yeltsin years that we couldn't get but russia phobia russia was allowing the u.s. to do what it wanted but now that russia is effectively blocking united states plans for global domination basically then it's back to russia phobia in full force mc lyte one of the interesting things and you wrote an article that i was quite brilliant it was last summer i think about values in and a lot of neo cons and all you across the board will say well russia the united states' own suit share the same values and a lot of people but i've been in russia for seventeen years so i think i have a right to say what i understand about russian a lot of russians don't want western values and all but look at your own vision and say that it's not for us there is a gap but it's not because the of the west particularly americans think that you know there are still so superior lot of people here say i'll pass on that. one thing that people often overlook is the fact that there is a wide array of values both in russia and the west so it would be incorrect to say that the values for example of a

where does russia and we're attitudes about russia come from in the west because obviously you know you can just open up a newspaper or magazine go to a website or a television in the west and well russia has to say the very least a bad name. one can hardly answer that question without first turning to your professor former professor martin the lead is a must book about russian western perceptions of russia that's really the first place to start i think the late press professor did an outstanding job in explaining the cultural context the only thing. and historical context the essential point is i take it from his book that whenever russia is strong attitudes against it are especially strong as well in europe the only time russia is viewed favorably in the west is when it is relatively weak the only thing that i might add to his discussion which i think deserves particular attention is the importance of the religious differences between the western and eastern branches of christianity which have been a sore spot for the past thousand odd years fly to me here in moscow you you were born

ching an agreement with russia so that russia did as those conditions say retained its overall influence over the ukraine although it allowed to do a whole ton of those things like trading and like that even internationally and would russia but the overall sphere of influence would be back with mother russia and that's what i think it will end up as but if. you crane and western ukraine was able to negotiate within those parameters i think you would have peace in the ukraine and i think you would have president obama only too willing to agree and get out of there and save the embarrassment and get rid of the sanctions which are harming particularly germany and european union and of course threatening the stability of nato so they would be very clean to came to find a way out and that would offer a way out mr brown that you just mentioned president obama and obviously we have midterm elections coming up in the united states which will at least an official i guess kick off a new presidential campaign and i wonder if president obama can really really use this chance to turn these. policy cr

of view russia is. has its own interests is a normal state it's not going to invade and so on and you may not like what it's doing and so on and it's very rich natural resources and so on but china you should be looking at china and so on and china is going to compete with you in the future ok i want to get the last word tonight in washington it seems to me that everything negative the west sees in russia it's the west is actually it's a self reflection of itself it quick claims that russia is aggressive it's the west it's truly aggressive it doesn't live by it value its values it breaks international law repeatedly and it just points a finger go ahead twenty seconds. it's a classical propaganda ploy it's called flipping the script you accuse the other guy of what you yourself intend to do and then the other guy goes on the defensive and he can never win that the russian neither to russians nor the chinese nor anybody else is trying to conquer or take over or dominate the world the people that are tryin

sanctions against russia and obviously russia retaliated and they say. confrontational rhetoric goes on and on what do you think about sanctions isn't it a way of holding economy and business hostage to politics. sanctions are better than war. over say. they're obviously. it's not it's they're not great but i mean sanctions are definitely better than conflict and definitely better than killing people and you know it's you know if we can you know if you know from the west point of view. is that. the. treasure sanctions will stop an invasion of east ukraine. and you know if it's russia did invade east ukraine i mean i don't think the west or russia would try to get electrocuted for twenty or thirty years i mean it's you know it's it's. there's no easy easy easy right or wrong but it definitely is something is better than complete well i agree with you that sanctions are better than call thing but on the other hand as somebody somebody who was born in the soviet union during the years of planned economy we were we've been always told about the benefits of f

stay out of russia and sees this war on russia. this war on russia. you have to realize it is not what you think you are doing and what you say you are doing and what your intentions are that the fine for us our security interests. only we can define them. you say nato enlargement is not a threat. you say deployment of anti-middle school -- antimissile systems on our is not a problem for us. thirdly, the international order. was perfectlyin happy that the united states would be the leader of the international order. let them make the rules. you can definitely enforce the rules. you are welcome to be the policeman. there are only two criteria or two qualifications to that. we have no problem as long as there is no blowback to russia. we will have the right to veto actions that would be regarded as threatening to us. order.rs a rules-based everybody should go away the rules -- obey the rules except when he decides it's in his interest to not obey the rules heard he says, that is what the u.s. does. that is making it very simple and making it very crude.

and russia the e.u. didn't want to hear about it now all of a sudden they're considering it they're bringing back on the table and now also merkel old merkel and suddenly remembered that there is the possibility of having a federation and ukraine after the i think russians and ukraine have come under a massive bombardment after there's an incredible hate campaign against them both by the media and among politicians coming from politicians incredible hate speech which would not be acceptable and if western audience would actually be aware of the degree of racism involved i think they would be quite shocked and many. i've heard stories from friends in donetsk how many soldiers ukrainian soldiers have told them we came here because our government promised us that we're going to get you home and we capture this area and we will subjugate you and you will be a slave and now after this i'm going to america decided that federation is a good idea ok let me go to a middle ground really running out of time here jo

of industries would they even want from russia russia is interested in selling industrial goods machinery all you guys equipment to iraq and even agricultural goods as washing green would find a market in the wrong as well and let's not forget that worse than businesses are waiting for a call from i say from their politicians here because they want to throw it so much with iran and well but of course that question depends on whether the west and iran would strike a deal on iran's nuclear program is all that's what are we are waiting for and it's being negotiated out with the russian army and yes sure sure but russia now is moving beforehand and trying to secure a share in their on their markets and they sank you so much indeed for filling us in on all the details there very interesting stuff because it seems at the moment you've got the sanctions against the norms sanctions that we know september the night intend russia's going to rob potentially still this deal so we're waiting to see what happens there will we get a backlash from the u.s. if they do so we'll get back in to talk about th

russia. russia's lost as result of sanctions, harley a tasty woman. might be 1-b. this would increed. but this response of moving him gave a below for 10. e.u. e russian trade with is 15000. only elect table fish this. all the things beat them show. >> i toik like them said -- it is television. finnish prime minister are complaining that they're fwining to stop going. after him on the russian sell ision appearsed yol william. think said honestly blood is everywhere. and said that jen is very economy. the growth in europe is no becoming lower and hay are in trouble. russia is one of the biggest consumer in market if not the biggest in the area. first or second. i don't know. money? ink is the if you can't punish this kind tri. t's not of course -- it's very interesting. i would like to say a couple of words about the words and phrases used by american olitics. >> we've passed 10 minutes. > i'm coming underway. the curn russia, leaders they have another culture. if even they are very unhappy with american policy. they never became personal. they never used condescend

all he was also another criminal that had to leave russia because he wanted to escape persecution when i was hiding out in israel you know what's interesting is he owns about seventy percent of the stake of his holding company that was awarded the quote unquote. as of this fifty one billion dollars an unfortunate a lot of people are under the false assumption that this money is going to be going to mom and pop investors where frankly it's not the case going on this one all garko and about seventy percent of the holding and the other thirty percent is own largely by about four other all darks they're all russian of russian nationality says rich people they're going to get even richer and actually actually to make it even worse let's just say they get this money hope it hypothetically is going to be laundered right back into politics is going to come right into the russian federation and sure i would imagine the offshore but also there is a project to try to instigate a color revolution here although i think it's very unlikely the fact is if you give us type of money being invested towar

new tack on russia this is an attack on germany especially sanctions on russia the u.s. is hasta our guard are very harmful to germany so there is this is going to cause unrest and discontent around the world and it's going to cause more rivalry and more tension and it's unfortunate russia has no choice they have to respond to this attack and economic warfare from united states i can't understand should i mean we are only just getting initial details of these russian sanctions but i mean by comparison the western ones they were attacking financial institutions major banks russian airlines well what we're getting so far from russia would talking about mate imports and vegetable imports i mean to me it doesn't say what we're even talking about the same kind of extent to d.c. this is retaliation do you see them as as considerable sanctions. i think russia has to do something it's clear russia has to do something now and it if it if it be imaginative you know someone putting someone against a wall and granting them at some point they're going to have to push back on whether

security council meeting was called upon where western members pushed to hold russia responsible russia stop this conflict at least two thousand two hundred twenty people including twenty three children have died in the conflict in eastern ukraine but we've never heard the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. call on key to stop bombing its own people in washington i'm going to r.t. . the foreign press. association in london has become the latest organization to call for the release of a russian journalist who's been missing in ukraine for more than three weeks now it said understanding must be released if he's being held by security forces stressing that all media should be allowed to cover the ukrainian conflict freely and without harassment for the correspondent stan then disappeared in eastern ukraine on august the fifth as he was following the violence they have maintained that has no knowledge of his whereabouts. herder the threat of sanctions are once again in the air as the white house promises new economic restrictions against russia but come any factories are getting about possible emb

consider halting russia's energy transfer to europe. israel and the palestinians agree to another seventy two hour ceasefire talks in egypt. violence has continued to. the same group. into the weekend here in our to. the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the minute as well i'm going to welcome our top story. surrounded the city of. the regional capital which was shelled all day on sunday. the wrestler scenes earlier in the week two apartment blocks in the city center suffered significant damage from constant bombardment look arrested and described the horrors of the deadly attacks. but wonders if you and says you i did not ride. i feel them into the photo work of road destruction have. given up looking. you know you know it was a national. poll. we did. government activists in the nets say they're ready for a ceasefire with kiev forces in order to prevent further civilian deaths just about every neighborhood in the city has been bombarded on the rafah electricity shortages not long ago donetsk was a completely differe

the separatist are trained by russia, they are armed by russia, they are funded by russia. russia has deliberately and repeatedly violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. and the new images of forces inside ukraine make that plain for the world to see. stopped just short of calling it an invasion. >> the world must provide an assessment of the sharp open collation of the assessment. forces are capable to tackle and to cope with the russian led drill las. but this is difficult for us to fight with rush are sha and it's army. >> the united nations met a few hours later to discuss options. >> we cannot ignore the deeply alarming reports of military involvement, in this noway of escalation. if confirmed it will constitute a great international law, and of the u.n. charter. >> ambassadors from the country and ukraine, plan an emergency meeting friday. and the european union plans to meet saturday to go over the possibility of further sanctions. we have made clear several times that if there were any further escalations more sanctions would have to be discus

as well as russia will react to these sanctions that russia has called out now thank you very much for your time your what. on our website r.t. dot com we're asking you about the effect of the latest sanctions that will have on both russia and the western countries let's take a look at our graph here now thirty three percent of you say voted about a third think all sides will be affected equally in almost the same number there thirty one percent say that the average e.u. and u.s. citizen will be hit the heart is just under twenty percent this see average russians will suffer the most and the smallest percentage as seventeen percent think the effect will barely notice as the economy is quickly adapt and compensate cast your vote at r.t. dot com we'd like to hear what you think. i glasses have erupted in central kiev between protesters and police the city center has been shrouded in black smoke as people burned tires police and special units who arrived at the scene managed to get the situation under control and it's really purchases attempted to attach officers and firefighters with pro

envoy blamed russia for the crisis moscow requested the meeting of the un security council with russia's envoy calling for a humanitarian mission in the situation there is catastrophic. artillery tanks as well as grad rockets have been used locals are saying phosphorus and cluster bombs are still being used there is indiscriminate shelling of housing blocks and critical civilian infrastructure in many small towns about eighty percent of houses have been destroyed according to the most conservative estimates more than six hundred buildings have been razed to the ground. a quarter of a million people are stuck in lugansk unable to leave getting out of the war zone is proving dangerous often fatal just take a look at this video from the region that appears to show a rocket presumably fired by a heavy missile launcher hitting a highway just in front of a car fortunately the driver survived here he says only though because the armor plated is vehicle i have i now officials in done yet which is another key antigovernment strong cold base a three civilians were killed there overnight as the out

brussels fights back know that russia's and e.u. food imports in response to sanctions european officials reportedly want to spoil moscow's plans now to get alternative supplies from latin america. tear gas and rubber bullets the u.s. police response to crowds demanding justice for the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a missouri cop. a little girl that survived eleven days in the siberian wilderness surrounded by walls of all thanks to a brave puppy to say. hello good evening my name is kevin when you watching r.t. international our top stories on this here's backtracked on its earlier statement that it had detained a russian photographer and ukraine understanding went missing in the country's east a week ago while his whereabouts remain unknown still kiev is apparently struggling to get its story straight now ukraine's deputy interior minister had confirmed earlier the journalist's arrest by the country's security forces in an interview with the latvian radio station adding that the thirty three year old photographer was cha

which is presumed to exist between russia and the west in the west but which russia does not see. we does have a real disconnect in terms of the reality of what is going on in russia and as a result of that disconnect a lot of positive information about the changes in russia is simply not taken into account which only exacerbates the differences parent differences. in fact if you wanted to overcome this crisis and to prevent such crisis from occurring in the future you would literally pursue the opposite policies from the ones that the west is pursuing instead of isolation you should try. people to people diplomacy instead of sanctions you would argue as people used to argue back in the one nine hundred seventy s. in the one nine hundred eighty s. that there should be expanded commercial ties because that conditions and makes both economies co dependent on each other and that would be the real solution to preventing unexpected political outcomes you know but a lot of i don't think we're going to see that because it's you know you either surrender or you know we're going to take yo

russia and it isn't working. i find it very interesting is that you know if there is it's a bind mary here you know when i look at the neo cons in the west and their control of foreign policy russia has a choice either. resists or it bows down if so menders and russia. will not bow down it will not surrender but there's never the third choice why don't we negotiate why don't we talk and this is this stonewalling that we have been seeing coming out of washington it's really horrific i mean and we've been using the example of ukraine year you know the russians before all this started having said to the european union why don't we work together all three all three parties work together let's find a solution it's part of the record no we will not negotiate with you it's under go chabot this is this mindset that i find very terrifying because you can't negotiate with these people though they say the russians you can't negotiate with it's again projecting. i think it gets back to the issue that i wrote about about the

they are armed by russia. they are funded by russia. russia has deliberately violated the integrity of ukraine. >> okay, the president's comments now in ukraine, let's turn to i.s.i.l., let's turn to i. s.i.s., and iraq and syria. the president says that in a threat assessment, that isil, is a threat, to iraq, and that's clear now, at this point, and also the entire reare john, and that he is sending secretary kerry back to the region to work with regional players. >> that's right. and there are a couple of different things in play. talking about the formation of a government, and how the state could jeopardize that. that's different than what we have heard from members of his team, top defense official whose say the state is a threat far beyond iraq. far beyond syria's borders it is a threat to people in the united states, frankly. >> yes. >> so we see the president talking about it, in context of iraq, but not giving any indication at this point, if he is going to move to deal with the bigger question of the islamic state and the thre

is now pushing for more sanctions against russia. sweden or finland to bring deep to join nato that would provoke some sort of free action on the part of russia is this a fly as far as the military calculus is concerned not what faces humanity east or west north and south none of it can be solved by military means or crafts or satellites or nuclear weapons military is outdated it should go like cannibalism and slavery and child labor it doesn't belong to civilization to kill each other. killing weaker though in. my. case it was true it's good it's good consensus get to. choose the opinions that degrade to. choose the stories could you please choose p.x. . to. thanks for joining us it's on sea international the european union is threatening even more sanctions against russia as it puts the blame for the violence in ukraine squarely on the kremlin and even urged other countries outside the e.u. to stop cooperating with moscow however even inside europe the unity of a punitive measures certainly appears to be cheering for example slovak

russia. this is re-creating a view of what russia is, what russian identity is, and how it relates to russia's great power role. and this is russia the third version. and that's why i thought he wrote the op-ed that he did. it was a kind of manifesto for a russian future that he feels. just to close, a good friend of mine, a russian, said, "you americans with your support for democracy and your national endowment for democracy, you won't be satisfied until russia is back among the borders of the dutch." think about that. it means for those particular people, the russian empire, russian expansion, and russian identity are solid. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] we visit the atlanta press club for the future of news and take a history tour looking at the civil war. c-span prime time at 8:00 p.m. eastern. what us know what to think about the programs you are watching. call us or e-mail us. join the c-span conversatio

so that exchange of sanctions between the west and russia makes european businesses look for compensation for multibillion dollar losses they now facing. after a few days silence on the role of arms returns to gaza as a ceasefire between hamas and israel and with palestinian civilians finding themselves in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe. the u.s. returns to iraq as president obama also rises east strikes against the hardest militants in the north of a country with washington now having to fight the same group its supporters in syria. to bad lines of the week and off today welcome to the weekly arching international with me tongue would say first the heavy armor is a moving to was done yet to as the ukrainian army prepares to use its full force on the city now that it hasn't been shelled and bombed extensively already. none of that i distrust of the popular blogs arrives in the city center where attached in a week of assaults more than a dozen people were killed and a loan. officer the media the photo work of roads and should have. given up looking. for you here was a much more.

when russia had dollars it could couldn't put them in u.s. banks because it would afraid that the banks to grab its money like it grabbed iran's money so they put them in london banks and that created the euro dollar market strengthening the dollar and in one nine hundred seventy one the u.s. dollar was forced off gold as you often discussed on this show but what happened was that there still wasn't an alternative to the dollar so central banks only had one thing to carry u.s. treasury bonds so it was central banks that funded the balance of payments deficit that really was the military deficit well for the first time now there is an alternative the u.s. is not the only person country that can create money russia china the brics found they can create electronic money in ious just like us and they're very quickly forcing other countries not to use the dollar and just to help out russia judge greece a here in new york has blocked argentina from up paying its creditors so that foreign sovereign debtors no kennedy issued dollar bombs because if t

that's not the case with russia and i think russia has made very clear that it will retaliate in a proportionate manner with european culture set to bear the brunt of the import ban e.u. leaders that backed sanctions against russia look likely to face farmers and export is demanding compensation for their losses there's no money and it's going to affect us all for us it will take two or three months to collect all remaining crops of oranges and we don't know what will happen if no one buys them from the national put it it's a disaster for my company will need to stop production the money will receive without imports to russia won't even be enough to pay for the buses that bring our staff to work. i don't know what we're going to do if this continues. being threatened in our region we have dedicated to good part of our produce to this market and so this is very dramatic force and european food exports to russia were worth over twelve billion euros last year it's a win year and then land with the first to contact brussels about compensation some estimates suggest the ban could cost the finnish eco

it was a shared interest in russia. it was one individual who brought them both to that shared interest. if you could start and madeleine will finish. >> absolutely. thank you all for joining us here and thank you, nick for this conversation. i want to echo thanks to bob and walter who pull off a extraordinary conversation. in a wonderful and simple way. well, i was, not to put too fine a point on it, but i was a piano major in college. i was supposed to be a great pianist. i started playing at the age of three. i came here as a 17-year-old rising junior at the university of denver to go to the aspen music festival school. i met here, 12 year olds who laid from site what it took me all your to learn. i thought, find another profession. i went back to denver. fortunately, i wandered into a course of international politics taught by a soviet expert and a great diplomat. it was joseph korbel that stimulated my interest in things international and things russian and interest and a diplomatic history. and he convinced me tha

in ukraine and russia. now this is a video we've received from near done yet some of which is graphic up to fifteen ukrainian troops who were reportedly killed after their bus was attacked by local militia some media suggest those on the vehicle were fighters from the radical right sector is thought the bus mistakenly arrived at an anti government checkpoint after being sent to the wrong location. here sending mixed messages about the whereabouts of missing journalist a russian journalist understanding as international pressure grows for his release officials originally denied detaining the photographer but here's what an advisor to kiev's interior minister told a lobby in a radio station. to warn them russian men who will be looked after on tangata shameka added that andre is being held because he's suspected of aiding terrorists when his employer the ria novosti news agency asked for a comment the ukrainian official made quite a u. turn. he said the poor football of course if you're on the horse is part o

as russia and the west continue to drift apart into a new cold war russia's worldview of international politics is largely neglected in western media and in the halls of power russia will defend its national interest and also house its own red lines. do we speak your language of the will or not advance. toward me. news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news. stories. you hear. the story all te spanish find out more visit. talk partido it's called. welcome back to worlds apart and we're discussing the conflict in ukraine with richard branson sir richard it's been more than a month since the malaysian airlines plane was downed in your crane and i'm sure you were horrified like the rest of us by this incident especially given your legacy in the airline industry and yet more than a month later no data on the investigation has been released you know the communications between ukrainian flight controllers haven't been released either and this is a very difficult question because obviously it's a highly charged political issue and you know releasing some of t

. >> the separatists are trained by russia, armed by russia, funded by russia. state fighters are accused of further atrocities in syria or the white house makes iraqear that stabilizing is america's priority now. the sheep finally got a haircut but the coat was just short of the world record. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. president obama said that new images of russian tanks have entered ukraine and that moscow is responsible for the violence. a thousand russian troops are operating inside the country which russia denies. separatists have opened a new front in the southeast of the ukraine. >> a ukrainian soldier warns his colleagues a sniper threatened. they were pushing back against the separatists in eastern ukraine but the victory looks possible being forced out of some areas amid claims russia has sent massive reinforcements. with theian forces guerrilla, but it is quite difficult for us. >> nato has released aerial pictures that they say show russian armor inside the ukraine. only the tip of the iceberg s

in ukraine and russia. every day more harrowing video emerges from the conflict this one for instance new donetsk where up to fifteen ukrainian soldiers were reportedly killed after their bus was attacked by local resistance fighters so media suggest those on the vertical were fighters from the radical right sector group and it's thought that bus mistakenly arrived in at an anti government checkpoint after being sent to the wrong location. journalists around the world voiced their anger over the disappearance of russian photographer in ukraine thirty three year old andrew stand ins for missing of more than a week rights groups in jordan the efforts to try to get him released there's been a lot of comment let's show you some of it the committee to protect journalists is that if you cranes authorities are holding him they should release him immediately comment from amnesty international also on alert stressing the germans shouldn't face any restrictions when carrying out their work and forty of us not the cas

in ukraine and russia. and this is the graphic video we have received from near to where up to fifteen ukrainian soldiers were reportedly killed after their bus was attacked by local resistance fighters some media suggest those on the vehicle were fighters from the radical right sector group it saw the boss mistakenly arrived at an anti-government checkpoint after being sent to the wrong location. journalists around the world have voiced their anger over the disappearance of a russian photographer in ukraine a thirty three year old understand in has been missing for more than a week rights groups are joining the efforts to get him released. the committee to protect journalists says that if you cringe authorities are holding him they should release him immediately amnesty international is also on the alert stressing that journalists should face any restrictions while doing their work and here's a statement from reporters from the reporters committee and it says media workers must be free to cover all controv

russia not. this for just if i do this for two years i would like to show people you able to get justice in it any difficult to create a chef. a truth which could turn out to be uncomfortable to swallow for some marine a cost of artsy a latte spoke to live in yonkers brother in an exclusive interview he has his own theory about what happened. and then when the reading on the wall so far we haven't seen one official piece of evidence that would prove the cause of alexander's death it's been eight years and all we've had our interviews and newspaper articles as far as i know alexander was training agents for amite six in that time he found out a lot about the life of russian dissidents in the u.k. he didn't know any english and after he lost his job he wanted to start a business in russia of course his previous employers didn't like the idea of him going back so i suppose the western security services decided to get rid of him. and another case that reemerge at this week to european courts have ord

security council meeting was called upon where its western members push to hold russia responsible russia stop this conflict at least two thousand two hundred twenty people including twenty three children have died in the conflict in eastern ukraine. but we have never heard the u.s. ambassador to the un call on key to stop bombing its own people in washington i'm going to check out our team. the international monetary fund says ukraine is so far on track to receive financial aid that is today the i.m.f. will discuss the next one point four billion dollar handout for the lender has expressed doubt that the money will be enough to cover the government's needs of the country's economy shrank almost five percent in the second quarter of this year with major firms losing ten billion dollars over the first half of the year over the same time last year they were several hundred million in profit and ukraine's national currency the group is also losing value their authorities had said the economy would be unsustainable if the currency falls to more than twelve to the dollar well it's thirteen and

today's top stories in a review off the week key have finally accepted russia's humanitarian convoy is in fact carrying aid after almost three hundred trucks with goods for struggling civilians have been stuck at the border for a day. and if the u.s. pulls more weapons into the iraq conflict supporting the plight of the kurdish fighters against islamic militants international we look at exactly what it is that washington is trying to achieve. its old world headlines live from moscow it's on t. international with me rule research showing thank you for joining us today let's get straight to our breaking news for you this hour the very latest pictures out of focus in missouri where police have reportedly fired tear gas at protesters it's where the riots were sparked when an officer shot dead an unarmed black teen officials claim they only used smoke grenades it came off during the overnight curfew was broken let's cross live now to. joining us live from focusing with more two in the morning way you are understand there's been a bit of an escalation during the overnight hours what's the la

is that syria russia isn't libya russia isn't iraq it is a daft ghana stand it's actually a major power and it has the power to say no and that once that's what turns russia into an enemy in the eyes of the west. well peter if you accept the proposition that the united states is the only indispensable country in the world well that was madeleine albright under clinton well then all other countries by definition are and bow on this i stand of all right yeah now this this is more more than a matter of national pride or nationalism it's a matter of national security to russia and the fly in the late but most of all is the missile defense system with putin which putin has said explicitly bothered him most and was one major factor in the referendum on crimean independence and re incorporating crimea into the russian republic why because this missile defense system by admission of former secretary of defense robert gates can act as a first strike capability taking out russian i.c.b.m.'s in a way that has not existed since the a.b.m. treaty in one thousand nine hundred ninety two i was had mus

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and you know if russia did indeed east ukraine i mean i don't think the west or russia would trade. for twenty or thirty years i mean it's you know it's it's. there's no easy easy easy right so wrong but it definitely assumptions better than complete well i agree with you that sanctions are better than coughing but on the other hand as somebody somebody who was born in the soviet union during the years of planned economy we were we've been always told about the benefits of free market economy and you know allotting businessmen do you their thing and at the end of the day what we see here once you get into major geopolitical crisis is the governments of your own country that can tell you where and who to do and not to do business with and how different that is really from the planned economy. you have to. you have to answer the following question. is ukraine an independent country. is russia supplying people in ukraine weapons or not. you know i'm not i'm not you know i don't know what the answers are not that oversleep. obviously western governments believes that russia is supplying

russia is not listening. we said it when russia flagrantly violated law. we said it after the shocking downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 which took the lives of innocent men women children and infants from 11 countries and we say it today as russia's soldiers, tanks, air defense and artillery support and fight ongside separatist as they open a new front in a crisis manufactured in and fueled by russia. but russia is not listening. instead of listening, instead of heeding the demands of the international community and order at every step russia has come before this council to say everything except the truth. it has manipulated, it has bfiss kated p, it has outright lied. so we have learned to measure by actions not words. on august 26, just this tuesday, after meeting with ukrainian president in belarus, president putin spoke of the need to "end blood shed as soon as possible. " yet, the same day satellite imagery show russian combat units southeast in eastern ukraine. that same day, ukraine detained regular russian army personnel from the ninth briga

the separatists are trained by russia. they are armed by russia. they are funded by russia. russia has deliberately and repeatedly violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. >> satellite photos show the stark increase of russian troops and armor along ukraine's border, from june 19th, to august 20th. one image shows six russian artillery batteries facing ukraine. another shows russian artillery establishing firing positions inside ukraine. >> russia has to stop lying and has to stop fueling this conflict. >> reporter: as fighting flared, the u.n. security council met in new york today, and ambassadors from all 28 nato countries will hold an emergency meeting on friday with ukrainian officials to discuss the developing situation. president obama has invited ukraine's president to the white house next month. >> translator: due to russian troops actually entering ukrainian territory, i decided to cancel a visit to turkey. the place of ukraine's president is in kiev today. >> reporter: ukraine's president met with vladimir putin for two hours in min sk on tue

us president offered his perspective of russia in these words quote russia doesn't make anything immigrants aren't rushing to moscow in search of opportunity the life expectancy expectancy of our should male is around sixty years old the population is shrinking well those who looked at the statistics have pointed out a few inaccuracy is in that one paragraph about immigrants according to the un department of economic and social affairs russia hosts the largest the world's largest population of him after the united states so second to the united states most people who've been to moscow couldn't help but notice the huge influx of immigrants the life explained expectancy of those melees indeed said li lo but it's not sixty years old as the president said but sixty five ways you know it's a big margin of error when you talk about such data also according to president obama russia's population is shrinking but if you look at the latest numbers it's not shrinking it's actually quoting the russia's population has been growing for at least the past five years due to various factors it may indeed sh

s punitive measures with a food import ban while ukraine says it could hold russia's energy transit to euro . after a few days of calm of violence returned to gaza as a ceasefire between calm us and israel and leading to more destruction and more palestinian lives one of pods. u.s. fighter jets a meigs come back to iraq for three rounds of strikes against jihadists militants but washington is accused of fighting the same group with aids in syria. good afternoon to you and welcome to moscow are you with me to say first heavy is moving towards done yet scale as the ukrainian army prepares to unleash its forces to take the city and it's already been extensively shelled and bombed. in one of the latest riots to apartment blocks in the city center were attacked in a week of assaults more than a dozen people were killed internets. only that the photo where does our desertion has left. seven o'clock you. or your muslim national. school can. feel. for you that it. amid intensified attacks from the army the soft proclaimed republic says it's ready for ceasefire to avert a humanitarian crisis in

between the west russia makes european businesses look for compensation. after. the ceasefire between israel. and palestinian civilians finding themselves on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. iraq as president obama. militants in the north. having to fight the same group in syria. headlines of the week today welcome to the week international with me. is moving towards. the ukrainian has to use full force on the city already being shelled and bombed extensively. and coming up here the footage we'll show you in just a moment we'll show you inside an apartment right there it is people were living in there at the time and you can see how badly damaged it is just two hundred meters away from this apartment it was a hospital you can see the second floor really badly damaged with walls funicello and medical equipment destroyed as well. as. are you. and getting out of the area is very dangerous have a look at that film by a dash cam showing a rocket blowing into the highway right before the car literally just meters ahead of it so fortunately the driver survived h

now a big talking part in russia is how resentful russia is of nato. this is imperial hangover. the hangoverar to from the fall of the ottoman empire in turkey, the resentful mess of no longer being an imperial center the way you once were. and weits there today all know the famous quotes he fall of the soviet empire was the worst day of his life. is thatomplete quote it's the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of history. in his terms, the collapse of the soviet union was a blow having nothing to do with communism but just about russian power. when you are seeing now is a reassertion -- >> it was not ideological but about power. it was about geopolitical data, military. >> i talk to people who say he does not want to take over, they say, all of the former soviet empire. he does want to assert and have a band around russia, russian influence. the ideology is based on russian speakers. vocabularyy familiar -- and i'm not calling him a fascist but i do not want to make these analogies. you have heard this about german speakers in another area and that can get very ugly. english-lan

countries say they stand to suffer billions of euros in losses from russia's restriction of food imports imposed as a response to western nations sanctions. kiev burns again as protesters dig in and fight back against police to dismantle some barricades that have become symbols of the winter uprising in the ukrainian capital. also hope for a long term truce between israel and gaza fades as both sides failed to agree terms almost nineteen hundred people have died in a month of fighting. and the white house considers airstrikes on islamic militants in iraq after they seize even more areas of the country. welcome good to have you with us this hour my name is neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international some e.u. country survey expressed a lot about how severely they will be hit by russia's retaliation to sanctions over the ukrainian crisis moscow has banned food imports from a number of nations auntie's peeta all of reports on the match. well russia has placed a ban on certain foodstuffs coming from those nations that backed sanctions against russia so that's the united states canada

hen ukraine and russia. ukrainian forces claim one of their fighter jets has been shot down by antigovernment fighters near lugansk that's as local self-defense forces claim the city has been shelled by the army using tactical ballistic missiles now they found part of a rocket in a district of the city the same misato have been previously used in didn't it as well it's just that the military is using the touch coat pocket systems that were left in ukraine after the fall of the soviet union now let's take a look at what such missiles are capable of in terms of warfare its maximum range is up to a hundred and twenty and twenty kilometers and at that distance it's able to hit targets with an accuracy of one hundred meters there are various types of warheads available for the system including chemical and nuclear even with a conventional payload it's able to inflict significant destruction destroying an entire house with ease now meanwhile radicals from the ultra nationalist or right sector group have threatened

developments around russia we've got the future of. the ukrainian army involved to take the rest of a regional capitals. in the east block by block as residents of free in the tens of thousands are g is on the russian ukrainian border to meet those braving the crossing to try and help but. the russian navy says it's chased away an american attack submarine in the air rushes close in the arctic ocean and not for the first time in recent years. for the taro got the right stage is playing out a lot closer to israel renewed its bombardment of gaza that has triggered mass rallies worldwide we report from london and one of the many global protest against the spiraling pelosi and toll. and american airstrikes take out a militant positions in iraq i made accusations a washington is bombing the very same fighters it helped in syria. welcome to our day international law from moscow this evening you with me will say . the ukrainian army says it's getting ready to take you gone and in the east street by street and building by building the two citi