for russia they are afraid of russia so much that the media. keep ties with the united states either the same time the more this. week would have also discussed what is really the united states because for all their disagreements. on president trump. critical of nato and. the way open to developing a relationship with russia but mr know to leave it for some other time because our time is up thank you very much for coming. i encourage our viewers to keep this conversation going in our social media pages as for me and the team. same place same time on worlds apart. all. community there are people who believe that it's ok. it's really hard there are no jobs and you see the kids. there's a lot of conflict within the game between the. close one. is good business the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year of prison complexes you get so when you live where. you don't care. anything. nationwide strike up a pension reform plans with. a more and more expected over the next few days a correspondent was at the same. concern that forms can im

it's about russia. russia invading eastern ukraine so sometimes people say, well, i don't know about ukraine, i don't know that much about ukraine. well, our adversary in this is russia. all roads lead to putin. understand that. and so that was the ah-ha moment. >> as i mentioned we're going to talk this hour about how the impeachment process is going to move forward now, who's going to be writing these articles of impeachment, the prospect it may be more than one committee, how fast we might go here, how soon we might see the first votes. new reporting suggests that might be very soon. but stepping back a bit from that immediate process stuff, in terms of understanding the meaning of this historic day there are going to be articles of impeachment against this president and for what, right? there is one overarching point that i think is really insight now quite clearly. now that we can look back with hindsight, with clarity to see how we got to the point of president trump being impeached. and as nancy

policy toward russia.your testimony has a number of references to nato in your testimony, both written and verbal. how about start with the direct question. how important is it to the future of u.s. policy toward russia that nato remain strong? essential.say it is the strength of nato -- nato has been a cornerstone of our national security strategy since the 1940's and it is inconceivable what the world would be like if we had not developed that concept and supported it until today. nato has many priorities. it has been very helpful to the united states in the battle against terrorism, so it is not as if russia is the only priority. i take your testimony that nato remains very important and it remains an important element of u.s. policy toward russia. our nato allies say the same thing. a strong, vibrant, continuous nato is important in their own face-off vis-a-vis russia. >> i believe so. there may be variations of the intensity of the view. the closer you get to russia the more ardent that view is, but i

possibly less people will visit russia from foreign countries because russia will not be able to host or mount international competitions is well that was the major people the people diplomacy. victory for russia the 20 teen world cup those who did attend those who weren't scared away by the propaganda that was being run nonstop before the world cup in russia. quite a few people away including british supporters knowsley empty empty scenes in their games in the world cup that's all part of this is well it's this is part of a campaign of isolation looking at the evidence looking at how this investigation has been handled by water looking at the role of gregory read chank go. clean to america to quote blow the whistle along with the developer of the software system i believe they're using for that database just looking at all of these factors together and then the confirmation by independent technicians that the database was meddled with. after i believe fled to the u.s. and could be wrong on that but that seems to be what reports are suggesting this doesn't look like it was a fair ruli

like in russia intelligence agencies don't do that in america now they're being told not by russia but by american news reports which are broadcast in russia that that's happening here so the reaction in russia is i would say very profound. steven cohen feel about the debate that was held in congress when john murtha veteran republican told his colleagues that someone resurrect now president putin is laughing at us you do that no it's an absolute profound misunderstanding of who putin is and what he wants and i can speak with some authority on this because for quite a long time i've made putin and his leadership a special topic of my study putin came to power in 2000. in a country that had been ruined by the worst peacetime depression in history russia was in an economic ruin nation and putin's mission and he spoke about this often was to preside over russia's recovery at home a men were dying of 57 years old at that time larry you and i would be pushing the daisies by now to restore to russia at home a lifestyle a a stability that had been lost in the 1990 s. and thereby reposition ru

russia could put on the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism that's under a new bill making its way through america's problems. on time magazine's person of the year in 2019 is a great success and we take a closer look at the 16 year old climate change activist to some say is a hero and inspiration all others an alarmist and hypocrite. by that very good evening to you this is oxy international we start this hour with breaking news this just come in tuesday's mass shooting in new jersey that claimed the lives of 6 people including the attackers is now being investigated as a potential act of domestic terrorism motivated by anti semitism and hatred towards the police 2 shooters targeted a kosher grocery store on tuesday in jersey city the gun battle lasted for around 4 hours. in other news an escalating diplomatic route has stepped up another level russia has expelled 2 german diplomats it comes in response to a similar move by berlin wall amid a spot over a murder probe auntie's double quarter has the story. t

but russia has been forced to. adapt to a new economic reality where the ukrainian industrial enterprises that were part of the russian service the russian military industry defense industry. russia has now sensually been forced to provide to make its own defense enterprises take over from the ukrainian ones that they dealt with before 2014 russia has also had to build new railway lines around ukraine russia has also been basically felt it necessary to build this bridge due to crimea to connect the peninsula to the russian mainland so russia has definitely had to increase its expenditures in a new economic and a new jip political reality and this is certainly a long term situation the kremlin understands that and of course i would also agree with my colleague in london that the so-called crimea is ours except and it was a euphoric moment in 2014 when crimea became part of russia it was a euphoric moment from a new russian citizens and it was something that that. sort of new fides for a few years for several years u

definitely had involvement in the american election russia was meddling in our election russia harvested american rage to reshape u.s. politics how the russians are trying to turn the tragedy to their advantage to target almost every major american social movement what the hell's the point at the target audience the troops that are supposed to protect america from that imminent russian invasion n.b.c. promises is coming any hour now if they american troops don't buy it but of course the brass has an excuse merican troops refusing propaganda shoveled down their throats for years actually get this the victims of russian machinations ha. there is an effort on the part of russia to flood the media with disinformation to sow doubt and confusion this is not only through discordant and implement torrie dialogue but through false narrative designed to elicit sympathetic views and here i thought it larry clinton calling half a countryman deplorable those was discordant or democrats calling republicans traitors was inflammatory i said this before and i'll say it again russia even if it wanted to c

consequences didn't matter and russia of course russia. suffered a lot from disruption of economic relationship but this by that we see that trade is growing so extremely strong nature a lot of go relationships and the same time you know for a very long. i cannot imagine any russian government to. a launch pad over konami at the time. that you wrote recently that russia is now entering into the real post imperial stage in which it can finally a rest assured that ukraine georgia moldova i will not be part of the e.u. and nato for the foreseeable future if the kremlin is indeed as sure of that as you believe why it is sticking to its guns and by that i mean insisting very have only on the autonomy of donetsk and lugansk as as a guarantee you that that's not going to happen. ukraine is a very special case it was from the beginning. there is no other territory no other country which would be that there are 2 russian minds and hearts as ukraine for a minute just about minds and hearts or is it ultimately about security and security is perceptio

but those wanting to come down hardest on russia are the u.k. and the us found to have been agencies want a complete and. ban on all russian athletes the u.k. agency though has its own controversies the heavyweight boxer dillion wide despite the presence of steroids in his sample and justification is that the levels were very low and not caused by any fault on white's part is don of looks at how double standards of his reign in this fit of anti doping. for years you national sports competitions have. been hijacked by the russians for decades it seems that russian olympic athletes have been secretly doping to gain a competitive advantage labrat doping system secret labs double agents helping russian athletes cheat their way to the medal stand at the olympics this is now pointing the finger at a whole range of sports in a former what a staffer told us today you know this isn't a bombshell this is a nuclear warhead the russia doping investigation has become the leviathan of sports scandals it's towering so high above everything else in fact it's ha

and russia have. an existing agreement which can be extended, which would then serve as a basis to enter and begin to negotiate with the chinese. cannot realistically an extensionithin of start within a year, doesn't really make any sense for us to give up on the start extension so that we lose the benefits? indicated, i'm not suggesting we are or would necessarily give up on new start extension. the question is how we can best approach these questions -- >> are you saying flat out you if thet extend start chinese are not included? >> a decision on these questions has not yet been made, sir. what we're trying to do is find a way to bring both russia and china into some kinds of an arms-control framework that meets the challenges that are presented by their ongoing modernization and build up other nuclear forces as well as the pressures the conventional military buildup and regional adventurism placing in a proliferate -- dylan >> i appreciate that. it is just highly unlikely as a time energy, logistic

in russia you know we'll that russia is number 3 shareholder in the. bank for infrastructure development so it means that we are playing is all of the bottomless in the bank you know the story of developing the infrastructure will that there is little free sources local for the vestments infrastructure globally and this bank was created to try to at least to close that gap so we're working with the bank it's a normal project for the bank to deal in the russian so you know part of the global story here but if we take. in particular we do remember that during the russia africa summit billions of dollars worth of debt have been written off for african countries and here we have a sum of $500000000.00 so what is this just a matter of prestige a matter of testing boilers it will be a deal in the least and so we are working so this is the deal that is using this over embellish it but we will be working with a company of slate question that always other companies to find more. interesting story to finance them finding coming from the asian bank who put infras

russia clean. plates well what it says in its investigation was the sale date was forensic and that investigation showed that the data it'd received from a moscow lobbying question had it believed to be tampered with this was that data from a moscow lab relating to information from 2012 to 2015 while the said that that was dated didn't match the data it into. sieved from the whistleblower which started this big scandal but what i went further and said during that time in moscow in 2808 experts say that they had also seen that all the data had been tampered with and that's why they've taken this decision from the date it received 145 athletes that they were able to pinpoint that had had a question mark over them we're not sure if they were in russia a lot but it said only around a 3rd of those athletes were currently active now of russian officials have a very different story to this they say that the data that was handed over. hadn't been tampered with that they had applied to all of the conditions

russia could be put on the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism that's under a new bill that's making its way through congress. and time magazine's person of the year in 2019 is greater we take a closer look at the 16 year old climate change activist who some see as a hero and inspiration others branded her an alarmist and. either thanks for joining us this is. an escalating diplomatic route was stepped up another level russia has expelled 2 german diplomats it comes in response to a similar move by all that's amid a spat over a murder probe quarter has the story. the russian foreign minister has given the diplomats and question 7 days to leave the country in a tit for tat response to the german government's decision when they themselves decided to expel 2 russian diplomats the german ambassador has received a note of protest over the ground as decision to expel 2 russian diplomats from berlin as a mere response to german diplomats must leave russia within the next 7 days now it was just last week that the germa

this is a ban against russia that protects the rights of russia not seats by allowing the re entry for major events to those that are able to demonstrate that they are not implicated in any way. by the noncompliance. the decision is designed to punish the guilty parties and send a message that it will not be tolerated it stands strong against those who cheated this system well protecting those who did not. to dish out communist sanction to the agency's robust investigative lee kept a privileged thief the vision of the compliance review committee and why this recently acquired ability to recommend meaningful sanctions via the young plus the compliance standard which was not available the last time was declared non-compliant these strains combined have enabled the executive committee to make the right decision at the right time. for too long russian go ping has detracted from clean sport the blatant breach by the russian authorities oversight as reinstatement conditions approved by the executive committee in september 2800 demanded a robust response russia has afforded every opportunity

also this hour russia could be put on the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism under a new bill making its way. and time magazine's person of the year in 2019 as going to tunbridge we take a closer look at the 16 year old climate change activists who some see as a hero and inspiration others printer and alarmists and. watching our to international coming to you line from the russian capital where it's just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. an escalating diplomatic row has stepped up another at level russia has expelled 2 german diplomats it comes in response to a similar move by berlin all amid a spot a very murder probe on a corner picks up the story. the russian foreign minister has given the diplomats and question 7 days to leave the country in a tit for tat response to the german government's decision when they themselves decided to expel 2 russian diplomats the german ambassador has received a note of protest over the groundless decision to expel 2 russian diplomats from berlin as a mere response to german diplomats mus

russia's president has opened a rare bridge linking crimea to southern russia the e.u. and ukraine have condemned it as illegal russia annexed the region from ukraine in 2014. and 62 planets outside earth solar system of been discovered by astronomers in the u.k. the planets are extremely hot making it difficult to determine the type of rock and surface scientists say with further research they could hold the key to unlocking the geology of planets in our solar system for veterans where the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story stations and so much of africa . is glad i'm here putin creating a new reality on the ground in crimea moscow and explained they're from ukraine in 2014 and russia as it's been under international sanctions but now the russian president has opened a direct train link to the peninsula so what does this mean for the future this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm still robin a new road and rail bridge now connects the crimean peninsula with russia the 4000000000 dollar transport link is the longest in euro

or is here doing opening markets which are very favorable for both europe and russia and russia of course doesn't want to see that if the united states really did implement sanctions over north stream to not just talk about it how do you think europe would respond. i cannot say for sure or europe will this respond because european politicians are something totally different than your interests and in the interests of the people in europe. i think there are far too many politicians dependent on us or their their networks but i think europe now if they're going to try to pull the string of the sanctions away if they have sanctions they will always be just a shame to pull up their shoulders and say sorry we can't do anything ok do bear with us for just a moment i could just want to explain to our view as something else that we can discuss in a moment because not string 2 it's not the only stumbling block between germany and america at present a major german telecoms provider has chosen the chinese take down while way to build its 5 g. network in the country calling the company a strategic pa

russia against the e.u. and russia gives the or maybe not. but the. entity has to get some benefits out of them. and we see results unfortunately what happened in ukraine 5 years ago. on board just continue to happen now it's still logic stand brought up though this is psychology of course this is a problem for both russia and the european union as well and i remember personally my multiple conversations with the european friends and american friends in 1900 specially into silence when i tried to explain to them that. soviet union lost the cold war and the former warsaw pact states where. it was inevitable that they would go to nato or to juge western alliance but don't touch ukraine because ukraine is something completely different for russia and percy they never never bought my arguments in that same article that aired referenced earlier reach was published in july you also predicted that from now on ukraine will be encouraged to develop a less confrontational relationship with russia and well you know next week the russian and the ukrainian preside

in which russia must appeal to the. i assume it would happen actually much quicker than that because i've already heard indications that there will be several emergency meetings of sports federations within the next couple of days here in moscow. but then after the $21.00 days the court of arbitration for sports despite the assurances by water that it might take a sort of expedited way it was still could still take months to produce a decision depending on what kind of materials the russian authorities provide to the court of arbitration of sports but then again there could be a lot of questions as to why this material was not provided to walk in the 1st place why does it have to come to this this sort of big explosion and then and the statement on the ballot and everything else but what you know we should be focusing on and that i think mystical of course made clear is that this is just the beginning this is essentially just the beginning of a major fight and it's really hard to predict which side of the fight russia a

russia didn't pack our democracy.he whole thing, and that's unexpected defeat in the last presidential election. we lost and we shouldn't have lost. from a star that has been the only argument that underpins the russian experience, conspiracy theory. and now thanks to investigation that the rest of us had to endure, that conspiracy or he had died. it was killed by robert mueller. and yet somehow it lives on in the steering accusations of her mindless public intellectuals and hair hats of the television anchor suite. you think people like that could be contrite and may be humbled after the mueller report came out and prove two years of hyperventilation wrong. no. they're more processed with russia than they've ever been. watch poor mouth breathing chuck todd go full joe mccarthy yesterday. >> the fact that russia was so aggressive did not exclude the fact that president poroschenko actively worked for secretary clinton. now if i'm wrong -- my goodness. senator kennedy, you now have the president of the ukraine saying h

russia is a big part of this picture and it's been a big day for russia in the white house correspondent mentioned that newly released report from inspector general today on the origins of the trump russia probe trump and the democrats both seem to be using this report to attack shelby do you think it's a game changer. do i think it's a game changer no probably except that it sort of. makes it hard at this point now for trump to continue to say that there was this. f.b.i. plot to overthrow is presidency i think that was overblown conspiracy theory on the president's part and the f.b.i. report does kind of deep bunk that. you know there's enough as you say for both sides to pick little pieces here and there and say see i told you see i told you but the the bottom line is that the f.b.i. had a reason to pursue their investigation in the investigation didn't come up with much as of the 2 i think key points out of the report. missed all of the sill the speculation and concern potential in the us we've got the russian foreign minister in the white house today having dialogue with president tr

in russia itself in the and i'm speaking now the people me very the people in russia who study the united states they're my counterparts russia they study the united states they interpret these charges against trump as being logged because trump ran and he was elected on a program of quote cooperating with russia in fact i recall vividly you and i doing an interview together and we were both struck by trump's promise that he would cooperate with russia at that time i guess it was 216 the cold war was heating up and that was unusual and i took the position with you know i was not a trump person that that was a good thing but in russia today and i follow this de lay on the on the television and in the newspapers there is this belief among the people who care about american russian relations that all this grief and all these charges against trump originated because he wanted to cooperate with russia in other words that these it originated with the enemies of what our generation mary used to call detente there is substantial truth in that i don't think it's the whole truth but that's the way

housing russia.unfortunately, our citizens have to wait if they want to receive for it 300 days, and it's about 40 days that is more than to take part the counterparts explained that as the quarters were introduced. possibly that's the right of any country to fund the diplomatic mission. we also had to cut two the bone and however in our case come in our situation, there wasn't a single case. they are provided in the same deadline and it's a principled importance considering the context between people with parliamentarians and all kinds of exchanges. the easier it will be to it'll o strengthen our partnership as i have said with a certain perspective. >> to respond to that for just a moment, we count a little bit differently. i don't want to get into the weeds on the numbers that we measured has how many diplomats. but what's important is that we make sure we are delivering on behalf of the country is consistent in the vienna conventions and the relationship between the united states and russia. we t

now, russia seeks victories. global player or superpower or empire — what i see is a country with a cast—iron conviction that it is great, and that great powers must have influence. hello there, saturday's sunshine was in short supply, only the favoured few got to see much in the way of brightness, but i am hopeful that through the day ahead a few more of us through the day ahead a few more of us will get to see something just a little bit brighter, some sunny ellipses. it certainly is going to feel mild, particularly across northern parts of the uk where you feel the full effects of this feed ofairfrom feel the full effects of this feed of airfrom the feel the full effects of this feed of air from the south—west, bringing some really, really mild conditions in our direction. at the same time we're going to start to tap into some dry air that has been sitting across the near continent, allowing us across the near continent, allowing us to break up some of the delivering at least some glimpses of sunshine. having

another bone of contention between russia and the united states is the i.m.f. or rather the absence of the deal now and both parties of both ministers have kind of clashed as to how they see the moving forward for instance the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has again said that we could use that the countries could use the start treaty that had been signed back in 2010 but might bump a 0 has voiced his concerns and has made it clear what the united states don't like about that deal it can't be the case that that can be the sole focus that's agreement that was entered into many years ago when powers were very different on a relative basis around the globe. it was at a time that the weapons systems the threats were very different than they are today to the risks to strategic instability today are different it's no longer just missiles just bombers just submarines just warheads there are many other tools which can create strategic instability so we believe not only do the conversations need to be broadened to include the chinese communist party as you study

russia when the time comes. however we are aware that russian athletes will be able to participate in major sporting events but they will have to participate and a neutral flag and that's of course if there is no cloud of suspicion over them we are waiting for a press conference now by border to find out more about that decision but it comes amidst a cloud a cast of a shadow over why decision itself with some scientists claiming that its own methods of flawed and its processes are all betray some scientists also saying that some of the substances that are on the banned list haven't actually been tested enough to actually see whether they should be banned or lot of claims and counterclaims be made we know that russia will have $21.00 days to respond to this decision by water if there is no decision after that point then this will go to the court of arbitration but at the moment we hear in the song waiting to find out more about water say in regards to this decision taken today to ban russia from international spo

fired jesus has to be discussed now in russia and the treatment commitment be a gift. set already today and russia is it's a understands and that means that they have to really go to who to doping culture in russia for decades since it needs to be changed on the other hand i have also too to say that it takes a very very long time for coaches for schiffman for pushes to change a doping culture which is established in russia since the soviet union times and for the athletes who do not this leaves them of course on the losing side no matter how things develop. investigative journalists an expert on the evening in sports was always thinking. thank you. are moving on caused by hong kong democracy activists for citywide strikes well they went largely on answered this monday protestors mostly kept off the streets a day after staging their biggest anti-government rally in months organizers say 800000 people joined the march on sunday called to mark 6 months since the start of mass demonstrations which called for more autonomy but is d.w. charlotte charles until reports many a

russia will not be represented. russia will not be represented at any of their events.he flag will not fly. the russian federation will not have a team in need of those events. a reporterd walsh is for the l.a. times and the author of "l.a. confidential: lance armstrong's secrets." what is your reaction to this decision? reporter: my reaction is it is a good day for sport because considerable power in the world of sport and the olympics mean a lot to russia. what the world agency as saying today is tokyo was going to happen and you guys are not going to be involved. you will not have your officials at the olympic games. this is quite a significant punishment. it is deserved. people would have feared that t russia was to bigo be sanctioned in this way, but dopingd havave a state system and thehey did everything up.ir p power to cover it for me, the punishment that they than is theour-year least they deserved. anything else would have been wrong. genie: will this decision force russia to clean up their game? hopefully. but that's not something we should presume upon becau

but good points here and russia of course is the recent want to ban on russia from international major competitions for the next 4 years and that's something that did give his thoughts on tell us more about that. well this is this is something that is touched deeply touched russians all over the country a proud people but it comes to sport always you know in the top 5 and medal rags in the olympics for russia to be banned from the olympics to be barred from all sorts of sporting competitions in 2 for 2 periods in a rule is a humiliation for many russians and you know blood raising an example let's say a 14 year old figure skater was too young to even compete but it is duping scandal came about how is this fair to her why are people why is that blanket punishment collateral punishment when people should be punished individually for doping wives everybody being published. said that she says that this is just a precedence. what is the solution is not only unfair but also not consistent with common sense and law as for doping with decision to compete under a neutral flag was made at previo

russia sharply condemns new u.s. sanctions targeting firms involved in the north stream 2 gas pipeline project but stresses that it will be completed anyway despite washington's interference. and diplomatic tera israel direct. criticism at the international criminal court over plans to investigate alleged war crimes in the occupied palestinian territories. here in moscow live from the r.t. world news center kevin owen here for the half hour update thanks to choosing his 1st set of folks in the u.k. in the n.h.s. there are new to concerns over the state of the national health service after a woman died in hospital of cardiac arrest following what her family say was a 6 hour wait for an ambulance having broken a foot outside her home in south wales donegal b. was left lying on a freezing pavement they say until help eventually arrived the ambulance service has apologised for the lengthy delay but also emphasize too that the n.h.s. is under enormous strain especially at this time of year we are sorry that our response t

germany expels russian embassy staffers at berlin saying there is quote insufficient evidence to link russia or chechnya to the murder of a draw denies any state involved. celebrations come to an end for its 70th birthday of a member states in the struggle to find common ground. committee report on his impeachment a joke as u.s. democrats hang their hopes on the document being enough to the president. thomas. germany has announced it is expelling 2 russian embassy employees in response to the murder of a georgian national back in august attorney general says there's evidence moscow may have been behind the killing a claim russia vehemently denies and the man was shot twice in the head and chest in a berlin park on august 23rd he was a 40 year old asylum seeker of chechen descent who fought alongside. militants in chechnya republic of russia with more on the details on the case here's our correspondent. 2 employees of the russian embassy are to be expelled and are declared a person non grata after this new general tourney of germany is taking over the investigation of the murder of the cheche

russia who are completely obsessed with the idea that russia is behind everything, but russia todayfluence so that changes everybody‘s mind and that is not really true. there is disinformation, there is propaganda, and that is all true, but i find it very tiring sometimes that people seem very tiring sometimes that people seem to think russia is behind everything. i just roll seem to think russia is behind everything. ijust roll my highs when it is another story that says russia must be behind this, because this information is uncomfortable to this information is uncomfortable to this government or something else. but given in particular the most specific and powerful evidence you produced, connected with the sergei skripal case, was to give a detailed background of these two gi you agents who had come to the united states to kill sergei skripal, one a doctor, another one a long time military and giu militant, do you not feel that having gone so public with that information, you yourself and your staff, some of whom work either in russia or around russia, you are in potentially very

former what a staffer told us today you know this isn't a bombshell this is a nuclear warhead the russia doping investigation has become the leviathan of sports scandals it's towering so high above everything else in fact it's hard to notice other violations in its shadow bribery a secret doping society medics and coaches going rogue this year alone has seen plenty staggering revelations none of which could compete with russia there when it comes to the fallout and case one a kenyan olympic champion was caught at greasing anti doping offices palms to avoid being caught. one person's case unraveled years of large scale cheating a trove of documents suggesting kenya's national anti doping agency was helping the country's team get away with it more than a 100 athletes caught red handed no not russia kenya but the punishment wasn't sweeping it was specific individual to each test and case or how wide a call did not institutionalised drug taking another scandal that snowballed olympic skiing it looked like parts pulled from the american horror story script. so a doping cartel with the now inf

this is news coming to you live from berlin tensions flare between russia and germany as moscow expels 2 german diplomats to the move is linked to the apparent assassination of a former chechen commander in a berlin park last summer germany or 2 russian diplomats to leave the country last week. also coming up the controversial gas pipeline that's causing a rift between the united states and germany us says it's a tool of coercion political leverage for russia. and it's being called the u.k.'s most important election in a generation prime minister boris johnson has been pulling out all the stops to win over wavering voters but his lead over jeremy corbin's opposition labor party has been narrowed. following terry martin welcome to the program russia is expelling 2 german diplomats in retaliation for the expulsion of 2 russian diplomats by berlin last week it's also do with the killing of this man a former chechen commander in berlin last summer he was gunned down in a public park german prosecutors believe russia was behind the killing and russian diplomats were expelled because berlin

the one that remained in russia and the monies mean you know what is up but russia cut off access to its data base in 2016 while water claims data was being tampered with as late as january 29th blaming russia further significant deletions and alterations were made in december 28th seen and generally 2019 i.e. after the war the exco imposed a day to requirement these activities were concealed backdating of computer systems and data files in an attempt to make it appear that the morse code data had been in their current state since 2015 furthermore the command issued to execute the manipulations deletions and backdating what also deleted in the attempt to avoid detection of what had been done russian experts challenge the pause ability of the investigations findings claiming that such large scale tampering is simply impossible it was like and we can't do it we cannot deny that there were occurrences of copies of files being destroyed and other fast created but there were no deliberate manipulations this is the working condition of the database when every year the operator begins to wo

powell roster of russia will russia not lose your magic face if this deal which it's brokered as you hear presents is continually continuously violated and the russians now are supporting the escalation against the escalation deal well yes if they are there are of course the same thing happened i mean in good. provinces the russians and i mean they didn't they didn't moscow didn't see much very much problem and that the problem right now is and what president putin is going to deal with is the his relationship with turkey which are more important than what happens in the deeper say so if they're dug on will be insisting that the offensive against stops then it's most likely are going to stop but you know is going to stop it because turkey and relationship with turkey and see the relationship between turkey and the united states and with nato are much more important geo strategic way. militarily for russia and the kremlin than the problem of. per se ok i believe in that sense if i get a low and then right i'm think indecisive ok we're for we get there method seems like everything now

and russia of supporting him. 8 years ago russia and china stood against intervention saying it would lead to chaos which they were ridiculed it turns out they were right though no one likes to be reminded the russian strategy in libya is extremely responsible it has no geo political dimension. and puts libyan interests at the forefront we are not on any side of the conflict. on paper france supports the g n a it is after all the un recognized government they've said flowery things called for peace hosted fruitless summits that led nowhere so it was strange when the g.n.a.t. came out and accused france of supporting a warlord. we are surprised that france does not support our government that is democratic but supports a dictator a few months after those words french weapons were seen in the hands of how stars forces advanced weapons things have become very serious serious enough to jolt an old school interventionist into action. 8 years ago the united states led the mob the bombed libya into oblivion they cheered and literally laughed when gadhafi was tortured to death by rebels yes w

policy towards russia. under president trump the united states has taken consistent action against moscow's attempts to undermine american interests and those of our allies and partners around the world. the united states will continue to use all of the appropriate tools of financial power including diplomacy to address in future any further such threatening actions from moscow and to advance and protect the interest of america and our partners as they relate to russia. as articulated in the president's national security strategy, americ america is in e period of great power competition and we must structure the policies accordingly. the administration's policy takes a realistic approach. russia is a determined and resourced competitodeterminate s although one with significant weaknesses those weaknesses hinder its ambitions. we do not seek an adversarial relationship with russia. we are open to cooperation with moscow when it aligns with our interests. but this administration will protect our national secu

what is russia wanting from these talks. well all conflicts at some point but are still a number of around. intractable at this point. that. would be expected to proclaim for. political figures and fighters and other others in the so-called blue guns people's republic. of ukrainian parties participating in a new type of elections that would be. those 2 republics self-proclaimed republics. of how they would be greeted under what terms they would be integrated into ukraine and how that would be perceived both russia and ukraine the question of concessions is quiet. quiet important not just for the for the ukrainian president. but also for. russia because. power in this. conflict is. too much and not being seen as a. sense russia of course is interested in. the 2 peoples republics remaining more. centered over the russian interests and the ukraine is more interested in them being completely political space and that that difference that. interacted. with her on that. expected. asians are not very high from their summit but the v