it too reaches millions of russians.self—imposed exile say about media freedom in russia, and should she have stayed to defend herjournalism there? galina timchenko, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much. could you have stayed in russia? sure, sure. but you chose to leave — why? it's very a simple question. we left russia in 2014. it was very hard year. it was annexation of crimea. it was war with ukraine. and we realised that after my firing, kremlin administration just doesn't allow me to work in my profession. how do you know that it was the kremlin behind yourfiring? you know, it was obvious because i have heard from my colleagues, maybe a couple of times, that head of inner policy in kremlin administration said, "who is majors in internet in russian segment of internet? "who is majors, who is the main figures." my colleagues said, "lenta is on the top." he said, "ok, editor—in—chief, editor—in—chief of lenta "will not work next year in lenta," for sure that it was direct order of kremlin. and lenta's owner, russian

to use these new revelations by a by the russians to ask for even more funding or do you think that perhaps the russians may be pushing washington to overspend on arms as part of their military strategy i think the answer is yes to both the pentagon always wants more money and it can imagine all kinds of problems that imagines the right. dropping from the moon imagine the chinese taking over the whole pacific if you need a good scary scenario the pentagon has always been extremely good at coming up with them but this scenario doesn't mean the scenarios the plans had any validity and i think that basically continues today russia is not under threat unless it you know launched a major invasion of poland or something like that and i think it can and it can stand to relax it's going to be very hard to keep up with the arms race because the united states is so much richer you can keep spending and spending and spending wasting my tax money it's going to be hopeless for a country like russia to try to keep up you can probably keep as you said says she suggested earlier it can probably kee

political system the competence of policymakers political polarization all of that according to some russian thinkers at least increases their risk of misunderstanding or brinkmanship do you disagree with. yes largely i mean i mean i'm not going to argue that the world of the united states is being led by the shrewdest president in the history of the country but the desire of both sides i think for wars are extremely small if i give you one example during the crimean problem obama was constantly being pressured to do more to help the the ukrainians and obama one said ok do you want me to go to war with russia over that anybody want to go to war with russia over that stand up and tell me and no one said anything of course so there's willingness to play around the edges but not to engage in a major war but i think in the kray mean situation the stakes were drastically different for russia and the united states and obama admitted that later on for russia it was a matter of strategic security a matter of life and that and death for the americans it was a secondary or if not that i michel for a t

with russian linguists, with russian ex— births and scientists before the law came in power. —— russianed this article. it is against all rules. —— ex— births. we published this article on the first of march, for example. the law maybe at the first of may, the state duma tested this law. they applied is retrospectively? retrospectively. when you are russian journalist or writer, it's like working in a minefield. every article should or may blow you. you decided to become you could have stayed. no. why not? it no, in this year, i realised that russia became a new soviet union. —— unio. and once i lived in soviet union. i didn't want to say —— i didn't want to stay here. because? because soviet union is autocratic state. there is something... the most hatred, the most hatred. its absence of freedom of speech, its absence of freedom of speech, its absence of freedom of speech, its absence of rule of law, double standards and so on. ijust realised that i do not want to return to soviet union. so your concern was one of professional standards rather than feeling fears about your own safety.

they're a russian agent apparently. it's silliness and but it's dangerous because this is an attempt to mark any peace activist any activist for social justice is some type of a pawn of the kremlin again very much like the old mccarthy period which links similar people with with moscow. i mean i don't want to over stress it but i think it's worth pointing out that her position on the on if treaty is completely the opposite of president trumps you have both of them up rounded russian agents by the u.s. media is there going to come a point at which people will say you know this is kind of getting it not only is it ridiculous but it just doesn't make sense anymore i can only hope so your exact the right and again the idea trump is upon a pollutant did putin want him to back out of the i.n.f. treaty of course not i mean it's all silly and as you say to claim that gabbert and trump who are the opposite sides of this oppose pons of the kremlin shows that this entire line of argument is is specious an absurd to think about as

to be branded a russian agent now. well. in the united states certainly i don't believe there's a conscious russian government effort to support telzey gathered i mean i don't think that waste the time and money to even bother about that she's going nowhere with this he she doesn't have the. gravitas or the or or the idea that i'm sure of him her interests for her name to be linked with many can travesties to be put on the same level with donald trump in fact but it's a joke she's just looking for a publicist a and the n b c. the one thing she wants to hear because it makes her look like she's in the big league so back to the i never truly question her position on it is to oppose president trumps yet they are both branded russian agents by the u.s. media. kind of interesting how you have two different sides supposedly working for the kremlin. absolutely. but you you obviously see that today in washington politics and the us media which is all very left and very anti russia. that you don't have to make sense you don't h

meddling that the russian state orchestrated interference in the banal a scandal ah yes russian meddling again also croyde the mainstream media without doing much checking or even it seems actually reading the study by the lab but even the hit turret the misinterpretation of their work we never said this the fact that the government spokes person immediately exploded. political ends created this sort of hype that was never the object of our study then there all that was super sneaky ways to get fake news across as we found out from one local french channel sports anything rome you'd be forgiven for thinking that the opposition to antigovernment strikes was more than hoff but it seems that this pie chart was artificially inflated and when all else fails you can always just to raise anything that you don't like take a look at this sign in the yellow vests protests i'm of course a pull to in the midst of the yellow vest protests sec on no in fact this is what the so i reset seems two thousand and eighteen was a year for fake fronts with many outlets seeing their noses grow more than one sho

so what were the russians up to?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 in the room. >> it was a dirty offer. >> yes. >> it was a dirty offer that they accepted? >> yes. that is true. that 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 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 their 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, does that mean the russian l

always goes down with the russian public well with the russian public but on the other hand things aren't looking good economically and. russians wouldn't be very interested in having a big arms race and expensive foreign policy moves and body near putin seems to know that today he said that a costly arms race is certainly not something that russia is interested in while the world keeping a close eye on this escalation emily show and reporting from moscow many thanks. turning now to venezuela where our high ranking air force general has declared allegiance to opposition leader why go general francisco young is released a video statement via twitter saying unrecognised why go as interim head of state is a major victory for quite a who's been working hard to persuade venezuela's armed forces to abandon president nicolas maduro caracas and other cities across venezuela are bracing for mass demonstrations later today your position has called for marches to support. a rallying cry from venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president one white oh is determined to overthrow nicolas maduro and hold

it depends on the country so there's room definitely for russian investment russian firms as you've already mentioned already have a rough ness. to solve that so this is about expanding market share i tend to think the russians will be very nice to look at various places and particularly see where there's an overlap with things they can offer mining is clearly going to be one of those areas where they will be in competition i would imagine for example that we'll see the russians much more activity to activity coming as in the democratic republic of the congo all right alex find the head africa program at chatham house in london thank you so much for your insights thank you. well bumble frames are relatively unknown in the cycling world but that's about to change at least in uganda where a cyclist turned entrepreneur is taking bamboo bikes to the global cycling stage in an industry dominated by steel and alum many of the use of bamboo may seem bizarre the d.w. say. that the bamboo bikes are strong light durable and also comfortable. two years of competitive cycling and the writing experience

i'm talking about maria buton a russian woman who pled guilty to felony charges of conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent and she's been held in solitary confinement she's been falsely and publicly very publicly accused of being essentially a prostitute of trading sexual favors for influence does this kind of treatment correspond to the gravity of the crime that she stands accused of it doesn't sound like it does that to me it sounds to me like again they're trying to squeeze her they're trying to get her to provide information against the real targets and they're using tactics that are calculated to make people saying and perhaps composed so i am very concerned as a civil libertarian about the kind of tactic that was used against her against matter for against stone arresting him at six in the morning with a swat team putting him in shackles and then immediately allowing him bail low bail it was all show it was all designed to put pressure on him and that's not the way a legal system should operate under the rule of law i think the most troubling aspect of the boots in t

a molecule of russian gas remains a molecule of russian gas regardless of whether it comes through ukraine but by way of people to see that is the question of how dependent we are on russian gas we cannot be resolved by deciding which pipeline it's coming no one wants to you know not to dependent on russia if we received russian gas during the cold war not only in the d.d.r. where i live but also in west germany and i don't see why the times and situation today should be so much plus a real commitment to say that russia remains a partner hide and seek so that langley merkel that unwilling against u.s. pressure why would the washington right now when there seems to be a growing number of obstacles between the two allies well donald trump is suddenly trying to ratchet up the pressure against girl in and terrorists on the auto industry are something that jump companies are very worried about but they should be because there's growing markets in the east there's a huge shyness market there's a russian market for auto companies to explore and that should be the focus because as we all know the

from russian warships but submarines as well so a confrontational speech by the russian president weday. it was one of the most glaring instances of the russian president saying there is the real threat of a new nuclear arms race between the u.s. and russia. >> it's a real concern. this treaty helped keep the peace in europe for decades. you heard the russian president say he wants better relations with the u.s. which is of course words we've heard from the u.s. president at times. from your perch in moscow, is that a prospect that folks still take seriously? >> i tell you what, you're absolutely right and it's interesting he says russia wants better relations with the u.s. but there was an important half-sentence he said after. that he said russia will no longer knock on closed doors so from moscow's perspective, they believe they were the ones who were trying to get these better relations into place or at least to try to help them along and they believe they are the ones who have been rebuffed. it was interesting because after vladimir putin's speech i spoke to very senior russian

and the russians knew that. >> you don't want your national security adviser compromised with the russianssponse from the white house, president trump fires sally yates on january 31st for refusing to defend his executive order on immigration. nine days later "the washington post" lifts the veil on flynn's talks with kislyak. >> "the washington post" has just posted this. national securitier michael flynn discussed sanctions with russian envoy before trump took office despite denials officials say. >> i don't know about it. i haven't seen it. what report is that? >> on the morning of february 13th the administration publicly supports flynn. >> yes, general flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president. >> later that same evening, that support collapses. >> breaking news, nbc news has confirmed donald trump's national security adviser lieutenant general michael flynn has resigned. >> mike flynn served the shortest tenure of any national security adviser in history. >> more than a year later the justice department releases to congress memos created by james comey. >> one day before m

and bloody me pushing to use an annual speech to promise ordinary russians he'll raise their living standards that said spode show a slide in support for the longtime president. hello and welcome i'm under that she. now many of you may remember the case of the saudi teenager who locked herself up in an airport hotel room last month to escape her family and a half mom with noone was ultimately given asylum in canada sadly she's not the only woman from the ultra conservative islamic kingdom who has fled for her life a number of saudi women have come to germany to seek asylum but this is their being threatened by their families and their tour of duty every exclusively they believe the saudi embassy here is helping them. they fled from saudi arabia to germany here they hope for safety and freedom but these women still live under threat from their families. to her to i thought i was safe that the psychological warfare the violence and oppression would be over but i still feel like they could get me. the women offer to talk to us only on condition of anonymity we have changed their names and voices

moves here's what both the russian defense minister russian leader and the say about poseidon ready. to do this we conducted successful drills of a nuclear powered cruise missile with unlimited range to boot events nick and poseidon an underwater pilotless device with unlimited range we didn't say before but i can now announce that this spring we will launch the systems first nuclear submarine. was business. we successfully completed offshore tests of the pilotless underwater poseidon drones says its crew has passed the necessary training the main aim of this work is to provide military security for our country without increasing the current budget and without being involved in an arms race well the brand new naval system was designed to counter u.s. navy forces on washington's efforts in creating a global missile defense primarily at sea it's all about the russian systems on monday all underwater crofter small difficult to locate intercept poseidon is said to be several times cheaper than both the u.s. deployed missile defense and navy strike groups while posing a serious threat to

what is described in the west as a russian invasion of crimea is a fact the presence of russian soldiers in crimea can you clarify that. gaga would have believed according to quote but the most of the most go floor the could and. as long ago as eighteen zero four sevastopol the 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 in general. but almost some of us

always goes down with the russian public well with the russian public but on the other hand things aren't looking good economically and. russians wouldn't be very interested in having a big arms race and expensive foreign policy moves and by the mere putin seems to know that today he said that a costly arms race is certainly not something that russia is interested in while the world keeping a close eye on this escalation emily show and reporting from moscow many thanks now to some of the other stories making news around the world police in paris have clashed with so-called yellow vest protesters this is the twelve consecutive we can the protesters have taken to the streets on friday of course with the police could continue to use rubber bullets against rioters despite a public outcry. monsoon rains have caused severe flooding in northeastern australia records has been broken in the city of townsville which is saying over a year's rainfall in a matter of just days the study has also been experiencing record heat waves heat waves. well in the united states virginia governor ralph northam is

always goes down with the russian public well with the russian public but on the other hand things aren't looking good economically and. russians wouldn't be very interested in having a big arms race and expensive foreign policy moved and bloody near putin seems to know that today he said that a costly arms race is certainly not something that russia is interested in which all the world keeping a close eye on. and emily show and reporting from moscow many thanks. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the central african republic has reached a peace deal with fourteen armed groups after several days of talks the first ever direct dialogue between the parties was aimed at ending years of conflict that's killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced thousands of people sorry and displaced hundreds of thousands more. police in paris have clashed with so-called yellow this protest is this is the twelve consecutive weekends the protesters have taken to the streets on friday a court ruled that police could continue to use rubber bullets against rioters despite a pu

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always goes down with the russian public well with the russian public but on the other hand things aren't looking good economically and. russians wouldn't be very interested in having a big arms race and expensive foreign policy move and bloody near putin seems to know that today he said that a costly arms race is certainly not something that russia is interested in while the world keeping a close eye on this escalation emily show and reporting from moscow many thanks. well as to the us now i have a genius governor ralph northam is facing calls to resign after a racist picture from his medical school yearbook resurfaced northam is fos losing support from his fellow democrats and republicans are outraged to be reported jared reed is following this story for us first of all jarrett who is ralph north well here is he's fifty nine years old he's a former doctor and he served in the u.s. army for four years he served as what's called the lieutenant governor of the ginia and then two years ago he was elected as governor so this very long distinguished career of public service has basically come

i mean the russians reputation.their own money question and both of them reports but in any case it's the way when the we call the one with the bolted ok it's not interesting for ok let me rephrase it and that's going to be the final question if russia is fully transparent and forthcoming in satisfying all the why the requirements i am going down as a had their facade that once russia has done its part i was going to require that. something about bringing that man to account ok it's yes i think it's all the possible when will understand what wars that are all each person who was in walden this process. it is possible although. with close a summation of this. i proposed before. my proposal was to the working group in the wish the wall all that always and then the national express. that in this case step by step would have to estimate the current situation from one case to all the. cool and four wards have to be responsible for the state of the materials have to be prepared to go to court. we have to move in there. an

so that problem of vote russians. yes it's a problem it's a problem that's a big problem and then i'll come down to my marriage rational decision is i make up and then after that it was comes down to america and russia and who is going to give in first and as we know this to our ethnocentric nations and they're locking her in so i'm not sure any of the country. or anything there's a suggestion actually that germany that russia should move the disputed misao in violation of the and after any to the other side of the year olds so that they can't reach europe but you know the question that everyone's asking care in russia why expect moscow to listen to other countries when it comes to the placement of its of arms on its own territory i mean what would be ok if the u.s. for instance is asked to move their missiles from berlin no right. you don't see the same movement in europe but you have american isn't a german spent their whole their american missiles and german bases. vallabh but that is the media drudge was right but

and you know that the russian eric. if here is that there to fall to the jihad this that narrative was actually corroborated by secretary kerry later on if russians had not done it if they remained on the fans why would have become of syria by the by the way agree with the negatives that want us to intervene in two thousand and fifteen and that was what i was referring to second time. the regime was definitely on the ropes and there was if there was a possibility of a. takeover by she had to groups i am a proponent of us russian collaboration in the middle east i mean inspection in syria and i think we have missed a number of opportunities. where there was possible for the americans and the russians to work together. in the conflict and on you know moving if there was some kind of negotiation and again we're going to disagree on that many times when when there was when there us push for deescalation when there was was for negotiation the sat is you by the syrian regime is to basically lay siege to opposition area to sta

the dependency from russian gas increased drastically with us near a pipeline and that's the reason why they construct that. contradicts obviously the european goals not on the of the energy union but in the future we will see less gas demand because of climate policy and there's a some reason why this pipeline is completely on a canonical on friday european lawmakers will decide whether to extend the blocks energy rules to gazprom if they do so the company would no longer be allowed to both operate the pipeline to handle sales meaning the project in its current form at least could go up in smoke. and have more of the story from brussels. this is not my software. and we're just trying to get there there is max good to see you your leaders are meeting later today what are they going to decide. well the e.u. embassadors are getting together for a vote and they're most likely going to vote in favor of a directive that would change the way that north stream to is regulated the french foreign ministry did confirm that they will vote for this directive but they also said that they're still wo

and i want to specifically ask you about the indictments of the russian individuals including thirteen people who reportedly worked for the so-called troll factory in st petersburg writing comments on social media creating fictional accounts of behavior is clearly malicious but isn't it blown out of proportion considering that's believe in an era where millions of identity fast fast a rat just stared every day there are massive data leaks don't you think that it is a little bit exaggerated the kind of harm that these individuals did to the american system well first of all nobody is ever going to have a chance to prove it or disprove it these people are not going to come to america they're going to stay in russia and so all we have is an indictment hanging out there they'll never be an opportunity for muller or his people to prove this indictment or for the people who have been accused to defend themselves i don't believe in indictments that are designed simply to destroy the reputation of people without giving them an opportunity to respond i was opposed when richard nixon was named a

the russian mobsters he was investigating. thought he was a traitor for working with british intelligence. widow marina has been asking how big was the conspiracy? who was behind it? how high did it go? dangerous questions, as she knows better than anyone. >> you think you play chess, but they play russian roulette. >> reporter: those who were closest to litvinenko believe the kill order may have come from the very top because litvinenko picked a fight with the wrong person from his past. none other than russian president vladimir putin. >> sasha was on a mission. he was trying to prove that putin is as corrupt as anybody in post-communist russia. >> reporter: the mission may have started years before when litvinenko made that flow chart of corruption in the fsb. the head of the agency at the time was putin. after litvinenko fled to london, and putin became president of russia, litvinenko attacked him relentlessly and by name. >> i and others said that this is a very dangerous thing to do because you're -- you're personalizing

were cheating i mean there's no doubt about it the russians were in breach of the i.n.f. treaty and i think it was a provocation to first to menace the europeans and to see if they could bait the americans and the simply just walking away from this whole situation now the russians can afford to look like they're being diplomatic and magnanimous and leaving the door open for further discussion so i'm sure that it's possible they'd be happy to talk because one of the course skill sets of russian diplomacy is long dilatory diplomatic engagements that don't go anywhere and we've just pushed that horizon further out by dumping the treaty instead of trying to rescue one that still in effect. all right we've got plenty more ahead on this news hour how the nation is exploring legal action against big polluters thousands of kilometers away . tens of thousands of civilians fleeing violence to more than syria the u.n. says they must be given safe passage. and later in sports celebrations continue as kottaras a football hero is returned after winning the asian cup he too will be here

from the russian capital you're watching us he international the russian defense ministry has unveiled new footage of a successfully tested underwater drone named poseidon. here's the video of those tests on the new weapon system news they had been successful came immediately off to vladimir putin gave his annual state of the nation and press the president said in his speech that the drone is expected to be in full operation by spring. the president stating the brand new poseidon naval system was designed if necessary to counter u.s. navy forces and washington surface in creating a global missile defense primarily out sea it's thought that the russian system. and the water vehicles is small and difficult to locate and intercept resume putin will say provided an update on a new hypersonic missile known as the cone which he says is a work in progress here's what the russians need to have to say about the weapons they are. we conducted successful drills of a nuclear powered cruise missile with unlimited range vest nick and also poseidon an underwater pilotless device with unlimited range

of the russian empire. and that begins with ukraine. as tom mentioned the grand havana meeting at the cigar bar is especially suspicious because of its unusual timing in the summer of 2016. remember, it came after it was announced in june of 2016 that russia had hacked the dnc. it came after wikileaks released the hacked e-mails. it came after trump asked for e-mails from russia about hillary clinton. >> by the way, they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 e-mails. i hope they do. they probably have her 33,000 e-mails that she lost and deleted. because you would see some beauties there. let's see. >> it would be interesting to see. i will tell you this. russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> russia, if you're listening, let's get in bed together politically. then just two days before manafort's meeting, trump suggested the territory of crimea should be part of russia. he is selling them the deal. here he goes. >> you know, the people of crimea, from

threw a wrench into the iranian russian turkish x. is that most value so much if you'd asked something that to disadvantage russia is that actually a good policy as far as the americans are concerned look i think i'm the last one to defend the top administration especially sleep i'm trying to get at him yes and he's doing something else something good if you are considering that not from the syrian point of view not from the regional point of view but from them american point of view if you see a russia as an enemy if you don't want russia's influence to increase isn't he actually doing that i mean is that the wrong does not see us as an enemy we have to make them. america has many arab to be a distinction between and between the rest of them a state about up to ice and you're probably not want russia to strengthen its position too much in the region so do you see russia i don't think to be very honest right now especially if you take the american public that make up it does not as i said earlier wants to get out of the region does no

the russian river in the north bay is flooding.another look. ( darya ) and this video is from michael in monte rio. he says he is hunkered down in a house by the russian river. you can see the flood waters starting to rise. (james) welcome back. lets get a check of weather and traffic this morning. areas of rainfall continue at times today with the heaviest now behind us. north bay flooding will continues as both the napa and russian rivers are well above flood stage and will continue to rise through morning. daytime highs will peak a touch warmer in the upper 50's to low 60's with clearing and drying skies to finish the week on thursday and friday. hot spot in san bruno. overturn accident nb 280 at san bruno ave. high wind advisory for bay area bridges. dont forget headlighs and wipers. hwy 37 closed in both direction from atherton ave to 101 due to floodingbay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. breaking news ... president trump is meeting with north korean leader kim jong un in vietnam. here is new video of tru

the indictment of a dozen russian g.r.u. intelligence officers in july twenty eight in was a kind of turning point the election interference is now a fact of law as far as the united states is concerned and it is not something that the president can dismiss it is in fact a state operation by a hostile foreign power that i see is good with words when you go to the new issue was the easy bit so when you showed me to give neutering you do look would let me put it says. at a question just now president putin denied having anything to do with the election your fair answer twenty sixteen every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did my first question for you sir is who do you believe my people came to me they said they think it's russian i have president putin and he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be so i have great confidence in my intelligence people but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial thank you. he basically took

trump's arguments that the russians need to come clean the problem is the russians of course argue that the americans have to come clean to on this on this mock forty one launch system in romania and elsewhere on aegis ships that can be done and i think that's really what nato at this point is arguing let's talk engage in diplomacy on site inspections really get the experts on both sides into see if we can overcome these perhaps misperceptions of this point in time and continue with the treaty but if we don't and this may be the intention of trump himself i really don't think nato will in the end long run support this i remember the the protests in the one nine hundred eighty s. against pershing twos and ground launched cruise missiles look comes we call them back then in the s.s. twenty from the from the soviets and those will happen again i'm sure nobody nobody in europe here wants more nuclear weapons in europe i was six months of talks could be on the horizon paul walker director of green cross international environmental security and sustainability program thank you very much. than

logic context with the russian operatives are as you sad story telling rather than formal charges can you explain the difference for those of us who don't know well the indictment against roger stone tells a big story and it doesn't have to prove it it just says that stone met with this person and that person and it was wiki leaks in there with the russians but he was never charged with that and that's never going to be put on trial in court the jury is never going to have to make a decision about that he was charged simply with crimes process crimes lying crimes and other kinds of crimes but they surrounded those process crimes with story telling stories may be true that may be false but they'll never be put on trial and they should not be taken seriously but why would the indictments need to be puffed up with these kinds of stories it's not a little jury or a historical asks a why would these stories be included at all not only this is no necessity to do it it's wrong to do it you should never put anything in an indictment that's not absolutely necessary and has to be proved in cour

because of a russian leanings the so-called russian leans over birds and from before the water in the white house. and therefore it's sort of radio silence remote scroll of voices. at the same time when you look at v.x. true case of problems between washington and moscow vi you left treaty it's clear about this treaty is coming to an end. because of a lack of interest over both sides of. washington and of course karl rove sides i don't want to launch responsibility to anyone but do you think. to say anything other would like to see something bitter cold which bush drew up in one movement called reset of relations between moscow washington almost co and europe and for me visit need proof swords have made a series of mistakes misjudgments over the last at least over the last decade yeah i mean that an understand of zero and with that a lot. yeah we would talk a lot about why how both sides have made mistakes and how we should find common ground but at this point it just doesn't sing possible it out for many reasons that you've cited above right now what we have is we have the i.m.f. sit

news live from berlin they start warning from the russian president to the united states and promises a resolute reaction if washington deploys any new missiles in europe and the state of the nation address which is aimed at boosting a one time president's plummeting approval rating also coming up tonight. as three m.p.'s from britain's ruling conservative party defect siding to recent days disastrous handling of threats in the british prime minister travels to brussels for more talks on how to leave the european union plus the lost in childhood of afghanistan's youth and we meet some of the children who are forced into labor instead of going to school and kept drugged on opium so that their parents can go to war. it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with russian money and muscle in his annual state of the nation address president vladimir putin has promised to improve the living standards for all russians within a year he also made a thinly veiled threats in his speech directed at the united states morning washington against deploying any new missiles here in europe nato qu

president obama also announced new sanctions against russians and russian entities involved in the attack on the u.s. presidential election that previous year, including sanctions on the fsb and the gru, two russian intelligence agencies. we also know that president obama during the transition, he ordered our own intelligence agencies to produce a report, a report on what exactly russia did in that attack on our election. by the first week of january 2017, during the transition, still before the inauguration, a declassified version of that intelligence community report was released to the public. assessing russian activities and intentions in recent u.s. elections. that's where we got the first official public assessment from america's intelligence community before trump took over. the attack on our election was ordered directly by vladimir putin, that the attack was to prevent hillary clinton from being elected president and to hurt her presidency if she was elected. the russian government had a, quote, clear preference for donald trump. that's where we learned that the attack involved r

a russian withdrawal from the treaty was a distinct possibility when the administration announced it was stepping away from the deal but u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o said that the united states could no longer be restricted by a treaty that russia wasn't following the administration's concern is not just russia however they're worried about china which is not a party to the treaty and was not a military power when it was signed in the one nine hundred eighty s. but has since then deploying similar missiles to those that are restricted under the agreement throughout asia and the united states feels limited and how it can respond to what it sees as a threat president trump a suggested that he be open to renegotiating the treaty but if he was hoping to get china involved the chinese foreign ministry shut down that idea saying it was opposed to the u.s. withdrawal from this important treaty and that the country should continue to solidify it with russia and not expand it to other countries so the united states says now that it's exploring other military responses and options to