what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit more i says to the strongest country. by. people everybody is like a. beautiful national soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't get the rights to. be found. just well this is on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia is not a whole country that's your political stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics. happened without t.v. russia just a reminder you are watching our continuing coverage of the international olympic committee's decision to ban russia's team and many individual russian athletes from taking part in the two thousand and eighteen winter games in south korea many athletes were handed a lifetime bans but most to dispute the evidence that was presented against them they insist they've done nothing wrong and accuse officials of violating their presumption of innocence or his kid partridge's looks at how russia

folks are not going to the ballot box voting on donald trump and russia. but some of the questions this investigation will answer is, yes, was there collusion. were there attempts to collude? was there objection of justice? and those answers have not been concluded just yet. so it is incorrect for the president to note that that has been an outcome of this investigation. >> so many things to go through here. i do find it interesting, alice, you know, another part of what the president said on the russia investigation is timing-wise. he doesn't know when mueller's probe will wrap up and he didn't seem to feel any urgency in getting it done. the white house counsel says they think it will be wrap up after the new year. it seems he's on a different page on the white house counsel on this. does that matter? >> we will always have conflicting desires for when this will wrap up. clearly i think his counsel is telling him things will wrap up quickly just to satisfy the president. he wants it to. i think it is in the country's best interest if it wraps up quickly.

this is the problem with russia. ey have huge ambitions on the and theional level ability is not always fit with these ambitions, so they use doping, which is a shameful thing to do. so they are banned from the olympics in south korea. daria: i remember reading the forecasts right before the olympics. vladimir: it was a nice surprise for the russian people and f for the russian government. we continue the conversation, let's take a closer look at what the allegations of state-backed doping amount to. 2014 winter olympics s in sosochi. , the host nation, won 33 medals, more than any other country. russia and president vladimir putin, the came off looking like champions, but did they play fair, or were the real champions the doping labs? two years after the games, an investigator with the world doping agency published some serious allegations. >> the mesko -- the moscow laboratory operated within a state-directed failsafe system. the russian ministry of sport directed, controlled, and oversaw the manipulation of athlete

what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. yeah he's a little bit boring a little bit for us is the strongest country. people have but it's just like. the international soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't even see right now. i think it's unfair only if you have any doubts as well based on the people that the winter olympics but no russia. than a whole country that's so few political stuff. to try and go and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will happen without team russia. before the ice ages. and youngsters from hockey clubs across russia have show their support for the nation for please by organizing a flash mob online chanting we want to go to the olympics. ok we're going to bring in dan kadlec human labor rights lawyer and author thanks for coming on to the program dan. let's look at the decision that's been made some say is the fairest option that's going to be a lot of mixed reaction the

he projected calm on the russia probe. was that calm that came through in "the times" interview, a reflection of the reality inside the white house when it comes to the investigations? philip: it's a reflection, bob, of where president trump thinks the investigation is based on what his lawyers have been telling him. he's expecting some sort of end to the investigation into him personally, into possible obstruction of justice or potential collusion and he's even been telling friends that he thinks he'll get a public exoneration, a letter or statement from robert mueller. but that is not what those around the president think. there's a heightened sense of concern within the white house and the administration and frankly, within the republican party here in washington, about this mueller probe, about the fact that michael flynn is cooperating now. it'sun -- it's unclear where it will head. robert: when the president was talking about the justice department, he said he could do whatever he wanted. was that a warning about disr

the law. it's mandatory sanctions. if russia doesn't change its behavior and has not changed its behavior, the administration is required to impose sanctions and we'll be watching very closely to make sure that's done. >> trump administration officials said they're taking time to make sure there are no negative side effects. that they're tailoring the sanctions and being very specific. do you take officials at their word or do you think the delay has to do with president trump and the fact that he doesn't say bad things about russia and signed these sanctions reluctantly? >> well, we know mr. putin. mr. putin will push the envelope as far as he possibly can. if he feels like he can do more belligerent activities, more aggressive activities and there is no cost to it, he'll do that. so it's important that the united states provide the international leadership to make it clear to mr. putin we will not tolerate their behavior, russia's behavior, what they're doing in ukraine or syria or in our elections. it's got to be very clear.

what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit for us as the strongest country. but i. feel people have just like. the international soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't get into the rice that. i think it's unfair. that just well this is going to be found on the winter olympics but no russia. than a whole country that's so few political stuff. to try and go in the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will happen without team russia let's just remind you that a bad decision on team russia the in. the national olympic committee this evening said that russian athletes can only compete under a neutral flag at the upcoming winter games they will participate under the name olympic athlete from russia with the country's flag and symbols banned from the games the russian olympic committee has been suspended with immediate effect. the olympic games came to the decision after hearing finally t

then they see the friendlier more open part of russia and the. young people in it and. one sentence russia so much more than just. ok believe that russia has so much more than just fortune thank you very much for joining us i'm wondering at this time we look forward to seeing you again next time around five by interest. few. weeks. khufu. smooth. style. and you say move to a chanel presented show in hamburg the hometown of a design a colleague a fellow. touching homecoming here in this splendid alesso how money is chilling. in german city and. its thirty minute. film the tumbling dice and fires came from jurors or dealing with anyone at all they killed many civilians. come including my father. i was a student i wanted to build a life for myself. but suddenly life became elish kind of sob. providing insights global news that measures. you made for mines i'm a mother like two billion other mothers around the world i have one wish the best for my child. but in this is signs he in which brings to feeding is often frowned upon and on its will for me to abound with profits is

>> the larger trump team wants a better relationship with russia. i think for flynn, his motivation had to do with what he saw as the main threat fwens against the united states, which was not russians interfering in our election and trying to understood mine our democracy, but a world view that sees islam as the real threat and i think that flynn thought he could make some kind of bargain or arrangement with the russians on this. >> soon, vladimir putin's surprise response to flynn's overture, no retaliation, at least for now. trump tweets his appreciation. great move on delay by v. putin. i knew he was very smart. what was putin's motive for making that deal? >> one is he wants to see whether or not there is a possibility of having a better relationship. two, sanctions are hurting russia. they're biting and they're biting an entourage that's around putin and three, putin hates the act and for sure that that is a piece of it and trying to figure out if there's a strategy to roll back. >> it is an american law which sapgss individual russians close t

the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi russia the host nation won thirty three medals more than any other country russia and president vladimir putin came off looking like champions but did they play fair or were the real champions that doping laps. two years after the games had investigator for the world anti-doping agency richard mclaren published some serious allegations that the moscow laboratory operated for the protection of doped russian athletes within a state directed feel safe system the russian ministry of sport directed controlled and oversaw the manipulation of athletes analytical results no less than the head of russia's own anti-doping lab grigori wrote chunk of was chief witness he left for the united states as did you yesterday about a runner who had reported systematic doping in russian sports started the ball rolling. are the accusations of state sponsored doping just mudslinging against russia. but i mean what do you say to that question all these allegations just mudslinging on the part of the west a conspiracy on the part of the west against putin's efforts

that they see the friendlier more open part of russia and the. young people in it and. one sentence rationally so much more than just. ok believe that russia is so much more than just frozen thank you very much for joining us i'm wondering at this time we look forward to seeing you again next time around five by interest. to. say. it's all about the stories you can see. it's all about george chance to do. cover the world from different perspectives. join us and inspired by distinctive instagram or others at g.w. stories new topics each week on instagram. losing your homeland because of persecution society. starting from scratch in an unfamiliar country. five people who found a new home in a foreign land. with their stories books and music they've built bridges to the past and the future. after the escape starting december seventeenth d.w. . they're black and living in germany. she's reminded what that means on a daily basis presenter john up i guess not being able to blend in and i was. taking a holiday group and being you know different than the way. she travelled acros

what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit or i was going to turn. people . just like the. national. game. you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't give him the rights to. be in. this event the people down the winter olympics but you know russia. the whole country that's so you really feel stuck. in the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will happen without team russia. back to our continuing coverage of the international olympic committee's decision to ban russia's team and many individual russian athletes from taking part in the two thousand and eighteen winter games in south korea many athletes were handed a lifetime bans but most to dispute the evidence that was presented against them insist they have done nothing wrong and accuse officials of violating their presumption of innocence or look at how russia has been treated as guilty from the very start. four years ago there was skepticism that russia

it was a sign of their hatred for the old russia. , just oil and canvas but to meet it conveys the drama of 1917 so powerfully, as a fresher is warning the world of the damage revolution can do. we are giving lessons, many of them you shouldn't do. this is historical image of russia, we protect well from mistakes and sometimes calamities we have brought on ourselves. the bolsheviks promised a very different kind of world. and here was the perfect symbol. soon after the revolution, petr theremin‘s great—grandfather leon invented an instrument that used electromagnetic waves. the father of the russian revolution, lenin, was captivated by it. but the theremin would also come to symbolise the tragedy of russia's revolution. during the terror of stalin, the inventor was sent to the gulag along with millions of innocent soviet citizens. 100 years on, saint petersburg is still full of the symbols of 1917, like lenin. it'sjust that still full of the symbols of 1917, like lenin. it's just that they mean less to modern russia. # imagine all the

burr to bring the russia investigation to a close. in the art kwl, "the times" says this, one republican close to mr. burr who spoke on condition of an nonanymorety say that mr. trump had been very forceful in his intervention with senator burr, telling burr to stop the investigation. those -- that reaction by those senators, saying that they found this to be alarming, they found this to be a very forceful intervention, they were concerned by this -- how did that factor into this as potential legal matter? >> this is really damaging evidence, right? this means that the president tried directly with senator burr, wasn't successful, and then proceeded to go to everyone around him in an effort to put pressure on him. and it would be helpful evidence, but rachel, one thing we have to remember is that it's unlikely we'll ever see a bob mueller indictment of a sitting president. it's more likely we'll see this evidence, this information packaged into some sort of report that goes to the house that will then be used by folks in the house to g

what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit boring i says to the strongest country. by. people everybody is like a. beautiful national soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't get into the right as i think it's unfair for you to have any doubts as well this is on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia we've got a whole country that's so you live the good stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will. without team russia or back to our continuing coverage of the international olympic committee decision to ban russia's team and many individual russian athletes from taking part in the two thousand and eighteen winter games in south korea many athletes were handed a lifetime bans but most disputed the evidence that was presented against them they insisted that they have done nothing wrong and accused of violating their presumption of innocence partridge looks at

russia is banned from the twenty eighteen winter games but international olympic committee chiefs have allowed individual athletes to compete under a neutral flag. dismay among team russia as athletes watched the announcement being delivered at the i.o.c. had courted in switzerland. and i welcome you watching our international with me andrew farmer and it era to the now breaking news this hour russia has been banned from twenty to twenty eighteen winter games however individual athletes have been allowed to compete under a neutral flag bell persisted pate under the name a limb picked athlete from russia with the country's anthem and symbols banned from the games these in why did elsley so will participate be it in individual or team competitions under the name olympic else lead from russia with the all. they will compete with a uniform bearing. and under the olympic fluke. the olympic swim will be played only. for the russian figure skating coach tatiana task has reacted to the decision saying it is the worst possible. stukas they say there are no words you know i don't want to cry i w

that have somehow corrupted the whole russia investigation. so again, tonight, we have this bare bones news that judge rudolph contreras is recused recused from the flynn matter and will be replaced by emmet sullivan. we don't know why. when the judge discloses some conflict, if this ends up being more than a logistic recusal, it's worth considering this may be another potential flashpoint for republicans' efforts to problemize the meuller investigation and multiple prosecutions it's led to. that news just breaking. politico.com breaking this. >>> tonight, we expected that the major news out of congress we expected they would narrowly avert shutting down tomorrow. that's the case. they waited until the last day before the government was due to run out of money and shut down. but passed a two-week spending bill to avert the shutdown, which means we'll have another come to the brink shut down bout right before christmas. which is nice of them. aside from this having been potential shut down eve, the real drama out of washington today was just thi

so the decision that we heard today. how likely is it that russia will boycott the games completely well this question whether russia will agree to compete under this neutral olympic flag that's of course a tough question and it's a tough decision that will have to be made it will depend on the individual athletes of course on the one hand but then still we understand that the russian olympic officials will somehow influence that they are of course responsible for the facilities they provided them they were in charge of the training but anyway if russia goes for this boycott of the winter games in twenty eighteen that will be the direct result of the odyssey decision that we heard on tuesday but the i.o.c. probe has already resulted in more than two dozen russian winter olympians being banned for life and we understand that there is more to come and questions have been raised along the lines of why do athletes who test positive from different countries get bans for only a few years and then they're allowed to compete and then when it comes to the ru

we'll step back and look at the 35-page trump russia dossier. and depending on which way the news is blowing, the allegations contained can sound out landish or they can sound freakishly spot on. where did this dossier come from? have we learned from it? does it yet have to say? this is some of what we learned. >> are there any russians here tonight? any russians? ♪ ♪ >> they've conducted watergate 2.0. >> fake dossier was made up. >> i don't use the term dossier. these were field reports. is there something here that i could verify? >> i call it the russian hoax. >> it's all fake news. >> i am not involved in russia. ♪ ♪ >> president of the united state states. >> it started in the spring of 2016 with a former british spy whose name was almost too james bond to be true. steel. christopher steel. >> and we will make america great again. >> thank you, everybody. >> if you were looking to investigate donald trump's alleged russia connections, christopher steel would seem like the perfect fit. >> he can tell you off the top of his head, the leading

at this school, they embrace the traditions of tsarist russia. ing and sword spinning. and they organise regular school trips from here to the church on the blood to reinforce the connection to nicholas, to russia's imperialist past. but what about russia's future? i asked the children here "would they like a new tsar?" i am sure that in previous times it was good to have a tsar. but today, it's difficult. times have changed, and we can't speak about having a monarchy as it was earlier. but i suppose that our president is a kind of a man who governs the way the tsar tried to govern. in a way. he is a real hero and a real patriot. russians are waking up to their history. they're not trying to replicate the past, they're just trying to remember it. it's time for the final part of myjourney. i'm off to the other end of russia, to khabarovsk, seven time zones away from where my trip began. this is the capital of the russian far east. here, china is closer than most of russia. the cradle of the revolution feels a world away. but then, i am more than 6,

that they see the friendlier more open part of russia and all the. young people in it and you know one sentence russia just so much more than just. ok we'll leave it that russia was so much more than just fortune thank you very much for joining us on quadriga this time we look forward to seeing you again next time around five by interest. we. thank. you chua. imagine the trial. and you can leave your home country. in macedonia it's not all the kids hate me. since kids would go ninety minutes. to children to face our two part documentary almost well a new line in germany fifteen minutes long d.w. . this is a good news come to life somebody and let's go right to our correspondent live in central istanbul i'm joined by the show a couple of interviews political correspondent on those stories in just a minute but first this news just in it's all about the perspective closer d.w. . meet the germans. and surprising aspects of license culture in germany. u.s. american keep take a look at germany dissing chrissy's at their traditions every day lives and langua

the russian hoax. it's all fake news. >> i am not involved in russia. president of the united states. >> it started in the spring of 2016 with a former british spy whose name was almost too james bond to be true. steele, christopher steele. >> and we will make america great again. >> if you were looking to investigate donald trump's alleged russia connections, christopher steele would seem like the perfect fit. >> he can tell you off the top of his head leading members of the russian mafia and people who have influence in the crekremli >> west says that steele was mi 6's man in moscow in the early 1990s. >> and thereafter he ended his career as the head of the bunch that trains new intelligence officers and that's considered to be an important role. >> after retiring, steele started a new company located in this building in london. orbis specialized in getting executives deep targeted intel on foreign countries they were dealing with. steele's specialty was russia. >> i have listened to his par presentations on the putin regime and the way that it is eff

so why did president trump's advisers overrule the president? plus, russiagators talk to trump's long time assistant. who is rhoda graph and what does she know? plus, the president hunkers down at mar-a-lago. why the luxury estate always seems to be in the middle of controversy. let's

president had pressured him over the fbi's russiaent firing james comey did not derail that investigation. it led instead to a special counsel taking the reins. former fbi director robert mueller. in march 2017, after two months of hiding, christopher steele eventually re-emerged. >> i'm really pleased to be back here working again at the orbis offices in london today. >> reporter: but he left it to others to solve the puzzle his dossier had created. >> and i'll just add that i won't be making any further statements or comments at this time. thank you so much. >> reporter: true to his word, steele stayed out of the public eye, but he has reportedly been interviewed by the investigators working for special counsel robert mueller. and in a november 2017 book by luke harding, a reporter for "the guardian" newspaper, harding said steele has told friends that he believes his dossier is 70 to 90% accurate and that it will be vindicated by robert mueller's investigation. according to harding, steele said, quote, i've been dealing with this

will be cleared in the russia investigation. is that just wishful think something and russia is offering a helping hand. moscow is ready to act as mediator. the escalating standoff made them one of the biggest international stories of 2017. and president trump getting back to work and back to criticizing the fbi and putting his own spin on the health care debate. sar a the president started the day tweeting about health care. what's he saying? >> it's interesting because that is not one of the top legislative items the gop was hoping to tackle in january. they have a spending bill to deal with and infrastructure and the fix for the dreamers, but that's not where the president's head was at. he tweeted based on the fact that the unfair and unpopular individual mandate has been terminated as part of the tax cut biel that repeals overtime obamacare, the democrats and republicans will come and develop a great new plan. there is little if any tight for the democrats to come tol. as for the hard work he said he was going to get it, tha

fact that the usa and russia don't seem to be working together regarding the crisis on the korean peninsula and when addressing that he pointed out that often u.s. leaders seem to put russia on the same level as north korea and iran in their international rhetoric and that essentially the usa is coming to russia for help with the north korean crisis while not treating them with the proper respect and putting them essentially on the same level as north korea tensions are pretty clearly high as was illustrated on the floor of the security council in the proceedings that the world just watched. the u.k.'s top military officer has claimed that russia's navy could somebody underwater cables disrupting communications and triggering global economic chaos with more in the accusation here is paul the boy. warning has come from pete he is a senior nato official and he's also the chief of british defense stuff and he says that russian ships have been spotted perilously close to atlantic cables these are underwater very important strategic cables that cross the atlantic from eur

well i can't help but believe that the reason that russia itself is not mentioned in this is political gentleness on the part of the i.o.c. because all the stories that i've read indicate that they're all more than clear that russia itself the nation is responsible for the institutional doping that they have found not just through experiments like the canadian professor mcgregor but the whistleblowers like the man grigori that you mentioned earlier the evidence seems to be one hundred percent it doesn't seem to leave any room for doubt that the nation itself was involved the government of russia so not to mention them in the sanction is a political nicety yeah but there was that one sort of pick up on this if there was evidence wouldn't he just say that i mean he stress he says look we are in for objective it's a impartiality or not all our analysis is watertight so i mean wouldn't you a shame if he doesn't mention state sponsored he does not state sponsored. i would want to ask him that question specifically i would not assume it at all i would assume the opposite judging from. lots o

i want to dig a little deeper now into the trump/russia dossier and how it figures into the broader russia investigation. let's bring in cnn's senior congressional correspondent, manu raju. manu, the president today called the president, quote, a pile of garbage. and he suggested that the fbi cannot verify the claims that are in it. give us a little fact check. >> it's a little bit more conflicted than that, brianna, u.s. investigators say they have, in fact, corroborated some of the communications in that 35-page dossier, specifically communications among foreign nationals were mentioned in the memos. and the dossier's broad assertions that russia waged a campaign to interfere in the election is now accepted as fact by the u.s. intelligence community. the fbi has used the findings as part of its justifications to secretly monitor that trump foreign policy adviser carter page during the campaign last year. but there are a lot of things in the dossier that are either under investigation or just have not been substantiated, including the most salacious allegations in there. but it's importan

so, let's get the view today from russia. ing in cnn's clare sebastian following the story live in moscow. and, clare, what has been the reaction from officials there about what has been a seismic shift here in the united states about this investigation? >> well, george, nothing as you heard just there from sergei kissel yblg. we heard nothing from the kremlin so far. they haven't responded to our requests for comment. i also contacted their spokeswoman last night and a text message what does this have to do with us? perhaps the white house response today. but a couple of politicians have come out, that has been the case and prominent politicians have been vocal, a senator spoke to state media, he said this really isn't about michael flynn. he said the real target of this attack is donald trump. that's something we've heard multiple occasions from the russians. that the whole russia issue is simply being used as a method by trump critics to hurt him. another senator tweeting that this is simply the u.s. inflating what he calle

this is part of the russia investigation. will be the second player involved with the trump campaign to plead guilty, to lying about russia. the first was george papadopoulos who trump associates called a coffee boy. retired general michael flynn was not a coffee boy, and he was the most foreign policy adviser during the campaign. i am joined by jim scuitto on the phone. people close to michael flynn, how are they responding? >> for the last several weeks i have been speaking to people that served under him and with him and very close to him and remain close to him, and their initial reaction to this -- listen, lying to the fbi is no small thing but their initial reaction is this is what some had feared because, as jeff tubin was making the point moments ago, we know he has been under investigation, for instance, failure to report income from a foreign government, that for a speech he gave in moscow in 2015. failure to register as a foreign agent for the work he did as a consultant for russia and turkey. expansive potential c

that has been historic and then also the between persia and russia so one way. once iran in syria in a limited role and the same time it seeks also an understanding with so that he be on all issues on getting the succession for prince so look for the king solomon for example and so it's a mixed bag for the show between iran and saudi arabia what does this mean for the embattled syrian president president assad what does this mean now russia is there to boost him permanently. as a stooge. i mean that's why he tries to play on the tension between iran and russia both you're on the bus about that but as we've seen from the putin triumphant tool of syria and egypt few weeks ago when he went to the main base he treated the assad as a sort of get even that was a russian officer russia wanted to advance to stand next to put the in and the and the russian officer like this through the seat of president he treated him as a sort of good so yes i said might stay for a while but he would not be seen in russia as an independent leader of syria side of the akubra race former s

>> well, he's recused from the russia investigation. so this must be some ad hoc side investigation, certainly does not involve any democrats. but, you know, wolf, if we step back here, the intelligence community assessed about a year ago that the russians attacked our election and that they intend to do it again. and if they do intend to do it again, boy, are we quite exposed if the leaders of our country are focussed on, you know, trying to go after our own intelligence community rather than putting at the defenses we're going to need for the next election. >> what do you think his goal is right now? >> i think it's to undermine the investigations into the president. and i don't believe that he wants to make us less safe to another attack, but by trying to protect the president, he is actually making us less safe for another attack. >> politico first reported that chairman nunez is looking into corruption and conspiracy at the fbi and the department of justice, particularly on the handling of what's called that russia dossier. senator

to be held on the eighteenth of march twenty eighth that's the anniversary of crimea joining with russia. next this hour cryptocurrency bitcoin has set another record breaking above the twelve thousand dollar mark for the first time compared with where it was at the beginning of the year when it was trading at about one thousand dollars per since then it's been growing constantly with regular fluctuations is a quick reminder of how big corn works. or a. book. or last hour i talked to a cd a market analyst to ask if bitcoin could hold its own in the world of financial giants. a year ago how much further it can go and those forecasting two thousand would have been seen as being unrealistic and yet here we are at twelve thousand so as we've seen so often with bubbles and if this is one then they can go on a lot longer than people can remain solvent if you're planning to for example go against the trends the problem that we have here is like say this is not a real thing here this is a crypto currency this is just an online virtual. currency and therefore with it being such new technology and

the status quo that has been in. there are areas of cooperation with russia and china. for instance, right now the united states is cooperating strongly with china to put economic and diplomatic pressure on north korea, but at the same time we recognize that we have serious difference with china over trade practices, over our trade deficit and other economic issues that he is determined to discuss and confront forthrightly with the chinese. it's not a simple matter of all one or all the other. we can find areas of cooperation while we're forthright about protecting our interests, which is exactly the line from the speech you quoted earlier. that's exactly what that line says. >> the president says that america will build a partnership with russia where possible, as you correctly point out, but also stand up for the country when necessary. when has president trump, as far as you know, and you're the spokesman for the nsc, the national security council, when has he directly stood up to president putin either in a phone conversation or during a one-on-one meeting? >> how ab

what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. yeah it's a little bit boring a little bit boring i was so strong the country. by my side the people that i was just like are. you international soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't game too much that. i think it's unfair to the dogs as well it's about the people not the winter olympics but you know russia believes that a whole country gets so much here for the good stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will happen without team russia well earlier we did speak with alan moore he's a russian specialist and columnist and he does think that it's going to be profitable for the icing to ban russian athletes. all you'll see need do the games to go ahead they need russian athletes to me the russian most hockey team to play the need to. contact a hockey league to release their players because they don't the russian the winter olympics loses loses cash a

what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit for us so the strongest country. you have is like. international soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't even see right there. i think it's unfair. that just well based on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia. than a whole country that's so few political stuff. in the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first winter olympics that could happen without team russia. and we'll know very soon that decision will be known in just a couple of hours from now so we're keeping close watch on i.o.c. headquarters for when it is announced will be live and listen to learn what fate awaits russia's winter. without. next the german foreign minister has slammed the u.s. sanctions on russia saying the berlin solidarity with washington has been stretched to the limit signal gabrial added the germany must make its own decisions independent of america's will. and i don't fee

what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit or i was so strong. but i. feel. it's like. the national. game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't get the rights that. i think it's unfair. that just well this is on the fifth. not the winter olympics but no rush to move out of the country that's so few for the good stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will happen without t.v. russia will continue discussing the future of russian olympics after a short break you're watching international. war zone you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles. that you saw for the tell you that will be gossip and probably. off the bat as you tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks we along the border will watch. the concentration the bureaucratic concentration is sapping the economic vitality from this entrepreneurial

he wrote a book called "the plot to hack america" about russia's meddling in the 2016 election. >> putin views russia as missing its place as the number one super power in the world, even though it's economically on par with italy. but do it you can use soft power, you can use what we call hybrid warfare, which say political warfare, propaganda, ununiform special operations, everything short of war to disable your enemy. and in the case of the united states, the easiest thing to disable is democracy. because russia does not believe in democracy. >> six days after the washington post's first story on russian hacking, christopher steele sent his first report to fusion gps. it was the very first page of the very first memo that set the tone for all of the memos and for all of the controversy that followed. steele wrote on that first page, quote, the russian regime has been cultivating supporting, and assisting trump for at least five years. aim endorsed by putin has been to encourage splits and dmiftion western alliance. according to steele's unnamed source, trump's inner circle have accept

the ioc stopped short of a blanket ban on russia at the summer game in rio last year.e investigations coimissioned by the ioc have reported back with their findings into the extent of institutionalized doping and also details of russian doping controls in sochi. our sports news correspodnent richard conway will be following the news conference from london — we are expecting to hear from thomas bach, and also samuel schmid, a former swiss president who authored one of those investigations. running a little bit late but how do you feel this is going to go? well in the last few seconds we have had a statement from the international olympic committee announcing their decision and we will hear from thomas back in due course but in the last few seconds the ioc have announced the russian olympic committee has been suspended with immediate effect. that means that russian athletes under strict conditions it says will go to the olympic, the winter olympics but they will run under the name olympic athletes from russia so effectively competing under a neutral flag. athletes from r

the more they push on the russia thing as we get into russia you'll see the democrats are going to be sorry they ever found it on the map finally. >> with all due respect, the question is focused on the trump transition, not the clintons. there is some key specific points that we can refute there but i want to focus again on this investigation. >> sure. >> cnn confirmed jared kushner is the senior member who directed flynn to contact sergey kislyak according to documents gathered from "the new york times," e-mails, interviews and records that have been submitted in court, flynn was briefed -- or flynn briefed several key trump transition officials before his meeting with kislyak and after that meeting. why is the administration for so long had to deny that there were any contacts between russian officials and the trump transition? at one point vice president mike pence was on a talk show saying there was no communication between the trump camp and russians. >> well i know mike pence is a man of the greatest integrity and honor and if he said that that's what he meant and that's what h

and steel also went on the say that russia had enough embarrassing material on the now republican presidential candidate to blackmail him if they so wished. steel's memo asserted that some of russia's alleged embarrassing material on trump had been gathered in 2013 when trump brought the miss universe pageant to moscow. >> the first runner-up is spain! >> than you shgk you, moscow. >>> that is the first of the slay shouse christopher steel claims. when that memo became public, that claim was public but it is steel's broader aims and relations and methods and relationship with trump that would end up slow burning through the first year of the trump presidency. ♪ one is the only number ♪ that you'll ever need ♪ staying ahead isn't about waiting for a chance. ♪ because one is... it's about the one bold choice you make that moves you forward. ♪ ...that you ever need the one and only cadillac escalade. come in for our season's best offers and drive out with the perfect 2017 cadillac escalade for you. get this low mileage lease from around $899 per month. ( ♪ ) ♪ prices of the season' on the only be

the border between georgia and russia became the new border between the world powers. russia banned the import of georgian products the georgians arrested alleged russian spies the conflict was escalating. it was obvious that we were moving step by step into a war with russia i forced saakashvili to call the russian president to diffuse the situation. during this conversation vladimir putin told saakashvili straight up that if the georgian government launched military operations against a kazuya and south ossetia the russians would send in their army. body mcalinden syria bus because it all would see the bloodshed. just like. the interests of abkhazia and south ossetia had long ceased to be the real issue in the conflict and a proxy war was looming. during the night of august seventh to the eighth two thousand and eight this war finally broke out georgia marched into south ossetia such as really claimed a small enclave was historically georgian. buttin regarded this as an attack on russia itself and struck back. he would brook no one rest on the edges of his empire espe

suspicion in terms of the trump/russia investigation. if this was driven by those things he put in his memo, if it was driven by the handling of the clinton investigation, what explains them doing it today? especially given they know that we'd all see the connections to all the russia -- >> rod hasn't been there long. so he comes in. he takes a little time to sort out what's going on. he's furious. he's building up. it could have been the straw that broke the camel's back was comey's testimony and the public disclosure that he had testified falsely to congress and god knows what the conversation was between rosenstein and comey about how the department was going to clean that up. but whatever happened in that exchange might have been the straw that broke the camel's back. but in addition to the top down story of potential suspects and targets of an fbi investigation involved in getting rid of the director and a recused attorney general getting involved in the matter from which he's recused, don't forget this underlying piece, which is tha

the u.s. and boosted sanctions on moscow in retaliation for russia's meddling in the presidential election. flynn also sought russia's help during the transition to block a u.n. security council vote that the obama administration was abstaining on. the white house said late friday morning, quote, nothing about the guilty plea or the charge implicates anyone other than mr. flynn. however, court documents make clear that flynn was not acting alone. according to prosecutors, flynn communicated with senior members of the president's transition team about the conversations and in at least one instance was drebt directored by transition officials to reach out to russia. tonight, cnn has learned that the president's son-in-law jared kushner is the very senior member of the presidential transition team identified in today's court documents. kushner directed michael flynn to contact the russian ambassador and other countries regarding the u.n. security council vote on israeli settlements. this according to sources familiar with the matter. >> this tells me that bob mueller's team has gotten some info

the war is over but the focus is already on. russia's president vladimir putin wants to play a lead role in. the kremlin has created an alternative for negotiations the russian talks have overshadowed. the process. and now putting plans to host the syrian peace conference in sochi russia's leader says he has the support of iran and turkey countries that are deeply involved in the conflict he also says syria's president bashar assad is backing the peace initiative that may weaken his powers but leave him in office for at least a few years with a reformed constitution and. what we will likely see is a syria not divided but the void in terms of spheres of influence it will be like a multinational company would countries holding shares and of course russia having the biggest. political settlement is still a long way off for opponents of the government what is being. discussed doesn't amount to peace but priorities have changed in two thousand and seventeen calls for us had to be removed from power were no longer heard western leaders now see