to create a russia, what was russia doing? putin invaded chechnya twice. he invaded georgia. he invaded ukraine. he built up his military system. he held a military exercise in the arctic involving 220 aircraft and 40 ships. this year, he conducted an exercise in the baltics. in 2009 and 2013, he conducted military exercises which concluded with a practice run of the nuclear bombardment of warsaw. this is a country, while engaging with the west incidentally, you can't have it both ways. you can't say that putin was laundering his money in western banks and we were isolating him. why we let them use our banking system, while we enriched them they were re-creating a soviet style nuclear arsenal and a soviet style military that they want to use against us. [applause] garry: this is the first time i've heard that a policy of engagement could prevent stalinist terror. [applause] i always believed that in a criminal regime founded by lenin and stalin and others, whatever the west did in the 1920's was irrelevant. it was lenin that s

what are the consequences of engaging russia? by engaging russia? by engaging russia, and by this i mean opening its doors to as many russians as possible, easing the visa restrictions allowing them to visit and work and send their kids to universities. the west will bring change in people's mindset. this will change the country, country, it's politics and its policies. it will not happen overnight but it will inevitably happen and this beyond a question of a doubt, will be huge for the west. by west. by the same token, for russia and for the russian people. finally, i'd like to say that if as ms. applebaum once wrote in this magazine, the russian president dreams of setting down a new iron curtain, this is her article, then isolating russia is playing right into putin's hand. thank you very much. : >> we asked you to vote on the resolution on if the west should engage in not isolate russia. we have that up now. doing it from memory, i figure was 43%. >> 53%. [inaudible conversations] >> okay. 54% agreed, 46% disagree. so it's very close. and we ask

to create a russia, what was russia doing? putin invaded chechnya twice. he invaded georgia. he invaded ukraine. he built up his military system. he held a military exercise in the arctic involving 220 aircraft and 40 ships. this year, he conducted an exercise in the baltics. in 2009 and 2013, he conducted military exercises which concluded with a practice run of the nuclear bombardment of warsaw. this is a country, while engaging with the west incidentally, you can't have it both ways. you can't say that putin was laundering his money in western banks and we were isolating him. why we let them use our banking system, while we enriched them you can't say he was wandering his money in western banks and we were isolating him. while we let them use our banking system and while we enriched them, what were they doing? they were re-creating a soviet style nuclear arsenal that they want to use against us. for the first time that is the debate i heard that they could prevent terror. i always believed that it was a criminal regime foun

engaging russia. opening its russia. opening its doors to as many russians as is physically possible easing visa restrictions, or waving them altogether. all russians to visit, work, send their children to schools and universities development contacts. it will achieve a profound change. this will fundamentally change the country. politics and policies. it will not happen overnight but it will inevitably happen. in this beyond the question of the tao will be a huge positive for the west. by the same token for russia and for the russian people. and finally, if as ms. applebaum once wrote the russian president dreams of sitting down a new iron curtain this is her article. isolating russia is friend right into it. >> ladies and gentlemen, we gentlemen, we have been treated to a superpower have to be read. [applause] [applause] >> thank you to the foundation for making this possible. thank you. [applause] >> let's review where public opinion was at the beginning of tonight's debate we asked you to vote agree disagree on the r

it is russia. they will not let russia go away. narrator: so dagestan maintains its diverse languages and cultures in an isolating and resource-poor environment. if dagestan were all by itself centrifugal forces here might make it difficult to unify this area under one state. but dagestanies can well see the violence and chaos just over their borders in republics that are torn apart by regional and even global conflicts. at least for now the people of dagestan choose to follow centripetal forces that hold them together safely within the russian federation. narrator: as a young man, vasili arrived in bratsk as a pioneer to develop the area's river transportation. now he is retired. ( speaking rusan ) translator: when i came here i didn't have the slightest idea why i had come. after a while, you get used to the place. the temperature was minus 50 minus 60. at that time, we were well paid. many of us left again, because of the cold, the mosquitoes and god knows for what other reasons. narrator: far from the capital in moscow the city

greece is going to have to offer russia something in return if russia proposes those things for grows. >> rory from moscow, thank you. >> in the u.s. city of north charleston in the state of south carolina a white policeman has been charged with the murder of a black man. a video shows him shooting walter scott several times in the back as he's running away. we have a report. >> 33-year-old north charleston police officer mike sell slager is behind bars after this graphic video went environmental. [ gunfire ] >> a witness captured the moments the officer shot and killed 50-year-old walter scott in the back. scott, a father of four, employed and engaged to be married is seen running from the officer. the officer pulled him over for a broken tail light. in his initial report, he wrote scott attacked him had stolen his taser and that his life was in danger. >> what happened today doesn't happen all the time. what if there was no video? what if there was no witness or hero as i call them to come forward? then this wouldn't have happened. >> civil rights leaders are calling for calm while

impossible to isolate russia. russia is too big. too rich. and too interconnected in the day's world. and russia has so many options apart from the west and in the west. one example ever since several months ago. president obama said that it was american policy to isolate russia. the russian state under putin has signed more foreign and agreements. financial political economic and military and foreign states than has washington. and russia has been connected. russia has other places to go. and if we push them out of the west. falacy number two and isolating russia from the west will not make moscow more cooprative or compliant. initial stead we know what russia will do. this is doing it today. it will turn elsewhere. above all to the east. above all to china. and to many of the other dozens of regions and regime that's harbor recentments against the west and america. and europe. and canada. what will russia do if we so isolate them and it will sell the nuclear weapons. nuclear reactors and it will sell them excellent weapons. it will give the

and fresh moves on a rebel area in crimea which russia annexed last year, perhaps advantage russia after all. and anyone hoping russia will end this new cold war last a long time to wait. russian sanction he are taking a big bite out of russian prosperity but despite all the hardships poll after poll shows solid putin backing. rory challands reports. >> it's seven weeks since boris nemtsov died. clearly he's deeply missed. many attending an opposition conference on saturday new him personally. but they didn't come to mourn, they came to plan for the future. >> translator: we don't aim at choosing a leader and uniting around him. if you have one leader you can be easily defeated. we must become a wide scale movement for democratic reforms. we must learn to do something that the opposition never could do. go to people. talk to them. get a huge number of activists to help. only will this bring the chance of victory. >> parliamentary elections in 2016 and a strategic union has just been formed to fight them. nemtsov's party, rpr parnasse and the party of progress led by anticorruption campai

petersburg, russia. severe rain causes the streets to flood. >> you've got small lake in the middle of this neighborhood and then all of a sudden you see a car coming through, the trunk is open, and then you realize it's because somebody's wakeboarding off the back of this car. >> guy's really taking to the next level. what i used to do growing up in russia, hold on to a bread truck when it was snowy and kind of skate behind it. >> snow is fun to slide on, but this water could cause a lot of damage. >> i certainly would not mind being the wakeboarder, i don't want to be the driver. have you ever seen what happens to a car when the engine intake sucks up all the water? that engine block is done. insurance company's not going to cover you for being a dumb ass. >> if i knew how to wakeboard, i'd do something like this. you have to know what you're doing. this is totally cool. i love this guy. >> coming up -- keep your eyes on the road. and romance gone wrong. >> i don't understand how cow sex works but thes

fdr and russia reached an agreement where russia would enter the war with a japan after germi surrendered. this meant the russians would invade before the american invasion scheduled for november in return roosevelt agreed to give the soviet union what japan had taken from them in 1945. said admiral king after the agreement was announced atal tacoma we have just saved two million americans. there were serious problems after yalta. there were disputes over the perceived callous treatments at the hands of the soviets of those american soldiers released from prinze as the russian army freed poland, of stalin's absolute hysteria when he perceived ongoingly that the u.s. and the u.k. were negotiating a separate peace with german generals which fdr answered in a moving, emotional cable, explaining no separate peace was contemplated. quote, roosevelt it would be one of the great tragedies of history if, at the very moment of victory now within our grasp such distrust, such lack of faith, should prejudice the entire undertaking. frankly, i cannot avoid a feeling of bitter resentment toward your i

he said russia was going to be very powerful. the thing to do now was to get plans definitely made for disarmament. later in the evening king wrote in his diary fdr repeated watsons if you cannot beat him to join him then went on to say, it was clear that the u.s., britain and china could not defeat of russia. thing to do was to get them all working on the same line. a thinking to what he said was confidential and added for god's sake, don't give me away. two months after stalin opened the churches, secretary of state was in moscow in a meeting setting up the conference. he announced as they met at fdr wanted china to be a signatory along with britain, russia and america in a for par statement calling for united action against the axis powers and the creation of an international peacekeeping organization. fdr, unique in this generation did not think the white race should rule the world. stalin refused to agree to china as the fourth policeman. whereupon he said he would pack his bags and go home. before the meeting was over he re

russia did. how could we attack putin and his democratic values if we could see him, you know, being embraced and hugged by blair schroeder, chirac. so russian propaganda machine worked for their advantage. of course, while we're talking about foreign aggression i can't escape ukraine. of course ukrainian case undermines, undermines the authority of nato and the united states and, again, it was the only way for putin to go because economy no longer offers him an excuse to stay in power forever because he's now ruler for life everybody understands it and he needed this aggression as did he in georgia in 2008 but now it's ukraine and let's not forget ukraine has been disarmed by united states and united kingdom in 1994 by forced to sign budapest memorandum. ukraine had the third largest nuclear arsenal in the you're. more than uk france and china combined. 1200 nuclear warheads. if some of these warheads were aiming at moscow today, putin would never cross ukrainian border. [ applause ] that was a

annexation to russia is desirable. i would only like to draw, if you will permit me an example from my own home city, which is boston. after the revolutionary war they lost 25% of their population who went either back to england or to canada because they didn't like the result. and there is always voting with your feet. i think, though and this is where i feel it's closer to the german example. very few east germans went any place else. they did not leave. they did not go en masse to other places because ultimately they felt this was, their homeland. >> a lot of them went west, of course. >> yes, but within the country. within the country. you don't see massive outmigration. you don't see people even changing their address within the european union. >> one other point, the support for the minsk agreement being large majorities in every region i think is a very strong indicator that they're still trying to work it out. >> let's try to get as many questions as possible. you, sir. we have a lot of questions. we'll try to

so will russia support this resolution? will russia abstain? both of those will probably mean the resolution will pass or will russia use its no vote and that means that the resolution would go nowhere, it would not become a u.n. resolution because the russians have that veto ability. the security council as we speak, jane most of the ambassadors sitting down and i expect it to start in just a few moments. >> james we'll let you go now, but we'll come back to you when you hear some of the key speakers speaking. >>> the iraqi prime minister is in washington, d.c. he is there to ask president obama for more weapons to help in the fight against isil. the u.s. has already delivered 300 mine-resistant vehicles, 12,000 sets of body armor, helmets and first aid kits. america has also trained thousands of iraqi troops at five bases in the u.s. i believe that the vote is about to take place at the united nations, so let's listen in. >> translator: this meeting is called to order. the agenda for this meeting is the situation in the middle east. the agend

. >> what do you see russia wanting, russia arriving at the talks, why do they possibly sabotage the deal? >> i think russia has at least three objectives. one is they want to endear themselves to the iranians who they have according to the iranian regime stabbed in the back when they vetoed the bills and united nations sacks resolution. two, they get some financial gains out of it, that is multimillion dollar deal. and it gets them off a $4 billion lawsuit that iran has filed. finally, i think russia would not at all be hurt if this deal falls through. an isolated iran and iran rapprochement, on approach to rapprochement to the united states is an iran much in need of russia and every deal that russia has made in the last few years. >> the lawsuit you mentioned a lawsuit that iran had filed for russia to go through with the agreement to sell them those missiles, an agreement that was signed years ago. you know we heard barbara and mike viqueria talking about the military option which was still open if iran doesn't agree othis deal for both the united states and israel. is this agree

you have to look at russia and say how equipped is russia to actually provide greece with some sort of bailout it has its own economic problems it needs to concentrate on at the moment. this is more about political theater maybe greece showing to the european union that it has options outside the euro zone and russia showing to the european union that maybe their cohesion isn't quite as solid as they think it is. nobody is going to walk away empty handled. they had a sit down before they went into their meeting an hour ago and tsipras and putin were talking about trade deals. putin was willmenting that trade was very healthy between russia and greece and last year collapsed by 40%. there's a very good reason it chopsed 40% because russia hilt the european union with food embore goes in response to the sanctions that the european union leveed against russia, so a good way to get that flowing again would be for russia to give greece and exemption on that embargo also, maybe they'll come out with an energy package to make greece's energy costs a built more affordable. there are still reas

it is also a choice for russia. if fully implemented, it would bring back sovereignty and territorial integrity in the east. it doesn't obviously address crimea. so now we have to test. and as i said at the beginning, the record is already mixed today and we have to be ready both for the opportunity for success but also to impose more costs, significant costs en russia with our european partners if minsk is violated either because the agreement is not implemented or because there's a further land grab or because the separateists are further armed. >> if in fact this is a test, what is wrong with now laying out clearly exactly what we're going to do if that test is failed? in essence, if this test fails we're going to arm the ukrainians with -- by the way, as a sovereign country, ukraine has a right to defend itself not just against russian aggression or separatist aggression but against any aggression. if in fact we're trying to strengthen the writ of that government, part of that is allowing them to provide for the

moscow, russia. a car with a dashcam is driving down a highway. >> dashboard cameras on the road always seem to start the same way. everything is going fine. we're on the road, driving along. when you see a dashboard camera, you know, wait a few seconds. something will happen. >> that something is a commercial plane crashing on approach to an airport. it slides off the runway at more than 100 miles per hour. >> all this debris is on the highway, hitting cars. >> you can hear pieces of the plane dropping as it breaks apart. >> in one case, what looks like a wheel from the landing gear flies onto the road and hits a car. >> i mean, it was probably one of the things driving down the highway and all of a sudden your car is careening to the other wall and you're wondering what just happened. >> many of us have been in a situation where we have to act quickly on the road. but very few of us have been in a situation where a plane is crashing and debris is coming at us. you see seats from the airplane, and y

it would then exit the eurozone and walk straight into the arms of russia russia would offer it a bail out package and in return greece would give russia use of its veto rights within the european union and european unity on sanctions against russia would be blown out of the water. that is what the european union is worried about. greece is obviously coming here with something in mind. what it has no mind might be more to do with theatre than hard policy. it probably wants a show the european union that it happens friends outside the european union, options outside the european union and russia would like the show the european union that it has friends within the union. both have something to anyone the european union has a great deal to lose. >> is it scenario likely what you were talking about that this might make europe nervous? >> well it's plausible. actually it's possible. but there are other scenarios that are probably more likely than what the european union would consider its nightmare scenario. for australian thing greece wants to handle its financial problems within the euro

/russia relationship. there have been attempts to resolve the issue to look the a the possibility of cooperation between the united states and russia oréx = and russia thus far without success. if you go back to 2007, a conversation between president bush and president putin about, could there be a cooperative effort between washington and moscow? when the george w. bush administration plan was to deploy ten ground based interceptors. accompanied by a supporting radar in the czech republic. has been since closed down. and also a radar under construction. both of the radars having good views of iran. but the problem, the nub of the issue was the u.s. government was interested in that idea in addition to american plans. the russian proposal was providing the radar data in place of the plans to deploy missile defenses in europe. that never really got started. the second attempt came up at the end of 2010 at a nato/russia summit in lisbon, where it concluded with the meeting of nato and medvedev where they ag

it exits the euro zone and straight into the arms of russia, russia offers it some sort of financial deal, an aid package, but also, it comes with strings attached. grease has to use its e.u. veto at russia's behest basically toll ruin all that unity the european union has worked hard on to come to some sort of common position on russia and on sanctions and its position on ukraine. maybe a smaller trade package is more likely, like lifting of russia's embargo on european fruit and vegetables like put in place last year, giving freese and exemption. that greece will have to offer something in return. the big question is what will that be. >> vile forces shot dead a palestinian man after he stabbed two soldiers near shiloh in the occupied west bank. one soldier is in critical condition with a stab wound to the neck. >> there is a new push to establish a humanitarian corridor out of yarmouk on the outskirts of damascus. it has been overrun by isil. the camp has been under a government siege for two years and there is a severe shortage of food, water and electricity. >> two car bombs kil

how bad is the situation with russia right now? is any of the problems with russia follow to the feet of president obama? sen. bradley: i think we have made mistakes with russia since the clinton administration. the expansion of nato was a problem. kosovo was a problem. i think we did things they asked us not to do and we did not build a certificate relationship with them. -- a strategic relationship with them. when putin went to munich in 2007 and laid out his disagreements, we did not take that seriously. therefore, we are where we are today. ukraine is more central to russia's interests than it is to the west interests. the more we try to debate things like sending military to ukraine, we split the western alliance. the germans do not want that the french do not want that, the polls want that. we have to understand what is at stake and take a long-term. i think president obama has done well on this. he came after a long period of time where the wrong policy was made on russia. he tried to reset it as problems -- i don't know wha

russia isn't the salvation but appropriately the salvation will come from russia. >> the commitment to defend the nation from outsiders and treacherous insiders. this is why putin likes the night wolves. he has ridden with them a number of times. >> this is part of a general campaign to bid the majority, the first consolidated majority and pit it against anybody who would not pledge allegiance to the state. >> poland also has concerns. it says 20 night wolves who plan to trace the soviets trail oberlin won't be legality through. increasingly hostile and remembers 44 years of communist rule. >> won't say even if they are stopped at the polish border they'll still find a way to get in. they're not hinting of exactly how they will do that but suggest they will split up. it's a measure of current tensions that an eu country is so nervous of a few russians on motor scalts and it's amotorcycles and a measure of the times. rory challands, al jazeera moscow. >> an india climber in the himalayas, have reported an aftershock near mt. everest and an earthquake has been shaking buildings in centra

because russia maintained a presence. a regular army presence within eastern ukraine including command-and-control and training , convoys that are not inspected by the international community. i think we're expecting the 24th such convoys to move across the border lately. -- blatantly. this is an area of significant concern and causes us again and again at a time we would very much like to see the minsk agreement implemented and move out of this. -- time of confrontation and isolation of russia. we got to be thinking again about what are the consequences going to be a further aggression in ukraine. you have that is the most egregious example of russia's defiance of international norms. alongside that, you mention the support for a side -- assad even as we work together to dismantle his chemical weapons program. this is a regime that drops thousands of bombs on civilian neighborhoods. these chlorine against children and adults. yet, the russian support for that government continues. it is a huge problem and has really para

what will need to do in the event russia violates the agreements? >> there are car expectations they wl live by the agreemen. we have seen some quietness in the situation compared to what it was. we can't say the agrments are expected so far. weave to come to a situaon where thaggression stops. we see a pullback of tros and we don't see support to these participants anymore. anchor: you are cooperating with rescue and border trade, energy mining. both of you are cooperating on a northern route between northern europe and asia. your natural resource, book exploration and extraction technology is importanant for russia, which has amassed undeveloped fields. how do you balance this relationship? how do you decide wt it is you will continue cooperating on? >> there are two pillars in this relationship as well. we have a good practical corporation when it comes to sech-and-rescue, to border patrol, to coast guard. when it comes tohe military operation that we have, we have suspended d by the end o of this year. we will see how the situation is at the end

the challenge is of course russia and the fact russia supported the regime through thick and thin and almost ir suspect the attacks. we need it like a -- considered like a weapon of war. >> yesterday vladimir putin in a four hour news conference saving ukraine is part of russia and taking a threatening tone even talking about defensive nuclear weapons. what are you making of this? >> this is consistent with the aggression that putin carried out, trying to lop off crimea and large chunk of eastern ukraine. it's consistent with provokcative actions. these are worrying very provocative. these are ones we have met with severe economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation. those sanctions have succeeded in making huge impact on russia's economy. they have not changed putin's calculus. we're invested in the process and assuring the agreement which putin claims to still stand behind. we're seeing dangerous escalation on the ground and in the last days a pick up on fighting in eastern ukraine. we'll continue to meet every action and undermining of ukraine's stability with isolation and with san

again, russia has never seen such figures. even the soviet union is wasn't able to match the figures. 81, or even 82 million square meters. these are stunning figures. also, unemployment was up. it was 5.3% in 2014, now it is 5.8%. but still, we kept the growth of unemployment at a certain limit. inflation in the consumer sector was 11.4%. it is not good. of course it has a living standard on our people. inflation was down three fold. as you know, we have indexed pensions. we adjusted them to inflation. but still, there is a lot of economic uncertainty. there has been a lot of capital outflow, we have to bear that in mind. for further questions on the issue, i will be happy to take them and reply in more detail. despite fluctuations in the stock market, demonstrating good growth. retail loans were up. and assets of the russian banking system grew by 17 trillion rubles. for the first time they have a bypassed the gdp of the country. that is a good sign that the russian banking system has been very stable. it is great that both

greece to russia. they may be also looking to give them some discounts on gas. the question is, what do they want in return. we know sanctions are up at the end of june. they will need unanimity among the eu. you may have some russia pressure to end the sanctions. will greece stay with its european allies? that is on everyone's mind here. one final note on this, we did have a government official saying that greece was not going to request financial assistance from moscow. we may have some bilateral deals on national gas, may have some restrictions on fruit being lifted, but right now, that looks about it. guy: homes, thank you very much indeed. for more on the greek story the former deputy foreign joins us now for an interview. what is your assessment of the reason for this trip to moscow? >> it has a lot to do with internal consumption. it has a lot to do with her with frustrations with the european union. it will try to get some easing of restrictions for great agricultural products. but nothing more

i think he is saying the reason russia is involved in ukraine is russia helped threat in. and if the united states doesn't join the negotiation remember, alexander lukashenko hosted the minsk talks. you had angela merkel, francois hollande, and the presidents of ukraine and russia. you didn't have the americans. he basically said the americans weren't there because they would be the perceived threat. the talks were only so valuable. he didn't suggest that belarus could be the next target. he said there are people that would want to do that but that is not going to happen. let's not forget the sensitive nature that he is sitting in. he is one of russia's closest allies. this is something they are concerned about. even him suggesting that it is something he occasionally things about and feels the need to say they would defend themselves, is perhaps remarkable. francine: the belarusian economy is in dire straits. he still says he wants to go back to the market this year. ryan: that's right. they have 4 billion or 5 billion in reserves. he says they are going to do it. if you

, frankly, is a different russia than that? 2010. and we want to retain this authority and capability within, again, within our own power. >> so you're saying to me that snapback sanctions on our part would be effective you know, given ayatollah -- if we were to impose them now congressionally they would not have a snapback, but sanctions would? if we passed enhanced sanctions by congress. we were told this is unrealistic, won't work, our partners won't support us, we'll be isolated on our own, at the same time, if the russians and chinese won't participate in the snapback sanctions our sanctions will somehow be effective. i don't understand. i feel like i'm hearing two different -- >> clear answer to that. >> yeah. >> right now iran is in compliance with the jpoa, the iaea has -- people have expressed, including earlier, a lot of skepticism about the ability to verify. it has been granted the access it needed to verify. in the one instance it raised an issue with iran of concern. iran addressed that issue. you're looking at a

remember, russia imposed that dan eu wide in response to the sanctions that russia is enduring. at the same time, remember that sanctions rx -- sections are set to expire on russia in july. they will be looking for greece to block the renewal of any sanctions. they are also looking at some discounted natural gas prices. earlier yesterday, there was a report that there could be an asset swap. some greek state assets in return for a reduction on gasoline prices. officials in moscow downplayed that, while at the same time they said it was possible that you could have some sort of deal on the reduction of gasoline prices. over the weekend, the news was that you are going to have greece make their imf payments. the euro was up on those news. we will see if the euro traded the other way based on what is come out about this meeting between mr. tsipras and mr. putin. caroline: on -- anna, what is the russian goal here? what does president putin hope to get out of this visit gekko is just about stirring up tension in the eurozone? >> mr. putin would try to exploit divisions between the e

this is the great meaning of russia, russia is not the salvation. salvation will come from russia. >> orthodoxy, patriotism, and a commitment to spare the nation, it's easy to see why they like vladimir putin, and he likes them. oo he's ridden with them a number of times. others find the union worrying. >> it's part of a more general campaign to fit the conservative majority, the consolidated consevative majority. and pit it against anybody who would not pledge allegiance to the states. >> poland has concerns. it says 20 night wolves that plan to trace the advance from eastern berlin will not be allowed through. warsaw views russia as hostile. the wolves say if they are stopped at the polish boarder, they'll find a way of getting in, they are not hinting at how, but a suggestion that they may split up and get in individually through different border posts. it's a measure of tensions that an e.u. country is nervous about a few russians on motorcycles and a measure of modern russia that a leather-clad bikie gang is an ally. >>> a quick reminder you ca

trying to get russia to lend it the money. the finance minister had been in the united states over the weekend, talking to the head of the international monitor fund to try to get better terms or an extension. that was not granted. and yesterday reports are that the imf send a demand to greece saying this money needed to be paid. this morning it did make the payment. the greek government did say as late as last week it didn't really have the money for this and if it made the payment something else was going to suffer. one official said they would prioritize salaries in pensions in greece over repayment of this loan. in that didn't go over well with the powers that have lent greece money. come tuesday april 14th greece has another payment of more than 400 million euros due. at the end of the month a payment of 900 million euros. and at the end of may, greece has to pony up more money for salaries and pensions. so this drama is not only close to being over. >>> and ali mentioned the greek prime minister was in moscow on wednesda

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russia is continuing the efforts to protect them. in 2010 then prime minister vladimir putin made a special trip to observe conservation activities. in january and february a new survey was conducted. some 2,000 participants took part including local hunters and conservation officials. they examined an area of about 15.65 million hectares. on this day, a team drove up to a mountain four hours from vladivostok. they found tiger tracks in the snow. >> translator: you can see, this is the heel and these are the toes. >> reporter: experts can assess the sex and age of a tying fresh the size and depth of the footprints. >> translator: guessing from the size it was a mature female. >> reporter: the location and size of the footprints are recorded and later fed into a database. this will be used to decide the extent of the nature reserve and where poaching patrols are needed. team leader says that because the tigers are at the top of the food chain, they control the number of animals and this gives the ecosystem in balance. >> translator: y

greece is an opportunity for russia. but there are horse. >> hungary'shungary welcomed vladimir putin in february. he described the e.u. sanctions against russia was like shooting oneself in the foot. then there are the far right russia has lent marie la pens $10 million, although it's rumored to be much higher. >> you can have an alliance like la pens and in the greece the fact these are parties that need friends, need financing and need backing and they find it more easily in moscow. maybe at a better interest rate than they do at home. >> europe may not like it, but russia is certainly not the only country practicing the non- non-ideological arts of politics. russia tries to show that it's a global power once more it's doing the local thing making friends and influencing people. rory challands. al jazeera moscow. >> to other news in europe now. one of the two russians accused of poisoning letvinenko. he said he probably unwhittingly handled radioactive material. british authorities believe that litvinenk ko was killed

russia is connected. russia has other places to go. if we push them out of the west. fallacy number two isolating russia from the west will not make moscow more cooperative or compliant. instead we know what russia will do. it's doing it today. it will turn elsewhere above all to the east, above all to china and to many other, dozens of regions and regimes that harbor resentments against the west america europe and canada and what will russia do if we isolate them? it will solve the nuclear reactors. it will sell weapons. it will give them credit. it will protect them politically with its veto. fallacy number three, when we can destabilize russia we make every danger worse and create new ones. consider for example if this policy of isolation with its sub policy of weakening moscow were to succeed what would become of russia's weapons of mass distraction if moscow's control over them diminished? think about that. think about your children. think about this kind of madness. is that what we really want? finally what arguments do our opponents make in favor of trying to i

: we were sending 80% of our roses to russia. >> reporter: roses from ecuador are prized in russia but the drop in oil prices and the fall in the value of the ruble have made roses almost unattainable luxuries. it has had a very dramatic effect on the rose industry. the owners of this farm had to destroy 12% of their plantations because russian buyers were no longer showing up. >> reporter: many growers started planting other types of flowers more suitable for other markets. some say the days are numbers for the ecuadorian rose that the russians used to covet. >> translator: no crisis lasts forever, but this did leave a serious mark on the industry once plantations diversify it is hard for them to go back. >> reporter: this woman is more hopeful. >> translator: things change now but russians love roses, and i'm sure the rose market will live forever in russia. >> reporter: and the roses continue to grow and the growers remain optimistic and hopeful, but they have started looking for new homes for their stunning products. >>> ahead on al jazeera, thousands of patients in peru wait for a

stalin killed trying to create a greater russia. and that is why he killed a greater number of russians that he did when trying change farming into collective farmer and hitler was trying to get rid of the slavic and jewish races. >> thank you. i started reading your book the other day and i am on page 75 first impression chapter, and i am enjoying it very much. the question is in the terrain section, the chapter before it talks about fdr not wanting to travel to meet stalin there because of a constitutional policy and of concerns, one thing that you didn't mention and i am not clear on myself and that is a 10-day congress done to send over a bill to the president. for him to act on the bill and have it returned to congress under the terms of the constitution how was woodrow wilson able to spend months over in europe after world war one for the ver sigh meetings? >> that is an interesting question. i have never thought of it before and i don't have the slightest idea. >> i saw it missing and i thought i am missing something. >> than

russia is his closest ally. for him to say somewhat cautiously that he is concerned that belarus could be the next crimea or a crimea is saying something. so i think he is very concerned. i started by asking him if he thinks there are people in the kremlin who have their eye on belarus. >> there are a lot of people in russia who don't see belarus as anything other than a province. we have a concrete answer to that. we will never get into conflict with russia. we are people and i include ukraine that grew from a common root. i think this conflict was also good for russia if one can say so. in a way that russia came it is difficult to take by force in the modern world. moreover, it is impossible. i drip -- say this again whoever comes with a sword will die with the sword. we will fight against europeans americans russians. against anybody who will set a goal to conquer this lease of land. ryan: you know vladimir putin, what does the russian president want? >> i may disappoint you but it is often said that putin wa

russia is working on it? >> as i said in my testimony, we have seen incomplete compliance in terms of osce access and in terms of osce being able to verify the pullback of separatists, heavy weapons. but at the -- when you get to the political phase of minsk, to follow this, the political jurisdiction of the special status zone does not include the town of dabaltsava. that will be -- if the separatists comply, they should be not insisting on having political control of that area by spring. >> secretary mckeon, we appreciate you coming here today and sitting on that side. secretary carter and joint chief dempsey have both talked about the fact that they would like to see defensive weaponry supported. secretary nuland i know has advocated for that. we have passed that unanimously out of both houses. at least passed it out of the senate, came out the house. there seems to be some debate out of the administration. the german ambassador believes the president has made quiet commitments we are not going to do that.

this is the great meaning of russia. russia isn't the salvation. probably the salvation will come from russia. >> orthodoxy patriotism, the commitment to defend the nation from outsiders and treacherous insiders, it's easy to see why the night wolves like vladimir putin and why vladimir putin likes the night wolves. in fact, he has ridden with them several times. >> this is part of a more general campaign to fit the conservative majority, first consolidate the conservative majority and then pit it against anyone who would not pledge allegiance to the state. >> poland also has concerns. it says that 20 night wolves advance through berlin won't be let through. the wolves say that even if they are stopped at the polish border they'll still find a way of getting in. they're not hinting exactly how they're going to do that, but a suggestion that they might split up and try to get in individually through different border posts. >> it brings the tension that many are worried about and it's the measure of modern russia that the leather-clad biker game is o

and russia joined the coalition against iran and now that the framework agreement is in place russia said there is no longer to incent vise good iran behavior. it is something that is in russia's right to do and problematic for us. and it needs to be seen in those context. >> you think that russia is proving a point to israel and united states, if the deal falls apart and you take military action, iran will be better defended than perhaps it would be? >> that is one interpretation. a simple one russia likes to play both sides of the particular negotiation. they and the chinese are a go-between iran and the rest. and putting carrots on the table is part of russia's positioning itself as a go-between. and the secondary argument is not the only thing in play here. >> a lot to consider. christopher, thank you so much. >> good to be back. >> was it self defense or murder? a young lawyer found shot to death and his girlfriend on trial for murder and she claims she killed him in self defense. >> a life changing victory for a progolfer to win a masters. and the impact it will have. o severe

russia's president says greece has not asked for money. rory challands has more on why these talks have some in the e.u. worried. >> reporter: there is a nightmare scenario that goes like this. greece decides it doesn't want to pay its debt defaults leaves the euro zone and runs straight into the arms of russia. russia offers a aid package, in return for weakening sanctions on moscow. that's a possible scenario but maybe not that likely. greece is saying it wants to sort out its financial problems within the euro zone and you have to ask whether russia can afford to bail out greece when it has plenty of economic problems of its own. maybe smaller trade packages like lifting of russia's embargo on fruit and vegetables just for greece or an energy package for athens. but greece will have to offer something in return and the big question is what will that be? >> rory challands reporting from moscow. >>> twitter shares are up on rumors that google may be looking to take over the social media company. it's not the first time twitter has been ru

back to russia. let me give you the twitter question of the day, what do you think the russian people should be asking vladimir putin? what's the question they should be asking him. remind us. follow me on twitter @guyjohnsontv. we'll take a break and be back in a few minutes' time. guy: no deal in riga. the german finance minister wolfgang schaeuble tells bloomberg there will be no more money for greece. jack lew's warning to europe. the u.s. treasury secretary says a grexit could have unintended consequences. the russian people are online at one. vladimir putin takes the podium and answers calls from citizens. good morning to our viewers in europe, good evening those in asia and a very warm welcome to those just waking up in the u.s. i'm guy johnson, this is "the pulse." we are live from bloomberg's european headquarters in london. standing by for that russian president vladimir putin to begin his annual televised q&a call-in. the russian people will have the chance to put their questions to the ea