Donald trump on becoming president , and expressing the hope that both countries would take their relationship to a whole new level. Now, moscows relations with the us and the west are so bad that the russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev talks of them as ruined. That was after americas response to the recent Chemical Attack in syria. But even before that, there was the stand off in ukraine, and accusations of russian interference in american elections. Now there are fears the russians could meddle in the French Elections and other european votes this year. My guest is vladimir chizhov, russias ambassador to the eu. Will russia promise not to pervert democracy in europe . Vladimir chizhov, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Frances Foreign Ministerjean marc ayrault has accused russia of meddling in french democratic life. Is that true . Of course its not. Well, im afraid that this wave of anti russian rhetoric has become contagious, and has spread across the atlantic ocean. Thats very ba
very close to the russians, to vladimir putin. she visited him in moscow but several weeks ago in her partier, the national front got a 9 million euro loan from the bank. he s also quite anti-american, which is not supported much in the united states, but she comes from a long, far right tradition of anti-americanism. this is good for u.s. interests. julie: that is good news, we like to hear that. that is all the time we have, thank you very much. we will be right back. stay with us. a meticulously crafted interior. all of these are feats of engineering. combining them with near-perfect weight distribution. .is a feat of amazing. experience the first-ever 471-horsepower lexus lc 500 or the multistage hybrid lc 500h. experience amazing.
times before about the fact that italy was asking for help. they couldn t keep up the cost of trying to mount the operations. it is my understanding that italy has been more active in the seas. absolutely right. for one year italy had a program that cost the country 9 million euro a month and had dedicated vessels out there looking for migrants in trouble. 174,000 people over the course of 2014 were rescued in that operation. they stopped the operation in november. the european union s border control started their own program. they only have one or two boats and a couple of airplanes looking for migrants. they are not a search and rescue mission, they are border control mission and they tend to use the italian coast guard, as well, and tend to call merchant ships which is a changing dynamic in the rescue operation. it has been a 40% increase in