Protesters in the capital minutes before my chain of solidarity and the un is demanding with the release of all Political Prisoners. And thousands of flee as some of the biggest wildfires ever to head to california the blazes were sparked by lightning strikes and the states governor is blaming climate change. Im going to richardson thanks for joining us russian Opposition Leader alexina on the is on his way to germany for medical treatment following a suspected poisoning a plane carrying of on the edge took off from the airport an hour ago before that an ambulance had brought that ailing a russian opposition politician up from a hospital hes been in the care of russian and doctors there since a flight he was on was forced to make an Emergency Landing 2 days ago if only collapsed after drinking tea and has been in a coma his supporters say he was deliberately poisoned. Russian doctors at 1st said he was too ill to travel but Health Officials later back to down and said if they would all
Some of the biggest wildfires ever to hit california the blazes worst parts by lightning strikes and the states governor is blaming climate change. Im going to Richard Sennett welcome to the show russian Opposition Leader alexina vonnie is on his way to germany for medical treatment following a suspected of poisoning a plane carrying a volley has it taken off from on the airport before that an ambulance brought the ailing russian opposition politician up from the hospital hed been in the care of russian doctors there since another flight he was on it was forced to make an Emergency Landing 2 days ago involving a collapsed after drinking tea and has been in a coma his supporters say he was a deliberately poisoned or russian doctors at 1st said he was too ill to travel but Health Officials later back to down and said they would allow me to be transported to germany. We took the decision not to oppose his transfer to another hospital the one that his relatives indicated to us. That was wh
Hell be here in about an hours time with news cross talk is next though discussing the role of ukraine americas Political Drama and if youre watching in the u. K. Stay with us for political talk show renegade. And welcome to. You consider. Not long ago it was russia russia russia now its Ukraine Ukraine ukraine partisan hacks media. Americas Political Drama. Here. Cross talking some real news im joined by my guest to me hes a political analyst and editor at innocent the internet media project and in london we crossed alexander material he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as the editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate alexander let me go to you in london im so pleased to have you india on the program here just the 2 of you because it gives you more time to talk about a story that is much more complex and longer than audiences in the west are being given by the Mainstream Me
But which starting from the mid 1990 s. It did so you saw firstly in 2004 there was what was called the orange revolution in ukraine which set aside the result of an election that took place in ukraine in that year leveraged into power a pro western pronate a government that evicted yuschenko who was the president then in 2008 there was a decision made it to some unseen of the bucharest. That nato would one day be expanded to include ukraine and georgia then of course that was another election a few years later which brought into power a man called victim janak oh the church who was to some extent more sort grating in trial it see between. Russia and the western powers understanding how close relations with ukraine between russia and ukraine were and then of course in 2014 there was after a period of very very prolonged violent protests which were backed by nato powers with leaders of the European Union turning up in kiev openly supporting those protests. And who was the assistant secr
What you said peter that it goes back to 2014 it actually goes back even before because of course where the u. S. S. R. Broke up ukraine which had been one of the big constituent republics of ukraine the us the south there was this policy of basically keeping it is distanced from russia as possible and this is linked up with this policy of western expansion of nato which the western powers had promised the russians in 19909091 would never happen but which started from the mid 1990 s. It did so you saw firstly in 2004 there was what was called the orange revolution in ukraine which sets aside the result of an election that took place in ukraine in that year leveraged into power. A pro western pronate a government that evicted yuschenko who was the president then in 2008 there was a decision made it to some of the bucharest. That nato would one day be expanded to include ukraine and georgia then of course there was another election a few years later which brought into power a man called