u.s. russian fears they might. force them to come up with. conflicts of interest and they will demand not necessarily free trade because this is not the democratic agenda but they will be able to mom the foreign policy of the president must be more reliable and full so you will. want to thank you so much having rick as we mentioned head of the transatlantic relations program at the german council on foreign relations with that view of how these midterm elections in the united states could impact foreign policy internationally we appreciate it. and here on d.w. we have extensive coverage of the midterms throughout the day bringing you all the results and various perspectives from around the globe you can follow us for updates on our web site www dot com and also on social media. but in the meantime let's get a check of some other stories making news around the world u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe has said that the united states of over let's sleep purse to iran this after president trump ordered renewed sanctions on the country washing

u.s. russian relations his personal relationship towards russia can change anything at all when you see. so some mixed reviews there quite interestingly let's look a little bit more at those international relations because you know trump calls his foreign policy and globalist agenda and i'm wondering what concerns you more as somebody who's an expert in this field a possible shift in power perhaps going to the democrats in congress or a continuation of the status quo it's very hard to see what makes out of the situation because it could be that blocked congress forces who brings in the position where he sees it necessary to to raise conflicts elsewhere outside of america to to stand up as a strong leader to stand up to somebody who is who is tough on north korea or iran he's already doing that because he promised that in his complain but. i think if he had strong support with votes for republicans he would go on with his anti globalist agenda he would also be. seen as he wants to be seen as somebody who's tough on trade who close the borders and forces companies to come back in and i thi

u.s. and russian. well so far the so-called personal or a poor has been a disaster i think for both sides the helsinki summit was was horrible i think the presidents. reactions to president trump's reactions to president's statements were completely i mean i could not understand why he didn't respond more forcefully to the russian president i don't understand what president putin's thinking was that he thinks he could have been less his intention was to reach out to the american people with a very strong dark message which is what he managed to do i don't see how the reporter or their personal relationship is doing anything to improve relations between our two countries and if in any if anything up to this point it's made things worse so i wonder if this russian attitude purely partisan if that the republican president was and a real enemy of russia were the democrats be hard on him for being confrontational and stacked. i think we have a long history of examining you know what drives effective us russ

u.s. russian and syrian air strikes now there are some fifty thousand.

u.s.-russian relations. i can be the shortest speaker by saying, neither of very good. are there any questions in three things, the history and process of deconflicting with the russian military in syria, what i believe or what i observed as the russian tactics and methods in syria and paul talked a little bit about their strategic objectives and what we see them doing on the ground to achieve those objectives and the third part is what i see is the remaining challenge for russia and syria. i will say that to start that the opinions are my own. they don't reflect policy of the u.s. army. the army war college or the department of defense. so if you go to the third slide, the one with, again, 30 years in the army and you have to have an organizational chart. i won't dwell on this one because this really just shows the three-star headquarters which sits right below u.s. centcom is where the ground decon fli deconflictonand it's responsible for iraq and syria. if you go to the next slide, that shows the deconfliction process actually works. the russian deconfliction, and the

u.s. in syria. the russian d confliction cell which is the little box at the bottom center of the slide, that consists of four interpreters and usually a fairly senior army officer that was me and we are on our fourth person now. they tend to do 3 to 6 month rotations. that sal is responsible for all ground d confliction in syria. the relationships it has, clearly obviously into the russian reconciliation center which later they changed the name and it is the one star russian headquarters on the left side of the chart there that works directly for the three-star group of russian forces and it also made the mayor-based. we also have very close relationships with the special operations task force because those are the u.s. folks who are betting with the syrian democratic forces that are operating generally north and east of the euphrates and is conducting the counter ices fight here. we have daily email face-to- face and telephone interaction with them, we have daily interaction with the battle tab or the russia

better i guess this question is primarily addre addressed to michael coughman about your view that russian and u.s. interests in syria are actions in syria have been complimentary. i don't see that at all. the russians prevented what we said was our preferred or required outcome in syria, which was the ouster of assad. in a way that threatens american interests and the interests even more directly of our closest allies in the region. and the russians contributed almost nothing to the military campaign or any other aspect of the defeat as it is. so what did you mean by saying that our interests in our policies in syria are complimentary. but. beyond that, that's a comment more than a question. my question is what i would like to hear from each of you is what should the united states do? not what you expect the united states to do or what russia is doing, but what should the united states do? in who knows? but just in the next couple of years. thank you. >> okay. well, a great series of points. i welcome your disagreement. let me first clarify what i meant which is that while there are some fundamen

small english town gets a shock as its run down streets appear in a republican attack ad in the u.s. . russian space agency says a faulty sensor caused a failed rocket launch last month in which the two man crew safely ejected. and emotions run high at a meeting in the white house over the world anti-doping agency's decision to reinstate russia athletes accused of damaging team sports. it's midnight here in moscow and you're watching altie international line from our studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. a small seaside town in the cape has found itself in the limelight pictured as a rundown backwater by u.s. republicans an image of jay weak sons twice named britain's most deprived area has become headline news before the midterm elections in america all u.k. correspondent explains why. what links this essex seaside town to the upcoming us elections and insensitive political one hundred that's what locals here in jail exxon's in essex have been left fuming after a pro trump republican candidate for the senate for the state of illinois used a photograph of j. wick sands on h

u.s. russian relations so there needs to be a reset that term has been misused and ill used but there needs to be a reawakening of an alternative approach to engaging the world on the a part of america it's very difficult because america believes it's the sole superpower but in this world today that is not the case you mention nato and you've called it. organization in search of a mission and that actually resonates and how trump called absolute during his campaign what do you think nato mission is right now is special with america snubbing it nato is mission appears to be. to cut into. holt the menace of an expansionist russia which i think is. not the case i mean there is a view that russia is this global menace so you have nato on the borders of the baltic countries it's a trip wire for more conflict nato should have been abolished at the end of the soviet union i mean it was there to design to counter the warsaw pact right now i think what should happen with nato is it should halt its expansion ukraine should become nonaligned the future of ukraine should be as a bridge between east and

u.s. has blacklisted russian and iranian companies the shipping millions of barrels of world violation of u.s. sanctions that accuse them of using the revenues to fund groups fighting alongside the syrian government. now a new report by amnesty international has accused saudi arabia of torturing and sexually assaulting women's rights activists held in detention they were violated by men wearing face masks other detainees were flogged and electrocuted amnesties middle east research directors has only. a few weeks after the ruthless killing of jamal khashoggi the shocking reports of torture sexual harassment and other forms of treatment of verified expose further outrageous human violence violations by saudi authorities. i'm gonna start has declared a day of national mourning after at least fifteen people were killed in a suicide attack in the capital kabul an interior ministry spokesman says more than eighty others were wounded in the assault the suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a hall during a gathering of muslim religious scholars they were meeting to mark the birthday of th

u.s. has blacklisted russian and iranian companies for shipping millions of barrels of oil in violation of u.s. sanctions that accuse them of using the revenues to form groups fighting alongside the syrian government. now a new report by amnesty international has accused saudi arabia of torturing and sexually assaulting a woman's rights activists held in detention they were violated by men wearing face masks other detainees and electrocuted amnesties middle east research director says only a few weeks after the ruthless killing of jamal kushal g.e. is a shocking reports of torture sexual harassment and other forms of treatment verified expose further outrageous human rights violations by the saudi authorities. so yemen now where there have been more airstrikes and gun battles in the port city of. this is so far to me the city center was one of the worst they've seen in recent days saw the amorality coalition is backing yemen's government in its fight against iranian backed rebels who control. now an estimated eighty five thousand children under five may have died from extreme hunger or dis

u.s. russian and syrian air strikes now there are some fifty thousand people many of them women and children. i know you're one of those protests began last month after a smuggling route for food and medicine was closed by government forces. he's disabled he's also malnourished he's almost a skeleton from starvation officials say u.n. aid convoy expected last week was delayed because of security concerns but now it's finally here food hygiene and health supplies to be distributed over the next three to four days. humanitarian convoys here require approval from damascus the last time rick been received any aid was in jan. then a cross border delivery from jordan a red distribution after it sealed its border in the aftermath of a twenty sixteen isolette tac that killed seven jordanian soldiers we said we're not going to order. as syrian people on syrian territory so it is the responsibility of the syrian government and the yuan and the international community but wasn't established national. just by. circumstance where. the strangely borders. u.s. forces have a military base nearby policing a

u.s. navy and the russians. a u.s. econnaissance aircraft was flying in international airspace over the black sea according to the pentagon when a russian fighter -- and you see it there in the video, came up alongside at high speed in close range to the american aircraft. as you see the plane pass by, the americans reported that this encounter lasted for 25 minutes. on one pass the russian aircraft caused the americans to feel turbulence. on his second pass, vibration before the russians put on their after burners and banked away from the american aircraft. this is something that the u.s. does not like to see. obviously, the last such unsafe, unprofessional encounter by the russians was in january. the u.s. thought these were pretty much put to bed, if you will, but apparently the russians back at it. wolf. >> barbara, has the u.s. addressed this close encounter with the russians? >> reporter: we expect that they will. that january encounter, for example, got a very stern warning from the u.s. government. this is somet

u.s. constitution. russian opposition leader aleksei their family says he's been banned from leaving the country in a message recorded at a moscow airport the kremlin critic claimed he's pretty big he's being prevented from traveling to the european court of human rights which is due to issue a ruling over his detention just in the valley served twenty eight days in prison last month for organizing anti kremlin protests. libyan leaders are discussing united nations plans to stabilize the country after seven years of turmoil it's the first time representatives of the country's rival governments and factions have met since may the talks are being hosted by italy of come a week after the u.n. abandon plans to hold elections there in december. forty two people have been confirmed dead in northern california in the deadliest wildfires in the state's history and the death toll is expected to climb as the difficult task of recovering victims begins in the almost totally devastated town of paradise. the eerie off the m

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u.s. president fires the attorney general, donald trump criticized him after he refused to oversee an inquiry into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. election. also, a pakistani christian woman at the center of a released row has been from prison after the supreme court overturned her conviction and death sentence, the decision has sparked protests and death threats against her. business -- the segment, on the hunt for those who make counterfeit goods and how they tackle copycats. all that and more on france 24. ♪ >> our top story, police in the u.s. say a gunman has killed at least 12 people at a crowded music are in southern california and 10 others have been shot and injured. the ventura countyty sheriff's says several hundred people in the borderline bar and grill when the shooting erupted. police say the shooting died -- the shooter died, here is what eyewitnesses had to say. >> i heard these pops, probably three or four and i hit the ground. the security guard is dead. i do not want to say dead, shot, down. the gunman was throwing smoke grenades, i saw him point to the back of the cash register. he j

u.s. authorities but russian never received any uncertain. human rights activists are sounding the alarm over a teenage bride option that was held on facebook. looks 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 be husbands are said to have

u.s.-russian relations.lly we need to talk to the russians in terms of resolving so many issues, including between ukraine and russia, and in syria, and elsewhere. but the russians have captured boats that are a part of a soverign country, ukraine. the american position was, the president himself said they need to return those boats. this action is not with relation to russia and america. it has to do with that specific incident. once that specific incident is resolved. i think it will be resolved at some point, then, the president said there will be a summit. so he is messaging very clearly, i want this to be resolved. then we'll have a summit. we'll talk about other issues. melissa: how about south korea and turkey? >> say it again? melissa: how about south korea and turkey? those were also canceled today? >> yes. the president is, i assume, i'm not in the administration but i assume he is listening to the national security assessment that is telling him with each one of these countries there are assessmen

u.s./russian second track citizens diplomacy effort. d he has been a tremendous voice of reason on russia and u.s. foreign policy generally, particularly in our now-troubled times. and i would add that he has taught me everything that i know about russia except that i have a feeling he's about to turn around and say that jim billington has taught him everything he knows. [laughter] i'll leave it at that. jim, the floor is yours. >> thank you, matt9. i think it's now 58 years ago that i went into harvard hall at harvard university for the first course i ever took in russian history. and it was a rather young assistant professor who taught that course by the name of jim billington. and i have to say i think for both of us all of that kind of got out of hand over time. [laughter] both of our careers, in one way or another, ended up being associated with what has happened to the part of the world that we can call eurasia or russia or soviet union or soviet union/war saw pact. whatever you want to call it, it was this part of the world that w

u.s. has blacklisted russian and iranian companies for shipping millions of barrels of oil to syria and violation of u.s. sanctions the state department accuses of honor russia of using the revenues to help fund syrian government allies which the u.s. considers terrorist groups secretary of state to my palm says the transactions on the mine legitimate efforts to resolve the war in syria and on the news there have been more airstrikes and gun battles in the yemeni port city of the day the. witnesses say fighting near the city center was some of the worst they've seen in recent days assad the iraqi coalition is backing yemen's government in its fight against iranian backed rebels who control the data. hundreds of central american asylum seekers have arrived in the mexican city of tijuana watch borders the united states there joining several thousand who are already there meanwhile the u.s. judge has blocked president donald trump's order to bar people from seeking asylum if they enter the country illegally border agents are preparing for the so-called caravan of people making their way to the u.s.

. >> how would you describe u.s., russian relations now?s to be recovered, desperately needs to be recovered. >> i have no dealings with russia, i have no deals in russia. >> if i am not mistaken, he never had business here. i never heard about any businesses of him here in moscow. >> never heard about any businesses. joined by richard blumenthal who is on the senate judiciary committee. senator, do you see in the reporting the outlines of a joint defense agreement between key trump associates and russia and is that wrong? >> it certainly has all of the appearances of what legally would be a joint defense agreement, whether it is explicit, whether it is simply the result of a kind of common understanding. remember, donald trump lied to the american people. that's the import of the cohen guilty plea. he lied to the american people with the complicity of the russians, much at michael flynn did. and sally yates was worried about michael flynn being blackmailed because the russians were enabling that lie. they did the same with trump. they enab

u.s. intelligence memos on alleged russian meddling have failed to produce the smoking gun so many were hoping for jacqueline to explain its being the land of the free and all the u.s. freedom of information act is a beautiful thing promising to keep citizens in the know about their government but it doesn't always work out so well in practice one request followed by buzz feed and transparency group another to a top secret letter sent by u.s. senators to then president barack obama who wanted to know more about claims russia meddled in the two thousand and sixteen election so what information came out of the request well we're not totally sure the information is big surprise heavily redacted we've actually known for almost two years that the letter existed but now we can see a bit more of what the senators were demanding apart from the reductive bits of course. we are right to request to the extent possible you declassify and release the public additional information related to the russian government and the u.s. election despite the broad national interest in the topic this new information ha

u.s. russian relations his personal relationship towards russia can change anything at all through and use me. to. a record amount of donations has been made in the run up to today's mid-term elections in the united states the seventeen german companies are among those making financial contributions to the election campaigns of senators and members of the house of rubber representatives in total german companies gave two point six million dollars to both republican and democrat candidates some of the biggest donors are chemicals company b. s. f. and telecommunications firm deutsche telekom with more than six hundred thousand dollars each contributions of pharmaceutical giant buyer clocked in at two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. now to tell us more about the story over our common joins me in the studio he's my colleague on the w. business model who profits from german corporate money democrats or republicans well as you might expect with corporate donations the republicans got the most of it fifty nine percent of german corporate donations but we what we can also see is that a lot of