voted for young age while western ukraine chose yuschenko 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 22nd 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 general secretary of nato. became frequent guests in kiev initiating negotiations between parties in a full 30 odd little they've only been 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 3 months before viktor yuschenko became a victim to a mysterious an

ukraine having an autonomous its own vision of its own foreign policy and you can about i mean there's we have to get away from this false dichotomy. but these approach western forces have a very tenuous relationship with the west because it's all about what is the west doing for ukraine which is at the forefront at the the ball work of and he russian. and the russian policy to the extent that the west and i think it's clear is not going to support that kind of long term anti what the russian initiative these forces in western ukraine are going to be disillusioned with the west and one already sees this in the statements of current members of parliament for example that maybe we should rename the party servant of the people which is their dance party into servant of the i.m.f. because the i.m.f. really has us by the throat and is never going to let go of this. just one example of the of the true attitude of the west toward you probably would be but you know we would have predict we predicted this long ago because you don't do be careful what you wish for ok what about the servant of the united states i mean our state department has pumped since i believe sin

actually wants and what i think many regions of ukraine would not object to especially in the western ukraine would be some form of greater autonomy verging on federalism but the problem is you cannot use the f. word in ukrainian politics. well that's what the professor all of a few years ago ukrainian nationalists have so little confidence in their ability to do we know with the population that they see local cultural autonomy as a direct path to secession that's exactly true because you don't even. really even want to be. good spokes very. low therefore you want to the point. that choice is between cultural ukraine something that. russia and have been striving for recognizing that this is their dual language country russian and ukrainian and many other languages and more not least think ukraine you know nationalistic. ukraine and then u.k. and the west has been pushing for that you know during the last 5 years but the point is that these last these very division because if you want to impose the same identity on many different people. here and you're you know you have excellent reading skil

factual driven found in western media but tell me how you see the media message about this ukraine gate in all of its various colorful characters what do western audiences missing or being misinformed well you know basically what i meant was that by became a victim of friendly fire from the democrats media they wanted to destroy trump one thing on the island today it's possible they think they can get 2 birds with one stone and it remains to be seen but you're right basically if you look at the whole story they just snatched this conversation thinking that it would be pricey and lansky to investigate by them but what they heard was that skit was basically very subservient to trump you know saying that you are 1000 percent right you are my teacher you know and then they're american media and the european media go dismayed by 3 for what one thing for 5 years 2 korean put yourself 1st observing 2 americans look at your own videos how perfectly stalk into biden were refined into our. room where did he sit do remember that in the president's seat exactly and this year in georgia when a russi

domestic politics none of this is going to help ukraine at all will the western or western help never stops helping ukraine absolutely going to well basically i think their western media developed its own kind of language about ukraine which is completely distorted with a litle vital domestic what is it with the term you're going to get it here of a vital us their actual interest so i don't see how it's possible but they say it well they say that the ukraine is attacked by russia and they're the new government in ukraine installed by them in 2014 what's going to be clean let me remind our viewers that would sound call and poroshenko and shorty and they were all products or that revolution there. the united states supported wholeheartedly in 2014 it has no one but itself to blame for it the problem is that their american media and the european media keep talking about this vulnerable russian influence you know which corrupts clean ukrainian officials well i especially like the as the way that mr shorten in his conversation to giuliani with giuliani attempted to continue with the invest

factual driven found in western media but tell me how you see the media message about this ukraine gate in all of its various colorful characters what do western audiences missing or being misinformed well you know basically what i meant was that by became a victim of friendly fire from the democrats media they wanted to destroy trump well i think. it's possible they think they can get 2 birds with one stone and it remains to be seen but you're right well basically if you look at the whole story they just snatched this conversation thinking that it would be pricey and lansky to investigate by them but what they heard was that. it was basically very subservient to trump you know saying that you are 1000 percent right you are my teacher you know and then they're american media and the european media or dismayed by they for what one thing for fire. the years to clean put your sins verse observe into americans look at your own videos how perfectly stalk into biden really find into our. weirdly sit do remember that in the president's seat examine and this year in georgia when a russian deput

helping ukraine absorb people into well basically i think their western media developed its own kind of language about ukraine which is completely distorted a little vital domestic what is it with the term here and we get it here of a vital us their actual interest so i don't see how it's possible but they say it well they say that the ukraine is attacked by russia and they're the new government in ukraine installed by them in 2014 what's going to be clean let me remind our viewers that would sound call and poroshenko and shorty and they were all broader cuts or that revolution there. the united states supported wholeheartedly in 2014 it has no one but itself to blame for it the problem is that their american media and the european media keep talking about this vulnerable russian influence you know which corrupts clean ukrainian officials well i especially like the as the way that mr shorten in his conversation to giuliani with giuliani attempted to continue with the investigation but in or around june or july 2015 the u.s. ambassador in the ukraine geoffrey pyatt told him that the i

ukraine and disagreements over payments have moderations between russia and ukraine even goes so far as to freeze gas deliveries western europe is dependent on russian gas so as the transit countries so other transit countries through which the russian pipelines past bought the new undersea nord stream to pipeline bypasses ukraine and poland and changes the game completely russia can effectively weaponize the pipeline by cutting off supplies to countries like ukraine while keeping western european customers supplied. this is the end of a very long pipeline 200000 steel tubes running 1230 kilometers under the baltic sea the energy megaproject nord stream to is almost complete. russia says the old pipelines that brought its gas to western europe have reached their capacity limit north stream to abse to more lines but it also makes russia far less dependent on the pipelines that cross ukrainian territory and that makes ukraine nervous it needs gas but relations between the 2 countries are bitter russia's existing gas contracts with ukraine expire at the end of the year and with north stream 2 coming online it's in no hurr

crew members and one passenger from spain to turkey reportedly ran out of fuel and crashed in western ukraine were killed. rescue teams, though, pulling three survivors from the wreckage. >>> a second chance for a florida man jailed after sleeping through jury service. 21-year-old deandre somerville spent ten days in jail after he was selected for a jury in august but missed court when he overslept. apologized, and the judge agreed to erase the contempt of court conviction if he speaks to prospecte bo the >>> and celebrating a tra trailblazer of stage and screen. diahann carroll, the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a tv series as "julia" has died in los angeles following a cancer battle. her work also earned a tony and an oscar nomination. in the '80s carroll joined the cast of "dynasty" as the glamorous dominique devereaux. diahann carroll was 84. >>> when we come back, do you believe in guardian angels? the 94-year-old who jumped out of a plane, and says he's now a believer. stay with us. even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talke

a cargo plane apparently attempted to make an emergency landing near the city of laval of in western ukraine 3 crew members taken to hospital that's according to the interior ministry of ukraine with an official also stating that the aircraft was on route from spain and had run low on fuel so that's just come through you can follow more of that on the rest of the day's headlines on our site r.t. dot com the so i think looking for moscow so far this friday morning with me kevin owen down by people of l. is guessing here after the break. you know world big part of. life and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. most people thing to stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down on th

with a fact that joe biden is point person on obama administration policy to ukraine was steering billions of or dollars of westernoney to ukraine, it becomes crystal clear exactly why they were paying him money. onthey wanted access and they wanted influence joe bidessen and joe bidessen has been around a long time and he has to know exactly why his son was being paid. >> let me ask you about that a soulsome liberal, so-called rother said there was a rule thatat bidens have that hunter never told his father that vice president what kind of business he was involved in. >> right, and even though later it was in the press, yeah. krisma hunter largely responsible for it and some others that there's no evidence that joe biden actually read the newspaper. >> right. right. [laughter] so it's simply not conceivable is it, that joe biden would know what his son was up to. >> first of all if he had been point pirn on ukraine policy which he was he would know about barima major energy producer energy was a key component of ukraine coming back, in fact, joe biden was responsible for us id program designed to regenerator to b

joe biden becomes the point person on the western response and ukraine.after that event, hunter biden and devin archer are appointed to the board of directors of burisma, notoriously corrupt energy company. there are a lot of private equity firms that would report at the time that they would not deal with burisma because of its origins. we know that payday is huge, bret, because we have financial records that indicate that hunter biden and devin archer were each paid $83,000 a month for serving on that board. hunter biden joined the board in april of 2014. he read remained there until earlier this year. his take was more than $3 million. the problem is, bret, just like in china, and the case of ukraine, he has no background that would warrant him getting this position. he has no background in energy policy, and he certainly has no background and ukraine. >> bret: on the financial documents, it's listed, robert biden. >> yes, that's right. that's his legal name, robert h biden. what you see in that financial account, bret, is really kind of something unusu

but they were russian special forces sent in by president putin after ukraine's pro—western revolution voters backed joining russia. but the poll wasn't internationally recognised. it had taken moscow less than a month to occupy and annex a piece of its neighbour. for many russians, this was cause for celebration. i first met ira in moscow back in the early 1990s. she has a second home now — in crimea. the crimean history has always been connected with russia. in the west, as you know, there is a lot of criticism of vladimir putin for what happened here, for russia taking crimea. i am very grateful to mr putin, and i take my hat off and bow my head to mr putin, because he saved the generations of the crimean people from rivers of blood here. in the crimean city of sevastopol, they are marking russian navy day. it is a showcase for russian power at sea. since it took crimea, russia has become the dominant force in the black sea region. here, moscow doesn't use the word "annexation". crimea, it says, has sailed back to its home port. few believe that outside of russia. what we see is a p

russia hopes nord stream 2 will soon give it a direct route to gas markets in western europe while freezing out here ukraine. space tourism is about to go public starting today investors can trade shares of virgin galactic on the new york stock exchange for the 1st time since its founding in 2004 virgin galactic has raised more than a $1000000000.00 to develop a commercial service to take tourists to space. for more let's cross over to our man on wall street. is richard branson they had a virgin galactic looking for more money to fund you know what people perceive as personal moonshot what was going on here they're about to do the i mean it's a costly and ever and so you need to raise money wherever possible actually it was a good start a promising start at the beginning this shot up by a good 5 percent in early trading but by the end of the day all of those gains have vanished the wall street is basically asking how many people are going to be willed to really pay around $250000.00 for a trip more than $600.00 people already made some payment for their 1st flight so off to a promising start to wall street

republicans there's broad agreement the american interest is in a non-corrupt, pro-democratic western aligned ukraine. the only person who's pushing against that right now is donald trump. and if he were doing that for some legitimate public interest, he'd center the right to do that. but if he's doing it for a corrupt interest, doing it to help his political campaign or personal interest, that's not legitimate. come on, donald trump cares as much about stopping corruption in ukraine as marboro cares about stopping cancer. it's not a legitimate interest, it's a corrupt one. >> there's one aspect i thought ambassador sodenberg was interesting, the way he phrased it, we've been talking about manufacturing dirt on a political opponent, but vindman put it wasn't in terms as meddling in the election, but it was just improper to have a foreign government set its sights on an american citizen. if an american citizen committed some intraction that's a problem for american law enforcement but of course there's no predicate for investigation. what do you think about that framing? >> first of all vindman was an

republicans, there is broad agreement the american interest is in a noncorrupt pro-democratic western-aligned ukraine, not a corrupt russian-controlled ukraine. the only person who is pushing against that right now is donald trump. if he were doing that for some legitimate public interest, he'd have the right to do that, but if he's doing it for a corrupt interest, if he's doing it to help his political campaign or his personal interests, that's not legitimate. now, trump says i'm doing it for legit interest. i'm doing it to fight corruption. come on. donald trump cares as much about stopping corruption in ukraine as marlboro stops about stopping cancer. that doesn't pass the laugh test. it is not a legitimate interest. it's a corrupt one. >> there is something that ambassador soderberg -- the way we phrased it. we talked about essentially meddling into an election, manufacturing dirt on a political opponent. but vindland put it as opening an investigation into an american citizen. it wasn't in vindland's terms about meddling in the election, it was just that it's improper to have a foreign governmen

quietly been urging a deal that would pave the way for a removal of western sanctions on moscow over their ongoing conflict in ukraine. obviously the removal of those western sanctions is, quote, long a goal of president putin's. president trump himself said as much back in august when he was asked whether or not he planned to invite the ukrainian president to the white house. he said at the time, quote, i think he's going to make a deal with president putin and he will be invited to the white house. meaning, yeah, i would like ukraine and russia to make a deal, i would like the ukrainian president to go make a deal with vladimir putin. then that guy can come to the white house. why does the u.s. president want ukraine to make a deal with russia over russia having invaded them? well, any deal between ukraine and russia that settled that matter would be the basis for u.s. and international sanctions against russia being dropped. so this is something that the white house has been pushing for. obviously the way that president trump has been behaving toward ukraine means that any such settlement right now between ukraine

times" in an article in "the wall street journal" when he began to be engaged with ukraine on the half of the western interest and having ukraine attack corruption which said, wait a minute, they quoted people in ukraine and europe say, wait a minute, the vice president's aunt is the board of a company, doesn't he get the appearance of impropriety? even before he goes back in april of 2016 and says, you better get rid of that prosecutor within the next six hours or i'm going to keep you from getting a billion dollars, already was a matter of public concern that are to leave this in the hands of john durham and better to leave it with the department of justice with all due respect to rudy, he should attend to the personal and private legal needs of his client and not be involved in this spirit >> martha: before i let you go , quick question. hundred $25 million raised for the trump campaign, i am hearing that about 20 of that came since this news about the impeachment. what's your thought on that? >> it's a sign -- this is a new environment in which we find ourselves in the world of internet fund-rais

biden appointed the point person of the obama administration in ukraine, he was in control of the ukrainian portfolio directing all westernlars into ukraine. a few months later, april 2014 -- joe biden's son hunter scored a lucrative position on the board of marise my holdings as the ukrainian energy oil, gas giant. he was paid a lot of money and he had no experience in oil, gas, energy, or with the country of ukraine. great gig. in november of 2015, he was advised by "the new york times" his son hunter was under investigation by ukrainian authorities. in december, he made his first request to the president of ukraine -- please fire the prosecutor that has lead in the corruption investigation into my son and burisma holdings. in march 2016, john solomon reporting on this show biden do this prosecutor was investigating his son and getting awfully close to bringing him in for questioning. that's when biden leveraged a billion dollars in aid and forced the ukrainian president to fire the prosecutor. as joe 30330 said you got six hours or you're not getting the billion, son of a b -- they fired him. prosecutors signed an affi

western part of russia. left part that's the south eastern part of ukraine. at the bottom of your screen below the other part of ukraine, that's called crimea, you can see the black sea there. but in between russia and the part of ukraine that is called crimea, you can see there's this tiny narrow little strait, which is called the kirgs strait, and north of there is a different body of water, that's the northern extension of the black sea. and once upon a time the sea of asof was a relatively normal thing, but 5 1/2 years ago russia invaded ukraine. and they took a whole big chunk of the nation of ukraine. they took crimea for themselves. they decided crimea was now a part of russia. and after they did that, after they took crimea to sort of solidify their hold on ukraine, russia built a big weird expensive bridge across the strait, and upon doing so, upon seizing crimea for itself and building this bridge between russia and crimea and putting the russian military into the other parts of eastern ukraine outside of crimea, in so doing russia apparently decide

and yet, putin is is taking advantage, looking to exploit western support for ukraine and taking advantage of what he hopes will be a new president there that doesn't know the ropes. he tried this right after zelinski won where he announced an easing of passports for those living there. zelensky handled that very well. but there are more tests coming for him that we have already seen. it is worth, i think, stepping back for a moment, to see how we reached all of this how we got , to this point. i mentioned briefly the budapest memorandum. this was an agreement signed in in which the united states, the 1994, united kingdom, kingdom, russia and ukraine reaffirmed their commitment to ukraine to respect the independence and existing sovereignty in the borders of ukraine. the existing borders included crimea as part of ukraine. it reaffirmed those countries ' obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity of the political independence of ukraine. none of their weapons will ever be used against ukraine except in self-defense. it also reaffirmed their comm

since this came out seemingly business as usual the fact that ukraine's disappointed by western european response to its calls for aid that there are talks talks specially in france about reengaging the kremlin even softening sanctions without huge or major russian concessions that all the stuff that has worry kid for a long time is not a secret i think he was fairly cautious in he's speaking to trump and in terms of the flattery 100000 percent agreement rather 100 percent you can even read that as him being ironic and actually making fun of the president in a way that donald trump interpreted as praise so i think as we'll room there and i think in terms of his dealing with europe there hasn't been any major damage yet yeah that's a very very good point you get it really is in how you read it if this thing goes explode more it is president alinsky is he prepared for the fall well that could come in his direction do you think i mean he's a novice in politics you've got 30 seconds. he definitely is someone though who is proving that he can learn on the job i think the major thing here is t

. >> the country of ukraine, more than any other country in the region, i would say, by far, is incredibly dependent on economic support from the united states. most of western europe sees ukraine as something of an outcast. they find it a little bit embarrassing. >> especially javelin missiles to stop russian tanks. >> exactly. they don't seriously -- they haven't made serious, major commitments to that country. ukraine really relies on support from the united states. and putin knows this. it's very obvious to him. so, it's completely consistent with his government's long-term strategy of trying to take ukraine back into russia, that they would go after this country on all fronts. ukrainians use the term hybrid warfare to describe the way the russian government is trying to discredit their economy. obviously, attacking them militarily. and putin trying to damage president trump's view of ukraine, would just be part of this broader russian onslaught against their country. >> and this is the great contradiction or challenge that the democrats in the next month. i think they will impeach next month in the house. but they must be attracted to the idea, to encas

give us a larger picture or since they want of the word is very popular in the western media give us the predicate of ukraine in america's political drama out's go ahead it wasn't it i mean you said peter that it goes back to 2014 it actually goes back even before because of course when the u.s.s.r. broke up ukraine which had been one of the big constituent republics of ukraine the us the sun there was this policy of basically keeping it is distanced from russia as possible and this is linked up with this policy of western expansion of nato which the western powers had promised the russians.