petro poroshenko of ukraine. trench, whichthis the president of ukraine has gone indicate pitch -- has gone indication that it could come soon. davos francine lacqua in speaking with the president of ukraine. coming up later this afternoon, george soros speaks with francine lacqua as well. right here on bloomberg at 2:30 p.m., eastern time. do not miss that interview. ♪ betty: welcome back to bloomberg markets. it is time for the bloomberg business splash. as a prize in the labor market last week area and claims for unemployment benefits up to a six-month high. they climbed by 10,000 to 293,000. plunging oil prices may lead to more job cuts in the energy sector. cadillac named for a michigan city, will soon roll out of a factory far from the u.s. general motors opened a factory that will build luxury cars in china. the facility will turn out 165 sedans a year. more as theio has markets are slightly rallying right now. things could change but you will get to transport. ramy: looking at airlines first. last i che

. ♪ katarschinna: i think what is happening in ukraine and the conflict that ukraine has in russia is a consequence of a certain self doubt of europe, of a certain weakness of europe. ♪ katarschinna: but we do have to remember. it's the most peaceful, prosperous region in the world. i think we need to understand what we have and value it. and also project that outside. ♪ for me it was a huge surprise. not only that we have put these sanctions together but that we have been able to uphold them. ♪ katarschinna: which shows that we are able to constrain our short term interest, so the export of our apples, cheeses, food, or big gas deals for now, for something that we believe is bigger, more important, as a common interest. but which is critical for the survival of the eu as a project. my advice to ukraine is, that it has to declare dombas an occupied territory, and close it down. ♪ katarschinna: and give the full responsibility under the geneva convention to the russian federation for the wellbeing of people there. and say we can not do anything. it's a huge power, fighting with

i am from ukraine. you said the purpose of sanctions is not to punish, but to change the other governments. to change behavior. in the case of crimea, i am talking about sanctions on crimea, not the rest of russia. limitationseal with such as denial of services or disabling visa, mastercard, cutting financial, cutting crimea out of the international financial system to change the russian government behavior? how do you expect these restrictions put on crimean crimean to change behavior? my second question is, given the fact that the majority of ukrainians, and i am not saying that because it comes from the that theiven the fact majority of crimean people are not willing to go back to ukraine, in what context the ucb sanctions lifted? -- do you see the sanctions lifted? mr. fried: i am not so sure. i am surprised that you are so sure. i wouldn't trust the results of a russian organized public opinion poll in crimea. there are a lot of crimean's, especially those from russian military families, of which t

i am from ukraine. you said the purpose of sanctions is not to punish, but to change the other governments. to change behavior. in the case of crimea, i am talking about sanctions on crimea, not the rest of russia. limitationseal with such as denial of services or disabling visa, mastercard, cutting financial, cutting crimea out of the international financial system to change the russian government behavior? how do you expect these restrictions put on crimean crimean to change behavior? my second question is, given the fact that the majority of ukrainians, and i am not saying that because it comes from the that theiven the fact majority of crimean people are not willing to go back to ukraine, in what context the ucb sanctions lifted? -- do you see the sanctions lifted? mr. fried: i am not so sure. i am surprised that you are so sure. i wouldn't trust the results of a russian organized public opinion poll in crimea. there are a lot of crimean's, especially those from russian military families, of which t

the fight over ukraine moving closer to the e.u. was one of the main reasons for the protests in november 2013. with the free trade agreement in place, former protesters now see one of their goals realized. phil: natalie cole has died at a hospital in los angeles. she will perhaps be best remembered for her recording of "unforgettable" sung as a duet with her father. she cancelled concerts in december because of long-standing health issues. she was 65 years old. ♪ ♪ phil: in sports, the new year's day leg of the four-hill ski jumping tournament at the german resort. the slovenian favorite finished ahead of norway's skier after his fourth victory of the season. he holds a huge points lead over the previous world cup leader. the german came in third and able to follow his win on tuesday. the third leg of the tournament will take place in innings brush on sunday. that's the way the world looks at at this hour. we'll be back more with the top of the next. thanks for watching us. stay with d.w. ♪ ♪ >> among the monasteries of rus

petersburg. ♪ >> what are acceptable borders for ukraine, for russia? what borders are acceptable for you? vladimir putin: what do you mean when you're talking about borders? geographical borders or political borders? what are you talking about specifically? as for cooperation, we have always said, and we are going to say that in future, there is nothing new about that, despite all the difficulties of today, i have always thought that ukrainians and russians are one people, one ethnic group. while certainly they have their cultural particularities, but they have, and culture, common foundations, common history. whatever happens in the end, russia and ukraine are destined to a common future. ♪ ryan: just as the conflict in ukraine was dying down, russia began its first military intervention outside of the former soviet union in more than a quarter of a century in syria. russia's rift with the west continues. ♪ ♪ >> in 2015, bloomberg's video journalists have ranged far and wide. we featured a micro-nation, liberland, a hunt for gold in ireland, but

i'm originally from ukraine. so you have said that the purpose of sanctions is not to punish, but to change the government's behavior. so in case of crimea, i'm talking about the sanctions on crimea, not on the rest of russians. how do you -- what do you think about cutting financial -- cutting crimea out of the international financial system to change the russian government behavior? like how do you expect these particular restrictions that are put on crimean citizens to change kremlin's behavior? that's my first question. the second question, given the fact that the majority of crimeans, not just because i'm from that region, given the fact that they're not willing to go back to ukraine in what kind of context do you see the sanctions lifted? thank you. >> well, let me ask -- answer the second question. i'm not so sure. and i'm surprised that you are so sure. i wouldn't trust the results of a russian organized plebiscite or a public opinion poll in crimea. there are a lot of crimeans, especially from russian fa

the move is in response to russia's ban on food product from ukraine. russia has also banned turkish fruit, vegetables and poultry. it is hurting their industry. >> reporter: the sanctions were imposed on turkey following the shooting down of the russian aircraft that was alleged to have gone into turkish airspace. that happened in mid-november. they believe that the sanctions are going to cost turkey well over 700 million dollars. turkey supplies 20% of moscow's fresh fruit, tomatos, apples, oranges. that will have to be replaced. if that wasn't enough, russia is now engaged in a total trade war with ukraine. this is in retaliation for kiev backing western sanctions against russia. russia has now scrapped the fair trade agreement with ukraine and that has pushed the cost of imports up by 6%. bilateral trade has fallen from 50 billion just to 12.5 billion. there have been 23 separate rounds of trilateral talks between russia, ukraine and brussels. still as far away as ever in reaching any sort of compromise or agreement >>> technology in digital sensors

. >> -- between russia and ukraine. but she went back, and i decided to stay because i'm u.s. citizen, and i wanted my son to be born here. so that's how i became homeless, because the money we saved, we spent for funeral -- >> right. >> and it was really difficult. it was difficult to go to shelter. and i went to public shelter first. but i i just, it was very stressful. >> i can only imagine with all that you've gone through. he's fine. [laughter] it just means our fox 5 family is growing. >> mark is two months and three weeks. and he's very quiet baby -- [laughter] he's just, you know, we've been praying a lot with my husband to have him, and my husband in ukraine -- >> okay. >> so he's ukrainian citizen. he must be there. he's patriarch to the country, and that's why he asked me to wear the ukrainian flag just like support of ukraine and ukrainian people. >> so, denise, are stories typical like what we're hearing with viktoriya? are those the ladies that you help? >> we help everybody. you know, we don't have any go

and ukraine, others elsewhere in the region. we wanted to make sure that russia didn't do anything to our allies. we did not recognize the russian annexation of crimea, but there's -- i don't think anyone expects there to be a change there. the russians are, of course, still supporting the separatists in eastern ukraine. we want to keep the russians from going further than that, and so that has -- you know, we've been able to do that. but on the specific challenge of the russian support for separatists in eastern ukraine, on the challenge of trying to get the russians to truly support some kind of solution that would allow ukraine to move forward, when we're looking at the role of our sanctions policy -- and there are -- and the other challenge is, of course, trying to figure out with respect to russian calculations, you know, how much of their calculations, as their economy struggles, is due to the sanctions and how much is due to the drop in oil prices. >> which, you know, is helpful, so who's going to complain about that here

i just turned from a trip to ukraine, and the most widely respected and influential journalists in ukraine work out of our building. at the voice america. along with her, from voice of america there is also a local reporter from radio free europe was the most influential investigative reporter inc. yes. so, in that one critical part of the world, where russia -- there is hot war on the eastern front, the most influential journalist entitiesountry are two from the united states, voice of america and radio free europe. cnn does a great job around the world, and i admire the work that they do, but, there is no comparison to the deployment of resources that we have. to the second point of your the abundanceink of information that we are dealing with in terms of propaganda, i think it is easy to overstate the influence that it is having. i think there is -- as early get it seriously and i understand that it is volume us. but in the research that we have done and in my own walking the streets of kiev, ukraine, talking to government officials there, i spoke to the foreign relations chair of the p

in ukraine they switched to manual operations to restore the power grid. is it possible in the u.s.? the answer is yes. the difficulty for me, while we are making great strides and they are making the grid more secure. if it impacted more than one region, our ability to restore power manually would be more difficult than ukraine. they should be lauded for their efforts. >> are you convinced, robert that the the russian government had a hand in this? that is an accusation out there. >> it is an accusation. but we saw the malwear and control system. the big pose to me is not malwear but the industrial control and physical system ises running and operating it. you can identify the coordinated attack and it is concerns what we saw. the links to russia are building and it may be a link. there is a level of cupability and a team that operated in the russian board pers, russia needs to do that and international consequences for attacking civilian infrastructure. >> motorcycle -- michael can the u.s. use this? >> not only in the individual operating system but the

it's affected 18 regions in ukraine. health officials have closed schools and are advising people to avoid crowded places. let's get more on this now from the program manager for inflew win is a. a very warm welcome to the program. why are we seeing outbreaks in the north part of europe? >> the reason we're seeing these outbreaks is this is typical for this time of year when a seasonal influenza virus is spreading throughout the region. it has been called a pandemic virus, but since it has been coming every year as seasonal influenza. this is typically what we see in the flu season. >> while it's typical how worrying is it if it's been effecting 18 regions across ukraine. they've been closing schools, asking people to avoid busy plays. when does something like this become very worrying in terms of scale? >> well, of course whenever we get--whenever the w.h.o. gets reports like this we immediately investigate the virus to see if the virus has changed. and as far as we know at the moment the virus has not changed to any si

government, the situation in syria and ukraine are what concern them, not this one case. host: it is potentially very awkward for the british government. this comes at a time when the ns are focused on syria and ukraine is fading into the background. matthew: i think both governments would prefer this went away. there is not much they can do to make it do that other than to keep their reactions muted. you saw that from the kremlin. they said, we hear your accusations. we are not going to respond to this. it british government, most of the noise and light is coming from people critical of cameron and his attempts to find a way out of ukraine and syria. laura: one has said this is like a spy novel, said today they would not rule up future steps. what would those steps be? matthew: the u.s. government is pretty convinced that the best estimates it had against governments is the targeting individuals. it allows governments to ban people traveling to the united states and it tends to be the european countries follow that u.s. list and imposing sections as well. it is possible

>> well, i think -- this is not -- same joke now in this situation to be president of ukraine. no doubt. liz: i can't let you go before i ask you about a development in the united states. the obama administration now says that they are going to have more stringent checks when it comes to allowing people with dual citizenship in from europe if they also have citizenship in iraq, in syria, in the sudan. what do you think about that? >> i think this is absolutely right decision because we as a -- as ukraine stop more than 10,000 russians who try to enter to ukraine and who have a suspicious for possible organizing the terrorist attack. and our services stop or prevent just in the last year 207 terrorist attacks and more of these terrorists being presented to the world and put them in jail and give them a court process where prepared in the training camp in the federation. and that would be the responsibility of this. the same way, like, today the chief of the special montory mission of the -- which observed the situation said that would be completely unacceptable on this special m

it's ukraine, the end of december, it's freezing. you have hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. and a big question about how to bring the power back online. what's your understanding of how the power came back and what do you think the scenario is for us. what really is the recovery time? >> a couple things. the first thing is they were fortunate it did rebound. they brought it back in half a day to a day. and they say the good news is it came back. that's like saying it's just a flesh wound. here is the problem when it's cold, being a former kansas state trooper. when you have power go out you have a cascading series of event, medical emergencies, response times, nursing homes. my mother before she passed away was in an -- an assisted living facility and the power went out. it will tax healthcare, emergency response, 911, utility. you knock the first one down, jenna, 10 more will fall behind. jenna: do you believe we'll be able to come back online in a day and a half or so. >> we were so inner dependent, maybe, but o

report: malaysian airlines flight mh 17 went down in war-torn eastern ukraine in 2014 with degree and metal spread all over. all 298 passengers on board died. two weeks passed before they can access the site and gather evidence, but at the same time, a parallel investigation into the crash by an international team began. in earlier findings, a group said that a missile launcher had been filmed before and after the crash and that after the crash, one missile was missing. later, they presented evidence to the dutch probe, that they should reassemble the fragments. the dutch safety board concluded that the plane was, indeed, brought down by a missile detonating to the left of the aircraft. western nations and the ukraine believe the missile was fired from the pro-russian separatists authority, but the russians are pointing their finger at the russian military, instead, and dutch officials are still debating who should have charges. the group has now identified 20 soldiers from the russian 53rd anti-aircraft brigade it believes that were likely involved in the downing of the malaysian air

reporter: eventually, silene fredriksz received mail from ukraine. it contained bryce and daisy's boarding passes - found half a year after the crash. a bitter reminder. damien: now in many parts of europe, salt plays a role in some way, shape, or form in the new year's celebrations. in fact, traditionally, salt was always a precious commodity. and for some countries an important source of wealth. including for slovenia, where since the middle ages salt has been harvested by hand. but like so many traditional industries, it is now under threat. so slovenians have come up with some rather ingenious ways of keeping the saltworks alive. reporter: the sun is both their enemy and their friend. without the sun, there's no salt. so salt harvesters have to get up early. dario kriznan: if we start at 5:00 in the morning, then it's a bit cooler, at least until 10:00 a.m. and the water is cooler too. by evening, the water can be 70 to 80 degrees celsius. it's exhausting when the water turns to steam right under your feet. reporter: dario kriznan often starts wo

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i just returned from a trip to the ukraine. the most widely did influential journalist in ukraine works out of our building at the voice of america. along with her voice of america there's a local reporter from radio free europe is an influential investigative reporter. so in that one critical part of the world where russia, there's a hot war on the eastern front, the most influential journalist in that country are two entities of the united states, voice of america and radio free europe. "cnn" does a great job around the world and i admire the work that they do but there is no comparison to the climate of resources. the second of your question, i think the of london's of information that we are dealing with in terms of propaganda, i think it's easy to overstate the influence it has and i think, i certainly take it seriously and i understand it's voluminous but in the research we have done and in my own walking the streets of kiev and talking to government officials and key of, i spoke with the foreign relations chair of the pa

i just returned from a trip to ukraine. the most widely-respected and influential journalists in ukraine works out of our building at the voice of america. >> wow. >> guest: along with her from voice of america, there's also a local reporter from radio-free europe who's the most influential investigative reporter in kiev. so in that one critical part of the world where russia -- there's a hot war on the eastern front -- >> right. >> guest: -- the most influential journalists in that country are two entities of the united states, voice of america and radio-free europe, radio liberty. so that's -- cnn does a great job around the world, and i admire the work that they do, but there's no comparison to the deployment of resources that we have. to the second point of your question, i think the abundance of information that we're dealing with in terms of propaganda, i think it's easy to overstate the influence it's having. and i think there's -- i certain will hi take it seriously and understand that it's voluminous, but in the re

he accused russia of propping up countries like ukraine and syria and, of course, for anyone who has been following the conflict in ukraine over the last couple of years, they should know that the obama official position on russia's involvement in ukraine is that it is destabilizing that country, not propping it up. i think that was a clumsy bit of scripting. beyond that there wasn't much mention of russia at all. last year, 2015, there was much, much more. he talked of mr putin's aggression in ukraine, he said that the united states was hitting russia with sanctions and that russia's economy was in at that timers - tatters and that russia's leadership of persistence and resolve. beyond that, there wasn't much. there was a line where he said that people of the world do not look to beijing or moscow to lead, they call us. from the russian perspective, that's exactly what the kremlin have criticized. it says the u.s. has ruined countries like iraq and libya and is messing around in syria too and it's middling in europe which russia considers to be its backyard. they have long criticize

the conflict in the ukraine. the greek debt drama and the german chancellor challenged as never before. she campaigned to keep the euro afloat. she tried to wage peace in the ukraine. she opened the door to refugees. a position she upholds. >> there is no doubt the arrival of so many people will demand a great deal from us. it will require time, strength, and money. >> more than one million people have sought refuge this year alone. a majority of germans are critical of her open-door policy. >> now we actually have to do it. >> i don't think that we should let everyone in. i fully support this. i think jesus would have done the same thing. >> without the contributions of thousands of volunteers, the effort could have turned into a disaster. peoplehing, and services like staging christmas parties for children. >> i think the countless volunteers for their readiness for action. >> the terrorism shook europe this year. germany stands in steadfast support. >> our soldiers risk life and limb for our security and our f

is it the russian drone artillery spotter in ukraine that's bringing that to the fore? what's the specific threat that's driving you to say that's a real shortfall and besides dissolving two infantry brigades how do you fix that? >> so again, when the army was -- the army that exists today was planned several years ago the threat from enemy adversary to u.s. army ground forces was considered pretty low. that's changed. as we've seen it play out in syria, certainly in eastern ukraine and crimea, we see potential adversaries who possess increased capability that could in fact in conflict threaten u.s. army ground forces. for all kinds of understandable reasons there are today in the regular army no short-range air defense battalions. they all exist in the reserve components. and a large component, large percentage of the national guard's short-range air defense is for all the right reasons and completely justify abiable commd to defense of the national capital region. we live under that umbrella right here, and we're thankful for that. but it leaves insufficient capacity

ukraine marks a hidden chapter in the history of the holocaust. out of the 6 million jews murdered in the second world war, 1.5 million were killed on ukrainian ground, shot by nazi soldiers and their ukrainian helpers. [ indistinct conversation ] so, from a nearby village, we began our journey to trochenbrod. [ thunder rumbles ] avrom: all of a sudden, it began to pour and we had to stop and look for shelter. so we waited and waited for the rain to stop. [ gunfire and explosions ] we were waiting for nightfall to crawl out, and we were blasted with a rainstorm. it created a lot of noise in the shrubs and the trees and the rain itself. [ thunder crashes ] [ bullets ricochet ] and we crawled out on our hands and knees at night until there was a safe place to stand up. we stood up and we ran towards the forest, then we came to the first bunker, and then hunger set in. didn't know what to do. what are we gonna eat? grass? [ thunder crashes ] avrom: after a couple of hours of waiting, the sun finally came out... and shmulk was very excited that the pl

all this was amazing ooupt. >> mazing unity. >> how is ukraine now? >> the fight is still going on, people trying to do more and more changes in a society itself. but they knew since maidan, they knew they are the real power. that the people are the real power and the government are only representatives of the people. they fighting the corruption these days, trying to bring more changes into the government. it's taking time but they are believing in the future. and they standing their ground. so for me it was fascinating to observe this. >> it's good to have you on the program. congratulations, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and can you find winter on fire on netflix. that's our program. thanks for watching. i'm john siegenthaler, ali velshi is flex. >> i'm david schuster in for ali velshi. "on target" tonight the billion dollar holding system, private companies that are making a huge profit off of immigration detention centers. plus, lost in mexico. a generation of children born in the u.s.a. who are fighting to survive miles away from their a

but what is going on in ukraine and elsewhere in the world. so i have had conversations like this, and not all of my friends are clean -- keen to be part of the club, if you will, many people like to go it alone and have their own theories about how to proceed this is a pretty big issue command i am noti am not sure going it alone will be a successful is working together maybe. i am no longer in office. i stand appear and say what ii feel like and then doing so, which is great fun. but this is a tough matter. it's difficult. it would take leadership is something like this to happen, but i would like to see it. the station based in canada or we got or vilnius that was 247 and had programming on satellite. the number of russians who actually have a satellite dish and would at the moment get the program is not all that large. but they are there, and if the programming was streamed on the internet you have aa decent audience, quite decent audience in major cities among young people and it will be impossible to ignore. and i think over time it coul

what we see is to the east of the alliance actually warfare in ukraine and to the south but the turmoil and nonstate actors posing -- and nato is responding it's great to sit here together with secretary ash carter because the u.s. is leading. it's great to have the secretary of defense which is so focused on the transatlantic -- so our challenge is to respond to more fragile and more dangerous security. i will refer to ashraf -- a ashraf ghani and probably one of the most complicated jobs in the world but still keeping an optimistic approach. you are in the middle of much of what we are talking about in afghanistan for sleep or the people of afghanistan have been there for quite a while and the intersection between fragility and competition. what have you learned? what are the things you will tell us about the security outlook from here and into the near future? >> the first thing is we need to understand that with medium term challenges and not short-term challenges. because it is the challenge is not defined in the crib turned we cannot put together plans for containment. second, ter

mike: just take for example ukraine. the result of ukraine was sanctioned were put on him -- sanctions that were put on him hurting his economy, probably ending any hope of bringing together come integrating the russian economy with the west over the next 10-15 years. 8000 russian soldiers, russians who were fighting in ukraine, died. he has kept that from his people, but it is going to leak out slowly. what syria is costing him is millions of dollars. he can't afford that. the loser at the end of the day is the russian economy and the russian middle-class, and his hopes of having a power base for what he is trying to create. charlie: north korea, do you believe it was a hydrogen bomb based on what you may have heard? mike: i would go with what the u.s. government is saying. it doesn't sound like that. what it may have been is one of these boosted fission weapons that they are calling a hydrogen bomb. charlie: let's assume if not now, maybe later -- what is the option of the united states? you saw south korea and the uni

we have had different goals with respect to russia and ukraine. some of the directly related and others elsewhere in the region we wanted to make sure that russia didn't do anything to our allies. we didn't recognize the annexation of crimea but i don't think anyone expects there to be a change. they are of course still supporting the separatists of eastern ukraine and we wanted to keep them from going further than that and so that has -- you know, we've been able to do that but on the specific challenge of the russian support for separatists in eastern ukraine on the challenge of trying to get the russians to truly support some kind of solution that would allow ukraine to move forward when we are looking at the role of the sanctions policy and the other challenge is of course figuring out with the russian calculations how much of the calculations as the economy struggles is to to the sanctions and how much is due to the drop in oil prices which is helpful, so who is going to complain about that. but how do we each write to understand the impact o

is it the russian drone artillery spotter in ukraine that's bringing that to the fore? what's the specific threat that's driving you to say that's a real shortfall and besides dissolving two infantry brigades how do you fix that? >> so again, when the army was -- the army that exists today was planned several years ago the threat from enemy adversary to u.s. army ground forces was considered pretty low. that's changed. as we've seen it play out in syria, certainly in eastern ukraine and crimea, we see potential adversaries who possess increased capability that could in fact in conflict threaten u.s. army ground forces. for all kinds of understandable reasons there are today in the regular army no short-range air defense battalions. they all exist in the reserve components. and a large component, large percentage of the national guard's short-range air defense is for all the right reasons and completely justify abiable commd to defense of the national capital region. we live under that umbrella right here, and we're thankful for that. but it leaves insufficient capacity

. >> marie: a zoo in ukraine introduces lion cubs to the world today. >> reed: coming up, what makes these lion cubs extra special. >> dana: good afternoon i'm dana wagner. trying to sneak into the i'm dana wagner. here's what's buzzing today las vegas. former american olympic gold medalist peek aboou street is -- pick abu street is facing assault charges. police say the former skier, pick abu street threw her father down the stairs. her three children saw it happened happened. according to charging documents street told officers she locked him in the basement. then called authorities. the document accily bummed his -- bumped his car into the house. >>> u.s. customs and border protection officers in texas intercepted more than 2,000 pounds of carrots. stops them at the border with mexico. ut-oh look what was hidden inside. more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana with a street value now to montana. police on a chase here. a woman in the c driving erratically erratically. she pops out of the car chased by police, goes a building and knocks on the door. it is a television station. let me in

ukraine. this street festival is a years. ukraine officially recognizes the start of the year as we do on january 1st. but this tradition more than a week later is still a really big part of the celebration. in modern times, festival revelers usually make their own masks and their own costumes. >> apparently falling on the ground is part of it, too. it looks like fun. that wraps it up for us tonight at 6:30. thanks for having us. >> news 3 live at 7:00 with marie mortera and reed cowan is up next. a popular backstreet boy finds himself in trouble with the law. how a night out with the member did not end the way he planned. >> for up-to-the-minute news any time just go to news3lv.com. we'll look for you >>> epic changes to one huge strip feature. the parking garage. which casino giant is making people to park and when. to keep our roads safe from drunk drivers may have you thinking twice after -- from getting behind the wheel. >>> and felony charges after a student is knocked out cold. news 3 live at 7:00 starts right now. >>>

ukraine has finished elections, and the authorities in all the ukraine for development and kiev and ukraine, we understand we need fast and effective reform, and, actually, reform do not so well as if we wish, but anyway, we understand the main key have to be example for all crukraine and we try to use all modern technology for management of the city we implement. smart cd to the with western companies, e-budget, e-petition, which, actually, very popular, or income spend iing transparen is actually main key against corruption. everything is open. it's -- with that, we expect more investment in our country and in our city. we try to use modern technology right now to implement and keep and in less than two years we became 1.7 billion in our budget. it's actually very good step. it's very important. it's very good signal for our city and our country. >> we watched oil prices this morning fall below $28 a barrel, and when that happens, i just wonder what that means for russia with oil so important to the economy. does that distract putin or put additional pressure for him to put points on the

so just take for example, just take for example ukraine. the result of ukraine was sanctions that were put on him that really hurt his economy. and probably any hope of bringing together integrating the russian economy with the west any time for the next 10-15 years, right. 8,000 russian soldiers, russians who are fighting in ukraine died. he's kept that from his people but it's going to leak out slowly. what syria is costing him is, you know, millions of dollars. he can't afford that. and so the loser at the end of the at the end of the day here is the russian economy and the russian middle class and his hope of having a power base for what he's trying to create. >> rose: north korea. do you know they had a bomb from what you have heard. >> i would go with what the u.s. is saying. it doesn't sound like that. it might have been a boosted figure weapons they're call a hydrogen bomb. >> rose: what's the option of the united states. obviously you saw south korea and the united states and japan rally. you also saw a failure of the chinese to co

this is the challenge we face in ukraine. we're not able to arm the people on the ground to support themselves. it's not -- there is an analogy to what you were just talking about in the middle east. putin is now in syria. he started in ukraine. how do we meet this challenge? >> if we go back, dani, one more step, where did it begin? it began with a decision to pull our interceptors out of poland and the czech republic. our secretary of state, hillary clinton, and this idea of pushing the reset, the idea that the obama administration wanted to send a signal to putin, and we had put in an interceptor system. we were expanding a system as a counterweight, if iran ever threatened europe or the united states, the concept was to have the interceptor system in a program where we could intercept any missiles coming out of iran before they arced, you know, fell into european or u.s. territory. but the russians were pushing back on that. and so in the face of the commitment that had been made by poland and the czech republic, the secr

there have been 23 separate rounds of trilateral talks between russia, ukraine and brussels, still as far away as ever in reaching any sort of compromise or agreement. >> peter sharp reporting from moscow. japan's prime minister shinzo abe is calling for peace talks between the countries of japan and russia. russia seized ielts in 1945. abe last discussed with russian president vladimir putin in 2013. >>> markets plunged in the first trading day in china. stocks tumbled so far trading was stopped for the day to prevent a total market crash. the shanghai market plunged 7%. disappointing manufacturing data from china released earlier in the day. markets from europe and u.s. followed suit with some indices falling more than 6%. let's go to beijing and al jazeera's senior china twont adrian brown. so far the markets do seem more stable today. >> reporter: yes, a bit more stable. i think too soon to say whether this is going to represent any long term stability. the morning trade just closed a short time ago. with shanghai up zero.4%. shenzhen down 0.2%. certainly things a lot more stable