every leg of russia's triad is modernized in russia's new system. including silo based intercontinental missiles, a submarine launched ballistic missile and upgraded strategic nuclear bomber and air cruise missile. and many of them have greater warhead delivery capacity than the systems they're replacing. for example, russia's aging ss-25 red mobile icbm carries a single nuclear warhead while its replacement ss-27 can carry multiple warheads providing russia significant capability to upload additional warheads to a strategic delivery system. the ss-18, russia's aging heavy icbm carries up to 10 nuclear warheads. although the russian president complained that the sarmot its replacement carries even more warheads and will be capable of carrying a hyper sonic. and this upload capacity will give russia the ability to increase the number of warheads in the time of crisis. russia's also pursuing novel nuclear delivery systems that create a strategic challenge for the u.s. and which are difficult to manage under the current arms control agreement. in march

the food import ban put in place by russia in august 24th. was a response to several political and economic sanctions imposed by the u.s. and the european union. to tretton to push a huge number of firms to the brink of ruin and dad urged people to take to the streets of european cities. when i was. ok i want to. know. if yes. ok. i don't know this but. it's. close enough. to go.

russia. completion of this transaction would be devastating. not only is the f 35 program, but it would rupture turkish inner operability. it is incon siekoconceivable th would not take advantage of that collection opportunity. their intervention in syria has caused rippling ramifications and facilitated one of russia's key goals under mining nato cohesion. finally to our european partners, we urge them to see that russia is an unreliable partner. russia shows they cannot be trusted when true choices need to be made and friends need to be known. unlike the relationship with the united states it's military sales do nots come with long-term commitments of maintenance and sustainment. russia is a transaction all in partner seeking their own benefit. they thrive in chaos and they do not seek the best interests of their transactional partners. any regime that thrives in chaos cannot be trusted to strive for stability. related to this i want to highlight the adversaries through sanctions act. this

rebecca: oftentimes, when we talk publicly about russia, let's stick with russia, with russia's approach to its nuclear forces and the concept that they might be willing to escalate to de-escalate, we get pushback. they say there is no evidence of that. there is no evidence in official documentation. i won't talk about sources, but if you can talk about why your assessment at dia is in fact a fact that they are testing in this manner and we are confident that this is in fact russia's approach to why it is organizing their entire arsenal this way and their strategy that they have lowered the threshold of when they might consider nuclear use in a purely conventional conflict. gen. ashley: part of their doctrine goes back to the 1990's. there is no first use policy from russia and they see that as an ability -- and you hear it different ways. some contexts, you'll hear it escalate to de-escalate. it has been written about as escalation control, where they think that using a low yield nonstrategic nuclear weapon would bring other powers involved in the conflict to the table, where they can c

russia hacked into the pillar of our democracy russia is hacking and having gas currently and we did not mention exactly that did occur nobody is debating that that did or did not happen it did happen faith no need for evidence proof friends x. or facts but as with every religion there are the tracks is doubtless one of them is roger stone a former advisor to the tribe paid now indicted for alleged witness tampering and making false statements all related to wiki leaks as part of his defense he has requested evidence that russia was behind the d.n.c. hacks of 2016 so the government gave them all they had a redacted draft report from a cyber security company it is clear that the government has relied on the assumptions made by a source outside of the us intelligence community that the russian state was involved in the hacking and that the data taken from the various servers were given to wiki leaks the government does not have the evidence and it knew it did not have the evidence when it applied for these search warrants crowd strike the d.n.c. cyber security contractors what is amazi

and the russia. the united states must continue to support ukraine's democratic path, its euro atlantic future and its ability to defend itself. deterrence of an increasingly aggressive russia must start in ukraine. the kremlin seeks to keep ukraine in a so-called permanent gray zone. to do so, russia continues to destabilize ukraine in conventional and non-conventional means. today i am going to focus my comments on the non-conventional warfare against ukraine, ukraines problems challenges and reforms and what the u.s. should do to continue ukraine's progress. one comment on the threat. russia continues to occupy and militaryize ukraine's crimea peninsula. over the last 18 months we have seen a steady and significant build up of russian military capabilities in crimea and the surrounding waters. in january 2017 russia began deploying s-400 surface the air missiles to crimea. since then, at least five known had 00 armed battalions have been positioned in crimea. this means that with the s 400 presenc

russia we just dropped the ball. we had a massive, massive analytical underpinning to our approach to trying to understand russia, and it basically hit the floor. most of the russian analysts in the ic went to something, and the intelligence committee went to counterinsurgency or counterterrorism and they retired. i was given the job back in 2015 by deputy secretary worth to fix russia. that is to say, fixed longitudinal depth in the learning and studying them all the way along, we had about a 15-year gap we had to fill in. so i set up a duty of doing that. so ignoring that was a big, big problem, and we have people up here who have not been doing that, so maybe you can avail yourself of that. number four. number four and the biggest problem, the biggest pathology of victory is wishful thinking. when you think you're the victor and when you have triumphalism, you just try to explain it away in wishful thinking. wishful thinking just infuses our talk when we're dealing with the rise of these major power competitors. s

well russia indeed. abide by the by the ruling provided that russia is part of that investigation which unfortunately is not the case so that doesn't. make russia responsible for except rejecting. any that might be. produced by the if team that doesn't include. the killing of a pro refugee politician in germany scandalized the country and raise concerns over the right and right wing extremism there the suspect arrested in connection with the killing reportedly had links to the neo nazi. party or your correspondent peter oliver has more for you. the killing of the district presidents of castle in central germany is being treated as a politically motivated terror attack volta live was shot at close range outside of his home on the 2nd of june it's understood he had been receiving death threats in connection to his pro migrant stance a 45 year old man has been taken into custody in relation to the killing it's understood from authorities that he has a long history of connection with the far right mr live ca

to russia. russia defense officials have spoken publicly about de-escalating a conflict through limited nuclear use and it is a fact the russian military has prepared plans and is well trained to transition rapidly to nuclear use to compel an end conflict. perceptions they could terminate a conflict on terms favorable to russia increase the prospect of miscalculation so let me turn to china as it is a strategic competitor's over the next decade china will likely double in size of the stockpile in the course of implementing the most rapid expansion of the nuclear arsenal last year china lost more ballistic missiles to testing and training than the rest of the world combined expecting the modernization to continue in that trajectory consistent with china's president's vision for china military which was laid out at that congress had stated china's military will be fully transformed into a first-tier force china has developed a new icbm, new multihead version and a new submarine launched ballistic

is it actually growing the let's couple from russia. as you know but our leaders agreed that china and russia will develop their cooperation in various areas including economy and trade. and it is very important to push forward your economic cooperation and investments . but i can say that in recent years. china has been investing actually more and more. have the exact right now but i can tell you that it's quite a significant increase. sometimes the economy follows its own legs you know. that in the 1st half of 2018. down much a little bit and most likely there is another explanation for that for you this trend. for example a very important political event. took place in china last year. yeah china's national people's congress if you put it in the 2nd half of the here investments went up and so our enthusiasm about our relations with russia continues to grow and grow significantly and i think that there are objective reasons for the slight drop in investments that we have. because in the 1st half of 2018. our agenda the ministers have

last one on russia. i thought it was interesting that you talked about how the forces are designed to deter nato portraiture potentially defeats if it came to that and- in terms of the way they think about their nuclear force. to give us more information on that? how russia views china in this contest?>> in terms of competition, all of the nations look at every other nation as a potential competitor and they capabilities you would say his alliance there and there is a relationship private it as more transactional than anything else. when russia or china or the u.s. get those capabilities they develop in such a way that they can use them irrespective of who the enemy may be. to bring that out of the context that that is a possibility as well. let's switch over to china and i will take your questions. you said that they have tested more missiles than the rest of the world i think in one year? i would have to look, but in recent time. and my understanding is that has been their approach to the military trad

we will think about both russia and china today, with russia's particular expertise. frank rose, my colleague at brookings -- what i will say about frank as he was hired into a job that many of us historically have thought of as one of the arms control brookings, but that's not really how frank thinks of himself. he thinks of himself as a strategic planner, where arms control is an element of american strategy, one tool in the toolkit but not the only one. the best way to underscore that is to point out that frank is one of the few people in washington who has been knighted in the country of romania. you might ask why. it's not because he helped kill transylvanian ghosts back in some battle, unless he has even more of a rich repertoire of pastor compliments than i'm aware, it's because he was instrumental in the missile-defense arrangement that we built with the romanians in the earlier administration. very much a person who knows how to combine the tools of warfare with the tools of arms control, and has been particularly riveted on strategic issues with cyber nuclea

taking its toll on how chinese can invest in russia chaney's make business in russia. businessman they are very careful you know the country is not not only in china and every businessman has to keep in mind all the factors all the elements that can influence their future so some chinese businessmen prefer to be more careful some of them are more proactive in their activities some of them are waiting some of them are building factories automotive factories in russia and one of those will be you know greeted during the visit of presidency in moscow would you say that we're not talking just chinese businessmen or investors and we're seeing general. people have found ways to go around sanctions and found loopholes and sections to actually do their business as usual with my shop not really well of course they're resisting difficult there is a certain certain influence of sanctions for for. various international but tangible investors in russia but then businessmen who can potentially launch their business here yes some of them or would prefer to be more cautious and then w

absent on the board russia wasn't invited russia was kind of ostracized and kept away from the whole investigation and i mean russia even had to bang on many doors to try and get that least some information that it had to the investigation but you know as you've mentioned russia is not the only one critical for instance even malaysia that is on board malaysia is a country is a direct victim country it is also many people exactly exactly was their airline so even them while officially the are on board we did see a representative on malaysia sitting behind that table and you know delivering even some of his remarks but previously we've heard the most high profile people in the malaysian government criticizing the probe and calling it politicized. the accusing. of. but what is the evidence you could even be the ukrainian government because the 2 have disappeared we don't know way we excluded from the examination but from the very beginning we see too much politics in the idea was not to find out how this happened when all that but you seem to be content. to pin it on russia here we have

where he is presenting russia with 2 baby pandas. exhibit will be opened at the zoo and we'll be covering all the developments throughout the day when it comes to that event and further in the week as part of xi jinping this 3 day state visit here in russia. that during his visit to russia ping is expected to sign with the russian president a number of documents and agreements possibly up to 30 and make a strong statement on strengthening the strategic stability between the 2 countries who of course have very close ties. before the 2 sat down for talks at the kremlin today a lot of her putin called she a friend of the chinese leader said that he hopes that the talks would be a success in those talks were expected to touch on a number of subjects including international and economic policies and likely it's also that they spoke on the situation in the korean peninsula which is of course. important in today's day the chinese president was met by the minister for development of the russian far east and arctic and other russian ministers

there but the idea that russia and china are going to constitute. take on american banks across america is of course. the chinese the last achieve nothing short of an economic miracle and. it's relationship with china so the chinese will not do anything that could jeopardize their economic so i would describe the relationship and china as something like i think it's good for global peace think it's good for global stability and china more allies they are i think that's a very good point and i actually that is my position as well you know given we've heard a lot about this relationship and some people called strategic partnership there's been a lot of words ok trade is up ticking but it's still relatively small when you can compare the kind of trade that russia still has with europe so i mean are our actions now finally catching up with words well i think there is this in fact correlation this union between russia and china would have never been possible if it hadn't been for the conduct of the west and they don't mean just the united states i mean a

relations between russia and the west well listen. we are not creating a military alliances with china we are still allies but we are not working against anyone we are working for the benefit of our countries and our partners and we are not substituting our supplanting anything our relations with the european union have always been multifaceted. we have been treated to the tune of 400000000000 annually. which was have to but not because of us it was not our initiative. and now it is getting closer to 300000000000 a year common sense is beginning to prevail the trade is beginning to grow again one doesn't impede the other but we are ready to work with everyone including the united states and the volume of trade their. course is a minimum of barmah trade that was a $20000000000.00 trump it's now $5000000000.00 more even though trump has implemented many restrictions as regards russia with the greatest number of restrictions against russia but the trail there is growing a bit we are not setting anyone against anyone else we are ready to

and russia to russia in the ice days in between russia and some other partners of ours but that's simply on the surface that current trade of $25000000000.00 is the way below what we would like to have on the way below what we actually can have but i don't know what their motives are going to do i have no clue but i certainly we're not going to ask for anything we're not going to . be. asked. that our hands are straight if they are ready to engage in cooperation we'll of course respond positively to that we are ready to do all we can to prove the situation i've been meeting with u.s. businessman. basis we met at the st petersburg forum because 550 businessmen for united states came there they all want to trade in the car parade to create jobs and creating jobs as one of the priorities for all no troubles oh no it was a good deal i said already during this interview which took place recently that. it was the global users should use me when the globalization protests the. global economy in trade to grow and flourish the united states which was its middle class felt that they were alien to

in russia we have like 400 bus partners. deploying the same vision and then adapting to local needs and look in specific cities and say that your enemy is an empty car and see that the economics of an empty bus see it including environmental economics is very different from an empty car see it as you try to integrate more and more modes of transportation into into a platform i'm going to privilege environmentally friendly ones. i think all of it is pretty much the same for us right. here to deploy in europe right now is your aim to see to so we could be kidding or 0 but i think it applies. a bus as much as a car to go back to your 1st comment i mean when i often said i give you any museum we should not forget if you get interested to transport we're reaching a wash in france in germany pretty much all over the world. by cars the cars to boost used transport if you could. car pulling a what we do is actually very very tiny today so the biggest expansion for us not in the next year but in the next 510 years how do we built a b

to trying to understand russia. the intelligence community went into a or counterterrorism, or they retired. i was given a job back in 2050 by deputy secretary to fix say, fix theis to intelligence community's and the department of defense's lack of sophisticated lobby to the learning. we had about a 15 year gap we had to fill in. -- i set up the duty of doing that. so ignoring red is a big, big problem. and have people here who have not been doing that maybe you can avail yourself of that. , the biggest pathology of victory is wishful thinking. and you think you are the victor and you have triumphalism, you explain everything away through wishful thinking. wishful thinking in fuses our we are dealing with the rise of these major power competitors. let me give you the other side of those four things when it comes to china and russia. triumphalism, they are both operating under a humiliation narrative. a very powerful humiliation narrative. that they were humiliated or the west, specifically the united states. and th

it was supposed to be at the prime ministerial level for some reason this year and 2nd in 2015 when russia and china commemorated they were victory days in may and in september the end of huge tremendous suffering you know the 2 nations that lost moved during that war the western leaders didn't come our bomber was invited he didn't come to moscow he didn't come to be even though he was invited so now when they're mainstream western press is heaping all criticism on trump well i think grampa has been behaving very badly in the last few years but it all started under obama so you know talking about this and ha needs trade war and other things i think the relationship between their liberal establishment and trump is like the relationship between dr jekyll and mr hyde crump is doing all this something that the liberal elite has started doing secretly but they are bombing did not include china in the transpacific partnership or that was armor and that was intentional absolutely he did not include russia he did not include china he did not include the 2 biggest nations or west pacific into trans

thank you again for your kind invitation to visit russia the relations between russia and china are developing staveley and at the moment they're at that peak both sides support each other so truly be sure to see. it to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day 75 years from d.-day it was on this day 75 years ago when 160000 allied troops embark on a world war 2 mission that most of them knew nothing about when d.-day had come and gone and thousands of lives holders had fallen on the beaches of normandy now we know how the story ended nazi germany was defeated and the allies won the war we live in the world and in the piece that began taking shape on d.-day today leaders of those wartime allies and were time enemies gathered in england in an emotional show of respect and remembrance it would be impossible to separate our present from our past on a day like today for halves it would be better to do so but then again if we did we would probably do so at our own peril tonight the lessons of the day do we remember them to. remembering those who ma

all things are considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of the program we discuss what drives the russia china relationship critics claim it is a marriage of convenience proponents say otherwise it is the pivotal relationship of the 21st century. and some real news i'm joined by my guest dimitri bobbitt he's a political analyst we spoke nick international and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he is the editor of politics 1st magazine hard gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate me go to marcus 1st in london we had in st petersburg over the last few days a visit by the chinese president sealed some deal new trading deals with russia at the same time we had this gathering commemorating the 75th 75th landing at normandy which 2 events of the last few days will be remembered most in history go ahead marcus well anyone who forsake and it's not. all who falls against imperial japan should be commemorates it and should be celebrated however ever since the end of the 2nd world or unfortunately in the west instantly american i

discussing western sanctions against russia. are not there is fortune is asked and made billions and billions of dollars and. globally minded person who could theoretically be investing his money in lots of worldwide projects if it weren't for the western sanctions because businessman and sportsman who decide. circle today my guest is that. western sanctions against russia are affecting companies. but they also targeted russia's most influential businessman personally. country will trade between russia and the rest of the world survived the sanctions and russian business into its new reality and i didn't and i think it's great to have you on our program that this really really happy because we have lots to talk about so there is no widespread idea in the west that slapping sanctions against certain people their assets their kompany those people to create an opposition to the russian president and that will ensure a result in a policy change you're one of the 1st people or by the sanctions and they mean they haven't been since th

russia is becoming resurgent russia has been penalized by quite significant international tariffs since 2014 it desperately needs markets to sell its oil to to sell its energy to china is now more willing to embrace that would you say this is more of a transactional relationship rather than a shift in the entire foreign policy and global what world order. the cure and to russian cheney's relationship is not just about economic cooperation it's not just about increasing business. it is the action to the at them by washington to sideline and to weaken both china and russia as its geopolitical and economic competitors and of course we have seen not only these meetings between putin and being in the scene petersburg. the economic forum we have seen them at major military exercises several months ago between china and russia that took place in russia by the way mongolian military in the middle in military also took part in the exercises and that was a clear signal to washington and to its closest western allies that that that as long as pressure is going to be increased. against beaching and

china to russia. the united states has started a direct confrontation with its longtime challenger china exchanging tariffs on goods and using diplomacy to keep its competitors economy and trading ambitions in check but with the 2 largest economies entering into a standoff how will the rest of the world cope with the ripple effect the crumbling relations of the 2 superpowers lead to something a lot worse than just taxes. good afternoon your excellent seaward really happy to have your program today yes there are lots to discuss so let's get started. that the belgian wrote form in china the presidency said that russia and china face similar challenges and you know that they should develop in coordination to recommit this challenge and that side is developing at a far greater pace compared to russia that is there was so in your view how could russia and china coordinate or synchronize their of development. yes this is an interesting question. i am ready to answer as you know in may 2015. been our preside

wisdom sanctions against russia are affecting companies and industries but they also targeted russia's most influential businessman personally what's it like to be persona non-grata your own country. will trade ties between russia and the rest of the world survive the sanctions and is russian business adapting to its new reality ed you know the narrative well it's great to have you on our program at this really really happy because we have lots to talk about so there is no widespread idea in the west that slapping sanctions against certain people their assets their kompany will push those people to create an opposition to the russian president and that will eventually result in a policy change you're one of the 1st people who were hit by the sanctions and they mean they haven't been since then it's been 5 years and the sanctions haven't changed russia's stance at all how long are you ready just saying this pressure like forever. will probably be better without sanctions since it's easier to do business and sanctions do have a certain negative impact on the business. that we are living

russia hacked into the pillar of our democracy how russia is hacking and having gas currently and we sure did not mention exactly that did occur nobody is debating that that did or did not happen it did happen faith no need for evidence proof friend's ex or facts but as with every religion there are the tracks is doubtless one of them is roger stone a former advisor to the trumka paid now indicted for alleged witness tampering and making false statements all related to wiki leaks as part of his defense he has requested evidence that russia was behind the d.n.c. hacks of 2016 so the government gave them all they had a redacted draft report from a cyber security company it is clear that the government has relied on the assumptions made by a source outside of the us intelligence community that the russian state was involved in the hacking and that the data taken from the various servers were given to wiki leaks the government does not have the evidence and it knew it did not have the evidence when it applied for these search warrants crowd strike the d.n.c. cyber security contractors wh

would want russia to do so but it does sound like russia and the g 8 see the drug trade investigators simply can't they don't hear each other because most cool from the outset has been saying that it wants to be part of the investigation that it wants to help out to those looking into the tragedy i mean vladimir putin has said that most call or will be happy to recognize the conclusions of the probe if it is part of that if it is part of that probe as for corp russia has been for years russia has been knocking on many doors trying to pass some of its information some of the data it has to the investigators for instance we've prepared a short clip of explaining what that has been. the previous investigation so many triumphantly shouting accusations at russia but instead of trying to out yell its critics russia showed original documents raw data and experiment results which poked holes in the investigation exhibit a. russia's defense ministry dug into its archives and deep it traced the missile based on the pieces discovered among the debris of m.h. 17 the ministry determined its tail n

that they will merely ask russia's law enforcement of russia security service to question the people they've named as suspects still even if they are tried in absentia should they should have a lawyer they have a right to have a lawyer and in all likelihood there will be a person defending them in court so the judge will have to have a look and to weigh the information the evidence presented by both the prosecution and by the defense so if we'll see how that fares in court how the evidence provided by both of the 80 and russia and if anything new comes up how that will fare yeah i want to delve deeper into that now with a guest on the program igor thank you because we're joining vanished like all he's an aviation lawyer also represents relatives of the german m.h. 17 victims you're very welcome to the program how do you feel about the investigator statements on the charges brought against 4 individuals in connection with the tragedy. good evening 1st of all i have the impression that the investigation was just one way as you may know we represent german relatives against the ukraine

china and russia on alarmed at american aggression in the world's china's alarmed at the increase in the american naval presence in the south china sea china is alarmed at the american defense system in south korea and russia is alarmed i know it's very nice you know but i'm not i know this is going to disappoint some people. the idea that russia and china are going to come to take on america and bankrupting america is of course folly the chinese over the last 6 years achieved nothing short of an economic miracle and that it was being based on its relationship with china so the chinese will not do anything that could jeopardize their economic sense and so i would describe the relationship between the 2 and china as something like it's $36.00 i think it's good for global peace i think it's good for global stability and china and more allies they are i think that that's a very good point and i actually that is my position as well you know kamal we've heard a lot about this relationship and some people called strategic partnership there's been a lot of words ok trade is up ticking but i

and we're back with china's ambassador to russia. press your excellency let me ask you about the trade war between china and the united states today if 2 countries try to agree on a set of conditions would benefit both of them it seemed as if they were close to signing an agreement but as of now not only is there no agreement but the u.s. has imposed was even heavier tariffs on china and that's 2 way it is today so hard it is new terrace of acting china's economy. as you know in recent years the chinese economy has being moving in its own. development. and i probably have vast markets our own internal markets as well. mystic consumer demand for chinese made products which is huge. and of course china has been developing close cooperation with the outer world you would do as well as you why ever since the policy of reform and opening up. has been started. it's not just the outer world to. rely on we have our own internal strength as well higher tariffs and you to affect china in a negative way surely at the good news but they are dama

information from russia no corporation whatsoever that russia didn't explain anything and then admitting that they did indeed have received plenty of information and they had they even looked at it well have a listen yourself. if you look back you can establish that from the 1st day after the 17th of july the russian federation hasn't disclosed anything about what happened and that is a slap in the face to all the relatives of the victims and i call on them to start cooperating to tell us what happened there we received the information for murder russian federation from asian about a dismissal of the documents about a missile there we also received the rod or. that wasn't clear enough to say exactly what what's happened with the missile given this and didn't give us the right picture we prepared a short clip explaining what they what they received and what they are now saying wasn't clear enough doesn't paint a clear enough picture have a look the previous investigation so many triumphantly shouting accusations at russia but instead of trying to out yell its critics russia showed origina

is present here in russia well that's. worth a separate discussion of the. many questions about the belarus so the question is when is russia and the belarus are going to united to a single state and there's even the ideal folding a referendum on that. it's not an issue of this we don't have an agenda of building one state we do have a treaty that was signed many years ago of the union state it's not a single state it's not the same there are many elements. in life. should the. union parliament or a single currency. that would bring us together really. close well russia stalled some of the components restored some of the processes to right now we agree with mr. x. and we need to revise that. we'll figure out what needs to be done what needs to be. exported ugle we have set up an expert group. at the level of the heads of governments and deputy heads of government. doing that. here. terms of free movement of goods and services. in terms of social guarantees and a lot mellower has been done but it's not enough we can and will do much more. from going back to o

on developing russia's 5 g. network the 2 countries have also agreed to develop bilateral trade using their national currencies the ruble on. richard. coleman views on the situation in the korean peninsula and follow the joint resolution of the situation noting that there is no alternative to diplomacy for solving existing problems we'll continue to work with china for deescalation of tensions and strengthening security in this region we also continue working for a peaceful resolution in syria and villas where we remain committed to the iran nuclear deal. we discussed the development of our bilateral relations since there stablished been 70 years ago and included they've reached an unprecedented level new possibilities have opened for us the world is changing protectionism and unilateralism a raising their heads china and russia as leading world powers will protect the international system based on international law and multilateral trade cheese a 3 day state visit to russia 70 years of diplomatic relations and

russia still holds. yet president trump said last week that he will meet with putin at the upcoming g-20 summit. now that is not necessarily a ad thing in and of itself. if the president is clear and unequivocal about the remarks he makes to putin including our elections, ambassador, what should president trump -- i'm , butoing to ask ambassador what should president trump be saying to president putin about the sailors and the ongoing occupation of crimea, the conflict, what is the statement that he should be making to him both privately as well as publicly? >> i think that the policies of the administration russia and ukraine have been sound policies, meaning on the sanctions on the kremlin for its ggression. senator menendez: the response to the attacks were weak and infect tive. the sailors are still in detention. it is clear that president putin will interfere with sovereign states such as ukraine unless the rest of the world strongly pushes back. i appreciate, ambassador, you talked about the legisl

and russia and if anything new comes up how that will fare. investigative reporter dave lindorff believes that the investigators displayed a clear bias in what evidence they chose to consider. well they're going to present the evidence that was given to them by ukrainian intelligence which was you know has a one sided view of what they want to do and they won't have russian satellite data which also should be available because they're not accepting it even militia which is an interested party in this if anyone is was not allowed to have a role in the investigation that's ridiculous so this is being done clearly without wanting to get to the bottom of it. members of the venezuelan opposition have been implicated in a corruption scandal lead to documents appeared to reveal that officials from one guy does movement have been embezzling aid funds for personal use now the money was intended for soldiers who defected and fled to neighboring colombia. humanitarian aid it is more a humanitarian robbery all the money from the famous humanitarian aid fu

from russia. after the 17th of july the russian federation hasn't disclosed anything about what happened. to russian federation. credits writers opposition party is accused of spending humanitarian aid money on lavish hotels and drugs and prostitutes. and a newly published u.n. report calls for an investigation into the saudi crown prince over his possible role in the brutal murder. it's midnight here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from our studio with me welcome to the program. russia has firmly rejected accusations that its military was involved in the downing of malaysian airlines flight m h 17 after dutch prosecutors on wednesday charge 4 suspects with murder over their alleged roles in the 2014 disaster which claimed 298 lives moscow says the case against them relies heavily on falsified video footage supplied to investigators. union o'neill in the studio with more on the day's developments. it's the 1st time we're hearing names is the 1st time we're seeing photos. so i