"i've asked moscow to sign off on that, but moscow is silent." that was the moment that vladimir putin realised his motherland had abandoned him. egon krentz says that moscow abandoned him, too. he claims that at this meeting, soviet leader mikhail gorbachev assured him german reunification wouldn't happen. he accuses gorbachev of surrendering to america. mikhail gorbachev rejects criticism of his leadership. he is fiercely proud of his role in ending the cold war. it would take moscow four years to bring all its troops home. but to what kind of a country were they coming back? the soviet union had gone, russia was struggling, the returning soldiers were low priority. vyacheslav had commanded a tank battalion in germany, the 16th guards division. its mission, he says, was to defend the motherland and moscow's allies in eastern europe. they were an elite unit, but there was nothing elite about the conditions to which they returned. there were no facilities, there was no accommodation, nowhere for their families to live. it was almost as if they'd

so to speak to them i'm going to have to go back to moscow. in moscow i have come to the headquarters of the state run media giant. it transmits the kremlins view to the world. bolton uses one of its outlets. your editorial policy is the kremlin's editorial policy. you are pushing the kremlin's narrative. why don't you publish a piece that says harry porter is much more popular in latvia than mein kampf? but it's the true situation, it's the truth. can a country be simultaneously the grand spoiler and a great power? does modern russia even want the title superpower? this is my chance to ask the president. vladimir putin has just finished an event near the kremlin. it's a rare opportunity to get up close to the kremlin leader. bbc news. vladimir putin set out to restore russia's status as a global player. and everything seems to have been going according to plan. until now. suddenly the whole world has changed.

moscow says the west deceived moscow. no such promise was made. second, just the idea that washington or a big western allies should promise that to moscow is an idea based on the total wrong assumption that big countries can promise something in behalf of small countries. since russia took crimea nato has bolstered its forces near russian borders. in the baltic, it strengthened its air policing mission. from estonia, this air base rent nato jets are regularly scrambled. their main task is to intercept russian planes that are approaching estonian air space, which had failed to identify themselves. over the baltic sea, typhoon jets intercept russian military aircraft and escort them from the area. this piece of land is oui’s from the area. this piece of land is ours and no one else's. russia wants to assert its dominance over the baltic area, on land and on sea. the message is clear this is our territory, keep out, and our response to them is, no, you are wrong, this is western territory, nato territory, and we are here. do you believe russia is

dutch russian journalist based in moscow working for the moscow times we are on the ground journalist. at the oldest independent newspaper in english language newspaper in moscow good to have you hello mark welcome to the strain tell i guess an audi it's who you are. i am our moscow based international affairs and security analyst. and i sadly understand welcome to this studio intelligibly what do you need to know about your money. i'm a doctor of. treating. moscow and i'm a leader of trade union named leon so doctors. it's good to have you guess and we are trying to get on the scene an official russian voice but it's we got her an e-mail back in this is what they resend to us tendency of a time proposal and the stars ever see us now from the doctors union is an opposition group we do not want to be part of the political show as essential discussion should include and they suggest who should include in the discussion. and it is the doctor of moscow's community medical center the kimonos i was patients were given go on say the doctor has a dozen of them present 90 and is now working in

but amid the crisis at home moscow is sending aid abroad. the russian army has been in italy to help tackle the epidemic there. russia is saying, we are still power. we have possibility to help you. no little green men. this time it was the boys in blue. they presented this as a mercy mission. but images of the russian military in an eu nato country are a propaganda coup for moscow. it is good for geopolitics, it is good for another country, but i think it is not perhaps good for us. the priority is your own country. the pandemic is the biggest challenge for moscow since the fall of its empire 30 years ago —— a0 yea rs of its empire 30 years ago —— a0 years ago, but that hasn't extinguished its determination to regain influence and to be seen as strong. for russia the real lesson of 1989 when the iron curtain is lifted is that weakness costs power. the paradox is that today's russia wa nts to the paradox is that today's russia wants to forget about 1989. it was, yes, an amazing period, the period of backtracking, surrender, defeat, s

so followed suit on moscow in moscow you 1st of all if you don't have essential work you are on an official non working paid holiday where your business is your employers are supposed to keep paying you your salary. and that has been for a month now about 40 percent of moscow's normal traffic on the roads in the metro indicates that that's roughly about what is considered essential which seems a little bit excessive but so at least 60 percent of the population is supposed to be sitting at home they're allowed to go to the nearest store to get groceries and supplies they're allowed to walk their dogs they're allowed to seek met at a cold. but other than that and take out the trash but other than that they are not supposed to leave their home i live in south moscow right on the edge of a forest reserve and there's a lot of moscow's a very big city there's a lot of different conditions as far as i can see the people. in following the quarantine at all they're treating it like a holiday as as the government treated it they're out teenagers drinking in the wards people out strolling big parties

donald: this is the moscow river. that was taken from the top of the residence of the british ambassador. so when they got there, there were only a handful of cities that they could visit, and after stalin died they released travel restrictions and they started to travel. steve: a lot of trucks. donald: he loved to photograph cars and trucks. they were not big on motorized safety, people riding on the tops of things. [laughter] steve: and still come a lot of horses as well. donald: yes, you can still see horse-drawn carriages once you got out of the center of the city. steve: do you have a sense of the films he shot? did he come back and watch them later? donald: i know he went through his slides because among them i found annotations he made from 1966, that he was trying to put them back in some sort of order. that is 15 years later he was looking at them. i do not know to what extent he enjoyed the viewing. steve: when did this take place? donald: this is in may of 1953 from the new embassy on tchaikovsky street, so

or you get reaction now from moscow you've heard. her on the verge what alexi was. in kiev what is the kremlin going to think of that perspective does it want to change its behavior given the fact that there seems to be a steadfastness from the ukrainian government well as far as what are they actually said about 30 percent of ukrainian territory this conflict is important enough to be the focus of attention not just of the ukrainian government but also of the russian government and also of the leading western governments both the american government and european capitals so it is a significant issue it is a significant problem multiple sides which multiple sides are looking in the regular manner now to what kremlin is looking to in this matter at this point there is no real hope for significant change in the near future with president zillion assuming the top post in kiev. both moscow and kiev have been able to come to several agreements on prisoner exchanges and these have been large significant prisoner exchanges that have been frozen in the last year of. preside

moscow is clclaiming it isis dog about 50,000 tests a day. testing has become mumuch more widespspread while still not coming anywhere close to capturing the actual neeeed. the momoscow city government dos puput forward this argument that the reason you're seeing such ha spike in casases is now the testingg resources and the ability to test has been buiuilt up to a level where they can go out into ththe population andndt people.. ththe numbers are not necessariy -- are reflective of increased testing rather than a spiking spread of the virus, but t thats impossible to check stop moscow city government is very much part of the kremlin overall political machine, runun by a mayor who is very muchch a loyal member of putinn's political and or circle even as the mayor has emerged as a somewhat, if not exactly independent, then a kind of parallel voice and source of authority in d dealing with coronavirus -- at least here inn moscow. but very hard to fact check some of these clalaims coming outut f the moscow city government. but that does say the

and so why even open a barrel in moscow? why have somebody spend hundreds of hours studying russian and reading russian history and literature and, and culture? why not? why not have algorithms do it? it was absolutely appalling, but it's part of the siloing of the american press to serve a particular demographic. in the case of the new york times, it is a democratic party based readership. it's a way to make sure that whoever they send to russia feeds back to them what, what they want with countries around the world grappling with the 2nd wave of the pen demick, the prospect of an imminent vaccine has raised hopes that they're also affairs, that poor countries will be priced out, that's the skies by the director of the international vaccine institute in the latest and addition of going underground. the gates foundation, their research suggests that global covert debts will double if high income countries buy up in the 1st 2000000 doses of any successful vaccine. do you agree with? that's a great study and we've been using i

that's you know in moscow thank you. and time now to take a look at some of the news in the other possible strong storms pounded the southern united states on sunday he's making it he's 6 people in mississippi and damaging up to 300 homes and buildings the national weather service said strong winds was sweeping through other parts of the states as well. and to president richard one has rejected the resignation off his interior ministers to name a new who took responsibility for this weekend's much criticized play that 900 curfew the announcement of the 4th quarter 1000000 surprised and prompted panic buying 2 hours before it took effect on friday night. and spain's prime minister pedro sanchez has said his country remains at high risk on the coronavirus even the it has reported its slowest growth in confirmed infections for 3 weeks now spain is to allow workers industry and construction to return to work off to a 2 week shutdown. the french navy's only aircraft carrier has arrived at this a. 50 naval personnel test posit

as more and more medics become infected there are fears that hospitals are outside of moscow could become overwhelmed also coming up. ready for takeoff with nowhere to go but the pandemic wiping out international travel airlines have taken a battering billionaire investor warren buffett sells his stakes in a 4 major u.s. carriers. and on world press freedom day honors journalists with their annual freedom of speech it would highlights the courage and determination of reporters reporters persecuted for exposing the truth about the coronavirus and damage. welcome to the program despite a strict lockdown across russia the number of corona virus cases there is rising sharply authorities recorded more than 10000 new cases in the last 24 hours bringing the total to almost 135000 more than half of the new cases are in the capital moscow there is concern that as the virus spreads russia's medical facilities could be overwhelmed. moscow is entering its 6th week of corona lockdown but despite these efforts infections are on the rise across russia over 10000 new cases were registered sunday more tha

in 2004 he was a ukrainian opposition leader running against moscow's preferred candidate he fell ill after having dinner with ukrainian security officials doctors say he was poisoned with the chemical dioxin he survived going on to become president of ukraine. and activist peoc to a vessel of who has ties to russian protest group percy riot managed to survive what he says was a poisoning attempt in 2018 his theories backed by doctors who treated him in berlin person office says he was targeted because of his activism. it's more of a. kind of like a warning gesture so as to indicate. some people who might want to go down that path to not do it the kremlin has consistently denied involvement in these cases and while it can be almost impossible to prove who's guilty does it off and others sure who is to blame. it would be doubly news live from berlin that we can't show up with where we are up to the german government has announced that it has proof the russian opposition leader and acts in a valley was poisoned with the chemical nerve agent novi chalk so this those tests have been condu

a few days later and these empty spaces have become the new normal for churches in moscow. ringback this church may have to stay empty for a while now but right now hundreds of people are watching the service live on you tube. make a yeti all men think that people will come back to church after quarantine measures in moscow and that he also believes in his life streams. a lot of talk around the many churches have started streaming. and that means they're also telling more people about also dogs christianity board for college board of course the ideal scenario is that people will come to our church later after watching our live streams with it if they don't have. the authorities in moscow say they may extend the measure after easter sunday but in most other regions of russia churches will stay open to worshippers for easter. and that's the latest on d.w. news my colleague anthony howard will be here at the top of the hour with another news update for you omarion evans team from me and the entire news team here in berlin thanks for watching and stay safe. what secrets lie beh

smith: there gathered from oliver moscow. school groups had to go -- from all over moscow. school groups had to go. whatever workplace you are connected with or a sports group. this looks like is may some sort of a factory. and those sign say the first of may. factor groups went, groups of workers and things like that. >> could you imagine, was their music, whether other marching bands or other types of entertainment to keep the crowds satisfied and happy? dr. smith: yes, there is music, there are band. at a good deal of festive atmosphere. in some images you see them and dancing and the girls laughing at people having a generally good time. i'm sure there was a fair amount of drinking once it was over or maybe before it started. >> the trenchcoat very 1950's. dr. smith: yes. some of the girls are dancing and holding flowers with the first of may signs. >> with this be comparable to july 4 here? dr. smith: in a way, although it july 4 for them would have been november 7, the day of the revolution. so that would've been the day of the revolution. that is mullen cough, i thin

good morning russia live from artie's world news headquarters here in moscow. here with a wednesday morning round up for the next half hour 1st to moscow's top diplomat has urged berlin to stop politicizing the alleged poisoning of alexy novelli foreign minister sergei lavrov speaking with his german counterpart is call certainly wasn't heated though in the european parliament rémy peace pointed the finger squarely at russia correspondents here in the central moscow today but across it all the politics continue the thrush although there is some news about mr valma as well he's a little better take it all this morning. kevin good morning well a police to phone call between the top of the of russia and germany is better than nothing because at one point trip to germany was canceled altogether after the russian side realized that high cost decided to cut the planned time for their conversation to one and a half hours but the conversation happened and from the update on the russian foreign ministry is website we understand that the phone call wasn't easy 2 at all

there was applause from moscow today. so this is not only the victory for the americans who defended their democracy against the liberal globalist alliance you know this is this is the victory that american people brought the whole world the reality is that a great number of russians felt vindicated they felt that something right had happened now justice will be done and russia's grievances will be respected by a new american president. oh. sure the cuban store at the end of the day trump stands for protectionism in the economy and for greater u.s. sovereignty he doesn't want any migrants in the country for instance to go on to his way of thinking it was much closer to putin this was a new country. so was the outgoing president barack obama now history not quite he still had one card to play. in december his government expelled 35 russian citizens in retaliation for moscow's alleged interferences in the elections but there was no reaction from putin yet. we only react when we can benefit obama's presidency was more or les

parties headline news this 11th of april has the number of hospitalisations double the mayor of moscow announces a pos system to monitor movement saying too many people are still not complying with self isolation. the u.s. becomes the 1st country to register 2000 coronavirus deaths in a single day refrigerated trailers and mass graves and that was seen in the main infections hotspot new york as the city struggles with rising fatalities i mean if you. experience to be despondent speed is that feeling of helplessness the fact that you don't know you can do. just to get the negative all. else through the news the french president meets medics including one promoting a controversial treatment for covert 90 as french health care workers generally continue their rail against the government's efforts. and half a 1000000000 people could be pushed to poverty by the pandemic according to a leading british humanitarian charity oxfam. hello this is our international live from moscow welcome to the program has just turned 3 pm here this saturday my name's kevin 0 in i'm here for the next 30 minutes

one minute past 5 pm here in moscow this saturday april the 11th a very warm welcome to the program my names you know neil. let's begin with the latest figures this hour on the 19 demick the number of cases around the world is still on the rise with 1700000 people now infected another grim smile. stones been reached to more than 104000 have succumbed to the chronic virus but it's also known that well over 3 times that figure 389000 people have caught it and they have recovered. ok let's get through some of the main aspects of coronavirus today russia is too clinical trials of a vaccine against covert 19 initially it with some 60 volunteers the countries now registered over 100 deaths more than 13000 infections meanwhile the mare of moscow has announced that the city will gradually roll it up past system designed to tighten control over people's movement at some of it will come into force on monday this q. of his was seen waiting to transfer of patients to a hospital in moscow that's been repurposed to focus on coronavirus patients the number of admissions has doubled since last weekend

and moscow. is the invited doctors from other regions to help win this battle and moscow has amassed a lot of equipment and medical supplies you could do as you said to go was a mirror of the completion in some other cities across the world some other capitals fail to do that some of them were not so fast as you were. and that helped us and you prevent the worst case scenario now it is clear that this is true we haven't passed all the. worse case scenario so most doctors and nurses have received as a unique experience in fighting because of it 900 faction we now know the doctors from moscow are helping out there but you colleagues in the regions are russian they're providing them and also dieticians let's go to the conferences going to end but i want you junior guy mendacious an advice. on how this needs to be disease can be treated best diagnosed with acid and how the work lies ation the whole operation of hospital should be a few months plan and we need to continue that i don't practice in mosc

in this crisis ok and let you go for now thank you for that update from ankara let's cross over to moscow and bring in star vassar and she is joining us from there so so what more has the foreign minister had to say on how much progress has actually been made it was a very short statement to the rain by the foreign minister of russia and turkey and actually it was very clear that the turkish foreign minister. have to has not signed this agreement yet and that he hopes that it will sign it tomorrow morning on tuesday morning they have been talking about this draft agreement on the cease fire unconditional cease fire in libya and also said that in that draft agreement there is a suggestion for a military commission which will decide on the new contact lines between the 2 warring parties it's not clear at the moment where objects or has he teaches are to sign this deal so far so arrive on the contrary has according to the minister signed a deal already so it's been a very long and difficult meeting they say has been taking place for over 7 hours now and it hasn't had the result that they wer

while they are in moscow the. possible serbian officials either directly or there was some sort of communication between the charts the russians and syrians during the same time in the past few days and not could be some sort of. signal that. if their hopes of it last longer. they see the foundations for something that will be a lot more sustainable jamaal turkey of course are directly affected by the war in syria it's not the case for the libyan conflict as president or to want to save himself maybe a is very far from turkey so why the turkish involvement in that crisis what is that stake for on credit. well we heard let's say one to one when it comes to foreign policy where he touched upon the to be emotional buttons that can garner support domestically here in turkey so he reminded. the audience all the historic connection between him and sarkozy and libya he reminded them of the action between the sound of more than the charge he said come on at the top and libya and you also reminded them all to the role of t

and so why even open of bureau in moscow? why have somebody spend hundreds of hours studying russian and reading russian history and literature on and culture? why not? why not have algorithms do it? it was absolutely appalling, but it's part of the siloing of the american press to serve a particular demographic. in the case of the new york times, it is a democratic party based readership. it's a way to make sure that whoever they send to russia feeds back to them what, what they want. it takes a man suffering from a rare muscle disease has come all the way to russia for treatment. alan spends it was told back at home in america he'd never walk again. but since arriving in the russian city of pm in october, he's actually been up and about and he shared his story with us in an exclusive interview. i had to use this everywhere. i went when i was going to, when i was in part c. koon, what without it are no walk with alan spencer could have been dead by now or in a wheelchair or bad band. that's what doctors back home in america

moscow has condemned the u.s. . this is interpolant of the open skies treaty calling it an act of hypocrisy. the pact has been in place since the early ninety's allowing the 34 member states to observe. 'd each other's militaries, through all norms, serbians flights, and to share data as well. washington has accused russia of breaking the terms of the agreement a claim. moscow denies. my colleague, neil harvey discussed the story with our tees up a trickle. moscow is disappointed to say the least about the decision by the us administration to kick the legs from under the treaty for which as the russian side is putting it. the us has no legitimate reasons whatsoever. moscow maintains that claims of violations on the part of russia, of the treaty that has been in force for 18 years, have all been made up, plus no one seen any proof of that. moscow has blamed washington for violations to the other side has denied it, but the question is whether that is a good enough reason to get rid of the agreement. the answer from m

there's just one of the morning on wednesday in moscow one of column bright welcome to world news from r.t. international 1st for you this hour the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. has confirmed the traces of the navi chalk nerve agent were found in the biological samples taken from the russian opposition leader alexina belli the russian foreign ministry has reacted hoping for cooperation to find out what really happened. the russian federation intends to provide the member states of the chemical weapons convention with a chronology of behind the scenes many play sion of the main characters in this before we expect the forthcoming joint work of russian specialists with experts from the o.p.c. w. will help establish calm to politicized insurrection and the mood any further escalation of the situation. well the o.p.c. w. documents has made its way here to lynn we know that much but for hearing from the kremlin spokes person to me to be peskov that information is gets to arrive in moscow to come in useful we do possess their findings of the moment it needs time for such info

government prosecutors say the kremlin ordered last year's murder of a georgian man in a berlin park moscow was threatening to retaliate if germany moves to punish russia for the murder also coming up german chancellor angela merkel outlining ambitious goals for the upcoming german presidency of the european union council including coronavirus recovery package and a bigger budget to get your approved what she calls the biggest crisis in its history. i'm off it's good to have you with us german federal prosecutors have filed murder charges against a russian man suspected of gunning down a former chechen rebel fighter here in berlin last year they say that moscow ordered the killing the alleged hit job strained relations between the berlin in moscow last year it prompted germany to expel 2 russian diplomats russia's ambassador to germany says today's murder charges are groundless and he says the kremlin will retaliate if berlin takes new actions against russia. it's an assassination that has shaken russian german relations to the core last year and late august a former chechen rebel salim kha

overthrow was made in moscow. baron but he was playing one lake than the twangs i had to drive out to the countryside to pick up my mother in law and my daughter i believe we were in there because we didn't know what was going to happen we didn't know what was going to happen we didn't one who wants a part of our family to be split away from us if anything got worse. and i was driving i drove. a 5050 kilometers one way 50 kilometers back and when i was approaching moscow. already on the outskirts of moscow thanks for. towards the center that's when i really felt bad i didn't know was going to happen. i didn't know what was going to happen. the soviet period of georgia's life it ended with a new russian one just started during this time a lot of bents of happened both happy and sad and george joined our team and became the main voice of the t.v. channel his beloved brother carl passed away george became a grandfather twice only one film is certainly not enough for us to describe in detail the entire incredible life

and so why even open a bureau in moscow? why have somebody spend hundreds of hours studying russian and reading russian history and literature and, and culture? why not? why not have algorithms do it? it was absolutely appalling, but it's part of the siloing of the american press to serve a particular demographic. in the case of the new york times, it is a democratic party based readership. it's a way to make sure that whoever they send to russia feeds back to them what, what they want. that's been a wrap up of the day's top headlines for now, but don't forget, you can always follow us on facebook or twitter, absent reports that seemed wrong. but all the way to get to shape out just because the ticket and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, just to look for common ground or yours will pull you out of the museum. what about and i didn't do it will always be the good. is it also keep it or don't or don't let you people come up with you through you can see i'm not about the mad at them and the

in the headlines from moscow this wednesday the 25th of march speculation doctors say the medical system in the country isn't breaking point with a surge in cases of covert 90 overwhelmed spain is now the 2nd worst hit nation in europe behind italy. here anger anguish sadness a very difficult to handle. fear the russian president meets patients a medical staff from the frontline of the coronavirus battle as the country looks at measures to avoid a so-called italy scenario and. help is on the way. big help and quick kill 5 days in the making washington eventually reaches an historic stimulus deal with trillions of dollars to assist the public but the world health organization warns the u.s. could be the next global epicenter of the pandemic. hello there this is out international from moscow welcome to the program has just turned 11 am here now this wednesday we've got a slightly new show join in place for you for the time kevin i can tell you with my colleagues will be here with you every day at this time to update you on the latest in a full 30 minute world news round. the overall number

from moscow steve, thank you very much for staying up late for us in moscow. moscow back in 2016 accused of meddling in the election by american intelligence community in order to help donald trump get elected. does moscow feel that that was a good bet, they they have had a good dealfrom the was a good bet, they they have had a good deal from the term was a good bet, they they have had a good dealfrom the term presidency? if vladimir putin was sitting in the kremlin with a blank piece of paper and made two columns the pluses and minuses of four years of donald trump. i think there'd be a lot in the minus column. because four years ago the kremlin had big hopes that president trump would ease sanctions, it didn't happen. there was hope in moscow that washington would acknowledge russia's sphere of influence on its doorstep. that didn't happen. there was some hope that president trump would recognise crimea, annex crimea as being part of russia. that didn't happen. and there was annoyance here in moscow that donald trump was so eager to tearup that donald trump

was seen waiting to transfer patients to a hospital in moscow that's been repurposed focus on patients the number of admissions has doubled since last week more than 85 percent of the patients of. the authority say the pick is still to come. in the capital to get through the latest developments. late on friday evening it was announced that there is going to be a new system of tasks is to be used in the russian capital and that was announced on the moscow mayor's website where he said that it was a question of the health and the state of all the people living in moscow because the situation has only gotten worse recently that he was really left with no choice but to implement this which in those when they didn't agree to boards a virtual local since the beginning of this week the situation with the corona virus has been worsening previously hospitals has been receiving 500 patients they know the number has surpassed 1000 a past regime inside the city is an inevitable restriction which will be implemented gradually starting from monday. another announcement that we heard was that for the

by the 10 pm on tuesday here in moscow my name's colleen break with the world news and reaction that we're tracking for you here at r.t. international this hour 1st the global chemical weapons washed the o.p.c. w. has confirmed the traces of the nerd nerve agents were found in the biological samples taken from the russian opposition leader and next. the results of the analysis by the o.p.c. w. designated laboratories of biomedical samples collected by the o.p.c. w. team and shared with the federal republic of germany confirmed the biomarkers of the inhibitive found a misnomer blood and urine samples have similar structural characteristics as the toxic chemicals o.p.c. documents has made its way here and we know that much. it's fraught hearing from the kremlin spokes person to me to the best goal of that information is gets to arrive in moscow to come in useful we do possess their finding said the moment it needs time for such information to be delivered through our diplomatic channels germany has called on russia to provide answers to a number of questions that it has speaking to the

nations reluctance to cooperate and to respond to the multiple requests by moscow to get the materials and details on the devolving incident and all the medical and chemical research that has been undertaken during and following his treatment and the german sherry take clinic earlier the german foreign minister high call ma said that the sanctions were appropriate because russia failed to make any steps towards clarifying what happened with the opposition activists and like i said in response russia keeps blaming europe for complete unwillingness to cooperate with moscow on the matter a few months ago a passenger plane traveling from siberia to moscow had to urgently land because of the critical condition of alexina vali who was on board 1st the opposition activists was. treated and then moved to berlin where adventurously the german doctors said that he was poisoned with a nerve agent of the novacek group moscow keeps sending work west to berlin demanding proof but isn't getting anything in response and one of the latest twists to the story alexina volley and the number of western med

in moscow welcome to the program matthew bryza in istanbul let me start with you if i may i mean we know that ankara has been sending reinforcements to it live to counter a syrian government offensive there how significant is this attack then on these turkish troops and are we likely do you think to see an escalation in the violence with the turkish response. well it's extremely serious from the turkish government's perspective i mean this is 6 people that were killed largest lost in a clash with syrian regime forces that i can recall but in terms of escalation i actually don't think we're likely to see much because the assad regime does not want an all out conflict with turkey turkey does not want to get bogged down in a military conflict with the assad regime and turkey is having to be extremely careful about how the deals with russia with whom it has worked for so long with russia and iran the so-called astonished peace process in syria and with whom turkey has such extensive economic relations so with the moscow backing the assad regime there are certain limits to how far turkey

moscow's own man was installed in office. his first message to the afghan people was made from the soviet union the evening of december 27, 1979. he did not arrive in afghanistan until four days later, december 31, when he was flown in by the soviets to take the place of the murdered amin. he tried to soften opposition by publicly, at least, appearing more moderate than his harsh predecessor, amin. he invokes the name of allah frequently, though the rhetoric of his speeches is pure marxist. he claims to have released thousands of political prisoners, although most appeared to be members of his communist party. babrak also replaced the glaring red banner of taraki's regime with a black, red, green tricolor flag. there are no signs of such changes are working. most afghans would probably agree with an observer who said amin was a tyrant, but at least he was an afghan. karmal was the russians' watchdog. he should be ground. foreign journalists recall that when babrak karmal held his first news conference, only soviet corresponde

the passage of the ensuing years has aided moscow's domination of their muslim population. so the critical factor for the future of the afghan insurgency will be the spirit of the rugged muslim tribesmen. are they prepared to endure such an ordeal for possibly years yet to come? there are no signs that they are losing heart in this savage fight for their country. [bird chirping] this is american history tv, featuring events, interviews, archival films and visits to college classrooms, museums and historic places. exploring our nation's past, every weekend on c-span3. this weekend, american history tv is joining our spectrum cable partners to showcase the history of chapel hill north carolina -- chapel hill, north carolina.