what is described in the west as a russian invasion of crimea is a fact the presence of russian soldiers in crimean can you clarify that let us discuss all about they've got to give it a barely spoken of equal but the most of the most go full of the couldn't. as long ago as eighteen zero four sevastopol is a naval base became the main military port of the russian empire on the black sea. during the second world war the heroic defense of sevastopol lasted almost a year and took hundreds of thousands of lives. therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the russian black sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance. those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were and how angry and how we almost went to a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just so if the united states considers cuba to be in its backyard. then crimea plays at russia's doorstep. the consequences of a u.s. seizure of the face or a nato base which int

it is important based on -- so it was sold in the russian supermarket and the russian people would purchase something else. so it was not good for the health of the russian population, but as well -- it was harm for eastern european countries like latvia whose export was -- but in two years they substituted destinations of the exports to other countries. what could be stronger? i had to draw attention to the fact that russia is not subject -- there is note one sanction imposed on russia. russia is not the subject of sanctions. so no one in my mind, what dave said that things became more expensive, that is not your. if you look at the financial market, interest rates went down and interest rates in russia went down as well. for a very short time, maybe for 6/4 -- now financing is cheaper than it was in 2015 for russian banks. i believe most systemic pressure on the russians would be that if they impose a ban on domestic debt. because it is very important that at the moment they keep 35% of the russian domestic data and nonresidents have persons -- have purchased 75% of the domestic debt. so

media were unwittingly spreading russian propaganda. clapper concludes, of course the russian effort affected the outcome of the election. surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a trump win. to conclude otherwise stresses stretches logic and common sense to the breaking point. less than 80,000 votes in three key states swung the election. i have no doubt that more votes than that were influenced by this massive effort by the russians. oh. ah, the immediate past director of national intelligence who was director of national intelligence during the russian attack on the election says he has no doubt that the russian attack, in his words, quote, swung the election to a trump win. that means that the immediate past director of national intelligence believes that donald trump is only president because of a successful foreign intelligence operation to make him president. as for the question of whether or not the president's campaign benefitted from that operation just by dumb luck or whether they were in on it in some way, her

and another tragedy last night russian journalist. was shot in his own home. prime minister already. it was carried out by the russian security services investigation hasn't even started yet. the russian foreign ministry has also and learned the alarming number of violence against journalists in ukraine that's cost our minds back to some of these where russia has been falsely blames. was a crane in russian gen the ukraine engine this story who dies in two thousand and fifteen now russia was immediately blamed for the death but he was killed by ultra right activists for his pro russian views and moving on to shermer a russian ukrainian janessa who was killed in two thousand and sixteen not by the russians but by a bomb detonated by ukrainian security services and in two thousand and seventeen then this phone and call the former russian deputy was killed but was russia behind this night was closer to home his wife's ex-boyfriend ordered the killing now back to where the police have ruled out suicide but now the russian investigative committee have opened up thei

the russian white house. this belief about the american intelligence capabilities has always been for good reason, inflated. thoughtfully inflated. think it is a lot harder to conduct espionage. andhe era of smartphones running around and trying to maintain cover is harder. a wholeng people is different ballgame then it was pre-internet. paul: i will make a controversial statement. the era of human recruitment in intelligence is over. biometric data, meaning you cannot put someone undercover, have them travel around the world and recruit people, it does not work. identity is instantly known to governments that want to know who they are. their cellem on phones, investigating their social media histories, makes it almost impossible. espionage is going to go in the direction of the digital domain. it is far easier to get access to people with information in quantities. it does not pay to try to do this through the old means. there are pros and cons to that. it does get to the question of assessing intentions. do

the russians would repeat, amplify and embellish that claim. when the russians promulgated a conspiracy theory about her, trump would repeat it at campaign rallies and on twitter. whether secretly coordinated or not, this parallelism constituted a putative team effort by the russian government and the trump campaign. he served as director of national intelligence for 6 1/2 years including for the duration of the russian attack on the 2016 election. he says that the russian attack did sway the election, that donald trump would not be president but for that attack. and he says the trump campaign helped in the attack. he calls it a putative team effort. james clapper joins us next. can make you feel unstoppable. but mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. help take control by asking about your treatment options. vraylar is approved for the acute treatment of manic or mixed episodes of bipolar i disorder in adults. clinical studies showed that vraylar reduced overall manic symptoms. vra

the russian white house. the russian lighthouse. than we did. this belief about the american intelligence capabilities i think has always been, for good reason --. thoughtfully inflated. >> my second point, i forgot, i think it is a lot harder to conduct espionage. this is a whole separate subject. in the year of smart phones, and the internet and cipro, running around trying to maintain any kind of cover is much, much harder. and so, recruiting people and evading surveillance on someone, it's a whole different ballgame than it was pre- internet. >> i will pylon on that one and make a controversial statement. i think the era of human recruitment and intelligences over. biometric data means essentially that you cannot put someone undercover here in washington, have them travel around the world, pose as a diplomat undercover and recruit people. it doesn't work. who they are, their identity is instantly known to governments that want to know who they are. tracking them on their cell phones, investigating the social media histories, makes it almost

russian diaspora, russian citizens living abroad. they are living abroad for a reason. they don't particularly like what is going on inside of russia under putin. they are living in europe and the united states. they voted in much greater numbers for putin in the last election than ever in the past. why? well, part of the reason is what they themselves cite as a reaction to what they call -- they do not like what is going on. and it is actually causing a rally around putin in effect ruinside of russia.not something that is i think, in the us interest to see. second question. what do they do? you want to look at some counterfactual us. that should cause us to question the conventional wisdom about russian intentions. if russia regards democracy as a mortal threat, something that by its very nature brushes the viability of the russian state, is as evident in how they treat democracies around the world? i think the evidence says no, actually. and the news from a couple of weeks ago should give us some pause in this regard. russia was celebrating victory date, may 9. celebr

it's not really a russian company but a russian related company. what was it? what services were they buying? what services were at&t buying? i think those are legitimate questions for michael cohen to answer. i think it's also very legitimate for the president to say whatever they thought they were buying from michael cohen, they were not buying for me. >> don. >> i would like to -- >> yes, but let's do it on the other side of the break. and dan, i'm going keep you guys around because dan did not really get to talk that much this time. more breaking news tonight. three americans detained in north korea. they may be on their way home shortly. we're going to tell you about that, next. ♪ the kenya tea development agency is an organization that is owned by tea farmers. every week we sell this tea, we get paid in multiple accounts. we were looking for a bank to provide a safe and efficient technology platform to pay our farmers. citi was the only one that was able to ensure that this was done seamlessly. and today, at the touch of a button, all the farmers are ab

russian economy was a basket case at that point the life expectancy for russian men dropped from sixty six to fifty seven to get into third world standards russia's economy from the soviet days to two thousand russian economy dropped to the size of the netherlands and since then we've had a resurgence as some of that is because of the increase in oil and gas prices but a lot of it is because of healthy economic recovery that needs to go further needs to have more diversification more development but putin gets a lot of the credit for that and he also gets the credit for restoring national pride one of the things he mentioned in his speech today was a national pride and i see that my russian friends and colleagues russia was a minor player on the world scene back in two thousand it was through with nuclear weapons that it has undergone a huge transformation hasn't it i mean i lived in america before coming here i've been in russia now ten years it is it's phenomenal to see the transformation that has happened not just across russia but particularly here in central moscow. gratian speech

are you a russian spy now you know russian spies. ellen the generous knows what's up we need lists so i've put together a quick one to start things off this is a list of american stars who recently been to russia they held. and did business it's time to wake up russian agents everywhere the president the republicans hollywood your neighbor your friends maybe probably even you well there are some suspect links and turkey's hierarchy too it seems here is the foreign minister showing some impressive russian skills and we both russia. is a syria. to syria. or to incur syria through. torture torture or to produce. more of the news making our headlines this week over eleven hundred people reportedly injured in gas on friday as israeli soldiers used tear gas and live ammunition against anti occupation demonstrators the rally was the latest in the gazans six week old great march of return campaign in which dozens of protesters have lost their lives. i think that it might. get. inspired by ideas like mine. people are actually crossing the str

they surprised the russian -- basic prized the right -- they surprised the russians. i think they sent a real signal that the international community is not going to accept best -- this. they have a very clear exit pass. you change this policy, they go away. thing ton important break off. -- it didons imposed not stop the russians from doing other foreign-policy activities. this is important for the next piece of this. we now have sanctions that are linked to interference and a new set of sanctions that are linked to russia being russia. it is syria, ukraine, more ripal.erence, it is sk russians, individual russians, and firms. this perception in russia is that the sanctions are forever and there is not an exit path. believe that these new us to sanctions will not be lifted. the prussianeeping on by escalation is not a smart move and less you make it clear -- this is why keeping the pressure on by escalation is not a smart move. is,e russia approaches this they will keep up the pressure and we will counter with no pressure. there is no way out of this so why would we

rich russians, and not just russians, but rich people from all over the world do exactly what you're talking about. they come to america for, you know, sometimes just a few weeks, few months, give birth here, and as a result of that, their children become american citizenin citizens. and i think some greater regulation of that practice is in order. >> sherry is in louisiana, republican, go ahead. >> caller: yes, i grew up a democrat but switched recently. i'm just wondering, there are thousands of stories that i've read over the last year about the collusion on the election. which basically it seems to me amounts to memes on face bob bod a couple of poorly protected passwords. but what i have been reading is that the russians have been trying to undermine our energy development, and in the uk with the whole anti-fracking movement. they funded this -- i don't know, this one group, i think it was -- i can't remember what the name, but they will give money to green peace. what i can't understand is why that doesn't get any attention from the media, or even the previous administration an

for his pro russian views a moving one to share a method a russian ukrainian gymnast who was killed in two thousand and sixteen not by the russians but by a bomb detonated by ukrainian security services and in two thousand and seventeen then the spot on and cough the former russian deputy was killed but was russia behind this night was closer to home his wife's ex-boyfriend would it the killing now. they can't police have ruled out suicide but now the russian investigative committee have opened up their own investigation and have aged authorities to look closely into the matter and assess the value watching r.t. more news continues. to make its manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the fine merry go round if. we can all middle of the room see. what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to be right. this is what. real people. understand why. they should. welcome back now donald trump has repeatedly called the investigation into alleged collusion with russia

fighting the russian people. there needs to be raising awareness of kleptocracy in russia, , and one policy which u think could be very effective with the consolidating frozen assets from russian organized crime are russian kleptocracy into the sons of the people which would be clearly visible online and which could sort of sit there and tell a tiny which russia has sort of return to the rule of law. it needs to be, a needs debate extremely clear that law enforcement is working to save on the benefit for the russian people. on a closing remark about raising awareness in russia is the importance of numbers. when you study the field or when you study how these issues are reported, there is a lack of concrete numbers. and one thing that the treasury and the relevant institutions can do is release figures about how much money they think is being stolen from russia and how much they believe this is costing the russian people to make people aware of these the gigantic costs. i would like to once again thank our panelis

officials from russians. whether or not they were using russians, that is using persons to try and hide perhaps, money that was going into the trump world. that we have reported on. and also it's important to know that no one is really from the company at this point is explaining this columbus nova as to what these payments were about. they're arguing that perhaps, vekselberg is not the direct owner, he has no say. up to this point, they haven't explained -- neither have anyone from cohen side -- where this money was going or what was the purpose of the money going into essentially a hush account set up by michael kcohen to pay hus money to stormy daniels. still no explanation for that. >> where does things stand, kara with the criminal investigation of the southern district of new york? >> we know prosecutors there are looking into cohen's dealings. a judge in that case has set up a master to review documents seized in cohen's office and hotel room. the judge has this special master looking for what might be

for his pro russian views and moving on to share a method a russian ukrainian gymnast who was killed in two thousand and sixteen not by the russians but by a bomb detonated by ukrainian ak security services and in two thousand and seventeen then a spot on and cough the former russian deputy was killed but was russia behind this night was closer to home his wife's ex-boyfriend would hit the killing now back to . the campus police have ruled out suicide but now the russian investigative committee have opened up their own investigation and have edged authorities to look closely into the matter. and she said the reporting that you watching r.t. will have to see. anyone else seem wrong on all blogs just don't call. me. yet to see how it just didn't come out to. engage me because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. apply to many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the shaper money just kill the n

ministers who are in minnesota cult of the russian federation. minister the minister of culture france france who asked me sell but it's only words have signed to a declaration of intent between the ministry of culture the russian federation and the ministry of culture france which is to be one day corporation with regards to cultural legacy. if. you're an idiot the subject a general of the state corporation prosecute him but alex the church for me is broken administrated general that was the french alternative energies and atomic energy commission france so i was shocked you could have signed a strategic talk you meant. on the russian fringe partnership on the peaceful use of nuclear energy. but it's you that you'll probably hear the chairman of nova tech but their need me to assign you and the chairman of the board of directors of the total patrik boy on it and it's a question that signed the agreement with regards to the participation of the total . market in active l.n.g. to. be your only get better ratio of director general of the russian di

they surprised the russians, the russians are surprised both by the strength of the sanctions and by the fact that the european and the americans had things put on them and it sends a real signal the international community is not going to accept this. and they also have sanctions that have a very clear exit path, you change this policy, it goes away, so i think that's an important -- that's an important thing to kind of break off. the sanctions that are imposed -- it didn't stop the russians from doing other foreign policy activities, right, and i think this is important for the next piece of this because we now have functions that are linked to interference and russia being russia. it's syria, it's ukraine, it's more interference, it's everything and there's sanctions that are imposed on russian government officials, on individual russians, on russian firms, and i think this perceives that they are familiar, and it makes them mean that the most sanctions are going to be lifted, and i think that's an interesting game here and this is why just putting pressure, and it's not a smart d

russian presence. he said, i am worried about the western balkans of a potential area of russian influence. everything we talked about, sanctions, deterrence, a lot of economic and military support. serbia, elsewhere you can see a , scenario as serbia moves through its eu process similar to ukraine. are there things we should worry about? if we have not deterred fully, bere was the logical place where russia would think about challenging the west, but at very low cost? >> it is challenging. challenging, and turkey is challenging at very low cost. it is wherever the west and the united states and nato are not sure of their interest, there is room for russia. i think a valid question to ask is how interested are we at fighting the russians? -- the russians see a change in global order. my guess is that they are right. the russians are trying to grab at what they can before it solidifies into what ever the new form is. the turks are playing that game as well. they are trying to figure out what is possible

they surprised the russians. ruggens were surprised both by the strength of the sanctions and by the nakt that the europeans an americans were in lock step on them. i think they send a signal the international community is not going to accept this. they also impart sanctions that have a clear exit path. you change this policy. you implement mines k, they go away. that's an important thing to kind of break off. the sanctions imposed on interference, didn't stop the russians doing other foreign policy activities, right? i think this is an important for the next piece of this because we've now got sanctions that are linked to interference. and we have a new set of sanctions which are linked to russia being russia. it's syria, more interference. everything and there are sanctions imposed on russian government officials, individual russians. russian firms. i think this feeds a perception in russia that sanctions are forever. not to believe that the minsk sanctions are going to be lifted if they're fulfilled. this is w

meeting with the russian lawyer who now admits to be a russian informant. he took that meeting on the promise of getting dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government and don't forget then-campaign chairman paul manafort was in that meeting and so was the president's son-in-law jared kushner. >> the senate committee published hundreds of pages of these interviews with this exchange that was put out after the trump tower meeting by the white house at the time, quote, the washington post has reported that your father was involved in drafting the july 8th statement. is that correct? >> the response of donald trump jr. was, i don't know. i never spoke to my father about it, but if you look at the exchange even further it notes he may have commented. his father was involved in the drafting of that statement. let's bring in shimon prokupecz in washington with what you are seeing there, shimon. >> that's right, john. certainly in reading what don junior has testified to, you know, it's pretty lengthy in terms of the sheer number of pages of transcripts here,

are you accusing the russian government or just russians? >> speaking about may 17th, it is well known that it is a russian military authority -- >> i'm talking about this plot. i'm talking about the babchenko plot. >> in this case, in this babchenko case, now we are on investigation stage. now we're speaking with our citizens who were an organizer of these possible murders. and it depends whose offices he will -- >> stand by mr. prosecutor general, i want to turn to mr. arkady ostrovsky in our studio. you are the russian editor for "the economist." what do you think of this? >> i think it's sad. good news arkady babchenko is alive. but it shows the disdain disregard of truth and reality that we've seen in russia's actions and it's now more infectious. it's penetrating ukraine as well. this is absurd dy becoming reality maybe. this is not out of a plot of a thriller. this is out of plot of george orwell. you know, staging an operation, declaring somebody is dead who is not, this is fake news. and there's no two ways about it. i'm unconvinced

russian companies were able to borrow. russian companies were able to selleck wit in the financial markets. -- sell equity in the financial markets. so i do not believe there is any significant effect. few months ago, the biggest -- matt: this year. sergey: yeah. the biggest effect is one of the two biggest aluminum producers in the world, russian company, were included in the sanctions list. it was sanctioned heavily. american persons, individuals, companies, banks were in one d to trade and month, the output was stable but not able to sell any of it. cargo aluminum in russia declined by 70%. in fact, increasing their stockpiles, the company is increasing their stockpiles and we understand that is not a long-term solution. you cannot increase your stocks forever. but it may cause, of course, problems for the aluminum industry and for the owner of this company,russian oligarchs, and -- but i - and there was a statement. i wonder, was he a target of sanctions? i do not understand. ok. i don't want to support, to protect him

says its second fleet will counter what it calls russian aggression but moscow says the situation very differently in one thousand nine hundred ninety the soviet union was given assurances by western countries that nato would not be enlarged beyond their reunited germany but those promises were quickly forgotten and between then and now the north atlantic treaty organization continued expanding eastward adding thirteen. more members as it carried out major military interventions in the balkans of his stand libya and beyond no wonder then that u.s. plans to deliver patriot missile shield to pull and have been interpreted in moscow as part of a plot to surround russia let's now bring in our guests joining us from london olivier geta managing director of global strat a geopolitical risk and security consultancy firm in moscow dimitri babich a political analyst at russia profile magazine and in washington d.c. lawrence korb former u.s. as says that secretary of defense gentlemen welcome to the program mr korb let me start with you so we don't assume now that the thinking in washington is t

president of the russian federation. so again it's georgia school. because it was a problem that got the order to it was that of. course all of that you have is the view of this particular you say this is like let's see your interior of the. scene along with the soon georges where we are more after the constitutional or. the emblem of the president. or includes the stampa. and so that's the. slogan of the order of benefits foreigner chlorine is that you look at your spirit and still it would say first because it was talked about a constitution that sequence or station the emblem of caesar was stored in the senate the building of the kremlin has now is being brought into the grand palace so first you have sent georges hall then sent and xander and ask and then send andrew school. just to excel is easy i'll see sanitizer nasties all right now and then we have san andreas school buddies and let's talk about the people who are operating more sense andrus will we have the presidential history how they can point to acquire these solutions it would be even

a russian w.b. a champion of it. and a russian pulp stuff. show you how and why the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction of when you need to transport. that will help the cause of crimea the cost of most all those while google more familiar quite a bit by trill. we have to judge countries are friends and leaders at the rectory it's case per case so we need more objective but the reality is. you know media tries to get the facts but also leave. their worldview so this is where social media and direct communication comes in unfortunately it's sometimes called fake news or sometimes yes but it's sometimes actually a different worldview not they just fake news by powerful people. based on color will show has been looking enough to travel to many of the thirteen countries that have qualified for the faithful world called but it is one that stands out above all five times world champions welcome to brazil. itself in christ the redeemer looking out of a beautiful rio de janeiro to one of the world's most iconic stallions the american

russian ambassador told adlai stevenson he would like him to visit the russian embassy because russia had gifts for him. so adlai stevenson flew to washington to meet with the russian ambassador. he says they gave him wine. he says they fed him fruit and russian caviar. but it wasn't just gifts. they actually wanted to make him a pitch for much more. the russian ambassador at that meeting ended up reading adlai stevenson a letter from moscow. quote, we are concerned -- we are concerned with the future and that america has the right president. when we compare all the possible presidential candidates in the united states, we feel that mr. stevenson is best for mutual understanding and progress towards peace. these are the views not only of nikita khrushchev but of the presid yum in russia, the party hierarchy. we in our heart all favor him and ask him which way would could be of assistance to those forces in the united states which favor friendly relations. how? should the frese praise him? should it criticize him? and if for what. mr. stevenson will know best what would help him. janua

the allegations as on two russian propaganda. nick colony he is in the ukrainian capital kiev nic as he had russia has categorically denied its involved in this mudda but we also have a ukraine korean foreign minister that came in case fits into what he called a russian pattern what do you mean by that. that off never to well he points to a series of unexplained and suspicious deaths or attempted killings of. opponents of the russian government abroad most notably of see in recent months the script case in the united kingdom and says that this all amounts to a pattern of intimidation and attack on people who have pulled out with those in power in moscow and russia is not shy of using any methods to destabilize to. neutralize the people it sees its opponents and also to destabilize ukraine and what impact that nick will this law to have one other russian dissidents living in ukraine. well many of them are extremely concerned you hear stories of people moving house and regular basis constant changing phone numbers all in the hope t

down the plane now the russian side they say. that. they to be where the question where this misallocating came from in fact actually accused the ukrainian side of having passed it over to the investigators but we look at the missile casing itself it gives us a lot more clues about where it may have come from now what we do know about it is that the casing shown is a casing for a book ninety nine m. three eight or its variants. this was the one that was alleged to have shot down m.h. seventeen it was made in the moscow region in one thousand nine hundred eighty six now if we look at the russian arsenal that they have all of those missiles that were made in one thousand nine hundred six decommissioned in two thousand and eleven this particular missile has a shelf life of fifteen years and then can be extended by ten years more maximum these missiles however have been wouldn't of been used by the russian side are still in operation in ukraine and the latest bit of m.h. seventy news that we've had as been on friday morning where the belli

are you a russian spy now. russian spies. ellen de generous knows what's up we need lists so i've put together a quick one to start things off this is a list of american stars who recently been to russia they held. and did business it's time to wake up russian agents everywhere the president republicans hollywood your neighbor your friends maybe probably even you. are special day in the russian calendar is fast approaching as the country prepares to celebrate victory day on may ninth marking the seventy third anniversary of the soviet union's victory of a nazi germany every year the traditional parade is a prominent part of the celebration the final rehearsal for it is scheduled this sunday and over one hundred fifty pieces of military hardware have been on the move towards red square since early this morning. and soviet war veterans are being remembered around the world to head of the victory day celebrations and you most will regiment's munches give people the chance to honor that family members who made the ultimate sacrif

it doesn't sound russian and. say. i'm still have the right look and that is national of course because you know it's it's in the in the vienna convention and in sixty three and the person should say meet this person that and we want to see him because for the put to do it nobody saw the pictures nobody heard their voices nobody saw whether they are life or not we don't know that's why it's under the there's under the can be in the convention we should be sure that the person is . it live he's all right well she's all right and say for example i don't need your services it's wired with us so in this case we'll close the story but for the time being we don't have access so that's the problem. so. far as a national or international law he's supposed to say that i don't want your services personally and we want to see him person of the consular. diplomat should. be is that witness that the person is all right is in the put mental health he is not under the pressure then we make our conclusions and that's it and nothing. l

the russian future the . policies of protecting over the to tell a tarion regimes is not a policy which means the interest of russian people at all so. the money and the people's lives which are spent for the purposes is not giving any positive fruits of fruitful results for my country so this policy is a wrong policy. the same i can say about the policy with ukraine with the eastern ukraine with them boss all this is a bringing russia to the dead end thank you very much thank you. that was linsky talking. in moscow that when i bring you some news coming out of the continent off africa and the world health organization says the democratic republic of congo is facing a very high public health risk from at the same time across the country to the east decades of conflict or vitro of natural resources has left a legacy of poverty and trauma the people living their labor in mines to extract copper gold and diamonds and they often become targets of militants fighting over the riches we have this report for you. thi

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the journalists criticize ukraine for staging the muddle russian open. journalist. a new artificial intelligence tool could possibly predict if a protest is going to turn violent by analyzing social media activity. that you feel as opposed to winning the heart of the things we. put in an exclusive interview with syrian president bashar assad that insists that damascus would never have used chemical weapons against its own people and claims that there is in fact and there ever was a civil war in syria. a worldwide news headlines live from moscow this is international from all of us here a very warm welcome to here. the russian foreign minister has met with north korean leader kim jong un as pyongyang prepares for a potentially historic currently in doubt peace summit with south korea and the united states so he laughed it off said the peace process remains fragile the us is regarding sanctions it's completely obvious that when we start talking about the nuclear issue other issues on the korean peninsula it's with the understanding that nothing can happen with sanctio

intrater, who is the cousin of the russian oligarch, who is also russian, obviously. mr. intrater is. and, look, what's the explanation for the $500,000 worth of payments? michael cohen should not have been accepting money, especially under the circumstances at this time from anyone with russian ties, quite frankly. >> this american company, they gave money for the -- for the inauguration funds. they also gave money, i believe, for -- to the rnc and to -- for some campaign stuff. all of which is legal. at the very least, there may be no nefarious reason here at all that this company would have given $500,000 to michael cohen. they could have been hiring him for any number of consulting work. >> for what? his legal skill and acumen? i doubt that. >> well, you know, he does have the ear of the president. so a company might want -- but at the very least, it is moronic for michael cohen, who is representing the president of the united states, to be publicly seen as accepting money from a company which has such deep ties to a russian company with ties to vladimir putin. >> and

held this year where also the russian season. that's a program that will be launched this year but also have done meetings think petersburg dialogue and the german russian forum were also discussed about key issues of international agenda change opinions on the situation. around the iranian nuclear deal are true the united withdrawal by the us. change opinions. in the middle east. certainly discussed the. syria crisis. we both believe that we need. to promote the political process including of the geneva platforms need to work together to stabilize the situation on the ground and continue to provide humanitarian aid to the people of syria we praise germany is. ready to take part in restoring economic. physical infrastructure in syria but any must be rendered. in approval with illegitimate authorities we also talked about ukraine the minsk accords are the only two could be used to resolve the crisis and will continue working as part of the normandy for group who are also continue to. provide us support for the minsk contact group.

another tragedy last night russian journalist. was shot in his own home creamer prime minister reduces that was carried out by the russian security services the investigation hasn't even started yet and. now the russian foreign ministry is also pointed out a number of alarming cases of violence against journalists in ukraine and that's cost of mind back to some of these festival as well as enough was a ukrainian journalist who died in two thousand and fifteen and russia was immediately blamed for the death but he was killed by ultra right activists for his pro russian views also it was sharing a russian ukrainian journalist who was killed in two thousand and sixteen not by the russians though but by a bomb detonated by ukrainian execute it is said that this phone and call of the former russian deputy was killed in two thousand and seventeen and russia was immediately being quick to blame but he was killed by his wife ex-boyfriend who ordered the killing now can't police have ruled out suicide completely but have opened up the crim

russian state t.v. broadcast his long walk through the corridors of his office on his way to the ceremony. eventually he right at the car waiting to take him on a short trip to the kremlin hole. then the grand entrance. and the war continued. all choreographed to maintain the suspense some five thousand invited guests waited for putin to be sworn in but the us is just feeling it but is it that i see is busy does putin promise for tech the country and serve the russian people. he praised russia's return to the world today which is what he calls a strong and influential voice when he talks about the importance of making economic and technological progress to benefit only russians like. a new quality of life a wellbeing security and health of a person are the most important. these are the issues at the center of our policy focus is russia for the people as a country of opportunities for self-realization of everyone. that all the build up them bombast few believe mr putin's next term in office will bring mu

russian. well you know the best way for television is actually to hold it up to the camera and you write it down first so i hope ont can she write it down like up here now. ok so a three billion dollar sable trail pipeline designed to carry natural gas to the state of florida from alabama there were some protests against the december twenty sixth thing and mcclatchy news has kind of looked into the d.n.i. report and determined that actually it was because r.t.d. covered that and they mention r t but because there were some russian trolls they say on twitter that inflamed the protests the florida people themselves have no agency they do selves couldn't possibly ever think that well i don't want to pipeline. and outside my house no forget that obviously stupid people like dog floridians don't have agency just look at the news any all the news of the weird comes from florida but russia's hidden hand in the florida pipeline protests was extensive according to sources familiar with the operations a

before this big reveal that showed that actually botching co wasn't dead after all russians russian politicians were saying that ukraine was kind of a failed state that it couldn't protect its journalists and now the foreign ministry spokesperson in a facebook post lot late last night said that ukraine now has really shown its true face and that the west has to wake up to the reality that that it's just a dream that ukrainian democracy can be a success so ukraine has really kind of lost its legitimacy over this whole this whole ruse on the international stage and it seems that russia certainly knows that and is willing to use that going forward i'm only sure when and moscow and christian turbot joining us here in the studio thank you so much to both of you for helping us try and make a little bit of sense out of all this we appreciate it. and now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world banished m.p.'s are debating whether or not to keep prime minister of oil in power and no confidence vote was called after a horse conservative party