further, russian escalation of the sky will only make matters worse and further undermine the russian standing in the world. it will further sour the relationship of russia with the u.s. and many other countries. it will also increase tensions with the ukraine. in the name of international peace and security, russia must immediately cease its unlawful conduct and respect the navigational rights and freedom of all states.:you. >> thank you very much mister president. mister president before coming here, i did what some of us normally do every morning. i searched through the internet to find out what happened this day in history. and look what i found. exactly on this day and 1939, the soviet army orchestrated an incident by shilling a village near the soviet border. did the soviets claimed the shelling was done by the finland site and used it as a pretext for the invasion on november 30. the south the so-called winter war started which eventually led to the expulsion of the soviet union from the league of nations. interesting is that? that is so to say about the unlearned lessons. mist

bout the russian claims violation of the russian border by the ukrainian naval ships is an outright lie. it shift all responsibility on the ukrainian side. consciously manipulating the facts and ignoring the evidence. mr. president, for the better understanding of the situation by all council members, i would like to present the main facts of what happened during the last three days. first of all, in accordance with the united nations convention on the law of the sea and article 2 of the treaty between the ukraine and russian deration in the use of the sea and strait, the ukrainian navy enjoys full freedom of navigation in the strait and therefore can pass-through the kirch strait at any time. on 23 november, the ukrainian navy boat group, slow armored boats, and a tugboat, started to plan transfer from the port of odessa in the black sea to the port of maripol in the azof sea. the route and procedure of this passage were the same as in september of this year when two ukrainian naval vessels sailed from odessa to mari pofment l. on 24 november during the naval march, the commander of th

city in the russian military. it is craving -- driving a great deal of -- for russia it is the happy war. no matter what happens in syria the russian military will stay there and quite comically even after three times announcing withdrawal they are finally building real refreshments and hardened hangers like the old joke about people who say goodbye but never leave is that they actually clearly digging in . they are building a more permanent base there. the reason why is that much of the russian senior officer corps is going through three months stents for commanders. it's a place where army commanders are all going to serve and get promoted to get their rank. probably more than two thirds of russian have been rotated through syria and have gotten combat experience there. syria has become the training pipeline for the russian military to gain experience both commanding forces in actual combat experience. this is not talking about -- this is talking about the actual structural the force. these people are becoming t

the russiane, vessels were trying to provoke ukrainian seamen to open fire. 521:22 p.m., two russian k alligator attack helicopters s atoached the ukrainian the. height of 50 meters they openly demonstrated the missile armaments and a laser aiming device. after completing the dangerous maneuvering, the helicopters departed toward the crimean peninsula. p.m., russia had physically blocked the passage beneath the so-called kerch a tankeraving located and later a cargo ship. the ukrainian navy ships headed back to exit the kerch strait. i repeat, they headed back, away from the strait and towards the open sea. they were immediately followed by a group of about 10" and vessels.lack sea there are audio recordings of communications among the russian commanders regarding the orders on how to proceed. these recordings clearly demonstrated the russian military vessels were given orders to attack the ukrainian vessels after the letter started to withdraw from the area. approximately at 8:30 p.m., the russian side carried out the shoot to kill order. this reported on my telephone, but i will no

maybe the russians out there americans in. the european business know that nothing will happen americans don't want this is. just the facts of the problem is that americans are able to blackmail you know one of the kind of the companies you better say oh no and they will and this is exactly what happens to companies because the union is not able and not really to protect their own companies. people living in a small community in germany have been warned not to eat the local fish due to talk sick water the pollution has been blamed on a nearby u.s. air base. i'm. not ashamed of the un charter and i'm thinking more and more about my baby people here are increasingly learning they have cancer i think that a lot of it is linked to the jet fuel this topic is sometimes raised locally but mostly f. or one is scared to touch it and wounded us it is not news that every other person has cancer this includes me i have cancer my boss at work also has cancer it involves everyone and every day is just that not many think about it until it i

the russians have. appealed to the u.n. security council as have the ukrainians there's been reaction from great britain which condemned russia from the european union which for a deescalation we've also heard that the same is themselves now. facing court i believe trial is about to begin for illegal entry into russian territorial waters with weapons and i believe that's the charge nevertheless that there's a lot of calls from the united states specifically to release on russia to release these sailors and the three impounded vessels behind me. thank you for those days sounds that's right gaseous reporting live from. well russia's president vladimir putin discussed the situation with german chancellor angela merkel by phone western countries have expressed serious concern over what's happened and as more it was just saying the u.n. security council has held two emergency sessions one requested by russia and the at that by ukraine. has more details so there were two emergency meetings of the u.n. security council not one the

russian prosecutors have asked the u.k. and other countries for help in bringing to justice or prominence kremlin critic bill browder is a british why not see a suspected by the russian authorities of numerous crimes the focus this time is on his alleged money laundering with more details his medina cauchon of. it seems the investigation as indeed in full swing as the recent an ounce meant follows the decision that was made by the russian prosecution office to open a new criminal case against william browder of the british based finance he had a huge business here in russia back in the ninety's and two thousand he was charged with nine years in prison in the percent for tax fraud and now russia has opened up a new case an organized crime case against him russian prosecutors plan to add mr browder to international wanted lists and also seize his assets abroad the investigation believes that the illegal activity he has organized groups brought to several countries in some documents remote. but we won't just reach out to brita

yes of course because it's the sort of jewel in the crown in the collapse of russian soft power russian influence in ukraine. the whole problem that russia has today is that russian policies towards ukraine russian aggression towards ukraine has undermined that's of power it's rebounded to back against putin and so for example today our next year's elections no progress in candor that could can win and even get to the second round and no progress from party can win a majority in the ukrainian parliament why because sixteen percent of ukrainian voters twenty seven election districts are under russian occupation in the dumb bastard and crimea that's putting one's fault so putin's own own policies towards ukraine are preventing what he would like to happen in ukraine which is pro russian people. coming back to power so he's very frustrated with the way ukraine is going to play with poroshenko was perfectly initiating the including of nato and even membership in the ukrainian constitution constitution but change since for that and the question of the over the this is an explosion from mosco

they didn't have a viable military option and they first had to deal with russian and russian partnered up early on with the right people, like israel and others in order, if you have to intervene in the middle east and you're going to be israel's new neighbor across the border, that's something you have to deconflict and coordinate right off the bat. they knuckled under turkey and some other states and they did a pretty good job with the united states which quickly moved off to fight a complementary counterterrorism campaign. against isis. in that sense, they were effective early on at claiming their part of the conflict and slowly starting to work on it. with respect to terms of friction and putin, there's some inherent problems in any coalition, plus it's the middle east so you're going to have some pretty big contradictions no matter which region nal partners you pick. if your partners are iran, turkey, israel. you have a deconflict line. you're going to have a lot of issues. i think on the whole, probably the biggest problems for russia came more some years back in that they had ad

also, there is pressure on the russians. the russians would like to wrap this up and get out. where i think the strategy is reading here, it's a russia based strategy. the idea is to put pressure on the russians to bring pressure on the iranians we can come to some kind of agreement. i think everyone is aware that we've got five different militaries in syria. the russians, uranian, turkish, the americans, israeli. each military is there, fighting its own specific enemy. the not all working together. they have one enemy, one or two enemies they are going after. united states only has 1000 troops, i'm guessing. i don't know the exact number. that leads to an awareness in washington that we cannot dictate, we don't have the force on the ground to dictate a specific political outcome. but we can channel things down certain dynamics and put pressure on certain actors. i think the hope is that the pressure on the russians is going to work lead to a more cooperative relationship. >> the question of the u.s. has taken strategy has put new emphasis on the constitutional committee, the

to materialize but the russian the russians have also reacted the russian foreign ministry they've said that this is merely a political ploy a political play in order to shore up the part. just four months to go until elections and martial law being put in place is an attempt by him to radicalize to solidify the base and to to guarantee himself more votes russia meanwhile the said that it is not planning on responding in kind that it isn't going to put in place any sort of restriction on ukrainians coming into russia for now but we've seen other restrictions put in place by the government in kiev we've seen for example foreigners banned from moving into from journeying into crimea from the ukrainian side this includes journalists and this is drastically called complicated job because now foreign correspondents seeking to cover events in crimea even if they do manage to get into crimea they you know they might be punished by the ukrainians but we've seen a c.n.n. crew for example now in marry you pool which is a ukrainian city in the south of ukraine they've been. opinions from people in

yes of course because it's the sort of jewel in the crown in the collapse of russian soft power russian influence in ukraine. the whole problem that russia has today is that russian policies towards ukraine russian aggression towards ukraine has undermined that's of power it's rebounded to back against putin and so for example today our next year's elections no progress in candor that could can win and even get to the second round and no progress from party can win a majority in the ukrainian parliament why because sixteen percent of ukrainian voters twenty seven election districts are under russian occupation in the dumb basque and crimea that's putting one's fault so putin's own own policies towards ukraine are preventing what he would like to happen in ukraine which is pro russian people. coming back to power so he's very frustrated with the way ukraine is going to play with poroshenko was pretty frank was initiating the including of nato and even membership in the ukrainian constitution and constitution but change since for that and the question of the over the this is an explosion

and russian military. in syria today we look at why the world's media has largely ignored the chemical attack. it's six o'clock in the watching altie international live from a moscow studio with me. welcome to the program. ukraine's declared martial law to protect the country against russian aggression after russia detain three ukrainian navy ships off the coast of crimea on sunday moscow says the vessels illegally entered its territorial waters in the current strait ignoring orders from the border. why. could play into the ukrainian president's hands. well it has very wide reaching consequences consequences that are mostly advantageous to the government to the president of ukraine recently there's been some political turbulence we're talking about thousands of people protesting all over ukraine but now that martial law has been declared in ukraine protests become illegal because the country is supposed to in theory be entirely focused on more in this case however most of the restrictions that we're hearin

well and and in the same fashion i think russians many russians it's leave believe that americans are out to get it and to put russia on its knees whenever there the opportunity arises like the mossad to the medic and also he is being reduced to going to war and the loss of for something that somebody who didn't is the most slaves of the west which is like a mirror image of one another now since you mention some authors let me bring up another joseph heller the author of the famous catch twenty two novella which is also frequently cited in political cycles circles and he is famous for saying that just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they are not after you in your personal asked imation to what extent are russia and the united states guilty of what each side attributes to one another well i think we're investing far more in the autumn and then put in experts on both sides like it costs one hundred million albums to create a color. and it costs like five million the rubble to create a super good experts on the american studies morsi and the vice versa a new obviously to russia

now heard you say recently that the russian diplomatic and military schools as well as the russian people as a whole tend to be historic passiveness in a sense that something is working it's not advisable to try to create something new in its place and put in i think old russian conservatism but there are some people who can call it complacency don't you think that it's indeed complacent on russia sparred to continue abiding by this treaty while many countries in russia's immediate neighborhood move ahead with development of that kind of weaponry i think we should. international stability and one political stability is so cherished historical experience shows that peace is fragile and it can be doing to any moment and if something is working you don't need to have a lucrative oil it's a lot of hope that this can bring about the possibility in the future so were you something is working in flight if i'm a little asian ship if they're working you don't just break them because you are going to find some other attractive point and in this respect i think an experiment in the strategic here is

the russians have a deconfliction line too just like the ones we have with russians. they main ta deconfliction line. israel notifies when they are going to strike. so the russians are very keen to avoid an escalation. i don't think the iranians are either that professional or more risk tolerant than the russians are in terms of what they are willing to do to or with the israelis. then the other one is the assad regime and thises is is sant to military force. in the conflict, which could bring on a military conflict with the united states that the russians obviously don't want. they have a couple allies the iranians and assad regime are a little more risk tolerant than the russians are and could drag them into conflicts that they would rather not get into. >> care to hazard a prediction on how you think it's going to be resolved? >> so i agree in general terms that the russians are not in a huge hurry to resolve it. but it does parts are uncomfortably close. so when i was first in the stint was in geneva. and that they claim emanated out of i.d. lib and they really do

they had to enter and russian rules as to me. the british prime minister has begun a final push to go through parliament which will tell lawmakers it's the only deal on the table after it was approved by leaders.

russian nationals coming through so also think who have joint ukrainian and russian citizenship that ukrainians are very worried that there could be a kickback from russia and they may do a tit for tat restriction on ukrainian nationals going into russia that would have a big effect on them in terms of the russian else they stood back and said no we will take an action in it basically in a fashion to try to ukrainians who need to work in russia so this is now a situation where when the ukrainians are being seen to be the technical warms although for a shrinker president poroshenko is insisting he does not want to see scenes like this and thirty fourteen after the uprising where and russian nationals were coming in to demonstrate in this area he has a thirty percent russian ethnic presence in the population there is no trouble these days but then there will not all demonstrations and lots of violence perpetrated according to you driving by russian nationals who was. as they said. fine the russian army using whole series of measures and the russian curser going to announce this move re

from the russian capital mrs t. international good to have you with. russia's president vladimir putin has spoken by phone with german chancellor angela merkel they discussed an ongoing dispute between russia and ukraine which putin described as a provocation by kiev time for the upcoming presidential elections meanwhile russia's border security forces they should new details into sunday's clash in the straits which will the two sides close to conflicts the captain of one of the detained. craney and ships admit to consciously can all the commands of the russian border control to stop war and gas they have has more details the russian federal security service has revealed new details scored logically as to what happened on sunday in the strait of kutch they said that they detected the ukrainian naval flotilla early on heading into russian territorial waters they were warned that if they intend to cross the street of kutch as they well knew as they had done previously that they should send notification of their intent to cross the street it's a busy plac

the russians accuse them of entering illegally russian territory. the prime minister came out on wednesday and said this was a planned provocation by the ukrainian government and the president and the russians say it was in trouble and ahead of them was the election in ukraine. that is why the russians say this move was pulled off. the ukrainians very much denying that. they continue to say it is the russians who provoked the incident and in breach of international law. the u.s. special representative to ukraine came out and said the ships need to be given back by the russians immediately and the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis coming out saying their word cannot be trusted. the russians are not feeling as much blowback from the u.s. president. the spokesman for vladimir putin says despite the recent standoff, the meeting with trump and putin at the g20 summit is very much on. russia's president vladimir putin came out and he said that he still believes that president trump is positively inclined to bettering relations with the united states

russian soldiers on train cars. young russian soldier in a boxcar. soldiers could ride for free in the new democratic russia anywhere they wanted to. many went home. many just rode the rails. they wanted to see the world. they wanted to get away from the front. of course it wasn't long before this man, lenin established what was to become the soviet union. so by 1919, americans had grown somewhat disillusional of russia, but we still thought we could help introduce democracy to russia and this is how we were going to do it. these are soldiers, most of them from michigan, marching through the streets of the city of arch angel in the far north. they're under british command. they were fighting the reds. morale was terrible. they had no interest in the fight whatsoever. they were there for a long winter and gave up and went home. the russians to this day have never forgotten that americans who were so enthusiastic about those democratic protests on the streets of petrograd, so enthusiastic about regime change in march of 1917 were eventually trying to b

that's why i can believe in these accusations of russian hackers. >> tonight state-sponsored russianv 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 pinnacle 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 that 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 doesn't care about the democrats. he hates 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 so they can't challenge him. >> vladimir putin is one of the most powerful men in the world. and he has forced

russians and russian russian escalation this is a very dangerous moment for the first time since russia began a swarm ukraine crimea and more than twenty fourteen re doing russian forces attacked regular ukrainian forces and russia did not how it was this is a new escalation and it's very dangerous. what about the political situation in ukraine you've got with the libya you know how it works there but they thought idea of martial law it does seem to be quite a strong reaction well it's actually not a strong reaction at all pushing the prison criticized by others in the political system.

nbc news the author of two "new york times" bestsellers rncovering clinton so there we send book russian roulette , with the election of donald trump tells the incredible account how american democracy was hacked by moscow as part of a cohort operation to influence the us election to help donald trump gain the presidency we let the authors tell it all so please help me again to welcome our guests. [applause] . >>. >> think you. this is an awesome crowd i guess the issue surrounding trump and russia holds the public interes interest. there is a lot to unpack that we write about in the book that we anticipated the events you have seen unfold over the last couple of years. but i want to start talk about recent events. obviously we are all on pins and needles to see how the robert mueller investigation will read its grand conclusion. there are a lot of science out there about indictments or perhaps a few other characters and then there is the question will he have a report with everything he found in the course of his investigation? however that plays out, we have some clues but we have been

across europe and eurasia if it acts like a russian and it plots like a russian sphere russian you may also remember a report that was released in january of two thousand and seventeen to which the letter referred the senators ickes ations of nefarious deeds by moscow are based on high confidence and the assumption that nothing in russia has changed since the fall of the soviet union the only other thing we got from the freedom of information request were some talking points put together by intelligence agencies but it simply it's all just more of the same varying degrees of confidence in russia's guilt fill the document and variations of the phrase is consistent with the methods and motivations are russian directed efforts can be found five times that one surprising bit is the answer given to the. russian whether moscow was working to get trump to the white house no direct response is given even though collusion with russia is treated like an established fact by many despite a lack of evidence and that's often the rest meaning any sort of concrete proof is left to the imagination brin

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. they could have to go to a bully is typical of a quote but the most of the most go full of the could and. as long ago as eighteen zero four sevastopol as 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 lays at russia's doorstep. the consequences of a u.s. seizure of the face or a nato base which in general. but almost

well the russian federal security service is released chronological. reconstruction of what happened they say they detected ukrainian vessels approaching russian territorial waters they tried to contact the ukrainian ships in the ukrainian navy fertility replied that the they were not planning on crossing the street of kutch under the. bridge they were told that they knew the procedures they were told that they should said in advance notification notify the russian coast guard that they were going to pass through the through the arch under the bridge you know the traffic there is heavy there's lines of tank isn't merchantman going through it's a very narrow passage there's a procedure in place to make sure that everyone gets across and in a timely manner it is of course the ukrainian navy's right to transit from the black sea to the sea of as off but in this case ukrainian said that they weren't they weren't going to cross the ships had their weapons out in the open they had covers removed protections removed and they said that they won't go in to cros

after crossing the russian border we had contact with the russian border. i consciously. i was aware that the action of the ukrainian vessels in the straits where. the testimony of a lieutenant commander of one of the ukrainian ships contained in the. kiev of masterminding a provocation three ukrainian ships were fired upon and detained by russia which says they illegally entered its territorial waters. yet another reckless russian escalation and nothing in our opinion justifies this use of force follows on from russia's illegal acts. followed by two emergency sessions of the un security council russia was roundly accused of being. a spy europe's pledge to support iran amid crippling u.s. sanctions french petrochemical. project the lucrative contracts being picked up by china. and a school that was comes under fire for failing to punish. the nazi salute the issue up for debate. see a bunch of very innocent looking kids doing something stupid i think those things will be repeated and the it will lead to basically joining the military and behaving in certain manners that ar

especially on the russian side. they recruited prisoners to help repair the roads and farms who worked without the tools, the ones with the shovels and stuff would fix the roads. >> these look like british. >> you sort of get the impression there are many journalists going around with them? was this almost like a media tour in some cases or -- >> yeah, well, these trips to prison camps they would maybe take 10 people. it would be a group trip. they controlled them pretty well. you'll see in a bit, waiting to go to the front. they are in uniform. initially they did not have uniforms, they did not have good control. they arrested many journalists who started to walk around and got caught and were almost shot as spies so they decided they would give them official uniform said they could be recognized and escorted from berlin by an officer. >> what are we seeing here? >> the band is leading the soldiers from berlin out from the train station to go to the front. >> that is the hotel avalon, one of the most famous hotels

earlier other sailors were shown on russian television saying they had deliberately entered russian waters as a provocation kiev denounced what it described as forced confessions moscow accuses kiev of sparking the sea skirmish to boost support ahead of an election. most probably this provocation took place in order to achieve certain political decisions which are beneficial for the current president of ukraine. if. ukraine accuses russia of illegally capturing its ships and sailors off the coast of crimea president petro poroshenko now claims moscow is preparing for an invasion together with the country's parliament he has imposed martial law in the regions bordering russia for thirty days. fundamentally the whole martial law is. getting the resources together. for everybody here in ukraine to understand. he's our hero place whence the russians come for us president poroshenko insisted the meshes won't interfere with elections should yield for much but his decrees causing concern and confusion in the capital kiev for ukrainians it's unclear what changes martial law will bring offer a four

but it's used to finance address the leadership of the russian federation with a demand the immediate release of ukrainian servicemen who in violation of the international law were brutally detained and whose fate is unknown ukraine's parliament could well approve president poroshenko as recommendation to impose martial law later martial law basically suspends normal political life no rallies no changes to the constitution no changes to senior political personnel including the president himself and elections bear in mind that president poroshenko is up for reelection at the end of march. craney an anger against russia is on display masked men lit flares outside the russian consulate in kharkiv a fire started inside the constant compound in the kremlin this is all to trade is a cynical and premeditated provocation to shore up poroshenko is declining popularity and provoke more sanctions against moscow then we visited with there are constant violations of the international humanitarian law and ukraine even without martial law shelling of residential areas in social infrastructure killin

crossing the russian border we had visual contact with the russian border. by consciously ignored their commands to stop i was aware that the action of the ukrainian vessels in the straits. is the testimony of lieutenant commander of one of the ukrainian ships detained in the coach straight after it accused of masterminding a provocation three ukrainian ships were fired upon and detained by russia which says they illegally entered its territorial waters. yet another reckless russian escalation nothing in our opinion justifies this use of force it follows on from russia's illegal acts of crimea in two thousand and fourteen the standoff was followed by two emergency sessions of the un security council where russia was wrongly accused of being the aggressor. despite europe's pledge to support iran amid crippling u.s. sanctions french petro chemical giant. styron's largest gas project so the lucrative contract is now getting picked up by china. and a school in wisconsin comes under fire for failing to punish students who appeared to be giving the nazi salute dur

authorities but russian never received any answer. human rights activists are sounding the alarm over a teenage bride auction that was held on facebook are too silly a patrol to go look at the uproar the social media giant is now facing. it's twenty eight seeing we're well into the twenty first century but in south sudan you can still buy a teenage bride for a few hundred cows three jeeps and ten thousand bucks this isn't from a fresh ad on a billboard somewhere in the sudanese savannah the auction and wedding are done and over with and guess where the bidding happened on facebook any form of human trafficking whether posts pages or groups that coordinate this activity are not allowed on facebook and so they took the auction posts down good job facebook just one problem like i said the wedding dress had been worn and it took days and days for the tech giant to act now this is how the family tried to impress the bidders by pitching the girls height the kids of the winner are guaranteed for n.b.a. slots and among the competing want to b

if the americans let go of pakistan as an ally apart from the russians. there there is a china who waiting to pounce and of course pakistan old lots of might to china for infrastructure loans and the saudis might pick up where the americans are leaving off in fact the saudis lent i think six billion dollars in aid to pakistan recently . and now what in order for that to happen interestingly enough pakistan decided to participate in the war yemen. in two thousand and seventeen or two thousand and eighteen recently but two thousand and fifteen if i can stand he's refused so there is. a realisation in islamabad that to develop a new alliances and to compromise on a few principles now that the pakistanis are acting as mediators between yemen and saudi arabia and iran as well so they're taking a softer role but. they did change their mind compared to two thousand and fifteen so we have a confluence of interests coming to play which will keep the americans. force the americans to get back to pakistan oh and for one almost forgot to mention pakistan has nuclear

naval authorities or russian the f.s.b. so on to prevent these ships approaching the cage strait and try attempted to go three without permission so therefore from the russian polish you they're acting they would say according to international maritime law according to russian law and they were perfectly entitled to do what they did ok we'll leave it there author and russia analyst martin mccauley thank you very much for sharing your thoughts here on the program thank you. for your opinion has given its rubber stamp to the braggs it divorce deal reached with the british prime minister trisomy the top brass has made it clear the terms are non-negotiable resume may for hard part and says it's a good deal for the k. . the deal we have agreed today a lot of bright future for the u.k. m.p.'s will vote on this deal it will be one of the most significant votes that parliament has held for many years on it will depend whether we move forward together into a brighter future or open the door to yet more division and uncertainty the d

so what were the russians up to?ho set it up has a theory. >> 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

russian president called clash between russian and ukrainian vessels quote nothing but. russian sentiment brum to sell out of kiev general election next year also ahead. we're going to get those values up we're going to get those jobs coming back president faces up cities in which he had promised to revitalize american manufacturing seize factories closed month always. begins its mission but some scientists want to stop using words like exploration and call it when it comes to space they're worried by the connotations. just go on six am in denver eight pm in jakarta and four in the afternoon right here in moscow this wednesday november the twenty eighth welcome to our to international our top story wiki leaks has said it's ready to suit britain's guardian newspaper the whistle blowing organization accuses the daily of fabricating a story involving its founder julian assange on secretly meeting trump's former election campaign chairman paul munna ford well wiki leaks cells are ready to launch the phone to support the legal action with assault instructing lawyers on the ca

troops on the border new russian missile systems for crimea any idea where this is headed. i don't think we have to be afraid of a potential war or a huge huge military conflict between russia and ukraine oteri of course we're hearing determined statements on both sides in ukraine and russia we see on television a ukrainian president showing plant species which he says prove that the russians are preparing an attack but i don't believe that moscow now wants to annex eastern ukraine for example like a did with grammy in twenty fourteen first it's all first of all it's important pointing out that it's still unclear what exactly happened in this trade of carriage some questions are still open secondly it russia wanted to annex eastern ukraine it could have done it as twenty fourteen when they did it annexed crimea and that time would have been the simpler simpler militarily and politically from the russian point of view in the meantime moscow isn't paying much attention to the dawn bust because russia is fighting on many other friends after all the political situation has chan

>> what it looks like to me was that trump relied on russian money, russian investors, russian partners at a number of his other sort of licensed deals, projects in other cities outside russia. toronto, panama, soho in new york city. it was russian money, russian buyers involved in those places. you know, i think he saw this as like, well, let's go to the source. why deal with russian buyers in new york or in florida when i can just go to russia? there's probably a lot more russian money there. i think that's part of the attraction. >> we have a couple seconds left. i have to ask you, bob o'brien was a lender that did business with donald trump at a time when few were willing to separately. deutsche bank headquarters in germany raided today. is anyone drawing a parallel? >> deutsche bank has had a lot of trouble with money laundering accusations that had nothing to do, as far as we know, with donald trump. i don't believe this is connect the with trump f. they raid the house on park avenue where trip's personal banker gave out loans, i would think there is a connection. so far i haven't

in the russian ship rams the ukrainian boat head on. the incident escalated further a russian tanker blocked a tight underpass between the black sea and the sea of us off a vital trade route for ukraine it was later announced that the russian coastguard had shot at three ukrainian ships the ships were seized by russia with authority saying that boats had illegally entered russian waters but the ukrainian navy says it had announced the ship's transit in advance. in kiev ukrainian president petro poroshenko called on parliament to introduce martial law. this doesn't mean we are declaring war. ukraine is not planning for a war with anyone it is implemented solely to protect ukrainian land our territory territorial integrity and sovereignty of. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov accused ukraine of deliberate provocation we do the principles of the international law were violated including the united nations charter and other legal instruments that require all states to respect the sovereignty of another state school moscow views the wa

russian federal security service. reported that abroad this ukrainian naval throughout the fla till. two agents count to espionage agents of the ukrainian intelligence agency. s.b.u. two of them something that ukraine has since confirmed the russians believe that the order to do so came from the very top from ukraine's government to justify the ensuing martial law that we've seen stablished across many regions of ukraine the ukrainians however is adamant they're saying that this was an act of war provocation by russia that russia behaved aggressively towards the ukraine that they shouldn't have done this that they had filed a notification of intent to pass through the streets of curch but that the russians had carried out this aggressive action let's go to london now expects a political correspondent in the u.k. where parliament's been discussing the developments today what's been said polly. well it wasn't in the plan but politicians demanded an urgent debate on the situation in the sea or was over and they got it ex