there are at least parties to this conflict between ukraine russia the west and russia gauging this standoff over ukraine seeking to influence it. simply. because if you want to the left party has consistently opposed the war at the same time when the civil war in syria escalated how many left leaning people who are not members of the left party went to northern syria to support the kurds isn't this a contradiction what does the left party think about this situation is that what you're. about. we discussed it within the faction and it was a heated debate this is the situation we're facing pacifist cannot condone the use of force but anti militarists and this is an important distinction recognize the right to self-defense i don't think we can tell people you have to figure out somehow isis is at the gates you might die but it's not our problem because we are pacifists as you not accept this reasoning i've never been a pacifist i am an anti militarists that means that in my opinion military force should be a last resort we have our national right to self defense that cannot be taken away we sh

there are at least parties to this conflict between ukraine russia the west and russia gauging the standoff over ukraine seeking to win through and see it. as. the left party has consistently opposed the war at the same time when the civil war in syria escalated how many left leaning people who are not members of the left party went to northern syria to support the kurds isn't this a contradiction what is the left party think about this situation that. we discussed it within the faction and it was a heated debate this is the situation with facing a pacifist cannot condone the use of force but anti militarists and this is an important distinction recognize the right to self-defense i don't think we can tell people you have to figure out somehow isis is at the gates you might die but it's not our problem because we are pacifists as you not accept this reasoning i've never been a pacifist i am an anti militarists that means that in my opinion military force should be a last resort we have our national right to self-defense that cannot be taken away we should not abuse the idea of defense and s

. >>> next former ambassadors to russia and ukraine on whether the u.s. should arm ukraine. it focused on russia's aggression, the role of the european union and the current military power. this runs an hour and a half. >>> good morning, everyone. my name is hanna. i'm a research fellow and honored to be here today at the atlantic council in conjunction with the institute. for a a really entertaining discussion, a debate i hope we're going to have about whether or not the u.s. should arm ukraine. should the u.s. arm ukraine. i wanted to start the program today with a little bit of a poll to e see just how many of you think you have made up your minds about your own answer to this question. how many of you think you have already decided. how many of you have not yet decided and are open to being swayed. gentlemen, you have a very tall order at hand. for those watching online, on c-span, i invite you to follow us on twitter. and maybe wondering why are we covering this topic now. it's been three years really since we started having this debate here in the united states about wh

ukraine. and more broadly, on both russia and ukraine. our position is in no sense anti-russian. it is anti-revisionism, it's anti-aggression. the greatest russian historian wrote sometime in the late 19th century -- and this is a very simplified pair a rah phrase -- paraphrase -- that when the russian state marches, the russian people lose. and there's certainly a connection between mr. putin's revisionism and aggression abroad and his repression at home. and our policy's which is designed to there wart that, will -- thwart that, will hasten the day. and this is not talking about regime change. it will hasten the day when we see the right developments domestically in russia. >> yeah. on that, if i may, i think part of our argument also is that if we want to see liberalizing changes within russia, the worst thing we could do would be to try to stimulate a rally around the flag effect within russia. i mean, putin could use american deeper engagement as a way to stimulate his own power and respect. this is a very traditional thing. it's as old as politics. and why hand them, him th

the world of a divided europe where moscow dominated their neighbors and as we have seen in ukraine, today's russia is using military force and hybrid methods to impose their will and undermine societies, including our own. the russians -- if the russians are not stopped in ukraine, they may be tempted to use the same method against our nato allies such as the baltic states and poland and other regimes like china may be emboldened to settle claims by force as well. what is at stake in ukraine is survival, butne's our own security and that of our allies is also at stake. the future of the international order based on role of long rather than the law of the jungle is very much on the line. in 2014,tial setbacks ukraine forces have fought courageously. while they have benefited from limited military support and training from the u.s. and other allies, the ukrainians have largely been fighting on the road. it time to give them -- on their own. it's time to give them -- to level the playing field. this would not represent an escalation or lead to an esculin torry -- spiral. some of the equipment is a re

belarus after crimea started to carry a new foreign policy a position of neutral party between russia and ukraine and russia and the west these drills destroy the us image in a sense their own pleasant for the balor russian leadership and i'd like them to be wrapped up soon as possible further complicating belorussian feelings zapp had two thousand and seventeen scenario envisages russia helping to quell separatism in a fictitious breakaway region of better reschooling noria better russian which have since come up with a vision or in foreign ministry twitter accounts passports even a national anthem. of the. bands behind the humor this blogger says there are concerns that if russia could turn on ukraine other slavic countries shouldn't take anything for granted. when such large scale drills are held it's normal for people to feel tension disbelief and fear because after crimea you cannot guarantee anything one hundred percent no one could have predicted the crimean scenario so civil society in belarus is quite nervous. for vladimir putin though it's just one of the years many military exercises a

who is part of the family, as you might have recalled in his book, at some point said without ukraine russia ceased to be the eurasian empire and today is the notion that can be repeated and the notion that is underlying the unique role ukraine is playing. in my opening remarks i would like to concentrate a little bit on ukraine/us relationship and specific things happening in the ukraine and i would be happy to take your questions and go into those things during our q and a period. i will not open any secrets or news if i say that ukraine today by paying a high price, then eastern democratic frontier of europe past the point of no return in the cost of freedom and democracy. we are happy notwithstanding very difficult way we have to go through, finally 1 september, none of the countries that have signed to the cessation agreement, you had to go through such a difficult path, and finally in ukraine into full force, not only for ukraine but all the european union member states giving us visibility and impetus for deep transformation in the country and these changes show economic nature, democ

ukraine russia ukraine and people were buying it suddenly they turned to on t.v. no no it's not as simple as that and that if he goes back to the to the who. and so on and so on and suddenly the western media things will curb a problem and then came syria be the yeah then came syria and that was a big problem again so they're helpless they don't know what alexander not only isn't but i mean let me let me stay with you. isn't it really remarkable as assad is winning that proxy war that has been supported by outsiders and terrorist networks here is it really remarkable that well you don't hear much about syria anymore people are going back to aleppo old western media well why would they go back to aleppo to to to assad that's killing his own people it drops out ok let me go to neal another example here a few weeks ago i came across i think it was in the washington post did you know that there while the camp government is being held hostage by right wing neo-fascist gangs well if you've been watching c

somewhat weird situation the west poses an arbitrator only this arbitrator's size with ukraine wants to punish russia and basically this shows how much the european union and nato countries like germany britain and the united states heavily involved in this conflict there are at least parties to this conflict between ukraine and russia the west and russia gauging this standoff over ukraine seeking to influence it. because if you want to the left party has consistently opposed the war at the same time when the civil war in syria escalated how many left leaning people who are not members of the left party went to northern syria to support the kurds isn't this a contradiction what is the left party think about this situation is that what. we discussed it within the faction and it was a heated debate this is the situation we're facing pacifist cannot condone the use of force but anti militarists and this is an important distinction recognize the right to self-defense i don't think we can tell people you have to figure out somehow isis is at the gates you might die but it's not our problem because we are

the west and russia gauging the standoff over ukraine seeking to win through and said. this would. because it's here on the left party has consistently opposed the war at the same time when a civil war in syria escalated how many left leaning are people who are not members of the left party or went to northern syria to support the kurds is there isn't this a contradiction what is the left party think about this situation that. you have no doubt. we discussed it within the faction and it was a heated debate this is the situation with facing a pacifist cannot condone the use of force but anti militarists and this is an important. shouldn't recognize the right to self-defense i don't think we can tell people i have to figure out somehow i says at the gates you might die but it's not our problem because we are pacifists as you not accept this reasoning i've never been a pacifist i am an anti military it means that in my opinion military force should be a last resort we have our national right to self defense that cannot be taken away we should not abuse the idea of defense

over a million refugees have already crossed into russia from the eastern ukraine. enough is where ukrainian refugees are helped with registration in russia i look for someone prepared to tell me their story. victoria kolesnikov it is a small entrepreneur from the don but despite the difficulties of life as a refugee she's full of energy and has already found a job as a sales assistant when she becomes a russian citizen her career chances should improve. i was invited to victoria and sergey kolesnik of the new flat. just do not start in the void that you worked out . there's a wide circle. there is a crazy layer what nasa qatar is. stunning sadness national have you seen the crane only need a new. some get it economy going after you got a little more on the new businesses just need those movements and need me and a whole bunch of forged first thing. in the most privileged in the. music. is going to come from my. musical prince into. some of. the other countries the government is that is covering everything i say he's laid down the you. know pushing people up a couple

after russia invaded ukraine and took crimea, the u.s. d countries responded with serious sanctions against russia. that bank that secretly met with jared kushner sanctioned. the other bank lined up to finance trump tower moscow, also sanctioned. the russian energy company trying to do an oil deal with exxonmobil that was so big putin gave exxon ceo rex tillerson the medal and thanks for doing the deal, the company is sanctioned which skewed up the big deal with exxon. the sanctions on russia are really, really big pain and getting rid of them is a huge priority for russia. in january, the personal lawyer, long-time executive with the trump organization took a meeting in a new york lobby in new york city with a few different people including a proputin politician from ukraine and the result of that meeting in new york was a written proposal for the u.s. government to not only make the sanctions on russia go away, but to tie that up with a bow on top, as well. the plan had three parts. number one, the president of ukraine would be thrown ou

belarus after crimea started to carry a new foreign policy a position of neutral party between russia and ukraine and russia and the west these drills destroy the us image in a sense their own pleasant for the leadership and i'd like them to be wrapped up soon as possible further complicating belorussian feelings had two thousand and seventeen scenario envisages russia helping to quell separatism in a fictitious breakaway region of better reschooling noria better russian which have since come up with a vision or in foreign ministry twitter account passports even a national anthem. behind the humor this blogger says there are concerns that if russia could turn on ukraine the slavic countries shouldn't take anything for granted. when such large scale drills are held it's normal for people to feel tension disbelief and fear because after crimea you cannot guarantee anything one hundred percent no one could have predicted the crimean scenario so civil society in belarus is quite nervous for vladimir putin though it's just one of the years many military exercises as he watches over the culmination of

belarus after crimea started to carry a new foreign policy a position of neutral party between russia and ukraine and russia and the west these drills destroy the us image in a sense their own pleasant for the balor russian leadership and i'd like them to be wrapped up soon as possible further complicating belorussian feelings zapp had two thousand and seventeen scenario envisages russia helping to quell separatism in a fictitious breakaway region of better reschooling noria better russian which have since come up with a visionary and foreign ministry twitter account passports even national anthem just a little. box behind the humor this blogger says there are concerns that if russia could turn on ukraine other slavic countries shouldn't take anything for granted. when such large scale drills are held it's normal for people to feel tension disbelief and fear because after crimea you cannot guarantee anything one hundred percent no one could have predicted the crimean scenario so civil society in belarus is quite nervous. for the enemy putin though it's just one of the years many military exercise

the key problem of this conflict is not russia, it is not the south—eastern ukraine, it is the authoritiesin demonising russia, in antagonising russia with the western part of this world. this is their primary interest and unfortunately the so—called west, the european union, the united states of america are trapped by this anti—russian policy of kiev. i wonder whether putin‘s kiev initiative, to quote fyodor lukyanov, a big foreign policy thinker in russia, he says it represents a significant shift, possibly a conciliatory shift from the russian president. i wonder whether we should see it as a bigger picture. here you are in russia, you‘ve got a massive military commitment you‘re making two east ukraine and crimea and it‘s costing you an awful lot of money, you got a massive military commitment that your maintaining in syria that‘s costing you a lot of money. right now you have and economy underperforming massively by any international measure. you have frankly a profound demographic problem that you don‘t have enough young russians of reductive capacity. perhaps it‘s time to admit that

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and russia thrive on completely different things. ukraine once peace and restoration. russia wants control of ukraine and undermines every effort to restore -- restore sovereign control within the border. tried to exchange peace in ukraine for their freedom. and i'm going to make a very strong message. ukraine would never accept that kind of deal, nor will the international community. [applause] the latest hybrid peacekeeping proposal from moscow is yet another example of russia's real ambition. to legalize its proxies and to freeze the conflict forever. we would welcome any proposal that would bring an end to this in my country. a full-fledged u.n. peacekeeping operation is the only viable solution to deescalate and protect the people of ukraine and to get us closer to a political solution. that is why the peacekeepers mandate should cover the entire occupied area, including the ukrainian and russian state borders. this is a must. aslong as the border is used the means supply route with the manpower and weapons, there will be no peace in my

this was no good lovin for russia this was a very much a very critical analysis of russia or it conducted itself in ukraine how russia had conducted itself with regards to crimea. the sole thing of the interview that followed that came from beagle spiegel online one of the most respected news outlets here in germany was the fact that they focus continuously on the fact that . had spoken to a russian news outlets. in fact using all of that to continuously try and slam the foreign minister of why did you speak to the two people he responded saying that he would speak to absolutely everybody there was an election going on and he was trying to get any vote he could get whatsoever. that's not human in order to give more interviews as you may have gathered i am here also giving you an interview to clarify my position in any case i'm reaching out to people of russian origin who live with us in germany and do not read spiegel online there is a whole cloud surrounding this german election that comes up on the twenty fourth of september and that is one of the russians going to interfere there seems to be a whole fee

they ended with russia's unrecognized annexation of crimea. from the crisis in ukraine began in february three years ago. back then russia stationed its troops on the ukrainian border under the pretext of military exercises. bearing this president in mind you can understand the anxiety felt by the neighboring countries that history could repeat itself. this book where it's been twenty fourteen hardly anyone thought it was possible for russia to annex crimea against international law. now russia's western neighbors have cause to ari see is a war a growing especially when tanks roll up and soldiers practise close combat. as a phina and her neighbors on the polish border are watching and waiting for the troops to withdraw and hoping the war games never again turn into real rule. did you know that the french fry is in fact not french but rather belgian in origin belgian fried doesn't quite roll off the tongue of the same way but they are delicious one reason for this is the country's unique double fry method rendering the spuds crispy on the outside and soft on the inside b

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they ended with russia's unrecognized annexation of crimea. which. if you want a crisis in ukraine began in february three years ago. back then russia stationed its troops on the ukrainian border under the pretext of military exercises. bearing this president in mind you can understand the anxiety felt by the neighboring countries that history could repeat itself. in the backwardness book where it's been twenty fourteen hardly anyone thought it was possible for russia to annex crimea against international law. now russia's western neighbors have cause to ari see is a war a growing especially when tanks roll up and soldiers practise close combat. josefina and her neighbors on the polish border are watching and waiting for the troops to withdraw to home. this summer brussels was the size of an unusually delectable political drama at its center belgian free unlike some of the tasty treats made elsewhere here they are lovingly paved in lots of oil twice but she was the first you've got a deep fryer poached the chips in our oil that ensures they stay soft inside and they're fried again

they ended with russia's unrecognised an extension of crimea. with your. view of the crisis in ukraine began in february three years ago. back then russia stationed its troops on the ukrainian border under the pretext of military exercises. bearing this president in mind you can understand the anxiety felt by the neighboring countries that history could repeat itself. in twenty fourteen hardly anyone thought it was possible for russia to annex crimea against international. law now russia's western neighbors have cause to ari see is a war a growing especially when tanks roll up and soldiers practise close combat. as a phina and her neighbors on the polish border a watching and waiting for the troops to withdraw and hoping the war games never again turn into real rule. did you know that the french fry is in fact not french but rather belgian in origin belgian fried doesn't quite roll off the tongue in the same way but they are delicious one reason for this is the country's unique double fry method rendering the spuds crispy on the outside and soft on the inside but this beloved dish is n

ukraine.m it includes former ambassadors to ukraine and russia hosted by the atlantic council in washington, d.c.. live coverage should start in just a moment on c-span. announcer: it looks like it will be a minute or two before this discussion on whether the u.s. should arm the ukraine gets underway. while we have a moment, we will tell you about the other programming. all-day is an conference hosted by the arab anti-administration -- authority.ination on c-span 3, a look at the trump administration's immigration policies that started at 10:00 this morning hosted by the brookings institution. >> good morning, everyone. my name is hannah. i am a research fellow at the hudson institute and i am happy to be here today for a really entertaining discussion. a debate i

situations to which i have to devote a lot of thought such as now when i think about the question of ukraine and russia . when i think about the syrian civil war which has robbed so many millions of their home. or when i think about the nuclear tests by the north korean dictator that naturally worries me too. but rather than fearing these problems i consider how i can solve them. you have been in office for twelve years. unlimited number of terms in office harm pluralism in society democracy. i don't think so there are different systems there are direct election systems where there are usually term limits for example the french and american presidential elections . in germany we elect parties and you can't limit the number of terms for parties and those parties then select their own top candidates which is why the number of terms in office is not limited. so in germany for example the number of terms of office is limited for the president germany's head of state but not for the chancellor. i understand you correctly you are opposed to limiting the period in office for chancellor to two terms for exampl

situations to which i have to devote a lot of thought such as now when i think about the question of ukraine and russia . when i think about the syrian civil war which has robbed so many millions of their home. or when i think about the nuclear tests by the north korean dictator that naturally worries me too. but rather than fearing these problems i consider how i can solve them. you have been in office for twelve years that doesn't mean i'm limited number of times and offers harm pluralism in society democracy. i don't think so there are different systems there are direct election systems where there are usually term limits for example the french and american presidential elections . in germany we elect parties and you can't limit the number of terms for parties and those parties then select their own top candidates which is why the number of terms in office is not limited. so in germany for example the number of terms of office is limited for the president germany's head of state but not for the chancellor. i understand you correctly you are opposed to limiting the period in office for chancellor to

ukraine has blamed russia for a fire at a military ammunition depo which calls the series of explosions the blasts at the military base near collective car started on tuesday evening rescue services had to evacuate thousands of people from six nearby villages soldiers have now been sent to patrol abandoned residential areas ukraine's prime minister says russia will do anything to weaken his country. a u.s. airstrike in the afghan capital kabul has caused a number of civilian casualties that's according to nato the strike was called in to suppress an attack on kabul airport during a visit by the u.s. defense secretary jim mattis that is this tour with nato chief u.n. stoltenberg follows u.s. president donald trump's pledge to send more american troops afghan security forces are struggling to defeat the taliban which has been on the offensive since the u.s. led the nato combat troops withdrew in two thousand and fourteen so lots more to come in this half hour including contemplating an independent catalonia how a yes vote on sunday might affect the military money and much more will also t

their speech, when defending sovereignty, we will stand by ukraine and against efforts to make changes in the south china sea. a shot at russia with respect to ukraine. a shot at china the south china sea. liz: ambassador nicholas maduro as a socialist dictator holding up the venezuela peace collapse bringing nothing but poverty, starvation and misery to its people. the president saying venezuela's socialism destroyed democracy. listen. >> the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure. those who preach the tenets of these discredited ideologies only contribute to the continued suffering of the people who live under these cruel systems. liz: cruel systems. your thoughts? >> well he is absolutely right in substantive terms, and i can tell you of years dealing with the u.n. going back to the reagan administration, if we had a shot of the audience, their mouth was have been open. he attacked socialism in the united nations. that probably had a

they ended with russia's unrecognized annexation of crimea. with your. view of the crisis in ukraine began in february three years ago. back then russia stationed its troops on the ukrainian border under the pretext of military exercises. bearing this president in mind you can understand the anxiety felt by the neighboring countries that history could repeat itself. it's been twenty fourteen hardly anyone thought it was possible for russia to annex crimea against international law. now russia's western neighbors have cause to ari see is a war a growing especially when tanks roll up and soldiers practice close combat. josefina and her neighbors on the polish border a watching and waiting for the troops to withdraw and hoping the war games never again turn into real law. did you know that the french fry is in fact not french but rather belgian in origin belgian fried doesn't quite roll off the tongue of the same way but they are delicious one reason for this is the country's unique double fry method rendering the spuds crispy on the outside and soft on the inside but this beloved dish

these sources point out the surveillance on manafort began not over russia, rather, ukraine and any possibleole manafort had had involving its ruling party there. the surveillance at some point ended in 2016 but then the wiretapping on manafort started back up. let me get to the justice reporter who was part of this team that broke this story wide open. let's start with the when and why. when and why did federal investigators revive their surveillance on paul manafort? >> we have been told it started back up sometime after the fbi began its investigation into trump campaign associates in july. contained intercepts that showed russians were talking about trump associates and ways they could influence them and also showing suspected operatives communicating with trump associates. all this led the fbi to open an investigation and obtain a fisa warrant on paul manafort. >> we remember when president trump tweet add couple of times that the obama white house had wiretapped him but there was zero evidence of this. do we know if the president was at all caught on any of manafort's wiretaps? >> we d