in the ukrainian language.d conflict in the east of ukraine which is being allegedly backed by russia, russian language remains strongly present on many ukrainian tv channels. the president of ukraine petro poroshenko is expected to sign the bill into law any day now. when that happens ukrainian tv broadcasters will have to either comply or place severe fines. 0pponents to either comply or place severe fines. opponents of the bill say that by cutting back the share of tv programmes broadcast in the russian language, the ukrainian government will meet an angry response from the regions where russian has been historically preferred. we are talking about the eastern ukrainian rite now where are pro—kremlin moods dominate. all these initiatives in kiev are happening just a week after ukraine blocked russia's most popular social media and a top search engine. all in an effort to d efy search engine. all in an effort to defy kremlin propaganda. all these steps in ukraine are viewed as measures to reinforce patriotic

the ukrainian police deny the accusation. mr.orostjak: how should the justice system function in a country at war and where there is no rule of law? first we have to establish the rule of law, before we can conduct investigations. when the events in odessa happened, there was simply no rule of law here. reporter: victory park was one of vadim papura's favorite spots. fatima comes here often now. other relatives of the may 2 victims have filed charges against ukraine at the european court of human rights. not fatima, but she does want the case cleared up. ms. papura: my interest is in the quality of the investigation. if something like this is done in a rush, then innocent people will be blamed. they'll find scapegoats. the point isn't speed, although three years is a very long time. reporter: every year around the anniversary of the violence, odessa gets tense again. this year, the police have the situation in hand. whether pro-western or pro-russian, everyone has the same questions. were there orders from above? were there inten

march, as you recall, it was about ukrainian annexation and the ukrainian referendum. to administration wanted clear out the media space. to the ukrainian events, but not for the reason in the publication. we received a warning about publishing the link to the public sector -- the right sector was put into the black list of extra missed organizations. -- extremist organizations. 77 journalists resigned in protest. were number one in russia. internet newsst n outlet. with -- theded prize for the best new design. we received all the words we can. -- all the awards we can. me to establishment is a. -- to establish medusa. i have four people -- you i dodn't be looking -- everything i can to give you that >> why did you resign and what is it like to be a journalist in russia today? >> and was one of the best moments in my life, actually. of 2014back to the u.n. -- it was that moment when you understand what you should do, you should stand up and quit. because of two reasons. peoplest reason is that wanted to fire the editor-in-chief. from my perspective means direct initiat

>> if there is some agreement made that is satisfactory to the ukrainians i don't expect them to to lead us. >> with that tweet but the history for modern islam we are working with them with the metrics and in those third deemed successful. they will start with some social areas than to build up the capabilities to work with other countries of that terror financing to disrupt the networks to put some of the treasury people to provide the tools so they know how to do this better. so we all know your real in this so this is the central spot for what you have developed to be replicated across the world. the terrorist pod of money it is hard to carry out acts of terrorism. there were substantive discussions the president was very forceful with his encouragement of the both of them to encourage these discussions of the future to realize everyone has to compromise so he put a lot of pressure of the it is time to get to the table and he made the point we had the israeli and palestinian peace to love the we started to solve that throughout the region. >>. >> the president is quite to the communi

no.: it happened in 2014, during the ukrainian crisis. media --ukrainian russian language media, as far as we understand, they have an agreement with the kremlin as a demonstration that they are cutting off pouring sources. it left them not to put the ukrainian russians in this. since that time, any russian speaking foreign media cannot be the part of the segregated picture of the day. they put us into the picture of the day. yes, yes, yes. there is this brilliant example. moscow buys these decorations. we made this story -- galina: the decorate all the streets. ivan: we are celebrating new year in russia, but not celebrating christmas. our main a holiday is new year's . we are proud of this tradition. [laughter] every year at the moscow government buys these decorations and illuminations to make the city more beautiful. from their point of view. so we published a story about these decorations. than onour times bigger the market. it is just a clear piece of corruption. , inhe same time, in moscow itia or russian television, says moscow is

[laughter] i do think you should arm the ukrainians. we believe the military budget is an important signal. all those years of sequestration have been really costly on america. [applause] >> from a land grab perspective is there one nation that you think is most particularly at risk in a prudent strategy? .. .... .... >> the right thing to do. crimea wads russian from kathryn the great. then, in 1954, crime was given to ukraine has a symbol of ukrainian-russian friendship. but it didn't matter. my liberal russian friends say they should have given it back. but that is not the way it works. it is a violation of law. we can never support this. we need to be aware among russia it is not unpopular. it added to putin's popularity. he could be stopped but you have to be pretty firm. >> last russia question, with putin in charge in russia, i think you, if i recall. -- he managed to systematically dismantle those institutions. with institutional design, you don't want an executive so strong because it is checked. they had a functioning legislat

moving forward and restoring ukrainian sovereignty. i think until those conditions are met or there is some agreement made as to how we want to deal with the ukrainian situation i don't expect them to be joining any time. [inaudible question] >> the creation of the center for modern islam, which we are working with them on what kind of metrics are they going to use to judge whether they are being successful. on the financing, disrupting terror financing networks, the saudi arabia's signed an agreement we will be putting treasury people and working with them to begin to provide the tools and also intelligence sharing so they know how to do this better. once we have kind of a template developed we expect other gcc countries to utilize that template as well. they all indicated a willingness. beyond that we hope we can take what we learned into africa. this is a center of excellence we can develop and hopefully replicate it in other areas so we can disrupt the terrorists from getting money. if the terrorists don't have money it is hard to

first of all, michael cohen's wife is a ukrainian. his brother's wife is ukrainian.s ukrainian business involvements that are very long and very deep both in the former soviet union and here in the united states that have made him very wealthy. and i think the thing we should be asking is why is it that everything around this leads back to russia and the former soviet union? we're not seeing all sorts of very close contacts with people from, oh, i don't know, germany, japan, australia. it's russia and the former soviet union again and again and again. >> we should say that there's one exception to that, which is flynn's turkey dealings, which have since been disclosed, which is an interesting -- you have a response to that, though. >> but even that one traces back to a russian oligarch. let's remember, the russian oligarchs are essentially a government sponsored network of international criminals who have been out trying to figure out how to loot the west and advance vladimir putin's agenda. he doesn't believe in democracy. he wants to break up nato. he wants to brea

who is killing ukrainian soldiers every day. so be it if you five bomber runs across the coast of sweden. what have they done to russians? the last 300 years, nothing. he threatens. he does something really dangerous. russian pilots fly close to american ships and planes. so he is going to push it until he is stopped. now, president obama did a good thing and deploying rotating forces in the baltic states of poland. does a signal that article five of the trinity that says attack on juan's attack on all. i would've made them permanent but rotating will do. we need to also say to putin, stop fine within 10 feet of our planes because one of your guys is going to get shut down really soon. so stop doing it. they're doing some very dangerous things and we need to send strong signals about that. i would arm the ukrainians. people deserve the right to defend themselves. to be fair, the craniums are not great militarily. you want to be careful what you give them, something they cannot hurt themselves with. "what you give them. but i do

we've drawn the frontline with the ukrainian troops. the president was there and he 10,000ou this sense -- ukrainians have died because of the russian invasion. then, you hear the stories of estonia where they had the audacity to move a statue out of a public square and into a cemetery. russia shut off their internet. in lithuania, when they invite members of the ukrainian parliament to come and join them and celebrate the independence , whathuania with 25 years do the russians do? the hackett group roman terrien's desk parliamentarian -- they hack into the parliamentarians' accounts. this is not just about one candidate or one party or one election. this is about protecting our democracy. that is why four of us stood up on january 4 and we are still saying it now that we must have an independent commission to investigate what happened in this last election. [applause] so, yes, ther: senate is a place where we can stand up and do what's right. it's not the only place. the other place is right here in this room and in this town. look at

, former ukrainian victor.d talk to trump at least twice. we do have some dispute about how many times and when he talked to trump. manafort certainly led folks to believe that he was talking to trump often, right up until the russia investigation heated up. we don't know precisely when that was. we have some push back from folks close to trump saying no, it was much less frequent. but clearly there is an open channel of communication here. as david suggested, it's not just between manafort or folks involved in this who are being looked at and trump, in fact we know trump texted mike flynn saying, stay strong. but it's also trump's team and the fbi with the report from cnn that right after trump asked comey to stand down on some of this stuff that priebus called the fbi, called both comey and his deputy director and asked them if they could come out and say something to refute reports about communication between trump's team and the russians during the campaign. so, all this is going to feed into the sort of ha

and we were literally on the front line with ukrainian troops on new year's eve. right? which one do you kiss? we have both of those guys. and the president was there and 10,000 ukrainians died because of russian invasion and because of what they have done. 10,000 people! and then you hear the stories in estonia where they had the audacity to move a statue out of a public square and into a cemetery. what did russia do? shut off their intranet. right? in lithuania when they had members of the ukrainian parliament they asked us to come join them. just to come and celebrate the independence of lithuania 25 years.something we can imagine our own country doing. whether - russians then hacked into their accounts previous seen this before and we saw that again in france. but guess what?b one. right? that happened today. [applause] so as sean noticed, this is not just about one candidate or one party for one election. right? this is about protecting our democracy. and that is why four of us stood up on january 4 and you are still saying it now we must have an independent commiss

. >> it is happened in 2014 it happened during the ukrainian crisis because a lot of ukrainian media are actually russian media. as far as we understand they have an agreement with the administration and they are sources and it led them not to put ukrainian russia articles so, since that time in a russian-speaking foreign media cannot be the part of the feature of the day. there is this brilliant example. in moscow every year, moscow buys these new year decorations. so we made the story and we decorated all of this decorations like christmas but we are celebrating new year in russia but not celebrating here. so our main holidays new year. we are proud of this tradition so, every year the moscow government buys these two stupid decoration to make the city more beautiful. and from the point of view. we publish this story about the price of these decorations there four times bigger than on the market. so it is just a clear piece. but at the same time we see in moscow a media or russia television the moscow getting better, they have some spots on the street and people are telling that mo

this despite long-standing distances over ukrainian syria. >> i will have a challenging discussion withussia, claiming discussion despite everything. reporter: demonstrators gathered in the french capital to urge macron to maintain a strong position vis-a-vis putin. >> the help you maintain sanctions against russia and puts new punitive measures against putin. reporter: the two leaders discussed possible cooperation. it was then the idea of the versailles meeting came to life. >> for more on the story we get to our international affairs editor and versailles. armin, g7 leaders met last week. macron had strong words for russia. will he try to lower temperatures of it? did make some strong statements on russia during the g7. today he will be looking to flatter his russian host. you can see this red carpet behind me. you probably see the buildings as well. it is a much more sumptuous setting for the russian president do arrive in the courtyard of the palace. it is a more impressive setting. trying to send positive signals to the russian leader. of course they will be touring the exhibition

we were on the front line with the ukrainian troops on new year's eve. which one do you kiss? you both of those guys i'm president -- was there and he gives you 10000 ukrainians have died because of russia invasions. 10000 people. then you hear the stories where they have the audacity to move a statue out of a public square and into a cemetery. what did russia do? they shut off their internet. in lithuania that members of the ukrainian parliament just to come and join them just to come and celebrate the independence of lithuania 25 years, something we can imagine our country doing what it they do? they hacked into the parliamentarians account. they have seen the movie before. we sought again in france, but guess what that guy one. [applause] that happened today. [applause] /en noted, this is not just about one candidate one party or one election. this is about protecting our democracy and that is why more of us stood up on january 4 and we're still saying it now that we must have an independent commission to investigate what happened this last election. [applause] so yes, the

it actually happened during the ukrainian crisis. a lot of ukrainian media are actually russian language media. and as far as we understand, yanex had an agreement with the kremlin administration that they are cutting off foreign sources. it lets them not to put ukrainian russian articles into the top. so since that time, any russian speaking foreign media can't be part of -- you can't be the part of the segregated picture of today. so we are not in yanex. that puts us into the picture of the day. oh, yeah. yeah. there is this brilliant example. so every year, moscow buys these new year decorations. we made this story that -- >> and decorate all the streets. >> christmas decorations, new year's decoration. >> it is like christmas decorations, but we are celebrating new year in russia, but not celebrating christmas as you here. our main holiday is new year since the time of joseph stalin. we are proud of this tradition. so every year the moscow government buys these stupid decorations and illuminations to make the city more beautiful.

and there was some evidence to suggest that certain officials in the ukrainian government, both in thessy here as well as in kiev were trying to push out this damaging information about manafort, and manafort and his allies believed that it was all an effort to damage donald trump. obviously it was nowhere near the concerted effort that we saw from the russian government, including the hacking and the pushing out of fake news and the like. so it is interesting that manafort is trying to conflate these two things to suggest that he is somehow the victim, and that by casting attention if the trump administration were to cast attention on this much less significant ukrainian meddling, that it would somehow clear him and clear the trump folks of any kind of wrongdoing or suspicion in these ongoing, aft that point heating up iestigations into their coordination or potential coordination with russia. >> but at the same time, david corn, if paul manafort wants to go fishing around in the origins of that dossier, he wouldn't find it ended with hillary clinton. reportedly, the clinton team woun

portugal has for the first time won the eurovision song contest, which hasjust been held in the ukrainiane voting with both expert panels from the eurovision countries and the popular vote of television viewers. steve rosenberg is in kiev for us and he's a huge fan of the contest. to tell us more about the winner?m was very exciting, believe me. the winner, salvador sobral, had a lilting ballad which won over the nationaljury is and the voting public. what was different about that song, from all the other ones in the contest tonight, was it was all about the song and b singer. there were no fancy graphics on the big video screen behind him, the focus was on the song. and here in the press centre when the portuguese song was being performed, there was a silence. everybody was gathered around the screens and listening in total silence. and then when he finished singing, everyone erupted in applause. a popular winner here. italy had been favoured, but did not win. while carey came second and the united kingdom came 15th. —— bulgaria came second. we understand that salvador sobral is giving a

and then they say 10,000 ukrainians then to have that audacity and then to shut off the internet. and then to celebrate those independents of lithuania. and to see this movie before but guess what? >>guest. this and just about one candidate or party that is about protecting our democracy and we still say this no to have the independent commission to investigate what happened. but that is not the only place it is right here in the room the day after the inauguration millions of women and men and then they were never have many people in des moines? 26,000 marched here to know how many women signed up to say they wanted to run for office and never have before? 6,000 women across the country. and when the refugee order came out they spontaneously shown above the airport across the country and it would not have done that they had to march on a number to. and then on the cabinet nomination. because of the views and the pressure and the fast for word delaware 100 to say in one voice we believe in science. those are not all activist what do we want? science. when? after peer review. [laug

the ukrainians haven't provided any evidence so far.ked international outcry following its launch of a ballistic missile at the weekend — and of course the claim that the rocket was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. the un security council has just met in emergency session, behind closed doors. before it got under way, the us ambassador to the un, nikki haley, promised to "call out" states backing north korea and its nuclear ambitions. sarah corker has the latest. sunday's missile test was north korea's most successful yet, according to experts. it flew some 700 kilometres, landing in the sea west ofjapan. pyongyang says it's capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead. the un security council met to discuss tougher sanctions. the us, flanked by its allies, warned that all countries must step up action against north korea or face the consequences. we have worked well with china. they have really tried to help us in our communications with north korea. but we've seen, where they have strengthened sanctions, other countries are tryin

also in the next hour: pop and power ballads at the final of the eurovision song contest in the ukrainian capital, kiev. british entry luciejones puts in a powerful performance but will it be enough? good evening and welcome to bbc news. and we'll take a look at the papers. that is in half an hour. good evening and welcome to bbc news. five nhs trusts are still experiencing serious problems, after yesterday's international cyber attack. 43 of the trusts affected in england and scotland, are now returning to normal.the attack on friday caused ambulances to be diverted, and numerous cancellations or delays in treatment. a and e departments were not affected. the government's emergency committee cobra has been meeting today, chaired by the home secretary amber rudd. here's our health editor, hugh pym. the news shocked staff and patients alike. the cyber attack shut down key systems. ron grimshaw won't forget it in a hurry. he was in the middle of having an mri scan but it was abruptly halted and he will have to go back another day. i was stunned, obviously stunned, and the nurse said this is

my god, speaking of double standards, if the whole reason we went so strongly in support of the ukrainian revolution, ukrainian push or rebellion back in 2014 was because even though he was democratically lekted, he was so corrupt that how are we jump into bed and supporting this for whom getting into nato is a way of prolonging his stranglehold 25 years and counting on the country? monlt nag row is ruled by a thug and gangster. he is indicted all over europe and italy and the european union for running the largest international smuggling clandestine human trafficking, tobacco and drugs across the adriatic. it's just unbelievable that we're walking into bringing this guy this country into nato which wh it has nothing to contribute to nato. and the rest of the world, those not part of the nato diplomatic elite say, geez, we take you seriously when you say you're fighting corruption. it's okay to undermine a government because it was corrupt? so why am i going off on this? this could be the issue two years ago we were sleepwalking as things evolved in ukraine and we discovered we were cross

regarding the ukrainian settlement. we agreed to continue our context. it issues the conversions. the reason for the duration -- that over backwards. now, -- today.rican people want our task is to remove all of the barriers. together with rex tillerson. that meeting of our deputies took place in new york the day before yesterday. they reviewed the state of our -- saw, we wantems we good. that the pace is we agreed to continue down this child to address the irritants that were artificially introduced into our elections. there is a desire to move. and to solve issues -- it is important that both president trump and supporters are willing to obtain concrete results. that would help removing problems from the international part. that is why i don't want to start any questions. -- that is why i will start questions. >> your seizing russian property and my second question is, is this upheld? we will not this out -- discuss the issues. not until action is taken against us. property, indeed, that is an issue. it is a priority. it is our property. recognizes this by documents. and it isgiv

challenges wooektd tu -- we could turn the ties on the israeli and afghanistan settlements regarding the ukrainian settlement. we agreed to continue our working coxplex to ensure the convergence of the positions of all parties involved. it is very encouraging. the reason for the duration is well known. it reviewed the case with the relations and it is suggested all the problems have felon out of the pace that is low. president trump clearly stated his interest to build diplomatic relationships with russia and help us with the issues which is extremely important that both president trump and putin are willing to attain complete results that would help removing problems from the international. that is what it wanted to talk with. any questions? >> please use the mic. >> have you discussed the issue with the french including the issue of restoring access to russian -- and my second question is if this isn't settled by the american side what is the retaliation from the russian side? it is not our problem which results of action taken regarding our property. well, indeed that is an issue that is a prio

selling condoing to russians, no doubt in sunny sles, florida, a guy that is doing some time now, ukrainian condos from ht 60 trump. you know, when you bring that you can payy in and cash, i don't know what the actual laws are on money laundering. pedro, i go buy a vehicle for car 00 and pay cash, that seller will have to report it to the i.r.s., but first coming in able to drop down whether it is in new york, doing i think that is where trump's big possible is and if it is, could as well.ct, host: "wall street journal" akes a look at north korea and missile capability. jonathan cheng writing that the north first publicly tested polaris 2 in february and successful launch of the missile submarine launch allistic missile and test launched polaris two in april, the missile g through the streets for the first time. claim todayr. cheng is very accurate and ordered for military.n the declaration of success with polaris 2, km15 comes a week after north korea launched new missile experts say is capable of flying 2800 miles, enough to each u.s. base in guam, and further than fired to date. polaris

economically destabilize kiev, so eventually you have installed again a pro kremlin leader of the ukrainian government such they are brought back into their orbit. ultimately, you cannot confront that with military power. you have to give the ukrainians the anticorruption tools, the economic revitalization tools, energy independence tools to be able to survive what may be a long-term occupation of their eastern front. and yet this administration seems to see ukraine as a military problem, just as they see many of these other problems through that lens, and in the end, that is a recipe for failure. >> congressman schiff, let's turn back to the russia investigation for a bit. your committee is famously got off to a rocky start, if i could put it politely, but now you've got a chairman who seems committed, from at least his public statements to actually conduct a big investigation and that thorough one. as you look at the two big baskets of this investigation, first, what the russians did in the election, how they did it, what parts of it may have been successful, what parts may not have been,

the settlements in afghanistan thethe compliance with ukrainian summit. we will continue our working talks on all these issues to ensure that can version of the parties involved. it was not very encouraging. unfortunately the previous administration went backwards to undermine the foundation of our elections. from the lowstart level of our -- we understand the russian and american people want to live in -- artest isle to to remove the barriers. together with rex tillerson we discussed the outcome. that took place in new york yesterday where they reviewed the state of our relations. when all the problems have been -- we, i would rather say the year address attend summer artificially introduced in our relations. approach.usinesslike we can't solve all the problems overnight. there is a desire to move in the direction of the settlement of the problems. president trump clearly stated his interest in build diplomatic relations with russia and to important boths president trump and president putin can obtain concrete results that would help in moving -- removin

we have just learned that the ukrainian government banned steven seagal from entering their country. the ukrainian secret service released a memo they typed on their commodore 64 saying siegel is blacklisted because of relationship with vladimir putin, that makes him a national security threat. if that's not bad enough, the two have been bonding for years over love of mixed martial arts and shared macho image. here they are sharing a unicorn frappuccino. who could forget the time they flew to spring break together on united. somebody needs to call peta because we've been beating a dead horse on that united joke for about three weeks now. topic number four -- police in springfield, illinois are looking for a woman who drove a minivan into mcdonald's and fled the scene on foot. such a brisk runner. she instructed her gps to take the shortest route to heart attackville, it's a miracle everyone was okay, at time of the crash, three people were eating a fillet-o-fish. people are offering a reward, payable in dollar value mcnuggets, topic number five -- when we last saw nicki minaj, it was

the ukrainian attack taught using. in fact, senator king and i, some legislation came out of that, and that is that the ukrainian attack wasn't as bad as what it could have been, because their system wasn't i have efficient. it actually had to go through human beings, and when it got to the human beings, the human beings recognized what was going on and were able to mitigate. that senator king and i have co-authored, s-79. thank you, senator, that brings, we call it the back to the future bill, where you actually back up and start to look at these efficiencies and sighing -- seeing if there are some places where we can put in some of these things, again, i've talked long enough, incredibly important subject. thank you. >> we appreciate that input, senator risch. >> senator king, now you can speak to your bill. >> speaker gingrich, i remember when we were lonely voices back in about 2000. so appreciate that. mr. manning, and i think this gets a little bit to where we've been focussing today. you mentioned, we were talki

in the past, allegations have been made by the macron team that russian hackers and ukrainian hackerss well, or ukrainian-based hackers have interfered with their campaign servers, have tried to release damaging information that would have an impact on the macron campaign. we've spoken to the kremlin this morning, and they've dismissed any suggestion that they've been involved in the recent release of data relating to the macron campaign. here's what they say. these, like other similar accusations, are based on nothing but pure -- and are pure slander. so a categorical rejection there by the kremlin that it is involved in any way. but obviously instant comparisons are being drawn between this massive data dump and the allegations in the united states, of course, that kremlin-backed or russian-backed hackers interfered with the u.s. presidential campaign and election there and dumped huge as of data to damage hillary clinton, the democratic candidate, and support donald trump, her presidential republican rival of course. again, the russian authorities say they had nothing to do with th

a blast rocks ukrainian city. this didn't involve any explosives or even jonathan: explosion blows apart the sidewalk. shreds it. not an attack or a fire. from a water main, a big one that burst underground. nobody was hurt. windows shattered nearby. the river now that used to be the road was made. she pokes her head out the door and wonders what the world just happened there? michelle: quite a surprise. now to this. malaysia airlines flighted made emergency return to australia after a passenger claimed to have a bomb. witnesses say the man tried to enter the cockpit but was subdued by the passengers and crew. they said it's likely the man was drunk. the flight just left melbourne en route to kuala lumpur. jonathan: this might scare you. united airlines facing $435,000 fine for using a jet the f.a.a. says the united mechanics replaced a fuel pump pressure gauge on the 787 but didn't have it inspected until 19 days later. between the time, the jet was used for 23 domestic and international flights. the airline says

issue for both israeli settlements and afghanistan as withas the compliance agreements regarding the ukrainian settlement. we agreed to continue our working contacts in order to issue the conversions of the positions of all of the participants involved. these relations are not very encouraging. the reason of the duration of the relations is well known. it undermines the full foundation of our elections and from now, we have to start the low level of our election, to understand that the russian and american people want to live remove allwant to the barriers. together with rex tillerson, we discussed the outcomes of the meetings of our deputies that took place in new york yesterday where they reviewed the state of our relations. when all the problems have been solved, i would rather say the pace is quite motivating. we agreed to address the year attend summer artificially introduced in our relations. abelieve that is businesslike, fruitful approach. we will not be able to address all the problems overnight. it is obvious that there is a desire to move in the direction of a settlement of the prob

ukrainian attack taught us some legislation came out of that.that is the ukraine attack was not as bad as what it could have been because the system wasn't very efficient. it had to go through human beings. then the human beings recognize rose going on and were able to mitigate it. the co-author s79 that brings the back to the future bill where you back up and start to look at these efficiencies and see if there's places where we can put in these things. i have talked long enough. incredibly important here thank you for holding it. >> we appreciate that input. senator king. >> first i want to welcome speaker gingrich. always a pleasure to have the insights. i remember the day we spent in maine when we are lonely voices talking about regional education in 2000. mr. manning, i think this gets to where we have been focusing today, you mentioned the distributive energy and said it could be a part of the redundancy and unless they are hard and you said. that's my question, other reasonably priced hardening tools out there. could we build into every h

angela merkel said the ukrainian at parties came to power democratically.poken ofkel had misinformation. she gave the example of a negative news story about germany that originated in russia. she said if there was more germany would look into that. vladimir putin said russia did not interfere with the internal affairs of other country. also the gay community and chechnya. that russians had the right to protest. vladimir putin has said the russian police were more reserved than police and the west. clearly a string of differences. minds today inhe sochi between the german chancellor and the russian president. tim: steve rosenberg in moscow. for more on the meeting in the phone call between the u.s. and have beenesidents, i speaking to the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine who is now at the brookings institution. let's talk about the phone call to president trump. it is not clear if the syrian air were mentioned, but presumably this is building on that. >> secretary tillerson was in moscow after the airstrikes. it looks like this phone call was on a higher le

as for the ukrainian conflict, putin accused the government of -- admitted to know one mistake on the russian side. we hope both leaders can find a common ground fighting international terrorism, which is good, of course, but not enough. nevertheless, these talks were important for both sides because face-to-face dialogue, or an attempt to understand each other , is important to break down barriers. that is particularly true of russia, which oyster complains about not being heard and respected on the world's stage. brent: that was our report from sochi. after his meeting with angela merkel, president putin called the u.s. president, donald trump. the two discussed the syrian crisis and agreed to schedule a meeting at the g20 in july to be held in the german city of hamburg. the european court of human rights has found russian authorities guilty of being complicit in the torture and maltreatment of police detainees. a court in strasburg ordered russian authorities to pay 100,000 euros compensation to three men. the defendant said that while in custody, police said beaten them , half su

described russia's interference in ukrainian politics.nd that led kevin mccarthy, the majority leader on the house side, to basically make a comment, an extraordinary comment, which was basically that he thinks that putin pays two people here. dana rorbacker, a congressman from california, and trump. and then when there was laughter from some members in the room, mccarthy adds "swear to god." >> let's listen to it. >> he begins by saying, i'll guarantee you, that's what it is, the russians hacked the dnc and got the research that they had on trump. and then mccarthy laughing. mcccarthy adds, there's two people that putin plays, rorbacker and trump. there's laughter and then he adds, "swear to god." ryan then interjects and says, "this is off the record, no leaks, right?" ryan then adds, "this is how we know we're a real family here." >> that was a concise way of getting that in. what happened afterwards, did you attempt to get a response from anyone that was there about this conversation, and if so, what did they say? >> yeah. we went to

economically destabilize kiev, so eventually you have installed again a pro kremlin leader of the ukrainian government such they are brought back into their orbit. ultimately, you cannot confront that with military power. you have to give the ukrainians the anticorruption tools, the economic revitalization tools, energy independence tools to be able to survive what may be a long-term occupation of their eastern front. and yet this administration seems to see ukraine as a military problem, just as they see many of these other problems through that lens, and in the end, that is a recipe for failure. >> congressman schiff, let's turn back to the russia investigation for a bit. your committee is famously got off to a rocky start, if i could put it politely, but now you've got a chairman who seems committed, from at least his public statements to actually conduct a big investigation and that thorough one. as you look at the two big baskets of this investigation, first, what the russians did in the election, how they did it, what parts of it may have been successful, what parts may not have been,

trump campaign when the campaign is asking the republican national committee to take out any pro ukrainian language at its republican convention, so again -- >> so, he said that he didn't do that. again, manafort said on "meet the press" that he did not, he was not the one who spoke up to change the platform. i mean -- >> do you think manafort is a credible witness? >> i'm absolutely not the one to judge, but john's point -- i mean, you need to answer his question. you made these claims of collusion. where's the evidence? >> so, roger stone. roger stone intimates to the world that john podesta is about to spend his time in the barrel. that is weeks before john podesta's e-mails are put out by guccifer 2.0, and then we see conversations that roger stone was having with guccifer 2.0. so, you know, these are not just mere coincidences. this is a convergence. and then there is a whole classified side of information that i hope the world sees very soon. i hope the fbi -- and i have every reason to believe -- we'll continue to develop this. but this is not donald trump being the unluckiest man i

we should continue to be actively involved in the regulation of the ukrainian crisis and we will talk presidential election in france. we have reiterated our commitment to the fulfilment of the minsk agreement. the most important task is uniting all the forces in the conflict which will bring a ceasefire. the special status of regions need to be confirmed. it is oui’ regions need to be confirmed. it is our opinion that the stipulation in the conflict is the special monitoring operation of osce and the explosion of the osce vehicle undermines these efforts. we need impartial investigation on what happened. as you may remember, exactly three years ago, and i can't remember this, ukrainian nationalists drove defenceless people into the trade union building in odessa and they were burnt alive. the culprits have not been identified for brought to account. this should not be repeated. we also exchanged opinions on syria about the astana and geneva format. we're convinced the solution for the syrian conflict can be only peaceful on the un agenda. thorough and comprehensive investigation of t

. >> they watered down the ukrainian republican national platform and also manafort was a reassurance and the russians that trump would keep a pro-russian course to be sure the investors, which were primarily russian at that time, that trump would be friendly and favorable given the amount of investment that the russians and ukrainian money and oligarchs had in the trump campaign. >> which has been said before and reported in dribs and drabs though we don't have a definitive accounting that would be in the tax returns. thank you. we will have more details on the news out of montana, that remarkable story after this break. finding time to get things done isn't easy. but we've got the digital tools to help. now with xfinity's my account, you can figure things out easily, so you won't even have to call us. change your wifi password to something you can actually remember, instantly. add that premium channel, and watch the show everyone's talking about, tonight. and the bill you need to pay? do it in seconds. because we should fit into your life, not the other way around. go to xfinity.com