you for instance from politico russia mass arrests in russia of protesters demanding navarro nice release people people did go on the streets in russia they did protests those protesting also criticism also outside of the country was that. well i think that in the worse it was a fairly clear conclusion has been drawn russian state was responsible for his poisoning so that has caused a century of indignation. among western leaders. they haven't they must be done very much about it so far beyond beyond talk so thick you know russia russia the international image has suffered at least certainly in those parts of world which are already inclined to look negatively upon it i would doubt it's the same impact in parts of the world which did not have such a bad relations with russia so countries like china india brazil places like that probably are. the impact is not insane. and we spoke to some people who were protesting when a family was charged when he was arrested and our shop is one of them and he talks about the protests being more than about an avanti have a listen to him and he acts as i

in russia. it remains striking to me how concerned and maybe even scared the russian government seems to be of one man, mr. navalnt. -- mr. navalny. across the board, at the president has said, we are reviewing all of these actions. whether it is the treatment of mr. navalny, and particularly the apparent use of the chemical weapon in an attempt to assassinate him. we are looking very urgently as well as solar winds and various implications. we are looking at the reports of bounties placed by russia on american forces in afghanistan, and of course, we are looking at these questions of election interference. all of that, as the white house has indicated, is under review. i don't want to get ahead of where we are on those reviews. as i say, we have a deep concern for mr. navalny's safety and security. the larger point is that his voice is the voice of many, many, many russians and it should be heard, not muzzled. not ruling out anything, but we want to get his full review done and then we will tak

so russia is not black. russia is a positive place. mr dmitriev, let me get a word in.people's feelings about russia. this is about what russian people make of their own government. alexei navalny released that video, which showed a vast palace on the black sea worth, it seems, $1 billion, which he says was built with oligarchs�* money for president putin. now, it's not a question of what i make of that — it's a question of what more than 20 million russians who have watched that video online make of it. do you think russians are prepared to live in a system which, to so many of them, looks deeply corrupt? stephen, i already told you, the west needs to learn to really understand russia the way it is and not try to paint it black. i think we all have to recognise the great russian economic recovery from the fall of the soviet union that has taken place. we have to be honest, the majority of the russians strongly and unequivocally support president putin, and that's just a reality. and west needs to learn to live with this reality and find areas to work together with russ

in danger then russia would cut relations when we've heard today is nothing resembling a threat to russia's economic or vital interests and so the e.u. in talking tough. showing itself as a worthy partner for the united states in a cold war propaganda exercise is saying clear of doing anything while threatening to do anything that might seriously damage the relations with russia and lead to a a hunt for 'd the options that couldn't threaten to would have been to to cut the north stream to project or of course think the new so-called nuclear option 2 has been in discussions for 3 years to kick russia out of the script nothing of the sort was on the table today so i think they can take comfort in moscow at 3. tap on the wrist which is an exercise internal to the united states and europe. and within europe is internal to the major powers germany france and the the most vigorous and say russian powers of the baltic states and all so give these are all internal matters in the e.u. just as the whole of russia gate was an internal u.s. domestic policy issue and which russia was unfortunately 'd we

sure there's no easy answer but given that you're all everyone on our panel here is an expert in russia. are russian liberals following out of love with the west because if they are all i can say is it's about time go ahead paul i say got started sort of yes and no but they remain committed to it an ideal of the west some sort of fantasy of the less they have which is so the west as it was until fairly recently but you do see a number of. now criticizing the sort of political correctness the west and the sort of modern world co-chairing council culture and so on interestingly in the process they end up sounding extraordinarily like you know consider different far rights people like exam to do good and some of the things that's of being said later could have come straight out of his mouth what's more significant is that coming out of the liberal catholic friend is a rather more shocking because as he said you know support of the west is very much the russian liberalism about it it's all very very closely associated historically with westernization and this idea that we should become a no

as russia said the united states a renewed this u.g.g. arms reduction treaty barely a week before its expiration but the debate on whether the nukes are been made wrapped by the main provider of peace is still less than timely as ever to discuss some of that and now i'm joined by miles pumper a senior fellow at did middlebury institute of international studies at monterey mr pumper it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time thanks for having me my pleasure now * let's start with the now doubly new start treaty which while being considered one of the last remaining bad jokes of arms control was extended essentially over the phone in a conversation between presidents putin and biden is that a sign of how crucial that treaty is or how on the country in concert crash no it is no i think it's a sign of how how important and essential it is it really is the bedrock of strategic stability these are the most dangerous weapons in the world you're in a continental ballistic missiles or submarine launch ballistic missiles these are

this year and we'll see the results of putin's party or united russia then. the poisoning and jailing of the has drawn widespread international condemnation europe particularly from the u.s. and the e.u. is not not concerned about the threat of further sanctions. well look in the past the volley was seen as internet internal russian. bullet domestic politics before he was poisoned and it's true that in germany now he's kind of international affairs who is perceived exclusively as an edge and over the western special services he's poisoning and hughes treatment in germany has raised his profile and made him much more known internationally it seems indeed therefore much more realistic now that he's arrested treatment he in russia and the verdict yesterday in particular with all the national reactions could lead to new best and sanctions and the death of the kremlin at least should be concerned about yuri thank you very much was our moscow bureau chief your shutter. well russia's v cobe it back scene is around 92 percent effective that's according to a new study

then turned into a real fiasco because again lecturing about values about western values and that russia needs essentially big you know paraphrasing here in between the lines that you know russia has to learn oh oh bester new ways for it to be a genuine legitimate partner of the west in this case particularly the european union your take. they're all i going to liberalism consistent some very good ideas about the central role of the individual which shareholdings obviously to service a role in society the point i was making was that the really international system contra would be couples from power politics and in a sense that a liberal international system in europe effectively meant that we would keep some of this block all it takes and also making russia responsible for its own exclusion by not living up to the west ideals and also to some extent 3 reshaping the relations so again the e.u. nato they tend to conceptualize some softness you know socializing agents they are the teacher some liberalism in russia student so under this format you have you know it's for for a sovereign equal

france want to keep the relations with russia somehow going because russia is needed in many other crises around the world right and cities of course are going to look at a situation i wonder how much a u.v. light tends to take a firm line against russia has to do with germany be used biggest the most powerful country not wanting to jeopardize its massive gas pipeline deal with russia. well 1st of all it's not only a german project it's a project done by companies from germany the netherlands france and also all syria all these countries have interests in north stream to this pipeline which is nearly finished now and germany and france are saying this has nothing to do actually with the vote of the case this is an economic case we need is for gas supplies which are needed in europe and russia wants to sell its gas so this is something different but of course americans the european parliament also the commission say no no no it's stream to sort also be used as a leverage should be cut off now to say to to to show the russians that europe is really serious about punishing russia for its act

to be pulled against russia and like to be used against russia and to get some political gain on the diplomatic arena sahara to say this is an internal issue so why is it that western nations have come out and it been so quick to condemn the verdict of a sovereign country well it was a quite expected because for them alexina vollies a hero the the are hailing him as the opposition leader if you are a supporter then of course you will view it as unjust yeah you will you will hear his arguments and you will disagree with the court but the court sided with the prosecution completely and here's an important detail the court didn't really give a new sentence or just reverse the previous ones the federal prison service in russia the relist their own statistics showcasing their collection of ali it's not he's not getting special treatment here of course he stands out of the crowd of other thousands of people who have their suspended sentences reversed because he strives to be a politician he is an outspoken critic of the kremlin so there's also that there's always that but at the same time

diplomatic when it came to russia. 6 o'clock here in moscow international our top story this hour russia is expanding its expanding 3 european diplomats over their alleged participation in an authorized protest in moscow on january the 23rd the actions of the swedish german polish diplomats was described as unacceptable not corresponding to that professional status bosco also expressed hope too that the diplomatic missions and their personnel will follow the norms of international law the announcement does come this russia's foreign minister and the u.s. foreign policy chief met today in the russian capital we'll have more on that a bit like in the program. now there has been a major twist in the case of the british teenager hari done he was killed in a road accident involving the u.s. woman back in 2019 and is fled britain claiming diplomatic immunity but a humorous court has heard that she was working for a most american intelligence the time of the incident meaning that she might not have been immune from prosecution to edward stache the takes up the story where it's been a year and a

but that's a very good question i mean i think they should be because in part of russia's concern at that time was particularly at the conventional level of the u.s. and all these long range conventional weapons systems that russia did not happen that not developed but as we saw for instance in the syria conflict the russians able to send missiles several 1000 miles these conventional missiles so in that sense russia doesn't need to rely so much on the nuclear weapons as it felt that maybe it felt they had to a decade ago so there is that there's also a whole number of new russian nuclear weapons systems that people have probably seen that is very kind of exotic weapons nuclear powered weapons and so on that need to be taken into account in any you know new treaty by the way i know that if you get it back you were quite skeptical about the russian claims of having developed this nuclear power it nuclear article flying cruise missile. i think it's known as very best league in russian as high fall in english as it is that we have some very fabulous reports of its existence including re

corrupt officials in russia he costs more money to the country. and i would continue on what george just said if no one had real support he would ask for air. legal demonstration you would be given permission at some big square in a more school at some big stadium he was offered that you know he's just you know what i'm for that but you know he would have a 1000000 people that would make an impression the problem is he doesn't have a 1000000 people so he's people when they were offered legal squares in russia in moscow they refused they said pushkin square well if you're so pushkin square it's basically a tiny space on both sides of the main street almost there sky at where dissidents ages 7 just used to have small protest actions like 6 or 7 people right arrested by police so it's famous historically but it's not feat for a big demonstration so they didn't brickley want at the kalash with police you know they deliberately wanted some people to get the rest up and and yes to make these publicity in the west yes it will be bad for action in positio

russia. continues. still fighting for justice the parents of a british teenager killed in a road accident involving a. quarter was told she was working for a. revelation. that. diplomacy is his 1st foreign policy speech but he didn't. brush. my names you know 30 minutes of news and views starting a little unwelcome. russia has ordered 3 european diplomats to leave the country for taking part in all north arise 'd protests in moscow the rallies were in support of the jailed opposition figure alexy following the announcement comes as russia's foreign minister the foreign policy chief met here in the russian capital attending and. he's got more. new fresh cracks in russia on the day when for the 1st time in 3 years the head of european diplomacy arrived in moscow for talks the decision to expel european diplomats from russia has nothing to do with the arrival of joseph borel foreign policy chief but it does coincide with his visit so diplomats from poland sweden and germany have been ordered to leave russi

it's not only russia that happens. and when this happened in a country where did i draw from all that is do judiciary has to intervene and these cases can be brought to justice and if there is if the excessive use of force that is way of putting things in order after friday's events you might want to ask have we really seen much progress in rebuilding trust between the e.u. countries and russia it doesn't look like it issue of covert vaccines was also raised at the meeting between the 2 top diplomats expressed hope russia could get fast track approval within the block and now i am hoping that you would be in a medical agency will be able to certify the efficiency of the vaccine you know that could be useful szell into being union state who will be good new because as you know we are facing a shortage of vaccine. or in the middle east interest in the russian rock scene is increasing daily with lebanon becoming the latest country to approve the job in while iran has received its 1st batch of sport made very with the ship

and russia including the annexation of the crimean peninsula in 2014 by russia but now the main bone of contention is me his arrest his poisoning and the protests that have erupted around his arrest and also those detentions that we've been seeing at those protests and there was a bit of a clash today between the 2 diplomats between and between love wroth with on the one hand burrell not in so many words but essentially saying that there is no rule of law in russia at least he implied that and love rauf on the other hand accused the west of basically being hypocritical in its accusations of police violence and also repeated. that he didn't that russia doesn't want the e.u. to meddle and to top it all off after that meeting today we've now heard media reports that 3 diplomats from european countries are apparently being expelled from russia that hasn't been officially confirmed as far as i have seen but we've been hearing it might be germany poland and sweden given all of these very serious tensions what outcome do you think we can expect from a meeting. well both. despite all of thos

russia if you are on a suspended sentence and you don't show up. you know and bite you go to jail you hope that's what happens in all the countries your on probation i mean i mean let me go to george you're i mean i'm assuming considering that his background and his behavior is that he wanted to he came back to be arrested so protests could start so western media can talk about their guy and in russia i mean it's so patently obvious i mean also it's like one white dove it sounds like this is the kind of scenario here that's being played out go ahead george yes that's that's exactly right 3 dean was given an excellent summation of the funniest korea that. he's role is to provoke trouble. 1 in the in russia i mean that's that's what his goal handlers in the west in visit for him they don't really and visit him as organizing any political movement because they know that he doesn't really enjoy any kind of support within russia and it's a lot 1 of very tedious hard work to build a serious political organization that can compete in the elections so his

russia slams the u.s. for undermining free trade and fact competition off the washington post about european companies pulling out of the nordstrom to pipeline project in the face of u.s. sanctions. u.s. democrats demand cable and satellite providers justified hosting right wing media outlets have moved republican say is an attack on the freedom of speech. its rays face being banned from public places and even jobs unless they've been fascinated again for coke at 19 by the so-called green pastures all raising concerns over human rights always a choice has a consequence and it shouldn't be that everybody in israel suffers because some people make a bad choice.

russia and the european union member states and. energy is a good 10 matic. the french government has moved to dissolve the generation identity political grouping and attempt to tackle far right extremist them according to the country's interior minister the decision is a response to a series of anti migrant protests by the group but a spokesman for a generation identity has questioned the government's motives. it's a risky political move by the government which is trying to eliminate a significant political opponent whose ranks a multi playing jew to our recent actions and a growing popularity we have become one of the principal rivals of the monument khan's migration policy so now the government wants to shut as up though. generation identity is a right wing political movement often labeled as neo fascist and islamophobia it has been accused of racism and inciting hatred the group has made several attempts to forcibly block migrants from entering france the last month the french authorities launched an investigation into generatio

russia. european diplomats to leave the country for taking part in protests in moscow the rallies were in support of the jailed opposition figure out. the announcement comes as russia's foreign minister the foreign policy chief met today in the russian capital tell us more. new fresh cracks in russia on the day when for the 1st time in 3 years the head of european diplomacy arrived in moscow for talks the decision to expel european diplomats from russia has nothing to do with the arrival of joseph is foreign policy chief but it does coincide with his visit so diplomats from poland sweden and germany have been ordered to leave russia for taking part in unsanctioned rallies in support of kremlin critic alexina volley during 2 weekends at the end of january the russian foreign ministry has called such behavior by the diplomats unlawful and unacceptable and the swedish embassy was the 1st to deny any violations of russian or international law by a member of their staff the swedish foreign ministr

france that want to keep the relations with russia somehow going because russia is needed in many other crises around the world right and cities of course are going to look at a situation i wonder how much a you've reluctance to take a firm a line against russia has to do with germany the a user biggest the most powerful country not wanting to jeopardize its massive gas pipeline deal with the russian. well 1st of all it's not only a german project it's a project done by companies from germany the netherlands france and also all syria all these countries have interests in north stream to this pipeline which is nearly finished now and germany and france are saying this is nothing to do actually with the in the case this is an economic case we need is for gas supplies which are needed in europe and russia wants to sell its gas so this is something different but of course americans the european parliament also the commission say no no no it's stream to sort also be used as a leverage should be cut off now to say to show the russians that europe is really serious about punishing russia for i

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on peter lavelle russia e.u. relations got a reality check last week russia's foreign minister said again love it off read the riot act to the blog also washington never ceases to lecture the world about democracy and the rule of law how are both doing in the us. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london is a historian and analyst and author of the new book a rise to mature and of russia to world politics and in budapest we have george samueli he's a podcast or at the gavel which can be found on you tube rumble ari channeling rostock rose in effect that music can jump any time you want and i was appreciative ok it's going to budapest 1st george we saw something quite remarkable at the end of last week we had the high commissioner of from the european union with the foreign policy portfolio basically got his blank handed to him here in moscow the tone of this relationship despite my lot of relationship has changed remarkably what accounts for it george well i think the r

sanctions against russia. there is only word with certain russian media and what you know are needed. but for there not on any. sanctions and by the media. and these journalists they are not on any lists as well. well you know. so my assessment is that this is a clear violation of their rights and freedoms. also for only. rights of the poor that i'm a nationalist something which letitia. similar thing happened in ukraine in the pool of the 3 to leadership of ukraine i simply. revoke the licenses of several ukrainian channels. are you ready to go political will and. you. will carry to solve the problem with he showed a list in latvia and you crave this is totalist they have faced a lot of repression so late. but then neither right but if you they job you still have more snow thank you for you and good and if i may i have one other question as wealthy as something like colleagues from the latin american. edition asking me. lately there's been another meeting of the e.u. it's a bushel of the things i met and what

world to look to cripple russia's economy through sanctions and world to cripple russia that this is what putin is saying here russia would have to look into the possibility of cutting ties with the with the e.u. all together and there are plenty of examples other than sanctions as to how this how this plays out how europe is just ridiculing all russia's will successes like we look at this but it could be vaccine it was written ridiculed from the get go we didn't get any benefit of the doubt at all at the beginning i think completely critics completely brushed aside all the stories or the positive experiences of those who pioneered and got the job even before the phase 3 phase 3 excuse me of trials was completed and they kept ridiculing the russians putting me vaccine up until the very last moment when it just became undeniable that sputnik up there among the top 3 of the most effective vaccines in the world. will stay with corona virus because mutating strains of it will mean that britons will have to get vaccinated all over again this year at least that's the warning from the prime

think that this came as a shock because that the europeans are just not used to this kind of talk in russia and i think there is now a new tone 2 coming from moscow you know mark is this something that we've all noticed over the last few years i think it's been only since the overthrow of the legal government in general been to in the spring of 2014 this really overt hostility and we have to point out the bike and ministration is the 1st incoming american administration that has not talked about a reset since the end of the cold war so very hostile very hardline it's unclear how that's going to be translated in a policy but when bro it was in one month in moscow and russia's ter being lectured lecturing his hosts he seemed to have drawn the line with the russians and it's the end of quote unquote strategic patience i don't really like that phrase because it's very cliche but it may be appropriate in this case go ahead. oh a surrogate laugh rovs exceptionally stuntwoman so you're in union has evidently a sense shockwave sprouts brussels because the european union's leaders understand a laugh

there has been a huge advantage in russia about closing the channels -- outrage in russia about closing the channels. the thing is that security service has been following this case for at least half a year. the fact that she was financing this channels from the companies registered in those territories. we don't know what they will be responding to. there should be something showing in the way of how upset they are about that. it could potentially be something else. but we are expecting that this could've attachable go up. generally speaking we clearly see things are getting more tense. it is not going anywhere for some time. i am personally in touch with a few members of this counter group and they clearly say that russia is basically doing whatever they can in order to sabotage the process. there is not much happening there because generally there is a lack of intent of actually fixing or finding a solution. obviously they can reach some agreement if this agreement is purely on russian terms. but if that is the case, then i guess the situation got stopped. russians know very well tha

into the political culture of the belief that not only is russia or malign fools but the russia has in some sense some deep demonic powers able to influence develop since i did i say this is such a profound cultural shift that it's going to be very difficult to us to escape from that and that of course pushes russia and trying together we see in all sorts of areas now military cooperation much more quickly corporation economic plan does infrastructure linkages between russian energy and china and so one of these things are going to be very difficult to reverse the americans complain all the time about the north stream pipeline between russia and germany bypassing the central european states and how that creates a long term strategic shift when the course in the far east and biggest strategic sense is taking place and then i say this is in a sense the promoter of it because these 2 states together is a mutual sense that they're under pressure from the americans of the states feels itself in the relative decline. risks lashing out and this is a great interest in the in american intellect

but calls for tougher sanctions against russia are getting louder.fter the reported poisoning of opposition politician alex enough ali many demanded a halt to the construction of the north stream to local authorities refused to believe that construction might be stopped. being finalized can you really link the case of an avanti to a project like north stream 2 above what would it be better to look at these 2 events separately especially when the facts at least according to my assessment are not yet clear enough to place the blame on russian government. the mayor is voicing the opinion of the citizens of lukeman a seaside resort on the baltic sea because of the coronavirus there aren't enough tourists but there are also very few locals on the beach their opinion is almost unanimous. people think everything the russians do is bad that's not right the volley is unimportant north stream is important to. us can we afford to waste millions billions compromises have to be made i think it must be completed in the model dismissed because it's only one person

of russia slams the us for undermining free trade on 5 competition hoff to washington boasts about european companies pulling out of the nordstrom to pipeline project in the face of u.s. sanctions. u.s. democrats demolished cable and satellite providers justify hosting right wing media outlets a move republicans say is an attack on the freedom of speech. israelis face being banned from public places and even job so unless they've been faxon ated against pope at 19 for the so called green pulses are raising can sons over human rights always a choice has a consequence and it shouldn't be that everybody in israel suffers because some people make a bad choice i think it's absurd that think it's ridiculous basic human rights so be ignored. and angry french farmers don't fought till i saw an old ta is outside government buildings to protest against the removal of wheat from school menus. well those are your headlines this hour rumbaut you don't call me is the place for you if you want to know anything wrong bozo many many will stories next up here on team crosstalk. and welcome to cross talk wher

in fact we see that russia has great opportunities for inoculation for foreigners living in russia as well i personally go to not and feel grateful we see that russia is open to the distribution of its vaccine abroad not only is open to its export just like pfizer and astra zeneca but it also provides the opportunity to manufacture sputnik via broad it's not new concept of cooperation with other nations in terms of economy and health care i think you can subsequently lead to the improvement of relations between russia the e.u. and the world. you k. companies are considering a much criticized no job no job policy that would make vaccination mandatory for employees in response trade unions are threatening legal action past the government to intervene. we think the primary house the key compete will say things and i say trade unions you know we encourage you. to get back to what priority for work is to get back to the same time we think given this so many people who have even a job that people should be. to mines for having had that we think you know we want to see. things in place we ca

just as the whole of russia gate there was an internal u.s. domestic policy issue. the british government appears to be behind a multi-million pound push to quote weaken the russian state the documents allege that the u.k. hopes to boost negative coverage of russia by seeking journalists and contractors to infiltrate the country's media but i guess they have as the story. the plan was or it is simple enough the british government and its agencies recruit independent media sometimes even desired and direct their programming manage that in order to and i quote weaken the russian state it's all in the leaked papers the foreign and commonwealth office is looking for an implementor or consortium to scope design deliver and evaluate a program of interventions that will enhanced the skills and capacity or for us and journalists this project will support a wider regional her majesty's government program to counter the russian government's narrative and domination of the media and information space so there's even more there since what these papers paint is a picture of the

could russia. while it means lead prime minister boris johnson hopes it's time lucky with a step down to lifting the latest smoketown starting with schools next month despite the system dating new infections. and to renowned its honey an opera singer gets the sputnik the child while on tour in moscow. russian coke a different scene is registered in the country. 247 live from the russian capital this is international for myself and the whole team welcomed. while jumping right in moscow sees new t. imposed e.u. sanctions as an attempt to interfere and russia's and tons of fun as the broke is demanding the release of a crime in critic alex cena volumnia who is jail time for breaching the tums of a suspended sentence for what. in response. to events around the situation of mr not only. we reach a political agreement to impose christie's measures against those responsible for his arrest and sentencing and prosecution. for doing that could a 1st time ever remake usual due to being union global human gret

russia. vaccines to tackle coronavirus. is the new to be approved it was created by moscow of scientific center for jobs developers say it will also offer protection against new coronavirus variants by colleagues. talk through the news earlier. well called me back is the 3rd vaccine to be registered for distribution here in russia making the country the 1st to reach that benchmark it was developed by moscow to mock of center for immuno biological research and it can be stored between 2 to 8 degrees celsius that makes the vaccine easier to store than others like the pfizer variant for example that needs to be stored at a colder temperature to prevent spoilage now coming back is also currently at the end of phase 2 testing and russia's prime minister is understandably looking to roll it out to the public soon. it's i want to start with some very good news a 3rd vaccine has been budgeted today was developed by the trauma called research center the 1st 120000 doses will already be available to the public by the middle of march

i am against burning all bridges to russia. also on the day concerns of a new coronavirus variance late germany to ban travel from chick border agents and austria's to roll they w.'s family for sharp reports from the populace ski which there is plenty of gymnastics tourism with holiday homes or even day trippers and when they leave to rule in many cases the virus leaves with them. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with germany's twin political headaches stuck between russia and the us and joined by a controversy or gas pipeline added to the mix domestic political angsty in the form of kremlin critic alexei navalny who is back in course this time on charges of defaming a world war 2 veteran who appeared in a government video that only has recently been sentenced to several years in jail for allegedly violating his probation while he recovered from a poisoning attack. leaders have called for his release they've also been considering sanctions on russia with the nearly