if you're a russian ambassador overseas and you come home and you take over a major faction of russian industry, you're well connected. >> and kukes seemed eager to show he was building connections of his own. >> dear slava, i was at a dinner with trump. i think his chances are very good. the most respected mayor, rudy giuliani. >> that made my blood run cold because there is so little said and yet so much conveyed. >> what is conveyed? >> to me what's conveyed is, i was with donald trump. we have a plan in action and it's going to work. this guy is going to win. our guy is going to win. >> why send the photo? >> the photo is basically what we might call bona fides. it's proof that, okay, i really can produce what i'm saying i can produce. here i am with giuliani. >> we talked to giuliani. he told us he doesn't remember meeting simon kukes. we looked at the photo's metta data. it shows it was taken august 13, 2016, when giuliani attended a fund-raiser hosted by new york jets owner woody johnson at his mansion in the hamptons. guests paid up to $25,000 to meet and greet candidate trump.

if you're a russian ambassador overseas and then you come home and take over a major faction of russian injury, you're well connected. >> he seemed eager to show he was building connections of his own. >> i was at a dinner with donald trump. i think his chances are very good. in his corner is america's most respected male rudy giuliani. >> that made my blood run cold, there's so little said and so much conveyed. >> what's conveyed? >> to my, what's conveyed is, i was with donald trump, we have a plan in action, and it's going to work. this guy is going to win. our guy is going to win. >> why send the boat toe? >> the photo is basically what we might call proof that i really can produce what i'm saying i can produce. here i am with giuliani. >> we talked to giuliani, he doesn't remember meeting simon kukis. we looked at the photo's metadata, it was taken on august 13th, 2016. when giuliani attended a fund-raiser hosted by woody johnson at his mansion in the hamptons. guests paid up to $25,000 to meet and greet candidate trump. two days earlier, kukis donated exactly in a amount. a few we

if you're a russian ambassador overseas and you come home and you take over a major faction of russian industry, you're well connected. >> and kukes seemed eager to show he was building connections of his own. >> dear slava, i was at a dinner with trump. i think his chances are very good. the most respected mayor, rudy giuliani. >> that made my blood run cold because there is so little said and yet so much conveyed. >> what is conveyed? >> to me what's conveyed is, i was with donald trump. we have a plan in action and it's going to work. this guy is going to win. our guy is going to win. >> why send the photo? >> the photo is basically what we might call bona fides. it's proof that, okay, i really can produce what i'm saying i can produce. here i am with giuliani. >> we talked to giuliani. he told us he doesn't remember meeting simon kukes. we looked at the photo's metta data. it shows it was taken august 13, 2016, when giuliani attended a fund-raiser hosted by new york jets owner woody johnson at his mansion in the hamptons. guests paid up to $25,000 to meet and greet candidate trump.

that's why i can believe in these accusations of russian hackers. >> tonight state sponsored russian tv is pouring praise on president vladimir putin, calling him a master of rhetoric, a more skilled negotiator than president trump. >> putin's diplomatic power play over president trump at the helsinki summit was a pivotal moment that reverberated around the world. >> he showed he was not willing to stand up to the russian leader. and tonight foreign diplomats are saying for the first time in 70 years they cannot depend on an american president. >> but putin's show of intellectual force in helsinki was not just about trying to prove his dominance over president trump. >> vladimir putin doesn't care about donald trump. vladimir putin doesn't care about the republicans. vladimir putin duoesn't care about the democrats. he hurts america. he hates the united states. he wants to create problems and trouble here. >> he wants to see western democracies in crisis, in chaos mostly say they can't challenge him. >> vladimir putin is one of the most powerful men in the world, and he has forced hi

russian charged. a russian woman is charged with conspiracy to interfere in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections. federal authorities say it's part of a broader plot to sow discord and manipulate voters by spreading disinformation online on a variety of hot-button issues. >>> ongoing interference. top u.s. intelligence and law enforcement officials are now warning there's an ongoing effort by russia and others to interfere in u.s. elections and undermine democratic institutions. so what is the u.s. doing about it? >>> in a wheelchair. president trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort, shows up in a prison jumpsuit and in a wheelchair. and learns he'll be sentenced in february. manafort's lawyer says he has a medical condition related to his confinement. >>> and cohen's midterm message. president trump's former lawyer and ultimate loyalist urges americans to vote against the president and the gop, michael cohen. warning that otherwise there would be two or six more years of what he calls crazine

these are russian military officers. if we could get our hands on these folks, we have no problem seeing them in justice. >> with the connection -- if what you are saying about the connection to russia is true, when you claim that, does it impact your ability to do this? >> if we get them, we will not have problems. >> three of the gru officials indicted were previously indicted by special counsel mueller. did you coordinate or work with them in the indictment? >> this investigation is entirely separate from the work of the special counsel's office. >> did you coordinate when you released it? anything about the investigation? >> i will not comment on any discussion -- internal justice department discussions. >> the western district of pennsylvania often seems to be involved in these cases, hacking of foreign governments. is there anything you have seen that actually works? not everyone believes they have given -- anything you have done our actions work to deter foreign hackers working on the house of the government. come

i love russia very much i love the russian people and the russian culture. but i have a problem with the people who run the country. they have to learn to respect other cultures. this soviet era statue was intended to symbolize the georgian character the figure holds a bowl of wine to welcome friends and a sword to ward off enemies. reality says that in today's independent georgia artistic and intellectual life is thriving georgians love to read most homes are filled with books and even the smallest village has a library right he says that georgians respect their literary heritage and this allows them to preserve their national language in soviet times. that use just grotesque. it's an expression of soviet fantasy. georgians don't like it you put it is no femininity whatsoever. and that sword shows just how far apart georgia in the soviet union one of the time. but if not it points out a big white building near the river. that's the city's public service hole. we visit the building the next morning it's about as far removed from salvage era structures as you

i would do a song in russian and the audience that doesn't speak russian still responds. >> runs andperates shopping malls and fashion brands and restaurants. including co-owning nobu with robert de niro. so he's a pretty interesting character to begin with. >> and how amon led to trump takes a detour through the world of beauty pageants, miss universe. >> amon and i went to meet with the miss universe organization in manhattan. and about getting a co-star for a video. >> and they asked for the most beautiful woman in the world. they also had a conversation about where the next miss universe contest would be. >> and amon says why not moscow? my father and i own this big concert hall in moscow. why don't we do that instead? he went, let's do it you'll have your concert. rob will torg and that's it. >> the idea went all the way to the top of the miss universe organization. to donald trump. >> donald trump loved the idea, said -- make it work. >> the agolarovs travelled to the states in june 2013. goldstone was on hand for the introductions. >> i remember i was in the lobby of the trump

it said that they viewed as a problem i may have my perception is that the russians also see that as more of an opportunity for themselves or at least something that benefits that geo political vision more than for example denmark and your political no i think i think that's true sure i mean i think what runs through a lot of the reports said done over the years is the notion that the so-called unit polar moment which was dominated by the united states after ninety ninety one has run its course and that we're moving towards a multi polar earth russians often want to say no multi centric world and on that score i think many americans would agree so i don't think this comes as a great shock to most americans there are to be sure american experts and american public figures especially who don't agree with this but i would say more people agree with that than distributed you wrote a book on the origins of the ukrainian crisis that some analysts share of asserting that everyone lost from this contest for influence in its eurasia and yet i think there's a growing sense here in russia that

not just the russian military that's having accusations flying at it apparently russian trolls are now turning fans against the classic star wars films believe that or not we'll give you details just a bit later in the. but for now you're not see us special representative zalmay khalilzad is on a. trip to the middle east to quote coordinate and lead u.s. efforts to bring the taliban to the negotiating table however it doesn't look like they are willing to accept the offer especially considering the increasing control the group is exerting on the ground there watty was granted access to one taliban commander and we raised the subject. over the americans never want to cooperate with the taliban and the taliban has never asked the americans again to cooperate against islamic state the americans are bombing us while we fight i saw the latest suggestion of direct talks between the taliban and washington came from the u.s. state department on friday. this is ministration has made it clear that it is prepared to engage with and participate in the go with both the taliban and the afghan govern

i would do a song in russian and the audience that doesn't speak russian still responds. >> runs andperates shopping malls and fashion brands and restaurants. including co-owning nobu with robert de niro. so he's a pretty interesting character to begin with. >> and how amon led to trump takes a detour through the world of beauty pageants, miss universe. >> amon and i went to meet with the miss universe organization in manhattan. and about getting a co-star for a video. >> and they asked for the most beautiful woman in the world. they also had a conversation about where the next miss universe contest would be. >> and amon says why not moscow? my father and i own this big concert hall in moscow. why don't we do that instead? he went, let's do it you'll have your concert. rob will torg and that's it. >> the idea went all the way to the top of the miss universe organization. to donald trump. >> donald trump loved the idea, said -- make it work. >> the agolarovs travelled to the states in june 2013. goldstone was on hand for the introductions. >> i remember i was in the lobby of the trump

and now two episodes or of russians on russians he said that russian side genetically inclined to plan to treat and then to fear milligan he haley says more or less the same thing going to go edge of i think the reason why this is becoming a bit of a comedy is because this is the russia good thing it works i mean let's not let's not forget how this all started with the hillary clinton or so of course revealed that they were passing over questions around town hall meetings and essentially they colluded so. russia can really be blamed for everything and some of the of course the some serious cases but. it's going to walk into the colonies section is wrong because if you remember well my favorite i think was last week was blaming the poor star wars movie on the kremlin because you know the russian boats were out there one size fits all in the western culture probably my favorite of all. george to start your kid through it he was accused of sexual harassment and essentially he turned around saying well. a lot of this online traffic is obviously rush limbaugh . and because he's you know bei

it's not just the russians. russians is part of the solution and part of the problem at this point. could we work with them? actually, we have. we're willing to work with anybody who is willing to create transition in syria and from what i understand, the opposition pay be going and visiting moscow very soon to talk about idlib and the continuation, not to make it because -- the russians keep saying that is a temporary deal in idlib, that what's happening in the north is something that could erupt and change the strategies on the calculations on the ground, so there is an attempt to talk with them and see how we can keep this holding. >> i could see, mike, you were itching to comment on this? >> i wanted to add a few more -- i want to flag something. i always see it in worse case scenarios. i'm not saying this is necessarily what's going to happen, but there's a kind of a contradiction in the american approach. this is from the 30,000 foot level. it has to do with our attitude toward iran and russia and our attitude towards the turks. it is a priority now of the administration to im

alone welcome to worlds apart over the last decade the russian foreign policy has always been constructed to serve as a mirror sometimes a fun phallus mirror to the united states but that approach if the wall went to america and political reality became stranger than fiction now the most glowing and secure innings you gather the bilateral relationship back to normal what optics should it use to facilitate it well to discuss that i'm now joined by timothy cult a professor of government and russian studies at harvard university professor cold and it's good to talk to your again thank you for agreeing to work with speaking on the sidelines so did paul di forum and the catchphrase of these years of band is the crumbling world the other is that's really desired guys or perhaps more brass wishful thinking on the part of the russians well i would say it's wishful thinking i think the authors of the report that referring to actually saw the crumbly were. would order as a problem that they weren't very happy with but. so there was quite a lively discussion of the report at the first session and ce

dara: i think the russians can compartmentalize. there can be a lot of problems in a relationship, but they are willing to focus on the parts that can work. they can put the rest to the side. i don't think that we are good at that. i am trying to be very polite. mike: you're being very polite. dara: but syria is an example of where we are in alignment with the russians, but we talk to them almost every day because we have to. we have to de-conflict things. it is not possible. we won't solve the whole relationship, but we should at least start with a win somewhere. mike: sam, medium-term objective? where should we push for, and a couple of actions. samuel: i would say that our objective should be stability in u.s.-russia relations, that we shouldn't aim any higher than that, because at this we don't point have stability, that's potentially dangerous not just for the two countries, but for the rest of the world. and so under that rubric, you know you can imagine a number of , different tracks, be it prolonging the start when it comes

things that old russian speaking people should leave the crimea all russian language should be just. crimea of course the people who were living there they decided to change their just to belong it's a consenting rusher of georgian relations into cells and a it was very painful of course first of all it's difficult for me to say that but. let's say i'm brave enough to say that yes there was a main just person who begin a war really gave the order in russia. there's absolutely no love lost for mr secretary in russia but i think people now can appreciate that he never went as far as cutting the ties by the thing so maybe it was not so we's the bull. it was no so just both for many russian people but russia really enjoyed was successful to create absolutely untrue russian feeling especially in generations so he was trying to do this. yes fortunately not fortunately so what is very important to say yes of course you mention recognition of a president. this was a very painful for me and for georgia for the country and for the people i think it was a mistake from russian side i think it wa

well it's not just the russian military having accusations. not just around the corner here on the program on r t the u.s. could slap india with sanctions off a new delhi sign that deal with russia more details on that just. unfortunately the united nations security council in this approach to yemen is only to listen to the speech and impose it affords many months or two months and then that is introduced when weeks. i mean that imminent it does in terms of the security council would make these statements which would have been to. us a sign of playing to this idea of the u.s. dollar reserve currency empire they've built over post world war two hero for everyone gets the death of america and pays homage to america china russia iran africa good name and they're all saying now we want markets all as a trump wants markopolos up he wanted for it we wanted to trade directly bilaterally we don't want to be part of the globalization anymore. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports bus

russian relations? >> i think that inevitably, both russia and china, there's an extent to which they respective relationships with the u.s. affect, particularly russia's eagerness to engage with china, and that they are united in opposition to u.s. on a number of levels, and that brings them closer. the position that we now find ourselves in, that their relationships with each other, are significant better than our relations with either of them. which is what kissinger said we should not be doing 40 years ago. there have been some significant develops, including the military, which we have talked about. >> up until recently, it seemed like china was more willing to sit on the sidelines and that let the u.s. and russia do get their problems, while they continue to be active in other regions very quietly. however, there's a few new irritants in the u.s. russia china relationship, new military technology going into place in japan and other areas in asia have been major irritants. to china, and now with he

you say keeping the russians at bay, we have exa m ples say keeping the russians at bay, we have examples information about various attacks in which they state they have high confidence that the gru was almost certainly responsible, including the cyber attack on the world anti—doping agency, the 2016 attack on the democratic national committee, and so on, so clearly, some of these attacks are happening, and others are being thwarted. his isa and others are being thwarted. his is a finely poised battle in your opinion, between hackers and those trying to stop them? very much so. it's hugely widespread. there is other stuff going on that we are yet to hear about. what it is showing is quite how good the british and others are at interjecting this, and long may that continue. the widespread activity here, and in the past, the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't cyber attacks which the russians were doing, we had a lot of subversion and other bits and pieces. this is an extension of spying, if you like, to the current day. and it is important that we do support our security services in every way

who's up there all alone in the russian section is going. to get called he talked about some elements of russian cuisine that. requested to be ready upon his arrival there's nothing nothing fancy just like some standard standard things to remind him of the american we we heard from him earlier as well his name was nick a yeah yeah he's talked about him is forty three years old we also talked to him and he described his feelings what he expected from this flight that didn't happen have a listen. i think the thing i'm most looking forward to is just experiencing my own adaptation to space i'm going to go up there and i'm going to float for six months my feet need to touch the ground they'll be all kinds of kids or logical changes that are going to happen to my body and i'm going to adapt that environment there is also going to be every day something that surprises me i just want to try to absorb as much of it as i can i've heard lots of astronauts and cosmonauts come back from space and see it way you describe it never does it justice. never c

sponsorship by russian athletes.rs and networks of anti—doping agencies, officials, sporting federations and hundreds of clea n, sporting federations and hundreds of clean, international athletes from hundreds of countries. targets extended beyond anti—doping and sporting federations for that they targeted the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons among others. in situations where gru operatives could not target the systems, they travelled using russian government issued passports to locations around the world to access close to locations around the world to a ccess close a ccess to locations around the world to access close access hacking operations. you can see some photos here. i think we have others we will provide after the conference where you will see the car used by the operatives outside the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons. you will see the materials and gear that was abandoned after the failed intelligence operation and you can also then see how the gear was arranged to p

russian government needs to. international law in this way there will be consequences that they will be exposed on behalf of the e.u. i want to fully condemn the dark extra for our complete we do with those afflicted today's announcement by the direction the british government have exposed russia's term. turks wrong russia. this reckless. behavior. we're joined live now bipolar boy in london for more so what is russia accused of. well yes for an intelligence agency that's meant to sort of remain in the shadows russia's intelligence agency the g.r.u. has today been thrust into the daylight or plunged into the daylight rather the list of accusations unveiled against the g.r.u. is pretty extensive and just moments ago we heard from the u.s. department of justice it appears that these accusations have been coordinated written in the u.s. the u.k. the netherlands and switzerland but the u.s. department of justice has just announced that they have indicted seven russian military agents that's g.r.u. agents for hacking

criminals the russian government. russia's indiscriminate campaign exposed by wants to fully condemn this i thought arc this reckless. behavior irresponsible behavior from moscow. here's how events unfolded on thursday the u.s. the netherlands and britain almost similar taney asli accuse russia's g.r.u. military intelligence service of a string of cyber attacks my colleague neil harvey earlier talked about this with r.t. correspondent daniel hawkins to firm response from moscow with counter accusations towards neverland's and the u.k. branding all this story effectively stoking russophobia anti russian propaganda and what the troubling describe aspire mania across the globe question the timing of all this these incidents in the netherlands at least alleged to have happened several months ago now the expulsion of those people allegedly at the diplomatic passports but said to be g o u agents military intelligence agents the information is really just come out now though the photographs the full information the statement

flynn has lied, and the russians know that those are lies. we need to mitigate the risk." >> nartor: yates would head to the office of the new white house counsel, don mcgahn. >> don mcgahn is a kind of stalwart conservative lawyer. not someone who has a record of serve within the department justice. not someone who's been schooled in exaly these kinds of questions. >> narrator: yates and her deputy, mary mccord, told mcgahn that michael fly had been lying. >> i think that, you know, for a person who'd bn in the office for six days, it was surprising information to learn and just took a little bit of time to process. >> what the acting attorney general was saying to the white hounsel, "you have someone working in this building, in this west wingwho is compromised." >> narrator: they believed the information they gave mcgahn would force the president to act. >> it's clear that yates and mccord believe this is a ver vulnerable situation for the white us as well as for mr. flynn. and they presume that the white house would fire him. >> narrator:

russian foreign minister. put him in to have a consultations on the cyber security and he said if you have any questions in connection with the alleged russian activity we can put this specialist from two countries sit down on the table and to discuss professionally what are the concerns of the british side the british refused to do this and instead of that they launched a reckless attacks on us without any evidence this is quite a big story you know this is the name of the russian intelligence organisation you know if you names there are expelled and all these things but the beef i mean this is this substance is not. basically given so we're going to the british side to give more information on that and we're going to repeat our call if you have some information please share this information and we're ready to see. the united states is officially withdrawing from the un human rights council we will not cooperate with the i.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c. they source politicized claims are bro

good and twenty thousand to russians. but we russian india have close or a similar approach towards many international and regional issues and that context we have agreed to enhance the quality of our copper ration working hand in hand on many international platform such as the united nations g twenty the c.e.o. and brics will be reinforcing security and cooperation in asia. be fighting together many challenges of today such as international terrorism direct traffic in turns border. that we touch upon such matters as the revival. of the economy and bring stability to afghanistan discussing our opinions in our assessments of the situation in the middle east i briefed my counterpart on the station in syria we discussed as you asian which was being created as a result of the unilateral u.s. decision to withdraw from the joint comprehensive deal. on the run and should like to think it is excellent of prime minister and all our friends from india for a very detailed and constructive talks i am sure that the outcomes will serve

russian. trace in it where you to show russia when human rights watch talks about brutal attacks on roma people people when i am a she says the same thing when freedom house or the senate is not all russian conspiracy no but partially it is that's one thing and the other yes yes there are there are there are cases where russia is working unfortunately very actively also inside ukraine that's one thing and another thing is that whenever these cases are happening we are reacting fiercely against them and the law enforcement is taking care of that bad marriage education about that and where you know i would also want to see more. professional approach back home but i think when you are rebuilding the whole institution sometimes it takes time to rebuild them and it takes time for them to to react properly so yes we do have separate cases and i was very concerned for example with what has happened with roma people definitely you know i'm one of those that is speaking out at the governmental level a

you talked about russian behavior. my concern, as a member of this committee an american citizen, i want to make sure they don't have the capacity to do something, what ever their intentions are. that brings us to the question that senator rubio talked about when he talked about this new strategic nuclear weapon in march. vladimir putin said the weapons include a nuclear powered cruise missile, and underwater drone that can be armed with a nuclear warhead. they have hypersonic missiles, and the headline in one of the papers said high-tech weaponry, russia's new nuclear weapons are technically plausible. this is something they could potentially have. putin did his boasting. whether it was idle or real, what is our government's assessment of the level of accuracy on these weapons? >> senator, i cannot speak specifically to the individual systems that president putin announced. some of them may be more mature than others. i do think it is a worrisome development that he announced these so publicly, and made such a present

it's the russians. russians is part of the social part of the problem at this point.could we work with them? action we have. we are willing to work with anybody who is willing to create a transition in syria. from what i understand the opposition actually maybe going into moscow person to talk about idlib and the continuation. not to make the russians keep saying that's the tip or deal in idlib. that was happening out in the north that something could completely erupt and change the strategies, calculations on the ground. there is an attempt to talk with him and see how we can keep this holding. >> mike, you are itching to comment on on the. >> i just wanted and a few more -- i want to flag something. i do we in worst-case scenarios so not saying this is missing which would happen but there's a kind of a contradiction in the american approach recuses from the 30,000-foot level and it has to do with our attitude towards iran and russia on the one hit and our attitude towards the turks. it is a priority now of the administration to improve relations with the turks. and

, i think we have to deal with the russians. as i think a lot of us today don't have any confidence whatsoever, that they are dealing in good faith. they are serial cheaters, they are serial liars, and you have to look at the other things that they are doing in the world, to judge what kind of a mind these people have, as far as whether they are acting in good faith. having said that, the reason i oppose the original new start, was simply because i believed it didn't give us the inspections, the confidence that we needed to get to where we wanted to be. i thought there was more we could do. obviously we can't talk about it here, but there are things that we can do to verify in addition to the things that are included in the treaty, and they do the same thing. having said that, as we move, as we look forward to renegotiating the treaty, when it expires, are there preparations being made, as to how we could ratchet up our game, as far as being able to verify the things that we suspect and probably know in some instances, that they

betrays the general russian. president there and in particular but i'm wondering if you think self could afford to abandon or cheat on the agreements that he reached with putin regarding the i think you're making a very good point. to to throw russia under the bus easily in favor of some kind of an alliance with the united states because turkey. very difficult position of the moment there's a lot of pressure on him at home over the syria policy there's a lot of people at home saying why are you not returning all those syrian refugees back to syria and of course that agreement over is probably the last you know straw . polls which has been disastrous to be honest while we're still on the subject of syria publicize details of the journalist murder are extremely disturbing but not in the context of syria because. there are things much worse that have been done in that country by the rebels that are supported either by saudi arabia or i'm afraid . but speaking about saudi arabia do you thing that is going in any way

so what were the russians up to?et it up as a theory. >> so do you agree with national security officials both prior and current who believe that this meeting was a probe set up by the russian government of the trump campaign? >> i've always looked at it as a bait and switch. >> goldstone says he thinks the offer of incriminating information was made just to get into the room. >> it was a dirty offer. >> yes. >> it was a dirty offer they accepted. >> yes, that is true. it didn't materialize, but yes. it's the willingness to accept it. >> that willingness, intelligence experts say, may have been the whole point. >> a lot of my sources, current and former intelligence officials believe this meeting was essentially a test by the russian intelligence services to see how the trump team would respond. >> when you tell someone we have dirt, you're testing the waters to see what the response is. and once you get a yes, a positive response to that, you have hooked your fish. >> if it was a sophisticated intelligence operation

the four russians arrived on the 10th of april.y were using diplomatic passports and carrying 20,000 euros and $20,000. they were secretly photographed carrying out reconnaissance the next day. in the boot of their car they had what is called close access equipment, allowing them to intercept passwords as staff logged into their computers so that the russians could break into the systems. the dutch, with help from the british, had been watching and waiting. we were watching closely at that moment for that when we had the idea that the equipment was getting working, we disrupted the operation. you are confident this is russian military intelligence, the gru? we are confident. what ties them to the gru question of their phones were activated close to a gru base. one carried a taxi receipt from a gru based to the airport on the day they left. information on the laptop will honour the men links his computer directly to a series of cyber attacks, including the downed malaysian flight and hacking of athletes data from the world anti—dopi

also on the program a range of western countries including the united states accuses russia and the russian agents of launching cyber attacks around the world are targets including the un's chemical weapons watchdog. i'm phil gal welcome to the program the u.s. satis is a step closer to confirming president trump's nomination to the supreme court the f.b.i. report into allegations of sexual assaults against judge brett kavanaugh has now been shown to sentences republicans say it contains nothing to substantiate the claims as thousands of m c kavanaugh protesters took to washington streets democrats criticized it as incomplete and constrained by a white house determined to push through the lifetime appointment of the conservative fifty three year old judge as in previous senate judiciary a hearings a confidential report prompted a partisan rough. democrats dianne feinstein said the most notable bonce of the report was well it was not in it the f.b.i. did not interview brett kavanaugh nor did the f.b.i. interview dr blasi for what we've heard from numerous people over the last few days seekin

years since the great crisis erupted and you certainly can see that everything has gone wrong for russian foreign policy around it you know it's intervention in syria starts in two thousand and fifteen that probably would have occurred with or without the ukraine crisis and you know i'm not sure how much you want to get into a discussion of russian behavior in syria but it's from a power point of view it's actually been pretty successful so one might say that there's been a period in which there have been certain gains but you know also lots of other things have gone wrong that russians and never shy of them to their grievances of democrats but i've got a sense that they've had enough of that already and they want that. kind of normalize their relationship at the moment i know that's your long suggested that there should be some sort of a working group or by the actual panel that would take stock of their relationship and focus specifically on how to avoid further damage. or adjudicating who is to blame do you think that sustainable in the current american political environment well if it