voted for your new covert age while western ukraine chose yuschenko by the announced result viktor yuschenko lost to victory on a covert each but thousands of people didn't agree with it and they came to the central square of kiev on the twenty second of november. the situation received wide news coverage the country's election commission ignored reports of fraud declaring kremlin backed victory the winner international politicians such as former general secretary of nato solana became frequent guests in kiev initiating negotiations between parties in a full thirty odd with a colleague be able to come to. the results of the negotiations however were often reached only on paper thus you shango never told the supporters to stop blocking government buildings in central kiev. and therefore these nonviolent and very orange protests lasted for a month during which time the previous election results were no marred by massive corruption and new elections were announced an important nuance just three months before viktor yuschenko became a vict

ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war two. and every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader dunhill netsky broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with screechy of one thousand nine hundred eighteen which tu

ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war two. and every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader dunn who. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with screechy of one nine hundred eighteen which turned ukraine i

ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war two. and every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of powers . history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with screechy of one nine hundred eighteen which turned ukraine into a g

at that time ukraine became once again a battlefield of two forces the russian and western governments the culmination of this conflict took place during the presidential elections in november of two thousand and four. the two major candidates western backed victoria yuschenko and russian leaning fichter yannick overage almost equally shared the votes of ukrainians by the way calling viktor yuschenko western backed is not an exaggeration. his wife. katherina yuschenko is a former u.s. state department official and worked in the white house during the reagan administration the division was along geographic lines traditionally russian eastern ukraine voted for young. while western ukraine chose use janko by the announced result viktor yuschenko lost to victory on a covert each but thousands of people didn't agree with it and they came to the central square of kiev on the twenty second of november. the situation received wide news coverage of the country's election commission ignored reports of fraud declaring kremlin backed victory the winner international politicians such as former gene

ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war two. and every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader dunn who. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with screechy of one thousand nine hundred eighteen which turned

ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war two. and every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of powers . history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with treaty of one thousand nine hundred eighteen which turned ukraine i

the ukraine, given the western version... version... lam ukraine, given the western version... i am talking about the crisis itself. the western version is that russia invaded the crimea, russia attacked the eastern ukraine and so on. it forgets there was eight crew, and aggressive government... this is a very sensitive issue. that is an issue he will be talking about. in syria, you need to take the troops out. you need to take the troops out. you need to take the troops out. you need to talk to trump. iran is on the table. nuclear weapons, definitely. terrorism, definitely. as for private conversation which they will have without anyone, i think they will talk about this stupidity about russia deciding the american elections which is impossible! there are claims russians were trying to influence... i'm sorry, it is a political falsehood. i think they will talk about it. trump promised he would raise the issue with putin. did your boys medal or not? you think they are worried in western europe in particular about what donald

western democracies. annexing crimea. hostilities in the dumbask region of ukraine. we passed legislation here, the legislation when ch you had an exchange with my colleague senator cardin about and i think you said -- this is the transcript you said. you said thank you for presenting the law. we really appreciate it. we think it makes it good sense. the president signed it, as well. we have passed sanctions under the law. and we have passed -- but we haven't used all of the sanctions. now, i was excited to see nikki haley come out and say we were about to put on new sanctions. in fact, the rnc got talking points from the white house telling their pundits to say exactly what nikki haley said before the united nations that we were going to put on additional sanctions. but we haven't used those tools in our toolbox. they said that nikki haley was confused. she said, i'm sorry, i wasn't confused. this was the step that the white house was going to take so i hope you understand we feel like we put tools in the toolbox but the president has shrunk from taking them and usi

ukraine, given the western version... russia attacked ukraine... do you mean the sanctions? he crisis itself. the western version is that russia invaded the crimea, russia attacked the eastern ukraine and so on. everyone forgets there was a coup, an aggressive government... let's not quite go back over the whole. .. this is a very sensitive issue. that is an issue he will be talking about. ten syrias cannot compensate one ukraine for russia. so that is an issue he wants to talk about. in syria, he needs to take the troops out. you need to talk to trump. iran is on the table. nuclear weapons, definitely. proliferation. yes. terrorism, definitely. as for private conversation, which they will have without anyone, even translators, i think they will talk about this stupidity about russia deciding the american elections, which is impossible! we have indictments at the end of the week. i'm sorry, it is a political falsehood. i think they will talk about it. trump promised he would raise the issue with putin. he will have to ask him, tell me, did your boys metal or not? —— meddle or

has watched helplessly as all its previous allies in eastern europe have entered the western orbit bellerose ukraine and the balkans of the last bits of europe left up for grabs russia intends to fight for them jumps are open last al-jazeera athens thousands of bosnian muslims have gathered in srebrenica to mark the twenty third anniversary of the massacre there they also buried thirty five victims who were only recently identified all the eight thousand men and boys were killed in july of one nine hundred ninety five by serb forces led by general. nottage has been sentenced to life in prison by un tribunals for overseeing atrocities throughout the war in bosnia you learn i glue shots as the story. these people waited for years for their family members to be found and the second those remains were not found in a one thousand graves so people were killed buried then moved on to another location then the second one that there are so when you can and you see this memorial center. it's hard to find a whole body here in these graves so every year. people here and the families have to deal with the diffic

ukraine. georgia. all over the place you have to deal with russian aggression and russian interference. in western beginning with eastern europe and ukraine. western yup and of course the united states. it's not like the united states didn't try to have a good relationship with russia. it's russian actions that caused this. again trump needs to listen to his intelligence briefings. the problem is not the united states. the problem is putin. the united states did enormous things for russia. the russians jekt rejected them and asserted a thuggish bully posture towards the world. that's the real story. for donald trump to say it's all foolishness on the part of the united states. again when was the last american president who was stood up in an international forum kp said it's all americas fault. if george mcgovern said that. the republican party would assailed him for treason. >> that's a problem. with if you don't read. a president that doesn't read. listen to his intelligence briefings. he could pick up a history book or russian dmoem si. >> he doesn't listen to the intelligence briefings. he says

has watched helplessly as all its previous allies in eastern europe have entered the western orbit bella ruse ukraine and the balkans of the last bits of europe left up for grabs russia intends to fight for them jumpstart ople us al-jazeera athens thousands of bosnian muslims have gathered in southern and said to mark the twenty third anniversary of the massacre there they also buried thirty five victims who were recently only identified more than eight thousand men and boys were killed in july one thousand nine hundred ninety five by said forces led by general luggage duch united nations peacekeepers were outnumbered and failed to intervene nottage has been sentenced to life in prison by a u.n. tribunal for overseeing atrocities throughout the bosnian war going to reports. these people waited for years for their family members to be found and the second those remains were not found in no one but two thousand graves so people were killed buried then moved on to another location then the second one that there are so when you can and you see this memorial center. it's hard to find a whole body here in

has watched helplessly as all its previous allies in eastern europe have entered the western orbit beller loose ukraine and the balkans of the last bits of europe left up for grabs russia intends to fight for them jump several close al-jazeera athens. time. as one hundred years since the birth of nelson mandela and letters written to his family during the many years he spent as a political prisoner twenty seven years to be precise when they've just been published the new book is a glimpse into the south african icons faith in the struggle against apartheid reports i twenty seven years in prison nelson mandela's communications with the outside world consisted mainly of letters written from his prison cell words were his principal means of keeping alive friendships and family ties religious faith and political conviction our cause is just it is a fight for human dignity and for an honorable life often heavily censored or never delivered at all most of the letters appear in a new volume of mandela's prison writings launched in johannesburg this week many published for the first time offer a new insights i

last four years against russian aggression, and i believe, i think you do, that successful pro-western ukraine is not only critical to the region but the best antidote to russian expansion in the region. along those lines, i want to commend you for last week releasing the $200 million in military assistance. this goes for equipment training, other assistance, and i think we have not taken enough credit for what happened, which is we told the ukrainians, you need to make reforms, and when i was there in april i talked to president poroshenko and the speaker then and last month about this. i talked to him the day after they passed these reforms saying we need to see the reforms to your defense system, frankly, getting away from the russian influence system they had and to one that's more consistent with european democracies, having a civilian control of their military. they did that. you then were able to release the $200 million. that's exactly how it should work, right? i commend you for that, and i think it's going to make a huge difference. the lethal weapons they have to defend themselves m

that send as message to putin not about montenegro but about estonia, other baltic states, about western ukraineadimir putin that the president of the united states will not show resolve and if he wants to invade more countries as he did under george h. w. bush and under barack obama, he can start invading countries under donald trump because andrea mitchell -- let's bring in michigan right now who had quite an eventful interview with the director of national intelligence. but you remember back to the lead up to the first gulf war, where saddam hussein misread some things american diplomats said and he took it as a green light to invade kuwait. now you have donald trump we're not going to defend montenegro if they are invade. the baltic leaders had to be shaking after hearing those words because it gives putin a green light to roll the tanks. >> exactly. and, in fact, the russians and forgive my voice, there's a lot of pollen out here this morning, the russians had, you know, tried a coup attempt in montenegro. montenegro signal was really important. i've spoken to two former nato ambassador, jo

has watched helplessly as all its previous allies in eastern europe have entered the western orbit the loose ukraine and the balkans of the last bits of europe left up for grabs russia intends to fight for them jumpstart ople us al-jazeera athens. divers are helped bring twelve boys and their football coach to safety from a flooded thai cave have called their rescue a miracle the team's under observation now in hospital where expected to stay for a week and reports from china. the boys and the coach are expected to stay in hospital for the next few days this is while three of the boys are being treated for a lung infection while the rest are going through laboratory exams and forty after that they will be said home where they will still be under observation for about thirty days now during a recent press conference the thai government expressed gratitude and basically extended its thanks not just to its own forces but also to countries that extended assistance and sent their expertise over here this was a very complicated mission but it turned out quite successfully and even if it's something that h

has watched helplessly as all its previous allies in eastern europe have entered the western orbit béla reuss ukraineand the balkans of the last bits of europe left up for grabs russia intends to fight for them jumps are open last al-jazeera athens divers in thailand who helped bring twelve schoolboys in their football coach to safety from a flooded cave called the rescue a miracle the first pictures of emerge of the boys recovering in hospital and their dramatic rescue from chiang rai step vasant reports. they're looking surprisingly healthy considering the ordeal the rescued boys are being isolated from their parents to reduce the risk of infection in hospital. i do sack wanks jan gave his son a big thumbs up when he saw him he was one of the first to stop looking for his son who when he disappeared almost three weeks ago. i didn't feel confident that my boy can do this even though he knows how to swim but i'm not sure if he's a good swimmer he only got basic swimming lessons at school but i'm very happy and proud he came out safely he can't wait to hold his son but understands it might take a few

again chickens coming home to roost we've had the same complaint of hatred from the western media against president in ukraine with all here's imperfections of the complaint against your was decent you know what what we saw in the beginning wallace leader and the russian dog this day of the grandson of the ford prime minister been expelled from ukraine what was the suggestion from that beacon of democracy that. journalists are kind of boxing for before why did you let them go big guy they came back to the guy who was declared the victim of jordan and who are active himself he said that the ukrainians were forced to let go they should have kept him as a whore stage and exchange for their ukrainians who are who were sentenced by court here for going out we're going to get in this are going to mark going through what we were actually talking about. communism socialism and millennial i'm not going to say that they don't know the ideology but they may be don't understand the reality they think they can just vote people into power and then capitalism will recede the soviet union and other socialist countries cuba f

at which there was a very strong lly worded statemen by nato essentially restating the western position on ukraine and these associated issues. it reinforces once and for all that president trump doesn't support the policy of his own foreign policy team, he doesn't support the policy of his allies, and he takes a view that is closer to vladimir putin's view than perhaps putin himself. >> let's just -- this is something the president said. he particularly goes -- focuses on the idea that there's no collusion, which again the mueller investigation is not over. but he continues to focus on that, and then -- but made no mention of actually -- or no confrontation with putin about russia's meddling in the election. nothing about the indictments, nothing supporting the u.s. intelligence community. when point blank asked, who does he believe, vladimir putin or his own u.s. intelligence community, which is his intelligence community now, he didn't say -- in fact he went on to talk about hillary clinton's server. let's listen. >> we have two thoughts. you have groups that are wondering why the fbi never too

about peace on ukraine's neo nazis and i know we talked a bit a little bit about this last week but i thought it was very interesting that his articles are very good review on how western media push this narrative that these are freedom fighters in ukraine that there was no coup and now we have some of the main broadsheets foreign policy washington post yet at the atlanta council of all people backtracking on it i mean eric what does that mean to you i mean when you begin to spawn a narrative which just doesn't work anymore then the neo nazis in ukraine have become so egregious and so open that you simply can't hide it anymore they're not trying to hide the people and the council is for god sakes the mouthpiece of the of nato but in a coup did they add lend to council invite to speak to them you are. is a neo nazi he has a band the right neo nazi he was the co-founder of the social nationalist party and another just are going to and he was also the leader of the self-defense forces of them i don which of course went on to seize buildings and kill policemen and fought the new regime into power on the streets of kiev he is now the speaker of the route of the number three

western alliance. can't get away with ukraine, can't get away with syria and has to showcase that he is willing to admit to meddling he committed in our elections but an opportunity for the president to stand up to vladimir putin and not reset the relationship with the russians, without real objections that secure american interests and showcase to the russians they don't get a pass. >> a lot of people watching, waiting and wondering whether vladimir putin will get a pass. we appreciate your insights, a lot on the table for donald trump, thanks for taking the time. you are looking at pictures from the official residence as you heard from. we will see the president a moment or so from now, we will take you there live once it happens. >> we are awaiting donald trump's arrival ahead of his meeting later today with vladimir putin. you are looking at the road outside the official residence, donald trump and first lady milania trump arriving in moments because the motorcade is on the move, motorcade is watching to make sure their staff, the press corps traveling with them are safe, you see them arriving right

ukraine when she and the u.s. government were trying to push putin back and shore up western alliances.her side. still working to break up all western alliances. confrontation over that was fraught back then when victoria nuland was in that square. it is fraught in a whole different way now. this former diplomat, there top diplomat in europe for the united states, the former u.s. ambassador to europe, joins us here next. live and in person for the interview. stay with us. crabfest is back at red lobster! discover our largest variety of crab and crab dishes all year! like new crabfest combo. your one chance to have new jumbo snow crab with tender dungeness crab. or try crab lover's dream. sweet, juicy king crab and jumbo snow crab cozied up with crab linguini alfredo. even our shrimp is crab-topped! so hurry in and get your butter-dunkin' game on! 'cause crabfest will be gone in a snap. and now bring home the seafood you crave with red lobster to go. call or order online today. looking for a hotel that fits... red lowhoooo.o go. ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sit

ukraine. when she and the u.s. government were trying to push putin back and shore up western alliances. russia, of course, still is on the other side of all that, still working as best they can to break up all western alliances. confrontation over that was fraught back then when victoria nuland stepped into the middle of the square. it's in a different way right now. but this former diplomat this former top diplomat in europe for the united states, former u.s. ambassador to nato, victoria nuland joins us live and in person for the interview. stay with us. -i've seen lots of homes helping new customers bundle and save big, but now it's time to find my dream abode. -right away, i could tell his priorities were a little unorthodox. -keep going. stop. a little bit down. stop. back up again. is this adequate sunlight for a komodo dragon? -yeah. -sure, i want that discount on car insurance just for owning a home, but i'm not compromising. -you're taking a shower? -water pressure's crucial, scott! it's like they say -- location, location, koi pond. -they don't say that. it's like they say -- l

neighborhood and bullies, whether you look at ukraine, georgia, all over the place you had to deal with russian aggression and russian interference in westernne, eastern europe and the united states. it's not like the united states didn't try to have a good relationship with russia. it is russian actions that caused this. trump needs to listen to his intelligence briefings, the problem is not the united states. the problem is putin. the united states did enormous things for russia. the russians rejected them in a sense and instead sort of a thuggish bullying poster. that's the real story. for donald trump to say it's foolishness, when was the last american president that stood up in an international forum and said it's all america's fault. i mean, you know, if george mcgovern said something like that, their president is asserting similar things. >> that's a problem if you don't read, when you have a president who doesn't read. you said he should listen to the intelligence briefing, he could pick up a history book. >> we know he doesn't listen to the intelligence briefings, because he says he knows better than they do. putin demonstrated tha

there's two big things, leaving aside ukraine, one is interference in western democratic processes and it's not just in america and the other is bare-faced shameless assassination of the regime's enemies on the streets of free countries. we feel very strongly about that because it's been happening for britain than it's happened in as many as a half dozen other cases which have not been fully explained and it does mean president trump can go to his friend though he says he doesn't know him yet, vladimir putin and say there are certain things which you've got to stop doing if we do business together. >> it's not coincidental this the rosenstein indictment announcement today were about military officials in russia in terms of hacking. the novichok, we're told, can only be produced by the russian military and the state. this is not just some individual stealing some highly strategic nerve agent. it's very -- it points to the highest levels of the russian establishment. >> it does and this is a strong indictment but he won't use that power to point to putin and really exert his influence. t

has watched helplessly as all its previous allies in eastern europe have entered the western orbit bella ruse ukraine and the balkans of the last bits of europe left up for grabs russia intends to fight for them jump zero plus al jazeera athens. part of a quick check of the top stories here on al-jazeera nato leaders are meeting for a second day in brussels to discuss ending the war in afghanistan hoping to put de ones disagreements behind them but our correspondent there says the talks in afghanistan are now running late. china says it's on the right side of history as the u.s. adds more terrorists than the escalating trade war the trumpet ministration is now proposing a ten percent levy on two hundred billion dollars of chinese goods last week imposed twenty five percent tariff some thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese imports which beijing immediately counted. israel says it struck three syrian army positions near the occupied golan heights crossed into its territory syrian state media says the missiles went to separate different systems and caused minimal damage as more from beirut. the i

vladimir putin and it charges you discussed in 2016 prospects for an associated move to lift ukraine related western sanctions against russia. you're saying you never in your life spoken with igor sachen? >> never in my life. it's really sad, we're talking about election influence campaigns, jake. kellyanne conway had to answer these questions. you had a good interview on september 25th, 2016, asking her about a range of campaign issues and since was put on the table two days earlier, that friday, you know, it was a question you brought up, asking about these things. and you know, kellyanne was someone who had recently joined the campaign. never had any relationship nor spoken with her in my life. i mean, it's just real misunderstand and you know -- >> carter -- >> you had a good -- you were very fair in terms of asking the questions and but it really put her on the spot and it is just really a sad state of affairs with this election interference by the democrats. >> you still haven't answered my question whether you have any relationship with any russian government officials. you said you do not ha

very much opposing western western interests in any of these conflicts in europe of course in ukraine. in syria as well so there is no real reports more between the two sides only trump has moved closer to putin putin has won the summit because he had the meeting russia was suddenly again in the center of the world stage and an important player. the need to be of comes such actually did take a political risk and holding the summit with lattimer put in do you think it then backfired it did because he said with a football of course he doesn't want much to take home there were no agreements that were visible and it's of course questionable how far the putin could go i mean he could of course of a better cooperation on ukraine he should do this anyway so this is the real concession he could help along in syria he could maybe bring assad not to attack israeli military or on this on the golan heights but that's basically all assad has already won what he wanted to have in syria nearly an iran has a very own mind in terms of its foreign policy it will not follow putin's lead so putting didn'

ukraine now speaking about the syrian talks. the western media report about it as that as sort of a possibility that may happen but many analysts in russia suggest that this has already been implemented to some extent on the ground for example. iran's role in the operation is good or earlier this year was last pronounced and usual its role in the current southern offensive and daraa is even more limited would it be fair to say that iran has already partially deliberate what the americans and to some extent the israelis are asking for or present in syria doesn't related to the desire of the united states and other. countries which are following the diplomacy of the united states or some regional countries which are connected with the diplomacy of united states v or in syria on the base so they would station a legal government of syria. to call in the people of syria the support the to hold integrity oh and syria. you're. fighting you're helping the syrian go and if you close syria for fighting against terrorist groups. with the help of russi