A giant colors allegedly belonging to president putin that triggered more claims and counterclaims and violent protests across the country so on to the points we ask in a valley against putin who will win the russian showdown. Thanks very much indeed for joining us here on to the point with me in the studio is stari asuka a freelance reporter and presenter born in russia and based in berlin darrius says novelle these investigations and the attack on him have for the 1st time politicised many young people in russia also with us is alexander our expert on russia an advisor to the energy giant gazprom he argues that Russian Society can live with corruption but if the Younger Generation feel theyre losing out. That could change quickly and a very warm welcome to steven pifer academic on a list and former u. S. Ambassador with a focus on Europe Russia and much else besides he says the west should push back against the worst of russian misbehavior but it should also leave the door open for d
Different views on that he has tolerated an incredible amount of corruption in russia and i guess that was probably the Biggest Surprise when i was still in the u. S. Government back in the 2000 when putin came to power i think the one thing that we really expected was he will type of things i mean i think there was a sense in russia that things had become too loose in the 1990 s. Too much chaos so he would restore a degree of order but theres also a sense that this is somebody who actually you know crack down on corruption and i dont think weve seen that crime somebody have said its going to be some some somebody who would who would be he was viewed as an honest lida a man who stood by his word that was the that was always the message around putin there was hope i mean i dont remember. That hed stop or. But there was hope that something will change that russia will become the western country that so many people hoped for it would in the ninetys and im the mass. Be cleaned up and we wo
Asked in the valley against putin who will win the russian showdown. Thanks very much indeed for joining us here on to the point and with me in the studio in starry asuka a freelance reporter and presenter born in russia and based in berlin darrius says novelle these investigations and the attack on him have for the 1st time politicised many young people in russia also with us is alexander our expert on russia an advisor to the energy giant gazprom he argues that Russian Society can live with corruption but if the Younger Generation feel they are losing out that could change quickly and a very warm welcome to to steven pifer academic analyst and former u. S. Ambassador with a focus on your. To russia and much else besides he says the west should push back against the worst of russian misbehavior but it should also leave the door open for dialogue thank you for those 3 statements thank you for being here and id like to begin with you if i may and begin with flooded me putin himself hes
A churchwarden who should be mostly but i still imagine him i still see lighting the candles and now im thinking hes not there anymore. Its definitely we are always with him hes always there he spends the day there he shares his life here hes not someone who comes and goes witnesses say the attacker shouted. During his attack he was shot by police near the church and is now being treated in hospital for his injuries. But the priests we are hurt to once again see that our city is taken like this i want to tell the families of the victims of this barbaric attack that everyone in the community is by your side. I want to say that we can no longer with the laws of peace in our country wipeout islamofascism within hours of the attack the french president emanuel macro visited to see. Yemen to miss you ladies and gentlemen once again our country has been hit by an islamist terror attack once again this morning 3 of our compact its nice in this not to die. And very clearly france is under. The
Elections for the senate in georgia and as things stand now if they focus they regroup if the party is seen as responsible and forward looking they have a every chance of winning those 2 seats and therefore holding the senate if they join with trumps you know lawsuits and refusal to move forward and you know inflammatory tweets and all of that it may be seen as so irresponsible that the voters of georgia who ought to reward them with 2 senate seats might in fact go the other direction its unpredictable so it may be that Mitch Mcconnell the kentucky senator who is the Republican Senate majority leader is actually telling donald trump you know we need to hold the senate your battle is probably lost anyway but we need to fight this one and yours is hurting ours i think you have a good point there regarding with the public reaction to this we just saw all those people celebrating. Oh but you know joe biden got around as a 7374000000 votes trump still got almost 70 so thats 17000000 people