interferes russia gets involved russia destroys russia it's called a whore style contrie and this report well this is a very aggressive move i cannot imagine all of parliament call in britain and the grace of or horse country well of course in the united states hostile country despite all their actions against us so you can see from this report who is really aggressive and then under the thumb see you in just a 2nd it's just a little treat to be here we are in no time nor do i get intimate from a legal point of view i want to get everything i want i will just 10 seconds ok just 10 seconds in this report this report calls to investigate every of on connected to putin and some call it suggest that any people connected to the kind of russian state even if they're involved in charity activities in the u.k. are somehow suspect you magine what would happen if the russian parliament areas or the russian press wrote that anyone connected to boris johnson should be suspect that's absolutely wrong from a legal point of view and to say that boris johnson or the conservative governments were pro rus

does russia what does russia make of the strategy. well we do at the current moment we don't see any efficient strategy for afghanistan as far as we know and the u.s. troops are only capable of protecting their own basis and providing at least the security for their own personnel and that is all they can do actually what russia really wanted from them was to fight the drug trafficking and drug production russia expected that the u.s. will deal beneficent the ministration in kabul nothing nothing of that none of that happened in this is the problem and steal some of the military i think that mess of u.s. presence in afghanistan is dangerous for us so they will welcome the u.s. withdrawal but still there is this problem of who will actually get into this to been a tale of afghanistan and that is why russia is actually working with contingency policies and. lots of effort is being paid now to prepare for some emergency situations when we have either resurgent isis or another crisis in afghanistan in order to protect the conies to borders

interferes russia gets involved russia destroys russia it's called a whore style contrie and this report well this is a very aggressive move i cannot imagine all of parliament call in britain and the grace of or horse country well of course in the united states hostile country despite all their actions against us so you can see from this report who israeli aggression and then under the thumb see you in just a 2nd it's just a little treat to be here we are in no time nor do i get intimate from a legal point of view i want to get to everyone i will i will just 10 seconds ok just 10 seconds in this report this report calls to investigate every of on connected to putin and some call it suggest that any people connected to the kind of russian state even if they're involved in charity activities in the u.k. are somehow suspect you imagine what would happen if the russian parliament areas or the russian press wrote that anyone connected to boris johnson should be suspect that's absolutely wrong from a legal point of view and to say that boris johnson or the conservative governments were pro rus

nothing changes inside russia. the political fate of russia will be decided on the streets, not through the ballot box. it won't be next month or next year, but it will certainly much cap are -- certainly happen much sooner than 2030 six. the international consequences are more important. by western attempts leaders to placate or appease putin and his regime, were morally dubious and fundamentally wrong. now, they become illegitimate as well, they become akin to dealing with a usurper. this needs to be publicly made clear by the leaders of western democracies. i put together some of the initial reaction that came from western democracies to this electoral exercise. very strong words from the chairman of the u.s. senate foreign relations committee. vote has swept away all reference of putin's legitimacy. from the osce, they said, the outcome of this vote was decided long before the ballots were tallied. to know it impossible the true will of the russian people. michael, you are never short of opinions. i give you an

let me just say about russia. russia used to be a thing called the soviet union. because of afghanistan, they went bankrupt, they became russia, just so you do understand, okay? the last thing that russia wants to do is get too much involved with afghanistan. they tried that once. it didn't work out. >> leading off our discussion tonight, jonathan swan. reporter for axios. his full interview with donald trump will air on axios on hbo monday night. also joining our discussion democratic congresswoman sherrill of new jersey. she's a graduate of the naval academy and a former navy helicopter pilot and a russia policy officer, a member of the house armed services committee. and congresswoman, we always begin with the higher ranking among us and any member of congress is higher ranking than jonathan and i. and so i want to get your reaction to what you just heard, especially as a russia expert in that interview. >> well, i thought that interview was striking. and, you know, as a former russian policy officer, we have known for years russia does not have our interest at

russia is succeeding. in this specific case, it may be that russia assessed that the taliban was insufficiently active in striking coalition forces and needed incentives in order to hasten u.s. failure in withdrawal. it might be that russia sought to complicate the u.s.-taliban relationship. whatever the strange reasoning may have been, this crosses a threshold. russia is seeking to exploit implausibly deniable asymmetric operations now directly against u.s. military forces. the russian government has gotten away with its phase zero operations because we are not well equipped to compete in the asymmetric space, because we tend to view these operations as political, not security competition, and because we have all allowed the implausibly deniable to be denied and explained away. the result has been a creeping escalation and exploitation of asymmetric operations that thwart effective u.s. response . caution is warranted. the other end of the conflict spectrum is mutually assured destruction, but caution doe

we we re evidence that russia interfered. we were told they had not seen any evidence, but that is meaningless if they haven't looked for it. the uk government took its eye off the ball because of its focus on counterterrorism. the government had badly underestimated the response required to the russian threat and is still playing catch up. to which this is the uk government's response. we categorically reject that. and we offer a second placement on the threat russia poses. next, let's hear from mark lyall grant, the uk's national security adviser between 20— —— 2015-17. the suggestion in the report that somehow the government at the time had taken its eye off the russian ball and didn't see russia as the threat that it is is com pletely russia as the threat that it is is completely wrong. russia was front and centre of the national security review in 2015. what is truth is that i think the government was more focused on the hard edged, direct hostile activity by russia. whether that was threatening nato, annexing crim

for russia eurasia. susan thorton is currently senior fellow at yale law school and former assistant secretary for east asia and pacific department of a state. all three have had deep experiences, practitioners and thought leaders in their field and i think they have a unique capacity to encroach russia, china and u.s. policy with just the right balance with altitude on one hand and granular on the other. they will speak for no more than five minutes and we will do a moderated round of conversation and then answer your questions. we will have a live q&a "after words" to ask a question, use the live chat feature in youtu youtube, e-mail us at press office at cie p .org or tweet us at carnegie and dowell using # carnegie connects. with that, evan, the virtual space is over to you. >> thank you. pleasure to be with you. ... february 1972 visit to beijing. that was a point in time when the u.s. and china were fighting a proxy war in vietnam, and china were still just crawling out of the mess history of the c

prime minister you somehow manages to charney out of russia. this triple release of beaches announce. what if off come the regulator did respond and said we're going to meet with the drama's people and we're going to talk to him about why he's concerned does that mean that it's a sham this independent regulator a kind of ally and actually we don't have a free press. well it is rubbing off on be quite happy to meet with the leader of the major opposition. and not beyond. trying to leverage what he sees dear on the report produced by manchester universe last year which was quite just in included r.t.t. beams best left a lot to guess dhamma may well say that you are russian stooge for appearing on this program he's banned his entire front bench from this program and from this channel. so who is there a problem in the house of lords you know the press are attacking them as a lords right now for the fact the you just said that 323 pounds you're going to get for a zoom call to. a to do legislation in this country what do you think of the criticism th

russia russia russia russia to get us focus aggressively on russia's and bent really what the british government doesn't yet whether they follow this up with aggressive moves against russia where the report just comes out and it's a 2440 hour and then just we will get back to actually more important things because as i said if you look at the report there ain't much in it it's a lot of much ado about nothing and we have got far far more important things as british citizens to worry about at the moment which is about the biggest threat to our liberties and freedoms in this country which we faced probably since the days of cornwall so i think i think it really that's what we should be focusing on ok near look we're going to leave it there we've run out of time but so good to talk to this afternoon that was neil clark journalist and broadcaster thank you thank you. i mean the ongoing protests in america president on trump has announced that he will send federal forces to all violence ravaged cities across the nation democrat governors to suspect their states are being targeted for politi

for russia-eurasia. and susan thornton is currently senior fellow at yale law school and former assistant secretary for east asia and pacific affairs at the department of state. all three have had deep experiences in their field and i think they have a unique capacity to approach russia, china and u.s. policy with just the right altitudeith the medic on one hand and granular on the other hand. each will speak for five minutes. ofs is a moderated round conversation and then onto questions. we will have a live q&a afterwards so to you -- to ask a question, used the life feature at youtube or email us or tweet us at carnegie and doubt using # carnegie connects. evan, the virtual spaces to you. >> thanks and it's a pleasure to be with you. i will start with the u.s.-china relationship. this is a relationship that's basically in freefall and after about 25 years in this business, i'm trouble -- i'm having trouble seeing the floor. the core is really a change in the relationship between economics and security.

-russia relations? is that in fact in a catastrophic situation right now, or do you feel that there are glimmers of optimism and relations between the two countries? >> thank you very much. thank you very much for your understanding and speaking about foreign-policy of the united states by the way as well as the russia situation. of course in washington to defend russian foreign-policy and at the same time to promote russian-american relations. there are some positive shoots. we see the identification at the highest level. in compliance with the president's arrangements our countries help each other with medical supplies in the covid pandemic. maybe you are aware that at the beginning of this meeting there was a decision by the russian federation to assist the united states to fight against this disease and recently the united states president has decided to send us 200 ventilators. we highly appreciate this gesture from the united states from the american president as well as the american people and by

time, drama as always in russia per putin and russia itself. wants to write in history to control the past. he faces essential challenges for himself, russia and the ruling group. firstly, vote last week was crazy. himself angry that consists of political liberals but of nationalists, left-wingers. secondly, putin has failed to resolve the conflict which will be inherent, genetic to this kind of system, the conflict between the omnipotent regime. the other hand, legitimacy thatse the only mechanism can recognize this kind of system. the end, it looks like putin has failed to stabilize the to create stability and has instead been practicing suicidal estate crisis. the more estate, the more brutal system becomes. has kind of system constitutional rigidity will be more difficult to transform without any kind of pain. i believe mike will find a good definition for this kind of putin castle surrounded by walls and insulated from the world. i am a big fan of alliteration and suicide statecraft is a wonderful phrase. there were reports of ballot stuff

to really look to russia and china and to night and for the head to look to russia and china strategic allies let's begin with you mark oh no. i mean the we need partnerships with russia and china we need communication channels but strategic allies you know there's there's no commonality of values of interests there are longstanding issues. and there's no way can it be a replacement for the united states christine as you know you hold. i would echo way mark said if you look at this particular european commission for example it's under underlined he calls itself a geo political commission but we have see in the past few months is an insistence upon the importance of values and importance of the democratic system for europe and for a further europe as a political bloc that is fundamentally incompatible with russia and china at the moment and where china had more favorable relations with with the e.u. perhaps prior to the last year we have also seen a sharpening of language over and and no declaration of systemic rivalry over the different systems between democracy and tearing and anti-de

— the uk‘s attitude to russia. it isa —— the uk‘s attitude to russia. it is a bit like our relationship with china. russia was on a path to reform, they were a country the uk could become more friendly with, but recent events have changed that attitude and have suggested that many of those hopes mayjust have been misplaced. laura, many thanks. and steve in moscow, thanks. doctors, teachers and police officers will get above—inflation pay rises in what the chancellor, rishi sunak, said was recognition of their vital contribution during the pandemic. labour says the rise would not make up for years of real—terms cuts. during the day, it was revealed that the uk government borrowed nearly £130 billion between april and june this year — a record amount. our economics correspondent dharshini david reports. after months on the front line, almost a million public sector workers are set to get financial recognition. from september, prison staff and police officers will get increases of 2.5%. as for doctors, th

did russia interfere? it‘s been months since an influential group of mps investigated russian interference. today, after accusations of delay and cover—up, we finally found out their conclusions, that the government hasn‘t done enough. their conclusions, that the government hasn't done enoughm oui’ government hasn't done enoughm our opinion, the uk government took its eye off the ball because of its focus on counterterrorism. the government had badly underestimated the response required to the russian threat and is still playing catch up. russia opposes a tough intelligence challenge in the agencies here must have the tools they need to tackle it. —— russia opposes. widespread allegations russia tried to interfere in the brexit referendum through the use of online trolls and russian media. but they say it‘s impossible to tell if that was successful. but what impact it could have had because nobody was trying to find out. the report reveals that no one in government knew if russia interfered i

russia will deny it. they will say we didn't do it, show us the evidence, even if russia did do it, everyone does it anyway, and finally let's be friends and put this behind us. the report finds that even if there is an up —— an improved relationship with russia, these attacks will not stop.” improved relationship with russia, these attacks will not stop. i do think the government and intelligence services have failed to get a intelligence services have failed to geta grip intelligence services have failed to get a grip of this? i think that's for the government to explain. the point made repeatedly in the press conference we've just seen is that it was plain that russia would seek to influence this. so the reason why this has not been undertaken... it sits uneasily with what intelligence services perceive us the question of why there was no direct remit to look at this problem. russia opposes a threat to the whole of society. notjust government. it has this broad span of different ways in which it

only russian agrees to be russia. that one of the members of the committee if you had said that the british government. jobs and government didn't want you know anything about russian hiking or what she had experienced in the wrestler is going through all of the election and so on and it would be because the subject temple close in other words it was too embarrassing and the british government one of the complaints in the committee was the british government did not engage in any research in non-school research to be done into these allegations unlike the united states which acted very very carefully and very quickly the british government did not do that so therefore the report is in fact quite disappointing because the british government did not in fact expends very much effort to this that was in the hacking. in the referendum in districts that. negotiations. in the 2019 general election and so on the other thing is. that is one thing to say that the russians hacked into these organizations and the interfered with

did russia interfere? it's been months since an influential group of mps investigated russian interference. today, after accusations of delay and cover—up, we finally found out their conclusions, that the government just hasn't done enough. but in our opinion, the uk government took its eye off the ball because of its focus on counterterrorism. the government had badly underestimated the response required to the russian threat and is still playing catch—up. russia poses a tough intelligence challenge, and the agencies here must have the tools they need to tackle it. the committee noted widespread allegations russia tried to interfere in the brexit referendum through the use of online trolls and russian media. but they say it's impossible to tell if that was successful. or what impact it could have had because nobody was trying to find out. the report reveals that no one in government knew if russia interfered in or sought to influence the referendum because they did not want to know. the uk government

well, russia is my home. i travel a lot for work, but russia is the place where i live and where my family is. so, yes. pretty much it. regarding exaggeration, i don't know if you are familiar with the case of boris nemtsov, who was murdered in front of the kremlin, he was shot in the back and he was a prominent opponent of vladimir putin. that is how they work with political opponents. boris was a guest on hardtalk several times and i knew him and i met him in moscow and i am well aware of what happened to him. i am aware, having visited russia and talked to russians, that many russian people remember the chaos, the economic instability and the political instability of 1919 and still, some of them, look at vladimir putin and they see him as some sort of insurance policy, some sort of stability, and they think they are better off with him than without him. what do you say to them? well, this year i have not seen people saying those things for awhile. it was a common sentiment in the first ten to 12 years of v

russia as such? >> the difficulty that we have everybody knows and you got a lot of people writing about this very eloquently and university or can in the blogs is this fusion of the security services with the state. we think about this in the soviet. like a lot of more checks and balances there was division of -- how to succumb labor but maybe that's not the right way putting it but there was this stage and then there was the social security services which were run then on a fairly tight leash. we might have this image in the cold war thanks all the other kind of people writing about this, this was a james bond movies with spies running around all over the place. but these guys were under the oversight of the state. and you get to the situation we had since 2000 where putin has come out of the security services or the kgb to the backorders and they have become the state, all of these appointments of security officials from the various intelligence agencies in anyone putin the kremlin and cabinet nev

i'm writing to you in the light of the troubling revelations in the russia report about the role of r.t. and sputnik in spreading kremlin backed this information in. winter to last its high court challenge to off comes fine lord just a demon said in his ruling that biased reporting of the novi choke attack in saw is very at the hands of the russian state caused actual and potential harm that damning judgement has now been reinforced by the long delayed intelligence and security committee report that exposes the role r.t. plays in the much wider issue of russian influence i am writing to request it off calm urgently reviews artie's license in light of this report into request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss my concerns about the broadcaster . no i think the 1st reaction many people have is what about the freedom of press what about the right to have access to various sources of information but even if we do put that to the side i think the 2nd coming on that on the heels of that will be how is it that a politician and then left it official considers that are the more yo

the economy of russia is struggling. there's a mix of an overburdened socialist state with a very core of oligarchs who have literally stolen billions of dollars from the russian people. i have serious social and economicissues . no democracy would tolerate the kind of mismanagement and corruption that we've seen their area that's why putin is done away with any semblance of democracy. he was real constitutional referendums as we know recently allows him to be a virtual dictator. through 2036. russia's strategy to restoring superpower status is on the following elements. first, we clearly want to undermine nato and its emissions. nato has been a barrier to the ability of russia to expand back to the soviet state. secondly they want to undermine us militarypresence in europe . and that presence, our forces in europe have been a check on russian ambitions. thirdly, he wants to reinsert the russian regime back into the g-7 to be able to regain the status that they lost whenthey were kicked out because of their invasion of t

the west is no threat to russia. so why not take a different euro-atlantic view, as in the late 1990s it seemed possible that russia might do. i think that's an important question which we should keep confronting russian representatives with. i think the second point of russia-china, i think these are very interesting and intriguing. i doubt very much it's the partnership of two equals. at the same time i do wonder if the russians more manipulative with the chinese and perhaps the chinese let on. i think the whole disinformation thing where as you say we've seen the chinese copying russian practices of disinformation, increasing vis-À-vis uk -- [inaudible] that's an interesting area to explore. i will stop there so you can ask questions or move on to luke, but very happy to elaborate on any of that. >> thank you. i think that's very insightful about your analysis that russia feels it has more to gain from being disruptive than from engaging in trying to think about why that might be the case. certainly there are cer

connections inhibitions sense to russia. section you do forget that the russian. of the evening standard so are things to be sufficient going on at once directions i'm sure the evening standard would say there's nothing to do with driving we have putin and in fact what this is referring to. is russian power in london grad is named in the report and therefore doing the business of the kremlin deep in the heart of the palace of westminster rather especially. meaning you know there's also different interests. elisi hoops beer i mean after all we're pushing my house a lot because we know something and i spent 5060 years. eating with foreign affairs beyond my keep this out would not some opinions and it would be remiss of me if i didn't repeat it while i'm here to give my advice they can ignore it. you know that's what i get your kind of echoing the words of the prime minister birth johnson any truth you think him and what johnson was saying he said this is the big about the report is basically a failure of remain in the desire to say the brics it was. was created in e

russia says we're both trying to get with $20.00 to the action. the intelligence community believes that there is an agency of the russian he said that the russian intelligence agencies have been talking to cyber attacks against efforts to find a vaccine for research and development for carnivores zeevi here and that's the statement is saying faking contradictory that it's practically impossible to understand can you present moore's law we're seeing pharmaceutical companies and others being targeted because they have the information and. also coming up tonight the republicans campaigning against president donald trump they've declared war on his reelection hopes he calls the president they say is at war with son. we're all in the same thing including dr fact you have a very good relationship with dr veggie and we're all in the same team we want to get rid of this mess that china sent us so everybody's working to the same line it would doing very well. we do it well in a lot of ways our countries coming back very strong. but to our viewers on p.b.s

russia relations if russia wouldn't go beyond crimea and that conversation between put in bolton reportedly took place in samarra for 2018 when the miller investigation was still ongoing and i thought that it was very curious because it puts all the allegations against truong it makes all the allegations against trump look like a child's play because if true some think would to come out something similar would to come out from trump's ears from times mouth rather he would be accused of treason do you find they believe a bull and if so why do you think the russian president would spill the beans at such a sensitive. the moment well president bush was not spilling the beans he was talking privately to high official of the united states the kremlin doesn't leak mr putin said. yes mr putin said it publicly that she will mark. the information that his colleagues share with him privately that's that's a matter of principle with president so i don't think president will tell you or anyone very soon or or ever what exactly was it that obama told him in 2040 and now but he said to me mr cheney and j

because of pressure from russia and russia. they voted because they wanted to take back control of our money of our trade policy about who is to speak and i see the promise is already in his pre-prepared lines this is a serious. serious question of national security the prime minister's son told this report for 10 months and failed to plug it out of the national security for a year and a half were during that heated exchange as we heard the sickest film of the labor leader accuse the prime minister of compromising the u.k.'s national security by sitting on the report for 10 months and also not investigating the alleged russian threat while in response to accuse the labor party of trying to undermine it breaks it he said it was due to remain as trying to claim that russian influence had led to the u.k. voting to leave the e.u. well this all comes as the u.k. government has also said that they don't see a need for reinvestigating to re-examine the bricks and ballots they've released a statement saying a retrospective assessment o

and if russia did put a price on the heads of our many women in combat, what price will russia pay for doing this? americans are entitled to know that we did everything necessary to protect our troops, our national security, and our democracy. thank you. >> thank you, mr. secretary for your testimony. comprehensive you gave to that. i will members for five minutes each pursuant to house rules, all times yield is for the purposes of questioning our witness. because of the virtual format a very we recognize members by committee seniority, alternating between democrats and republicans, and if any of you missed your turn, please let your staff know and we will circle back to you. if you seek recognition you must unmute your microphone, and i will start by recognizing myself for five minutes. mr. secretary, i would like to start where you ended your opening remarks. in my life, my younger years, most sensitive conversations i had was with my father and my grandmother where we never talk about the circumstances around which my uncle was killed in action. it left an indelible imprint in my mi

because of pressure from russia in russia. they voted because they wanted to take back control of our money of our trade policy about who is to speak or i see the promise is already in is prepared lines this is a serious. serious question of national security the prime minister's son told this report for 10 months and failed to pluck that got it out of the national security for a year and a half. what during that heated debate as we heard there the storm of the labor leader accused the prime minister of compromising the u.k.'s national security by sitting on that report for 10 months and failing to investigate the threat posed by russia when in response bush johnson accused the labor party of trying to undermine breakfast he said that it was simply the ploy of remain as it were trying to say that russian influence meant that the u.k. has voted to leave the e.u. well it's comes as a time when the british government says that they're not going to re-examine the ballots into breaks that they say they've released a statement a ret

russia standoff and this time it's thousands of kilometers above us washington has accused russia of testing a new space weapon according to america's new space command a suspicious projectile was fired by a russian inspector satellite last week. this is further evidence of russia's continuing efforts to develop and test space based systems and consistent with the kremlin's published military doctrine to employ weapons that hold united states and light speeds assets at risk will be u.k. has chimed in on those accusations the defense ministry official accuse russia of launching a space project out with the cart the risk of a weapon or moscow has given a very different version of events the foreign ministry said the test took place on july the 15th in which a small space vehicle was sent from one russian satellite to inspect another. the tests that the russian defense ministry conducted enjoy the 15th did not pose any threat to other space objects and most importantly did not violate any norms and principles of international law u.s. and u.k. officials comments on the matter a part of

it's the final day of a week of voting that's been taking place in russia on proposed changes to the country's constitution while many have already had their say by voting online president putin has the 3rd today a national holiday to a lot of voters who haven't yet gotten so the chance to cast their ballot. list weapons that is the culminating point of russia's nationwide vote on amendments to its constitution and snow into the final number of followers here in moscow about russian citizens. ballots and some people who poured on to the streets really to voice their concern over the proposed changes well to keep it all in for us this hour our correspondents. here taylor so let's kick off with you lovely throw in there as well what's been the sunny day so far in moscow the polls are close though in other parts of the country aren't they in the far east and the idea of venture shipping up to date. while all you need to do is take one quick glance at a map and realize the extent of russia's territory it's close it's enormous and it's got numerous times and that's been in total so whilst

russia russia and then. afterward another week or so david sanger well rated oracle saying well yeah the head of child showed should there was no russian exploit we still think there was there are. always good points ray mcgovern thank you so much for your expertise. you're most welcome. 3 months after harvey weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault now another potential victory for the disgraced movie moguls and victims artie's fair project has that report the man who gave rise to the need to have met harvey weinstein and his former studios board have reached a nearly $19000000.00 settlement with 9 of his accusers and a class action lawsuit this settlement is for any woman who was used to having weinstein she need not have come forth far she need not tell her story in the. lawsuit weinstein who was sentenced to 23 years for rape still does not admit any wrongdoing and will be paying the accusers himself rather insurance companies for a studio that recently filed for bankrupt

don't blame russia for us losing the heart well their own. country. well the report attacks m i 5 you say for saying that the reason why the intelligence and security committee couldn't find any evidence for election meddling is because we didn't look enough for it some of said it's a bit like a santa cause argument what do you make of the i ses explanation that the problem here is that we can't prove something because we haven't tried hard enough to prove it or we make it look the job they are my 5 serves is to crack down terror which costs lives on 3 and to shut down the people who are perpetrating or planning these terror attacks if not friends we go out looking for evidence all male may not be. you know red now for years ago but as you know the british government says the terrorism did occur on british soil and soulsby because of the russian government. yes the new times nish the period you know and event there is a gin shot the. way they get it right i mean so spears into sauce dissolves i'm always the russian government deny that they have anyth

don't know why russia is implicated. it comes as no surprise because russia for a while has been saying that, you know, all of this looks, for them, like a witch hunt, and no ha rd for them, like a witch hunt, and no hard evidence is provided. this is a tricky moment here, you know, because i'm the one hand, all of these things connected to hackers, it's really a grey zone. it's hard to attribute certain actions to certain people, and a little harder to attribute these people to groups 01’ to attribute these people to groups or to state actors, but on the other hand you know, all of this without all of those allegations not backed by evidence when we don't see why, you know, we don't see this why these conclusions were made. it only helps mr putin, for example, to continue his narrative inside russia sing, listen, just provided those allegations, no evidence, that's why it's easierfor him allegations, no evidence, that's why it's easier for him to depict russia asa it's easier for him to depict russia as a fortress sur

russia cuba russia will say no we don't agree with that follow our constitution in fact and knows that judgment less a very important statement and a very important move because it places russia above international law and the outside world cannot interfere cannot impose its will on russia and what i remember is caught your eye story what other amendments caught your eye that aside the other no bonds was the fact that a russian official to be president you have to be 25 years to live 25 years in russia which means that in the future that if there is a. chaos or both who becomes the next president no new russian in exile can come back. and become president an order that an official cannot a dual nationality nor can he have a foreign bank account but of course you can get round i said you know live followed by because beginning with a wife or none of the men in the family but that's important you may not have foreign residency or form citizenship that means that he's the whole into russia and cannot if you like and leave russia if he finds things difficult ok well we'll know what somebod

rather than russia russia has russia has many ways it's not if you compare russia and china russia is not that they can the connelly it can find lots of work arounds of dollars and stuff like that it's not all russia that banned from from from dollars. but to china given that you know its role in international trade the lack of. exchange ability of the of the loan which basically even now only accounts for less than 2 percent of international foreign exchange transactions. i think china is saying it's preparing for it but ultimately there's very little it can do about it and i don't i find it hard to see china being cut out of the dollar system and i think the economic consequences that for the world especially now would be far too grave so there's i think there has to be other pressure points rather than the the wiping out of the current currency access it would impose a huge cost to the world just bring it into perspective for us what would it mean for hong kong for hong kong's peg to the dollar what's at stake here for the territories well i think for now again. getting rid of the