petersburg, russia right now my 1st time, and it's probably the coldest day since i've arrived in russia. i am feeling it to my bones right now. the pills are due to a tough how you doing for more years old or was it frozen as well? you can feel anything. oh no you came. i think you brought this weather with you man. yeah, i'm not good, it is so i don't know. take a back and tell me a little bit about yourself. like, uh, what, what made you decide to come to russia? i received the asylum and so far as i know, the next man after his note to get it. and that's american, us embassies and 4 countries that come after me is wild. and so we have a couple of theories, the one that most people come to me 1st is like, oh, there's just a bunch of bureaucratic mistakes, but there's no way they rated our house in 2002 in cyprus. they have a huge fall on my wife. they've interrogated me, they've visited me and vote here in prison. personally, guy came, they tried to make deals. and also whenever can microsoft, i cover the middle east and africa and i had several intelligence agency trying to recruit m

the ever been here in russia. the i've only lived here a few months, but i wanted to tell you what fascinates me about russia and share the stories of other foreigners who lived here. like jay who worked as a chef and now raises godes to mix cheese in the countryside. like chad who has been granted political asylum because he's being persecuted by the f b. i like an american family. that recently moved to russia with 6 children, the the, the year we are happy to be here. this is my friend joe. a few months ago he immigrated to russia with his large family. now i'm on the way to visit him. i want to find out why he decided to move here and how he likes it in russia. are you doing pretty good. the joe is an i t program manager. he worked in many large companies including microsoft, but he gave up everything and moved to russia with his wife and 6 children. and now they're about to have a 7. so apparently they had a very good reason to relocate. did he talk you interested? no, i think to be honest, we 1st rich the sa

he was sanction china as a sanction russia. and you have to remember if you wanted talked about it honestly . who is the one who gave me full a to ukraine? it was an obama obama refused to do so. a bomb is said, ukraine is much more strategic interest of russia than the united states. he refused to give legal aid from comes in there, not only increasingly, sanctions russia, but it gives legal aid to ukraine. so there's a lot of blame to go around and almost all these american presidents, since kennedy, have a lot of blood on their hands now. um you rose before and that it was trumps. anti war stands that was one of the under play factors that pushed him to his election victory. and i wonder, what do you exactly mean by anti war is a sort of a sense against war or stands against spending on the war elastic as question. what i said during the campaign is the fact that the democrats have become so weak, so corrupt, so taken over by neo cons, add warhawks, that's from good position to himself during the campaign, as the peace candi

but trump did threaten russia and it's threatened. russia is as a frustrate as and come to the bargaining table. and we don't know what the trump was simply cut is that he's getting an increase. the sanctions going to increase arm. so ukraine, i'm a rush to pay a prize is already talking about the energy sanctions more introduced actions against russia. i talked to his wife professor, whose name kabir, that they have been so many around. so sanctions are all against russia by the united states that you know, uh, quite a few of us here. uh, rather skeptical and be us and billeted to her this much more. but this is a very important issue that you are raising because all of us we do have many of us of these have relatives in the ukraine. you know, our economy, our society is suffering from the strong conflicts and definitely claim there is a, you know, she monitoring the konami's political, cultural spiritual need to put in on to absolutely. because because let me say, if this work continues and that is 6 months, and that's 12 months from the perspective of the ukrainian people, they're gonn

, even in the event of a peace deal between russia and ukraine. stream gas pipelines, which haven't been used since 2022, should be dismantled. he sat don with faisal islam at davos. some look at russia and see the sanctions effort, which they seem to be resisting for the past year, the economy seems to be ok, but maybe just now it is starting to hurt russia. is that what you see? do you think at this moment all of the sanctions are working? and what does that mean the west should do right now? translation: | know | president donald trump and i smile when i see politicians taking such decisive actions right now on russia and they are expressing their fear that donald trump might leave ukraine on its own and leave it to russia because they are the ones that recently did business with russia and there are some saying they would like to see business as usual being restored as soon as possible because that is being demanded of them by their own companies. as you know, there is a big election in your neighbour germany next month. i know you will want t

we're going to have them fight russia now, because russia is a threat to us. but that's obviously not the case. so what they're doing is they're keeping the conflict on a low burn. yeah, in order to one, facilitate the military industrial profits, which in turn, pays for the think tanks, which in turn pays for the politicians. secondly, the slow burn european union. there your opinion, it was hoping it would weaken russia. however, it touched has a strength of strength and russia, and now they are in full panic and they're trying to come up with these silly 200 year political the. so i just want to tell everybody the u. k. has a 100 year security agreement with you, correct. but we don't even know if your credit is going to make it to the end of the year that this is an base our fantasy. go ahead with i. i remember reading in one of my books there at charles, the goal, one of the true statesmen of europe, a charles to go as an old friends, french pressure and said that treaties are like roses. they're beautiful until they are not. and this is the same with the

we and russia and america and europe are now. it seems to me this technical data is important to understand how, to support how and what influences and what are the risks for everybody else. if we recall, the full scale of russia in 02 -- 2022, we know the russian military contingent constituted around 200,000 personnel. they have come from the north with this contingent with missiles, from the south, from the east, but they had around estimation 200,000 plus the separatists that still control parts of the east, donetsk and luhansk, the parts they control. it was difficult for us without anybody's help and i am very much grateful that america and europe have stepped in, but you must know that as of now 600,000, 600,000 -- 600,008 russian troops are on the territory of ukraine. that is three times multiplied the contingent that invaded us at the beginning of 2022. if somebody says there is enough aid, compared -- compare back then to now. back then, america's aid was around 90%. now, what our military has on the battlefield is 40%

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but russia is adamant, and russia is blaming this on ukraine. taking us through that with all the details . archie, correspondent, e. course it down off. well, let's delve into some of the points raised there with former appends of goal senior security on the left. michael maloof on this michael to see if thank you for your time. first of all, you've got to have a choosing russia of attacking its own citizens on russian soil. the problem ukraine has here, of course, is that it has previous, in this very region, your view, all misfire will strike on a school turn shelter. this was my understanding that the ukrainians actually launched attack gums at, at the sergio and the some 100 people were killed. and despite the fact that it was listed as the same and in cyrillic, people. and that should have been an indicator that uh there were there were people in there and, and then the ukrainians decided to, to, to basically accuse the russians as your site, which would represent a potential for a false flag operation that they, that they undertook. but t

and of course the names of russia and the names of ukraine. we'd always be there because of the ukrainians, if they don't have what's on the ground. also seen as a conduit of, of weapons. but particularly when you have the f k for the subsidy in the mix, we always look to that part of the supplies of the k 47. so the situation is an interesting one. so if you have play as in the continent of africa, africa is once again, a sort of conflict. russia expressing ourselves through soft power in southern cases, even being allowed to establish military bases in southern cases if and being invited to take over the basis that i've been a bundled by the west. with that, that is a good or bad thing. the judy is bailout, but i hold the view that the relationship between the african countries and russia must be defined. it must be a relationship that is not one of dominance, but is one of collaboration and as concerns ukraine. i or the view that on till now, i have not seen evidence that they have been invited by in the country to participate on. the parti

even jay will confirm sanctions and russia have failed. he ordered this on as on which is why i'm always ordering things. a j had to take his car to the garage today for an oil change and i've decided to go with them. i want to see what car service is like in the russian hinterland. the trump administration has quickly realized ending the ukraine complex is going to be difficult and time consuming. also, there is a growing understanding that the end of fighting does not necessarily mean creating the conditions of the stuff for the machine, for the surface of the machine. what to model happening with these kinds of what it is different this next time and see if it doesn't take her to testify this thing. and so with the concept, even though it is a new, much so i was unable to deal with most of the company and some brokerage goes up, developing bio chemical weather's inside of the guns. good to watch, we use the solution, you know, wasn't cheaper to use the white glove service cost, but he's because of the secretary state because the oh i so

had brought it here in russia. you can say what your things were out loud and the most relieving thing in the world. you actually are like me, this is actually really enjoyable. you can make jokes about this sort of stuff. nobody would, you know, cancel you or try to dock to anything like that. talk about it. it was by whatever you're moving on. what about the health carey? are you all worried about getting like the kids to the doctor or because oh okay, well i told them, i mean this goes from the end of last year and i had to go get a surgery. uh, i was just like, oh, great, awesome. so like this is over for us because i'm going to drop, you know, tens of thousands of dollars on this, which i would have definitely in the states. i have like one of the best orthopedic surgeons. like 5 star level hospital room, 1300 bucks. yeah. my says pregnancy ended up being on the case stay and i think the bill was a $100000.00. we got a big discount on it because it was self pay. it was like $80000.00 and then we had the medica

he became one of the most famous keys makers in russia. although when he 1st came here, you couldn't imagine anything of the sort. i got here, maybe 3 things, shooting at the white house and it was there was little money for us was in the hospitals following the board and everything was really bad. you mean, i couldn't imagine that. another country surviving. i think americans would die hungry. i didn't leave here right away. i came for 10 days and 20 days and 40 days, 761, a senior loan going more like home. i would start to go to other countries and i just want to get back home to russian. so it's home. i say to people, hey, if you could live in a rush, you can leave it anywhere in the world. it's not easy here. i mean, of course, it's hard at some of the language, some of the alphabet of culture, a camera shaking hands under a doorway. the boxes on the table, man, it's thousands of. i don't believe in the life of the divine judge wouldn't because it's like a habit. i asked jay if he's afraid to stay in russia after all, our countries ha

basically, according to russia, this is this weapon. the rest of this all is something that none of the country and what all that has the weapon of such low caliber and power. basically that the combination of these factors of all these factors is something that only russia has in its disposal again. but this has, this has been only the russian word. so, um, it's so it doesn't mean that the united states, for instance, that they necessarily agree to that. but indeed indeed that strike, it seems, it was decreased in europe because europe has become but did become reluctant. for instance, germany is still very reluctant and has been refusing to provide key with its own powerful may solve its tours, may solve. so uh, sofa. russia has been saying that, well, this is what we capable of. we did not want to resort to that. and even donald trump back then he was just, he was you will just be president to let and back then he did coolants route. he's even his uh, his presidential campaign. he did say that this decision of the fight in administra

we're going to have them fight russia now because of russia is a threat to us. but that's obviously not the case. so what they're doing is they're keeping the conflict on a low burn. now, in order to one, facilitate the military industrial profits, which in turn, pays for the think tanks, which in turn pays for the politicians. secondly, the slow burn european union there your opinion, it was hoping it would weaken russia. however, it touched as a strength of strength and russia, and now they are in full panic and they're trying to come up with these silly 200 year political the. so i just want to tell everybody the u. k. has a 100 year security agreement with you, correct. but we don't even know if your credit is going to make it to the end of the year that this is an base our fantasy. go ahead, man. i, i remember reading in one of my books, the charles, the goal, one of the true statesmen of europe, a charles, the goal of the old friends, french pressure and said that treaties are like roses, they're beautiful until they are not. and the, this is the same with

and we see how much influence china has on russia. and we are deeply grateful to europe for all the support it has given our country during this war. but will president trump listen to europe? or will he negotiate with russia and china without europe? europe needs to learn how to fully take care of itself so that the world cannot afford to ignore it. it is vital to maintain unity in europe, so the world does not just care about budapest or brussels -- it cares about europe as a whole. and we need a united european security and defense policy, and all european countries must be willing to spend as much on security as is truly needed -- not just as much as they have gotten use to during years of neglect. if it takes 5% of gdp to cover defense, then so be it. 5% it is. there is no need to play with people's emotions. defense should be compensated at the expense -- with peoples emotions that defense should become and sated at the expense of medicine or pensions or something else. that is really not fair. we have already set up models of c

guest: that russia you covered from ash host: that russia you covered.khrushchev becomes premier of the soviet party in 53, so this book is about khrushchev and kennedy. that plenty of years under a different president, under dwight eisenhower. what was that relationship like. khrushchev and eisenhower. and the change of presidencies, what was h view coming iof john kennedy. guest: great questions, a historical questions. in 1956, i arrived there in january. khrushchev had been essentially the boss only for about a year or 18 months. it took a year or so before he could establish his position following stalin's death in march of 1953. so khrushchev wanted very much by 1956 to say to the russian people and to the world that russia is now changed, it is no longer stalin's russia, it is now khrushchev's russia. and delivered a very famous secret speech, i believe it was february 24, 1956. and he summoned all of the leaders of various communist parties which had been meeting in moscow at the time to come back to the kremlin in the middle of the night because

and again, rusnick was something that russia revealed it to the world. it's mike, it's revealed, it's mikes to the world, not so long ago. it happened in the 4th quarter of 2024. basically, it happened all through yet another round of escalation with the west when the united states basically allowed key of to carry out strikes with the american main long range missiles against targets deep within russian territory. and as ukraine carried out, such attacks when the band was lifted officially by washington, russia essentially step forward and said and said, well, this is simply unacceptable. and very shortly after that it carried out and attack using it's a rush mcmay cell, which had not be known to the general public before that again, it's a brand new hypersonic ballistic missile. and it can be used uh with the a nuclear warhead. but of course, russia did not resort to that, that strike against a target in the ukrainian town of the patrols was more symbolic. it was more about sending a message rather than just destroying and tearing, just obliterating th

but he gave up everything and moved to russia. with his wife and 6 children, and now they're about to have a 7 step. apparently they had a very good reason to relocate. did he talk you into russian? no, i think, to be honest with 1st rich, the same conclusion. some states have had issues where they've come in and they've removed the child from here because they're claiming the child's being abused by not being able to think it was uh, is 6 states in less than 6 months past the plaza, even a 5 year old kid can be taken away from their parents and take them to the hospital and shop a lot. yeah. that's just a reality we've of and people ask us okay, well i mean like, is it ramp and is it happening to like everybody have you been threatened with that? no, i'm not an idiot. i don't wait around for this stuff to continue to progress because that's what's been going on for the last several decades. a lot of people with traditional values wouldn't take the agenda, right? they wouldn't take the a slash, a lot of traditional teachers, anywh

the life in russia and ukraine is just in comparable, the impact on society in russia and ukraine is, is in comparable. russia is running around an army of 5 problems here. is that a lot for a lot of cash? took people to find you, the ukraine, where is you creating relies on people who are mobilized against and we'll waive the matcher she would shoot when right sir violations the trustee. and on the daily deals of the firewall. mobilization which is known as was the vacation in your brain, weren't capable of being caught industry that impacts into bosses. and so we have to wait until the front line right and the evident then the to see. so i would be welcome on so many front, michael. so now and to donald trump, the, the new, the 47th president of the united states, who as he would have it, had he being president in 2020. this will would have won the election to 2020. this will, would never have happened. would you agree with that? so i don't agree with that. i think of his own always in mister bolton's designs, to move on ukraine. he has set it throughout his tenure and even before i

about russia's war and its changing society, based itself here in riga in the wake of russia's invasionukraine. president trump used to say he'd sort out the war in ukraine within 2a hours of coming into office. that was never going to happen, of course, but getting a peace deal will certainly be one of his big concerns. his supporters have made the outlines pretty clear. for a long time, or maybe at all. who took the decision to invade back in february 2022 he was lucky to survive an attempted coup and he's had to recruit prisoners, north koreans and iran's drone technicians just in order to keep going. but has the war now turned decisively in putin's favour? here in riga, i turned to the bbc news russian correspondent still, he's in power. it seems nothing threatens him back at home, back in moscow. if vladimir putin makes a deal with trump and with ukraine, this peaceful outcome of this invasion, he... ..obviously he keeps the crimea peninsula. whether it means that his winning now allows him to stay in powerand, uh, this peaceful outcome of this invasion, he... ..obviously he keeps

what were your thoughts before coming to russia? with a special military operation and how did you feel, were you worried that there was going to be like more on the outskirts of moscow? are you oh, i know. yeah, no, i thought there was going to be a war and i didn't want to be sitting, you know, at home in the middle of kansas down the street from fort riley when the, let me just say that i feel a lot safer here. right? than i do in america, if actual world war 3 breaks out, much, much better to be here. we don't have any kind of defense that could suit anything that i mean, right? something goes on over in the, in the states. it's over me, you know, i remember right before we left, we, uh, we heard reports, the russian nuclear sub just pops his head up right off the coast of dc. hey, we're right here, just so you know, don't forget that we're right here. so there's nothing that you're going to defend against the list goes sideways for the whole world. the euro russian see of this house. what are the learning funny? yeah, a lot. so

but russia knows this. that's why it makes absolutely no sense for russia to go down this path and then deal with math. and that's why it was a little disappointing for the trump to say, oh fulton, i, i don't, i don't think bush is ready to do a deal. no, it's not. i'm not ready to do a deal on these to the end. and we can hear, you know, when, when monica brought to add the, well, they can on a forum. and, you know, he's speaking on behalf of nature. yeah. yeah. the we, we, we build a continue as before. keep wearing a red one weaponry into a ukraine and then hoping that things are going to change. so i, you know, i, i don't, don't agree with that or you can live. i think trump is going to get us a ton know, i think the, you know, you, it will be done and then they'll be somebody else the and then every way i, the, and the patient that the little bit in somebody already reflected the gentleman, he's thinking about his legacy, tony george brought up davos and we had mark computers, they had of nato, and don

guest: that russia you covered from ash host: that russia you covered.khrushchev becomes premier of the soviet party in 53, so this book is about khrushchev and kennedy. that plenty of years under a different president, under dwight eisenhower. what was that relationship like. khrushchev and eisenhower. and the chae presidencies, what was his view coming in of john kennedy. guest: great questions, a historical questions. in 1956, i arrived there in january. khrushchev had been essentially the boss only for about a year or 18 months. it took a year or so before he could establish his position following stalin's death in march of 1953. so khrushchev wanted very much by 1956 to say to the russian people and to the world that russia is now changed, it is no longer stalin's russia, it is now khrushchev's russia. and delivered a very famous secret speech, i believe it was february 24, 1956. and he summoned all of the leaders of various communist parties which had been meeting in moscow at the time to come back to the kremlin in the middle of the night because

well, trans nature is no and talks with russia and hungry over a future. a gas applies to the region, political sciences under risk of falling off the leads. moldova is using energy blackmail as a means to control the republic, which broke away from cation of in 1990. so most certainly will clean the one hand ukraine has stopped the transit of rush and gas to europe. on the other hand, cheese the nose debt of $709000000.00. the gas problem remains unpaid cheese and now tried to strangle trans in history. but it failed. the european union played a role in provoking the energy crisis, but acted using the hands of cheese. so now it was cheese. and now that constantly stated that it did not like any gas supply scheme suggested by russia and said it could only be bought on european or romanian markets. therefore, no one here believes in the west peaceful intentions for trans in history. but they failed to break us trans and history and stand firm. the west wants to hurt russia in any way possible and make sure that trans and history and industry does not get st

i believe today, we're looking at russia's aggression against ukraine. so what we all seem right now is the reverse of russia's imperialism. russian imperialism is reborn. and we can see that in this one ukraine, which has been going on for almost 3 years right now. russian imperialism is greedy, and it is extremely dangerous. and for that reason, we need to build a securities on the last time we had such as i don't know, security was during the cold war at that time. poland was behind the iron could. poland was part of the russian sphere of influence. and today, in the face of this reborn russian imperialism. what the free world has to do is once again recreate this securities on to protect itself against russia, integration. because as i said, we have seen the research and russian imperialism. what is the name we give to it? it is the same. it's russian imperialism. whether we are speaking about the times of dissolves service, imperialism, uprooting is imperialism. it is still the same thing, the same notion. so we need to protect the world from russia