and there is the fact that many people in ukrainian parliament, ukrainian politics — and ukrainian oligarchshey have other countries‘ citizenships. they never deprived them of anything. they just went after me, because there was clearly a political motivation. and, with regard to the so—called criminal cases review, though, with regard to the criminal cases review, you let me finish that. ukraine's prosecutor general twice wrote back to georgia prosecutors saying that it is purely a political matter. there is no legal substance to the criminal matters in georgia, and ukraine refused officially to recognise that, on two occasions. so that takes care of the issue. so i am going to stop you, because it is complex, and i am trying to simplify it for our audience. because going back to 2007, when you were president of georgia, it is now alleged in the georgian courts, and you face charges as a result of this, it is alleged that you abused your power in the way that you handled and repressed some protest demonstrations, and also in the way you tried to intimidate, it is said, an opposition tv stat

crimea has been and will remain a ukrainian territory. it belongs to ukraine and should come back to ukraine. there is no other way to stop the territory of non-freedom into the military base. it does not exist. i expressed my gratitude to the u.s. administration for the restrictive measures that confirms that the united states stands ready to be the leader in the transatlantic front. we hope that the kremlin will heed to the international community, will stop its provocations and facilitate stabilization. otherwise, i say that the price of the aggression will be higher. i'd like to say also that sanctions is not a name in itself but just a tool, an instrument to get russia back at the table of negotiations and to secure the implementation of the minsk process. i'm confident that this is the only possible way for the situation to develop for us. today, we continue talking about the defense support of ukraine, about the strengthening of the existing military operation. i thanked our american partners. first of all, for the military assista

the ukrainian police deny the accusation.lan forostjak: [speaking ukrainian] 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. she does want the case cleared up. fatima papura: [speaking ukrainian] 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 intentional provocations? or did the violence escalate spontaneously? was it unstop

ukrainian journalist. he's been arrested and detained by the ukrainian security services and he's being investigated for treason for these articles and blogs that he's posted between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and sixteen and these articles are apparently critical of the ukrainian government and after searching his flat while the ukrainian security services claimed they found evidence that visit he has been paid by so-called russian administrators to publish material at the same time are being investigated for terrorism for allegedly spreading material online to garner financial support for anti-government rebels working in eastern ukraine and these rebels is considered by kiev as terrorists but this case really is far from the first example of what some would say ukraine's continued crackdown on anti-government journalists in fact last year a website called my relatives which is translated as peacekeeper it was launched back in two thousand and fourteen and created by the ukrainian securit

reports ukrainian journalist or of its you has been arrested and detained and being investigated for treason by the security services for articles and blogs that he's posted between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and sixteen and these articles and blogs are apparently critical ukrainian government and after searching his flat the ukrainian security services claim that they found evidence of this has been paid by so-called russian administrators to publish such material at the same time or a visit is being investigated for terrorism but really more of this case is far from the first example of what some would call the ukraine's continued crackdown on anti-government journalists this website called me about cigarettes which is translated as peacekeeper this was launched back in two thousand and fourteen well last year they cost global outrage when they published a list of four thousand journalists and media staff accused him of being enemies of ukraine and collaborating with terrorists for their reporting on eastern ukraine critics have this. as a witch hunt website but goi

mists and ukrainian politics a founder of the far right social national party of ukraine whose name and symbols were inspired by germany's nazi party prove directed the street muscle in kiev is might on square drove the twenty fourteen a us backed coup against ukraine's democratically elected russian oriented government since twenty fourteen the u.s. has backed right wing militias in their fight against russian backsliders in ukraine in january of this year the u.s. lifted its ban on the funding of the neo nazi as of battalion in the country trump recently described the us russia relations as at an all time low and very dangerous just how low he'll be willing to take them remains to be seen in washington on your parm pill r t. you are saying against russia passed earlier this week are expected to cause significant damage to the russian economy they target russia's defense intelligence mining shipping railway energy industries and even restrict russian banks russian prime minister dmitry medvedev accused the us of starting a full blown trade war against russia as u.s. russia tensions esc

beach who was behind the anti jewish programs in the western ukrainian city of evolve on june thirtieth one thousand nine hundred one basically the first thing his battalions did when they marched into the city after two thousand and twelve jews were massacred within the month of july back then what did that have to do with you know fighting for the country's independence open neo nazis in order glorification of those who fought alongside nazis is not something new for europe in some countries those are reduced to underground cells and many others people with such views are actually in power or out in the streets from ukrainian far right nationalists openly supporting nazi rooms and symbols to marches in the baltic states in memory of members of the baltic s.s. allegiance and openly fascist golden dawn party in greece but all that rarely gets attention of the mainstream media in the united states just recently the washington post finally rang the alarm bells in this article suggesting that the far right in ukraine were holding the government by something no one wants to be held by and a

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is it possible they're work on does the ukrainian government not know?i would argue they don't know. i specifically say it's unlikely the government itself was involved. i would be very surprised if even executives from the factory were involved. i think this is more likely to be rogue actors. there are a number of elicit arms traders throughout the former soviet union including russia, including ukraine. let's not forget that the location of the factories is only a couple hundred kilometers from where there is an active battle going between ukraine and the separatists in eastern ukraine and this often gives rise to illicit markets. i'm not surprised the ukrainian government is upset about the reporting but i'm just trying to report on the facts as i know them and i can assure you i'm not work for the russian government. >> sreenivasan: melissa, is there fear from your perspective that the longer we assume north koreans are backwards and not capable the quicker we run out of time? >> their missile factory is famous for production of missile parts and the

spreading and see ukrainian propaganda now her last report was on military parade that took place in ukraine to celebrate the country's independence state. well what you will not base is that i mean what's the situation like in ukraine i mean is it particularly dangerous for journalists what we see at the moment what is happening up in the moment all these news coming in on the court is unfortunately not exceptional situation really now journalists being prevented from working expelled from the country banned from returning now all this have become quite a common occurrence and ukraine and we keep hearing about that and keep receiving news on that now another russian reporter working for the second channel was wait quite recently back in two thousand and fifteen two reporters working for the same first channel as on the call about the war were also expel it and that really is the situation there is this trend not only applies not only to the russian media but also to differ in foreign journalists working in the country especially freelance journalists there were there was a situation

senator john mccain and house speaker paul ryan tweeted out their gleaming impressions of meeting ukrainian parliament speaker would be the man whose book proudly showed him with one of the nazi s.s. symbols there was no outrage and not a word on the mainstream media and sometimes it gets even borderline bizarre when the official twitter account of nato tweeted out a promotional clip of the forest brothers the one thousand nine hundred fifty s. insurgency guerilla movement in the baltic states which also fought against what they called the soviet occupation but apparently nato the organization which was created right after the fall of fascism in europe cared little for the fact that many of those guerillas were former members of the s.s. battalions as admitted even by latvian historians on the latvian history dot com website the tragedy in charlottesville reignited the talk about neo nazis in the united states when it comes to the rise of fire right in europe however the media and the society on this side of the atlantic prefers to turn a blind eye which if you consider that there cannot be

is now considering arming directly the ukrainian government which is a great odds not only with russia but with its own russian population inside the ukraine again that could be a trigger point for some sort of greater conflagration so i think people need to be very concerned that this could result in some type of world war between at least two nuclear powers and as you mentioned going back to the europeans being unhappy with the sanctions like you said maybe trying to force the europeans into being dependent on american not gas but you know who else is mad at china china's not very happy about these sanctions too because they have other they have other gas pipelines that in the works as well do you think that passing these types of sanctions actually perhaps her u.s. credibility in the international community and why can't congress why is congress forcing the president's hand in this. well so first of all i think it will hurt our international credibility a number of governments including germany has stated i believe quite correctly that in fact these types of sanctions or a violation

it's a ukrainian hacker. a guy who produces code and malware and hacking tools and sells them online. he doesn't appear to have wittingly worked with the russian government last year. but apparently some of his code is what the russian military intelligence unit that carried out the attack, it's what they used as their weapon to attack the dnc. well, the guy who created that weapon, the guy who created that code, he's now reportedly working with ukrainian officials, and more or less cooperating with the fbi in their investigation. and that's important, because that's apparently the first time they've had a human material witness for the technical part of the russian government's hacking attack. their effort to hack into and steal information from the democratic party and the clinton campaign, and turn it back to the american public, in a way that was designed to help donald trump. and while that news about that cooperating witness is interesting, in terms of how that mueller investigation is unfolding, what t

ukrainian. after being saved from islamic state all things in iraq are still in search of a normal childhood. for abuses there are vulnerable for profit be vulnerable for. the danger the children are exposed. germany's foreign minister says it's time to kick america's nuclear weapons out of his country the issue is one of several that have emerged in the run up to the job and general election. this is our teams a national life from moscow thank you for watching i'm kate partridge and let's start with that top story the o.s.c. has called on ukraine to stop arresting and deporting journalists from other countries and soft ukraine security services announced earlier on wednesday as a russian journalist will be forcibly removed from the country twenty nine year old anna who works for russia's channel one and is based in kiev had received threats because of her work. well for more on this story i'm now joined live by question of ohio that means you know we can tell us about what's happened today well

. >> dana: and including the ukrainian guy, $10 million a year.messages that were released between his daughter saying this is blood money. this is maybe not the best person to have in your orbit. >> jesse: yeah, it's never good when the fbi raids her house and so on. i mean, i don't know the guy. but i do know that he's done some consulting business and lobbying for african dictators. his friends with some arms dealers. he has represented rebel groups in africa. now lately he's been dealing with a lot of ukrainian politicians and that's why the democrats are trying to go for the russian angle. it trumped brings them in for just a couple months. the conventions, that's what he specialized in. he did it for dole. he was apparently at that meeting with the russian woman. they raided his house. who knows what they're going to find? he better have clean books because if he doesn't have clean books, he's going to go down for a white-collar crime. maybe they try to flip him but what does he have anything on? i think it's a conspiracy that the left is go

circus reduce potential return he is now being shipped to his ukrainian citizenship. do you think what you. think rather cool. fall from grace and church or short period of time by the way he's really uncomfortable for the leaders in ukraine because the country is really corrupted countries really in trouble. in the position and being in a position. quite strong so i think that he created some kind of strength for today's ukrainian leadership or maybe to receive some kind of instructions because i'm absolutely sure that he's a part. part of some kind of program. to be. continuing everything the same what he was doing in georgia and of course. could be used. for the problems aside because they begin want to. use ukraine to russian. in the world political game immediately when. the citizenship of ukraine he was in c. and then and. international media. all these interviews people begin from the words the biggest fight they gave begins the biggest fight against russia do you think this is. the time of the. ability for what. you know nobody nobody is sure that it's a possi

the twishth annual ukrainian festival taked place at the ukrainian americans sports center.s is video from last year's event. plenty of music, dance, food, and arts and crafts to enjoy. >>> and we begin with updates to tropical storm harvey. there's a look at our radar. the latest updates show us really there's been no change for hours of our morning. what i mean by that is the storm's center has nearly not moved, and as a result, the strongest, heaviest bands of rain have continued to pound the houston area. setting up over a very populated zone. as a result, just catastrophic life-threatening flooding has been occurring. they're telling people in this area to go to their roofs if the water is getting to a point where it's too dangerous to be inside their home. that's the point they're now at at that area. a lot of locations started to put more than 20 inches of rain. so far, with possibly another two feet or so in the next several days. so let's take a look at the track of tropical storm harvey. it's right now reporting 45-mile-per-hour winds. the movement is only 1-mile-p

the technology is russian based, but it's a ukrainian factory. upon somesed detective work by outside and i think it's a plausible fear -- thierry. it would explain the advances north koreans have made in last 12 months with these longer-range ballistic missiles. host: how sure are we the technology they are and aren't capable of. how do you go about your research, what do you believe and not believe from the information that we see out there. the u.s. intelligence community, as good as it is has limited knowledge of north korea 's nuclear and missile capabilities. it's mainly observational. i'm sure there are some more details intelligence from intercepts. there are many questions even they have. what's important to realize, it's not so much exactly where they are with respect to warhead onenology, exactly how far of these missiles can fly, but what is important is the trajectory they are on. they are making rack -- rapid progress. with more ballistic missile tests, they will get to the point where they have a reliable capability and they will a

market purchases of soviet era rocket engine technology from an aging an economically depressed ukrainian factory michael elaman a missile expert for the i assess and and author of the study told the news media that it's likely that these engines came from ukraine probably illicitly the big question is how many they have and whether the ukrainians are helping them now i'm very worried. these soviet era engines called r d two fifty s. are believed to have been developed at the used missile factory which is located in the pro ukraine the new york times points out ukraine's pro russian president victory on a covert it was removed from power in two thousand and fourteen the state on the factory known as use of marsh has fallen on hard times and according to the report this allegedly allegedly could have led to north korea's ability to purchase the engines while responsibility for the sale is not beneficially pin down nor are we certain this is actually how north korea acquired these engines. elements i assess report does make a circumstantial case that the factory complex and its under employ

why americans don't know that their government has sent millions upon millions of dollars to the ukrainian military and its national guard units which are which include neo nazi militias like the as of the tally and they don't know that representative john conyers attempted to prevent that funding to the neo nazi as of battalion which is explicitly neo nazi whose members wear s.s. symbols and that the pentagon attempted to obstruct his men his measure because of battalion or the best fighters against russian separatists we are pumping money into a government that includes andre peru be who is from a party that claimed that it existed to defend the white race and who has recently hosted here in washington by senator john mccain and representative paul ryan two of the key republicans who are considered sort of moderate adult figures in a washing. this is a scandal and the reason this is happening is because these are the local nazis you have the bad nazis in charlottesville but then the woak nazis who fight russia just like the wouk well hobbies that we funded in syria to fight the governmen

however many twitter users were quick to remind him that he was pictured with ukrainian nationalists not so long ago here for example he's posing with the leader of the far rights for both of freedom party in ukraine so bought it played a major role in the twenty fourteen uprising in the country and here mr mccain is tweeting positively about a meeting the how to. be a member of the ukrainian parliament a man whose book look from the right shows him openly displaying nazi s.s. symbols. and there are some notable similarities to the scenes currently playing out in the us with those that occurred in ukraine a few years back. was. sure those who serve. well mccain is is an extremely nebulous character isn't a wanders around the place trying to stir up trouble wherever he can he's also been filmed with jihad he's inside syria which of course was an illegal act to go into syria. does he own drapery b. and thaw arrives in ukraine and of course in terms of internal us politics very anti trump and you know the the the anti trump brigade are trying to make some. trump with the far right and t

only want to talk about russia, but here we have a dnc operative inside the ukraine embassy, with ukrainian ambassador, a real rush of conspiracy, uranium one, sign off on a deal, 145 million in kickbacks then we've got emails, acid washing bleach bit, destroying and sending devices without sin cards. and then you have comey leaking information, the general counsel leaking information, you got debbie wasserman shultz, loretta lynch, unmasking, intel leaks, i can't even list them all. do you think all of those issues the media is ignoring, should they be investigating them equally, and should the republicans be doing more on those? >> absolutely, they should. we've got a situation where we have a president who is focused on trying to accomplish the things he campaigned on. instead, the media constantly wants to detract from that, take away from that, if they want a real story about collusion, a real story about illegal activity and inappropriate activity, there is plenty of material, you just listed all off. if that is what they're looking for, there are a lot of things i can go after and in

our nation special however many twitter users were quick to remind him that he was pictured with ukrainian nationalists not so long ago for example he's posing with the leader of the far rights of a boat or freedom party in ukraine of a boat have played a major role in the twenty fourteen uprising in the country and then here mr mccain is tweeting positively about a meeting it has had with to be a member of the ukrainian parliament a man whose book look from the right shows him openly displaying nazi s.s. symbols and there are some notable similarities to you to the scenes covered playing out in the us with those that happened in ukraine a few years ago. ok let's get the thoughts now of the independent journalist and commentator martin summers good afternoon martin what do you make of senator mccain mellow has he condemned any the right wing violence his many didn't charlottesville but as some of pointed out he was happy to support far right groups in ukraine is this a case of hypocrisy. well a mccain is is an extremely nebulous character isn't he wanders around the place trying to stir up

ambassador, at the ukrainian embassy? they react at the attorney general, just before that person was about to make a decision about the possible crime they committed. how would the media have reacted from donald trump himself? want to talk about russia? if you give up 20% of the kickbacks to some charity or the trump organization, over $145 million, turn the tables on them, there's no doubt to the media would be in a breathless all-out frenzy. since those scandals don't evolve democrats, they don't care. that's why congress, not only are they not legislated, the need to take the lead. we gave them power, the power of subpoena, the power to investigate issues like this in the house judiciary committee, they are calling on a second special counsel to up points and investigation into hillary clinton, james comey, loretto lynch bridge congress has subpoena powers, you gave it to them. involved in all those scandals we talked about, make them testify about what we know. that means debbie wasserman schultz, that means letter w

a member of the ukrainian parliament a man whose book from the right shows him openly displaying nazi s.s. symbols. and deep there are some notable similarities to the scenes currently playing i did in the us with those vast occurred in ukraine a few years back. was. good wasn't. well a mccain is is an extremely nebulous character is name one does around the place trying to stir up trouble wherever he can he's also been filmed with jihad he's inside syria which of course was an illegal act to go into syria he doesn't own drapery be in the fall right in ukraine but of course in terms of internal us politics he's very anti trump and you know the the the anti trump brigade or trying to make. trump with the fog and therefore they have to condemn the fallout if they're going to try and use a stick to beat trump with i think whatever trump does it's not going to keep people people who don't like trump and they're going to be happy whatever he says what it does but it's still getting pretty bizarre and. the site korea's president said there will be no military action on the korean peninsula

millions of dollars from that government and had to register after the fact as foreign agent for ukrainiannterest. that is why possibly mulder is investigating him. we knew that when this raid took place it was right before paul ma nafort took place it was right before paul manafort testified before senate investigators in the intelligence committee and was the same day that donald trump jr sent out committee and was the same day that donald trumer sent out a twitter storm talking about revoking the transgender policy in the military. also being highly critical of the attorney generaljeff sessions and saying that he should investigate hillary clinton. it puts new light on donald trump jr hillary clinton. it puts new light on donald trumer is mad behaviour that week, perhaps. this enquiry about alleged russian meddling seems likely to run through donald trump jr is my presidency. i think the biggest takeaway from this, we do not know what robert muller was looking for. we don't know what documents he found. paul manafort‘s people said that they were the same documents that would have been w

this will be a policy choice on whether or not we're going to give the ukrainian government the toolsthey need to defend themselves against what we believe to be a russia supported movement. >> i think it's really important. and in light of russia's recently thwarted attempt to de de deny mond deny access to kosovo and other candidates in reassuring them that we will assist them should they wish to become nato members? >> ma'am, i think one of the tools that we can bring to bear as the joint staff and chiefs of defense and the leaders of their militaries to make sure that all those countries, in spite of what's going on internally, with or without the interference of the russian government, actually are able to make the military reforms that are necessary so they can move towards a path of membership in nato. >> i appreciate that. we have a lot of state partnership programs oh ut there and those countries need our reassurance. thank you, general selva, again. thank you, mr. chair. >> senator gillibrand. >> hello. thank you for being here. thank you for your service. i welcome your fam

until ukrainian. germany's foreign minister says it's time to kick america's nuclear weapons out of his country the issues one of several that have emerged in the run up to the german general election. you're watching r.t. and tonight. the battle to force islamic state from water in iraq has devastated civilian lives particularly those children continuing its campaign to find the relatives of children abandoned by their parents fighting for i saw more of these children from mosul were recently brought to a baghdad orphanage. and they're coming to see you. and you. will be especially the. new. good. new chinless. as you just heard the children don't speak russian but the kids who are with them say that they're from chechnya the girls' names are deeds or earth was badly burned the boy is called mohammed he has a knee injury both children are still suffering from a lot of stress if you think you might recognize either of them please do contact us on children at r.t. t.v. dot com artie's course one of the

market purchases of soviet era rocket engine technology from an aging an economically depressed ukrainian factory michael elaman a missile expert for the i assess and and author of the study told the news media that it's likely that these engines came from ukraine probably illicitly the big question is how many they have and whether the ukrainians are helping them now i'm very worried. these soviet era engines called r d two fifty s. are believed to have been developed at the used missile factory which is located in the pro ukraine the new york times points out ukraine's pro russian president victory on the coverts was removed from power in two thousand and fourteen the state on factory known as use of marsh has fallen on hard times and according to the report this allegedly allegedly could have led to north korea's ability to purchase the engines while responsibility for the sale is not beneficially pin down nor are we certain this is actually how north korea acquired these engines. elements i assess report does make a circumstantial case that the factory complex and its underemployed en

deported from ukraine the security service is warning this will happen to anyone they deem anti ukrainian. germany's foreign minister says it is time to kick america's nuclear weapons out of his country the issues of several that have emerged in the run up to the german general election. very good evening to you my name is neil harvey you're watching r.t. international. the battle to force islamic state from wall to iraq has devastated civilian lives particularly those of children is continuing its campaign to find the relatives of children abandoned by their parents fighting for i saw more of these children from mosul were recently brought to a baghdad orphanage. and you come on here. and you. will be especially the. good. new will change. the girl's name is had her foot was badly burned the boys called mohammed he has a knee injury both of the children still under a lot of stress and refuse to talk with the kids who are with them say they're from chechnya if you think you might recognize either them please get in contact with this on children at r t t v dot com artie's correspondent bra