with the russian president vladimir putin and he heard the president speaking about unifying russia ukraine valorous the baltic states and kazakstan into a single country creating great russia. in early two thousand and six i was about to make predictions come true so i had house i stopped at the back of a room or a meeting was being held but i could hear very well vladimir putin talking about a great to russia he said this included russia. ukraine and the baltic states and that kazakstan would be nice to have now these were his words back in two thousand and sixteen but when he was confronted about this he acknowledged that that was a lie that he wasn't even in russia back in two thousand and six and he only said that to protect his source a person who was present at that meeting now the minister has said that he has a credibility had been damaged he described these recent events as the very. mistake in his political career now all this took place just one day before his official meeting where the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov i was about to a tanda sneezing as so many other ensur

stands at fifty five billion cubic metres critics say it'll increase europe's energy dependency on russia ukraine is set to lose out most of president over hof of russian gas exports to the e.u. pos through the country but for how much longer. by the time russian gas flows through these pipes it's already traveled thousands of kilometers from siberia or its way to customers in central europe this compressor station keeps the pressure in the pipeline stable ensuring the gas reached its destination for the west at least for now. this plant run by ukraine state energy company enough to gas was built almost forty years ago and it's now coming to the end of its working life as ukraine struggles to maintain its position as the chief transit country for russian energy needs to upgrade the infrastructure a pilot project financed by dr bank and underwritten by german export guarantees will see the multi-million euro compressors successively replaced but the question is will they ever really be needed. the north stream pipeline linking russia and germany directly across the baltic sea see here to be joined

meters right now of natural gas a year critics say it will increase europe's energy dependency on russia ukraine is set to lose out most present of a half russian gas exports to the e.u. pass through its territory for how much longer nicholas connolly reports. this plant run by ukraine state energy company nafta gas was built almost forty years ago and is now coming to the end of its working life as ukraine struggle to maintain its position as the chief transit country for russian energy needs to upgrade the infrastructure a pilot project financed by deutsche bank and underwritten by german export guarantees will see the multi-million euro compresses successively replaced but the question is will they ever really be needed. the north stream pipeline linking russia and germany directly across the baltic sea see here is set to be joined by second connection to construction is due to get underway later this year the new pipeline will be able to transport some fifty five billion cubic meters of gas equivalent to two thirds of the gas transiting ukraine on average in recent years the project critics

russia was it was russia's initiative for sitting at the u.n. . in the south east of ukraine it was russia. initially. it was initially proposed by. the president of ukraine and. all. could do was support publicly supported. a resolution to this but then later later it was your opposed to extending this mission. to the entire territory even though initially we were speaking of ensuring the safety and security of observers the dividing line of the deal the line of separation of the fighting for the fighting parties and actually initially ukraine proposed arming. the observers in order to provide security we agreed but they always seem to refuse saying the fact that its observer don't have the expertise he always see that they have the expertise nor are the people who would be fit for that and also there were concerns that as soon as you see. weapons that they will be targeted by militants from both sides for or against you. then saw there was an and there was balls over to place a un mission nearby as a way of securing securing we see observers. so we agreed to that race and t

whether you believe germany has any special overall in solving the issue here in ukraine in helping russia ukraine others to come to certain accommodation or whether you believe this is just a european security issue that has to be handled by all well i don't think in this particular case since one of the basic. and dominating purposes of the european union is to keep the peace that's from that's from where the union idea started after the second world war and so if there is the route to read the relationship to you crean if there. these differences basic differences developed having developed in the eastern thought. it is a european issue and germany is acting was in this european understanding we have no special no as we don't see we have special responsibility here the european responsibility is the governing idea mr been called free have to leave it there i really appreciate you being on the show today on to our viewers please keep the conversation going and our social media pages for me i hope to see you again same place same time here on a well to part. i. used to most lose no means but. jus

focus has to be on not allowing buy into hot wall between ukraine and russia. that the. that the team of boys in the city would just look when the new buildings to be truthful. mum elect the motherland. mummy mummy mummy . ukraine. it's an ancient and proud land. with a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. ukraine is a border land. a place where east meets west. this is the flag of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold its seemingly endless fields of wheat. the. ukraine is a prize many have sought. and much blood spilled in the quest to possess it. ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war two. and every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of c

waiting to hear from him some reassurance that russia is willing to allow united nations peacekeeping forces to be deployed any time soon to places like eastern ukraine to deescalate the the tension and then move forward to tackle issues like. russia's growing role in places like syria and the need to use that in a way to try to find a permanent solution to the crisis that has claimed the lives of thousands of people over the last seven years you know that talk of the peacekeeping possible peacekeeping force in ukraine was something that we even heard from the german foreign minister sigma gabriel but again and what is what was a very sharp rebuke to the european union as you say sergey lavrov instead said that you know deplorably the e.u. has supported what he called a coup. new crane and the e.u. is asking countries whether they be ukraine or other countries to choose between them to choose between the european and union and russia calling it you know as zero sum game which doesn't make the continent more secure. it was basically a responding to a series of statement that we've been hearing over the last two days here in munich basically from the u

per jew crane from the jews in russia ukraine for ukrainians and so on his statements got him fifth place in the simon visa center top ten anti semitic world leader rankings of two thousand and twelve. it also sadly attracted numerous phone. dimitry are founded another extreme right organization treason or trident in one nine hundred ninety four. in april two thousand and thirteen became an assistant to a member of parliament from the opposition party who died. later that same year he would become the leader of the most radical ukrainian nazi group the right sector. laundry paro be would soon appear leading a whole army of ultra nationalist warriors. in the torch marches would once again light up the streets of ukrainian cities. with. the world drastically changed in august one thousand nine hundred one when the u.s.s.r. de facto ceased to exist and the global political map welcomed many newcomers ukraine one of them in modern history it was the first time ukraine was truly independent and all on its own. the red flag came down over the kremlin tonight as president gorbachev resigned and

campaigning two years ago he said that he overheard president putin outlining his plan to unify russia ukraine belarus the baltic states and kazakhstan as a single country but putin supposedly trying to bring back the soviet union has been one of the most popular talking points when it comes to russia now but back to the story at hand the foreign minister made these claims in two thousand and six of some sort of business gathering while he was working for shell his story however was questioned when it was discovered that despite being part of the shell delegation he wasn't at the two thousand and six meeting and not only that he wasn't even in russia at the time when he was confronted about this he said that he was lying to protect a source but then he also said he regretted lying but obviously this isn't the first instance of fake news regarding russia there have been rumors floating around that russia influenced the braggs it though and the us has been accusing the kremlin of interfering in the twenty sixteen presidential election for over a year and a half now now the british government's b

campaigning two years ago he said that he overheard president putin outlining his plan to unify russia ukraine belarus the baltic states and kazakhstan as a single country putin supposedly trying to bring back the soviet union has been one of the most popular talking points when it comes to russia but back to the story at hand the foreign minister made these claims in two thousand and six like you said but it was some sort of a business gathering way while he was working for shell his story however was questioned when it was discovered that despite being part of the shell delegation he wasn't at the two thousand and sixty two thousand six meeting and not only that he wasn't even in russia at the time but when he was confronted about this he said he was lying to protect a source but then he also said he regretted lying obviously this isn't the first instance of fake news regarding russia there have been numerous rumors floating around that russian influence the brags that though and the u.s. has been accusing the kremlin of interfering in the twenty sixteen election for over a year and a half n

heard jew crane from the jews in russia ukraine for ukrainians and so on his statements got him fifth place in the simon vs and thought center top ten anti semitic world leader rankings of two thousand and twelve. but also sadly attracted numerous follow ups. dimitri are founded another extreme right organization treason or tried it in one thousand and four. in april two thousand and thirteen became an assistant to a member of parliament from the opposition party who died. later that same year he would become the leader of the most radical ukrainian nazi group the right sector. laundry paro be would soon appear leading a whole army of ultra nationalist warriors. in the torch marches would once again light up the streets of ukrainian cities. with. the world drastically changed in august one thousand nine hundred one when the u.s.s.r. de facto ceased to exist and the global political map welcomed many newcomers ukraine one of them in modern history it was the first time ukraine was truly independent and all on its own. the red flag came down over the kremlin tonight as president gorbach

campaigning about two years ago he said that he overheard president putin outlining his plan to unify russia ukraine belarus and the baltic states and kazakhstan as a single country back in two thousand and six at some sort of business gathering this has been a general talking point when it comes to russia that putin is supposedly trying to bring back the soviet union but the foreign minister was working for shell at the time but his story was questioned when it was discovered that despite being part of the shell delegation he wasn't even at the two thousand and six meeting and not only that he wasn't even in russia at the time but when he was confronted about this he said he was lying to protect a source but he also said that he regretted lying but this is not the first time there's been fake news about russia there's also been the whole idea that russia was the breaks of. president mccraw attacks against russia and various various social media giants and well they've all talked about russian meddling but in the end they've all admitted that there's been no evidence whatsoever so it seems that in l

the leader in american countries but on the other hand if ukraine fails if ukraine breaks up if russia ukraine the georgists which is ten times smaller we'll just might disappear from the map that's one big motivation i have second i already had spent thirteen years of my adult life in ukraine. not only participant of two ukraine and i don't ukraine revolutions or uprisings i was one of their organizers or a group of the first my done so i've been heavily invested emotionally in ukraine and i have strong links with this country and also i have people you say you have you say you have strong links with the country but ukrainians don't seem to support your poll last december by the international republican institute showed that seventy five percent of ukrainians three out of four people in that country had either a somewhat whole very unfavorable view of you want to just move on and let more viable popular candidates run for office in ukraine you know popular look look look i mean first of all presence of ukraine according to sample is you know more unpopular second if you look at the poll numbe

relevance today but ukraine russia ukraine is making a colossal mistake after care of passed a law on the reintegration of the water on donetsk and lugansk regions moscow says it shows cares not committed to a peaceful solution to the conflict and that the movement of mines the minsk agreements that are currently in place this new legislation allows the ukrainian president to use the armed forces in peacetime against those breakaway republics the two of them it also designates russia as an aggressive state and labels the two territories as being occupied president launched what he have called an anti terror operation back in twenty fourteen leaving thousands dead injured and displaced. yes but journalist and political affairs analyst martin some of the things kids decision is going to undermine all that the peace efforts have achieved so far. prone to setting in stone a conflict will situation isn't it it's not going to be it's not going to did lead to any constructive dialogue between the two sides the minsk agreement says all we've got to hold this situation in the frozen conflicts

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stands at fifty five billion cubic metres critics say it'll increase europe's energy dependency on russia ukraine is said to lose out most at present over half of russian gas exports to the e.u. passed through the country but for how much longer w.'s nicholas connelly reports. this plant run by ukraine state energy company nafta gas was built almost forty years ago and is now coming to the end of its working life as ukraine's struggle to maintain its position as the chief transit country for russian energy it needs to upgrade the infrastructure a pilot project financed by deutsche bank and underwritten by german export guarantees will see the multi-million euro compressors successively replaced but the question is will they ever really be needed. the north stream pipeline linking russia and germany directly across the baltic sea see here is set to be joined by second connection to construction is due to get underway later this year the new pipeline will be able to transport some fifty five billion cubic meters of gas equivalent to two thirds of the gas transit in ukraine on average in recent year

campaigning two years ago he said that he overheard president putin outlining his plan to unify russia ukraine belarus the baltic states and kazakhstan as a fingal country back in two thousand and six at some sort of business gathering but this has been a general talking point when it comes to russia that putin is supposedly trying to bring back the soviet union however the foreign minister was working for shell at the time but his story was questioned when it was discovered that despite being part of the shell delegation he wasn't at the two thousand and six meeting and not only that he wasn't even in russia at the time but when he was confronted about this he said that he was a lying to protect a source but then he also said he regretted lying obviously this isn't the first instance of fake news regarding russia there have been rumors floating around that russia influenced the breadth of vote and then there's also been president micron various attacks against russia and of course from various social media giants as well and they've all alleged russian meddling in some shape or form but in th

could hear very well vladimir putin talking about a greater russia he said this included russia belarus ukraine and the baltic states and that kazakstan would also be nice to have but one of the so has now acknowledged that it was all one big lie when he wasn't even in russia or in two thousand and six she said he did it to protect his source a person that presumably attended that meeting he now describes it as the biggest mistake of his political career in response to the news the dutch prime minister said that the remarks of his now former top diplomat accurately reflected a russian policy at the time we asked author and russia analyst martin mccauley about mr confession. there are two reasons why he made that statement one is that it projected him into the public newspapers the headlines and so on this was a sensational statement to make and the second thing would be that of course it fed into the need to. the native narrative the narrative of the west at that time still is which is basically under russian sees video putin as a threat to the national security and it fed into that and therefo

career civil servant, became an ambassador under the obama administration working on russia, ukrainessues. he said in 2014 they were hyper focused on ukraine. and what to do. there is confetti flying down. >> jesse: happy new year's. >> dana: they were hyper focused on that activity in 2014 and they didn't realize the extent of the operation russia was going to try on the elections. the technology was new and he did say there could have been more they could have done back then. i don't know exactly what that might have been. could've been something they did. there's another reason for president trump to be mad at the russians. not only did they attack the country of which he is now the president. if he hadn't won, i think everybody should be mad this happened on our soil. but it's also because putin's actions have worked to undermine president trump's presidency. if i were president trump, i would be mad about that. that is reason enough along to try to take action against putin. >> jesse: a lot of people have criticized mr. trump, greg, for not being strong when it comes to sanction

the war in ukraine is brutal but on the surface, familiar. however, russiasing other means. ukraine and russia are obviously in a situation that can only be described as war and open conflict and the digital attack, cyber attack component plays a major role. we've seen the boundary, you know, attacking the electric grid in the ukraine. we've seen several major attacks there. we've seen high powered pieces of attack tools that haven't been tested anywhere else. the concern is that ukraine is a test—bed for cyber attacks that and us targets later on. nato defence ministers were in brussels today for a summit, trying to deal with a world where the line between war and peace is so blurred, partly because attacks are deniable. the uk defence minister gavin williamson though today explicitly accused the russian government of waging cyber war on the west. it's no longer about the warfare that we'll fight on land, sea and air. increasingly, it's about in cyber and space as well. so nato has to adapt. this raid by ukraine cyber crime unit on a computer company last s

russia. personally, i'm very interested in henry's comments on the ukraine but russia signed an agreement whenkraine got rid of its nuclear weapons that it was respecting ukraine's borders, they signed that, they totally ignored it. they don't even refer to it. we shouldn't accept that. and it seems to me with this new kind of weaponry, we can change the situation in ukraine and maybe that's the place where we could have a persian moment, a persian moment for me is in the cold war the soviets had weapon that is could hit europe, japan and china but not us. the diplomatic ploy was we will use intercontinental missiles risking they would use intercontinental missiles on us. if we couldn't agree we would deploy weapons in europe. we knew we were negotiating justs as much with europeans and soviets because putting nuclear weapon in your territory is not comfortable. president reagan did a good job on it. we came to the end and we deployed cruise missiles in britain with margaret's help and italy but then a big deal, ballistic missiles were called persians in germany. here is where the alliance cam

he started the great revolt in ukraine against russia, why? because he wanted to veto legislation that would have put ukraine in the eu market as oppose pd to what russia wantedo go into the russian market. viktor yanukovych was a pawn for russia. >> reading for you again, this brand-new material we just got. because you're digging deeper into why this is so important. you're looking at what gates pled to, directing these companies to lobby members of congress about the quote, inpropriety of the ukraine president symbolling his rifle. >> this is fake news, because consultants are paying so called statesmen, european statesman to take the line on television shows like this, supporting viktor yanukovych in ukraine. it's utterly corrupt. i'm putting more dots on the screen, to just correct the dots, you have putin on it with a kind of puppeteer master. >> take that point out, david and then joyce how that works with another point with the case if mueller's not done, investigating and probing if paul manafort was working for trump but getting paid

vladimir putin from epic low approval rating to incredibly high approval rating emboldened russia to invade the ukraine and annex crimea. easy writer is yvonne? i don't know. but what i do know is again doping is not a a long-term ga. it's a short-term gain. i just hope one of the powerful messages of the story, whether the doping is greater in the united states or it is occurring in in the western country or any other eastern bloc country, the day of reckoning is coming. >> thanks so much. we will take questions from the audience now. please wait until you see the mic and if you could state your name and organization. >> my name is david larkin, i'm a international sports and anticorruption attorney -- >> we will leave this conversation at this point to go live to the white house briefing room where treasury secretary steven mnuchin is standing on the left in the picture. you will be briefing reporters about sanctions on north korea. live live coverage here on c-sp. hello, everybody. today the treasury department is announcing the largest set of sanctions ever imposed in connection with north korea. t

there was a mutual irritation building between russia and europe russia and ukraine long before two thousandand fourteen but i think since then it became an open one we're marking the fourth anniversary of the might an uprising the this week do you see any way out of the current predicament. i don't. know. the many reasons there is pretty bad political situation in q i don't see any responsible forces there who would be interested in moving forward on the conciliation i don't see frankly any big interest in russia i don't see at all european role which is very bad but looking for example political mess in germany. germany which used to be driving force for all this mess process. no so much introverts and they are busy with the mystic affairs they have no time and energy and butter docks ago the only remaining line is again between russia and the united states and all clear communication is almost the only one we can produce in this thing. and i hope actually that it will do because americans with all of the stone the bull claims on the russian side of the americas are at least able to do som