Washington. Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov published its internal correspondence with moscow on claims of meddling in the 26th. Among many other pressing issues. And this is. The day after the 1st meeting with ukrainian counterpart russias president has voiced his fear of a massacre of kiev takes back control of the east of ukraine without guarantees for the citizens safety. The mc law hasnt 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 without force i can imagine what happens then srebrenica nothing more was all handsets and smiles yesterday at the Summit Press Conference a lot of progress made the Sticking Point there of course remains that handover a full control of the ukrainian russian border to Ukrainian Forces why is this a problem well putin is concerned that president the lens he 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 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 just a couple of days back on the eve of this paris one thousands. To protest against these negotiations with moscow so this according to putin remains a Sticking Point. Seen zelinsky holding talks with nationalists its unclear who is stronger and what happens there and who would 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 putin used quite quite stark language for a sort of course being one of the darkest incidents of the yugoslav wars 9095 when thousands of men and teenage bosniak boys were killed by bosnian serb forces why the comparison then well for years now far right these paramilitary militias 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 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 is bound to raise some concern. I. 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 vote of contention moscow wants this done as a final point in the minsk agreement says something that takes 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. People have attained taken again to the streets against president plans to overhaul the Pension System or thirtys are saying that more than a dozen arrests have been made recent days the current. She has seen violent protests in a number of cities as well from paris is it a trick. 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 the 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 road workers what if they go on strike only son like that has already happened to be saying that at one point you know almost 85 percent of the Railway Staff members white rice and this really caused chaos in the countrys transport system. But its not only 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. 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 prove money 1st but the reform were looking for 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 ever who are you pawns but own. Would bring you a point never know now this is just a warning for the government but its not hard to predict whats going to be out but if emanuel makr audit his team decides to stick to the plan. Seems to be very much swimming against the tide this week today the house is now to 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 well the articles of impeachment have been drawn up against donald trump accusing him of obstruction of justice as well as abuse of power these articles of impeachment are not expected to go very far with the senate under the control of republicans now it seems the democrats have moved full speed ahead on from their trumped russia collusion allegations which was the basis of a long investigation which seems to have disproved what was widely believed now theyve moved on to these allegations about ukraine that are the basis of the impeachment and articles of impeachment that were recently drawn up the investigations etc however as folks look back on the long tramp 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 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 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 imagine. What they were doing and what they would have. Invited make a certain 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 attempted overthrow now the report also reveals some information regarding john breaux. 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 as part of any Court Filings occasions petitions pleadings have no awareness to 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 we use 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. Even though that steel 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 doc 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 anywhere. Place because the senate is solidly republican the drama on capitol hill continues. In a rare visit to the u. S. The Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has held talks with the sec to state my pump but underneath the smiles and pleasantries it was clear the 2 locked horns on a number of thorny issues aunties exist on the reports. From the outset it became clear how much room for improvement there is in the relations between russia and the United States for instance one of the cases election meddling the secretary of state might pompei as being very adamant that any interference in americas relations is unacceptable by a foreign power to which russias foreign minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that all such accusations still exist in the realm of speculation now as for meddling or not meddling you suggested to simply read all over the board we read it. But there is no proof of any collusion. Also has repeatedly said that russia is ready. France today i think what my life is like if you see 5000000 haitian channel that had been established back in 2618 but according to the Russian Foreign minister those attempts to make those transcripts see the light of day have so far been stopped by the trumpet ministration. To do the ration of donald trump which suggested our colleagues to dispel all baseless suspicions let us publish that close journal correspondent starting from october 26th scene to november 27th seen so it would become all very clear to people unfortunately the Current Administration refused to do so. We all ready to publish that correspondence and over he talked about thats. Not the end all suggestion is to publish i repeated for a 4th time to publish that data that would show how russia responded through the special channel which was designed for reviewing threats also ive been it works. Another bone of contention between russia and the United States is the i. M. F. Or rather the absence of the deal now and both parties are both ministers. Kind of clash as to how they see the moving forward for instance the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has again said that we could use that the countries could use the stock treaty that had been signed back in 2010 but my pump aoa has voiced his concerns and has made it clear what the United States dont like about that deal it cant be the case that that can be the sole focus thats agreement that was entered into many years ago when powers were very different on a relative basis around the globe. It was at a time then the Weapons Systems the threats were very different than they are today to the rest strategic instability today are different its no longer just missile just bombers just submarines just warheads there are many other tools which can create strategic instability so we believe not only do the conversations need to be broadened to include the Chinese Communist party the russian president spoke again this ensures that russias preparedness will protect them right now ahead on its attraction or leave a Detention Center for Global Community history that the last instrument of the order of an arms control so you know the terrain and the russian federation. Of course will be destroyed was not destroyed but it will just. Not being enforced and we are prepared to do that even today on the other hand circular has reiterated that russia has been making unilateral steps of good faith for instance the russian president had previously said that russia wasnt going to deploy any weapons that had been banned under the i. N. F. Treaty in europe unless washington or its allies decided to do that 1st but it wasnt all negative there are some points where russia and the United States do see eye to eye on where the do see each other as valuable partners syria afghanistan north korea all those asked but all those political crises see russia and the United States working together and both countries it seemed did their best both ministers at least did their best to try and move the train forward as much as they could. Speak now to Richard Black is a republican Virginia State senator great to have you on again richard 1st of all your reaction to this press conference would you call these talks positive or not. Well. You know i would not say that the press conference was positive you have to keep in mind. Secretary pump aoa by his very nature is not a diplomat hes a rather part of nature seem to be a jewel rather confrontational i would have preferred a more courteous and less confrontational press conference. But keep in mind that after the press conference they will head over to the white house where they will be meeting with President Trump and i think theyll have a much more into med and realistic conversation keep in mind that. All of this is taking place with the backdrop of the impeachment hearings and it has been one of the strategies of the administration to appear to be as tough with russia as possible and its very unfortunate but thats just the the domestic policy ramifications of this. The 2 of them you talk about being tough the tizen talks about the alleged russian meddling in the u. S. Election perhaps a chance to kind of show how america still hasnt forgotten all forgiven him yet we saw russia defending saying that it was a ridiculous accusation and that there was no evidence thats been presented you think will ever be able to move on from this. Good know i theres only so long that you can continue talking about russian meddling and so far the only evidence that ive seen is that there were 100000. 00 and facebook ads that were placed some of them for Hillary Clinton some of them for trump and they were placed out of russia well im going to tell you 100000. 00 did not buy you a drop in the ocean in terms of facebook ads so. The democrats will continue to insist that the russians meddled the republicans are an conventions i dont think i dont think its an issue thats particularly relevant to the american people. Lavrov said that moscow had many times asked the Trump Administration to publish all the correspondence between trump and putin from october 2016. 2017 and that been no response why do you think that is well you know i think there actually is a genuine reason for this now the only time that i can recall a transcript being disclosed was when these allegations were brought against President Trump with his his talks with selenski where they said all where he was he was pressuring selenski and i think the president realized of course that nothing improper had been said and he just made a decision ok this is against our policy against white house policy but im going to release it and and ive read the transcript theres absolutely nothing improper in it now. When if you if you begin to do this with with one leader and then another. Then at a certain point it becomes very difficult to to converse incompetence with World Leaders and sometimes you need to be very direct and you may need to say things that might not. Be well in the press and so. I i understand why the state department is reluctant to release the conversation but at the same time. President putin is saying look there was nothing improper that was said im quite confident that that is the case but i would be surprised if those transcripts are actually released it seems much of the time spent discussing this solemn and control do you think that is likely going to be any kind of breakthrough. You know i was really hoping that there were and president putin just recently made a proposal that the new start treaty be extended for an additional 5 year period this was the treaty that. Controls the number of of warheads and Delivery Systems right now russia and the United States are kept at 1550 nuclear warheads. They have met the requirements of the new start treaty and so it was it was a successful treaty but there seems to be an element within the state department that wants to discuss sort of disassemble the whole treaty regime that has been established very painful way over over generations now. It was interesting that the Washington Post put out an editorial and they said. We think that the president should agree to the proposal by by a president putin and with them and its not often that i agree with the Washington Post but i certainly do on that issue so i i would hope that the door hasnt been closed on that issue. Richard will wrap it up there really appreciate your time my guest Richard Black republican Virginia State senator thank you. Very much. Lets bring in some breaking news thats just come in at least 2 Police Officers have reportedly been shot in jersey city in the United States its not yet clear if there have been any fate ality as there are said to be 2 suspects who have barricaded themselves into a wine cellar local schools have been put on lockdown as the Police Operation continues to bring it back on to the story as they come in. As well russian athletes have expressed anger and frustration after the continuing fallout from the doping scandal so the country banned from all major world tournament for the next 4 years the decision was made by the World Antidoping Agency wilder. And wilder took the action after it will moscow it tampered with a key drug test database but while clean athletes will still be able to compete theyll be forced to do so under a neutral flag russian officials are prohibited from attending major events while the country will be allowed to host any tournaments and the list of doors now slammed shut in russias face is extensive it includes the olympic and Paralympic Games in tokyo 2024 will fifa world cup in qatar to years after that russia was the last host of course of the football world cup and its players will now have to go to the finals as neutral should they qualify modest given the russian antidoping is the 21. 00 days in which to appeal if it does so the case will be taken to the court of arbitration for sport. Breaks down the wire the ruling for us. Imagine a person who robs a bank steals lets say a 1000000. 00 gets caught gets prison time gets out like a mere year early for Good Behavior but then the police tells him you know were not sure you actually stole 1000000 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 participate in 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 do to your guilty until you can prove youre innocent you complete reduce Justice System but its always been that way youve got to think about whats on the World Antidoping Agency whose jurisdiction it doesnt at yours dictionary to the russian authorities become sanction Russian Politicians are all it can do is sanction resettlement 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 around. On top of everything it seems that what is a 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 you wait 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 bible club golf insists that all the information for the reinstatement of that has been provided to the World Antidoping Agency says renewing your 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 be objective 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 Russian Sports it might send shock waves and reverberations in the country sport for many years to come