russian diaspora, russian citizens living abroad. they are living abroad for a reason. they don't particularly like what is going on inside of russia under putin. they are living in europe and the united states. they voted in much greater numbers for putin in the last election than ever in the past. why? well, part of the reason is what they themselves cite as a reaction to what they call -- they do not like what is going on. and it is actually causing a rally around putin in effect ruinside of russia.not something that is i think, in the us interest to see. second question. what do they do? you want to look at some counterfactual us. that should cause us to question the conventional wisdom about russian intentions. if russia regards democracy as a mortal threat, something that by its very nature brushes the viability of the russian state, is as evident in how they treat democracies around the world? i think the evidence says no, actually. and the news from a couple of weeks ago should give us some pause in this regard. russia was celebrating victory date, may 9. celebr

it's not really a russian company but a russian related company. what was it?ices were at&t buying? i think those are legitimate questions for michael cohen to answer. i think it's also very legitimate for the president to say whatever they thought they were buying from michael cohen, they were not buying for me. >> don. >> i would like to -- >> yes, but let's do it on the other side of the break. and dan, i'm going keep you guys around because dan did not really get to talk that much this time. more breaking news tonight. three americans detained in north korea. they may be on their way home shortly. we're going to tell you about that, next. ♪ the kenya tea development agency is an organization that is owned by tea farmers. every week we sell this tea, we get paid in multiple accounts. we were looking for a bank to provide a safe and efficient technology platform to pay our farmers. citi was the only one that was able to ensure that this was done seamlessly. and today, at the touch of a button, all the farmers are able to get their money, pay school fees and i

officials from russians. whether or not they were using russians, that is using persons to try and hide perhaps, money that was going into the trump world. that we have reported on. and also it's important to know that no one is really from the company at this point is explaining this columbus nova as to what these payments were about. they're arguing that perhaps, vekselberg is not the direct owner, he has no say. up to this point, they haven't explained -- neither have anyone from cohen side -- where this money was going or what was the purpose of the money going into essentially a hush account set up by michael kcohen to pay hus money to stormy daniels. still no explanation for that. >> where does things stand, kara with the criminal investigation of the southern district of new york? >> we know prosecutors there are looking into cohen's dealings. a judge in that case has set up a master to review documents seized in cohen's office and hotel room. the judge has this special master looking for what might be

they surprised the russian -- basic prized the right -- they surprised the russians. i think they sent a real signal that the international community is not going to accept best -- this. they have a very clear exit pass. you change this policy, they go away. thing ton important break off. -- it didons imposed not stop the russians from doing other foreign-policy activities. this is important for the next piece of this. we now have sanctions that are linked to interference and a new set of sanctions that are linked to russia being russia. it is syria, ukraine, more ripal.erence, it is sk russians, individual russians, and firms. this perception in russia is that the sanctions are forever and there is not an exit path. believe that these new us to sanctions will not be lifted. the prussianeeping on by escalation is not a smart move and less you make it clear -- this is why keeping the pressure on by escalation is not a smart move. is,e russia approaches this they will keep up the pressure and we will counter with no pressure. there is no way out of this so why would we

they surprised the russians. ruggens were surprised both by the strength of the sanctions and by the nakt that the europeans an americans were in lock step on them. i think they send a signal the international community is not going to accept this. they also impart sanctions that have a clear exit path. you change this policy. you implement mines k, they go away. that's an important thing to kind of break off. the sanctions imposed on interference, didn't stop the russians doing other foreign policy activities, right? i think this is an important for the next piece of this because we've now got sanctions that are linked to interference. and we have a new set of sanctions which are linked to russia being russia. it's syria, more interference. everything and there are sanctions imposed on russian government officials, individual russians. russian firms. i think this feeds a perception in russia that sanctions are forever. not to believe that the minsk sanctions are going to be lifted if they're fulfilled. this is w

the russian white house. the russian lighthouse. than we did. this belief about the american intelligence capabilities i think has always been, for good reason --. thoughtfully inflated. >> my second point, i forgot, i think it is a lot harder to conduct espionage. this is a whole separate subject. in the year of smart phones, and the internet and cipro, running around trying to maintain any kind of cover is much, much harder. and so, recruiting people and evading surveillance on someone, it's a whole different ballgame than it was pre- internet. >> i will pylon on that one and make a controversial statement. i think the era of human recruitment and intelligences over. biometric data means essentially that you cannot put someone undercover here in washington, have them travel around the world, pose as a diplomat undercover and recruit people. it doesn't work. who they are, their identity is instantly known to governments that want to know who they are. tracking them on their cell phones, investigating the social media histories, makes it almost

rich russians, and not just russians, but rich people from all over the world do exactly what you're talking about. they come to america for, you know, sometimes just a few weeks, few months, give birth here, and as a result of that, their children become american citizenin citizens. and i think some greater regulation of that practice is in order. >> sherry is in louisiana, republican, go ahead. >> caller: yes, i grew up a democrat but switched recently. i'm just wondering, there are thousands of stories that i've read over the last year about the collusion on the election. which basically it seems to me amounts to memes on face bob bod a couple of poorly protected passwords. but what i have been reading is that the russians have been trying to undermine our energy development, and in the uk with the whole anti-fracking movement. they funded this -- i don't know, this one group, i think it was -- i can't remember what the name, but they will give money to green peace. what i can't understand is why that doesn't get any attention from the media, or even the previous administration an

it is important based on -- so it was sold in the russian supermarket and the russian people would purchase something else. so it was not good for the health of the russian population, but as well -- it was harm for eastern european countries like latvia whose export was -- but in two years they substituted destinations of the exports to other countries. what could be stronger? i had to draw attention to the fact that russia is not subject -- there is note one sanction imposed on russia. russia is not the subject of sanctions. so no one in my mind, what dave said that things became more expensive, that is not your. if you look at the financial market, interest rates went down and interest rates in russia went down as well. for a very short time, maybe for 6/4 -- now financing is cheaper than it was in 2015 for russian banks. i believe most systemic pressure on the russians would be that if they impose a ban on domestic debt. because it is very important that at the moment they keep 35% of the russian domestic data and nonresidents have persons -- have purchased 75% of the domestic debt. so

the russian white house. this belief about the american intelligence capabilities has always been for good reason, inflated. thoughtfully inflated. think it is a lot harder to conduct espionage. andhe era of smartphones running around and trying to maintain cover is harder. a wholeng people is different ballgame then it was pre-internet. paul: i will make a controversial statement. the era of human recruitment in intelligence is over. biometric data, meaning you cannot put someone undercover, have them travel around the world and recruit people, it does not work. identity is instantly known to governments that want to know who they are. their cellem on phones, investigating their social media histories, makes it almost impossible. espionage is going to go in the direction of the digital domain. it is far easier to get access to people with information in quantities. it does not pay to try to do this through the old means. there are pros and cons to that. it does get to the question of assessing intentions. do

meeting with the russian lawyer who now admits to be a russian informant. he took that meeting on the promise of getting dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government and don't forget then-campaign chairman paul manafort was in that meeting and so was the president's son-in-law jared kushner. >> the senate committee published hundreds of pages of these interviews with this exchange that was put out after the trump tower meeting by the white house at the time, quote, the washington post has reported that your father was involved in drafting the july 8th statement. is that correct? >> the response of donald trump jr. was, i don't know. i never spoke to my father about it, but if you look at the exchange even further it notes he may have commented. his father was involved in the drafting of that statement. let's bring in shimon prokupecz in washington with what you are seeing there, shimon. >> that's right, john. certainly in reading what don junior has testified to, you know, it's pretty lengthy in terms of the sheer number of pages of transcripts here,

are you accusing the russian government or just russians? >> speaking about may 17th, it is well known that it is a russian military authority -- >> i'm talking about this plot. i'm talking about the babchenko plot. >> in this case, in this babchenko case, now we are on investigation stage. now we're speaking with our citizens who were an organizer of these possible murders. and it depends whose offices he will -- >> stand by mr. prosecutor general, i want to turn to mr. arkady ostrovsky in our studio. you are the russian editor for "the economist." what do you think of this? >> i think it's sad. good news arkady babchenko is alive. but it shows the disdain disregard of truth and reality that we've seen in russia's actions and it's now more infectious. it's penetrating ukraine as well. this is absurd dy becoming reality maybe. this is not out of a plot of a thriller. this is out of plot of george orwell. you know, staging an operation, declaring somebody is dead who is not, this is fake news. and there's no two ways about it. i'm unconvinced

russian companies were able to borrow. russian companies were able to selleck wit in the financial markets. -- sell equity in the financial markets. so i do not believe there is any significant effect. few months ago, the biggest -- matt: this year. sergey: yeah. the biggest effect is one of the two biggest aluminum producers in the world, russian company, were included in the sanctions list. it was sanctioned heavily. american persons, individuals, companies, banks were in one d to trade and month, the output was stable but not able to sell any of it. cargo aluminum in russia declined by 70%. in fact, increasing their stockpiles, the company is increasing their stockpiles and we understand that is not a long-term solution. you cannot increase your stocks forever. but it may cause, of course, problems for the aluminum industry and for the owner of this company,russian oligarchs, and -- but i - and there was a statement. i wonder, was he a target of sanctions? i do not understand. ok. i don't want to support, to protect him

president of the russian federation. so again it's georgia school. because it was a problem that got the order to it was that of. course all of that you have is the view of this particular you say this is like let's see your interior of the. scene along with the soon georges where we are more after the constitutional or. the emblem of the president. or includes the stampa. and so that's the. slogan of the order of benefits foreigner chlorine is that you look at your spirit and still it would say first because it was talked about a constitution that sequence or station the emblem of caesar was stored in the senate the building of the kremlin has now is being brought into the grand palace so first you have sent georges hall then sent and xander and ask and then send andrew school. just to excel is easy i'll see sanitizer nasties all right now and then we have san andreas school buddies and let's talk about the people who are operating more sense andrus will we have the presidential history how they can point to acquire these solutions it would be even

they surprised the russians, the russians are surprised both by the strength of the sanctions and by the fact that the european and the americans had things put on them and it sends a real signal the international community is not going to accept this. and they also have sanctions that have a very clear exit path, you change this policy, it goes away, so i think that's an important -- that's an important thing to kind of break off. the sanctions that are imposed -- it didn't stop the russians from doing other foreign policy activities, right, and i think this is important for the next piece of this because we now have functions that are linked to interference and russia being russia. it's syria, it's ukraine, it's more interference, it's everything and there's sanctions that are imposed on russian government officials, on individual russians, on russian firms, and i think this perceives that they are familiar, and it makes them mean that the most sanctions are going to be lifted, and i think that's an interesting game here and this is why just putting pressure, and it's not a smart d

held this year where also the russian season. that's a program that will be launched this year but also have done meetings think petersburg dialogue and the german russian forum were also discussed about key issues of international agenda change opinions on the situation. around the iranian nuclear deal are true the united withdrawal by the us. change opinions. in the middle east. certainly discussed the. syria crisis. we both believe that we need. to promote the political process including of the geneva platforms need to work together to stabilize the situation on the ground and continue to provide humanitarian aid to the people of syria we praise germany is. ready to take part in restoring economic. physical infrastructure in syria but any must be rendered. in approval with illegitimate authorities we also talked about ukraine the minsk accords are the only two could be used to resolve the crisis and will continue working as part of the normandy for group who are also continue to. provide us support for the minsk contact group.

russian presence. he said, i am worried about the western balkans of a potential area of russian influence. everything we talked about, sanctions, deterrence, a lot of economic and military support. serbia, elsewhere you can see a , scenario as serbia moves through its eu process similar to ukraine. are there things we should worry about? if we have not deterred fully, bere was the logical place where russia would think about challenging the west, but at very low cost? >> it is challenging. challenging, and turkey is challenging at very low cost. it is wherever the west and the united states and nato are not sure of their interest, there is room for russia. i think a valid question to ask is how interested are we at fighting the russians? -- the russians see a change in global order. my guess is that they are right. the russians are trying to grab at what they can before it solidifies into what ever the new form is. the turks are playing that game as well. they are trying to figure out what is possible

what is described in the west as a russian invasion of crimea is a fact the presence of russian soldiers in crimean can you clarify that let us discuss all about they've got to give it a barely spoken of equal but the most of the most go full of the couldn't. as long ago as eighteen zero four sevastopol is a naval base became the main military port of the russian empire on the black sea. during the second world war the heroic defense of sevastopol lasted almost a year and took hundreds of thousands of lives. therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the russian black sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance. those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were and how angry and how we almost went to a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just so if the united states considers cuba to be in its backyard. then crimea plays at russia's doorstep. the consequences of a u.s. seizure of the face or a nato base which int

a russian w.b. a champion of it. and a russian stuff. show you how and why the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction of a unique transcode. that will help the cause of crimea. faster most of those while google more familiar with it a bit by trill. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to to crush the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just no lawyer i mean your list put video of freedom in the new bill is that i live explaining to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took the lead invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten by color blind stamping each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth you long to be called for rich eight point six percent market saw thi

there are a lot of russians and russian people and emails, but where is the actual proof that somethingter more than a year of this? >> i don't have subpoena power. bob mueller does. >> tucker: you have high security clearance anywhere on the intel committee. presumably you have more than like a clip of him at a press conference. >> i'm only giving you the evidence i've seen in an unclassified manner. i'm telling you all of that warrants looking at whether or not we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt conspiracy to defraud the united states. >> tucker: are we working on that? we've been at it for a long tim time. >> not with the obstruction that we continue to see. >> tucker: that's all you got? >> no. >> tucker: with the part we haven't heard? i'm waiting. >> it's right in front of her nose. it's right in front of her nose. >> tucker: more secret messages? >> when we look back on this in 25 years we will be amazed at how much of it was right in front of us. so they are hacking. >> tucker: we are all speaking chinese at that point and people are like people thought russia was the threat

or russian owned entities?m somewhat strurprised tha you would ask me to even comment on these things since the actions the treasury takes are completely confidential. so you shouldn't read into this any way. if you ask me about any person, john smith, anybody else, i wouldn't on national tv comment about specific investigations. that would be completely inappropriate. in my position. >> i appreciate your taking the time to answer my questions. it's an important one, but i respect that you're saying it is classified. thank you very much. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> and next, breaking news. new legal troubles for michael cohen. we are learning the mueller probe, questioning payments, the president's taern received from a russian oligarch and polls just closing in crucial primaries. four states tonight. will voters in west virginia keep president trump's last minute warning not to vote for don blankenship? this is your wake-up call. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, month after month

media were unwittingly spreading russian propaganda. clapper concludes, of course the russian effort affected the outcome of the election. surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a trump win. to conclude otherwise stresses stretches logic and common sense to the breaking point. less than 80,000 votes in three key states swung the election. i have no doubt that more votes than that were influenced by this massive effort by the russians. oh. ah, the immediate past director of national intelligence who was director of national intelligence during the russian attack on the election says he has no doubt that the russian attack, in his words, quote, swung the election to a trump win. that means that the immediate past director of national intelligence believes that donald trump is only president because of a successful foreign intelligence operation to make him president. as for the question of whether or not the president's campaign benefitted from that operation just by dumb luck or whether they were in on it in some way, her

and another tragedy last night russian journalist. was shot in his own home. prime minister already. it was carried out by the russian security services investigation hasn't even started yet. the russian foreign ministry has also and learned the alarming number of violence against journalists in ukraine that's cost our minds back to some of these where russia has been falsely blames. was a crane in russian gen the ukraine engine this story who dies in two thousand and fifteen now russia was immediately blamed for the death but he was killed by ultra right activists for his pro russian views and moving on to shermer a russian ukrainian janessa who was killed in two thousand and sixteen not by the russians but by a bomb detonated by ukrainian security services and in two thousand and seventeen then this phone and call the former russian deputy was killed but was russia behind this night was closer to home his wife's ex-boyfriend ordered the killing now back to where the police have ruled out suicide but now the russian investigative committee have opened up thei

the journalists criticize ukraine for staging the muddle russian open. journalist. a new artificial intelligence tool could possibly predict if a protest is going to turn violent by analyzing social media activity. that you feel as opposed to winning the heart of the things we. put in an exclusive interview with syrian president bashar assad that insists that damascus would never have used chemical weapons against its own people and claims that there is in fact and there ever was a civil war in syria. a worldwide news headlines live from moscow this is international from all of us here a very warm welcome to here. the russian foreign minister has met with north korean leader kim jong un as pyongyang prepares for a potentially historic currently in doubt peace summit with south korea and the united states so he laughed it off said the peace process remains fragile the us is regarding sanctions it's completely obvious that when we start talking about the nuclear issue other issues on the korean peninsula it's with the understanding that nothing can happen with sanctio

the russians would repeat, amplify and embellish that claim. when the russians promulgated a conspiracy theory about her, trump would repeat it at campaign rallies and on twitter. whether secretly coordinated or not, this parallelism constituted a putative team effort by the russian government and the trump campaign. he served as director of national intelligence for 6 1/2 years including for the duration of the russian attack on the 2016 election. he says that the russian attack did sway the election, that donald trump would not be president but for that attack. and he says the trump campaign helped in the attack. he calls it a putative team effort. james clapper joins us next. can make you feel unstoppable. but mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. help take control by asking about your treatment options. vraylar is approved for the acute treatment of manic or mixed episodes of bipolar i disorder in adults. clinical studies showed that vraylar reduced overall manic symptoms. vra

another tragedy last night russian journalist. was shot in his own home creamer prime minister reduces that was carried out by the russian security services the investigation hasn't even started yet and. now the russian foreign ministry is also pointed out a number of alarming cases of violence against journalists in ukraine and that's cost of mind back to some of these festival as well as enough was a ukrainian journalist who died in two thousand and fifteen and russia was immediately blamed for the death but he was killed by ultra right activists for his pro russian views also it was sharing a russian ukrainian journalist who was killed in two thousand and sixteen not by the russians though but by a bomb detonated by ukrainian execute it is said that this phone and call of the former russian deputy was killed in two thousand and seventeen and russia was immediately being quick to blame but he was killed by his wife ex-boyfriend who ordered the killing now can't police have ruled out suicide completely but have opened up the crim

against russia due to the meddling by the russians into the u.s. election campaigns and they strengthen sanctions in april regarding this and these secondary. effects to european and german business to the project cannot seem to d.d. gas pipeline project then there are sanctions or stepping out of the nuclear deal of the us. with with iran and so the question is how do we keep this deal alive and be dampened sanctions off of the european union against iran and then we have to the problem with the eastern ukraine and the established sanctions of the european union against russia just explain how the broader picture is it is indeed a very broad picture but. what business is expecting now from the governments what are german businesses for example expecting to discuss with other me booted today so we live in times where the political influences to the business is very strong and the new currency seems to us is sentients and tariffs not seen in the last let's say fifty years saul so therefore it's absolutely helpful that there is a platform of communic

russian meddling, there you go. dr. leonid volkov, who also did not win in case you were not paying attention. he was not permitted to run. the campaign manager for an opponent to attempted to run navalny ran where he came in 20%. he is a freelance i.t. consultant, and former chief business development officer in luxembourg which is the world leading manufacturer of portable 3-d scanners. he is head of the election committee for the core naming counsel of the opposition. let me pose the question. wheno you run the campaign you know the circumstances are such that you cannot win. who wants to start? >> ok. thank you. the question should be rephrased. how do you run a campaign knowing there is no election? event, is ans an unpredictable outcome, there is something to change. it could bring some change to the policy, and so on. the so-called russian election is not a election in any sense. it is much closer to what was the election in the soviet time. ots --g stations, the ball it was not an election at all. nowadays, russ

russian ambassador told adlai stevenson that he would like him to visit the russian embassy, becauseifts for him. so, adlai stevenson flew to washington to meet with the russian ambassador. he says they gave him wine, he says they fed him fruit and russian caviar. but it wasn't just gifts. they actually wanted to make him a pitch for much more. the russian ambassador at that meeting ended up reading adlai stevenson a letter from moscow. quote, we are concerned -- we are concerned with the future and that america has the right president. when we compare all the possible presidential candidates in the united states, we feel that mr. stevenson is best for mutual understanding and progress towards peace. these are the views not only of nikita khrushchev but of the presidium in russia, the party hierarchy. we in our heart all favor him and ask him which way we could be of assistance to those forces in the united states which favor friendly relations. could the soviet press assist mr. stevenson's personal success? how? should the press praise him? should it criticize him? and if for what.

russian ukrainian journalist was killed not by russians but by a bomb detonated by ukrainian security services and in two thousand and seventeen as well the nice foreign call of the former russian deputy was killed but was russia behind this no in fact it was closer to home where his wife's ex-boyfriend ordered the killing and now there's been reaction from russia's foreign ministry as well saying that russia is glad that the journalist is alive and well and the whole operation they say is of a propagandist nature. ok thanks initially there was an issue with the latest. donald trump has repeatedly called the investigation into alleged collusion with russia a witch hunt but according to one democrat that some move straight out of the kremlin's playbook put his mormon. according to a top democrat in congress if you use the term which on to and you say it over and over and over again which of which are and which you may be a dupe of the kremlin listen to maxine waters talk about trump he's a lying about which but you notice he says which over and over again he has learned some of the rus

a russian w.b. a champion of it. and a russian stuff. show you how. the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction of a unique transport. that will help them out of crimea. most of those you know while google more familiar part of the bridge. welcome to watching the hawks. let us recall in twenty fourteen the senate intelligence committee issued a report on the enhanced interrogation techniques of the george w. bush era war on terror the report recounted the two thousand and two interrogation of abu zubaida captured in pakistan and held in black sites from poland to diego garcia but it was in thailand that his torture became so intense that some cia officers present choked up with tears and requested transfers from the facility according to one cia cable abu zubaida was waterboard to the point that he became completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open full mouth. and the two videos of his interrogation were destroyed by cia officer gina haskell now that the hospital who oversaw the torture of divide and island has received the support of the senate intel

says its second fleet will counter what it calls russian aggression but moscow says the situation verydifferently in one thousand nine hundred ninety the soviet union was given assurances by western countries that nato would not be in large beyond their reunited germany but those promises were quickly forgotten and between then and now the north atlantic treaty organization continued expanding eastward adding thirteen. more members as it carried out major military interventions in the balkans of his stand libya and beyond no wonder then that u.s. plans to deliver patriot missile shield to pull and have been interpreted in moscow as part of a plot to surround russia let's now bring in our guests joining us from london olivier guitar managing director of global strat a geopolitical risk and security consultancy firm in moscow dimitri babich a political analyst at russia profile magazine and in washington d.c. lawrence korb former u.s. as says that secretary of defense gentlemen welcome to the program mr korb let me start with you so we don't assume now that the thinking in washington is

intrater, who is the cousin of the russian oligarch, who is also russian, obviously. mr. intrater is. and, look, what's the explanation for the $500,000 worth of payments? michael cohen should not have been accepting money, especially under the circumstances at this time from anyone with russian ties, quite frankly. >> this american company, they gave money for the -- for the inauguration funds. they also gave money, i believe, for -- to the rnc and to -- for some campaign stuff. all of which is legal. at the very least, there may be no nefarious reason here at all that this company would have given $500,000 to michael cohen. they could have been hiring him for any number of consulting work. >> for what? his legal skill and acumen? i doubt that. >> well, you know, he does have the ear of the president. so a company might want -- but at the very least, it is moronic for michael cohen, who is representing the president of the united states, to be publicly seen as accepting money from a company which has such deep ties to a russian company with ties to vladimir putin. >> and

two russians are with us to debate that. the case for children walking to school oi’ case for children walking to school or more accurately parents not driving. is it time to brand cars at the school gates after that horrible night in june last year killing 72 people there was a desire to investigate. back injune last year, killing 72 people, there was an obvious desire for a proper investigation, and a rapid one at that. an inquiry was officially launched on august 15th, and thejudge leading it, sir martin moore bick, said he hoped to provide an initial report on the cause and spread of the fire by easter this year. well easter came and went two months ago, no report yet but at last, today, the inquiry is properly underway. the stories that came out of the tower in the days after the fire were unbearable to hear. survival or death, it was horrifying — bloodcurdling — to even think about the experiences the residents had to endure. in the inquiry‘s opening days of evidence—taking, those experiences are being relived or retol

probes into alleged russian meddling is becoming increasingly difficult as r.t. samir khan explains. so we've heard this story countless times but of this time the bipartisan republican led committee found that there was collusion no how is this different from every other story well republicans on the committee actually agreed with fellow democrats that not only did russia interfere in the election but the influence campaign was apparently directed by president putin himself to elect donald trump and that all supposedly qualifies as russian collusion however just three weeks ago the house intel committee also a bipartisan republican led committee found that there was no collusion rushes active measures campaign achieved its primary goal of inciting division and discord among americans for more than a year us politics have been consumed by busy recriminations charges and countercharges about the attacks now the democrats completely dismissed the committee's assessment saying that it was incredible that republicans couldn't see collusion throughout the investigatio

russian election as such an event. it ank researchers call electoral type event or something like this. but not an election. voters can participate in such an event or in our case, try to participate in such an event many are not admitted to the ballot and did not participate in the event itself. the election has been scheduled for march 18, 2018 this year. it had to be officially days before the election day so late december. 2017. official is an election that lasts only 90 days because there are some preliminary procedures in the first half of the election. he only proclaimed his candidacy a year before. on december 13, 2016 which matches the style of an election. early announcement before the election day but it is unheard of of -- in russian politics. especially, if someone doesn't know if you will be allowed to be on the ballot or not. what was the motivation behind such an early announcement? there will be a moment of stress for pollutant because putin can't win anything in the election. he has the power, all the

are you a russian spy now you know russian spies. ellen the generous knows what's up we need lists so i've put together a quick one to start things off this is a list of american stars who recently been to russia they held. and did business it's time to wake up russian agents everywhere the president the republicans hollywood your neighbor your friends maybe probably even you well there are some suspect links and turkey's hierarchy too it seems here is the foreign minister showing some impressive russian skills and we both russia. is a syria. to syria. or to incur syria through. torture torture or to produce. more of the news making our headlines this week over eleven hundred people reportedly injured in gas on friday as israeli soldiers used tear gas and live ammunition against anti occupation demonstrators the rally was the latest in the gazans six week old great march of return campaign in which dozens of protesters have lost their lives. i think that it might. get. inspired by ideas like mine. people are actually crossing the str

also in the program there's a high level condemnation against ukraine over a crackdown on russian journalists after a bureau was raided in its director detained. around the clock across the world this is your r.t. international from the team on myself you know me a welcome to the program our top story the transatlantic friendships getting decidedly frosty with the european council president saying donald trump is not exactly europe's best friend right now he added that brussels is under no illusions . of the nuclear deal the long fought agreement guaranteed that iran would limit its nuclear activities in exchange for tough sanctions being lifted. looking at the latest the president. even things. like that. but frankly speaking. europe should be grateful for a president. that if you knew the hoping. you will find one of your. own it's a sentiment being echoed among european leaders as well the german chancellor said europe now has some big decisions to make the e.u. still on board with the around lives even risking u.s. sanctions for having that stance peter all over has more now and i'm glad

with the russian government. they either sold something very dearly to the state of russia, or they bought something for pennies in some sort of privitization. reporter: this dirty money is sent to london both by vladimir putin's allies, who invest it abroad as they have little faith in the ruble, and by the russian president's opponents, oligarchs who became rich after the collapse of the soviet union, but then fell into disfavor. both sides have always been welcome to invest here. few cared where the money came from. and that angers valery morozov. he fled russia after uncovering state corruption. but now the old conflicts from his homeland have followed him to britain. waleriy: they never worked, and they suddenly have billions, and nobody asks where. and they say, let them live here because they're against putin. they're maybe against putin, i'm not arguing that. but at the same time, they're from criminal world, and they bring this criminal world here, with crimininal morality, criminal moral values, crimina

before this big reveal that showed that actually botching co wasn't dead after all russians russian politicians were saying that ukraine was kind of a failed state that it couldn't protect its journalists and now the foreign ministry spokesperson in a facebook post lot late last night said that ukraine now has really shown its true face and that the west has to wake up to the reality that that it's just a dream that ukrainian democracy can be a success so ukraine has really kind of lost its legitimacy over this whole this whole ruse on the international stage and it seems that russia certainly knows that and is willing to use that going forward i'm only sure when and moscow and christian turbot joining us here in the studio thank you so much to both of you for helping us try and make a little bit of sense out of all this we appreciate it. and now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world banished m.p.'s are debating whether or not to keep prime minister of oil in power and no confidence vote was called after a horse conservative party

russian economy was a basket case at that point the life expectancy for russian men dropped from sixty six to fifty seven to get into third world standards russia's economy from the soviet days to two thousand russian economy dropped to the size of the netherlands and since then we've had a resurgence as some of that is because of the increase in oil and gas prices but a lot of it is because of healthy economic recovery that needs to go further needs to have more diversification more development but putin gets a lot of the credit for that and he also gets the credit for restoring national pride one of the things he mentioned in his speech today was a national pride and i see that my russian friends and colleagues russia was a minor player on the world scene back in two thousand it was through with nuclear weapons that it has undergone a huge transformation hasn't it i mean i lived in america before coming here i've been in russia now ten years it is it's phenomenal to see the transformation that has happened not just across russia but particularly here in central moscow. gratian speech

for his pro russian views a moving one to share a method a russian ukrainian gymnast who was killed in two thousand and sixteen not by the russians but by a bomb detonated by ukrainian security services and in two thousand and seventeen then the spot on and cough the former russian deputy was killed but was russia behind this night was closer to home his wife's ex-boyfriend would it the killing now. they can't police have ruled out suicide but now the russian investigative committee have opened up their own investigation and have aged authorities to look closely into the matter and assess the value watching r.t. more news continues. to make its manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the fine merry go round if. we can all middle of the room see. what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to be right. this is what. real people. understand why. they should. welcome back now donald trump has repeatedly called the investigation into alleged collusion with russia

fighting the russian people. needs to be raising awareness of kleptocracy in russia, , and one policy which u think could be very effective with the consolidating frozen assets from russian organized crime are russian kleptocracy into the sons of the people which would be clearly visible online and which could sort of sit there and tell a tiny which russia has sort of return to the rule of law. it needs to be, a needs debate extremely clear that law enforcement is working to save on the benefit for the russian people. on a closing remark about raising awareness in russia is the importance of numbers. when you study the field or when you study how these issues are reported, there is a lack of concrete numbers. and one thing that the treasury and the relevant institutions can do is release figures about how much money they think is being stolen from russia and how much they believe this is costing the russian people to make people aware of these the gigantic costs. i would like to once again thank our panelists for