voted for young age while western ukraine chose use janko by the announced result viktor yuschenko lost to victory on a co-feature 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 back. the winner international politicians such as former general secretary of nato. became frequent guests in kiev initiating negotiations between parties in a faltering will they. be able to get. the results of the negotiations however were often reached only on paper thus you shan't go never told the supporters to stop blocking government buildings in central kiev. 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 victim to a mysterious and still unso

cellars of those implosion is a western ukraine. just amazing that america people all join a group to save nine dollars on sushi with their friends and using the group of fact buying health care but you said you know why why that group bought logic to health care so that you can afford health care at all make you bankrupt like the socialism i don't know but that you did they get all that because they've been trained by the professional media talker see industry and propagandists to run the big media outlets for people to have a trigger response to affordable healthcare equals communism. and the list and. i'm just not up is that. you're going to. kill it so there are those who are. in the hymn of wind. but. look. at the moment the modern i don't want to go about. something. mr need to. own the. art of a shuffle steming with. you about a little warmth and you know what. i will. or will. show you are the. please. cut. terrorists open fire on a military parade in southwest iran killing at least twenty eight people as the country marks t

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 twenty. 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 they are 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 treaty of one nine hundred eighteen which turned ukraine i

this message addressed well predominance is the west to nato and to russia seized western neighbors particularly ukrainethe wargame rehearses a large wall scenario with a western country. the wargame rehearses strategic. deployment and sort of mobility of russian forces which can run sort of west to east like now but which also can run use to west and he has this mobilization of reserve forces mobilization of russian society in the event of force so it's quite obvious who would be the enemy and what about china what's the message that china is sending over well china sort of the russia russia trying to lure china closer to its and since twenty fourteen the least but russia has always been ego on on sort of forcing this alliance china was usually very reluctant to do so because it's all russia's being too images and of too cui cricket so if proactive now it is a signal that the can also go with the russians on weekends it is. false that these days of the discontent ones which is of course a message to washington and coalition of the discontent in the past these drills is important you know they were seen

skripal case, we‘ve talked about syria, the other theatre of conflict right now with the western powers is ukraineince the russian annexation of crimea, there has been a programme of international sanctions, led by the european union and the united states. they‘ve been extraordinarily damaging to russia, and there‘s no sign any of those sanctions will be lifted as long as russia continues its current course in the ukraine conflict. do you regret... honestly, do you regret russia‘s decision to annex crimea and to meddle in the affairs of east ukraine? let‘s start with the first statement. you made three statements that we should talk about. the first statement involves the "annexation" of crimea. there was no annexation of crimea. the crimean people had decided in a referendum that they would like to join russia. the primary reason, primary cause for that was that they were afraid, panicked that the ukrainian government will start the process that can lead to complete house... you can rewrite history if you want. but the military invasion of the territory of a sovereign nation, the first in europe

some showers over towards the eastern side of the continent though just around the black sea ukraine western side of russia up towards the baltic states clear skies for central parts but a chance of one or two showers around the a tragic and still some rather lively showers over towards that western side of the med just affecting that he's inside of spain that would be the case as we go through the next couple of days over the next couple days you will see wet and windy weather sweeping its way towards the british isles we've got largely dry weather to go on through sunday twenty two celsius there for london it's a piece of yes into those northern areas but for central parts there's the sunshine you have twenty four degrees for vienna basin places the rather heavy rain at times over towards that eastern side of year of sixteen celsius seventeen celsius there for moscow it dries up it brightens up as we go on through monday so looking even better still far to try to central areas there we go with first signs of our wet weather pushing up towards arland and scott in the still a few showers the

struggle this is a battle and of course it was a battle for influence in georgia in ukraine as a places from the western countries especially from united states of course u.s. wanted to strengthen. its influence in georgia in ukraine right now it's. really even right now existing time when russia was. not so strong so i think these this this is a problem which will create some problems in our country now. there is a clear asymmetry in political and geopolitical interest between russia and georgia and i know that you said once. when you were in government you were still able to balance those out and prevent an actual conflict from breaking out how did you do that what was your thinking at that time you know i was always absolutely sure. georgia. sure there was any kind of military confrontation with russia on not only georgia but any country should try to avoid any military confrontation with me specially when this neighbor is super power and i have enough influence in the governments that time to stop somehow. of their present self my previous government headed by mikhail saakashvili who was the surest

some showers over towards the eastern side of the continent though just around the black sea ukraine western side of russia up towards the baltic states clear skies for central parts but a chance of one or two showers around the age matic and still some rather lively showers over towards that western side of the med just affecting that he's inside of spain that'll be the case as we go through the next couple of days over the next couple days you will see wet and windy weather sweeping its way towards the british isles we've got laws a dry weather to go on through sunday twenty two celsius there for london it's a piece of yes into those northern areas but for central parts there's a sunshine of twenty four degrees for the area basin pieces of rather heavy rain at times over towards that eastern side of year of sixteen celsius seventeen celsius there for moscow it dries up it brightens up as we go on through monday so looking even better still far to try to central areas there we go with first signs of our wet weather pushing up towards arland and scott in the still a few showers there just ar

western elections. you also point a lot to what happened in ukraine.e me more examples of how the rest of the world can become russian so to speak. >> the philosophy is that nothing's really true, the facts of the world don't really matter. the strategy is something called strategic relativism. the idea is that you want to convince people at home and abroad that nothing's true, everything's relative, everything is subjective, and therefore there's no point in acting. democracy's a joke, the rule of law's a joke, we might as well stay on our couches. the tactic, the way you convey this, is that you get into the minds of your adversaries, whether they're european or they're american. you fine the exid the existing lines, whether those are social or racial, and you play on them and you try to convince people that the only things going on in the world are the momentary psychological enmities. there's no point thinking of the real world, about facts, of how to make things better. so in that way policy toward ukraine, that is, a traditional invasion combined

going to talk about all kinds of things for example foreign policy issues like syria like ukraine like the western balkans but we all know what's top of the agenda specially for the german chancellor are going to back its migration and french president in money michael has gone into the trenches last week accepting his role as the enemy of the right wing bobby alist alliance that was declared by the un garion prime minister viktor orban and italian minister of the interior munty or any so this is the hot topic it has been in europe for quite some time we're expecting something on that and of course they will also have to talk about breakfast because briggs it is looming getting ever closer without any real solution in sight at the moment ok we're waiting for the press conference to start off max we'll be getting back to you later in the program as we wait for that up press conference we'll have that live of course michelle of what is on the machall want to achieve with her visit to mars say. well the official line of course is to deal with those bread and butter issues on the table to take he seri

rather than aggressive his statements i think might raise eyebrows in western capitals which have been watching russian behavior in ukraine over recent years its behavior in syria at the moment and also going back to say two thousand and eight the invasion of georgia but that's is vladimir putin's view on things today commanders of the iraqi coalition at war in yemen say they continue to control a main route supplying the important port of data who three fighters underplaying the reports saying they repelled government forces and stopped their progress kilos sixteen s is known as one of the main supply routes linking the data to the rebel held capital the u.n. envoy to yemen is set to business and are to revive talks to stop the fighting. the un humanitarian coordinator for syria is calling for all parties involved in italy to halt hostilities and express the need for further humanitarian aid to be brought into the rebel held enclave panelists months is says nearly forty thousand people have fled since september the first. the most congested governorate in syria more than three million people living there about one point

rather than aggressive his statements i think might raise eyebrows in western capitals which have been watching russian behavior in ukraine over recent years its behavior in syria at the moment and also going back to say two thousand and eight the invasion of georgia but that's is vladimir putin's view on things today. unsung sea change says in hindsight government could have handled the range of crisis better seven hundred thousand rang to muslims by the military crackdown in stating a year ago yet investigators said there were mass killings and gang rapes but cities speaking as an international meeting and vietnam defended security forces from charges of civilian atrocities when haye has more from their. own sons to g.'s appearance at the world economic forum on southeast asia in hanoi was the first international speaking engagement since a united nations report was released last month that called for genocide charges to be laid against me and my military leaders for attacks on rigging your communities in rakhine state that report was also very critical of aung san suu kyi and her government for their failure to condemn

rather than aggressive his statements i think might raise eyebrows in western capitals which have been watching russian behavior in ukraine over recent years its behavior in syria at the moment and also going back to say two thousand and eight the invasion of georgia but that's is a lot of a person's view on things today. commanders of the saudi m.r.c. coalition at war in yemen say they continue to control the main routes supplying the important port of hyundai and if i says underplaying the reports saying they've repelled government forces and stopped their progress sixteen is when the main has the supply routes linking the data to the rebel held capital the u.n. envoy cmin is set to visit sana to revive talks to stop the fighting under simmons is following the story from djibouti and has the latest. there's certainly no letup in reports that the saudi u.s. led coalition and government forces on the ground have cut off warm major supply line between the port city of who data and the. rebel held capital sana'a now the implications of this are huge because there's already a major humanitarian catastrophe going on in yemen

things like russia's aggression in eastern ukraine, over the syrian conflict, allegations of meddling in a western elections. you have had russia give it to the east. china also not having the best of relations with the u.s. while these are massive exercises, most of them are russian material entries. -- amateurs. -- and troops. it was like it is all of russia. the concentrated part of the exercises is really concentrated in the eastern part of siberia and russia's far east. you can see the gold-based region along the chinese and mongolian border. that is where it is concentrated. it is taking up a third of russia's army soldiers. to bring up the other chart, we can show some of the armor involved. like i said, the biggest military drills. ? back to 1981. ronald reagan -- you have to go to act to 1981. tanks. mongolia as i said also taking part. the chinese contribution relative to the people's army is relatively small, but it is symbolically significant. it is russia and china teaming up at a tense moment. russia also being defiant and saying your sanctitions and aggresessive to the west is not h

rather than aggressive his statements i think might raise eyebrows in western capitals which have been watching russian behavior in ukraine over recent years its behavior in syria at the moment and also going back to say two thousand and eight the invasion of georgia but that is vladimir putin's view on things today. myanmar's leader aung sun suu kyi says in hindsight her government could have handled the rangar crisis better seven hundred thousand range of muslims for a military crackdown iraqi state a year ago and investigators said there were mass killings and gang rapes but suit chains speaking as an international meeting in vietnam defended security forces from charges of civilian atrocities when hey has more from their. own sons to g.'s appearance at the world economic forum on southeast asia in hanoi was the first international speaking engagement since a united nations report was released last month that called for genocide charges to be laid against me and military leaders for attacks on rigging your communities in rakhine state that report was also very critical of aung san suu kyi and government for their failu

tensions that we've been discussing came to had in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen and in your book here try to explain both russian and western thinking in great detail and there is this popular view in moscow that as painful as the ukrainian rupture was and it certainly was and is for russia russia is playing it as a great cost for the kind of decisions that made in the ukrainian conflict there is also believed that the rapture. how to prevent a much bigger conflict between russia and nato that if russia didn't act. moment back in two thousand and fourteen that the nature would continue pushing across its border and there would be no other way to escape that direct confrontation how much do you crave at that oh very much so i mean there was a sort of a rehearsal for crimea some years beforehand and in georgia of course went under a lot of american encouragement of the saakashvili government but very provocatively towards russia and a couple of ethnic parts of georgia and iran and i think i forget the name of that number one the current dutch and russia drew a line and then russia moved in with support for the local.

rather than aggressive his statements i think might raise eyebrows in western capitals which have been watching russian behavior in ukraine over recent years its behavior in syria at the moment and also going that's. say two thousand and eight the invasion of georgia but that's is vladimir putin's view on things today. to syria now where nearly three million civilians in libya are preparing for what's expected to be an all out military offensive on the province more than thirty thousand people have fled the rebels' last stronghold in syria since government and russian airstrikes intensified last week many have escaped to the nearby town of basuto an area controlled by turkish backed rebels those who remain in it live but taking any measures they can to protect themselves including making their own gas masks and it's not only that dielman is almost we hear a lot of threats from the regime in russia saying they'll bomb us with chemical weapons that's why we had to make gas masks to protect our wives and children and a little. bit of new to wiki i learned how to make the masks on you tube the mask is made with cardboard cups

that russia is a threat because of its aggressive policies in ukraine and this policy could be used against the baltic countries from the western point of view so keeping all of these arguments in mind bryan if three hundred thousand soldiers shoot around flies dream scout and do other military exercises that is clearly an attempt to show the strength against the west just in case russia has to defend itself ok here you mentioned of nato there is a competitor for russia these movers will showcase a new generation of weapons new tactics how does today's russian military stack up against nato. well that is controversial and independent military experts who doubt very much of that russia's army is as strong as its as it claims to be but no one doubts that russia is in a position to wage a more than a war that's what the russians army has been doing in syria for years with military success also last year there was a similar war games like these ones in the west of russia along with the gallup hosts on the border with poland and the baltic states moscow tasted tested last year among other things the defense of a nato attack and acco

and my process of disenchantment from the western propaganda machine against russia really began pretty much. interested in fourteen with the events in ukraine and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. you mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country it's a very complex society it's sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know inexperience died and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism it's loving russia is it's a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you hate them but you love the person all the more because of that and that is actually i think the most moving part of your book for me that you accept disability rather than the typical western scolding that russia is not good enough but what i thought find even more troubling is that scalding that irritated russians a lot if you years back now seems acceptable because it essentially digraphs into the open bigotry why do you think this lack of compassion

my process of disenchantment from the western propaganda machine against russia it really began pretty much. interest thousand and fourteen with the events in ukraine and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. you mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country it's a very complex society it's sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism it's loving russia is it's a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you hate them but you love the person all the more because of that and that is actually i think the most moving part of your book for me that you accept disability rather than the typical western scolding that russia is not good enough but what i find even more troubling is that that's called thing that irritated russians a lot if you years back now it seems acceptable because it essentially dick rest into the open bigotry why do you think this lack of c

those big showers around ukraine and turkey of just about disappeared and there's still some pretty big ones wandering around the eastern side of spain southern france for western bowl in the mediterranean but the active weather the windy wet weather and still bringing with it quite warm there is that over the british isles a picture of twenty three seven degrees in london twenty seven still in paris but when you weather heads off towards norway where it is still raining fairly often on the coast now the big shot of the green blots are still there in spain increasingly they've spread across italy's herself trying to get towards austria but otherwise it's actually turned a little warmer in many places in europe the sun is out by day and those days are getting shorter but they haven't really changed just yet a lot lot of shows that you sort of felt in the west and boulder med so links up through the sahara desert goes down towards mauritania eventually senegal there's not much rain there literally just a few showers up in algeria in particular sunny by day for first time and at twenty eight degrees in river but still thirty three humid degrees in tunis but the re

tensions that we've been discussing came to had in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen and in your book here try to explain both russian and western thinking in great detail and there is this popular view in moscow that as painful as the ukrainian rupture was and it certainly was and is for russia russia is playing it as a great cost for the kind of decisions that made in the ukrainian conflict there is also believed that the rapture. how to prevent a much bigger conflict between russia and they said that if russia didn't act. moment back in two thousand and fourteen that the nature would continue pushing across its border and there would be no other way escape that direct confrontation how much do you crave at that oh very much so i mean there was a sort of a rehearsal for crimea some years beforehand and in georgia of course went under a lot of american encouragement of the saakashvili government but very provocatively towards russia and a couple of ethnic parts of georgia and iran and i think i forget the name of that number one the current dutch and russia drew a line that russia moved in with support for the local local gover

enables the targeting of their brutalit citizen and continuing the occupation of ukraine and creamy and subversion of western democracies and remains a permissive environment for north korean efforts to circumvent rssolution center in action. north korea continues to evade sanctions on pressure is not it abandon its weapons of mass destruction or missile programs. on one hand all three of these countries use similar tactics to exploit the global system. establish a friend and try to mask the origin of the beneficial ownership associated with illicit flows and disguised nature and intent behind certaie transactions. very importantly, all three clued up on another in an effore to blunt the effect and timisdirections. on the other hand the three countries are dissimilar in terms of the size of their respective economies and the extent to which their businesses intertwined with global supply chains and the degree to which their financial sectors are connected to the global system and for the serious reasons or sanctions programs have to be nuanced and have to be tailored to address each of these challenges. i wi

pavel now this is all happening on the backdrop of the ukraine crisis the war in syria allegations that russia is interfering in western elections and politics so i'm sure there is a message to president putin is trying to convey here by holding the largest military exercises in its history or is in modern history. of course these processes are happening in the west and in the southwest and the exercises are in the far east there is of course a kind of tense situation still somewhat in the korean peninsula but there has been that downscaling of tensions there just recently but the actual planning of this exercise happened some time before it's a big strategic exercise and it's also a war game actually and there's a difference between exercise and war game and this so this is there's technicalities there involved because in the being part of russia there as the vienna document of those see that women it's the possibility of scale like that mobilizations and they have in the far east there's only very limited regulations there's an agreement with china on the kind of limited limiting forces in the immediate border area b

pavel now this is all happening on the backdrop of the ukraine crisis the war in syria allegations that russia is interfering in western elections and politics so i'm sure there is a message to president putin is trying to convey here by holding the largest military exercises in its history or is in modern history. of course these processes are happening in the west and in the southwest and the exercises are in the far east there is of course a kind of tense situation still somewhat in the korean peninsula but there has been that downscaling of tensions there just recently but the actual planning of this exercise happened some time before it's a big strategic exercise and it's also a war game actually and there's a difference between exercise and war game and this so this is there's technicalities there involved because in the being part of russia there as the vienna document of those see that women it's the possibility of scale like that mobilizations and they have in the far east there's only very limited regulations there's an agreement with china on the kind of limited limiting forces in the immediate border area b

ukraine in these and other that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. party among the recent regime change experiments lidia's stands out as no one's liability in western powers have never publicly accepted breaking it let alone owning the mast and as some of them now try to mediate among the various militia groups running what's left of the country what should guide the process well to discuss that i'm now joined by cloud xeni a senior analyst at the international crisis group thank you very much for coming over it's good to have you with us in the studio it's a pleasure to be with you now first of all let me ask you what brings you to moscow because. the international crisis group is viewed in this capital as a western based institution i know you stress your nonprofit non-governmental status but i think there are a lot.

different remarks that you put in your testimony, russia continues its occupation of ukraine and crimea and sub version western democracies. and for decades russia has been developing complex and resilient networks to obscure the origin of movement through illicit activity -- and the scale and sophistication is far more advanced than that of other states currently subject to broad u.s. sanctions. and so i got a report from the congressional research services about the sanctions which designations have been made and not used and you talked about the use of executive orders versus katza and i want to ask, do you think we're doing everything that we can do. when i look at sanctions we've done. we've only done broad sanctions on nine out of 100 of the largest companies in russia. and we've only used more targeted sanctions in 23 out of the top 100 companies in russia,and i wanted to suggest that we could be using some more sanctions related to section 224 of katza related to the specific area i'm talking about so my question is do you think we're doing everything we can do, and can we do more and do you have enoug

russia continues its occupation of ukraine and crimea is a version of western democracies and remains a permissive environment to circumvent the un security council's resolutions. north korea continues to attempt to evade international sick -- sanctions and pressure and has not abandoned its weapons of mass destruction. theyhree use tactics as establish an employee front and try to mask the origin of the beneficial ownership associated and to discuss the nature and intent behind certain transactions. all three collude with one another in an effort to blunt the effectiveness of our actions. on the other hand, these countries are very dissimilar in terms of the size of their economies and the extent to which they have businesses intertwined with global supply chains and to which their sector are connected to the global system. our sanctions programs have to be nuanced and tailored to address each of these challenges. i am going to touch on all three countries. president'san, the decision sets in motion a wide range of sanctions. this is occurring over 100 and to give global businesses a

those big showers around ukraine and turkey of just about disappeared there are still some pretty big ones wandering around the eastern side of spain southern france the western ball of the mediterranean but the active weather windy wet weather and.

those big showers around ukraine and turkey of just about disappeared and there are still some pretty big ones wandering around the eastern side of spain southern france for the western bowl in the mediterranean but the active weather the windy wet weather and still bringing with it quite warm there is that over the british isles a picture of twenty three seven degrees in london twenty seven still in paris that when the weather heads off towards norway where it is still raining fairly often on the coast now the big shot of the green blots are still there in spite increasing to they've spread across italy's herself trying to get towards austria but otherwise it's actually turned a little warmer in many places in europe the sun is out by day and those days are getting short of a haven't really changed just yet a lot lot of shows that you sort of open the west and bowl them out so it links up through the sahara desert and goes down to was martain year eventually senegal there's not much rain there mysa just a few showers up in algeria in particular sunny by day for first time and at twenty eight degrees in robot still thirty three humid degrees in tunis but the real big

series of military exercises in western russia which again provided a smokescreen for what became the annexation of crimea and the board —— broader invasion of eastern ukrainet the moment. in some senses, what is perhaps more interesting is that after these exercises and in the eastern mediterranean, literally three days after they end, on the eighth of this month, russia will then conduct its largest military exercises in the post—soviet period, beginning on september 11 in central and eastern russia, when something like 300,000 russian troops and 36,000 tanks will amass and prepare for a scenario that the russian state has not yet quite explained. there has been much talk and much condemnation of chemical attacks in syria by western intelligence, or by the western authorities, and there is still intelligence suggesting there may be another chemical attack in the offing. what will be the reaction to this, and russia's reaction? ulreich, western intelligence has said, has mentioned a moment ago, syrian forces are ready to retake idlib —— you're right. when this has happened there have been chemical weapons attacks that have gone along with them over recent