coalition has also media so if you destroyed the city of raka as the representative of the russian federation just said. my government calls once again for dismantling this illegitimate coalition and to stop its crimes against the syrian people immediately yes. she also. the russian military has issued a communique today saying that. the areas under the control of the allies and agents of the united states in syria and witnessing currently the worst humanitarian crisis in the country. in these areas have become black holes just like the black holes in space so mr president. we're going to eastern. this in government believes that the current deterioration in the situation is due to the fact that terrorist groups in that area has launched attacks against residential areas and military points they have launched more than two thousand one hundred eighty missiles and mortar against the city of damascus until yesterday to show these attacks have claimed the lives of sixty six civilians and injured four hundred seventy four others most of the what. the government forces have been forced to respond

negotiators in their relations with the russian federation i mean trying to keep the peace the cease fire thus far has not actually been happening that well is the middle school cease fire agreement that's going to knock this completely out of the basket is there or is it i mean at the moment kiev seems to say that this law doesn't violate the mint's ceasefire agreement how do you see it well i think in a sense it does but i think it's wise for us to take them at their word that they don't want to break with the agreements the minsk agreements is all we've got to hold the situation in as a frozen conflicts and it's better off as a frozen conflict than as a conflict but of course it's in a way it's a hostage to the wider relations geopolitical relations between the west and the russian federation and there are plenty of forces inside the ukraine itself and in the west that want to see a conflict here as a means of debilitating the russian federation on the world stage so it's not really just about what's going on in ukraine you've got to put it in the context of what's been happening

he has expanded the russian federation you know like this deals because. there is a very good institute international institute of strategic studies which is based in london and they just released a report and if you look at that you know about the military budgets you will find that the budget of russia one year is forty six billion dollars the budget of the u.k. is fifty two billion dollars so the british are spending more than we're doing and the budget of the united states military budget for one year it's seven hundred billion dollars it means that the whole nato spends almost a trillion against forty six billion dollars so roughly twenty times more so make your own conclusions another context of this course is what we're hearing about for the united states. and rex tillerson this existence as you will be meddling with us but you already have plans for the twenty twenty lectures in the united states and of course we here in british media repeatedly that you. meddled and i suppose i can give you that one they haven't got proof of that the rex address f

i think the united states of america and i'll give the floor to the russian federation. thank you mr president would you please mr president. following one thing consultations during which the overwhelming majority of delegations demonstrated a sincere focus on seeking the joint solutions for which we thank them for the security council unanimously adopted their humanitarian resolution on syria. i should wish to thank in particular the pan holders the point i was actually gives of kuwait and sweden for. their unstinting efforts and for their desire to arrive at a compromise up until the very last moment. the russian federation supported this document in so far as it encourages the syrian party to conflict to promptly halt hostility and compliance with previously agreed upon resolutions in this regard and to negotiations or work on general of the escalation in the establishment of lengthy humanitarian pauses through out the territory of that country. it took us so much time to reach agreement on the resolution when you do to the fact that we did that we did not support wh

it included multiple components, including domestic elements within the russian federation, and others targeting foreign audiences in multiple countries. internet research agency allegedly operated through russian shell companies. it employed hundreds of people in its online operations, ranging from creators of fictitious personas to technical and administrative support personnel, with an annual budget of millions of dollars. internet research agency was a structured organization with a management group and arranged into departments, including graphics, search engine optimization, information technology, and a finance departments. in 2014, the company established a translator project focused on the united states. in july of 2016, more than 80 employees were assigned to the translator project. two of the defendants allegedly traveled to the united states in 2014 to collect intelligence for their american influence operation. in order to hide the russian origins of their activities, the defendants allegedly purchased space on computer servers located here in the united states in order to

he will be real pointed as president of the russian federation. to use the word voting or choice, because there is no choice here. it is not a question of whether he is going to be elected or not, it is a question of legitimacy. legitimacy is a very vague idea in political science. it is not legal. we can talk about legality in terms of specific laws. , constitutions, this kind of legal institutions. legitimacy is something when people do -- the majority of people in the particular --ritory do recognize the problem is that as it was shown during the latest parliamentary elections, big cities don't vote for the party in power. the last parliamentaryry elections in moscow, there was united russian got something like 30% in st. petersburg, 34%, and so goes. from 13% to 20%. that's the most they go out in the industrial cities all across the russian federation. the problem is that of course the way the united russia and putin back in 2012 they get in this huge approval . is through so-called electoral supernauts, that's how political scientists in my

resolution because we must demand nothing less now we also heard from the representative of the russian federation now he addressed the security council and he emphasized that the fight against terrorism is not affected by this resolution that internationally delegated terrorist groups groups like al nasra isis that the fight against them is not restricted by this resolution that fight will continue he also had some concerns about how the fight against terrorism seem to be serving some other goals a. game of battling terrorism can't become a cover for solving geo political problems of dubious legitimacy and that is exactly what the u.s. is doing in syria right now we insist that the so-called coalition and its attempts and occupation as soon as possible it would have among other things a clear humanitarian effect nikki haley the representative of the united states walked out before the syrian representative could speak under u.n. rules if the resolution pertains to you all countries have the right to address the security council the syrian ambassador to the united nations went on to point out that

whenjust arguing that vladimir putin became president of the russian federation in 2000, he brought withimself a whole range of people from his own job, the kgb. over the years, they staffed all layers of the russian government the upper levels of the , government and the presidential administration and as a result, by 2008 almost 60% or 70% of all positions in the top layer of the russian government were occupied by the kgb. it was also occupied by people from the military intelligence group. by 2015, it became clear in the public sphere that the country is run by the people who grew up inside, or by their sons and daughters. we have been witnessing the formation of the whole plan of the all who are united by their common background, common and by the special code of ethics and understanding of what is right and what is wrong, and even the inferior complex that they developed after the soviet union collapsed. result, just to put it into comparison, some factors, in 1999, the last year that boris yeltsin was president of the russian federation, he pronounced his successor, prime minister

falling well short in this regard and they at times deliberately skirt their obligations to the russian federation works with all parties to the conflict in so doing we are doing everything possible to normalize the situation we are proactively lending assistance in terms of humanitarian delivery what a great deal of work is being done by a partners under the astonished a process iran and turkey. in their monster com we're preparing for an important meeting under this format. under the southern us coalition of a zone of good cooperation has been established with us bodies albeit in some recently we've observed in some areas escalations of attentions are due to the ratcheting up of activities by armed groups. resolute the resolution explicitly stated that it does not apply to the military operations against eisel. and other al-qaeda affiliated organizations or other terrorist groups which have been a good knowledge as such by the security council but this is a struggle which will continue what we call upon international players are too closely coordinated on this matter including with the syrian go

these numbers a look at yourself first before you start spreading misinformation about the russian federation and the other point i would like to mention and stress is not the presidential office and the defense ministry but provided necessary clarifications by. saying that no russian military personnel were in the vicinity of the airstrike next a very important point. that i would like to point out. what is in conflict there is a large number of people from all the different parts of the world including russia and c.i.s. countries think the purpose of. their study in the conflict zone may be different including they may be involved in. it is as you probably understand when people go to conflict zones they don't apply for visas they get to the conflict zone through different ways including illegal ones. but so it's impossible to track all of them to establish who does what but yet at the same time of the defense ministry of the russian federation working together with other government agencies has been following each of those incidents since one of our priorities is to protect the interests o

now we also heard from the representative of the russian federation in his remarks he stressed that it is important that this is to remember that this cease fire does not apply to the fight against terrorist groups groups like isis groups like al qaida and al nasra these groups that are internationally designated as terrorist organizations that this doesn't apply to the fight against them now he furthermore went on to say that he felt like it was important to emphasize that the fight against the fight against terrorism shouldn't be a cover for geopolitics he made remarks to that effect this is the russian representative to the united nations. but it was to be used when the aim of battling terrorism can become a common were sold of geopolitical problems some dubious legitimacy and that is exactly would be u.s. is doing in syria right now it would. now furthermore now it's important to talk about the language that was changed now the resolution that was passed called for a thirty day cease fire however what was taken out of it was the demand that it be implemented within seventy two hour

there are worse there is this and in the in the incentives instance of the russian federation i think that a lot of bigotry gets allowed because it's a white country so it's ok now when you look at somewhere like north korea it's kind of amazing how easy it has been for both right and left wing media to dehumanised them down to just little dolls it's like even use it we're all caught it like north korea's bad. and we catch ourselves really why did i say that what do i really know about north korea do i care about the people because what i hear is it's all about kim jong and i think there was kind of brilliant even if it is a form of what about islam for him to say you have problems i have i have problems we're not denying we have problems but. i think what he's saying is are you the country to be making decisions about this you're going to drop bombs on me for what i do but. how can you point the finger at me when there were. and when you look at. some of the things that they listed out. build important posts in his administration with billionaires who had contributed to his election

he has expanded the russian federation you know like this deals because. there is a very good institute international institute of strategic studies which is based in london and they just released a report and if you look at that you know about the military budgets you will find that the budget of russia one year is forty six billion dollars the budget of the u.k. is fifty two billion dollars so the british are spending more than we're doing and the budget of the united states military budget for one year it's seven hundred billion dollars it means that the whole. spends almost a trillion against forty six billion dollars so roughly twenty times more so make your own conclusions another context of this course is what we're hearing about for the united states and rex tillerson this existence says you will be meddling with us but you already have plans for the twenty twenty elections in the united states and of course we here in british media repeatedly that you. meddled and i suppose i can give you that one they haven't got proof of that the rx addressed he

you know it's all of this well they're worse they're this and in the in the instance of the russian federation i think that a lot of bigotry gets allowed because it's a white country so it's ok now when you look at somewhere like north korea it's kind of amazing how easy it has been for both right and left wing media to dehumanised them down to just a little dolls it's like even use we're all caught it's like north korea is bad. and we catch ourselves why did i say that what do i really know about north korea do i care about the people because what i hear is it's all about kim jong un and i think there was kind of brilliant even if it is a form of what about islam for him to say. you have problems i have i have problems we're not denying we have problems but. i think what he's saying is are you the country to be making decisions about this you're going to drop bombs on me for what i do but. how can you point the finger at me when. and when you look at. some of the things that they listed out. build important posts in his administration with billionaires and their mouthpieces who had contribute

of the russian federation. the problem is that of course the way the united russia and putin back in 2012 they get in approval. is through so-called electoral supernauts. that's how scientists in my part of the world call national republic in russia like chechnya, so it goes. putin got in putin got in a couple places, 106%. they weren't able to understand why all of this were just loving it. great, 10 %. of course it is. -- 106%. of course it is. supernauts ctoral and the firm control of the administration, they do give from 10% to 50% added to the world. -- vote. in er as it was obvious 2012, when putin didn't get the majority, he got less than 50% in moscow. and less than 50%, almost less than 50% in st. petersburg, in order for him to be a legitimate president, in order for him not to be called the president of periphery, but the president of the country, he has to get votes from the people in the russian industrial cities. and that's precisely why kremlin substitution, as desirable term out. the idea was ea

it telegraphs precisely to the russian federation, i guarantee you this memo will be translated in russian within a matter of minutes, telegraphs exactly to them how we undertake fisa applications, what's involved in them, who approves them, the dates of this one. this is very damaging to our counter intelligence efforts. >> and, chuck rosenberg, that's how it was explained to me by a former top official in intelligence agencies in democratic and republican administrations. he said that revealing sources and methods is bad, that revealing and showing the machineations of one of our most effective tools is something far worse. that this really shows our hand. i want to get you to respond to that, but i want to ask you something else. on the dossier, it seems to me that the way trump's allies will use this is to make it about the dossier. but the truth about the dossier is that about a third of it has borne out. about a third of it is still being investigated. and about a third of it is, you know, the more salacious things that i think the fbi or anyone investigating or mueller, whoever is l

overnight have been intensive context with contacts with the russian federation. and we hope it will be possible we will adopt a resolution. it's been called hell on earth but the hope is an agreement could allow some relief to the people of good. to afghanistan now were a series of attacks has left more than twenty people dead officials say most of the victims were soldiers the assaults come and made a recent surge in violence by both the so-called islamic state and the taliban. insurgents strike ever deeper in the heart of kabul a suicide bomber has launched an attack during morning rush hour in the diplomatic zone of the afghan capital the islamic state group has claimed responsibility it's believed they were targeting enough gun spy agency needs of a nature headquarters and u.s. embassy. a suicide attack happened reports indicate two people were killed and seven others wounded casualties include civilians and military personnel. the death toll is expected to rise. earlier at least eighteen soldiers were killed when taliban insurgents stormed an army base in th

russian federal investigators say the airliner that went down outside moscow exploded when it hit the ground and there was no previous fire on board the saratov airlines regional jet disappeared from radar screens shortly after takeoff on sunday all seventy one people on the plane died now the relatives have been gathering at the airport in the southeastern city of course grieving their loved ones as the long wait begins for more answers authorities have launched a massive operation to search for clues to what caused the crash that's expected to last several more days. they're battling the biting cold to find answers to one of brushes worst ever plane crashes but what the site covered in six know is like looking for a needle in a haystack. nearly one thousand people as well as drones and snowmobiles have been deployed to comb through the icy fields his signature which we plan to continue the main stage of search and rescue operations fist seven days. the wreckage is scattered across a very large area the snow is heavy and the terrain is difficult it was very nearly a year for. the pla

in order for the resolutions to be feasible, for to be realistic, the russian federation has crafted endments. reporter: the proposed russian amendments are likely toto be controversial with the rest of the security council with the sticking point being who should be designated a terrorist group? russia has made clear that t al groups targeting damascus must be excluded. described the humanitarian situation as "hell on earth." >> the regime wants to keep bombing and gassing these people and the assad regime is counting on russia to make sure that they are unable to stop their suffering. reporter: they need nine months in favor and no vetoes five permanent membmbers, including russiaia. sananam: the government has suspended in a group for two months while it investigates .ccusations of misconduct this is in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. organizizedthat oxfam sex paparties. we go toon this, professor gerald steinberg, the founder and president of ngo monitor. , a series of charities now and even u.n. bodies have been blocked by scandal. this does not bode well, does

sixteenth the crimean referendum morsi held and the people voted to leave ukraine and enter the russian federation. the situation in crimea is being presented as a russian invasion and again nobody looks at the serious way and looks at the poll numbers and some of the poll numbers done by the u.s. government agencies themselves showing that the people of crimea prefer being part of russia in the u.s. news media it's all been presented as the russians invaded they then station sham election with people with guns at their backs somehow they big the ballot boxes to get ninety six percent approval for rejoining russia idea of a referendum in crimea is just quite simply unconstitutional but it does raise questions on whether this vote really is free and fair especially given the heavy military presence in crimea right now errol so that's how it's been sold to american people the reality is very different yet it's fair to say if the electric thousands of people who have gathered in the capital crimean city have stemmed from apple all of this funding a referendum held last sunday in which the majority of

forward to this munich security conference writing the negative political dynamic to nato in the russian federation is the frame for a discussion of the nato defense policy including they must be resolute to the defensive nato that has been bearing today, given the uncertainty that has engulfed the company administration's relationships with nato and with russia. there is some specificity. before nuclear deployed weapons increased the risk of accidents, blenders or catastrophic terrorism and by preemption. it is past time to revisit whether these forward base weapons are essentially for military deterrence and political reassurance. the tribe administration's national security strategy of december 2017 commits to discontinue employment without presenting the analysis that would emerge from a hard look. so do you think is forward deployed weapons should not be there? >> basically yes. what we are calling for is a re-examination. let's get it on the table. i have to say there is a consensus among our military that these weapons do not satisfy military object is. secondly, we have a flexible deterrenc

sixteenth the crimean referendum or so held and the people voted to leave ukraine and enter the russian federation. the situation in crimea is being presented as a russian invasion and again nobody looks at the seriously and looks at the poll numbers and some of the poll numbers done by the u.s. government agencies themselves showing that the people of crimea prefer being part of russia in the u.s. news media it's all been presented as the russians invaded they then station sham election with people with guns at their backs somehow they break the ballot boxes to get ninety six percent approval for rejoining russia idea of a referendum in crimea is just quite simply unconstitutional but it does raise questions on whether these folks really is free and fair especially given the heavy military presence in crimea right now errol so that's how it's been sold to american people the reality is very different atmosphere has to be any electrical thousands of people have gathered in the capital crime and safety. i'm from up all all of us funding away from a dem held last sunday in which the majority of peop

significant ties to him holds a contract to build a military base near the russian federation borderne. so doug, if you can walk us through this for a moment, that company supposedly is concord which is in this indictment, building that russian base and being a potential russian contractor for troops according to the reports. >> it's entirely reasonable for everybody to say look, there appear to be significant, you know, contacts and interactions and a nexus between that particular individual, his business dealings you know and the government, but again, not to be a broken record, politically everybody kind of oversells their positions. it's crystal clear that the russian government was involved. i don't agree with that. versus the government wasn't involved at all. i don't agree with that. the truth is somewhere in between in my view. eric: what do you mean in between? you don't think putin ordered this? it's been said this came directly from putin. >> i don't think so. i don't think he directly ordered that, eric. again we will have to study it more. you know, working off the point

y deepest sympathy today marks the one-year anniversary of the passing of ambassador of the russian federation. i invite the members of the to silence. [no dialogue] >> thank you. the situation of the middle east , including the palestinian question. the agenda is adopted. in accordance with 37 of the councils, i invite the representatives of israel to participate. it is decided. i propose that the council toites the president -- participate in accordance with the procedure and previous -- in this regard. there being no objection, it is decided. on behalf of the council, i welcome his excellency and i request the protocol officer to escort him to his seat at the counsel table. table.l -- i invite the special coordinator for the middle east and personal representative to participate. it is so decided. the security council will now agenda.s cooperation -- i wish you to welcome the secretary-general and give him of the floor to make introductory remarks. >> the president of the security excellency mahmoud abbas, welcome to you and your delegation. excellency, ladies and gentlemen. i have returned

the some countries forty story corps reserves of european countries sets above the role of russian federation i can understand breaking off the greek. cease fire in syria's eastern ghouta ends in failure for a second precious reconsideration center says harris shelling is preventing hundreds of civilians from leaving the. place book provides pretty slow bikers with an update on evidence of russian meddling in the regs it but they say they've still come up short. on south africa's parliament passes a motion to. population stripped of their land without compensation.

interference in tunnel affairs especially electoral process for president over the united states or russian federation and they if they had such a teen person russian region that they will aiding american law and for all documentation wait game and. inside the united states i think it is or are up to all the american court to decide and to judge them were and nobody in russia will be against because it is punished not only in the united states and in russia too but as i referred to that article in bloomberg. the bank is seven. thousand sixteen while it was in las vegas. it did the big eight a bet when hillary clinton and donald trump and this article shows mad at how donald trump we know the public american public he was supported not the russians sucked in person from coming for a mirage obvious for all documentation as it is laid down in the miller. paper i think if they cannot play and you significant role it just broke a step i agree was fully i'm going to just interrupt you there for a second is to myself that the significance of the role is in itself highly significant it's not about percentages

posthumously awarded the deputy squadron commander the country's highest want to retitle hero of the russian federation in moscow a memorial has been set up outside the defense ministry where people have been laying flowers and breathes and in the crimean city of sebastopol mourners laid candles in the shape of a jet to filipov as memory many people have been particularly shocked by the footage apparently showing the incident syrian opposition activists have posted online may find some of the following images disturbing. the. the sun very fired video that you just saw appeared online shortly after the incident and it shows the last moments of the pilot's life now from what we can hear on the video the pilot had waited for the terrorist to get closer to him and only after that he detonated taking his own life and also avoiding capture he even managed to shout that he was doing this for his own colleagues that were fighting alongside him or his defense ministry has already confirmed all these details the details of the last moments of his life how he was fighting till the very end. salute both foods and

the world eighty three states around the world so you have including the united states the russian federation and other european countries and other countries as well as our our goal from these. reman is one young and only fighting terrorism. ladies and gentleman why are we here today madam with water for women after a long journey and tremendous efforts to create a political power for days on. which could lead to a comprehensive peace that as you are aware from a rebirth dissipated in the madrid conference and nine hundred ninety one of them signed the oslo accords and nineteen ninety three. the one we were alone with israel. and the norwegian as you know. this. for these records that also accords affirm the imperative of reaching a solution for all permanent status issues before in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine. unfortunately this has not become a reality and therefore we should wonder why has it had to be achieved. nevertheless some we persisted in our efforts to reach peace and we engaged in the dialogue at wye river and camp david where senator levin we participated in the annapo

winter games he said have tested positive for the banned substance smell dhoni i'm the russian curling federation president says it is possible rival russian athletes or political enemies spites crucial in its food or drink of the headlines up front is up next. on counting the cost we'll talk to i.m.f. chief christine like god about how the economic model is changing here in the middle east can ireland break regs it find out how the emerald isle is caught in the middle of a big round between the u.k. and the e.u. plus the year of the dog in china counting the cost at this time. when the arab spring protests were through the middle east seven years ago demonstrators across the region were hoping for democratic reforms and even the overthrow of local dust spots but is libya really a better place now without its brutal dictator colonel gadhafi and how did bahrain become the forgotten revolution and up from special.

posthumously awarded the deputy squadron commander the country's highest honor retitle hero of the russian federation. in moscow a memorial has been set up outside the defense ministry building people have been laying flowers and we saw there in the crimean city of sevastopol mourners laid out candles in the shape of a chit to honor for the very many people have been particularly shocked by the footage purportedly showing the incident that syrian opposition activists posted on you may find some of the images the street. the sound very fired video that you just saw appeared online shortly after the incident and it shows the last moments of the pilot's life now from what we can hear on the video the pilot had waited for the terrys to get closer to him and only after that he detonated and then taking his own life and also avoiding capture he even managed to shout that he was doing this for his own colleagues that were fighting alongside him or his defense ministry has already confirmed all these details the details of the last moments of his life how he was fighting till the very end and. major oman sal

because i want to improve relations between our two countries and between western europe and the russian federation and the c.i.s. just in terms of the latest example i mean there's been a kremlin report released in america putting together targets for potential sanctions in the future some of said the list is almost been to put together in a bit of a random fashion what are your thoughts on that i mean lists are very the in thing to do enough or are they lists of useful idiots are you not afraid of appearing on a list just for coming on the program today who are probably will appear but by the time you get into your middle seventy's you don't get too worried about being on. but. the the level of mistrust and suspicion is completely now out of hand you know there are lots of problems between our two countries i am indeed between east and the west that needs sorting out but to my mind denies this recent speech in the council of europe we need another helsinki we need to sit down and talk to each other and work out of the problems not constantly be deepening them that will do no one any good. washing

there's any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the russian federation, that's something for the fbi to investigate. that was our reaction when we saw this. it's not -- we can't evaluate this. frankly, if every member of the campaign who the russians tried to approach and tried to influence had gone to the fbi as well, might not be in the mess we're in today. >> brennan: when it comes to this memo, senator john mccain said it only vert vladimir putin's purposes, is he right? >> he's absolutely right. what's most important is that we investigate what happened in the past, but even more importantly that we work together, the house, the senate intelligence committees, the executive branch, our technology companies, to deter future russian efforts to influence u.s. politics and election. we should be working on the strategy that will blunt this, expose it. some of our european partners have done better already than we have at this. in the french election, immediately expose had russia was doing to their public to, their medium and that sunshine served as a d

fighting the defense ministry has awarded him the country's highest honorary title hero of the russian federation a memorial has been set up outside the defense ministry in moscow where people have been laying flowers and wreaths and in the crimean city of sevastopol mourners laid candles in the shape of a chest many people have been particularly shocked by the footage apparently showing the incident to the syrian opposition activists have posted online you may find some of the following images of them. in the. very frightening video that you just saw appeared online shortly after the incident and it shows the last moments of the pilot's life now from what we can hear on the video the pilot had waited for the terrys to get closer to him and only after that he detonated a grenade taking his own life and also avoiding capture he even managed to shout that he was doing this for his own colleagues that were for. alongside him russia's defense ministry has already confirmed all these details the details of the last moments of his life how he was fighting till the very and. major oman flipbook foods an

today, the united states and the russian federation still deploy 95% of the world's nuclear weapons, but in terms of overall numbers, there's substantially fewer now than there were at the height of the cold war in the 1970s and 80s. (rocket rumbles) - [narrator] today there are nine nations with a total of 15,000 deployed nuclear weapons. that's down from a cold war height of approximately 70,000 weapons. - the most powerful nuclear weapon that the united states ever deployed was the b41 nuclear warhead, which had 25 megatons of explosive power, 25 million tons of tnt. now to put that in perspective, during the entirety of world war ii, the united states dropped less than 4 million tons of tnt on both germany and japan. (piano music) the most powerful nuclear weapon in the us arsenal today has about 1.2 megatons of explosive power, 1.2 million tons of tnt, which is still 80 times the explosive power of the bomb that was dropped on hiroshima in august 1945. - as they grew more powerful with the introduction of hydrogen bombs, they also began to be smaller, so you could put them on a

individuals who are cheating well i look at some of the individual athletes taking part i mean the russian federation for instance i mean it said it's going to sue the i.o.c. for financial a moral damages through the civil court system as area was saying there do you think we could be heading for a wide scale a massive legal battle. oh i think so i mean this the thing is that the olympics are not just what they're made out to be you know sort of a celebration of athletes of amateur athletes it's big money people who win these gold medals become endorsers of products and can make a fortune and so it's it's a huge life change if you work that hard to get to the top and then it's taken away from you. and you know it isn't just national honor it's in congress and also on that night as well russia is one of the leading winter sports countries i mean do you think that by leaving some of these key medal hopes they'd actually devalued the games itself i would think so i mean you won't have. as many new records you know the it becomes less interesting to watch if the competition isn't as good. i suspect if th

aggression with conventional weapons and situations critical to the national security of the russian federation that year russia increases to their weapons budget the percent and this is 2000 now and he began the russian shift to the use of nonstrategic nuclear weapons on the battlefield which they continue to emphasize the nuclear policies today. on may 10, 2006 the public address the russian federation says [inaudible] he said i want to have nuclear force 70% modernized by 2020. he said that in 2006. and in 2008 and in 2010 we chose to consider them no longer a threat. then in 2014 russian deputy prime minister dmitry publicly stated that the nuclear force was going faster than anticipated intended to modernize on the% of their strategic nuclear forces rather than 70% as previously announced. today russia continues to develop expanding nuclear capabilities putting the ground large cruise missile system that violates the inf treaty. is considered more than 50% of its planned world will force upgrades in the process of replacing their nuclear power posted missiles summaries as well. russia is m