russia. it's the republicans who are more likely to say that we should try to be friendly with russia which has been a shift in on the russian side very similar views that believe that russia should try to limit the united states power and 138% think we should undertake engagement and cooperation. >> for me it was questions they asked in this wave and the previous wave of the two countries are so similar on each other and the situations. very different context. different media. we mentioned at the very beginning that the media shapes the public opinion very much and of course we have different opinions and different channels in the united states and also in russia where they dominate the media landscape. still we've had a lot of similar views >> i mentioned earlier that there were past surveys surveys on the asked question americans generally want to cooperate with the left and most countries even with [inaudible] they consider groups like hamas, the taliban, iran and back in the day cuba, am

what happened is after ukraine and the sanctions on russia, russia has turned more and more to china in fact they are adhering to the sanctions but they've never criticized for its stunning ukraine and they've now signed an energy deal which they haven't wanted to say before they didn't have anywhere to turn, so now you have a situation where the president calls in his best friend and i have a picture in the book of him and putin cooking poundcake together and they were at the same time they were about to embark on there first joint military to the military maneuver they both share a present and in the united states for creating a world order where they don't have enough influence and power so they talk about the polar world and neither of them criticize each other for what they do domestically. in other words, they back each other up and however much they promote the dissidents and things like that. the rest is definitely the junior partner. china is a rising partner, but it's a very pragmatic and useful partnership with both of them. >> guest: >> host: russia is there politically a

as for russia, on the one hand, russia seems to take a passive hand. on the other hand, with dprk, taking an aggressive hand. there may be certain advantages. russia does not have much leverage on north korea. pyongyang does not consider russia as an external threat. from this point, russia seems an attractive mediator with north korea. at the current stage, this role is hampered by the tension between the u.s. and russia. the stronger of it support of china on the korean peninsula. for more active involvement of russia facilitating the dialogue between the u.s. and dprk, most relations with washington is needed. to sum up, normalization between united states and dprk is not only possible but also meets the interest of both countries. it would require revision of the current agenda and strategy of the united states. these changes are good but not limited to. you can see them on the slide. the first one is it is necessary to revise the strategies. north korea cannot only play the role of a buffer but can also act in the interest of the u.s., if the latt

and the tensions between russia and the u.s. are boiling to the surface in the country there so what does russia have in venezuela. well first of all russia and venezuela are historic. the two countries have been close for decades and actually we've even seen in recent months russia sending troops to venezuela they confirmed reports fairly recently saying however that the troops that were sent were military advisors and that they wouldn't be used for any military operations in the country but it's not just geopolitical interests that russia has it's also a cute economic interests first of all venezuela has been been a big importer of russian grain of russian arms and russia has also and russian companies as well has also given venezuela huge loans worth billions in the past few years so if there is regime change that might mean that russia simply doesn't get back its billions and of course there's also another aspect here economically at stake venezuela is a huge oil producing country it has one of the biggest oil reserves in th

when russia that's a pro western presence and russia was on its knees and when the and when nato talks about respects in the suffering decisions of government decisions of so great governments well they didn't respect president yet a covert sees decision in late two thousand and four that seemed to turn economically to russia because what did they do a a few months after that they carried out secure against president let it go get so that proclamations to respect democracy in their decisions or sovereign governments on worth the paper they're written on kero we're going to go to a short break in a second here and when we get back we're going to talk about russia gate and its implications and how the media cannot say sorry i want to thank marcus papadopoulos of money for joining us we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our real news coverage state with our team. as we continue to grow online with our online identities and personas you will continue to see this mixture of. the internet the. point where the almost industry which you can't really dist

when russia that's a pro western presence and russia was on its needs and when the and when nato talks about respects in the suffering decisions of government decisions of so great governments well they didn't respect president yet to close its decision in late two thousand and thirteen to turn economically to russia because what did they do a a few months after that they carried out secure against president yet a case that's so that proclamations to respect democracy in their decisions or sovereign governments on worth the paper they're written on care what we're going to go to a short break in a second here and when we get back we're going to talk about russia gate and its implications and how the media cannot say sorry i want to thank marcus papadopoulos and money per joining us we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our real news coverage fête with r.t. . i think more doogan is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in the county or you lead a state if you look at it from the analogy. martin was the day that when he

poisoning that came from russia. the position of the british government is extremely murky on all this we got no answers to our questions. where they were poisoned how they were poisoned actually why they survived the poisoning by a deadly chemical agent which just doesn't happen then this very strange story of two more people that were contaminated by. allegedly four months of the screwball spores ending where are these cripples why they are not allowed to talk to the press so i think that until we get questions to all all these questions russia will stay on this present position that british government should clarify sayings not only russia is. on this position the president of the czech republic mr zevon said that he didn't want just statements he wants. moves and he mentioned that they did not show agent was fabricated not only not only on the b. in the post of its space that there were quite a few foreign countries western countries also that worked with this type of nerve to go agents there and so you know this

and on behalf of obama to move ukraine away from russia he was not working with russia and with putin but it beggars belief to think that there could investigate all the finances of matta fort but trust finances we're just going to you know not touch those just leave them as they are ok but even you what you got the instant reaction was is that there's a cover up going on to cover up and a.g. barr must be involved in it might be involved i mean but this is a symptom of just what is wrong with the media right now because the media they want a conclusion they don't work towards a conclusion using evidence this is been a such an abrogation of responsibility this is pure malpractise and it has a price because as christopher was pointing out here the faith in the media is being destroyed and has been destroyed well basically talk about the color of started immediately we've had to rachel maddow and we've had the new york times what was there in to tory oh no collusion no exoneration so they kept saying that there was no exaggeration noise in the ration they kept at taken trump but what i'm

that russia is responsible. but they choose an open question, the front question, they choose not to answer. so because it's kind of a situation. >> thank you, my name is the first, i'm a journalist. it's clear there in the american response there's a divide between republicans and democrats area and the russian respondents, one of you when you were talking about the crimea question talk about the divide between those who hadn't had not benefited from his policies. is that or is there another consistent divide in the russian answers comparable to the partisan divide in american politics? >> one group is anti-putin so other prominent groups with a different relation of putin's policies for example, [inaudible] still there's some differences in terms of people following independent news regularly or not. and whether they, another group is against it but the criticism of putin is divided into groups, those who are following independent media and those who are not. >>. >> there is some differences but not very big.

is a neighbor it's in russia. and the reason why south korea is driven towards russia is because. mike pouncey can afford a war on the korean peninsula south korea cannot jump and cannot go back to you i mean there moaning we were hearing for from the administration the possibility of another summit i mean after the train wreck called hanoi what's the point and what would be different because the u.s. seems to have this need jerk reaction to anything it's always a to. a map from a list position i surrender and then we can talk all there's no way in the world north korea is ever going to do that and we've said this on this program for years go ahead marcus in london let me quickly just say something relations between north korea and china actually deteriorates it's in the one nine hundred sixty s. but return in-city presence you know paid i actually don't believe that the last meeting between trump and kim jong un was actually a failure because the fact that an american presence and a north korean leader are actual

it's still russia's fault that's what the report says i was going to be curious you have a great legal mind can you just sum it up if possible i know you read the report last night go ahead. yes i read the report i phone it relentlessly hostile to donald trump in a way that i actually i found slightly shocking you have the first part of the report in which are and he's team look of follow up every suggestion of contacts between the russians and the donald trump campaign and you get almost a sense of disappointment when they repeatedly come up with nothing and then the second part of the report is an extraordinary academic exercise i should say a flawed academic exercise in my opinion in which outbursts of anger on the part of an innocent man to say don't drum of construed as some sort of attempted to obstruction even though there is actually no attempts to impede miller and his team in doing anything and none of the threats that donald trump talks about from toronto on the bow sacking will ever actually amount to anything so i mean i found it actually a rather disturbing document but t

russia can offer grain, russia can offer agriculture, russia has oil, russia has other natural resources so russia has quite a bit to offer. because what‘s difficult to understand about north korea, before we get any comprehensive information. we get bits and pieces information, what life is like there, the difficulty within the economy and the understanding we haveis economy and the understanding we have is that it‘s extremely tough. of course, tightly, tightly controlled. there is a 2- tier system, a circle around the leadership. there is the matter —— masses of people for whom food is worse “— masses of people for whom food is worse —— scarce. the winters in north korea are extremely harsh. we will return to that story as well as it develops today in vladivostok. but now let‘s talk about what the duke of cambridge has been up to in new zealand. he is therefore a 2— day visit to meet survivors of last month‘s terror attack in christchurch in which 50 people were killed. he has already attended an anzac day service to mark the anniversary of the gallipoli landing d

are nothing but a friendly war feelings towards the people of russia russia is a great country and. a great friend of ours to do what you would a war on them would only do that could you go on one hundred one of them to the moon to the ocean tony i mean an order. today i've had a very frank a meaningful conversation with president putin and we discussed the development of our ties and cheering peace and stability of the korean pretty so there were whole world with skies above global issues which of african surge to both countries. can will she or i just feel martin was on our oct and we can only play julia to come to. this we have been consistent in making our ties better and better here after a year we have new challenges today new opportunities but we should seize the moment and move forward progress together. many pushing that. we did about the name on that problem. when i was the other concert i've got to sing is a more a matter of what you know what we need to do you talking to look to. my dear friends of peoples our friends and we are friends and i'm glad that we had that oppo

benefits russia because of that because we buy gas from russia in natural gas from russia by the time this tendency might change. if we say. right now that this imbalance is going to change drastically soon no we can't say that because we know that. we know what we sell to russia and we know what we buy from russia. it's. it's a good intention. to keep working on that. and if we talk about energy or defense industry we've discussed all these issues. your we look at all the finances and the budgets let's be honest with each other because of the. you know we have to look at. what can be done and how we can develop those relations. we. mostly ask ourselves how can we supply our demands for natural gotta gas because that's a very important issue for our country we use gas everywhere in. housing in different kinds of industries. promises in turkey uses gas natural gas so it's our main source of energy. it's basically fifty percent. and fifty percent of that we buy from russia. to go so there is a now. a pipeline a sea pipeline. and we finish that part of the new pipeline. between. god will

leadership it's no secret that russia's position is always open and. we don't hide anything like actually chairman kim asked me directly to tell the americans. his position and big questions that he has with respect to the pros the process sees taking place on the korean peninsula. and everything it involves so like i said this is no secret that we are going to talk about this to the americans to our chinese friends it's now you asked me where their interests. coincide in you know russia in the united states to a certain extent yes both of our countries want complete denuclearization in fact we are against. ration in general and that's why we coordinate our positions within the united nations to a large extent i mean of course on the other hand as you. know quite often. we fight over certain using your formulas but there's regards to reducing the risk of nuclear conflict we share this priority absolutely. and i think that actually the north korean leader shares these few as well they just want to have guarantees of their security and that's something w

so i want people to understand that what russia did, i will keep us focused on russia, this is military doctrine come of this is called new generation warfare. the russian chief of the general staff has created a doctrine designed to basically crash us or influence us from within. you don't have to invade us, you don't have to cross our borders, ,ou are changing us from inside changing americans view about our democracy and helping americans fight each other. you are sewing those divisions. what this 448-page report did was map out, at least the first part of it, how russia did that. it is so important for americans stop.w that this will not they did it again in 2018 in trying to shape perceptions and they will do it again in 2020. eight may be a guest the republicans the next time rather than the democrats. we have to prepare and protect our country from this influence whether it is russia today, or other adversaries who see this playbook working very successfully and may try to do it again. host: adam schiff wrote an opinion piece in "the washington the special counsel's investigation

blamed russia for both attacks although no evidence was produced russia denies any involvement. let's cross it live now to russia analyst martin mccauley thanks for being with us here on our team international. so as we heard charlie rally told the russian ambassador that he is being given no information on the british investigation it's been more than nine months since the incident so why do you think they are keeping him out of the loop. now because the british authorities do not want to reveal to the russian cozies what they know what they know but nobody joke because a official narrative as you know is that two russian intelligence officers were in smokefree and they were responsible for the poisoning of these pows that's the official narrative and the government is sticking to that the reading nothing else i'm not surprised that charlie really was not given any further information because the population in general have not been given any going to the nations and the british authorities to this day. been over them and. have said nothing new and also no what is allowed to con

well russia of course wants denuclearize ation as well let's not forget that russia shares a land border with north korea they really want stability on the korean peninsula they want talks to keep going they don't want you know potentially a nuclear conflict on their borders and they want to broaden talks including china as well russia has been working rather closely with china in fact putin will be traveling to beijing for an economic forum just after this talk with kim so the ten chile north korea will be on the agenda there as well but on the whole russia's rhetoric has been softer when it comes to north korea's nuclear program than than the rhetoric we've seen from many western countries including the u.s. they have called for an easy to ease international sanctions in general russia disapproves of sanctions international sanctions they think that it's a bad policy and instead they think that talks with north korea should continue. to solve this crisis chile was getting involved here perhaps to some degree what potential do you see for breaking the law denuclearizing the korean penin

dealing with their relationship with russia any kind of compromise with russia may well be seen by the hardliners as giving in to the russians got a challenge on his hands. but there isn't just give situation in ukraine it doesn't depend on what camp you belong to the florescent who will do zielinski ukraine will have to find we we owe the war in the east of ukraine and i would say that even. he will have to have negotiations on this. issue this is very important issue to resolve the war in the east of you. over issue or is it simply that's what needs to be sorted out first yeah but you said about the hardliners we have hardliners ethnic nationalists we have even a neo nazi groups and you see what is interesting everybody both florida and zelinsky will have to get rid of the right wing extreme nationalists so we will have to overcome the period where there was fear when there was censorship in ukrainian t.v. in ukrainian press no people feel liberty they are ready to speak what they think it is a very important step forward later we will have to see the competition between different te

is aggressed russia is waging war against ukraine russia annexed crimea russia is not electoral democracy which is too cheap to teach us in the democratic rules of the games and how to conduct elections so first of all i would like to stress that we. we have free elections and there are different candidates including brought us from candidates but as a broader was brushing again today it is because of russian aggression because russia violated the non bloc status of ukraine because a national or waylaid of the international treaties aunt belle little bit is that's why this support towards any indication to russia collapsed daughterly collapse and that's why is it is a very deep jebel little move in say bring on society durance you wouldn't and if we're talking about the what is it don't bust so it's very important to understand that unfortunately russia doesn't stick to point number one. ceasefire ukrainian civilians sell their sell by russian bear russian soldiers by russian regular forces by russian weapons and unfortunately it's very difficult to move towards a peace in the don't bust

places the most stories have called the coming up next looks at the fallout from russia and whether it could actually help get reelected u.k. viewers though it's political talk show renegade coming up next. a low in welcome across talk we're all things considered. the biggest political hoax in american history russia gate is almost a thing of the past brings it on the other hand only seems to drop into deeper levels of purgatory and what is next for russia's relations with the west. talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in. moscow grandees and he is a professor at the higher school of economics as well as author of russia's geo economic strategy for a greater eurasia and in brussels we cross anima schoen she is a former m i five intelligence officer or across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate any let me go to you first here i was look don't usually read the washington post but someone sent me an article so i felt obliged to read it titled as confronts a crisis russia's footprint in venezuela grows and then there's a

russia wants some of. the russians and iranians believe they won the war for us said but turkish troops and their local allies remain in northern syria u.s. troops and their kurdish allies are in the northeast multiple players are involved in syria all maneuvering for their place went piece eventually comes set of. beirut . the number of measles cases in the united states is at its highest levels and it was said to be eliminated almost two decades ago the center for disease control says there are now six hundred ninety five cases of the illness reporters across twenty two states with new york being the worst hit mike hanna reports from washington d.c. earlier this month a brooklyn preschool was closed by health authorities after refused to provide.

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i think putin wants russia to be a constructive and responsible player. russia... it is not in russia's interests to see another crisis surging on the korean peninsula. seven time zones east of moscow, it isn't hard to see why. this place is full of visitors from china and crowds of tourists from south korea. the border with the north is just over 100 kilometres away as the crow flies. from here in vladivostok, north korea is very close and russia definitely doesn't want a nuclear—armed state right on its border. but these talks are important politically, too. they're about vladimir putin stepping in and engaging with pyongyang after donald trump's efforts have stalled. people here welcome that, worried about an unpredictable nuclear neighbour. yeah, it is a bit unsettling and it does make me a bit uncomfortable i guess when i think about it. the timing suggests kim jong—un is travelling here because he now needs russia to push his case with america. russia has always argued that maximum pressure on pyongyang won't work, so this is vladimir putin's chance to ex

is the transformation over russia in the arctic when i first came to russia pressure them in two thousand and two the federal government of russia was not particularly interested in the author it was primarily a conscious of of the governor bush and even then president clinton because of the full should his first period those preston referred me to talking to the government to talk about the future of the author i have also attended all the arctic territory of course at the conference the first one in moscow or relatively smaller conferences in one. medium sized lecture hall in the university paged operation in moscow and if you compare it with the spectacle we now have here in some petersburg in terms of the international participation of this great action be sure of the discussion of the important for the future of the russian economy revolutionary change. and that should not be underestimated how russia has come into arctic awareness on arctic economy on an arctic political due to ship in the last fifteen years is a revolution or a transformation of the role of russia to be fair i thin

pressure because of a sense for south korea it could be a good to have a russia if russia can play the right role as a mediator because for south korea itself it could be a little bit tricky to work conviction a u.s. and north korea. let's take a closer look at the atmosphere during the talks and how president putin welcomed his north korean counterpart in russia's far east. it. was a. body language expert howard feldman breaks down what the leaders movements could say about them. one of the interesting things about of that to me putin and and we see this often with him if he's meeting he's very protective of the obvious own space it's very rare for somebody to come into his zone or close to his proximity when they shook hands he was quite dominant kim kim jong il would end by dominant i mean his and takes all that down would position we saw that kim jong would want to try and establish a bit of dominance very himself when he got to that point that's when putin kind of left got just quite a long handshake and i think vet and shake was what was very important but the time that there was

officials who say russia should leave venezuela or face consequences. that you know . will say see all options are out. just so you understand all options are on. the people who's using the russians to support is just to keep people from hearing room president maduro calls for hands off on his way out while he invites security forces from cuba and russia so he and his cronies can keep plundering venezuela it is time for venezuelan institutions to stanford or sovereignty russia in cuba hands off and as well supporters of israel and president nicolas maduro and opposition leader. held rival rallies on saturday in the capital caracas that is amid the south american country experiencing a series of nationwide blackouts which we've already mentioned and have hit water transportation and telecommunications services a spokesman for the red cross says the power outages are a primary cause for concern and aggravate the humanitarian situation in the country . it's interesting that this trailer it's going to send a few votes and it's our beak. the last few days when each point i

it was we heard the leaders of russia north korea correct russia lay thing which other on their electoral success is both of them speaking about the historical ties of the two countries are hoping as they said there these talks will be a milestone in resolving some of those issues so important to the international community their first press conference there now going into the first of those two meetings today. and other headlines details are beginning to emerge about the identities of the suicide bombers behind because he's the son of the attack which left three hundred fifty nine people dead the country's authorities say that a man and one woman who carried out the atrocity and that the perpetrators were from wealthy backgrounds one of them had studied in britain and australia partridge as more. one of the suicide bombers has been named as abdul latif jamil mohammad who has a connection with the u.k. . one of. the. most people coming back to settle into this was a former most will. come from the middle of the little girl's head there according to sources mohammed visited southeast engla

so democracy in russia, china and iran depend ultimately on the people of russia, china and iran. so the central message of the rise and fall of peace on earth is optimistic and pessimistic. there is good news and bad news. the good news is we have a formula for peace. the bad news, we do not know how to implement. and that leads to one final question. given that we cannot make the distributors of the piece, democracies and thereby restore democracy, what can we, by we i mean united states and other democracies do, to increase the chances that these desirable outcomes will come to test. what can we do tonight she's countries in the desirable direction. in my view, there are three initiatives. three policies if you like. the united states and other democracies can and should undertake to try to push the world in a desirable direction. first, you can and should adopt a refurbished version of the cold war policy of containment. during the cold war the united states and the democratic allies opposed the political design and resisted the military initiatives of the soviet union. in the

russia has great. interest economically in what happens in on the korean peninsula because if there is peace if. they can have you know gas pipelines going through the korean peninsula into south korea. sending gas and what have you on the japan huge benefits both koreas for russia for japan. so there is that in the background as well so these is you know is easy the motivations are there they're very russia's very keen on not merely on on please but on progress towards. all this lessing of tension and the reaping of the economic benefits that could accrue from that but the problem is of course as so often is united states doesn't have these motivations past and i think really nice until he we're going to have to leave it there. specialist thing thank you. much more expected to come from this summit between bennett. and we will keep you updated with the very latest from stock and. a leading human rights groups have been scathing of the saudi arabia's execution this week of thirty seven men on terror re

russia calls on the u.s. to disavow its allegations of election meddling in the wake of the. one hundred twenty one. democrats keep up the pressure on the president after the report this balls to the media speculation . no collusion no obstruction. of justice certainly obstructed justice. by the present to mislead the country. back to government in libya accuses france of supporting the rebel forces. killed. by. breaking opportunity as. a huge billboard for the projected. latest on these stories. or. is it finally over have we finally reached the expiration date of the russia gate conspiracy hoax. by definition conspiracy theorists are never satisfied but a few things are. government has taken a hit. of the media may never be redeemed. are stocking russia gate i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dmitry babich he is a political analyst with sputnik international in london we crossed alexander mackerras he is a writer on legal affairs as well as the editor in chief of the duran dot com and in new york we have don de bar he's an anti-war activists and host of the daily radio p

and russia it really affects europeans. president frequent verbal attacks on nato have raised grave concerns some experts are no longer certain that the us nuclear umbrella is still committed to protecting europe or if america would come first in a crisis. here a nato delegation is inspecting a french nuclear submarine. could alliance members strengthen nuclear policy cooperation so as to reduce their reliance on the us. would it be possible for europe to develop its own nuclear weapons. and. there is a loophole that might allow for that. the department of justice leaving the hot. in one thousand nine hundred the new west german chancellor simon nonproliferation treaty talks to it all. but he did so with the caveat that a future european political alliance might be allowed to consider the development of nuclear weapons because. if friends were in that alliance it might be possible at least in theory for germany to become a nuclear power. as with as. i don't want to completely rule out the possibility that i differ european

russia. the russians and iranians believe they won the war for us said but turkish troops and their local allies remain in northern syria u.s. troops and their kurdish allies are in the north east multiple players are involved in syria all maneuvering for their place when peace eventually comes santa hold their own beirut the united nations has evacuated more than three hundred refugees from under tension center in southern tripoli because of the tear raging security situation they moved to a facility in north western libya after fighting the. detention center where they were being held five other detention centers are in areas already and gulf in the battle between the un recognized government and forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar. the u.s. state department has condemned me on margaret's highest court rejected the final appeal of two reuters journalists. and choice have spent sixteen months in prison after being convicted of breaking an official secrets law they were reporting on the mu