so this day these russian personnel there and about 500 russian peace eepers in the this russian military personnel is not the main threat. transition army itself. army is equal if not higher in terms of personnel but better trained and equipped than moeld oafen army. with the help of the presence there would likely overpower the defense. major vulnerability. and there's a soviet military depot with tons of equipment which in the case of conflict could be used by the forces. military experts transeastern army and russian army as part of integrated military controlled from moscow. as i said russian presence in follow-up of the debacle and fact that ukraine has closed supply lines for russian presence, russians are forced to recruit from the local, making large-scale intervention less likely. and political perspective, it's not needed for russia. ussian political interference military intervention superfluous. largest party in moldova, party of socialists, strongly backed by moscow and the president elected end of 2016, has the dubious honor of having met with putin about seven times in las

she announced the expulsion of 23 russian diplomats from the uk and the revoking of the russian foreign minister to the uk. from the british house of commons, this is 50 minutes. >> statements. the prime minister. >> with permission mr. speaker but like to make a statement on reforms of the russian government to thef incident and salisbury. first on the half of the whole house let me pay tribute once again to the bravery and professionalism of all the emergency services doctors nurses and investigation teams would lead the response to this appalling incident and also to the fortitude of the people of salisbury and let me reassure them the ongoing risk to public health is low and the government will continue to do everything possible to support this historic city to recover fully. mr. speaker mr. scribner and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent developed by russia. based on this case combined with the record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations including against former intelligence officers who they regard as legitimate targets the uk government has concl

this was a direct attack by the russian state against our country or conceivably the russian government could have lost control of a military grade nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others mr speaker it was right to offer russia the opportunity to provide an explanation but their response has demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events. they have provided no credible explanation that they could suggest they don't control of then agent no explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the united kingdom no explanation as to why russia has an undeclared chemical weapons program in contravention of international law. instead they have treated the use of a military grade nerve agent in europe with sarcasm content and defiance. so mr speaker is. no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr script powell and his daughter and for threatening the lives of other british citizens in salzburg including detective sergeant nick bailey this represents an arm all full use of force by the russian state a

the russian one gentleman raised. the right honorable gentleman raised a number of questions around the nerve agents that he had been used he asked if we we were putting together an international coalition to call on russia to reveal the details of its chemical weapons program to the o.p.c. w. that is indeed what we did we gave the russian government the opportunity through the day march that my russian befriend the foreign secretary delivered to the russian ambassador here in london earlier this week to do just that they have not done so. and it is he's raised a number of questions he asked about the corrupt elites and money going through london as i said in my statement led by the national crime agency we will continue to bring all the capabilities of u.k. law enforcement to bear against serious criminals and corrupt police there is no place for these people all their money in our country and that work is ongoing he talked about getting an international consensus to get out as as i have said i've spoken to chancello

you better russian state that they have the right to aim at russian forward a former russian spy i still consider traitors outside the russian territory so it's not only disease part of a content and content that has been existing now full more than four years and i think this is the big question now is how do we respond to it because clearly this isn't what the shit event and its cannot be seen as just a small or a tent it's a very significant one using us i definitely feel there are agents in the middle of the biggest city on daylight so i think now the real question is how robust but also a collective response will be from preachin but also the british nato and you're like ok we'll come on to the response in a little more depth in in just a few moments but. just before we move on behalf of you heard what both matthew and fabrice were saying that about this overwhelming body of evidence against russia britain's foreign secretary said that russia's smug soft casting response to this incident indicates its fundamental guilt that they want to similar taney asli deny it yet at the same tim

jacka said at the weekend you shouldn't tar anybody who lives in this country with russian of russian extraction with the same brush and secondly and secondly there are rules on party political donations and i can assure him that my party and i hope all parties follow those rules. he talked about the magnitsky powers this is an issue where being challenge previously before on this question where we do have already some of the powers that are being written proposed in relation to magnitsky law but we have already been talking with all parties about the amendment that has been has been down and we will work to others to ensure that we have the maximum possible consensus before the report stage he also raised the question of peace capabilities and resources not only our will to police involved in this but they have support from neighboring forces as would normally happen when an incident of this when an instant takes place which requires that extra capability but crucially at a very early stage it was decided that counterterrorism please to take over the responsibility for this because t

russian federal stations they take. a tim lindsey graham's in the john mccain and everybody else that has something to say and they just let the russian viewer. absorb it themselves right there and it's not just instagram or drinking when you have the british prime minister he was in russia taking the u.k. audience hold soil or wage an came and go at that was something you know of course people react because these are some of the most powerful. people in the world didn't you that you are waging a war with no evidence you know when they're then america you know the most powerful americans say that they're sure russia meddled in the reactions when they see russia will pay a price when the british parliament openly discuss a cyber attack against russia or of course for important she plays a role here but it's really going to be with mark with one think you know i think it was an interesting complain because economic issues played a role but not in the way the west would like them to a lot of people consider the border or t

the prime minister said on monday this was a direct act by the russian state or the russian government must -- lost control of the potential catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allotted to get into the hands of others. our response must be both decisive and proportionate, and based on clear evidence. if the government believes that it is still a possibility that russia negligently lost control of the military grade nerve agent, what action has been taken to the opcw with our allies? i welcome the fact the police are working with the opcw and has the prime minister taken the necessary steps under the chemical weapons convention to make a formal request for evidence from the russian government under article 9.2? how has she responded to the russian governments request for a sample of the agent used in the salisbury attack to run its own test? [shouting] has high resolution trace analysis been run on a sample of the nerve agent, and has that revealed in evidence as to the location of its production or the identity of its perpetrator perpetrators? and can the prime minister update th

either this was a direct attack by the russian state against our country, or conceivably the russian government would've lost control of the military grade nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others. mr. speaker, it was right to offer russia the opportunity to provide an explanation, but the response has demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events. >> hear, hear. >> they are provided no credible explanation that could suggest they lost control of their nerve agent. no explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the united kingdom, no explanation as to why russia has an undeclared chemical weapons program in contravention of international law. >> hear, hear. >> instead, they have treated the use of military grade nerve agent in europe with sarcasm, content, and defiance. so, mr. speaker, there is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr. skripal and his daughter, and for taking the lives of other british citizens in salisbury, including detective sergeant nick bailey. this represen

this is the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence officers in history. i have found great solidarity from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america and nato and beyond over the past three weeks as we have confronted the aftermath of the salzburg incident and together we have sent a message that we will not tolerate russia's continued attempts to flounce international law and undermine our lives i think you're seeing an increasingly. move of bad judgment by russia and when we see these espionage tactics that are taking place right here at the heart of the u.n. we can't have that and this is really not just us but multiple countries saying all of these actions have to stop this is not what we do. in any other place and it can't be acceptable for you to do this unfortunately russia is now being held accountable for a lot of things and they have a decision to do what they are asking for one then two diplomats well let's bring apologies in to our ears to leave this or that country we know that this is the result of colossal pressure this colossal bla

there is proof of russian involvement this is a russian defector who's been threatened by the president on several occasions this is a russian made weapons grade nerve agent made in a large tree in moscow which has now been confirmed by british intelligence and ratified by american and french this is a very clear pass and we know in germany for example of russian information operations and indeed espionage operations that have been extremely active in recent years we know the invasions of ukraine the destruction and murder of several hundred people in m.h. seventeen aircraft over ukraine yannick sation of crimea the occupation of georgia the attempted murder of the montenegrin from as i can go on this is part of a very long pattern of russian aggression and it's got to stop so it's not just about this one specific incident russia for its part it has actually just responded to this and i just want to bring and what sergei lavrov just had to say and he said the russian response will come very soon he promises us that he also said that your ak accusations are absolutely borish if british d

the old notion of a russian-led communism-based philosophy with a whole new sense of 21st century russian nationalism. and, with that backing of the vast majority of his public, he began an ambitious program of reownerment. all with the aim, i believe, of challenging the united states and our allies. so while our gaze shifted away from russia, which we began to kind of write off and at a certain level dismiss as simply a regional power, russia really never lost its focus on us. its geostrategic aim remained squarely targeted on western -- on the western liberal order. and more specifically, on what is kgb trained leadership views as the main enemy, the united states. so roussia diligently honed and updated its tool kit for a different kind of power. it couldn't match us in the old paradigm. russia needed a strategy that would allow them to compete with us on a new emerging battlefield. russia's chief of general staff, general valerie garamosov, gave putin what he needed. he outlined a new strategy doctrine the kremlin was more suited to fight, and then -- and in this strategy doctrine, a

. >> the fbi now says it has busted a russian spy ring. >> was actually one of three russian spies. >> and gorkov himself attended the training academy for russian intelligence officers. >> what did you really speak to jared kushner about when you met him in december? >> there have been questions whether kushner discussed his family's business with banker gorkov. kushner owns a fifth avenue building with a reported $1.2 billion mortgage coming due in 2019. kushner said his business dealings never came up with gorkov and all of his meetings with russians were nothing to worry about. >> i did not include with russia, nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. >> your bank says it was a business meetings. >> but gorkov's bank implied the meeting with kushner was about business. referring to kushner as the head of kushner's industry. >> robert mueller's team has expressed interest in kushner, including his role in the firing of james comey. >> can you say you're aware anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with russia. >> investigators still have questions for the pre

either a direct attack by the russian state against our country, or the russian government lost control of its potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent, and allowed it to get into the hands of others. this afternoon my right honorable friend, the foreign secretary, summoned the russian ambassador to the foreign and commonwealth asked asked him to explain who it is and how this russian produced nerve agent could have been deployed in salisbury against mr. skripal and his daughter. my right honorable friend stated that the russian federation muss immediately provide full and complete disclosure of the program to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, and he has requested the russian government's response by the end of tomorrow. mr. speaker, this action has happened against a backdrop of a well established pattern of russian state aggression. russia's illegal annexation of crimea was the first time since the second world war that one sovereign nation has forcibly taken at the from not a europe. worry ash fomented conflict, vote zoo lating the national air space

estonia also has a significant russian speaking population and both ethnic russians and russian speakers and i make that distinction because i think it's important to know that we are not always thinking about death but other russians in their daily lives who also get targeted by the kremlin and the kremlin tries to co-opt and their various efforts. i have a couple of numbers here so you get a sense of what's in the book the city, a small city on a but in terms of ethnic russians in estonia that's 24% of the population. they make up 37% but if we look at particularly one region on the border of the russian federation here they make up 73% and 82% in a small city on the border with the russian federation. again here the issue is about the small minority of these that russia tried to engage and in a way brainwash with their endless propaganda as dr. aaron noted about the influence of the russian media all throughout certainly eastern europe and central europe and now even in the united states. and one other element i would really like to highlight here which is more important i think when

the russians the russians will be pleased about it this is again part of the upside down world that we were talking about before you know anyone what do what does the. government want i mean obviously russia has and given any kind of evidence about this case forensic evidence i mean what in the world are they expect the russians to do and what do you think the sanction will be afterwards because you know. she's a political mess right now. she doesn't have a memorable time in office here she's found this one issue she's really pushing it here i mean coming to conclusions before facts are presented not over to the public by the way here i mean you know what is you know is this an internal domestic issue for her i mean she's found this one issue that kind of booster a little bit because she needs a whole lot of boosting go ahead and. well i think as you say she's in a very weak political position. and she will be under pressure from l i six because bear in mind this guy worked as an agent and i six for a decade i was handed to them they had a duty of protection to their source and they se

of a former russian spy on british soil russian tonight continuing to deny any involved. at the russian embassy in berlin there's little sign off what's going on inside but behind the close curtains for diplomats are clearing their desks berlin says it's responding not just to the attack on former russian double agent sergey st paul in the u.k. but also to the cyber attack on the german government's computer network. it wasn't an easy decision for us to expel the russian diplomats but the facts and evidence point to russia. investigators believe that x. intelligence officer said pollin his daughter yulia were poisoned with novae chalk a soviet era nerve agent the two were found unconscious on a park bank in the southern english city of saulsbury on march fourth they remain critically ill in hospital at an e.u. summit in brussels last week all twenty eight member states come damn the attack the expulsion of russian diplomats by many e.u. countries is a coordinated action they say all the evidence points to russia. back in london the british prime minister welcome the joint

rights as the native russian population. the german occupation of crimea in the second world war that status meant the car its were largely spared the persecution that their fellow jews suffered during the holocaust. s.s. mobile killing units murdered almost all of the crimea's other jewish inhabitants. the reemergence of a jewish community in the region is nothing short of remarkable. the fact of crimean jews recently acquired russian citizenship doesn't seem to bother anyone here on the contrary. look on the one you look at this that is mentally and spiritually we have always remained crim chon we were never ukrainians nor were we ever russians we have always been crimean jews and i don't wish to say anything bad about ukraine but like others in the crimea it was as if we had been hung out to dry now legislation has been adopted to ensure that money's no longer siphoned off from crimea instead funds will be invested in regional development i get the feeling is there now pulling out all the stops to ensure that crimea doesn

the russian —— two russian diplomats have me next world. in that statement from the high minister, we re statement from the high minister, were names named? no, it can be refers to them as two undeclared intelligence officers who were here, who are here currently in australia, but under a mother, working under a given visa. they, under the geneva, the vienna conventions can be expeued the vienna conventions can be expelled because they are working here under a false permit and they have been given seven days to leave the country. the russian ambassador here in australia had already warned ahead of this that if australia were to ta ke ahead of this that if australia were to take actions, there could be repercussions. australia and russia are big trading partners when people talk about espionage and intrigue, they tend to think more about china. but the australian government has for a few months talked about eating up for a few months talked about eating up its laws on intelligence and integrity, protecting integrity of australian politics, a

by the russian. government in order to say that they are doing something media space after i think it's just. i didn't continue the bombardment so international community were put there. and they can't do anything with the matters of i mean of listening to you saying basically either the russians won't tolerate any military action in in syria however the busses themselves seems to seem to be sending mixed signals they are the ones who indicated that is that what is going to be part of the deescalation so in the agreement but at the same time the breaking of the promises they made my opinion is. judgment about russian intervention is very important because in your russian intention. or on american. it depends on american intention if american now demonstrate in the skull ation and the great mark for that. intention of the united states government is. bellatrix still there are some that we are ahead about. less than one are igor. soldo his means that some. yes a lot of good sense as it is what it was d

a russian-led communism,-based philosophy of russian nationalism. with that backing of the majority of his public, he began a program of rearmament with the aim of challenging the united states and our allies. away fromdays shifted russia, which we began to write off and dismiss as a regional power, russia really never lost its focus on us. targeted onins and on liberal order what its kgb-trained leadership views as the enemy, the united states. russia diligently honed and updated its toolkit for a different kind of great power rivalry. they could not match us in the old cold war paradigm, so russian needed a strategy that would allow them to compete with us on a new emerging battlefield . staff gavef general putin when he needed. he outlined a new strategy wasrine that the kremlin more suited to fight and strategy they believed they could win and bring russia back on par as a superpower with the west. he recognized in a way that very few within our government did, a blurring of the lines between war and peace, between direct conflict and in direct

well different things have been done to motivate russians to go tomorrow to the polls famous russian singers call to their compatriots to vote russian cosmonauts from the space program television local authorities organize some prize draws where people could have a smart phone on another nice electric devise also there was an unspeakable homophobic and x. in a four b. commercial on state television its message was if people in russia don't go to the polls and don't vote for their rights president for the so-called right president then dark skinned soldiers would serve in the russian army and gays would infiltrate into private apartments as if that would be a big threat to russia ok so some scare tactics there but what does a low voter turnout mean for president putin. well look at people in russia are traditionally very reluctant to vote is a belief in democracy generally and in democracy democratic elections particularly is low it's not like in the west that you go to the polls to vote for your favorites the overwhelming majority of russians think the election isn't decided by the p

citizens and russian people they're not enemies. enemies of the west it's their government that chose this confrontation with the west but we need to kind of keep the lines open especially with with russian citizens and you mention the elections when these were not free and fair elections i realize that mr putin also based on his propaganda machine has a great deal of support apparently within within the russian population but then why disqualify one candidate by turning him into a pseudo criminal and not allowing him to run that's missed and involved in another potential challenger was assassinated the year before so we cannot speak of fair fair and free elections and there is not an open information. environment in russia and that is. not talking about. the kremlin or the russian i would like to bring mr banta men because mr bennett was talking about you know a more nuanced way of all of dealing with russia which is what you were saying that the u.s. administration that the president donald trump has been you know more than dealin

that they have been too dependent on russian money as germany for instance is dependent on russian gas we've all been much too negligent with regards to this imperialist power but do you really expect the british government to address this question of dirty of long of russian money and to cut back some some of it well i think this might finally happen now yes and also there is still the question how do you deal with russia no i think one needs still to think i mean because we saw it there was a big victory of foot you know and we will live with putin for the next six years and so there are many more. into we have i think we still need a common policy on this. where we can't only focus on incidents like this but you need also to develop a certain strategy absolutely being cautious i think we agreed on this and to to to see certain dangers which rich are in. government but but still i think with this very black and white picture we are not prepared enough to have a black line while they said because black and white picture would paint us as purely white but it is a black picture when it

the russian elections are taking place, is it just the russian elections are taking place, is itjust sabre rattling, it is going to damage vladimir putin? there is genuine anger about the way britain is portraying what happened in the uk two weeks ago and they are still denying they had any involvement. they are saying that britain has not produced any evidence so there is real anger about that. historically, overthe many years in which vladimir putin has been in power he has played this ca rd of has been in power he has played this card of basically the west being opposed to russia and trying to close it in and encircle it, and that works, it works for him and has done for quite a few years, he's running now for his fourth term stop he knows the narrative works. people respond to that. they agree with what he says, and they do believe that they face a real problem from the west. theresa may was speaking earlier today. there is a lot of talk of taking further action. how is that perceived in russia? is the narrative of the west really being against vladimir putin and the country beli

day march that my russian befriended from the secretary delivered to the russian ambassador here in london earlier this week to do just that they have not done so if there is a consensus across the pot benches of this house. i am only sorry that the consensus does not go as far as the right honorable gentleman. could have taken the opportunity as the u.k. government has done to condemn the culprits in the seat of the russian. russian embassy here in london has said that the steps taken by the british government are unjustified unacceptable and shortsighted also saying that the did deterioration of ties between russia and the u.k. lies on the british government and that ultimatums don't work with russia everything but if. you accept the way we perceive it to prevent future. we believe that the you know i do keep the full big international and none of them under this obligations to be here. given the weapons they have to present their request to the organization and we're headed to consider this within a few days this is the international law and of course we're not ready to. to talk

enter russian prejudice and you know. any action certain foreign policy successes that russia has achieved in the last. months and years so. it's partly jealousy it's partly some i would say of a long standing. animosity on the part of some but i am an optimist i believe this will not prevail because i. believe in common sense of the majority of europeans and actually even today is as we note half of the member states have chosen not to participate in this and the russian hysteria i will lead to this one additional element the context that i have here in brussels with representatives of the business community of the european union its member states indicate that this hysteria doesn't of grip the business community which in many cases. is eager to continue investing in russia to continue cooperating and russia and to pursue and mutually. mutually beneficial policy. ambassador vladimir shares of russia's permanent representative to the european union thank you for your time sir thank you. eleven years now anger has been mou

but in uk russian relations, you can feel the chill. britain's expulsion of russian diplomats has sparked anger with theresa may. prime minister may is destroying international law and is destroying international relationship. of course, it's the end of her career. it's the end. it's a show. that was a political show. and this is not — it's not serious, it's not for the serious politician. and this was the show on russian tv while mrs may was announcing sanctions. commenting live, andrei lugavoy, the man britain believes poisoned former russian agent alexander litvinenko in 2006. moscow refuses to extradite him. as for kremlin—funded english language channel rt, theresa may has left it up to uk regulator ofcom to decide whether it can keep its uk licence. what do you think the chances are of rt being censored in the uk? i hope rt‘s not censored in the uk, because i really would not like british media, including you, you are a very nice man, a gentleman, to be expelled from russia, which is exactly what i believe will happen if rt

government has done to condemn the culpability of the russian. the russian embassy . here in london has said that the steps taken by the british government are unjustified unacceptable and shortsighted also saying that they do deterioration of ties between russia and the u.k. lies on the british government and that ultimatums don't work with russia is that. everything what is. acceptable with the city if the pictures. we believe that the you like to keep them should pull the international none of them under this obligations to him. live in the weapons they have to present their request to the organization and then we're happy to consider this within a few days this is the international law and of course we're not ready to. to talk you know we the ultimate. the actions taken by the british government became really a crescendo of over a week of the spy saga on raveling where we saw what could have been a potential local incident unravel into a huge international diplomatic standoff now thank you for those details last r.t. is an associate check in and london for more on

and the russian embassy in the u.k. had said called for measures unfounded something you would agree with. as i said at the beginning this might all turn out to be true and it so it would have been a disgraceful act on the part of russia but i don't think we should be announcing a and condemning people until we can have some evidence and some truth in all of this as i said all my life in politics i've watched governments all around the world do pretty terrible and pleasant things and also lie to their own people about it. just died twenty four hours ago no less a new cake counter-terror police said they are yet to declare any suspects and now we have british politicians insistent that russia was responsible for the poisoning is there any case where police would not to lay their findings to the public. oh no the police will produce their report the government will have it and i think it would be completely impossible for the government not to publish that and have a sister date about it but i would be very surprised if i

percentages of russian citizens or russian passport holders. russia has also pursued a policy since the mid to thousands of trying to hand out its passports in its neighboring states, to try to do it in specific regions. regions that border the russian federation. is a russian there speaking majority or a receptive population. the driver of russian military tactics. georgia, where russia would first hand out russian passports and then they would say, now we have to protect our citizens here. this is the one number that concerns me in estonia. narda.larly looking at we have 36% russian citizens in the city. this is a small city. i do not want to over dramatize it. we are referring to 23,000 people. nonetheless, given russia's history of how it has used passports in the past, this is one area where we have to be concerned. other risks in the economic sector. russia does not just export their natural resources or gas. the also export corruption. estonia has not been immune to that even though they do a lot of business with the european union. the

and you start actually shooting at russians in syria and when you combine that with the russian hysteria. in in washington in london in other capitals then you've got a very serious situation and i think you're absolutely right peter when you said that putin is not one to rhetorical flourishes he's not one to exaggerate to bloviate he's not donald trump so he is a very serious person and i think he was putting down a marker and say stop this now before it gets out of control because we mean business exactly if you carry on like this it is going to end badly you know mary the over the years when they were before the negotiations with the iran nuclear deal the pentagon constantly was telling russia that all these in these anti-missile defense systems in poland and remain were many they have nothing to do with you it's all directed against iran and then when the deal is signed they actually admit to that well we still have to keep them there is it because of russia well yes because ok i mean this is the kind of relations and partnership russia has with nato you can't believe what they say o

so at the russian embassy in london they'll be packing their bags and low russian relations at their lowest point since the cold war but even now britain needs to keep open some lines of communication with moscow on so many issues from iran to north korea britain called to forward to ignore russia the measures which have been announced here would have been largely anticipated by the russians what would really hurt them would be further multilateral sanctions involving other western countries for that to happen britain needs to convince its allies that this is not just a bilateral spat between london and moscow but an issue which has the potential to threaten the security of many western countries to be phillip's al-jazeera westminster in central london. let's go live now to christensen amy at u.n. headquarters in new york and we have certainly seen the british prime minister to resign may try to marshal her allies and keep this issue in the international spotlight what are we expecting to happen at the u.n. today. well right now we're waiting for a security council meeting to get und

prime minister says it was highly likely the kremlin was behind the poison attack against the former russian spy. also on the show of mafia style murder sense a chilling message to slovakia stern says. i think it changes the whole way you think about your work. and pretty much everything in life if something like this happens public anger over the killing of investigative journalist. friends to topple the slovakian government. and a real crunch match in the german bundesliga cologne left the bloodied and beaten by braman in a relegation dog fight. i'm brian thomas a warm welcome to the show britain has issued a midnight deadline for russia to explain why a deadly nerve agent produced only in russia was used in an assassination attempt western allies have voiced their support for the british demand the former russian spy sergei strip mall and his daughter remain in critical condition more than a week after being found unconscious in the city of salzburg. this is where as the prime minister puts it somebody attacked the u.k. authorities say the nerve agent was made in russia the question is wh

-- preceding the russian election? russiansow that the aren't yet involves -- are in the end results. routinely probe ask inebriated with vodka. give me a break. there is nothing in the story that is not similar to saddam's bio weapons and anthrax in a six-month timeframe for nuclear launch. this is ridiculous. this many other countries have much more motivation than the russians. thank you. host: your perspective? guest: to the timing, i think even this narrative, is not just couldn't that believes the west is trying to conduct imaging change. change, manyregime believe many are anti-russian. i think you cannot discount as to why this was done. the diaspora in london is quite large with a lot of money. from the russian leadership perspective, they are worried about the diaspora with all this money and machinations toward the elections in 2025. what that could mean for opposition figures. they are try to send a clear signal that you -- no matter where you are at, we can come for you. host: this is a piece from "foreign

he's russian and he's making his choice dogs as russian and. when. when they're not. interpreted correctly it's rather a problem of misinterpretation. and sometimes times yes with. different cultures different cultures sometimes we cannot understand jokes coming from mons and this had oh yeah when we translate executor's jokes or prisoners jokes it doesn't make any sense in russian here it sounds similar cynical it's you know it's a nation of speciality is spanish for this pre-show it is and it's rather it's rather our again to cap and explaining our own president i consider it to be to be our mishandling of information to do things that we have done more careful we have to be more creative in explaining those jokes because that i mean i feel like that drives the gap between the mentalities even further because you're like oh wow what is he talking about where you are you know it's like the sense of humor sometimes it's very. hard to understand. so tell me something you've been with the president for a long time i mean it's only human that in eighteen years either you

did you collude with the russians? did you coordinate with the russians? when the answer was no, they concluded that was the end of the story. a is the equivalent of having getaway driver on the stand and asking, did you rob the bank and having the witness say no. non-asking whether they kept engine running at the bank, whether someone ran into a bank and came out with a big bag. there's the kinds of questions you have to ask. when they were there, what calls they made, what bank accounts they use. the majority was unwilling to do any of that hard work in the investigation. >> you say you want to continue the investigation, but there are limits on what you can do. if you take the house back this fall, do you plan to restart the investigation? representative schiff: if the majority in congress changes hands. we will have to evaluate where the investigation is at that point. what has the special counsel been allowed to do? and determine if there is work that is still undone. one of the issues i am still concerned about that we were unable to pursue is the is

i woke up in a russian hospital. i had a groin wound and i was in the knee and several other places. >> hospital idesed over a week, joe could never have imagined what would happen next. >> one morning in the ward this little short man kind of pudgy came in and was marshal zukoff. i recommendsed him. he went from bed to bed. got to me. he wanted to know how i got to where i was, i told him i was captured and i had escaped. did say through the interpreter, is there anything i can do for you? and i said, yes. i do not have any identification. he didn't say anything. and the next day the interpreter came back with an envelope and he says, it's a passport. it will get you anyplace you want to go. two days later i took off. i got on a hospital train and a couple weeks later e end up in moscow. anyway, we end up at the embassy. i go up toward the marine guard and i said i came from the eastern front. i was wounded. i want to turn myself in to the american. >> after 30 days of fighting with the russians, joe was on the home

gas arrives in slovakia it's not russian anymore it's european. a lot of it's also has financial benefits ukraine can purchase reimported gas from the e.u. more cheaply than from russia if the engineers at the control station insist they're fulfilling their contract with gazprom to the letter. when this person why a lot of his hospitality that we aren't using any russian gas is that this is the transit amount the amount of transported gas is the outcome of all the gas that came into ukraine on the east also left it on the west. but also the wall even dollars of liquidity. the gas first passes through ukraine then it's reimported but the reverse flow mechanism is noted you're a bull solution energy supplies are still a massive problem for you frame. natural gas provides about a third of ukraine's energy needs russian gas arrives in through four pipelines and then continues onward to the e.u. which part of it re imported to train. the north stream to pipeline would be a serious blow to the ukrainian gas industry. the staff of the rivers flow station

there is a lot of russian money in this country. ruth, one confusion in my mind about this is bearing down on dirty russian money, but then you here we are also very dependent on this money. which is it? are we dealing with criminals and can we do things to them? when it comes to dirty money, we're talking about money—laundering. we have criminal finances coming into the country. one of her measures issue will make it easy to see the assets of russians who money—laundering. but on the other hand, an oligarchs, we have been to welcoming to them to come here and buy up parts of kensington. part of kensington is known as red square because of so many russians that live there. but we will not say, i am sorry, live there. but we will not say, i am sorry, you've got to get out.” suspect most are perfectly legitimate and they are, of course they will stay. but the whole idea we have a very close economic relationship with russia needs addressing because very little of out addressing because very little of our trade is with russia, le

alleges was a russian nerve agent attack on a former russian double agent and his daughter in an english town this is the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence officers in history. i have found great solidarity from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america and nato and beyond over the past three weeks as we have confronted the aftermath of the soulsby incident the russian ambassador to the u.s. expressed his concern the deal would she would never say union leaders that they meet again what the united states of america is doing today they are destroying what little remained of us russian ties i would add that all the responsibility for ruining russian american relations is on the united states of america. sloma however a different tone was struck on twitter the russian embassy asking the public for suggestions on which u.s. consulate to now close in russia u.s. officials said there expulsions weren't just about standing with the u.k. but about curtailing russia's covert operations against u.s. national security they presented all of those being expelled from the r

also coming up on the day a cyber attack on german government computers russian hackers are the suspects and there is a connection to the twenty sixteen us presidential election more on that coming up in about ten minutes. we begin the day watching the calendar and the clock tomorrow will be the first day of march twenty eighth seen in march twenty ninth seen the united kingdom will officially end its membership in the european union and just one short year of the separation known as brags it is scheduled to take place and event with no president here in europe and with no guarantee that it will happen as planned and to schedule well today the european union published a one hundred twenty page rough draft report on the progress of breaks in negotiations now if this were a report card writes it would be nowhere near the honor roll they used bragg's a negotiator today criticizing britain for dragging its feet warning that time is running out take a listen. soon you will see that if we wish to make a success of these negotiations and die signally do we must pick up the pace. live on the thi

putin wants russia to prosper and russians to live in happiness. it is thanks to putin, she says, that russia still exists. but, critics of the kremlin said the election was fixed, that only those candidates who stood no chance of unseating vladimir putin, were allowed to run. the problem with russia is, there is no such thing as russian politics. politics has been eliminated in russia altogether. there is only one political situation in russia and thatis political situation in russia and that is the physical body of vladimir putin. which is wide the results of this vote was never in doubt. this election is less about choosing a new president, but more about reappointing the old one. the system vladimir putin has built ensures he doesn't face any challenge. he's set for a fourth term in the kremlin. but these images will embarrass the kremlin. caught on cctv, the woman stuffs but ballot box at a polling box at a polling station in moscow. suddenly there is two of them active. and in siberia, during the count, someone moves the balloon so they cover