saudia arabia and russia. and they call the shots in that joint mechanism commission that they have. so, yes, i think opec is becoming less and less important. as far as saudia arabia's gas import from russia, first of all, it's just a proposition. it's just a proeption. it's a political statement made by putin. saudia arabia has this aggressive state program called vision 2030 which, you know, claims to decrease the dependence on oil powers generations. and, you know, it makes sense for them to develop any gas takes more than 7 to 8 years, especially with the gas -- the foreign gas. by the time they launched a program it will take probably ten years or less than that. if they take the substitute gas, they can sign a shorter term with russia. having said that, uae is another major producer. wherever oil is used, gas is used to produce oil. there have been talks between the united states and the secretary who visited saudia arabia and other gulf states to sign these long-term deals. and we heard the deal betwee

one from the united states russia wants to be left alone russia has its own problems russia is still undergoing a major restructuring and the americans have managed to weaponize finance they can cause a lot of damage by blocking people from the international financial system they block them from the dollar system first but then the european banks are all running scared of the u.s. treasury so they can do substantial damage and yes the political dialogue in here in washington has become a little more surly a sub that means there's the assumption that somehow of your some circumstances russia is going to buckle but that is a wrong assumption russia is most certainly not going to buckle and russia has survived very well everything they've thrown at it for the simple reason that russia has a very conservative fiscal and monetary policy the central bank has done an excellent job of insulating russia from the sharks but it's still very incomplete. this draft all has not yet been published by the n.c.a. gramp has already like that and that's why i think when they they proposed that they wen

russia russia is was going to be continued.

we got a new supply route in afghanistan open through russia, flying soldiers through russia the first since world war ii that happened, that allowed us to not be dependent on pakistan as we were at the time that we joined the government. over 90% of our supplies back in 2005 went through pakistan. and that allowed us to bring the war against terrorists inside pakistan, including most directly and dramatically in 2011 when we killed osama bin lauden. when vladimir putin came back, there was no disagreement in the white house. i was still at the white house. but things were going to get difficult. i had written for years about putin and joined the white house. i don't think anybody would accuse me about being naive of vladimir putin. he so doesn't like my views about him he has banned me from traveling to russia. i'm the first ambassador since george ten an to not be allowed to travel to russia. >>> the question, you have to deal with who is in place. you don't get to choose their leaders. we tried. we tried to engage with mr. putin. and when things went south, we then put together a ne

because if the democrats lose it's going to be russia exactly it's going to be russia's fault so russia is the ultimate scapegoat you know it's the paranoia of not knowing what you don't know there's going to be some meddling but how when where the assumption that it's going to be we remind you that the election has not yet happened and it's going to be in november going to solve something by. then of course is already saying that head of the national intelligence director saying that there is evidence about russians involvement and we have lindsey graham who has just advised president trump to check the so-called ball that putin gave to him and house and get to check it for k.g.b. bugs we have this very same person elaborating with other senators this new draft of all which is called if i'm not mistaken or the translation protecting american security of from the kremlin said gretchen two thousand and eighteen so these guys they can forsee the future they can see how russia is mad and interested in a different line here you know this reminds me it's kind of a bad episode of the twilight

russia's government. i know my constituents are clear-eyed about these threats, the ukrainian community in ohio and around the world knows firsthand like our nato allies, in latvia and lithuania, the dangers of unchecked russian aggression. we should implement current russian sanctions and strengthen our response. these hearings are a critical next step. thank you for the three of you for joining us today, i'm interested to hear where we are. what effects if any the sanctions regime is having on russia's economy and more importantly on its behavior and your ideas on how we will more forcefully confront these threats in the months to come. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator brown. >> today we will hear testimony from three administration official who is deal firsthand with confronting the russia threat. we will first hear testimony from ms. sigal mandelker. the acting deputy secretary and current undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and financial crimes. who is the country's chief sanctions

sanctions on russia the restrictions are in response to what washington views as russia's poisoning double agent powell and his daughter in march also to face book allies on nato and u.s. funded experts to tackle foreign influence on its platform we take a look at how it affects freedom of speech online resource a word of warning though these images disturbing. over forty civilians including children were reportedly killed as a saudi airstrike his school bus in yemen the coalition says it was a big just a military operation in accordance with international law and the straw islands demanding the return of a sacred statue stolen more than one hundred years ago and now on display at the british museum we asked visitors if we should be given. this whole. list british empire i think it's stuff he's been retired and i think it's heritage so it's just our history. fellow that's four pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the kremlin has denounced new u.s. sanctions against russia calling them unacceptable and not conforming to international law on wednesday america unveiled fre

and russia? i party said my main conclusion which is we have to see how we are and how it aren't important. we are not important for them in the way we think they are enough in the way we say they are. the europeans are actually much more important and what's false for that is the best way to have the european policy. anything that is remotely thinkable right now, but the best way is to have the e.u. policy in the ukraine policy. those are but actually make some difference. the second thing that follows is on questions -- operational questions of actual security, there's no reason we can't talk and can't talk in review on things that actually have to do with nuclear weapons as opposed to the distraction destruction on the internet or on sputnik. they actually have to do with hard-core national security. there's no reason we can't talk to them and they can talk to us. >> that leads me to my next question, which is several times a day in the book you describe the united states has used the term sle

attempts by russia to hack u.s. senate and conservative groups for hacking group affiliated with the russian government the russian military operation the intelligence operation the russian military intelligence unit r t z goes down of commentary on microsoft's claims microsoft is ringing the alarm russians are at it again apparently how has set up a bunch of websites doppelganger of those belonging to prominent political groups and the us senate this technique is known as phishing designed to lure unsuspecting users to pages that look just like the real thing and then basically steal their data according to microsoft that they recognize this.

you know whatever else now when it comes to that russia russia question the crowd is not unified but they are unified in denouncing these forces that are assembled in front of the white house there are a lot of signs invoking memories of what happened one year ago in charlottesville there are a lot of signs invoking the black lives matter movement and opposition to police brutality we're seeing a lot of different political forces represented out here community organizations school groups religious organizations a lot of different folks here to counter the very very small crowd of roughly twenty four individuals associated with white supremacist and white nationalist organizations so huge huge turnout here in d.c. to denounce the folks gathered around the white house where there unite the right two point zero rally huge mobilization lots of different forces here lots of different causes represented all of them denouncing the ku klux klan white supremacy ism so quite a diverse crowd out here so far we have not heard any reports of any violence or anyone being injured huge police presen

just a few weeks later, rebellion arrived in russia. tens of thousands rallied in the streets of moscow. the biggest protest there since the fall of the soviet union. >> people were hanging off lampposts. people were in the streets. really shocking. >> putin was now living the same nightmare he had endured as a kgb officer in east germany in 1989. this time in his own backyard. and he wasn't even president at the time. he was prime minister. having handed the presidency over to his associate, dimitri medvedev. >> as the winter got longer and longer and colder and colder, the protests got bigger and bigger. >> as putin saw people turning against him, hillary clinton weighed in. >> the russian people, like people everywhere, deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted. >> when putin hears something like that, i imagine he hears bush talking about saddam hussein. he hears that as, they're coming for me. they're trying to drive me from power. what the hell do you know about my people and whether they deserve to have

russia russia less than one half of one percent of the american public considers this an important story trouble for as i said several meetings now with the russian president he's had the press conference obviously despite as you say this drumbeat of russian meddling russian collusion etc was that when you stopped you know don't stop trying to make some sort of at least because we haven't said to to make amends with russia do you think this will get in the way of those efforts. i think it will certainly get away of these efforts if he's removed and i think that's the ultimate goal of this campaign i think that one trump promised during the two thousand and sixteen campaign that among his most important agenda items would be to improve relations with russia and let's remember every single american president going way back well to to rosa to roosevelt and stalin thought that we had to have some kind of reasonable relationship with first russia and now the u.s. is our trump wanting to return to that is treated as some literally is being accused of treason for one of the say that so i think

there have been, these states have been petro states, both russia, russia's not a petro state that the gulf countries have been there. why was it comply with russia successful in tapping into the market come in building these relations? i think there is a regional reason for this and also macro economic processes that happen simultaneously at the same time. first of all, the chaos that was created after the vacuum that was created after the arab spring and united states didn't interfere in the region that much, following the new conflicts in the region have greater of vacuum and russia felt the right time to interfere and to become a player in the region. but the more important process happen and there are two processes actually. the first was the oil prices plummeted in 2015, but what's interesting, it happened at the same time with yes, and the west applied sanctions to russia. so as russia is constantly in a state of paranoia, being encroached, a were saying, they were hinting that the united states was behind the price plummeting, directly by intelligence offices. so they understoo

urged the western partners to ramp up the pressure on russia. those who do. use need to know that there will always be a serious price to pay if red lines across but today the united kingdom its allies to go further by calling on the european union to ensure its sanctions against russia a comprehensive and that we truly stand shoulder to shoulder with the u.s. we heard him speak to the u.s. peace institute he made his remarks and essentially he called for more hostility to russia in aspen and it's interesting because his speech was actually leaked to the press ahead of time so people knew what he was going to say before he said it then he followed the draft of his speech that was leaked pretty pretty closely and now just two weeks ago we saw a new sanctions imposed on russia by the united states in response to the accusation about the involvement in the chemical weapons attack now the latest measures will come into rounds those sanctions are they limit financing and exports they specifically banned the sale of national security goods that are sensitive like t

or proposing with russia? >> absolutely, senator. there's an extensive inner agency on the sanctions with the state department, with the department of energy, and of course with our closest allies and partners. >> mr. krebs, your testimony, you note, leadership role, the department plays in conducting elections, coordinating efforts to assess vulnerabilities and mitigate risk. within this structure, dhs also plays an important role in sharing information with election officials. i've visited with county clerk and officers in kansas with personnel within our secretary of state's office that conducts oversight on management of elections in our state. what steps has dhs taken to ensure that information intelligence is shared with local officials? my general impression is that while there's concern by election officials, they don't know the direct nature of any threat. >> so we have prioritized security clearances for state and local election officials, i think right now we're up to 92, and that includes every sin

which is called i hate religion i hate russia russia is the enemy and we almost. genuflect at the altar of this new religious icon and that's the way you can take the american people's money heart yearned tax dollars which could be used for housing and health care and the education the things human beings need and shovel it over to the defense contractors you have to explain to them that it's an absolute national imperative to do that in order to carry out this looting of the national budget and that's what we're witnessing right and he let me go to let me go to earl before we go to the break you manufactured consent this is what be in its most recent incarnation it's manufactured consent and and and i want to talk about the intelligence committee in the second half of the program but the liberal media loves it and they perpetrated go ahead girl thirty seconds. if it is manufactured consent tenet and i believe it's probably orchestrated some somewhere in the dark corners as well i mean what we have here we have mccarthyism two point zero even if you shake that amb

here to tell us the east of course russia has a lot of empty land but russia is still strong central asia is weaker it's the weakest link in the chain that. has so often china's population figures are a cause for concern the fear of the yellow peril is always there below the surface a region with such a low population density like kazakhstan is always very interesting for china not least since its very rich in oil agricultural land and oil are two resources that are absolutely vital for china's growth the new silk road which goes right across kazakhstan and a north westerly direction runs right past the big oil fields as zone of the greatest strategic significance to russia. but these days china is gaining in power thanks to its state run oil company c n p c it's a pipeline now transports twenty million tonnes of cars to the chinese province of sheen junk every year there's just one up in medicine we're going with in central asia the west is the most important region at the access to the west has to be secured for that because that's where the huge energy sources line is i mean that

putin is remarkably popular in russia. why? we'll tell you when we come back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the most powerful man in the world is also the most popular. >> vladimir putin's approval rating soared as high as 86% in recent years. consider that american presidents are happy when they break the 50% mark. ♪ >> how has he done it? partly it's the cult of putin. he has mastered the art of the manly photo-op. he rides horse back bare chested, finds ainge enlt treasures underwater, he rides a submarine to the bottom of the sea, he fights flames. >> ridiculous about a middle age world leader riding around shirtless on a horse like konan the barbarian after a dozen donuts. who thinks this looks good? >> everything that we find ridiculous about vladimir putin is very appealing in a media universe that he controls absolutely everything. >> perhaps the foundation of the putin juggernaut is a truism no mat wrer you liv matter where you live, it's the economy, stupid. >> after the chaotic years of yeltsin, putin stepped in and stab

you know misled by russia or russia is behind it and you know even though there are genuine grievances to be had with you know all sorts of things that in russia plays a minor role if any and you know on the internet do you buy the idea that all this racism and all this division and all these protests are all caused by russia. you know i honestly think it's just what i want to highlight is the intersectionality of what happened that day like there were a small amount of white supremacists here but there are a lot of people who are coming to counter protests then so i don't blame russia very wide variety of causes represented here in front of the white house says thousands of people have come out other not unified around much but when it comes to opposing the two klux klan opposing the white nationalist that is one thing that has brought all these people together caleb mop and archie washington d.c. . russia's prime minister has warned that if the u.s. goes ahead with sanctions against russia's major banks it will be viewed as an act of economic war that was after the first wave of meas

russia took a real blow to its sense of self during the. yeltsin years it lost a lot of power a lot of prestige the economy was terrible and i think under putin russia has sort of come back into a sense that it's a global player that its voice matters the economy has picked up russian people are becoming more proud of being russian i remember even six years ago when i first came here people kept apologizing to me for how terrible everything was that this wasn't like america and i had to finally tell them to stop i'm like i knew when i came here that this wasn't going to be like america you know that for me was weird because americans never apologize for a country like welcome to america enjoy. and for people to be ashamed of their country was so different and now i don't really see that i see people are more proud of their country and i think putin has you stalin in particularly the great patriotic war in the victory there as a way to inspire nationalistic pride now you said before the russian people a generally good at gaming or circumvent

thousands of civilians fled to russia but not everybody managed to get there. many were killed on the way. the s.n.c. in this one capable of defending themselves on their own against the will to train georgian army people died instantly. the peacekeepers were surrounded and couldn't help. russia launch the operational force in georgia to peace the military were fighting their way through to relieve. back oh georgian kristen michel saakashvili claimed russia had a tank georgia my country soon sold if i was against russian aggression russian russian troops invaded georgia they've been bombing georgia from numerous warplanes and specifically targeting civilian population and did you take a gamble your government largest its own attempt to retake so sasha we didn't that . we didn't have the morning of the eights my wife calls me and says that they bombed a couple hundred meters away from her mother's house i remember. i was actually crying and afraid and thinking that if anything happens to my family i'm going to kill saakashvili. and i meant that we met jim mistre

has been gauging what americans make of the latest moves against russia. well if you watch the recent hearings on capitol hill american politicians or rather al spoke out about what they think about these new moves against russia ongoing efforts to interfere in our sacrosanct election process seize and those of our allies are just some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime putin wants to break apart the american republic russia's attempts to interfere in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election are well and widely known russia has undertaken a campaign of malign activities in its attempt to compete with us our allies and our partners and cats up to thirty one gives us more tools with which to respond however a new gallup poll shows that among the u.s. public fifty eight percent that's well over half favor improving relations between the usa and russia and that it's just over a third thirty six percent that say they want further steps against moscow and now we decided to go out on the streets of new york and talk to people about t

russia russia all the time rather than making the adjustments in their own policy to try to win an election so yeah that could be time for that november election but i don't see how that strategy works very well now despite what the actual concerns of. an actual americans we seem to be stuck in perpetual deja vu more accusations of meddling more sanctions coming forward is that all we have to look forward to in the future. i'm afraid that that's what it looks like right now but eventually there it will have to come to an end but this and i think it will be when they finally dawns on them that it's not working and that might not be until the two thousand and twenty presidential election when we'll see whether that insurgency on the right in the left that brought trump and brought standards to the to the door of the nomination and to the presidency if that starts up again in two thousand and twenty will they be able to still blame russia for this for this dissatisfaction inside the american population for issues that were created by american rules and american congress and american presidents

because if the democrats lose it's going to be russia exactly it's going to be russia's fault so russia is the ultimate scapegoat you know it's the paranoia of not knowing what you don't know who there's going to be some meddling but how when where and the assumption that it's going to be a reminder that the election has not yet happened and it's going to be in november going to solve something by. then of course is already saying the head of the national intelligence director saying that there is evidence about russian involvement and we have lindsey graham who has just advised president trump to check the so-called ball that putin gave to him and house and get to check it for k.g.b. bugs we have this very same person elaborating with other senators this new draft of all which is called if i'm not mistaken or the translation protecting american security of from the kremlin said gretchen two thousand and eighteen so these guys they can forsee the future they can see how russia is mad and interested in a different i mean i really don't this remind me it's kind of a bad episode of the twi

you know misled by russia or russia is behind it and you know even though there are genuine grievances to be had with you know all sorts of things that in russia plays a minor role if any and you know on the internet very wide variety of causes represented here in front of the white house says thousands of people have come out on their not unified around much but when it comes to opposing new klux klan opposing the white nationalist that is one thing that has brought all these people together what we've seen since charlottesville is these groups have found it much much harder to organize there unable to bring off large events the groups themselves are splintering i think all that is a result of the fact that people have stood up in city after city and town after town and said not here not today i believe in the first amendment free speech and there's a time and place for demonstrations i wanted to be peaceful and have the right to speak their mind and sign my opinion but. i think it's good that you can speak openly in this country about your differences. russia's prime minister has a w

but the new silk road has little support in russia because russia has its own eurasian project and with the shock of housing it all yeah unless you find any they see a. couple stolen for putin as for stalin before him military strength is the primary factor but that's just not enough in today's world if acutely you need an efficient economy technology science which is putin's russia has none of that kazakhstan and his backers stand are already turning towards china while trying to maintain a balance but russia's all talk with us go all the china has the money all russia has is memories who glorious past was in the know you can call for. people like to come to the bridge of orenburg to enjoy the sunset looking west towards europe but many confess that they're looking the other way more and more often. at this moment i'm sure that it's easier will be our future just china and i'm sure other european our other regimes underside british developing and their influence a life our culture our wealth and that's why injuries our future or. maybe the new silk road will cross the ural river tomorr

and russia. more than a month after president trump's helsinki meeting, we remain in the dark about what the two leaders discussed. we continue to hear more information, accurate or not, from the russian government and from our own. it is not only embarrassing, but i believe this lack of transparency has implications for our national security. i'm not convinced that those who need to know in our own executive branch have a full understanding of what happened. after more than three hours with secretary pompeo, this committee has little more insight and we did before the hearing. since the administration has failed to answer congressional information,rovide i am formally requesting the department to provide all classified and unclassified cable traffic related to the helsinki meeting. i won't spend time today running through russia's ongoing transgressions. i think president trump's and others have warned that russia continues to undermine our democracy. russia uses chemical weapons to attack its o

you know misled by russia or russia is behind it and you know even though there are genuine grievances to be had with you know all sorts of things that and russia plays a minor role if any and you know on the internet do you buy the idea that all this racism and all this division and all these protests are all caused by russia. now i honestly think it's just what i want to highlight is the intersectionality of what happened that day like there were a small amount of white supremacy here but there are a lot of people who are coming to counter protest them so i don't blame russia well as he's blaming russia's nobody has some of the accusations is so off the wall that had a real good stretch the imagination to be believed. thank . you tell the hacking contest in the u.s. has revealed that it doesn't take a top notch russian computer expert to get into america's election infrastructure it actually. old could possibly do it. learn more about the twenty hacking contest that's what the link says and yes it's from a real website and the contests are real too it's for kids and it's not being he

for really a confrontational position against russia and then he gets to russia i'm going to helsinki and meets with putin and the american media says this is the surrender some vendor some and acting as if you know here's a united states spend seven hundred eighty billion dollars on war every year russia spent sixty billion and you had russia's on the march you know early and rideable and russia is that then spending is on decline right now ok it's not being increased here early does the united states need brushes an enemy is this the because it to justify all of these expenditures ok i mean brian is a logic lee looking at it but logic good politics don't always parlay ok i mean sensually we need an enemy it justifies is here montenegro is good it is adding value added to nato defense ok montenegro his army is smaller than the new york police force ok but we need an enemy here is that would russia's purposes because it's really easy to paint russia is as an enemies because it because it really demands stubbornly its sovereignty go ahead irl. i agree pete peter i mean we meet we mean

military assistance to russia what effect if any will that have on russia. i don't think i'll have any effect i don't think there's any longer any appreciable military assistance to russia thank you toughs you struggle to find that using the hubble space telescope at this stage russia doesn't need any military assistance from the united states i think this is zero smoke and mirrors i think this is just an attempt to confuse the public mind and united states to try and distract from the growing problems within that country problems of ratio injustice social economic injustice its attempt to force on force consensus when it comes to the ability of the us ruling class to wage wage domination in the world its position in the world so i don't think this will be of any what he and more school were sort of on now in a recent interview with reuters president trump actually claimed he would consider lifting russia thank chance if russia with to do something positive for the u.s. what do you think he means there and would he actually make good on that promise of . wel

good food russia sharing goodness. from moscow american far right groups are outnumbered by a counter protest outside the white house and washington becomes on the one year anniversary of the deadly good night the right rally in charlottesville where a near nazi plowed his car into a crowd of protesters. packing contest in the u.s. reveals that even eleven year old can interfere with the american election infrastructure and it seems impact the results. we can cause me around me and it reminds me when you look. at israel's controversial nation state law is up for debate jewish citizens claim they face discrimination while supporters say it defends israel's identity. this law says that this land is only for half of the population and half would be discriminated against well i think that what you just heard is the exact example why we need if you have a person who is not an israeli citizen these bashing my country in israel all citizens are equal under the law. this monday the thirteenth of august when you're watching out

relations with russia. state and treasury department officials discuss reports of russian interference in american , clarifying details into the july 2018 helsinki meeting between president trump and russian president putin. sen. corker: foreign relations committee will come to order. we want to thank our witnesses for being here today for the second in a series of hearings on russia. this committee is attempting to get a clearer sense of the administration's overall posture on russia. we thank you both for being here. we have outstanding witnesses today. we would like to understand what was agreed to when the leaders of our two countries sat down in helsinki. whether there were discussions about future arms agreements. today, we have received no real readout, even in a classified setting of this meeting. we would like to understand the administration's assessment of the threat posed by russia to us, to our allies and other countries and institutions around the world. finally, we need a better understanding

russia does not need u.s. military assistance russia has developed an age system which are in demand. all over the world all the u.s. is really doing is forcing russia to become even more self-sufficient than i was before so these military sanctions against russia are going to have exactly the opposite effect this is completely a robert kagan issue this is they were over russia and the sooner the american government grows up and acts like an adult the sooner for the american people and the rest of the world of course it will be. so trump russia collusion stories again in the momentum yet again but now one u.s. t.v. channel is under fire with it even suspected of having direct links to the kremlin and then you hawkins looks into the claims we've all heard about trump russia election collusion you know the great scam that brought the u.s. president to power who's asian of collusion collude passably it smells a whole lot like collusion there was ample evidence of collusion but where is the coalition you know ther

probe which led to the conviction is yet to throw up any evidence that his campaign team colluded with russia. where is the leadership you know they're still looking for where to find the. french interior ministry admits. involved in planning an attack and two thousand and fourteen was freed by. a bureaucratic failure. of a british policeman striking a teenage girl in the face during an arrest. debate about what constitutes reasonable force. growing please find a way to. tell us. any fools whatsoever. which you. are broadcasting live direct from our studio. with us. there was plenty of talk on wednesday about donald trump's presidency which is now looking increasingly precarious to the us leaders former associates have been convicted of federal crimes trump in hot water as his lawyer has implicated him in campaign and financial violations and the media is already getting in a spin over the possibility of impeachment. he be impeached with this i think the beginning has to be set and mark right now and wolf we're in a watergate moment but there is i think a lot for the president to fear impeach

relationship with russia mr michael said depends on europe and russia finding a mutual agreement in progress when it comes to the minutes of peace agreement on the continuing conflict in. praying so it seems that as the u.s. continues to isolate itself from longstanding partners such as you european union that could be no paving the way to new relationships with other countries to manage . political analyst nicole a medical vet's thinks that nato may have to transform due to internal fracture it what is changing now is first of all what donald trump has said during his political campaign that he thought that nader was obsolete i think you know the ripples of what donald trump center in his campaign and with his position is mike ross is getting good on quite well with donald trump so i think he's testing this out on the american public don't forget that this is a very important for macro who is preparing the next european elections i don't think it means that it's going to be the end of nato but definitely do see that nato as an institution and dating back to nine hundred forty nine

they testify on sanctions imposed on russia. the senate banking committee is examining that sanction strategy and what impact it may have on the russian government. this hearing as two hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the hearing will come to order. this morning we will receive testimony from senior administration officials. from the department of treasury on the implementation and effectiveness of the sanction program currently in place against russia. the reason for the sanctions include russia standing military deliveries in ukraine. with the warfare activities in the cyber attacks against the united states critical infrastructure including malicious meddling in a host of other activities. the banking committee has a leading role. were specially those with financial institutions. to address serious threats from the national security of the united states. just about one year ago on august 2. the president signed into law. sanctions act of 2013. it included in it. with this strength and sanctions against russia.

they reported that russia started the conflict and said nothing about soccer surely opening fire on the night of the beginning of the olympics in beijing i talked to many people i've posted many things on the internet and letting people know the truth about what really happened now if. you. can stream it is. that the council to campaign to end in my own drive to france to be. scarce. and armor much of it but i know that i wouldn't want to sleep alone there is this one window in my ground they sleep in there is like a crack in them but i would i would remember oh that's from the war center was afraid she was saying she was afraid that surely it was going to be there and that he was in the soldiers after us every year when we went back for several years she had those feelings. years after the war i believe that eventually other countries would learn to recognize that georgia was at fault in this war especially after the european commission came out and said that georgia started the war. i thought for sure that other countries would follow suit with russia to recognize the independence of

spent sixty billion and you had russia's on the march you know early and rideable and russia is that then spending is on decline right now ok it's not being increased here early does the united states need brushes an enemy is this the it because it to justify all of these expenditures ok i mean brian is a logic lee looking at it but logic good politics don't always parlay ok i need a sensually we need an enemy justifies is here montenegro. it is good it is adding value added to nato defense ok montenegro's army is smaller than the new york police force ok but we need an enemy here is that would russia's purposes because it's really easy to paint russia is as an enemies because because it really demands stubbornly its sovereignty go ahead. and i agree pete peter i mean we mean we mean let's face it it's the fence industry we need an enemy. nato is searching for a new mission i mean really it's a good defense grouping but you know should russia be included in that as well and and what's the real mission the mission has is is not there i don't think there's any fear for russia invading

observe and he russia sanctions do then the first will effect the sale of u.s. made electronic components in aviation and space industries moscow's saying those might his only going to impact the russian public to say russia could face more draconian restrictions in november though they could report in the banking and trade between the two countries for that as well as limit diplomatic ties there's also the threat that russia's state could be banned from u.s. airspace caleb maupin has been gauging what americans make of the latest moves against russia well if you watch the recent hearings on capitol hill american politicians are rather outspoken about what they think about these new moves against russia ongoing efforts to interfere in our sacrosanct election process seize and those of our allies are just some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime putin wants to break apart the american republic russia's attempts to interfere in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election are well and widely known russia has undertaken a campaign of malign

russia russia moments controversial causes and causes opposed to those causes. putin's thesis is the american constitution is an experiment that will fail if it is challenged in the right way from within. putin wants to break apart the american republic not by influencing an election or two but by systematically inflaming the faultlines in our society. accepting this is essential for developing a long-term response to the problem. the most dangerous thing we can do is politicize the challenge which would be a gift toputin. what russian efforts are about is geopolitics . nguyen and his self-justifying struggle for dominance. as stated by handbook of the russian armed forces, the goal is to carry out mass psychological campaigns against the population of a state in order to destabilize the society and the government and force that state to make decisions in the interest of its opponents. doing so involves an evil toolkit of statecraft, first employed by the whole civic and soviet state, upgraded for the digital age.the state department takes this threat seriously.

i think president trump is on the correct track with russia. using leveraged in order to change behaviour but it is up to them. this line that mr trump has been tougher than president 0bama, you know that is not true. no, it is absolutely true. 0bama went to congress in 2016 and asked for a bipartisan statement on election meddling and was rebuffed by the republicans in congress. and then after donald trump won, 0bama ordered diplomats and agents out. it is a fact that president trump went way beyond what president trump went way beyond what president 0bama had done in sanctioning russia, expelling diplomats, closing diplomatic facilities and tanning russian business leaders. this is a fact. it is the truth and while president 0bama may have started it, donald trump took it well beyond what president 0bama was willing to do against russia. strategist you would accept that president trump has ground to make up in public perception. this is a president whose former national security adviser and foreign policy adviser have pled guilty to lying abo

for an assistance on south and credit lines to russia are the focus of fresh u.s. sanctions targeting most guys coming into force on monday. with brazil's presidential election looming the latest polls put in jail to formally the new latest film in front. while donald trump is intent on renewed trade talks with china beijing has reportedly decided to wait and see and may talks of in each minute until after the mid-term election. alex salmond's scotland's former first minister through the country's government claiming its inquiry into his alleged sexual misconduct is in the book he gave his side of the story here everything like the perils of having a fear of show you having a field opportunity i love affair the scottish government process doesn't do that you don't get to see the evidence you don't get to present your own case. very well malcolm it's three pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me becky aaron good to have you with us. now the united states says that fresh sanctions against russia will kick in on monday the penalties are linked

russia as a state sponsor of terror. from the kremlin aggression act, introduced by senators graham and others on august 2. i wrote an op-ed not long ago that the moral designation is -- case for a designation is sound. russia as a state sponsor of terror. russia has invaded its neighbors, georgia and ukraine and supports the murderous regime of bashar al-assad and is engaged in active information warfare against western democracies, putting meddling in the 2016 united states election. as we have talked about here, continuing to attempt to influence the elections going forward. to both of you, do you believe the russian federation has supported acts of international terrorism, including assassinations on foreign soil? mr. billingslea? yes or no? sec. billingslea: they have definitely engaged in outrageous behavior. -- salivary attack is salisbury attack. more than once. sen. gardner: secretary mitchell? sec. mitchell: i agree with the premise. i don't want to get ahead of our deliberative ross as about what to do about i