A putin has expressed fears of a massacre of kiev takes back control over the rest of us territory in the east of ukraine without guaranteeing 1st safety to the citizens living there. The arms the law has been put in place yet we decided on that in 2015 some decisions have been made but it hasnt been put into force the ukrainian side is always saying let us close the border with our force i can imagine what happens then srebrenica nothing more. Than a dinner for marty correspondent down whole can see joins me on the london surprising somewhat i think the words from the russian president when you look at what seemed like a successful normandy formating take us through what was said your very strong words as well given it was all handsets and smiles yesterday at the Summit Press Conference a lot of progress made the key Sticking Point though of course remain is that hand over all full control of the ukrainian russian border to Ukrainian Forces why is this a problem while putin is concerned that president saleh lacks the ability lacks the power to take control and accountability for right wing Paramilitary Forces stationed in the region he of course came to power on a platform of unity of healing these political and civil divides in ukraine and resolving the donbass conflict through negotiation with moscow and that point is something that nationalists really object to they see this as a capitulation or surrender to moscow they regularly express their disdain and anger over any sort of compromise or negotiation process regularly holding protests across the country in fact one rally was held there just a couple of days back on the eve of this paris one thousands took to the streets to protest against these negotiations with moscow so this according to putin remains a Sticking Point. Weve seen zelinsky holding talks with nationalists its unclear who is stronger and what happens there and who will be leading those nationalists when they enter that territory without any guarantees for people this is one of the problems which surely is of the political nature. Will putin use quo. Whats thought language of course being one of the darkest incidents of the yugoslav wars 9095 when thousands of men and teenage bosniak boys were killed by. Forces why the comparison then well for years now far right these paramilitary bullish is have gained a foothold in ukrainian politics they fought on the front lines long side Ukrainian Forces but they very much been under their own command structure had their own agenda lacked any sort of accountability if you want to anyone and these groupings such as the hours off will be done by and they have been accused multiple times of Human Rights Violations even of war crimes so letting these armed men with such beliefs unchecked into an area with millions of civilians after years of violent conflict certainly of course is bound to raise some concern. I. Now there was progress made yesterday of course in terms of the Prisoner Exchange the potential cease fire disengagement etc but this point of who is going to control the border that means the whole for control over entry exit into the zones does remain a bone of contention moscow wants this done as a final point in the minsk agreement says something that place when Everything Else has been put in place key of wants this done sooner and this is something that moscow cannot accept right now so the question of who is going to have control over these paramilitary groups is going to provide guarantees of safety and security and human rights for the civilians in those areas and will zelinsky have the power to contain and bring on his control these sort of nationalist undercurrents still prevalent in ukrainian politics that is something thats going to have to be discussed and compromised on if negotiations are to keep moving ahead. Down hawkins bring is that a date thank you. And so these are donald trump seems to be very much swimming against the tide this week today the house has announced 2 specific articles of impeachment against the president. The 1st article is for abuse of power it is an Impeachable Offense for the president to exercise the powers of his Public Office to obtain improper personal benefits while ignoring or in injuring the National Interest and when he was caught when the house investigated and opened an impeachment inquiry president should be engaged in an unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inquiry. This gives rise to the 2nd article of impeachment for obstruction of congress. And in addition to that yes their long awaited report the president was hoping would prove the Intelligence Service was biased against their will that didnt quite pan out. He said. First of all lets go through what was in the report. Well as you can see theres been a new chapter that has been opened in the impeachment inquiry into donald trump we now have the 2 articles of impeachment that have been drawn up now the next step will be for the u. S. House of representatives to vote on them however beyond that theyre not expected to go very much further because its the senate that would then convene an impeachment trial in the senate is solidly in the hands of the republicans it seems like the Democratic Party has very very quickly moved on from there allegations about trump russia collusion which were debunks and soon now moving on to allegations about ukraine which is the basis of this impeachment inquiry and the articles of impeachment that were just drawn up however as we look back on that trump Russia Collusion Investigation we now have a very important report that was just released the horowitz report from the department of justice Inspector General looking into the investigation of donald trump for allegations that he colluded with russia now the report it has some contradictory information and findings it does not not seem to show that the department of justice acted inappropriately in investigating the Trump Campaign they said that all that was simply required in order to carry out an investigation was what they called articulable facts thats a very low threshold and there indeed were articulable facts that laid the basis for an investigation doesnt seem to be showing a conspiracy against the president of the United States according to the report that has been released however what is being overlooked is that there seem to have been agreed just errors by the f. B. I. When they investigated donald trump they apparently made quite a few mistakes this is the president of the United States responding to the report. Course and. The report actually and especially when you look into it and the details of the reporting are far worse than anything i would have even imagined. What they were doing and what they would have. Invited make a certain move a certain move that was a very important move because it would have been even worse if thats possible and they might have been able to succeed if this was an overthrow of a government whose was an attempt to overthrow. Now the report also reveals some information regarding john brennan he was the cia director under obama and he was an outspoken critic of u. S. President donald trump remains an outspoken critic of him after leaving his role at the cia apparently he testified that that they did not rely on the steel report and the Obama Administrations Intelligence Community Assessment that accused russia of meddling in the election did not rely on the steel report however the newly released report from the department of justice the Inspector General report seems to indicate that that was not the case that what john brennan testified was not accurate this was what john brennan testified. And you know if the bureau ever relied on a steel dossier is any is part of any Court Filings cations petitions pleadings have no awareness. Did the cia rely on no one. Because we did it wasnt part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had it was not in any way used as a basis for the until a screen assessment that was done. It was it was not. Now page 179. 00 of the newly released report seems to indicate pretty clearly that the intelligence agencies did rely on that steel dossier but up they were even though that still dossier was compiled by fusion g. P. S. The firm and even they concluded it was not a finished document regardless the intel agencies did apparently rely on that report that is what the new document very clearly indicates so it appears that john brennan was giving false information when he was giving his testimony so as we have this new report it doesnt seem to fully confirm what many had expected but yet it does also show some impropriety on the part of john brennan and the f. B. I. At the same time weve got the proceeding impeachment hearings and inquiry against trump weve got these articles of impeachment not expected to really go any place because the senate is solidly republican the drama on capitol hill continues anythings killing more people it is right up to date line from new york thank you. French people have again taken to the streets against the presence of mind of much runs plans to overhaul the Pension System the Authorities Say that more than a dozen the rest of recent days the country see violent protests in a number of cities with all from paris his art easily. Well as you can see we are in the thick of it the country is trying to deliver their message to the government just one day before it now says their final plans for pension reform in france although we did hear from the countrys Prime Minister that for them for now there is no intention to change their plans if we dont make serious profound and progressive reforms to date someone else will make a much more brutal reform tomorrow i hope that we can convince a majority of french people that our reform is fair it is universal it makes the special Pension Plans gradually disappear and is financially balanced not just for a moment let me give you a clearer picture of who these people are for instance i mean weve already been used to the yellow vests but as you can see these are orange and what it says on them is s. N. C. F. This is the French Railway company which is by the way one of the main driving forces of the protests you can imagine what happens if the entire system. Where world workers what if they go on strike sun life that has already happened they say that at one point you know almost 85 percent of the Railway Staff members wait all right and this really cause chaos in the countries transport system. To study about iran and world war i can tell you that the professions range from air Traffic Controllers to actually Police Officers and lawyers so this is just how vast it is. You know. Like i said before even police Union Support the strike and actually in fact different opinion polls say that from 50 to 70. Percent of the french population are supporting whats going on in the street in the streets of france right now but i do have to mention though that last week protests in various cities of these countries did turn ugly and violent. I can tell you that most of the slogans that we are hearing in these protests are aimed directly against the president emanuel macron one you can see right here it says macro dont touch my retirement i can tell you that the pension reform is pretty much his brainchild and thats why so many people are angry at him specifically over but this comes soon may be. Over but it does not come here to many 1st but the reforms we impart to everybodys the idea for the pension reform is to introduce a universal point system which will make the pension sums universal for different layers of the society but some of them in france do fear that they will lose their privileges they want to give us a town hall food system you have every hour who are you pawns but all much. So with brings you an opponent never knows more now. This is just a warning for the government but its not hard to predict whats going to happen if emanuel macron and his team decides to stick to the plan. Theyve got some foreign minister is in washington to meet with his u. S. Counterpart on President Trump will be back with more details on that story after the short break. When else chose seemed wrong. Why dont we all just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out just to come after. And engagement equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for Common Ground. What politicians do something to. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Some want to be. At it like to be for us as a white woman for 3 of them cant be good. Im interested in the why our. Taxes should. Come back russian athletes have expressed frustration after the continuing fallout from the doping scandal so the country banned from all major world tournament for the next 4 years this issue was made by the World Antidoping Agency wada but ima putin has given his backing to russias sportspeople. Because any punishment must not be collective affecting people who have nothing to do with certain violations there are no complaints against the Russian Olympic Committee if there are no complaints the country should compete under its National Flag as stated in the olympic charter it means why this decision contradicts the olympic charter and we have grounds to appeal to cas. Order took the action after it rule moscow and tampered with a drug test database but while clean athletes will still be able to compete or be forced to do so and very neutral flag russian officials however are prohibited from attending major events of the country well be allowed to host any tournament. The list of doors are slammed in russias face while its extensive it includes the olympic and Paralympic Games in tokyo in 2020 and footballs fifa world cup in qatar 2 years after that russia was the last host of that world cup event and its players will now have to go there as neutrals if of course they qualify we spoke to the head of the Russian Weightlifting Federation who thinks that these measures wont help to battle doping. None of these sanctions will help fight doping theyre more political than practical they cannot lead to positive changes in Russian Sports they are destructive and will lead to stagnation russia is not the worst doping violator there are other countries and cases this means that doping is not a russia specific problem its a problem for the entire sporting world i think the main reason behind the sanctions is this political tendency to apply pressure on russia one of the methods is through social things like sports what was given the russian antidoping n z 21. 00 days to decide if it wants to appeal if it helps to do so the case will be taken to the court of arbitration for sport. Breaks down the wada ruling for us. Imagine a person that robs a bank steals lets say a 1000000. 00 gets caught gets prison time gets out like a near your early for Good Behavior but then the police tells them you know were not sure you actually stole millions maybe your store more so were going to push imprison back again or that is basically the logic which the World Antidoping Agency applied to the whole nation of russia in their decision on monday to ban the country from major sports competitions in the world saying that the russian athletes can compete individually but they have to again prove that they have not used any kind of doping by. The position of the Russian Olympic Committee stays the same the sanctions are inadequate not logical and too severe we would do our best for the Russian Olympic Team to petition pay to the Upcoming Games in japan under the colors of the russian trickle or due to the terms of the olympic charter. Whether someone committed a crime fair enough he or she should be punished for that but it is quite unclear how exactly stripping a nation of its flag in a major sports competitions across the planet can actually solve the problem of fighting against doping youre not. Proven guilty and im in and you dont think its who you are guilty until you can prove youre innocent complete reversal of Justice System but its always been that way youve got to think about whats on the World Antidoping Agency has jurisdiction it doesnt act yours dictionary to the russian authorities become sanction Russian Politicians rule it can do sanction resettling and take actions relative to schools so its come up with this International Standard to code compliance or signatories which is used to sanction russia this time round. On top of everything it seems that waters decision from monday was made in such a haste that they have no clue how to actually navigate in that decision the biggest example of that is probably the situation with your way for and feel for tournament where were you where you quite expect to. Be sanctions will not affect in any way russian part of the upcoming your. First of all its a continental tournament not of world qualification for or for compartmented to. Is again within the competence of us but should it make it to the 2022 world cup in qatar it may be stripped of its flag of its anthem and it may be participating as a neutral country and if youre not yet confused enough they already said directly that should russia appeal to cas the court for arbitration of sports and this process takes longer than the official preparation for next summers olympics russia will go to next summers olympics in tokyo as a full fledged nation but then if the ban is implemented late it might miss out on the 2024 summer Olympic Games in paris so this is all surrounded by a lot of confusion and at the same time russia says that its not planning to give up the sports minister of the country 5 oclock off insists that all the information for the reinstatement of that has been provided to the World Antidoping Agency. Experts who provided convincing on says unfortunately they havent heard us resign or has time to appeal initially when we handed over the database we said lets investigate the database together so that we can make a full decision we wanted to have a kind of mechanism if we dont want to object of decision lets do it like this was saddam has all the necessary opportunities he could have taken a different approach from whichever side you look at it mondays decision by water looks like a vocal and very harsh indictment of the Russian Sports it might. Send shock waves and reverberations in the country sport for many years to come but it might actually be the beginning of a new struggle of a new battle the legal one when russia takes its case to cast the court of arbitration for sports in laws and switzerland and we are expecting this to be made quite quickly before the end of this year where the decision was balanced on the basis of the proofs i have my doubts here because what is not clear to me is how they did find out that there should be many people asian on the russians who is guaranteeing that datas from the restall blower were not money police that it causes a reputational damage to russians board because everybody is now thinking that the russian at least or although purse which is of course not true and the focus is put only on russia we all know a lot of the open cases are coming also from all the nationality clits and that means. Now actually easily to be one sided. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov is in washington for a working visit the countrys top diplomats meeting with the secretary of state and President Trump it is it is done off following developments in the u. S. Capitol. Quotes himself he doesnt expect anything in fact he says that russia just comes here to washington to deliver its position to make known to make the United States to make sure that the United States is aware as to what russia thinks they have plenty to discuss thats for sure and arguably topping the agenda is the situation about the i. M. F. Deal or rather about its nonexistence anymore the i. N. F. Treaty of course im talking about was seen as the key document preventing a cold war style arms race between russia and the u. S. But the 2 countries both countries accused each other over violating the terms of the agreement and eventually the United States decided to pull out of the deal and russia followed suit but the respect the responsibility of finding Common Ground because it does look like both countries seem eager to go back on the oh not allowing the arms race to happen heres how donald trump put it russia wants to make you feel very much your arms and you will so certainly really you know. We may be related or very very very well as if to corroborate those words russia has in turn put forward some of its some of its proposals as well the russian president Vladimir Putin for instance he suggested that maybe a star deal a deal called start its an abbreviation that was signed back in 2010 could be expanded could be could be expanded to serve the purpose of the new i. M. F. For this year russia is ready to prolong the new start treaty as soon as possible before the end of the year without any preconditions on the International Stage theres plenty to discuss as well now with the key focus it seems should be on the protests in iran because this is where the points of view of most school and washed. Staggeringly different for instance the United States they have been siding with the protesters all along and accusing the tehran government of mishandling the protests while most school has been pointing out that all the disenchantment all the unrest that was caused by the economic instability by the Economic Hardship of tehran was in turn caused by the by the policy of sanctions pushed by the United States on to that nation. She problem which iran is undergoing some very Serious Problems largely gts u. S. Sanctions absolutely illegally the americans withdrew from iran you could see you expect to implement it. Well that was Sergey Lavrov and again hes right behind those walls so he could deliver that message to my pump aoe directly now but iran is far from the only country in the whole of latin america with countries like venezuela or a bolivia where moscow and washington again dont see eye to eye one washington is supporting the uprisings and moscow is saying that it is a grab of power take it to the middle east to the situation in syria to the situation in ukraine that to the hiking to the most recent hacking scandal that russia is being accused of being behind and of course the rest of the Diplomatic Properties here in washington russias diplomatic property all of that and not even mentioning the impeachment proceedings here in the United States so it does loke that this day is going to be packed with events and at least with statements that something is bound to come out of it with Sergey Lavrov meeting both with my pump donald trump ok to wrap things up for this news are appreciated company here on an International Updates coming your way in 30 minutes. 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