now and kiev ukraine three destinations of major significance ukraine with its rich lands and resources was an important industrial and economic source for the u.s.s.r. to cut it off from the soviet union would strike a big blow indeed. for most of the soviet union the second world war was about fighting the invaders of their land. but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. galaxy and not to call and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than eighty thousand people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galad seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russi

but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. galaxy and not to golf and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than eighty thousand people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galad seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russian people on the territory of ukraine. members of these military groups came mostly from the organization of ukrainian nationalists b.-o. un founded in one nine hundred twenty nine this organization had an ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure independent ukraine and considered terror an acceptable tool for achieving

but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the reese. certainly forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. galaxy and not to call and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than eighty thousand people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galut seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russian people on the territory of ukraine. members of these military groups came mostly from the organization of ukrainian nationalists b.-o. un founded in one nine hundred twenty nine this organization had an ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure independent ukraine and considered terror an acceptable tool for ac

but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. galaxy and not to go and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than eighty thousand people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galad seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russian people on the territory of ukraine. members of these military groups came mostly from the organization of ukrainian nationalists b.-o. un founded in one nine hundred twenty nine this organization had an ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure independent ukraine and considered terror an acceptable tool for achieving th

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in ukraine a nationalistic political organization. or people's movement emerged in one nine hundred eighty nine due to this mild openness. they advocated for independence of ukraine from the u.s.s.r. and became an incubator for leaders of ukrainian nazis. in one thousand nine hundred one one of them new book founded svoboda an openly radical nationalist party preaching the good old principles of bondage era. per jew crane from the jews in russia ukraine for ukrainians and so on his statements got him fifth place in the simon visa and thought center top ten anti-semitic world leader rankings of two thousand and twelve. but also sadly attracted numerous phone. dimitry are founded another extreme right organization treason or trident in one thousand nine hundred four. in april two thousand and thirteen became an assistant to a member of parliament from the opposition party who died. later that same year he would become the leader of the most radical ukrainian nazi group the right sector. laundry paro be would soon appear leading a whole

and georgia and georgia and ukraine. thank you very much thank you dr saakashvili talking to all bases so much. when diplomacy fields and fear sweeps in our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's ill to sixty's instead of being an obstacle or do a whole wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. where were you when this idea popped into it whether on line it's undoubtedly chief cold all over the inequality in our society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like for you to go back for the first time everyone has a voice about allow refugees to flee the speakers for change join the conversation on our. history is so often told through the eyes of leaders but in amritsar india just thirty kilometer

in ukraine a prosecutor accused of having connections with a suspected criminal gang led by ukraine's former president viktor yanukovych. so where does all of this leave the man who was once hailed as a champion of democracy. i'm sami's a down in the dutch capital i've come to amsterdam to discuss with mr saakashvili his rise and fall and how he plans to continue his political career former georgian president mikheil saakashvili talks to algiers the. former president of georgia a former governor of a desk in ukraine thanks so much for talking to al-jazeera thank you for inviting me so you're now here in the netherlands but on april the third you spoke about how you want to return to georgia when will that happen well be or entire region we're going to change the the present artificial situation when all garcia running the show sidelining the people sidelining democracy just making fun of the whole idea of the political process it's very artificial and they know you can't return until that changes or else you would probably hear by the rest except you also bolster to change i keep your

but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators.

might see that otherwise having said that ukraine is very dependent on u.s. support a really wide range of issues so if one of its top back is would recognize even tacitly russian control of crimea that would really plunge ukraine into a diplomatic crisis and i do want to ask you about this because at the same time the u.s. has also increased its role we should say in mediating a solution in the east of the country with their special envoy kurt volker as well do you think that ukraine here has the feeling or does the american ministration really support ukraine's interests here or russia where does that stand again we have that that's like disconnect and it's shown and president trumps rhetoric and the difference between president trump and the administration that he leads you know if you look at the past eighteen months of the trumpet ministration you have seen a escalation in support for ukraine we see more money going into defense we see the delivering of the lethal assistance to ukraine we see more sanctions we see the appointment of a special envoy for u

many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that cost was high. on may second two thousand and fourteen soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city f

what we've seen russia do in ukraine is not only about or physically about ukraine but about the board of the community of democracy. something that we didn't understand until 2014 in europe. would you say that it's currently understood today?>> to some extent. in ukraine it might be because you go back to the russian invasion of ukraine overlooking these portions of politics. entering the debate as well saying that the u.s. provoked russia. rather than saying, ukraine is an independent european country and has the right to direct its own future. the sort of people that say these sorts of things, there is you know, this undercurrent of specificity with international quality with politicians on the rise in british politics i think it's some of that too. we are seeing them most ordinary way of -- extraordinary way. i think what we need is the inquiry of the community. this is an important thing to understand. they are a lot longer established in the front-line countries and they've been dealing with this for many years and i'm not sure i understand the nature of what this comment means.

one day from the next from ukraine to see, bank, like that. forget about the wharton ukraine. it didn't sort out the way we expected but look at syria. it is roughly speaking the same storyline. what, if any, the and good, the legitimate leader against the overwhelming power of the west. russia's of the basic problem which we just don't pay enough attention to what europe, but what to do with europe. europe is a much more important than we are, if you russia frankly. one thing we share with the russians is weak would like for everything to be that geopolitics. it's about d.c. in moscow and with the great powers. that's a weakness we share and which we tend toward dialogue or our conversation about them. europe matter so much more. europe is so much more of a relevant example for actual russians and the united states is, and russians have much more direct experience with europeans than to us. europe is a bigger economy that we are. and example of democracy, more important than american democracy. i don't just me now, i mean before 201616 as well. a lot of mr. putin evolution ha

i think in ukraine it would be. again, you go back to the russian invasion of ukraine. you have politicians on the right and british politicians saying quite extraordinary things. and during the brexit debate as well, almost saying the u.n. provoked russia into doing this. it was within russia's right to stop this ukraine encroachment. and, you know, fondly enough, the sorts of people that were saying those sorts of things are the people who now have closer links to russia than known at the time. there is this undercurrent sympathy with nationalist politics that some politicians on the right and british politics have. and the allies they seek across europe. we're seeing the most extraordinary wave of political change across europe at the moment. and i think we -- i think for me, as we embarked on this inquiry as a committee, the thing that really -- that is really important to us to understand -- the problems we think are a 2016 problem are a lot longer established in the baltic states, former soviet republicans, in the front-line countries in eastern europe where they

many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. i and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing along arm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up . the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that cost was high. on may second two thousand and fourteen soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa

many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that cost was high. on may second two thousand and fourteen soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city f

ukraine is a critical element of that, because ukraine is an example of the success that that liberal international order, those values have over the minds of people who are free. people in ukraine have shown their desire over 25 years to live by those values, and to live by those norms, those responsibilities. for that reason, amongst others, the kremlin has intervened in ukraine's free choice from day one, in its politics and elections. and the more clear it became over the past 25 years, that the ukrainian people were yearning for european and western values, but willing to fight and die to obtain those values that civilizational choice, it became more important to intervene. it started simply by making sure that political forces represented russian interests, first in kiev, perhaps in the south, maybe in the east. then in the security services, maybe in the military. often it was financed by corruption until my government stepped in 2014 and ended the use of intermediaries in gas trade, the russians enabled billions of dollars in the gas trade, to go through intermediaries and fin

an anti—kremlin journalist reported killed in ukraine is actually alive.ight, for the first time, the inside story of the fake murder. translation: they put pigs‘ blood in my mouth and then when i was shot, i fell to my knees and coughed to make the blood splatter. babchenko's wife tells her side of the story. translation: you just can't believe it. you don't want to believe it. and we track down the hit man. it's a tale worthy of a spy thriller, but in an age of fake news, was the truth the real casualty? i'm jonah fisher. for the last few weeks i've been on the trail of an extraordinary murder mystery. it happened here in kiev, the capital of ukraine. and at the heart of it is one man. babchenko is a russianjournalist. he fled moscow last year after receiving death threats and got a job with the ukrainian tv station. he is an outspoken critic of vladimir putin. translation: he's a usurper, a little dictator who lives completely in his own world. he wants to be like napoleon. collecting together all russian lands. but ukraine, which sees itself as being a

many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that cost was high. on may second two thousand and fourteen soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city f

in ukraine a prosecutor accused of having connections with a suspected criminal gang led by ukraine's former president viktor yanukovych. so where does all of this leave the man who was once hailed as a champion of democracy. i'm sami's a down in the dutch capital i've come to amsterdam to discuss with mr saakashvili his rise and fall and how he plans to continue his political career former georgian president mikheil saakashvili talks to algiers the. former president of georgia a former governor of a desk in ukraine thanks so much for talking to al-jazeera thank you for inviting me so you're now here in the netherlands but on april the third you spoke about how you want to return to georgia when will that happen well be or entire region are we going to change the the present artificial situation when all garcia running the show sidelining the people sidelining democracy just making fun of the whole idea of the political process it's very artificial and there you can't return until that changes or else you would probably go by the refs except i also ball sort of change i keep i am the

it happened here in kiev, the capital of ukraine. and at the heart of it is one man.abchenko is a russianjournalist. he fled moscow last year after receiving death threats and got a job with a ukrainian tv station. he's an outspoken critic of vladimir putin. translation: he's a usurper, a little dictator who lives completely in his own world. he wants to be like napoleon, collecting together all russian lands. but ukraine, which sees itself as being at war with russia, can be a dangerous place for putin's opponents. in the last two years, several dissident russian journalists and politicians have been killed in kiev. exactly who was behind the murders remains unclear. our story begins earlier this year. was arkady babchenko about to become the next target? very nice to meet you. welcome. how are you doing? i'm glad to see you. i'm happy to see you too. crazy times. yeah. tsymbaliuk tells me how in april this year he met an old contact, an arms manufacturer called borys herman. tsymbaliuk claims herman was looking to arrange the murder of arkady babchenko on behalf of

activist and journalist known for investigating corruption among senior officials was beaten outside ukraine's capital on christmas. her heroic deeds as a reporter looked more like petty crimes trespassing on the presidential residence of victory on a covert each leading the rioting crowd to seize the kiev city administration building breaking into a car of the security service of ukraine it looked like tatyana was more interested in making news than reporting it and gaining name recognition that could be turned into votes for her struggling political career in the opposition party fatherland she gave the world media a christmas present in two thousand and thirteen when she was cruelly beaten by unknown assailants on the road despite the fact that in just three days all the suspects were arrested and confessed to beating tatyana during a road rage incident world media kept insisting upon the political background of the crime instantaneously tatyana became a heroic martyr uniting people around her image the beating coming amid political turmoil in ukraine this is draw if protest. was once again

in ukraine a prosecutor accused of having connections with a suspected criminal gang led by ukraine's former president viktor yanukovych. so where does all of this leave the man who was once hailed as a champion of democracy. i'm sami's a down in the dutch capital i've come to amsterdam to discuss with mr saakashvili his rise and fall and how he plans to continue his political career former georgian president mikheil saakashvili talks to algiers the. former president of georgia a former governor of a desk in ukraine thanks so much for talking to al-jazeera thank you for inviting me so you're now here in the netherlands but on a for the third you spoke about how you want to return to georgia when will that happen well be or entire region are we going to change the the present artificial situation when all garcia running the show sidelining the people sidelining democracy just making fun of the whole idea of the political process it's very artificial and there you can't return until that changes or else you would probably buy the rights except you also bolster to change i keep your eye

so we all we only know that syrians ukraine and probably yes the financials ukraine but insulin media highly likely to be on the table in these at least stumbling blocks from the western perspective but as the letter to putin i suppose for him the lifting off for russia very painful economic sanctions will arguably be the most important issue today not ukraine not. coming up on insulin and i want to ask you about that as well because just what yuri was saying this idea that russia's relationship with washington can be restored something about the symbolism of this summit is that the aims i think if you're looking at one deliverable the optic is the deliverable i mean you as we've discussed a second ago you know this is about lifting. putin himself and russia up to the status of a great leader and a great power and this bilateral one on one meeting at a summit level it does just that it might be worth mentioning also why why the selection of helsinki helsinki was the site of a big conference it was the apex of deterrence the kissinger real politic strategy to relax relations between th

it had all been an elaborate sting operation by ukraine's security service.rder, there was of course a fake killer. the hit man used to be an orthodox priest, but tells me he was approached by an old contact and agreed to kill arkady babchenko for $30,000. while pretending to cooperate, the hit man was in fact working with ukraine's security service, the spu, and recorded all of their interactions. the spu then decided to fake the murder, to try and expose what it suspected was a russian plot to kill dissidents in kiev. 0n the big night, babchenko lay on the floor smeared in pigs blood. an ambulance was called and babchenko taken to the morgue, where, away from prying eyes, he could at last stop pretending to be dead. translation: i was wrapped up in a sheet like gandhi, smoking and watching the tv news about what a wonderful guy i was. all this time, his wife 0lga was having to keep an impossible secret. translation: i envied him because he did not have to talk to anyone. a few hours later it was all over, and babchenko made his remarkable comeback. their op

putin for the moves in ukraine. it is an interesting moment. alsoine: president trump saying that vladimir putin has offered to help on the investigation of russian meddling in the election is an incredible offer. put that in context for us. is it a real offer of help? often do you ask the people you are investigating to help you investigate? this is an offer russia has put on the table before. if you take a look at the mh-17 investigation, the airline shot down over ukraine, russia has offered to help investigate. that offer has not been taken up. what you make of how the leaders will get along? they were a formidable duo in talking about interference in the election. are these leaders going to get along in a way where we will have a deal the next time they meet? notlie: if there was collusion before, it seemed like there was collusion now in terms of the answers. they were so well correlated. granted, they were written statements. certainly you got the sense they were on the same page. marty, let me come to you. w

but at the same time, tipped off the sbu, ukraine's intelligence service.ted russia could be behind it and decided to stage the killing of the journalist. the sbu's boss is vasyl hrytsak. why was the decision taken to fake arkady babchenko‘s murderer? translation: because we were told that there were several units in ukraine and that this assassination is just a test run for others. only by staging this crime could we get the list of targets. we had to know more about who was involved in preparing and commissioning this terrible crime. the sbu rigged tsymbaliuk up with a secret camera which they say shows money being handed over for babchenko‘s murder. what was the price for killing him? did you discuss how the murder would be carried out? it was time to let arkady babchenko know that there was a price on his head. sbu agents told him of their audacious plot. they wanted to stage his murder to flush out those who had ordered the killing. translation: my first thought was not to trust them, that maybe it's a setup. ijust wanted to grab my family and flee som

expect from the trump put in summit in helsinki accusations of election tampering the war in syria ukraine and arms control issues at stake between the u.s. and russia so will the two leaders common ground this is inside story. and welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump and russian leader vladimir putin are expected to hold their first one on one meeting in house on monday but the two leaders will hold some of those meetings without a and that's worrying diplomats trump has been under pressure to cancel the summit altogether that's after the u.s. justice department charged twelve russians with hacking to democratic party and hillary clinton during the two thousand and sixteen election campaign president trump has promised to confront putting on the issue well bring in our guests shorter but first this report from our diplomatic editor jan space. helsinki a city that joining the cold war was used as one of the few places where western allies and the soviet union could talk some believe relations are almost at a cold war level again yet one leader keeps talking up the positive a

in ukraine but they're not responsible for corruption in u kr ukraine, ukraine is responsible for.that i think the judicial system, the biggest risk has been that not direct russian interference. >> okay, thank you. >> michael martel, cyber research with the national security archive. folks have been talking about transparency on the location of posts. it's fairly easy to spoof location on line using vpns. at a certain point we then have to target vpns which are human rights. you have to target vpns which are used in places like russia, china, iran. at times with american encouragement to be able to practice free speech of their own. so at what point do we decide that tradeoff is worth it for the west? >> anyone want to comment on that? it's a good question. >> simply say, you asked the right question. it really is a tradeoff. there are costs to doing that. and even though there are benefits just as with the bots question. so, you know, that's what democracies, democratic governments are supposed to do. they're supposed to address the hard questions, freedom, security, democratic p

mikhail saakashvili an old friend of the united states and born and raised in ukraine's neighboring country georgia hello there in georgia a quick look at his biography gives one an understanding that he's been groomed for a special mission i mean should i be doing as i did when i was honored to go did it never got to mr saakashvili received a u.s. state department scholarship and he worked for a new york law firm which represented the organization come on or a group that appeared earlier when we learned about the color revolutions and we're dealing with democratic blood blister aleutian this is the revolution of roses and this is me kyle saakashvili with camara busy over. we're throwing the legitimately elected president eduard shevardnadze. but. soon after the rose revolution blossom fully george announced its intentions to join nato and plant fresh nato military bases in the fertile soil right on russia's border never ever freedom and independence never never will give any piece of our territory saakashvili is mission was accomplished at least with his friends and nato the georgian popul

side by what happens in ukraine i went to the region of a desert which is extremely important strategic region do you think you could change georgia though by being the governor viewed some of this or that it would have fall have you for that i would have fallen george it would have been finished off because or the essays on the plexi fallen from whom the time rush resident it was when i went there it was on the brink of being fall into the fold of the russians it was obvious it's a very it's a region with a very strong separatist presence we do a weak government power but that moment very precarious security situation to the point where nobody really wanted to get to go into that business of becoming odessa governor well i well i wanted to go there after several high profile ukrainians declined that office and because they for told us it would fall why did president petro poroshenko ask you do you think and give you citizenship was it down to a personal relationship with no i think because before running for ukraine president he said that his role model for reforms were to countries si

to ukraine and ally.he media doesn't like to talk about that. is it going to come up? yes. is it going to be the dominant part of the conversation? no way. this president has been transparent about the media might not want to admit this but will be good if the u.s. had a better relationship with russia. we can work or inferior. we can work in iran. all range of important issues that he wants to focus on rather than election meddling. the president said a couple days ago there could be a perry mason moment were pressed putin against the wall and say did you do it and he was so you've got me, and guilty. remodeled in the election. democrats still wouldn't be satisfied. putin didn't say it firmly enough. you didn't throw it against the wall hard enough. frankly he spends too much time election meddling. but if he spends too much time on it, it's going to be a waste. a lot of other big issues that this president will talk about. >> election meddling likely won't be the dominant part of this conversation. what

in ukraine conservatives and moderates but today and in the united states they call anyone who's for open borders who is for traditional family values whatever they call them. well i mean not just yet this is anything that's a political term that is so misappropriated in the west and overlooked in a country like ukraine we're going to have any of these fine media actually thank our team for covering the story first as i said lannes or gallagher the only right you have mary and i know it's always a backhanded. you know this headline doesn't come. as i remember has been banging on about this before we have on this program. but you know i've been very should thank you ok i want to thank you for something else you are an expert in economics and political risk the terms as you could win a trade war it's easy now russia and united states and china are going to head to head from what i understand though that the exports from china to the united states is only nineteen percent of their total exports i mean is this all political is this all domestic politics here is that the midterms you can

i expected issue is president putin asking to make decisions about ukraine without ukraine at the table. that has been the approach they have taken in the past. in your role, i expect views on this how would you advise the president on this issue on the sanctions than what's going on? >> i will not engage in hypotheticals. on ukraine, we been clear in our public messaging, what specific actions would be needed a part of the russians in order for us to live sanctions. we have shown our resolve in this matter at least by providing aid, beyond that, our overall mindset has to be that we keep the door open to constructive dialogue where there are shared areas of interest. we oh it to the american people and the international stability to keep open to this idea. i want engage in hypotheticals. we'll see where the process leads. we have been clear about where the boundaries are. >> thank you secretary mitchell for being here today and for the good work that you are promoti promoting. in your statement you say clearly that we seek a better relationship with russia, but it can only happen when

he has been consistent through his administration, time for russia to leave ukraine. if the president communicates clear and undeniable message about russia leaving ukraine that is a victory. the second one obviously is he has to bring up the russia meddling in our western democratic system. that will be an important point. of the president communicates strength and resolve vladimir putin will expect that. ed: you made an important point, we hear about election meddling and they allege part of that that somehow the president compromised, vladimir putin is holding this, you see the president of the united states and the president of finland looking at the gardens, out on the balcony, getting a look at the finish president's official residence, this is a chance to take it in, a beautiful city, the capital of helsinki, we have been preparing for the summit. the weather is terrific, 22 hours of sunlight, something i wish we could say about being back home in america, it has been glorious to be here, the president seems to be in good spirits. i mentioned john kelly, as the

are very good review on how western media push this narrative that these are freedom fighters in ukraine that there was no coup and now we have some of the main broadsheets foreign policy washington post yet let the atlanta council of all people backtracking on it i mean eric what does that mean to you i mean when you begin to spawn a narrative which just doesn't work anymore then the neo nazis in ukraine have become so egregious and so open that you simply can't hide it anymore they're not trying to hide it the atlantic council is for god sakes the mouthpiece of nato but eric who did they and lending council invite to speak to them are. andrei peruvian. is a neo nazi. he is a band the right neo nazi he was the co-founder of the social nationalist party and another has issues they are going to and he was also the leader of the self-defense forces of the my don which of course went on to seize buildings and killed policemen and fought the new regime into power on the streets of kiev he is now the speaker of the rot of the number three person in the ukrainian government he met with the us

in the ukraine and in syria on the other hand he's also more capable of offering something in return if he does. seems quite happy about breaking with his nato allies if you were to come to this summit for example over ukraine or crimea in exchange for syria i don't think anyone would really be surprised if you mean. such a proposal so. and again as you correctly pointed out i think he he really wants to bring up the bigotry home and of course making peace with russia would be a great price now on top of it hasn't really made it any secrets that he sees china as being the main rival and. you know in fairness trumps position is actually quite reasonable because the us spend a fortune on its military deployments in your world what does it achieve in its road and which is russia or china which is the main challenger or the u.s. so i think. trump will probably try to do is to scale back the mean look at where he would be willing to negotiate scaling back on the military mirror and divert his money back home and instead become just like russia china iran to balance each other course it's

sees in ukraine have become so egregious and so open that you simply can't hide it anymore they're not trying to hide the people and the council is for god sakes the mouthpiece of nato but who did they and lend council invite to speak to them you are. andrea is a neo nazi he has a band the right neo nazi he was the co-founder of the social nationalist party and another has interesting going to and he was also the leader of the self-defense forces of the my don which of course went on to seize buildings and killed policemen and fought the new regime into power on the streets of kiev he is now the speaker of the rot of the number three person in the ukrainian government he met with the us speaker of the house congressman he's already met with the canadian parliament justin trudeau and he is a neo nazi there's no question about it here's what the deal is you know with these ukrainian groups which are funded and armed by the ukrainian government they're all even doing children's outreach and in darfur and it'll generate into the military military and the parallel police force right they've

the language of science on january twenty sixth two thousand and fourteen hope francis prayed for ukraine addressing thousands of people at st peter's square in vatican city. it's just. after the prayer to white doves were released from the papal window and were immediately attacked by a crow and siegel those who understand the language could easily read the meaning of this ailment soon great forces the siegel and the crow would be tearing apart two slavic nations the white doves this omen gave hope to the ukrainian people saying that by god's will the doves would be saved but it also predicted severe hardship and many victims. of the events which could enter into the history of the color revolutions as the most massive human sacrifice yet arrived right on schedule one month later. for weeks this european path at all has been the scene of a violent uprising. today but yesterday yet the protesters are pushing up towards the government district on cheer with molotov cocktails that we still haven't got. thems team. there are casualties on both sides that it wouldn't take. which is just said