Attorney Deputy Attorney general gave his assessment after the charges were laid this indictment serves as a reminder that people are not always who they appear to be on the. Indictment alleges that the russian conspirators want to promote discord in the United States and undermine Public Confidence in democracy we must not allow them to succeed the department of justice will continue to work a whopper to flee with other Law Enforcement and intelligence agencies and with the congress to defend our nation against similar current and future efforts bruce fein is a former us associate Deputy Attorney general leaks planed what possible ramifications the charges could have full the russia probe. Where this stands now with the next phase that well look at will be questioning mr trump and donald jr and others to see whether or not once the investigation was underway through firing of mr cohen we through collaboration and really say a misleading statement as to what happened in june of two tho
And welcome to aljazeera live from my headquarters in doha. Fraud and also ahead. A poser to deliver his first state of the nation address says south africas new president the struggling economy and corruption some of his key challenges. Political uncertainty in ethiopia after the sudden resignation of Prime Minister haile muddy and desolate implants. The year of the dog millions of people around the world celebrate the Lunar New Year. The u. S. And turkey have agreed to normalize relations off the talks and well u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has been holding talks with his counterpart. Between the two countries have been strained in recent months particularly over u. S. The kurdish fighters in syria. The Turkish Foreign minister says they have decided to tackle the issues together. The doctor to our relations are going through a critical stage we are either going to mend fences or go in a different direction and weve come to an agreement to take joint steps together of course
Doctor to our relations are going through a critical stage we are either going to mend fences or go in a different direction and weve come to an agreement to take joint steps together of course we need to take steps and yes of course both parties have expectations of each other we have expectations in relations to fit hoola glenn and the support given to the white b. G. By the u. S. We have stated our Expectations Quite clearly well the secretary of state mr tillotson says the u. S. And turkey share the same objectives in syria but also hes warning turkey over its operation against kurdish fighters in a fight and we recognize the legitimate right of turkey to secure its borders we take it seriously when our nato ally turkey says it has security concerns. As to africa we call on turkey to show restraint in its operation to minimize the casualties to civilians and avoid actions that would escalate tensions in that area. Has more now from ankara it was a press conference that was very hea
Special counsel Robert Miller charged thirteen russians with running a huge social media trolling campaign against president ial candidate Hillary Clinton mr foreign minister i just wondered what your reaction is to the indictments the war published yesterday the United States that show us one point two five Million Dollars a month of russian taxpayers money being spent in trying to influence the American Election do you think that was do you see a good return on that investment its a good i have no response you can publish anything and we have seen those indictments and ive also read the statements from the Homeland Security adviser in the u. S. Who denied the reports that any country to influence the Election Results the same was said by mike pence either here or maybe in another European Capital so until we have the facts Everything Else is just blather for a childs has more from moscow. Russian response so far has essentially amplified a sense of incredulity incredulity that thirte
Region in the next two days some of it is following the story from istanbul. When it comes to fruition this deal would not be a surprise because kurdish fighters the peoples Production Units or y p g have been in negotiations with the Bashar Al Assad government for a number of days now sources have been telling us that there are sticking points including the man in reconstruction of kurdish fighters to the Syrian Government forces there giving up of heavy weapons by these kurdish fighters and giving up all of their military bases and manipulations going to one of those was some of those points that they were agreeing to as were being asked by the Syrian Government the details of disagreement have not been made public or clear is yet but goodish tried to say that theyve asked the Syrian Government to come in and help them to secure these areas against the turkish advances if invent Syrian Forces enter that border area between syria and turkey called affray in where the fighting is conti