enter vladimir putin.president is trying to erase the memory of his country's humiliation. to restore its power, its influence. but modern russia isn't reinventing the soviet union, its methods are different. these people in the kremlin do understand that idea of restoration of the former superpower is impossible. but they have other ideas, and their idea is to be a blackmailer, to be a producer of mischief, to be the grand spoiler in the world, to be the nightmare for the neighbours and for the outside countries. so this is the new idea of superpower and empire. it is an idea that russia has put into practice close to home. in 2014, masked soldiers in unmarked uniforms seized control of a ukrainian peninsula, crimea. they acquired the nickname of the little green men. but they were russian special forces sent in by president putin after ukraine's pro—western revolution. at a referendum, voters backed joining russia. but the poll wasn't internationally recognised. it had taken moscow less than one month to

he praises vladimir putin, he criticises eu sanctions on russia. ve one thing in common. both are suspicious of western liberalism. for russia, this meeting of minds presents opportunities. this man is an ex—soviet diplomat with connections at the heart of russian government. he heads a soviet era development bank that has just relocated from moscow to budapest. for russia, it is a foothold in europe. the bank is totally apolitical. we never do anything politically motivated. five eu countries are members, but russia is by far the largest shareholder. and until recently, the bank was listed as an official organ of the russian state. critics of your bank call it "vladimir putin's trojan horse" or the "kgb bank". in other words, the suspicion is... i am a spy, they also say. the suspicion is is it is tool of moscow to spread spies and agents across europe. is there any truth in that? absolutely not. it is all allegations, and even though they repeated hundreds of times, they have nothing to do with the reality. can you understand where the suspicion c

including donald trump's abandonment of the kurds and how that serve s vladimir putin. a point that was made strongly today by some republican senators. speaker pelosi stood up to donald trump and said "all roads with you lead to putin." after an incoherent rantly dr b donald trump which she described to reporters this way. >> go ahead. >> on the part of the president was a meltdown. sad to say. >> what we have to be melting down about, there's the bipartisan resolution that passed the house of representatives today with 129 republican votes condemning donald trump's abandonment of the kurds. and there's a new devastating impeachment poll for donald trump. donald trump is the only president in history who wakes up every day bracing for new devastating re-election polling and at the same time new devastating impeachment polling. the most dangerous number of all for donald trump is going up. in a new gallup poll, 52% of americans say that donald trump should be impeached by the house of representatives and convicted and removed from office by the united states senate. in j

"the washington post" tonight reporting on conversations the president had with vladimir putin and the hungarian prime minister. the headline, putin and hungary orban helped sour trump on ukraine. according to the report, which cites current and former u.s. officials, the conversations reinforced president trump's perception of corruption in ukraine. the post reports neither orban nor putin specifically encouraged the president to see ukraine as a source of dirt on joe biden, nor did they describe kiev as complicit in that conspiracy theory about the 2016 election. however, the post reports that their disparaging descriptions did reinforce the president's perceptions of ukraine to the dismay of some of his advisers. quoting now from "the washington post," quote, over time, you just see a wearing down of defenses, a former white house official said, describing the struggle to contest the influence of giuliani, putin, and orban. and just pause a minute to consider the implications. the leader of the one country that no president before this one has fully trusted was telling this presiden

she's a critic of vladimir putin. she's someone who is known not to agree with president trump on russia. what do you think she might be able to add to the committee's understanding? >> she could add a tremendous amount, lawrence. everybody who works in the national security committee wonders why she was working there in the first place. she's not the person you would expect to go along where trump makes himself the junior partner to vladimir putin. she's been at the nexus of the contacts she had. she may not have been in the room but had access to call transcripts and keep in mind this ukraine story is intertwined with the russia story in part because russia invaded ukraine but also remember, it's not just that trump was asking ukraine to investigate the biden family, he was also asking ukraine to investigate this kind of crazy right wing conspiracy theory that russia did not intervene in the 2016 election, that it was actually ukraine and so fiona hill would know a lot about what donald trump said to vladimir putin

where he seemed to do everything that vladimir putin would want to discredit the united states and make ukraine more vulnerable and frankly, to engage in conspiracy theories that lets putin off the hook for what he did in the 2016 election and likely to try to do again in the 2020 election. >> tess, what i find striking about the rex tillerson story is it's a knew stonew story and a pressure to get these kinds of stories. michael wolff had these stories in his first book exposing the inside of the trump white house. bob wood ward had stories like this in here and yet, here is a new one in an area where rex tillerson has already publicly expressed himself saying that the president asked him to do things that weren't legal and it -- and these three sources for this story and it just is another indication of how many people are out there with information that they can release whenever they so choose, either to the committees or to the press. >> that's absolutely right and from the clip that you just showed, lawrence, it's clear there are additional instances that former secretary

. >> as you pointed out, all roads lead to vladimir putin, which is where we go next. ett mcgurk, thank you very much. >> thank you, andrea. >>> and with all roads leading to putin, the common thread in all of president trump's most controversial decisions becomes much more clear. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." ♪ ♪ applebee's new pasta and grill combos. choose from up to 12 combinations starting at $9.99. billions of problems. sore gums? bleeding gums? painful flossing? there's a therabreath for you. therabreath healthy gums oral rinse fights gingivitis and plaque and prevents gum disease for 24 hours. so you can... breathe easy, there's therabreath at walmart. driven each day to pursue bioplife-changing cures...ers. in a country built on fostering innovation. here, they find breakthroughs... like a way to fight cancer by arming a patient's own t-cells... and a new therapy that gives the blind a working gene so they can see again. because it's not just about the next breakthrough... it's all the ones after that. >>> i also pointed out to the president, i had

host: one thing that's striking about vladimir putin is how strong he is. him in the same hotel lobby in chile during a conference and i was pushed aside by one of his bodyguards and i turned around and i could looking in the high and i realized this is a man who i think has issues. guest: well, he has issues whether it's a function of his physique or not i can't say. host: what are you worried about terms of russian intervention in terms of of the russian-- the election. guest: it's important for the american people to understand it has not stopped. this has been constant. they were actively involved in 2016 as we saw through hack events dealing e-mails from the dnc from john podesta and others. they tried to infiltrate our electrical system-- the twhirl system putting out false information then they were active on social media trying to pit americans against each other over domestic issues of contention whether it's razor immigration organs or what have you in the whole thing is to discredit our democracy to cause people in this country to hate one anothe

>> know because vladimir putin wants to show -- he has concerns. the one is that u.s.nd nato get back to the syrian field. secondly, that israel and iran continue military confrontations in syria and he cannot prevent this. his third concern is that there is a military clash between the assad army and turkish troops in northeast syria. that this proposed military confrontation between the assad army and the turkish army could a provoke president erdogan to ask nato to help. this is white nato and the eu don't want to be involved in military action in syria. >> what about the kurds? they have been given six days to get out of this buffer zone. they say they have already withdrawn. when i read that, it seems like a military conflict is preprogrammed in the next six days. >> vladimir putin is giving the kurdish militias another six days of trying to withdraw. the question is after vice president pence has been agreeing with president erdogan on the cease-fire, from where did they have to withdrawal and what is happening there? there are a lot of misunderstandings. at the

the one leader that vladimir putin spoken to tonight, jake, has been bashar al assad who has voiced his satisfaction at the deal that putin reached with erdogan tonight. >> fred pleitgen. thank you. >>> the writer of the op-ed has a new book and the white house just responded. we'll bring that story to you next. stay with us. brown-bagging it. so why you paying so much for wireless? i don't know... the new tracfone wireless gives you all kinds of control. leftovers? tracfone lets you keep your leftover data each month. what are you doing? unlimited carryover data! hey! do you know you can get unlimited talk and text on america's best 4g lte networks for $20, no contract? unlimited talk? i like that! because on sundays you know i gotta talk to mama, then on... this is your wake-up call, people. the new tracfone wireless. now you're in control. taaddiction. how juuline. hooked kids and ignited an public health crisis." other news outlets report- juul took $12.8 billion from big tobacco. markets e-cigarettes with kid friendly flavors and uses nicotine to addict them. 5 million kids use e-c

if he's taking advice from vladimir putin on union crankra are in a lot of trouble in a lot of ways. ou know, speaker pelosi said it best of all, all roads seem to lead to putin and i think there's a lot of truth to that. it's incredible that the president of the united states relies on the advice of our primary adversary, vladimir putin, for guidance on these kinds of issues. russia is our enemy. their intent is to undermine the united states, their intent is to weaken the united states and now they have the capability of through the advice of putin to trump, they have the ability to give our president the kind of guidance that basically plays into their hand. that's what he did in syria. that's what he did when he stood up with putin and said he believed in russian intelligence more than our own intelligence when it came to what happened in the 2016 election. this president has continued rather than standing up for america and for what we believe is right, this president continues to cater to the views of an authoritarian government like vladimir putin, and that from my perspective

resident peter once again very —— president vladimir putin is once again very influential. in the ua easy when you trade deals were put together so there is an interesting change in there is an interesting change in the situation. it wouldn't worry —— it will worry traditional republicans in the us and underlines the strength of vladimir putin, the fa ct the strength of vladimir putin, the fact that donald trump does not want to come up against him in any way and when you look at the future of the geopolitics we have, but trainer on one axis, russia in the middle of europe and the usa moving further and further away, it shows that the balance of verbal power really is changing. in the meantime, in this area what is being called by erdogan asa area what is being called by erdogan as a safe zone, the kurds have had to flee. it has been a hellish two weeks. it has been hellish and many children, women, men, civilians, noncombatants children, women, men, civilians, noncombata nts are being children, women, men, civilians, noncombatants are being pushed out of the area. some cal

walked in on their own volition frp . >>> the other big news overnight puts the russian president vladimir putin and the hungarian prime minister viktor orban in the middle of the time line of the president's increasing or explosive ire towards ukraine. he had meetings with putin and orban in the spring in the muld middle of him deciding not to hold meetings with zelensky or put pressure on zelensky. talk to me about this reporting. >> sure, look, the timing is note whoa noteworthy. we don't know the substance of what was said in these conversations beyond the fact that there was criticism of zelensky made to the president. we know the president has tended to be at minimum in his conversations with putin pretty receptive to what putin has suggested about foreign policy or about whether russia meddled in the u.s. election in 2016 and other topics you have heard the president of the united states recite putin's talking points at a press conference in helsinki. it's worth noting that among the people in his ear at that point being critical of zelensky was putin. this is, you know, contrary to what

vladimir putin became the new king maker of syria.nd president erdogen and president putin carved up syria between them. they issued a declaration. there was no mention whatsoever of the united states. and now here the kurds are following that declaration. geopolitically, the u.s. was pushed aside here. president trump opened the door to turkey's invasion, announced he was pulling u.s. troops back from the border and out of this country, making the u.s. presence irrelevant and making previous promises to the kurds irrelevant. vladimir putin presented his terms and those terms are being accepted. the kurds themselves are very, very worried about their future. they had a promise from the united states, a promise that president trump broke. now their future is in vladimir putin's hands and it is not at all certain. so there are still people leaving their homes still worried that they will face a campaign of ethnic cleansing. >> what is putin's end game here? is it simply to keep a foothold in the middle east so he has a role, too? or is

with russian troops and itself declared a safe zone in syria also coming up russian president vladimir putin welcomes african leaders for a 1st ever summit focused on trade moscow's looking to expand its influence on the continent it will tell you what is at stake british media are reporting that all $39.00 people found dead inside a truck near london for chinese nationals that's as police ramp up their investigation including graves on 2 homes in northern ireland. plus the world's penguin populations are in decline we'll take a look at efforts to save the only penguin species native to africa. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us nato defense ministers are gathering in brussels today to discuss turkey's incursion into northern syria it is an unprecedented issue for the alliance because turkey a nato member is closely cooperating in syria with russia and nato outside. that sees the alliance as a threat a trick turkish and russian troops are now jointly patrolling a so-called safe zone in northern syria where turkey wants to resettle its syrian refugees. this area is now under m

declared safe zone in syria with the assistance of russian troops also coming up russian president vladimir putin welcoming african leaders for their 1st ever summit focused on trade moscow is looking to expand its influence on the continent we'll tell you what's at stake and the european union's human rights prize goes to ill hunt toti for his work defending china's leaver minority we will speak with his daughter who says the family doesn't seem the child activist since 2017. our family members were are no longer able to visit him and we don't know if he still has held in the same prison with we don't even know if he's still alive. plus africa's penguins making a splash or at least trying to look at efforts to save the endangered species. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program nato defense ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss turkey's incursion into northern syria it's not unprecedented issue for the alliance because turkey a nato member is closely collaborating in syria with russia and nato adversary that sees the alliance as a threat here's a look at the key issues at play in a region

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he wants to be vladimir putin, and clearly vladimir putin has something on donald trump. >> ambassadorendy sherman, thank you so much for joining us. i really appreciate it. >>> when we come back, we have breaking news from ft. worth tonight. the police officer who shot and killed a 28-year-old woman in her own home while she was playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew. that police officer has tonight been arrested and charged with murder. we'll have more on these late developments next. next. ♪ applebee's new pasta and grill combos. choose from up to 12 combinations starting at $9.99. thenot actors, people, who've got their eczema under control. with less eczema, you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. dupixent is a biologic, and not a cream or steroid. many people taking dupixent saw clear or almost clear skin. and, had significantly less itch. that's a difference you can f

he's doing the bidding of vladimir putin and authoritarians like hungary.s is not the president making a foreign policy decision taking in that case to the american public and pursuing it. say things like we want to allow russia to do whatever they want in ukraine. this is the president instead surreptitiously working against the united states government against the states policy positions of the united states government and policy positions with bipartisan backing in congress working actively against those interests and also adding in his own corruption and saying, while i'm pursuing mr. putin's interest in crane i'm going to see what i could get out in terms of dirt on my political opponents again and once again that alignment with orban and putin and trump he's claiming his place with the leaders that are frankly a -- an anthema to our interests. >> and at the same time as rudy giuliani was trying to sell this toast -- this totally unsubstantiated conspiracy on behalf of the democrats to weaken president trump. >> they are trying to push aside the career

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vladimir putin, who oversees a failing nation, quite honestly, and is not the future. and yet that's exactly what erdogan's doing when he decided to invade syria. far too many men, women and children have died at the hands of assad, putin and khomeini. and it's unthinkable that a leader of a nato nation will be joining this list of murderous thugs. but given the latest developments in syria, many of our kurdish partners will likely die because of erdogan's offensive. these are the same kurdish fighters who, while we lost less than 20 soldiers in the fight against isis from combat, lost 10,000, over 10,000 of their own men and women. these are the same kurdish fighters who spent the past five years hunting isis leader al-baghdadi, alongside our men and women in uniform. and we saw that come to fruition in a great way this weekend. without their constant pressure on the isis networks, our operators may have never had the chance to bring him to justice. not to mention the fact that turkey inevitably threatened to attack our troops in northern syria. that's why i'm proud t

we heard erdogan on his way to sochi to meet with vladimir putin. he said, while he is threatening to resume this operation if there's no full withdrawal by the end of the deadline, he did seem to be leaving room for diplomacy and negotiations and saying they are seeing signs of the kurdish fighters withdrawing. >> jomana, thank you. >>> president trump is pushing republicans to fight harder against the impeachment inquiry. and some of the voices are what he needs to work to leave. bill taylor, the top diplomat for ukraine, scheduled to testify before investigators today. bill taylor is the top diplomat in ukraine and called the withholding for infamous favors, crazy. more from boris sanchez at the the white house. >> dave and christine, president trump talking about unity at a cabinet mean on monday. he said that he envies them because of their unity because they stick together and they don't have, in his words, a mitt romney. listen to more from president trump. >> i think they're lousy politicians. but two things they have -- they're vicious and

victor or bad at this pressure this all led to a situation when vladimir putin victor or bad at this press conference brought up exactly the same issues from a slightly different angle but it's called for this brought up exactly the same issues from a slightly different angle but still. if you look at the middle east for example butyl past one said they're still. if you look at the middle east for example butyl past one said the end to all the crises and words there because in that case all. to all the crises and words there because in that case all the issues and the troubles with migrants in europe and in this country hold the issues and the troubles with migrants in europe and in this country hopefully at that case they should disappear moscow's at the same fully at that case they should disappear moscow's at the same top an active broker and all these conflicts and number one goal is to wipe top an active broker and all these conflicts and number one goal is to wipe out terrorism as a whole and to make sure that none of these extremists the idea of terrorism as a whole and t

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and that's almost exactly what vladimir putin would have wanted. >> so, elizabeth, we're looking at two leaders, disparate, though they might be, interlocked with interest? >> that's right. how much they're sympatico with each other. putin was joking, so was donald trump, about a major attack on our democratic system in 2016. let's not forget that. the other thing we need to remember is that when putin met with trump in germany in 2017, they were alone, only with a translator, with an interpreter and trump took the interpreter's notes from that conversation. they haven't been seen since. it's very interesting that they just disappeared. those conversations are usually kept within the government and as records of history. we don't have that. we don't know what transpired between those two leaders in that private meeting. >> frank, what do you make of the putin we saw today? >> let's be clear. this was not some lighthearted moment with putin. he is not a prankster. a trained kgb veteran who chose to respond in humor. but also because if he chose to do an outright denial, no, russia would

decision to pull our forces out and again that benefits in this case isis, turkey and of course vladimir putinld go through a whole range of policy choices that the president has made from denigrating our allies in nato to trashing our intelligence community when, you know, standing next to putin in helsinki. all of these things make very, very little sense for any normal and patriotic american president. >> do you think that donald trump is compromised by vladimir putin? >> you know what, joy, i can't point to evidence that would validate that argument. i can only say it's very strange, it doesn't add up, and i'm searching for as we should all should be as americans a plausible explanation for trump's deep affinity for vladimir putin to the development of our national interests. >> you write in your book about the russian attitude toward ukraine and why it is so toxic, the factatory more concerned that ukraine would tilt towards the european union, would tilt towards nato and tilt away from them. and that is sort of the crux of their problem, well, with ukraine. does the fact that trump, one

today, russian president vladimir putin called the agreement a permanent solution. >> ( translated ): in my opinion, these decisions are very important, maybe even momentous, and will allow to resolve the situation. >> schifrin: but today, russian ally assad met with his forces in idlib, the final rebel stronghold. he called the agreement an "illegal annexation." >> ( translated ): erdogan is a thief who stole the factories, stole wheat, stole oil in collaboration with isis, and now he is stealing the land. >> schifrin: the u.s. also objects. today, the administration's point man on syria, ambassador james jeffrey, told the house foreign affairs committee that the russian-turkish agreement increased instability. >> in the process has scrambled the entire northeast, undercut our efforts against isis, and brought in the russians and the syrian regime forces in a way that is really tragic for everyone involved. >> schifrin: the administration has promised to impose new sanctions on turkey. jeffrey did not follow through on those threats, and instead called the russian military "paper tig

i wanted to ask you about the connection between vladimir putin and donald trump. we all know putin is a big fan of trump and trump is a big fan of putin. get themd to readmitted to the g7 just a couple months ago. the connection between the two of them to me seems to be deutsche bank. i don't have any proof but putin is one of the richest men in the world. they say he is worth $200 billion. i don't if that's true or not but that's what i've heard. i don't see how we could make that kind of money being the president of a country that has an economy no bigger than california. i think there's something crooked going on there. and trump on the other hand, over here on the side of the ocean, he is wealthy, too, and i really believe there's some connection between them and deutsche bank and maybe some money laundering going on. like i say i can't prove it but that's just a feeling i've always had because they are such big fans of each of the everything trump does in some way or another and if it's russia. >> guest: john, first of all i love hot springs, and i served wit

. >>> russ president vladimir putin says he wants president trump to release details of a conversation they have. so will we get that transcript? how will it make the president look? we'll have more next. my husband never paid attention to his health,

it's it's vladimir putin's birthday there are say good idea.re's some commercial interest that we think that the president has in turkey. we've heard about trump commercial real estate operations and aspirations in istanbul. there's a story here because all of the other naanalyses through the conventional lens don't make sense. you have to go through the prisms through what you have to see it. and through that prism it makes perfect sense for vladimir putin in russia. >> mika, you listen to what we've been saying for years. i have been saying for years that donald trump does not look at foreign policy as a way to help the united states of america. said for years that if you want to understand moves when it comes to foreign policy, you've got follow the money. why is donald trump behaving the way he is towards saudi arabia when the rest of the world is deeply offended by what happened last year with the murder of a "washington post" columnist? because donald trump the saudis love his quote and paid him $150 million, paid his businesses in the pa

i was looking at vladimir putin and he looked to be extremely happy with himself.rea of influence that the russians have in northern syria will expand by a great deal and russia's biggest ally in that conflict, the syrian government, they'll also take over large part of that area and start controlling those areas as well. as far as the tushgs are concerned. they're not very unhappy either because the area they started invading last week, they'll be able to keep those and they're going to start joint patrols together with the russians, and that's where vladimir putin is winning again because those joint patrols were things that the turks used to be conducting with the united states. now the russians are taking over that role from a nato ally from the united states. so certainly the russians are extremely happy with what they were able to dole out. the big losers are america's former allies the kurds. they'll be forced out of a zone that's 32 kilometers wide both by the turks and the russians and also by the syrian government, as well. the russians even announcing, w

the country was being occupied piece by piece. >> vladimir putin, these are really gut issues. dissed, his country's being dissed. he can react very, very sharply. >> journalist david ignatius watched putin's land grab with growing concern. >> the ukrainian leaders have been just struggling to understand what to do. they had believed that the united states stood with them as they tried to become truly independent of russia. a russia that was fighting a war on their boreders to try to suppress them, suppress their freedoms. that they method, america stands with us. >> with russia now occupying crimea and eastern ukraine, the new pro-american government in kiev needed its friends in washington more than ever. but the obama administration first wanted ukraine to clean up its house. then vice president biden was named point man for the anti-corruption effort. >> it's absolutely critical for ukraine, in order to be stable and prosperous and part of a secure europe, to definitely, thoroughly, completely root out the cancer of corruption. >> there was plenty to root out after the hat t

as well come it's a premier aimed at making a big impact hosted by russian president vladimir putin african leaders have gathered in the russian resort town of sochi today for the 1st ever russia africa something it's russia's attempt to jumpstart relations with the continent 3 decades after the fall of the soviet union which then was a major player in africa. but russia does not want to stand aside while other powers like the e.u. china india strategically increase their influence and investment on the continent putin has big plans in africa especially with regards to the continent's rich mineral resources and arms deals let's have a look at selected activities of russian companies in africa there's energy multinational lukoil that is involved in a natural gas development project in the republic of congo in sudan and the central african republic a close ally of president putin has secured licenses for mining gold in guinea russian element in producer roussel is digging up bauxite and in zimbabwe russia plans once to dig for platinum until now russia's trade with africa was quite muted last

let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world russian president vladimir putin has hosted the 1st ever russia africa economic forum a 2 day summit aimed at expanding moscow's influence in the region a majority of african leaders attended the meeting where putin promised his guests more military support for their fight against terror he also offered to mediate between ethiopia and egypt and a major water just. u.k. prime minister boris johnson wants an early general election on december 12th he said that he would put forward a motion on monday to ask parliament to approve the move. it comes after m.p.'s refused to fast track johnson's proposed regs that deal earlier this week. and police in the u.k. say they have secured a warrant to question a truck driver for another 24 hours after the bodies of $39.00 people were discovered in his vehicle the man was arrested on suspicion of murder but no charges have yet to be filed or have been filed yet the victims were all chinese nationals. ill how totie a jailed member of china's weaker minority has been honored with thi

peter: that relationship has become very important both for vladimir putin and president erdogan. tin gave a green light to erdogan before the operation. they seem to get along pretty well. even vladimir putin said he was worried whether the military operation would be effective or not. the missile systems which turkey has bought from russia, there is even talk about turkey having its own nuclear weapons, which i think will be more about rhetoric than anything else. nato will be worried. the closer russia and turkey get, the more damaging message that chose to the future of nato and alliant solidarity. watch this space carefully. emma: a lot to watch when it comes to geopolitics. peter westmacott, former u.k. ambassador to france, turkey, and the u.s. joining us in westminster. david: thanks. good to have both of you with us. most of the talk over the weekend in washington was about impeachment in the swirling news around it, from mick mulvaney's stumble over the quid pro quo question to the ill-fated choice of a trump resort for the g7 summit. in the meantime, there is other impor

as washington's influence wanes russian president vladimir putin the striding the regional stage after a visit to saudi arabia he was received by abu dhabi's crown prince mohammed bin ziad on choose day. the u.s. of impose sanctions while the european union imposed a limited farms and bargo on cherokee gem and chancellor angela merkel on monday called for an end to fighting. it kept us from another thought also i have already said from my side that we believe that with only justified security interests this offensive should be ended by because it is visibly causing a lot of human suffering and it's also bringing a lot of uncertainty with the fight against. it. but for now the offensive continues and so does the human suffering as civilians a court between the fronts night these young victims of turkish shelling in a hospital in reza 9. days who can at getting out the u.n. says that 160000 people have already fled the fighting. are the latest now let's go to w.'s dorian jones he's standing by in istanbul good evening to you dorian what are we looking at tonight has this operation gone f

friendly organized extra nice weather for you 6 and a half long hours of negotiations between vladimir putin and air to one mostly in private the hardest thing to decide was high big this so-called security zone should be and who controls it. in the very long discussions we have succeeded in finding a solution which in my opinion is very important and promising. it is the solution for the very complicated situation that the turkish syrian border. the main outcome is that russian military police and syrian border guards are to work together during the ceasefire to ensure that syrian kurdish forces retreats russian and turkish troops will take control of a buffer zone 10 kilometers wide. had demanded 35 kilometers. syrian refugees will move into the areas that are to be cleared of terrorists. to facts around 1000000 people in. turkey and russia will be hoping for international help in refugee resettlement proposal to establish an international safe so and was not considered in the sochi talks. do you need europeans for another unnecessary big player in a situation that's very difficult anyway

the future of northern syria following talks in the black sea resort of sochi russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart reggie one say they're adding another 6 days to a ceasefire that was due to expire on tuesday evening turkey wants to establish a 30 kilometer wide save zone along the syrian turkish border that would be out of bounds to kurdish forces. the kremlin had predicted long and difficult negotiations perhaps that's why the meeting was particularly friendly organized extra nice way there for you 6 and a half long hours of negotiations between vladimir putin and russia. mostly in private the hardest thing to decide was high big this so-called security zone should be and who controls it. in a very intense discussions we have succeeded in finding a solution which in my opinion is very important and promising. it is the solution for the very complicated situation that the turkish syrian border. the main outcome is that russian military police and syrian border guards are to work together during the cease fire to ensure that syrian kurdish forces retreats russian and tu

outsource the national security of united states with vladimir putin is not an option. and failing to tell the leaders on both sides of the aisle of such an operation is while you are complementing russia it speaks volumes about what the administration thinking is and on a related note it is despicable, despicable to question the loyalty and the patriotism of lieutenant colone colonel, and iraq war visit veteran, purple heart recipient, simply because of his heritage. when i think of the national security and think of the lieutenant colonel and we should be praising him not defiling him is a one - - as the president has done. >> thank you very much. i'm glad to be here with my colleagues the death aku bakr al-baghdadi is good imposes a disruption for isis but it is not a mission accomplished moment because we all know that they have not been illuminated and there will be a resurgence of isis with those 11000 isis fighters that were detained by the kurds. and watching the present make his announcement about the success of the operation my hearts think when one of the fir

president vladimir putin meets with saudi arabia's leadership on a highly anticipated state visit his 1st to the gulf monarchy since 2007 we are there to follow the events as well. bosco is bringing plenty of prizes which include russian movie cartoons everyone's heard of the home crowd plenty of surprises ready for mr burton and co but for now what that will be has remained the secret. also this hour a video obtained by our team is roughly agency that shows the syrian army entering province and northeast syria earlier kurdish officials said they've struck an agreement with damascus to deploy government troops to the area. meanwhile fears of a few tensional terrorist resurgence are growing kurdish officials say a turkish from barman led to hundreds of relatives of foreign i saw members fleeing a prison compound with turkey dubbing the claims this information. you're watching are to international and bring you here live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. president putin is in the saudi capital on a rare state visit the 1st in over a decade where he's exp

vladimir putin forages for mushrooms. that is wholesome stuff, i've got to say. s birthday weekend in siberian wilderness and did fun things like drive a big truck, pose with a big tree, enjoy a nice picnic and walk around a lot with a big stick. donald trump we think accidently gave his best wishes to shinzo abe instead. the kremlin says he did not receive a birthday call from president trump, but putin gets everything he wants already. bu everything he wants already. anag multiple clouds for your business. when you've got public clouds, and private clouds, and hybrid clouds- things can get a bit cloudy for you. but now, there's the dell technologies cloud, powered by vmware. a single hub for a consistent operating experience across all your clouds. that should clear things up. so much more than i could have imagined. my grandfather was born in a shack in pennsylvania, his father was a miner, they were immigrants from italy and somewhere along the way that man changed his name and transformed himself into a successful mid-century american man. he had a whole life

all things that should be ukraine's bounty have an improper influence on vladimir putin. and all the people around heim whoim should be looking out for the people have an improper dependence on exxonmobil. >> right. >> everywhere you go, what is it about this industry that creates this kind of vortex corruption in almost every place it operators? >> extractive industries tend to do this. if you are a country that discovers resources that can be extracted and sold internationally, you're subject to this sort of paradox where the revenues you get from that ought to help you out. >> all this money, it's raining money. >> except what it tends to do is it tends to create a stream of money to the elites and to the government that is going to allow extractive industries to come in and take that stuff out. that elite and those government ministers end up having no purpose on earth other than keeping themselves in power to cash in on that stuff. and it makes the government essentially serve only that one purpose. so equatorial guinea, which you mentioned. they see $25 billion pour