election. thereafter, flynn and other people within trump's transition team say that flynn told them that flynn didn't actually have those conversations. that creates a counter intelligence worry for the fbi, right? if the ignacious column is correct and those conversations happened between flynn and russia, russia knows they happened, they were in on the calls. and if those conversations did happen, and russia knows they happen, flynn's lying about them. that's a counter intelligence problem. the fbi handles counter intelligence issues in the united states. if the national security adviser of the united states is telling lies about something, trying to cover something up, and russia knows the truth about it, and russia knows he's lying about it, they can lord that over him, right? they can potentially blackmail him with that, they can threaten him to expose that thing, since they know he wants to cover it up. the fbi handles counter intelligence measures. they want to find out if what flynn re

russia. next week, we're going to get a whole new narrative about flynn's crime, his cooperation or lack thereof and anything else they want to share, because they believe it will be of relevance to what kind of sentence he's going to end up getting. and it's sort of couldn't come at a better time. because all of a sudden, now, this week we the public just got a much clearer and frankly much more worrying view of the crime that mike flynn pled to, and maybe even why he might have done it. so i think this is worth focusing on intently. not only in terms of buttoning up what we learned over the course of this week, but what's about to come next. we know more shoes are going to drop, we know we're going to get more information from the special council's office in the next few days. focus in on this flynn thing for a second. mike flynn had some unusual russia ties during the campaign, right? he had visited at the russian government's behest, just as trump was declaring his run for president. soon

russia's new hypersonic missile. new watch is the test firing of the kremlin's latest weapon flying at twenty seven times faster than the speed of sound means it could reach the united states or anywhere else within minutes how big a threat is it this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm glad i'm here putin is describing it as an excellent new year's gift to the nation russia's president is hailing the successful testing of a new missile as guaranteeing security for decades to come supersonic missile systems are slower than hypersonic flying at many times the speed of sound they're designed to evade missile shield systems to strike anywhere in the world putin says nothing can shoot it down. and one got the new of unguarded system is invincible against any existing and future enemy missile defenses it's a great success a great victory it will be deployed next year and we'll be joined by a regiment which will be put on judy we will move forward in accordance with our plans promising military arm system

contemplates yet more economic war with moscow we talk to russia's presidential commission and russia's trade on the voice of the u.k. about british business in the largest country on earth that's all coming up in part two of going underground. in a world with big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to press. you to go right to the press it's like the full three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should. be we should start the game with this because we're really can call put the chancellor merkel runs has said we have a lot of religious between germany and europe and russia a

what pulling russia did and. did you talk to the u.k. prime minister during the g. twenty we saw each other. things. we share with our relations with the u.k. i hope that we'll be able to improve them into a future not too distant future but as for sending the sailors and the ships back to ukraine you can also remember the russian a fisherman captured in the sea of as that went without there were any ground to do this so there is the two thousand and three treaty talking about fifty five kilometers so then the rest of the sea can be used by everybody by both countries and they seized fisherman and the captain is still it is all being kept by ukraine's without any explanation but i had. which of lawlessness and now they staged this provocation because. we usually let ukrainian military ships go through the kurds three on september seventh. several ukrainian ships went through the kurds three we probably won't let them use our pilot and they passed the street and instead of doing the same this time this stage the p

and russia. oh it's terrible i mean i mean i'm disappointed. you know i was a child the cold war i studied the soviet union in order to try and destroy it but then the cold war ended and we were looking to into partnership with russia but it's been one disappointment after another so we had a slight reconciliation the cold war that collapsed then after nine eleven the two thousand and one terrorist attacks there was a brief reconciliation but that slowly fade over time. president obama came in made a sincere effort to reset relations with russia but that failed and now in the present trump that was one thing he made was one of his core object as was improve relations with russia and he's failed so i don't know what's going to make the relationship better or it's just awful and so as both speakers of a point now this leads to a very unfortunate situation regarding arms control and mung other relations so as as was discussed we now have one treaty that's about to collapse the ion after treaty which was signed during the cold war and limits the nu

to russia as a big stretch. and play even think that you as president of russia seek to rule the world yes certainly and i'd like to know whether that is indeed. what you seek to achieve and could you please tell us what the real goal of your foreign policy. thank you for your well as for trying to rule the world. we know very well up but headquarters. that are trying to do exactly that and these headquarters are not in moscow. why is that this is due to the leading role of the united states in the world economy this is due to the expenditure on defense more than seven hundred billion dollars is spent by the us on defense whereas we have just forty six. and nature countries have six hundred million people and we have one hundred forty do you really think it is our go to rule the world you know this is just a mentality in pairs to buy some in order to achieve some internal. goes inside they need to block for instance they want to make navy countries unite i notice united these countries an external threat is requ

russia. that only. idiots can believe that is a way back in the one once you mentioned put his name and you had your introduction to that man long before many other people did because i read somewhere that you were served coffee by him when he was still deputy mayor or perhaps even an assistant to the mayor of st petersburg administration what was so memorable about that event that made you remember why would do you. that in my his boss the man who introduced both vladimir putin. did meet him it did if the politics was. the subject he was my friend. and people have to remember after the putsch the coup de ta. in nineteen ninety one mountain for war. became the second most popular leader of the bodies hilson and that's when amit put in the first time that i had been publishing a book it was called return to europe about russia and i gave it to some shock in small may well lenin was in charge of the revolution. and we were sitting bickering a bit about freedom in russia and i said toward alexandrovitch yo

should we be enemies with russia or quickly benefit more fromg some kind of loose alliance with russiasuspected that he was so unpopular that it is driving the russia investigation, at least in part. what do you think? >> it's a mystery of our time, and i promise you that your kids and my grandkids and the historians of my generation will look back on this terrible era. this russia era. they will ask, who started this? and why it's done the damage it's done. now one explanation, and i'm not sure it's a complete explanation, is that trump said during the campaign it would bep great to cooperate with russia. the enemies of such cooperation saw in trump an enemy and they began this literally unproveny allegation that he was somehow under the control of the kremlin. but the damage it has done to our national security and to our institution, you may be the only person who has asked the question. but i guarantee you that historians will ask it. what has been the cost of these two years of russia gate?ed victor hansen pointed out the corruption of our elite. what about the corruption of our i

inside of russia. different from the chaos immediately after the soviet union broke apart the presidential leaders. and not just for grabbing territory but to change the political rules of the game and is brighter for the dangerous reasons i was pointing out. it makes it politically and militarily unpredictable in ways that a more capable and more assertive russia has demonstrated is willing to entertain. >> ambassador, you just wrote in the "washington post" that nato should expand it presence in the black sea. what about the sea of dream three. steve blake showed -- is this legal and is it wise? >> i think it is not legal under the bilateral agreement 2003 that say russia gets too clear on any request by third countries to pass through the streets into the sea of azov. obviously their serous operational constraints in a very shallow body of water and very few if any navy vessels could actually go in there and operate. would it be a wise move? that's more debatable. i think given it's the only theoret

russia's trade on the voice of the u.k. about british business in the largest country on earth that's all coming up in part two of going underground. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it mean when the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying and there's just no really hasn't been that we want even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten light colored foreign tempi each dish. eighty five percent of glob

like the bob dylan of russia i didn't believe there was any rock in russia but i thought ok i'll go and meet him because how cool he think it will be to meet me that i'm an american rocker and i met him and we sat we were at seven partment and i played them a couple of songs off an e.p. album i had released here in the states and morris thought it was very cool and it was a little bit punk and he liked it and i i felt very proud and then i said oh can i hear something of yours and we put in a cassette and i put my headphones on and i started to hear one of his songs that was called. tonight and it was so hunting and and just brilliant and powerful that i started to slink in my chair because i realized i was in the presence of somebody very important and that i was just this silly girl from los angeles very naive. and that he was the real rocker said that that moment changed my whole life and correct me if i'm wrong but i think you were twenty four years old at the time cali girl in drab soviets reach was a feeling in oxymoron the source but and even bigger paradox was how this doll

a difference between the united states on russia is very important russia actually protects its own territory and try to balance. the poor he sees of nato and united states all around eurasia because v. object of the united states that that would. to incite her to eurasia and to frogman eurasia in order to russia and china doesn't become too powerful enough and tool to still be. the first power or a global leader and this is why you russia tries to. talk to the every party see of for preventing a vicious and psycho raiment of eurasia and and trying to balance your offensive posture of united system nato for example of this is very united states who with who first the rift from the a.b.m. treaty that treaty in two thousand and one and then the i.n.f. treaty saw a vision.

truth is, if you look back at russia's effectiveness and cost effectiveness if you add up all that russia spent interfering in our elections in 2016, all they spent in the french elections in 2017, and then add on their cost of spending in the brexit election, and then add it all together, it's less than the cost of one new f-35 airplane. so the notion that this is a one-off example isn't the case. this is't both an effective methodologyme for russia and remarkably cheap. the same is true with china. china spends more on defense budget and some of that is okay, but estimates are it spends around $200 billion, spending a disproportionalf amount on cyber and misinformation and disinformation. there the frightening thing to me is the delta between what we spend and what china spends on the defense budget, that $50 billion china's investing in art financial intelligence, 5g technologies andnd a whole hostf other 21st century technologies where china hopes to not be our peer but to actually lead the world. frankly, they are starting to outpace us in these investments by orders of magnitude. we

and russia since the end of the one nine hundred eighty s. that may be about to change u.s. authorities believe russia may have developed weapon systems like these in breach of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement they go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to wear the ones that stayed in the agreement and we bonded it greatly but russia is not fortunately on to the agreement so we're going to terminate it we're going to pull out. the kremlin has denied trumps allegations saying it has not produced any missiles that are prohibited by the i.n.f. treaty the i.n.f. treaty was seen as a major breakthrough in nuclear security when it was ratified by former soviet president mikhail gorbachev and u.s. president ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven it came after a tense period of confrontation in the heart of europe. with very short flight times nuclear annihilation of european capitals was only five to fifteen minutes away trump has said the u.s. will start developing these capabilities again i

i don't have any deals in russia. i have nothing to do with russia.e no investments in russia, none whatsoever. i have no dealings with russia. i have no deals in russia. i have no deals that could happen in russia because we've stayed away. >> eastern promises. we now know those claims made by trump are 100% false. the president's former lawyer michael cohen agreed to congress about a real estate project he was pursuing in moscow while he was a candidate for president. it says it was a holy grail. writing -- trump seen here in december 1987 greeting mikhail gorbachev in washington, first visited moscow earlier that year to scope out luxury hotel sites, a plan that eventually fell through. he traveled again in 1996 exploring another project. that project fizzled. in fact, former trump biographer points out after he was sued for libel, trump told attorneys, it's ridiculous that i wouldn't be investing in russia. russia is one of the top places in the world for investment. tim, let's go over this. what is it about his movement to russia, what is it abou

because russia is now. try to balance between iran which is a valuable ally and between israel which is also an important partner for russia not only in the middle east but on the global scale so russia will not. begin a confrontation with iran but russia can support the central government and the circular goal of central government and remove the iranians if they choose to because i remember quite well the experience of the previous president hafez a lawsuit here who was also a cup or a tin with the iranians but he was always very cautious and he or here always maintained his maintained his autonomy he was never dependent on aunt to her and so i think his son bashar assad will follow this example as soon as he has the opportunity richard there has been mounting concern to be expressed from u.s. lawmakers as to president trump's moves when it comes to syria his decision to pull u.s. troops from syria. will congress in the u.s. be able to do anything to counter this or should we expect this to play out the w

gerry: when people look at russia and the policies toward russia.here seems to be a disconnect between the sanctions, the diplomatic axes, your language, secretary mattis and secretary pompeo and the president himself. the president seems to be reluctant to engage in the kind of verbal diplomacy that you do. he seems to have a particular relationship with president putin that seems to be at odds with the policy. >> i think our policy towards russia has been extraordinarily strong. the president values his personal relationships with leaders all over the world. with the sad news of president george h.w. bush's death, i remember being in the state department with jim baker work for him when president bush was doing some extraordinary things around the world. and the foreign service officers at the state department called president bush the mad dialer because he was constantly calling foreign leaders. he knew them all. he would conduct diplomacy with them personally. and i think president trump sees it the same way. gerry: the helsinki summit. the pres

gets more economic war with moscow we talk to russia's presidential commission and russia's trade old boy to the u.k. about british business in the largest country on earth that's all coming up in part two of going underground. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be for us that's what i'm up for three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. west sydney. the ways of the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. cause you're going to most of us just a little sympathy want to. enter another one but alas this list of. many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities. than. most needed more know that it must not get a lot less and that. they can watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house. be who could be about to be. a since it struggles of many couples. the push to put impulse respons

germany and russia it's been the european union and russia and between nato and russia you need to you know in the ninety's and even early and the first east during the first kate of this century. beaven have just crossed the membership of russia in nato we have discussed those relationships between the premium the union and the russia i think we should start the game to discuss where it can corporate chancellor merkel runs has said we have built up a lot of bridges between germany and russia. to destroy your bridges is quite easy and very fast. but to rebuild will take a whole lot of. i just had a meeting in france german. russian dialogue and does so many ideas how we could cope over it you could nominate lee. on culturally assigned on the on side issues and so on and so on there's a lot of creativity on the sides and i think all put unities. peak and now we have both sides to. through. push forward better relations with all kinds thank you very much for the interview we're talking to dr horace tell jake prominent german politician or national security advisor to how much call discus

seven because russia of course was excluded from the g. seven and talk of new g. seven with russia china india maybe brazil brazil now has a very right wing pro-american government survey not quite sure what's going to happen there but i think. the russian ruble the russian economy is very unlikely to happen it was important to put in recognize that will be less than two percent this year in russia which is quite disappointing russia is going through a very stagnant phase the oil prices internationally is very low the efforts to diversify the russian economy get away from being a resource based economy not ready for work they've been tried many times in the last twenty years but nothing's really happened to reduce huge dependence on natural resource extraction. international affairs commentator jonathan steele his thoughts live on the program this hour thank you. well thought of her putin wasn't on with meeting a journalist despite spending several hours with hundreds of them today in fact a teenage russian girl who is registered blind and hopes to be a top report

and russia fences off crimea causing off the peninsular alec's from the rest of ukraine. welcome to the program our top story turkey has sent dozens more tanks to itself in border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces who ankara calls terrorists at least fifty tanks arrived at a command post in a province in turkey it comes a day off to kurdish forces the syrian army to enter beach to protect the city from a turkish attack the syrian army says it did so on friday but both the u.s. and turkey say there's no evidence to support this claim just over a week ago u.s. president donald trump announced that the u.s. will withdraw its troops from syria meanwhile russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate with each other in northern syria off the withdrawal of u.s. forces. the deal was struck at a meeting in moscow on saturday between the foreign and defense ministers from both sides of the students are you going under standing was reached on how military representatives of russia will continue to coordinate these steps on the ground under new c

gets more economic war with moscow we talk to russia's presidential commission and russia's trade on voice of the u.k. about british business in the largest country and that's all coming up in part two of going on the ground. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want. to go right to the pros this is what the before. can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. friendship. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. feeling dramatic developments only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. welcome back u.k. back ukrainian president petro poroshenko doesn't only want martial law he's today urging nato nations like britain to send warships to the sea of to provide security again. russia but here in london the talk at this week's russian british business forum in the queen elizabeth the second center media partnered by r.t.e. has been forging closer ties between russia and the u.k. we spoke to russian trade on voic

so there has been a cost to our russia fixation.ow did everybody in america with an ivy league education simultaneously go insane in the space of a single year? was there some kind of mass poisoning, was erica chisholm? did it happen in medieval france? we will let historians sort that out, but all we know for certain is that the people in charge have lost it, they really have. if you don't believe it, listen to them explain the intricacies of the russia conspiracy. it's so complex and riddled with contradictions, it sounded like a contradiction. to them, russia is the touchstone, the comprehensive theory of everything. it really could have been any night on cable news. nbc, cnn, take your pick. we happen to be watching around 11 and we are bringing that. it's called the 11th hour. up malcolm nance identifies himself as a 35 year veteran of counterintelligence work. his most recent book is called the plot to pack america. the second man you are about to see is brian williams who of course needs no introduction. he was an anchor of t

so to save around one goes to russia and the crisis do you agree with that assessment did russia come out on top? >> it is not round one but it is around one it is a continuation of the effort to influence ukraine for sure with the tactical advantages and to occupy crimea is a huge move. and with that political agenda so tactically in crimea though had that disadvantage for those sanctions to be imposed to make the arguments by referencing the fact showing what happens in crimea. turning that tactical advantage against them and then to caution to be successful in 2014 to have those european businesses hurt so then you have to put on the table showing that you would be willing to share the pain economically. and the key to surviving and that has to have cooperation. and everyday risk at being unraveled so that is the other advocacy so if all those sanctions are what europeans have to suffer so that we don't keep losing to the bigger challenge we know present tramp canceled the meeting with vladimir putin at the g 20 what about treating diplomatic engagement. >> and with that diplomatic