with russia. completion of this transaction would be devastating. not only does the program in which the west has placed its air capability, but it would potentially rupture turkish interoperability with nato, a key aspect. let's be clear, the s 400 is a russian system designed to shoot down an aircraft. it is inconceivable to imagine russia not taking advantage of that opportunity. russia's largely uncontested intervention in syria has rippling ramifications across the fence relationships and facilitated one of their key goals. undermining nato cohesion. russiaeuropean partners remains an unreliable partner by striving to accommodate the regional disputes russia shows that cannot be trusted when should choices need to be made and friends need to be known. unlike the relationship with united states, it comes with long-term commitments of maintenance and interoperability that the united states routinely provides. russia is a transactional partners seeking its own benefits, it thrives in chaos and t

too much dependence on china economically expensive russia -- at the expense of russia. there is a concept of division of labor. anda can provide economics, russia can provide politics and security. this is seen by many as a flawed concept from the beginning. it is unlikely that china would like to provide only the economic role. years, sooner or later, china would like to andide a future security in centralenefits asia. we can already see it happening in pakistan. how touite an issue actually make this interest meat. there is general understanding and russia that cooperation is the best, at least trying to find how we can cooperate and contribute everyone should be on the agenda, at least at the top political level. again, it is not going to be easy. it is a very difficult task. i think the russian government understands well it is not going to be easy. just still better than .aking some balancing acts actually, a lot of countries, including central asian countries want infrastructure, want major powers to provide more incentives and to cooperate. >> great. let's open i

but russia isn't north korea. mr valinsky, when you go home, you can speak to newspapers, there are certain radio stations that will put you on air. it's not north korea. i can speak to one newspaper into one radio station. i can't make that kind of interview on russian television. it's not possible at all, at all. that's why i was taking part in the so—called presidential elections, to be able to say something to the people. now, secondly, what i want to say, not only problem with opinion polls but also sometimes it happens that, for a long time, you are, looks like a complete failure in politics. mr churchill was in that position some time. so you're are saying to me, your time is yet to come, despite the fact you've been in politics for the last 30 years? what i want to say, my time, i'm not sure, but the time for my ideas will come. let's think about russia's status one more time, let's think about what we see and again, you say surveys aren't important. to me, they sometimes can be telling. 70% of russians

and russia that was a speech that we just saw by the u.s. defense intelligence agency director left and general robert ashley at the hudson institute in washington and he was talking about moscow's questionable approach when it comes to nuclear testing and they say that it's helped russia enhance new warheads now what we have seen is that russia categorically denying that they violated anything to do with that accord and perhaps on this occasion the russians have a point they have got the backing of an organization called the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty that the c t b t a a bit of a mouthful there exactly that there question is where's the hard evidence this time it has been backed up let's have a quick listen the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization has full confidence in the ability of the international monitoring system to detect nuclear test explosions here when we have seen this language time and time again but on this occasion now we've seen. in the words like probably russia probably not adhering to an internat

medals and russia. russia's elections it meddles in every other country's elections on earth the us actually has an agency the so-called national endowment for democracy that's medals and other people's elections says it has a democratic component a republican component so each of the political parties can be in on the loot but it's. the right. remember when when time magazine heralded the election of boris yeltsin by saying no we it will act our man are we got our man in as the president of russia and the issue of time magazine talked about what the us had done to bring about the election of yeltsin the corrupt and poor drunken guy so it's this is what the u.s. does that meddle everywhere they seek to be the world government and they can't stand russia they can't stand china can't stand iran anybody who says we're not going to go along we're not going to take orders so i would look to see the u.s. become a country of peace. or what kind of chance that is i don't know but they can at least not have a wa

russia is interested in how to save russia and euro economic relations. and the economic partnership it has with many countries in the european union. could -- the neal arms treaty? as i understand, russia has chinased the topic with the-- how have we not seen -- until the chinese part? talks with china -- step with chinese partners. on.crisis is going russia is going forward to. [indiscernible] i do not see that. russia would criticize china in not joining the treaty although russia would like to update new arms control and regime -- as far as i am concerts. our military experts also to be part of the foreman. so i guess this is the picture that we have now and russia , russiave -- well thinks that it would be better for everyone if we negotiates but ate arms control this stage there is nothing we can really do. action we canar do now basically. and the last thing about the standards in the arctic -- this is an adjusting question because china -- has grown and china would like to step up its presence and even if you look at the maps, you will see this is

give us an overview of russia's involvement right now in venezuela. well i think the most important thing to point out here is that at the end of march we officially got confirmation from russian officials that there are actually russian troops in venezuela now that comes after months of reports that there were troops kind of being flown in military equipment as well and at the end of march russia finally did actually confirm that they did however say that it was military experts that were being flown in rather than troops that would be active in fighting they said that these would be military experts that would carry out consultations of some sort we don't know how many of those military experts or of those troops are on the ground but it is clear that russia seems to be willing to back to the end they also cited the fact that they have this military greenman between them this whale and russia that was signed in two thousand and one so very much emphasizing that they as opposed to the u.s. as they say are legitimately in the country and legitimately

russia today isa system of mafia state. russia today is a kind of a mafia state. right, but in the mid— 90s 30% of russians lived in poverty, now it's down to 1296 lived in poverty, now it's down to 12% or 13%. russia's people measure the reality of putin pass russia today against what they remember of that chaotic. and frankly they still stick with putin today. yes, this is right, but it doesn't mean that this is their choice forever. it is interesting to compare along the strong propaganda. it is the understandable outcome of that. but you can recall what happens in europe in the 1930s with italy, with mousseline e, for example. i'm not thinking about germany. it's a very special case. but let's speak about italy, let speak about mussolini, everybody was so happy with him, everybody was so happy with him, everybody was so happy with him, everybody was voting for him, everybody was voting for him, everybody was voting for him, everybody was supporting him. western countries were so happy because there was no unemployment, economic growth. but that is the way to

russia, iibrated but russia woulde balance china with united states or of china would balance russia with the united states. another thing to say about this technology, we are witnessing more and more chinese technological competition. this is a strategic factor that should be taken into account. because, as russia is having guessing, there are no other moree may have russia-china technological cooperation, so russia would have no other option but to have more technological cooperation with china than europe. i guess russia would rather have it with europe. but it is not the auction. -- it is not the option. foret me commend csis inviting a russian speaker and giving us a chance to listen to the other side of the story. quick question about academics in russia. is russia producing a sufficient amount of chinese and far eastern experts to support what is clearly a burgeoning and important relationship? and closely related to that, do you feel the russian academic community and think tanks are having an effect on russian foreign policy formation, or are the two realms compartmentalized

russia and iran u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo has visited the black sea resort of sochi he held meetings with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov and russian president vladimir putin now speaking ahead of those talks putin found words of praise for the recently published a report on russian meddling in the 26000 u.s. election russian leader also expressed his desire to completely restored the bad relations between his country and the united states a feeling that he said that he sense is reset for kate by donald trump people are this talk about that. a bit more joining me here the big table is sarah palin she is a political analyst and russia expert with the german council on foreign relations it's good to have you on the show so let's talk about what we're looking at the u.s. in the russia and russia they disagree on many things still they value to improve their relationship how are they going to do that they're probably not really going to do that as leverage and they want to they want to improve

has in venezuela from russia's standpoint the russia's ambassador to the u.s. he said he doesn't understand why these discussions go on going through the correct channels the correct diplomatic channels from the u.s. point of view they've made it absolutely clear that they do not trust the way that russia is doing its nuclear testing and developments and the question is are they going to be able to sort out this latest blast behind closed doors or are we going to continue to see them wash their dirty laundry in public international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes the united states should provide evidence to support its allegations them. i mean if they said there is strong evidence there's convince you know that it's better to just say i like you know probably is true very. it's based on intelligence which is always liable to do anyway well this is standard u.s. unilateralism i mean if you come onto the range the same thing is is highly damaging and should be done with open your vigilance at a press conference which everybody has a chance to ask que

had developed a partyline that trump had no business with russia and no connections to russia. in addition to denying any connections with russia, the trump campaign reacted to reports of russian election interference in aid of the campaign by seeking to distance himself from the russian contacts. for example, on august 26 in august 2016, foreign policy advisor jade d gordon declined an invitation to russian ambassador mr. kislyak's timing was not optimal. about russian interference. on august 19, 2016 manafort was asked to resign amid media coverage scrutinizing his ties to a russian political party in ukraine and links to russian business. and when the media published stories about pages connections to russia in september 2016, trump campaigned officials terminated pages associated with the campaign and told the press that he had played no role in the campaign. on october 7, 2016, wikileaks released the first set of emails stolen by russian intelligence agencies from clinton campaign chairman john podesta. the same day the federal government announce russian government direct

russia will sanction and as a response to those same russia would try to interfere in the elections. even at that time putin was establishing contact with the head of italy's far right leg a north party my tail so the me now in a high position in the italian government. 5 years later with the european election approaching salvini is promoting closer cooperation between the right wing populist parties including germany's a.f.d. . and remember if we join salvini struck her look penn and others in one big group will have the political clout that a lone warrior doesn't have to form policy and the company took the a.f.d. decided to take a pro russian stance falling in line with all other european right wing populist they rejected western sanctions against russia over its interference in the conflict in eastern ukraine and after 5 years of building alliances with europe's right wing extremists moscow scored a victory among the key operators were various shadowy figures such as manual oxen . in november 2014 he was photographed in eastern ukraine together with a frenchman victoria lanta an

this is all about russia, russia, russia. they don't talk about russia anymore. it turned out to be a hoax. back, isn'tfought that terrible? of course i fight back. it was a false accusation. a totally false accusation. it is a very sad period for this country. in the end, i will consider what is happening now to be one of my greatest achievements. exposing this corruption. arerter: do you think they going to impeach you? president trump: i don't see how. they are possibly allowed. i can't imagine the courts allowing it. i never thought that would be possible. to me it is a dirty word, the word impeach. it is dirty, filthy, disgusting. it has nothing to do with me. i don't think so. it is high crimes and misdemeanors. there was no high crime and there was no misdemeanor. how do you impeach from that? it came out there was nothing to do with russia. the whole thing is a scam. it is a giant presidential harassment. honestly, i hope it goes down as one of my greatest achievements. corruption that nobody knew existed. reporter: [indiscernible] president trump: i thin

and russia could sit back at u.s. claims that it is probably conducting nuclear tests in the arctic calling the allegations baseless. and the dramatic surge in knife crime in london leads to some in the somali community sending their children to east africa to live in stuff . they feel pushed to see if it kills children big fear diffs safety it's. themselves it's created very dangerous for the. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international one sean thomas glad to have you with us right a british court has postponed an extradition hearing for joining us on shafter the health of the wiki leaks founder sharply deteriorated is currently in prison in london archies probably boyko has more. the extradition hearing isn't taking place any longer today the sound was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pair via video link but he's not even well enough to appear via video link 10 minutes on she's been moved to the hospital wing old belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison

parliament and takes a clear stance on russia. continuing the policy of sanctions punishes europe and our own farmers as much as russia but suicide. observers say russia seeks to expand its influence in europe by supporting right wing populist leaders as well as their extremist voter base. this sort of the idea is to fan the flames constantly with gasoline and to people who already stood up against each other well it's by remaining propaganda a propaganda aimed at fracturing our society. in france the yellow vests protests against the populists room to maneuver almost every weekend people take to the streets of france to demonstrate. a court proceeding in this southern polish city has thrown unexpected light on russia's suppose that methods of peddling its influence to europe's right wing base the defendant is michelle p. a right wing radical on trial for terrorism since early 2019. he's accused of having organized an arson attack in neighboring ukraine. specifically in who's who wrote western ukraine home of many ukrainian citize

in the russia and russia they disagree on many things still the valve to improve their relationship how are they going to do that they're probably not really going to do that as leverage and pump they want to they want to improve their relations again because it at an all time low basically but they do not have a lot of how to make that happen most of the arabs are talking about are conflicting areas so areas of conflicting interests like like iran like arms control so it's unlikely to happen actually the alleged russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. presidential election it did a lot of damage to the little trust there already that there was between washington and moscow russia's foreign minister he has responded to these allegations that russia was culpable for the interference which take a listen to what he said today i gave mike and on official a non paper and on official memo. and it lays out the. relevant to actual inference information of what it. u.s. interference in the domestic policy of the russian federation including the notorious law in support of freedom in the ukraine it was

and then in soviet russia. right? to 1917.s 1914 then we have two revolutions in 1917, so there's a tendency, -- russia is becoming a failed state in a sense already in 1917, 1918. and then in 1918 and inevitable civil war, the so-called reds are trying to hold onto power, and on the periphery, the white armies are trying to dislodge them from power. the whites as we know will inevitably -- or eventually be unsuccessful. but for a time the whites controlled the grain growing regions of russia, and the reds led by lenin and trotsky control only a very small piece of territory, people in the cities of soviet russia starved in 1918 1919, 1920.cular to add to all these problems the war revolution and civil war, the bolsheviks have an idea when they come in to wipe out the free market. in other words, to prevent peasants from trading their surplus grain. so the bolsheviks began requisitioning grain with the idea that of course they are a communist government. trade should be outlawed under a communist regime. so thi

oftentimes, when we talk let'sly about russia, start with russia, with russia's approach to its nuclear forces and the concept that they might be willing to escalate to de-escalate, we get pushback. there is no evidence of that. there is no evidence in official documentation. i won't talk about sources, but if you can talk about why your assessment is in fact a fact that they are testing in this manner and we are confident that this is in fact russia's approach to why it is organizing their entire arsenal this way and their strategy that they have lowered the threshold of when they might consider nuclear use in a purely conventional conflict. >> part of their doctrine goes back to the 90's. there is no first use policy asm russia and they see that an ability -- and you hear different ways. some contexts, you'll hear it escalate to de-escalate. it has been written about as de-escalation control, where they think that using a low yield nonstrategic nuclear weapon would bring other powers, it would be inviting conflict to the table, where they can control the escalation and talks that ensu

but russia, one of russia's goals here is to weaken the united states. and in many of these issues, we really don't need russia's help in resolving issues like north korea. iran managed to insert themselves a little more in, as in syria, but really, can the united states not figure it out together with our western allies without russia's so-called help? there ought to be ways to do that. there ought to be creative diplomacy to do that. i would hope so. >> u.s. allies didn't give pompeo the warmest welcome. didn't give him a group meeting, as he asked for. i wonder on iran, people may forget russia was a signatory and remains a signatory to the iran nuclear deal. supports staying in that deal. should we expect putin to be lobbying pompeo and the trump administration to somehow find their way back to the deal or at least not blow it up more? >> well, i think we can certainly expect that. russia is pretty close to iran, actually. it's been one of the big sort of geopolitical shifts of the past several years. the fact that historically russia and iran have a

has in venezuela from russia's standpoint the russia's ambassador to the u.s. he said he doesn't understand why these discussions go on going through the correct channels the correct diplomatic channels from the u.s. point of view they've made it absolutely clear that they do not trust the way that russia is doing its nuclear testing and developments and the question is are they going to be able to sort out this latest blast behind closed doors or are we going to continue to see them wash their dirty laundry in public. well international affairs commentator gelatin steele believes the u.s. ought to provide evidence to support its allegations. and if there is said there is strong evidence there is convincing evidence just to say highly likely probably is too very. it's based on intelligence which is going to be flawed anyway well as to just raising suspicions and raising just. international relations trying to get over mistrust and i think the use of leaks officials intelligence officers to. t.v. channels like fox news or to. the wall street journal which are on

has the president been tough on russia, tougher on russia than anyone else? >> no, he hasn't, and -- and, you know, he gave us somewhat cherry picked descriptions of his policies, but broadly speaking he is a president that vladimir putin has dreamed of. he's done his best to try to weaken the alliance in nato. he has done his best to encourage splits within the european union with with the brexit situation in the uk. he has given free reign in syria. these are things that have been beneficial for russia in policy interests and began geopolitical aspirations, and i was just going to say there have been some sanctions that have been imposed under his presidency, but that was generally imposed by congress over trump's objections. >> that's right. >> his rhetoric hasn't matched sort of the imposition of those sanctions. we have a lot still to talk about. you're going to stand by with us, glen kesler from "the washington post." the claim from the president that the courts would never allowed impeachment. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ applebee's new loaded fajitas.

and russia. the russian president actually praised the work of the special counsel, robert mueller, but without mentioning the mueller repo report, that the mueller report concluded that russia did, in fact, interfere in the election. you've done a lot of research now, what russia's up to here in the united states, what china's up to here in the united states. what's your reaction when you hear this? >> it's truly remarkable, because what is the potential area for agreement between russia and the u.s.? just go through the list of issues on which the u.s. and russia are on opposite ends of the spectrum? venezuela, the iran nuclear deal. remember, russia is a signatory to that deal. the u.s. has pulled out of it. syria, the u.s. and russia on opposite sides. election interference, not just in 2016, but which was attempted again in 2018, and is expected to happen again in 2020, russia has not changed its behavior there. russia still occupies large parts of a european country, ukraine, in spite of am

meeting in the former russia iran i said by jan. in the russia. we have in past into parliamentary exchanges connections between the regions of the two countries and and are developing the contacts. between the corresponding ministries including of course the foreign ministries where interested to further promote our relations in all those years and being external political one of the priorities is that fair the combination of efforts on fighting terrorist threat including. law enforcement. and also we call parade. to ensure the interests of the citizens of russia and iran. who are in the territory so each other. we have a good relations of trade investment corporation of course or of course some illegitimate sanctions they hamper it which the united states unilaterally. bypassing the u.n. security council to introduce and say and. we confer here as. to promote our economic cooperation and to look for if in fact he wastes which. would be under the power of this in an acceptable illegitimate american the restrictions. would have good. prospects. co

and russia. would have to clearly have the upper hand in any deal he would have to look as if he and the united states come out the big. that's a really interesting question because the fact is you're right you're completely wrong to me the only way because of the fact that so many people in america bizarrely think that trump is somehow compromised by russia which in turn has forced him to be far more hardline and russia than his predecessor but i hope obama was which is probably why. the election my main benefit russia overall at the point is that the only way to is going to be able to get it through with russia is if it looks like a complete victory for the united states and also that's probably going to be on except the bill in the in moscow so i mean as i said earlier what they're basically trying to do here in russia as far as i can see as far as the russian russian expert community and you know political class are saying is to try to stop relations getting any worse because as i mentioned l

and in soviet russia, 1914 to 1917. in 1917.o revolutions russia is becoming a failed 1917 and a sense, by 1918. in 1918, the inevitable civil war. the bolsheviks were trying to hold onto power. the reds. and on the periphery, the white army was trying to dislodge them from power. army would eventually be unsuccessful. but for a time, they can crawl -- controlled the neighboring regions of russia. a very small piece of territory. people in the cities of soviet in 1918 to 1920. bolsheviks have an idea when they come in to wipe out the free market. in other words, to prevent peasants from trading their surplus grain. idea that they are a communist government, so trade should be outlawed under a communist regime. peasants to confiscate grain. russia has known peasants and there are pockets of famine. prepared.asants are they have something they have put away for a rainy day. they have the surplus. in 1921, they have nothing. 20, 25, orwards of 30 million people, they are threatened with starvation in soviet russia. the wri

way, that's one other thing, if you look, this russia, russia, russia. they don't talk about russia anymore because it turned out to be a hoax. it was a hoax. and then they say, gee, he fought back. terrible?t he fought back. of course, they fight back. because it was a false accusation, a totally false accusation, and it's a disgrace, and it's a very sad period for this country, and i think in the end, i will consider what's happening now to be one of my achievements. exposing this corruption. you think they are going to impeach you? how they can because -- although i can't imagine the courts allowing it. gotten into it. i never thought, that would even word.sible to use that to me, it's a dirty word, impeach. disgustingy, filthy, word, and it has nothing to do with me. there think so, because was no crime. it's high crimes and not with orchies, it's high crimes and misdemeanors. there was no high crime and misdemeanor, so how do you impeach me? t came out that there was nothing to do with russia. the whole thing is a scam. giant presidential harassment

russia gets back at u.s. claims that it is probably conducting nuclear tests in the arctic calling the allegations basis. a dramatic surge in crime in london we saw in the small e community to send their children. to live and study. they feel put to sea for 2 of their children they fear the safety to go. to themselves it's created very dangerous for the young people. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international and sean thomas glad to have you with us right a british court has postponed an extradition hearing for julian assange after the health of the wiki leaks founder sharply deteriorated the songs he is currently in prison in london are disappointed like one has more. the extradition hearing isn't taking place any longer due to the sound was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pair via video link but he's not even well enough to appear via video link 10 minutes on has been moved to the hospital wing all belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison whe

russia relations. sessions separately into with between six and twelve ambassadors including kislyak. although sessions stated during interviews with the office he had no specific rink election of what he discussed with kislyak he believe they into for a few minutes and they would have exchanged pleasantries and said some things about u.s.-russia relations. later that evening gordon attended a reception as part of the conference. gordon ran into kislyak as they took their plates of food and decided to sit at the same table to eat. they were joined at the table by ambassadors from kyrgyzstan and ab bazan. during which gordon mentioned that he meant what he said in his speech about what was said, the republican platform. 2016 convention foreign policy advisers to the trump campaign working with republican national committee revealed the foreign policy platform to identify the earlier platform and candidate trump's position. the campaign team discussed toning down language from the platform that identifie

effort to speed russia's f.s.b. yes indeed. this is will still be beautiful the border force of russia small aside i was about to say i was in domodedovo airport just last week and you see the guys they look at your passport very nice smiley generally and. they are in fact another face of the f.s.b. slightly less formal than the marching you do mr job number less keeping the borders safe here didn't going to be the same thing will disable innocent people as will the story. do the same job for the country of interesting lee right now marching across the red square. these servicemen over a brigade where i happen to spend a couple of like around a month or so which was part of my military education and it has one of the largest you know drill drill sites in all of russia for example for example the famous tank biathlon. competition takes place on the territory of the brigade the same thing to me was the rest of the world it rushes to the top by often competition oh it's something it's basically it collects a number of

present in the middle east in syria russia is defending looking after its bases which are for russia independent from turkey. which are for the russian conception important yes i understand it it's a defensive position at the end but there think russia could be much more active towards a solution of this conflict and should act together with the americans i've in mind still. of one conviction it's not proven i know but if the russians and be americans. it would have acted in very beginning over the entranced syrian crisis and if at that time level off and kerry would have gone to damascus and told bush to please stop your behavior be quiet i think we would talk and would not have got syrian conflict and the civil war we've in syria and i think invest been someone who has been telling to both to moscow and to washington please steyn from acting there ok well i mean there are a lot of a lot of oh you're making the a lot of points you're making there obviously in syria as far as the moscow another in beijing they consider the war one against nature powers in syria and you seriously thin

the russia and for the future of russia's exports as well russia is number one exporter of that. at the same time and i share is the biggest producer of oil in the world to remain ahead of other countries and the incredible rationale threats out of the continuous u.s. sanctions however the action the economy managed to would stand the adverse effect of sanctions and gosh an economy actually is growing so that out of your threats there except if the aberrant fans decide to impose further. sanctions on russia but as i said russia is a 2 would stand at it sanctions thanks to using r.t. international and he would have to take your thoughts on a story so do get in touch by following us on social media see you again in 30 minutes. this in petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing to keep economic issues facing russia emerging markets and the world thousands of business community members attend a forum to address today's vital issues. watch our special forum co

for the future of russia's exports as well russia is now number one exporter of that as in the world at the same time and i share is the biggest producer of oil in the world to remain ahead of other countries and the incredible rationale threats are out of the continuous you as sanctions however your national economy managed to would stand the adverse effect of sanctions and get action economy actually is growing so that out of your threats that except if the aberrant kens decide to impose 3rd of the sanctions on russia but as i said russia is a 2 would stand at the sanctions. thanks for joining us on our national we're back in just over 30 minutes with all the latest theater. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. if we ever need an anti-war movement it's obviously now trying to hyper aggressive foreign policy faces little resistance from the mainstream media in fact numerous liberal news outlets function as a cheering section for the president where is the moral outra

there is nothing legal whatsoever about russia's action. it's an early test for ukraine's new president, volodymyr zelensky, who was sworn in on monday. mr volker said he believed mr zelensky would stand up to moscow on this issue and others. some critics fear he might be more accommodating to russia than the previous incumbent. mr zelensky himself said that by allowing the servicemen and boats to return, russia could send the signal on stopping the conflict with ukraine in a civilised way. we will see, he said, what path the kremlin chooses. danny aeberhard, bbc news. let's ta ke let's take you back to japan to show you these pictures coming in of shinzo abe and donald trump getting ready to play golf. there they are in the golf buggy, getting ready to move off. they are on the east of the japanese island, probably at quite a nice golf course, by the looks of it. they have a lot to talk about, this is quite an important state visit. not only is it the first state visit for the new emperor, emperor naruhito, but there is plenty to talk abou

russia, russia, russia. russia has disappeared because i had nothing to do with russia helping me get elected. but the president tried to clean up that part about russia helping him get elected. >> russia did not get me elected. i got me elected. russia, if anything, i think, helped the other side. >> reporter: here's the reality. a 2017 u.s. intelligence community report stated, we assessed putin and the russian government had a clear preference for president-elect trump. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. >> reporter: the president appeared sickened by the idea of being impeached. >> it's a dirty word, the word impeach. it's a dirty, filthy, disgusting word and had nothing to do with me. >> reporter: even as democrats are using the "i" word more and more. >> i think we should open up an impeachment inquiry. that's a more direct name to the oversight we were already involved in. >> repor

russia and the e.u. trade is better and the quality of the dollar has a better how much do your thing so you should save peat corporation between russia and or steer the e.u. . you've got the e.u. tough line on russia has been subsiding and now we have pragmatism coming out thing that assumption but it's been well sanctions are always an obstacle because they are legitimate. without taking into account the. charter this is the dream which was the practice of the. of our western counterparts this is what they do. i understand i believe that nothing should be done in a unilateral way but russia is ready to find a compromise that is ready. to search for solutions of the most difficult problems in. music sure. but not through sacrificing our fundamental our essential national interests you know but still we are. very. we're not rigid. we trade turnover with. the you even with the u.s. we had a 20 percent increase of trade yes the total amount is negligible but we still saw a role growth and so we saw growth

it's ok to be xenophobia against russia. it's just if you look like for instance if you just just instituted a different nationality if you said mexicans were he puts russians in that article people would be screaming about it so. yeah he went over the top that's what this guy does he's paid to scare people so they can make trillions of dollars off investing in the war machine in the united states ok thanks for your thoughts on that comedian amp and as a commentator said to me joe thanks for your time. great thank you. ok next to the news we first brought you just over an hour ago a school shooting is being reported in a suburb of denver in the u.s. state of colorado now believe that at least seven people were injured in the gunfire no fatalities have been reported though as yet the school is reportedly attended by more than eighteen hundred fifty students and police have arrested two people in a searching for a possible third if forces are evacuating the school although some students are apparently still inside the local sh

you're supposed to be guarding against russia germany goes out and pays a year to russia. we have not deployed the full set of tools yet that could significantly undermine if not outright stop the project. we emphasize that companies involved in russian energy exports are taking part is something that could prompt a significant risk of sanctions if you come up with the same actions or the car industry or german banks or the german chemical industry and so on and so on and then you tell them they have to keep their freedom. on this same person their quantum in our hands sorry this can't be honest ironically enough it seems that energy aside trump and co have done everything every possible thing to alienate europe from threats of a trade war to straight up trying to dictate policies to countries like germany so not only is it cheaper for the e.u. to get its gas from russia it naturally doesn't want to keep all of its eggs in one basket. germany is entitled to secure its energy requirements in various ways one of these ways is fresh natural gas i have a big problem with a 3rd

with europe without russia and there creating a ukraine without russia also so yes allied ourself with yes very unsavory people and indeed when you see that. with their. spread and their helmets this is the same people that the nazis force here with the backing in their lives to say much about it does it or is that just a freedom of expression issue. i mean i believe it makes me furious it makes me fear you know i think. on the right to your car you know yes you know just politically i'm from up on i actually so it's not surprising but these one thing buffy there's a lot of discord in western countries about some of the stuff that's actually going on that. i think you know a little should be more than disquiet ok ok you know it's not about revisionism because really you know there's an effort to to diminish the soviet war effort i think you know i lived in poland for many years before i lived in russia and the removing war memorials. from those things you know that's kind of moving into this secret area ok. so be it more war memorials like in hungary with six hundred thousand so be it

and russia. how has that damaged the alliance, and sometimes people say that the biggest challenge that nato has is just getting through the rest of this administration. >> thanks for allowing us to plug our harvard study. doug and i spent six months on both sides of the atlantic talking to nato leaders in north america and in europe. 60 people, we talked a member of congress. we testified before congress. a tried to approach it on nonpartisan basin. -- basis. and our tradition is nonpartisanship. we all served republicans and democrats. >> let's just reiterate that. you're looking at people who have served over a republican and democratic administration, very important to remember. >> right. study which this tries the analyze the health of nato. i want to start by saying we think nato is in great shape. it needs reform but it is strong and is definitely part of america's future. as we looked at the problems and crises surrounding nato our first recommendation is that absence of strong presidenti

many reformists and many beautiful come from russia to participate because you see it russia's contribution to that festival so you know it is enormous you know not russia is a traditional participant and so could be a pleasure to see you there and again thank you for inviting me here to sochi i was really pleased to see this place this is a new place for me it's been another traditional visit to the capital is something different thank you for the future. of these years from. now we'll have an opportunity to for austrian and russian journalists to ask 2 questions each one starts with our friends from austria. seen through the press agency. yeah. plenty. ask me good afternoon. if you haven't guessed i would live to ask you a question about the meeting with you mr president you said that both sides take interest in restoring their lation between russia and the united states. what kind of environment should be established for that to happen are you already. have a one on one meeting with. traumatic stress what do you think about such a meeting taking place in the end there where the joint gov

. >> i rise today to discuss robert mueller's recent report entitledrf with russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election the mueller investigation with a full and thorough investigation of the russian government's efforts to interfere the 2016 presidential election as well as any length of coronation with that campaign of donald trump the deputy attorney general rosenstein said while appointing the special counsel that public interest requires hoe investigation under the authority of a person who exercises the degree of independence from the normal chain of command for i'm confident special counsel mueller will follow the facts and apply the law to reach a just result. i encourage all americans to read the redacted version and to draw their own conclusions. the report lays out in detail russia's attack on our country before and during the 2016 elections. the special counsel rightly concluded the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a sweeping and systematic fashion. january 2018 i issued a report on behalf of the democrats on the senate foreig