enter vladimir putin. russia's president is trying to erase the memory of his country's humiliation. to restore its power, its influence. but modern russia isn't reinventing the soviet union, its methods are different. these people in the kremlin do understand that idea of restoration of the former superpower is impossible. but they have other ideas, and their idea is to be a blackmailer, to be a producer of mischief, to be the grand spoiler in the world, to be the nightmare for the neighbours and for the outside countries. so this is the new idea of superpower and empire. it is an idea that russia has put into practice close to home. in 2014, masked soldiers in unmarked uniforms seized control of a ukrainian peninsula, crimea. they acquired the nickname of the little green men. but they were russian special forces sent in by president putin after ukraine's pro—western revolution. at a referendum, voters backed joining russia. but the poll wasn't internationally recognised. it had taken moscow less than

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it's got to be none other than vladimir putin. vladimir putin is now running up and down the syrian border with his military forces opposite turkey, with russian flags, going into abandoned u.s. bases there and making a big propaganda deal of it. he's holding back funding or was holding back funding, certainly not empowering ukraine to sort of fight back against russia. fighting within nato allies like turkey? i mean this is all -- you know, vladimir putin wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks, i must be dreaming. this is absolutely fabulous. it benefits nobody more than vladimir putin in my assessment. >> and david gergen, according to "the washington post," this information came from george kent, the state department official who testified in front of congress last week. it's so interesting to me because for the last two years, trump supporters on television and elsewhere have been saying -- and the president himself has been saying, nobody has been tougher on russia than donald trump. and really the only kind of main t

she's a critic of vladimir putin. she's someone who is known not to agree with president trump on russia. what do you think she might be able to add to the committee's understanding? >> she could add a tremendous amount, lawrence. everybody who works in the national security committee wonders why she was working there in the first place. she's not the person you would expect to go along where trump makes himself the junior partner to vladimir putin. she's been at the nexus of the contacts she had. she may not have been in the room but had access to call transcripts and keep in mind this ukraine story is intertwined with the russia story in part because russia invaded ukraine but also remember, it's not just that trump was asking ukraine to investigate the biden family, he was also asking ukraine to investigate this kind of crazy right wing conspiracy theory that russia did not intervene in the 2016 election, that it was actually ukraine and so fiona hill would know a lot about what donald trump said to vladimir putin

. >> as you pointed out, all roads lead to vladimir putin, which is where we go next. brett mcgurk, thank you very much. >> thank you, andrea. >>> and with all roads leading to putin, the common thread in all of president trump's most controversial decisions becomes much more clear. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." ♪ ♪ applebee's new pasta and grill combos. choose from up to 12 combinations starting at $9.99. billions of problems. sore gums? bleeding gums? painful flossing? there's a therabreath for you. therabreath healthy gums oral rinse fights gingivitis and plaque and prevents gum disease for 24 hours. so you can... breathe easy, there's therabreath at walmart. driven each day to pursue bioplife-changing cures...ers. in a country built on fostering innovation. here, they find breakthroughs... like a way to fight cancer by arming a patient's own t-cells... and a new therapy that gives the blind a working gene so they can see again. because it's not just about the next breakthrough... it's all the ones after that. >>> i also pointed out to the president

host: one thing that's striking about vladimir putin is how strong he is. i was with him in the same hotel lobby in chile during a conference and i was pushed aside by one of his bodyguards and i turned around and i could looking in the high and i realized this is a man who i think has issues. guest: well, he has issues whether it's a function of his physique or not i can't say. host: what are you worried about terms of russian intervention in terms of of the russian-- the election. guest: it's important for the american people to understand it has not stopped. this has been constant. they were actively involved in 2016 as we saw through hack events dealing e-mails from the dnc from john podesta and others. they tried to infiltrate our electrical system-- the twhirl system putting out false information then they were active on social media trying to pit americans against each other over domestic issues of contention whether it's razor immigration organs or what have you in the whole thing is to discredit our democracy to cause people in this country to hate

>> know because vladimir putin wants to show -- he has concerns. the one is that u.s. and nato get back to the syrian field. secondly, that israel and iran continue military confrontations in syria and he cannot prevent this. his third concern is that there is a military clash between the assad army and turkish troops in northeast syria. that this proposed military confrontation between the assad army and the turkish army could a provoke president erdogan to ask nato to help. this is white nato and the eu don't want to be involved in military action in syria. >> what about the kurds? they have been given six days to get out of this buffer zone. they say they have already withdrawn. when i read that, it seems like a military conflict is preprogrammed in the next six days. >> vladimir putin is giving the kurdish militias another six days of trying to withdraw. the question is after vice president pence has been agreeing with president erdogan on the cease-fire, from where did they have to withdrawal and what is happening there? there are a lot of misunderstandings. at th

vladimir putin isn't wasting any time. the russians are already announcing they'll move additional military hardware into northeastern syria because their area of influence is increasing so much, the russians also telling america to get out as fast as possible. the one leader that vladimir putin spoken to tonight, jake, has been bashar al assad who has voiced his satisfaction at the deal that putin reached with erdogan tonight. >> fred pleitgen. thank you. >>> the writer of the op-ed has a new book and the white house just responded. we'll bring that story to you next. stay with us. brown-bagging it. so why you paying so much for wireless? i don't know... the new tracfone wireless gives you all kinds of control. leftovers? tracfone lets you keep your leftover data each month. what are you doing? unlimited carryover data! hey! do you know you can get unlimited talk and text on america's best 4g lte networks for $20, no contract? unlimited talk? i like that! because on sundays you know i gotta talk to mama, then on... this i

putin, the fa ct the strength of vladimir putin, the fact that donald trump does not want to come up against him in any way and when you look at the future of the geopolitics we have, but trainer on one axis, russia in the middle of europe and the usa moving further and further away, it shows that the balance of verbal power really is changing. in the meantime, in this area what is being called by erdogan asa area what is being called by erdogan as a safe zone, the kurds have had to flee. it has been a hellish two weeks. it has been hellish and many children, women, men, civilians, noncombatants children, women, men, civilians, noncombata nts are being children, women, men, civilians, noncombatants are being pushed out of the area. some call it ethnic cleansing. the turks say we must do this because we feel threatened. positive take on adult. yes —— a positive take on adult. yes —— a positive take on it all in the arab news because they see president putin being involved as a positive thing. let's look at the guardian. all the front pages in the uk have this story of what hap

if vladimir putin has every interest in causing our president to believe that ukraine, apparently all the things that the president believes, it's a corrupt country beyond repair, if putin can have the president thinking and the president of grhungary has its n reasons, it can drive a wedge and allow putin to succeed in controlling half of that country, retain crimea and do whatever he wants in ukraine. >> at least part of what the post is reporting comes from what george kent told congress an investigators last week, you said you weren't there for that part of it, you're on the intelligence committee, can you say -- i don't know if you heard anything that kent said. did you find him to be a credible witness? >> um, i did. i did. in fact, of all the witnesses that we have interviewed, kent was remarkable. kent is one of those people with near photographic recall. when you ask him a question, he can tell you dates, times and locations. so truly a remarkable guy. i mean, again, we've had this experience on a number of occasions with different witnesses. when you have an opportunity to s

putin in a different context, is at ukraine, president trump had conversations with vladimir putin and george kent who testified before the house impeachment inquiry suggested that putin helped sour the president even more on ukraine. viktor orban, the prime minister of hungary who is a pe rariah i more corners, what do you see the significance on that reporting? zbli >> this president since the first day in office, he likes the authoritarian figures. he likes the putins and the orbans and he's got this chummy relationship with kim jong-un, he likes them, but at the same time he trashes allies, canada and europe in trade deals. he sanctioned negative comments about angela merkel and theresa may walking away from the kurds. this president embraces authoritaria authoritarians, talks uper erdon what a good guy he is, and then he pushes away our allies. in this world and especially the world of tomorrow, we're only safe based on the quality of the allies we have because the challenges that are out there, we need to address them together, and when the president shreds those relationships he

that's a company with ties to russian president vladimir putin a company that was named for a region known for its diamonds the government here has granted by invest a lot of mining rights the country wants to look for the precious stones more efficiently whether with russia or other partners because what other. president has said that we are open to anyone who wants to cooperate in public private partnerships to exploit these valuable resources. this is the minister at the russian embassy he's with the areas that are of a security advisor to the african countries president so iraq has seen as a man with power behind the scenes who has helped train its army russians can now view that army on state television only a fraction of the trainers are officers from the russian army most of the rest reportedly work for a private russian security firm for the opposition here and that's unacceptable. don't. corporation was working with mercenaries in our constitution it is forbidden that's why we are against kind of 4 edition so what's behind russia's new solidarity with central africa how much

vladimir putin became the new king maker of syria. and president erdogen and president putin carved up syria between them. they issued a declaration. there was no mention whatsoever of the united states. and now here the kurds are following that declaration. geopolitically, the u.s. was pushed aside here. president trump opened the door to turkey's invasion, announced he was pulling u.s. troops back from the border and out of this country, making the u.s. presence irrelevant and making previous promises to the kurds irrelevant. vladimir putin presented his terms and those terms are being accepted. the kurds themselves are very, very worried about their future. they had a promise from the united states, a promise that president trump broke. now their future is in vladimir putin's hands and it is not at all certain. so there are still people leaving their homes still worried that they will face a campaign of ethnic cleansing. >> what is putin's end game here? is it simply to keep a foothold in the middle east so he has a role, too? or i

vladimir putin, who oversees a failing nation, quite honestly, and is not the future. and yet that's exactly what erdogan's doing when he decided to invade syria. far too many men, women and children have died at the hands of assad, putin and khomeini. and it's unthinkable that a leader of a nato nation will be joining this list of murderous thugs. but given the latest developments in syria, many of our kurdish partners will likely die because of erdogan's offensive. these are the same kurdish fighters who, while we lost less than 20 soldiers in the fight against isis from combat, lost 10,000, over 10,000 of their own men and women. these are the same kurdish fighters who spent the past five years hunting isis leader al-baghdadi, alongside our men and women in uniform. and we saw that come to fruition in a great way this weekend. without their constant pressure on the isis networks, our operators may have never had the chance to bring him to justice. not to mention the fact that turkey inevitably threatened to attack our troops in northern syria. that's why i'm proud t

he wants to be vladimir putin, and clearly vladimir putin has something on donald trump. >> ambassador wendy sherman, thank you so much for joining us. i really appreciate it. >>> when we come back, we have breaking news from ft. worth tonight. the police officer who shot and killed a 28-year-old woman in her own home while she was playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew. that police officer has tonight been arrested and charged with murder. we'll have more on these late developments next. next. ♪ applebee's new pasta and grill combos. choose from up to 12 combinations starting at $9.99. thenot actors, people, who've got their eczema under control. with less eczema, you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. dupixent is a biologic, and not a cream or steroid. many people taking dupixent saw clear or almost clear skin. and, had significantly less itch. that's a difference you c

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he wants to be vladimir putin. and clearly vladimir putin has something on donald trump. >> ambassador wendy sherman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> and when we come back, we have breaking news from fort worth tonight. the police officer who shot and killed 28-year-old woman in her own home while she was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew. that police officer has tonight been arrested and charged with murder. we'll have more on these late developments next. that i can get.e breaks at liberty butchemel... cut. liberty mu... line? cut. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. cut. liberty m... am i allowed to riff? what if i come out of the water? liberty biberty... cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ colon cancer screening for people 50 and older at average risk. honey, have you se

he's doing the bidding of vladimir putin and authoritarians like hungary. this is not the president making a foreign policy decision taking in that case to the american public and pursuing it. say things like we want to allow russia to do whatever they want in ukraine. this is the president instead surreptitiously working against the united states government against the states policy positions of the united states government and policy positions with bipartisan backing in congress working actively against those interests and also adding in his own corruption and saying, while i'm pursuing mr. putin's interest in crane i'm going to see what i could get out in terms of dirt on my political opponents again and once again that alignment with orban and putin and trump he's claiming his place with the leaders that are frankly a -- an anthema to our interests. >> and at the same time as rudy giuliani was trying to sell this toast -- this totally unsubstantiated conspiracy on behalf of the democrats to weaken president trump. >> they are trying to push aside the ca

we heard erdogan on his way to sochi to meet with vladimir putin. he said, while he is threatening to resume this operation if there's no full withdrawal by the end of the deadline, he did seem to be leaving room for diplomacy and negotiations and saying they are seeing signs of the kurdish fighters withdrawing. >> jomana, thank you. >>> president trump is pushing republicans to fight harder against the impeachment inquiry. and some of the voices are what he needs to work to leave. bill taylor, the top diplomat for ukraine, scheduled to testify before investigators today. bill taylor is the top diplomat in ukraine and called the withholding for infamous favors, crazy. more from boris sanchez at the the white house. >> dave and christine, president trump talking about unity at a cabinet mean on monday. he said that he envies them because of their unity because they stick together and they don't have, in his words, a mitt romney. listen to more from president trump. >> i think they're lousy politicians. but two things they have -- they're vicious and

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when vladimir putin trolled our own correspondent, our president and all of us in the process. "the 11th hour" is just getting under way on a wednesday night. >>> we mention this had before the break. it's not an overstatement to put it this way. we want to show you the moment today when the president of russia trolled our own reporter, our president and all of us by extension. here was the scene, a conference in moscow, moderated by our own veteran correspondent, keir simmons, who asked putin through a translator about interference in our elections. >> is russia, as robert mueller alleged, attempting to influence the 2020 elections in the united states? >> translator: i'll tell you in a secret. yes, we will definitely intervene. it's a secret so that everybody can laugh, and so we'll go big but don't tell anyone, please. please don't tell anyone. >> also during that conversation, putin said he would be fine with the white house releasing notes of his conversations with trump during last year's summit in helsinki. until now, moscow has been opposed to releasing conversations be

. >>> russ president vladimir putin says he wants president trump to release details of a conversation they have. so will we get that transcript? how will it make the president look? we'll have more next. my husband never paid attention to his health,

what do you make of donald trump's attitude toward the kremlin, toward vladimir putin? it seems to be very solicitous. he seems to have lots of secret phone calls with him that aren't detailed even to his national security staff we find out later sometimes from the russians. what do you make of his attitude towards russia? >> donald trump's attitude towards russia? >> yeah, or his relationship with them. >> it's bizarre to say the least. everything he seems to be doing is geared to benefit the russians. whether it's denying ukraine $400 million in badly needed military assistance when the russi russians are on their territory and denying the new leader white house meetings to benefit his own political interests that benefits donald trump and that benefits vladimir putin. in syria we're seeing this inimpulsive, you know, incredibly dangerous decision to pull our forces out and again that benefits in this case isis, turkey and of course vladimir putin. and we could go through a whole range of policy choices that the president has made from denigrating our allies in nato t

today, russian president vladimir putin called the agreement a permanent solution. >> ( translated ): in my opinion, these decisions are very important, maybe even momentous, and will allow to resolve the situation. >> schifrin: but today, russian ally assad met with his forces in idlib, the final rebel stronghold. he called the agreement an "illegal annexation." >> ( translated ): erdogan is a thief who stole the factories, stole wheat, stole oil in collaboration with isis, and now he is stealing the land. >> schifrin: the u.s. also objects. today, the administration's point man on syria, ambassador james jeffrey, told the house foreign affairs committee that the russian-turkish agreement increased instability. >> in the process has scrambled the entire northeast, undercut our efforts against isis, and brought in the russians and the syrian regime forces in a way that is really tragic for everyone involved. >> schifrin: the administration has promised to impose new sanctions on turkey. jeffrey did not follow through on those threats, and instead called the russian military "paper tig

i wanted to ask you about the connection between vladimir putin and donald trump. we all know putin is a big fan of trump and trump is a big fan of putin. get themd to readmitted to the g7 just a couple months ago. the connection between the two of them to me seems to be deutsche bank. i don't have any proof but putin is one of the richest men in the world. they say he is worth $200 billion. i don't if that's true or not but that's what i've heard. i don't see how we could make that kind of money being the president of a country that has an economy no bigger than california. i think there's something crooked going on there. and trump on the other hand, over here on the side of the ocean, he is wealthy, too, and i really believe there's some connection between them and deutsche bank and maybe some money laundering going on. like i say i can't prove it but that's just a feeling i've always had because they are such big fans of each of the everything trump does in some way or another and if it's russia. >> guest: john, first of all i love hot springs, and i served wit

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as well come it's a premier aimed at making a big impact hosted by russian president vladimir putin african leaders have gathered in the russian resort town of sochi today for the 1st ever russia africa something it's russia's attempt to jumpstart relations with the continent 3 decades after the fall of the soviet union which then was a major player in africa. but russia does not want to stand aside while other powers like the e.u. china india strategically increase their influence and investment on the continent putin has big plans in africa especially with regards to the continent's rich mineral resources and arms deals let's have a look at selected activities of russian companies in africa there's energy multinational lukoil that is involved in a natural gas development project in the republic of congo in sudan and the central african republic a close ally of president putin has secured licenses for mining gold in guinea russian element in producer roussel is digging up bauxite and in zimbabwe russia plans once to dig for platinum until now russia's trade with africa was quite muted last

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as washington's influence wanes russian president vladimir putin the striding the regional stage after a visit to saudi arabia he was received by abu dhabi's crown prince mohammed bin ziad on choose day. the u.s. of impose sanctions while the european union imposed a limited farms and bargo on cherokee gem and chancellor angela merkel on monday called for an end to fighting. it kept us from another thought also i have already said from my side that we believe that with only justified security interests this offensive should be ended by because it is visibly causing a lot of human suffering and it's also bringing a lot of uncertainty with the fight against. it. but for now the offensive continues and so does the human suffering as civilians a court between the fronts night these young victims of turkish shelling in a hospital in reza 9. days who can at getting out the u.n. says that 160000 people have already fled the fighting. are the latest now let's go to w.'s dorian jones he's standing by in istanbul good evening to you dorian what are we looking at tonight has this operation gone f

putin and his turkish counterpart to red chip type adult i'm encouraged by the fact that it also had a spear of seeing a significant reduction in violence in fighting. we have to build on that to work for a political solution all the crisis. in syria hundreds have died and cousins have been displaced since turkey launched its attack on the kurds on october 9th. designers at st sun destruction this is a town of ross a line under turkish control after fierce fighting a cease fire has been declared to allow kurdish troops to pull back but fighting still fared up on thursday. they are due on has not ruled out further military strikes sure you are our soldiers and syrian national army up are trolling the area of operation inch by inch and they are destroying the traps if any of these terrorists come across us there is no natural right to crush them as it is already marked in written documents we as alucard are used the president also said he would send syrian refugees in turkey to your up. they panic when i say we'll open the gates. don't panic. when the time comes the gates can be opened

the country was being occupied piece by piece. >> vladimir putin, these are really gut issues. when he gets angry, feels that he's being dissed, his country's being dissed. he can react very, very sharply. >> journalist david ignatius watched putin's land grab with growing concern. >> the ukrainian leaders have been just struggling to understand what to do. they had believed that the united states stood with them as they tried to become truly independent of russia. a russia that was fighting a war on their boreders to try to suppress them, suppress their freedoms. that they method, america stands with us. >> with russia now occupying crimea and eastern ukraine, the new pro-american government in kiev needed its friends in washington more than ever. but the obama administration first wanted ukraine to clean up its house. then vice president biden was named point man for the anti-corruption effort. >> it's absolutely critical for ukraine, in order to be stable and prosperous and part of a secure europe, to definitely, thoroughly, completely root out the cancer of corruption. >> t

we're also hearing vladimir putin come to the defense of our president and say that a whistle-blower complaint filed by a u.s. intelligence official is baseless. so we've got an imprisoned felon and vladimir putin trying to help the president and rudy giuliani right in the middle. >> peter baker, you too are a veteran journalist. the three of you that we have on this broadcast are consensus walk-on hall of famers and we are happy to have you. can you rank what you saw from this president with anything else in your repertoirele memory? >> not, not with any president before him. obviously i would start by saying jeff mason who you showed asking that question is also an all-star for heaven's sake. that guy is the best of the business and was very unflappable in the face of what can only be described as presidential intimidation. i think he was asking an important question, and i think he didn't get the answer to the question he asked. he stood there, and he held his ground until the made clear he wasn't going to ask his question. and i think you saw a president today who's agitated, who

putin and his turkish counterpart reject type one say they're adding another 6 days to a cease fire that was due to expire on chuse day evening turkey wants to establish a buffer zone 30 kilometers wide along the syrian turkish border from which kurdish forces would be excluded. the kremlin had predicted long and difficult negotiations perhaps that's why the meeting was particularly friendly organized extra nice weather for you 6 and a half long hours of negotiations between vladimir putin and air to one mostly in private the hardest thing to decide was high big this so-called security zone should be and who controls it. in the very long discussions we have succeeded in finding a solution which in my opinion is very important and promising. it is the solution for the very complicated situation that the turkish syrian border. the main outcome is that russian military police and syrian border guards are to work together during the ceasefire to ensure that syrian kurdish forces retreats russian and turkish troops will take control of a buffer zone 10 kilometers wide. had demanded 35 ki

putin and russia. mostly in private the hardest thing to decide was high big this so-called security zone should be and who controls it. in a very intense discussions we have succeeded in finding a solution which in my opinion is very important and promising. it is the solution for the very complicated situation that the turkish syrian border. the main outcome is that russian military police and syrian border guards are to work together during the cease fire to ensure that syrian kurdish forces retreats russian and turkish troops will take control of a buffer zone 10 kilometers wide. had demanded 35 kilometers. syrian refugees will move into the areas that are to be cleared of terrorists. facts around 1000000 people. in. turkey and russia will be hoping for international help in refugee resettlement proposal to establish an international safe so and was not considered in the sort she talks. do you need europeans for another unnecessary big player in a situation that's very difficult anyway and then you

outsource the national security of united states with vladimir putin is not an option. and failing to tell the leaders on both sides of the aisle of such an operation is while you are complementing russia it speaks volumes about what the administration thinking is and on a related note it is despicable, despicable to question the loyalty and the patriotism of lieutenant colone colonel, and iraq war visit veteran, purple heart recipient, simply because of his heritage. when i think of the national security and think of the lieutenant colonel and we should be praising him not defiling him is a one - - as the president has done. >> thank you very much. i'm glad to be here with my colleagues the death aku bakr al-baghdadi is good imposes a disruption for isis but it is not a mission accomplished moment because we all know that they have not been illuminated and there will be a resurgence of isis with those 11000 isis fighters that were detained by the kurds. and watching the present make his announcement about the success of the operation my hearts think when one of the fir

isis beheadings, and vladimir putin's annexation of crimea. we knew all of the stuff that isis was doing, and this change my perception of this global information war we are living in. david: as you say, it was a tsunami, pouring in. you are at the state department, wonderful organization, but not exactly the most flexible. you said, let's use facebook, twitter. going into government, coming from a media background, people are not that conversant with media. i was trying to get everyone on social media. i would do it myself. that is where i started to see stuff.ssian troll i would start tweeting, crimea must be a part of ukraine, this is a violation of norms. and i would get barraged by these russian trolls calling me everything you can imagine. nascent coming from the ira. subsequentlyhas been indicted in st. petersburg. decisions, notr so much what to do or not to do, you decided we are not so good at creating content. we cannot do this by ourselves. we have to essentially curate, as much as we generate. richard: that was my attitude in that

it's it's vladimir putin's birthday there are say good idea. maybe there's some commercial interest that we think that the president has in turkey. we've heard about trump commercial real estate operations and aspirations in istanbul. there's a story here because all of the other naanalyses through the conventional lens don't make sense. you have to go through the prisms through what you have to see it. and through that prism it makes perfect sense for vladimir putin in russia. >> mika, you listen to what we've been saying for years. i have been saying for years that donald trump does not look at foreign policy as a way to help the united states of america. said for years that if you want to understand moves when it comes to foreign policy, you've got follow the money. why is donald trump behaving the way he is towards saudi arabia when the rest of the world is deeply offended by what happened last year with the murder of a "washington post" columnist? because donald trump the saudis love his quote and paid him $150 million, paid his businesses

all things that should be ukraine's bounty have an improper influence on vladimir putin. and all the people around heim whoim should be looking out for the people have an improper dependence on exxonmobil. >> right. >> everywhere you go, what is it about this industry that creates this kind of vortex corruption in almost every place it operators? >> extractive industries tend to do this. if you are a country that discovers resources that can be extracted and sold internationally, you're subject to this sort of paradox where the revenues you get from that ought to help you out. >> all this money, it's raining money. >> except what it tends to do is it tends to create a stream of money to the elites and to the government that is going to allow extractive industries to come in and take that stuff out. that elite and those government ministers end up having no purpose on earth other than keeping themselves in power to cash in on that stuff. and it makes the government essentially serve only that one purpose. so equatorial guinea, which you mentioned. they see $25 billion pour

putin one of. the main questions right now is where all this leaves the us and this is exactly what i asked of the russian minister of defense and the russian foreign minister who continued talking to the journalists after the leaders left and to that surrogate lavrov reminded us that russia believes that the american troops and their involvement in syria was illegal in the 1st place and certainly showing the top russian army official reminded us of the expiring deadline of the so-called previous ceasefire brokered between washington and ankara and expressed some real skepticism about the americans fulfilling their promises the united states has very little time left to fulfill their obligations very soon the time bar expires which was meant to see moving heavy equipment to weight combat units and so on the singer russian officials went on to bring up a few other issues that are still out there regardless of the greenman for example the fate of eisel terrorists that were released as a result of thi

president vladimir putin meets with saudi arabia's leadership on a highly anticipated state visit his 1st to the gulf monarchy since 2007 we are there to follow the events as well. bosco is bringing plenty of prizes which include russian movie cartoons everyone's heard of the home crowd plenty of surprises ready for mr burton and co but for now what that will be has remained the secret. also this hour a video obtained by our team is roughly agency that shows the syrian army entering province and northeast syria earlier kurdish officials said they've struck an agreement with damascus to deploy government troops to the area. meanwhile fears of a few tensional terrorist resurgence are growing kurdish officials say a turkish from barman led to hundreds of relatives of foreign i saw members fleeing a prison compound with turkey dubbing the claims this information. you're watching are to international and bring you here live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. president putin is in the saudi capital on a rare state visit the 1st in over a decade where he's exp