in march. we will hear from our discussion with christine lagarde. we will be talking with ukraine president petro poroshenko who met with vice president joe biden. we will be talking with the bank of america chairman and ceo ryan moynahan days after the bank reported its highest earnings in a decade. inocencio has more. it feels like more calm has come into the markets. ramy: anyway you look at it, 30 minutes into the trade. see a bitgly, we did of a pop into the green after mario draghi's comments. we have actually flipped into the red. a short-lived blip. we will call this flat for the most part. the s&p 500 and the dow, just about flat. the nasdaq down by about a quarter of a percent. is the sector health of the s&p's 10 sectors. right after mario draghi spoke -- most of these, nine out of 10 of the sectors were in the green. six of the 10 sectors are now in the red. information technology through utilities. utilities, the most down by about 6/10 of a percent. energynow! flipping open to the green. this had energy -- energy, now flipping up into the green. energy stocks have be

diplomatic solution. aggression --'s to end russian aggression against ukraine. sanctions, therefore, serve diplomacy. they don't substitute for it. so the do's and don'ts of sanctions are, don't be in a hurry, don't go it alone, don't be greedy, and the final don't is, don't look for too much purity, by which i mean, sanctions hurt. they are designed to hurt the person you are trying to hurt, if you design them right. but there will be pain on your side. there will become locations. if you can't face that, you shouldn't start sanctioning. have been in government a long time, we are always looking for the option, all game, no pain, no risk. it doesn't exist. >> let's talk about the russian sanctions and the different dimensions. one is on the multilateral approach. of the pain one causes to one's own companies, there were a lot of expectations early on, that the german government would not go along with stiff sanctions because of the deep ties between german business and russian business. i think a lot of people were surprised at how the strong stance that chancellor merkel took on i

--'s to end russian aggression against ukraine. sanctions, therefore, serve diplomacy. they don't substitute for it. so the do's and don'ts of sanctions are, don't be in a hurry, don't go it alone, don't be greedy, and the final don't is, don't look for too much purity, by which i mean, sanctions hurt. they are designed to hurt the person you are trying to hurt, if you design them right. but there will be pain on your side. there will become locations. if you can't face that, you shouldn't start sanctioning. have been in government a long time, we are always looking for the option, all game, no pain, no risk. it doesn't exist. >> let's talk about the russian sanctions and the different dimensions. one is on the multilateral approach. of the pain one causes to one's own companies, there were a lot of expectations early on, that the german government would not go along with stiff sanctions because of the deep ties between german business and russian business. i think a lot of people were surprised at how the strong stance that chancellor merkel took on imposing sanctions on russia.

thoughts about the crisis in ukraine. >> i think that vladimir putin and russia has done a huge favor to ukraine by this conflict. i know its very controversial , but i'm saying this because it has built a certain national unity that was not possible for out the 20 years of ukrainian independent existence. and the ukrainians for the first time understand that they are fighting for their identity, for their survival. and they have just one chance. they can make it right or they will disappear. ♪ katarschinna: my name is katarzyna pisarska. i'm the director of the european academy of diplomacy in warsaw. it's a leadership and diplomacy academy. a lot of our activities is focused around such themes like rule of law, fighting corruption, human rights. so how to improve our societies. katarschinna: so we were signing an association agreement with ukraine. we can not see this as any type of threat for the russian federation, because this is a global world. ♪ katarschinna: i think what is happening in ukraine and the conflict that ukraine has in russia is a consequence of a certain

opportunities to ukraine. at the stroke of midnight, a free trade agreement came into force. the ukrainian president was celebrating the new deal, russia had already taken retaliatory steps against kiev. reporter: people in kiev have every reason to welcome the new year. hopes are high for 2016 thanks to a free trade agreement with the european union. corporations can now move into the country and ukrainian products can be sold on new e.u. markets. in his new year's address, the ukrainian president showed optimism. on the first of january, there will be a deep and comprehensive free trade area between ukraine and the european union. in a few years, we will offset economic losses which ukraine incurred from russia. russia strictly rejects any cooperation between ukraine and the e.u. for now, the kremlin has suspended its free trade agreement with ukraine. russia officially claims ukraine could provide access to the russian market for unwanted european products. the fight over ukraine moving closer to the e.u. was one of the main reasons for the protests in november 2013. with the

brink of economic oblivion, the ongoing war in ukraine showed further tension. over the next hour, we review that and more as we reflect on the major market moving stories we've covered here on bloomberg television. ♪ >> january 15, 2015. that's the day swiss investors will never forget. that was the day the swiss national bank unexpectedly scrapped its three-year policy of putting the franc against the euro at 1.20. the euro slumped from 1.20 to a low of 85, that is a drop of 29% before closing down 19%, the biggest drop ever, and the lowest close ever. the move prompted a selloff in companies on concerns this unexpected policy shift would hurt exports. this wasn't the only central bank to cause massive ripples across global markets. let's look at china. the yuan devaluation on august 11. it triggered the yuan's biggest one-day drop since january, 1994. it also prompted a widespread selloff in emerging-market assets. this is the msci emerging markets index. in the two weeks that followed the yuan de-valuation, this gauge sunk by 13% on concerns that the move signaled weaker and dem

the possibility of a diplomatic solution to end russia's aggression against ukraine, or at least get them out of eastern ukraine. and sanctions, therefore, serve diplomacy. they don't substitute for it. so, the dos and don'ts of sanctions are don't be in a hurry, don't go it alone, don't be greedy. and the final don't is don't look for too much purity, by which i mean, sanctions hurt, and they're designed -- if you've designed them right, they'll hurt the person you're trying to hurt. they'll hurt the government you're trying to hurt. but there will be pain on some of your companies, and there will be complications. and if you can't face that, you shouldn't start sanctioning in the first place. look, you and i -- i've been in government for a long time. you've been in government, too. you know, we're always looking for that option that is all gain, no pain and no risk. it doesn't exist. >> so, let's talk about the russian sanctions for a little bit and a couple of different dimensions. and one is on this -- on the multilateral approach. and on this issue of the pain one causes to one

. where are you from? where's home? >> i am from ukraine, and i came to this country nine years ago. pregnant, a tragedy happened in my home, and my father and brother died. so it was very difficult for my mom. we couldn't stop crying. and we decided it was better for her to go back to ukraine, even it's very hard time there -- >> right. >> -- 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 cou

failure and that the pilot ejected safely. ukraine says it will introduce a wide-ranging ban on food imports from russia. 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 awa

moderate, perhaps moderate muslims in syria and iraq, places like eastern ukraine, china, the periphery, getting into this conversations and having a reputation as truth tellers in this conversations is really the most important thing. the last thing i will say to that is the investment that we have. the difference is really, let's take a snapshot of russia's investment in their state media versus the united states. it is really 102 one difference. we are the one. we are just under billion dollars. that billion dollars in different pockets is an interesting conversation, but calling it reform i think is an interesting approach, but i think the real reform would be to think about how serious do we want to invest in the messaging that is our messaging, which is the values of the united states as are presented by high-quality journalism. again, as talk about, little further into this idea of countering propaganda with straight journalism. you know that there are those in congress and other areas to say, well we have cnn, slightly a government-funded cnn to do that? the charter of the away

look at the risk to america's power grid. jenna: ukraine says hearing are behind a power outage in that country. the lights went out right before christmas along the eastern part of ukraine. it was malware that affected the power structure. worries mount about the vulner bivment our tour grid at home. here is the reason why we are talk about this today. you say our critical infrastructure here in the united states is infected with this malware? how and what does that mean? >> dhs put out a report a year ago talking about how much of our critical infrastructure has been infected with this black energy mall ware. they discovered it? industrial control systems. so now when we see what happened in the sue crane and now that we understand iran got access to one of our dams, one of the other things. a company in germany, one of their blast furnaces at a steel mill was taken off line. this was a harbinger of things to come. i'll tell you the fact that they demonstrated it shows what they can do on a massive scale inside our own critical infrastructure. jenna: who is "they"? >> it's a grou

mayor found in the affected network in ukraine. robert, how sophisticated was the attack? >> in terms of the malware it does not look as sophisticated and expected to fine. what makes an advance attack was the logistics behind the attack. they end up leading to the black p outs. >> this is an attack be that knocked large sections of ukraine in to darkness and went on for a long time in one of the coldest months of the year. the warning from michael hayden that the same kind of thing could happen in the united states? >> this may have answered three questions out there for a while. can you use the cyber system to manipulate the mechism. and how vulnerable is the u.s. to a tab. and we saw the russian attack to etonya. and how prepared are power producers in terms of cyber security. >> a lot of people may not be aware of the grid, u.s. electrical grid is dependant on computer application temperature is way more complicated than burning coal and generators and the power lines? >> it is it a complex system and that's where the concern is. it is it a highly automated system. in ukraine they

ukraine's health ministry said there have been 83 confirmed deaths from the h1n1 virus offer referred to as the swine flu. 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

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 airliner. phil: earlier, we spoke to the founder of the gro

muslims in syria and iraq, places like eastern ukraine, the china periphery. i think getting into those conversations and having a reputation as a truth teller in those conversations is the most important thing in the last thing i will say wrong to that is the investment that we have, the differences. let's take a snapshot of russia's investment in their state media versus the united states treated to really a 100 to one 11 difference and we are the one. we are under a billion dollars compared to hundreds of dollars. so rearranging that billion dollars is an interesting conversation. it's an interesting approach but the real reform would be to think about how serious we want investment messaging that is our messaging which is the value the united states is represented by high-quality journalism. >> guest: let's talk again about delving a little further into this idea of countering propaganda with straight journalism. you know as you know there are those in congress and other areas who say why do we need a government funded -- to do that and the charter of doa calls for us to represent t

eastern ukraine. many in the west say pro-russian separatists were responsible. but the criminal investigation is still going on. which means relatives in the netherlands still don't know what really happened, and who's to blame, making an already painful situation almost unbearable. reporter: every morning, silene fredriksz goes into her son's room and wishes she could turn back the clock. bryce frederiksz lived here with his girlfriend daisy. both of them were on board the ill-fated mh17. that was last summer. silene hasn't changed a single thing since. silene fredriksz: sometimes i sit on the beds. sometimes i smell the clothes. i used to think people were crazy when they did it. now i do it myself. it's a way to survive. because reality is too hard. reporter: bryce and daisy left the house for the last time on the morning of july 17, 2014. the young couple had planned a trip to bali. the malaysia airlines flight took off from amsterdam just past noon. two and a half hours later, the plane's wreckage was strewn across the landscape in eastern ukraine, where ukrainian governmen

that relationship? no, for the british and u.s. 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 impo

about that. and the president of ukraine on whether he's worried vladimir putin would try to maybe have him killed. we talked to petro when count down to the closing bell comes right back. what he looks forward to when it comes to crimea as well. live from the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. fox means business you pay your car insurance premium like clockwork. month after month. year after year. then one night, you hydroplane into a ditch. yeah... surprise... your insurance company tells you to pay up again. why pay for insurance if you have to pay even more for using it? if you have liberty mutual deductible fund™, you could pay no deductible at all. sign up to immediately lower your deductible by $100. and keep lowering it $100 annually, until it's gone. then continue to earn that $100 every year. there's no limit to how much you can earn and this savings applies to every vehicle on your policy. call to learn more. switch to liberty mutual and you could save up to $509. call liberty mutual for a free quote today at see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mut

leave ukraine kolki slaughters were scheduled for august 9th, olyka, august 10th, and trochenbrod, august 11th. trochenbrod was essentially just another target out of thousands of other towns and villages in europe, but it is the only town that has completely vanished. 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 w

. 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 freedom. >> the first german soldiers are already on their way. >> w

. then you say, he has obviously done that in ukraine, and now he's done it in syria. doing inok, how is he terms of getting to his objectives? realistically, charlie, he's the loser in all of this in the end. charlie: because he does not have a dynamic economy and because he is involving himself in things that, while on the surface it looks like he is exerting leadership, but in the end, it's a difficult place. 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. russiansian soldiers, 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 his 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 base forhaving a power what he is trying to create. charlie: north korea, do you believe it was a hydrogen bomb based on what

air jet over the ukraine the media reported on a mounting evidence that the weapon used was russian-made and could have been fired from a town held by russian backed rebels. already in those early days crank out a new theory on who could have been responsible for practically every news cycle. maybe it was the craniums trying to shoot down president putin's plan. maybe it was the cia conspiracy. if the goal was the goal was confusion the approach may have been partially successful but if the goal was credibility with lots of people, not so much. while already is not put up detailed facts and audience estimates there are numbers out there. in the u.k. for example in may of 2013 when the ukraine story was hot, rt was -- had about 120,000 viewers. as the coverage became increasingly one-sided and shrill that number dropped pretty year later it was 90,000 less than two tenths of 1% of the u.k. viewing population. the united states rt claims is the -- solid audience that does not make public data to back that claim up. two years ago nelson press official told one reporter that rt's audien

in ukraine. >> today marks two years since extremely bloody battle in ukraine maydon revolution. two were shot dead by police. in the days that followed many prominent activists were captured and tortured. tracks the full revolution. take a look. >> european leaders an ukraine have failed to sign a historic free trade deal after a last minute u-turn from here. >> the director and he's in los angeles. welcome. it's good to have you on the program. let's start pack in 2013 when viktoviktor yanukovych, failed o back down. >> my colleague was doing previous movies, was there, calls me and said you know what something different is happening, it's a revolution not political, you should come, let's try to get these. i jumped into a plane and i came on next day in the square and i was already hiring cameramen and starting to document the history as it was unfolding. >> these protestors are up against very, very strong forces government forces and it was a david and goliath struggle. talk about the commitment of these protesters and why they were willing to put themselves in harm's way? >> it

, there is the possibility of a diplomatic solution to end the aggression against ukraine or at least to get them out of eastern ukraine and sanctions therefore serve the diplomacy. they don't substitute for it so the do's and don'ts of the sanctions are don't be in a hurry, don't go it alone, don't be greedy. and the final is don't look for too much. he by which i mean sanctions hurt and they are designed if you designed them right they will hurt the person you are trying to hurt him it will hurt the government you are trying to hurt but they will be paying on some of your companies and there will be complications and if you can't face that, you shouldn't start sanctioning in the first place. i've been in the government a long time and you have, too. we are always looking for for that option that's all gain and no pain with no risk. it doesn't exist. >> let's talk about the sanctions and the different dimensions. one is on the multilateral approach and on this issue of the pain that one causes to one's own companies. there were a lot of expectations early on that the german gov

have frozen conflicts in many places in the world and we say when we have hybrid warfare in ukraine with a mixture of military and nonmilitary means of aggression, with overt and covert actions. of course also a part of a mixture of the peace of the war and especially when it comes to cyber warfare. this is creating new challenges for all of us and especially for nato, because we have to be agile, we have to be prepared to be able to respond to much more conflict and difficult security. 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 abou

moderate muslims in syria and iraq, places like eastern ukraine, the china periphery, i think getting into those conversations and having a reputation as truth tellers in those conversations is really the most important thing. and then the last thing i'll say, ron, to that is the investment that we have, the differences. really, let's just take a snapshot of russia's investment in their state media versus the united states. it's really 100 to 1 difference, and we're the 1. we're at about, you know, just under a billion dollars, and they're at $100 billion. >> wow. >> guest: so rearranging that billion dollars in different buckets is an interesting conversation. calling it reform, i think, is an interesting approach. but i think the real reform would be to think about how serious we want to invest in the messaging that is our messaging which is the values of the united states as represented by high quality journalism. >> let's talk about, again, just delve a little further into this idea of countering, you know, propaganda with straight journalism. you know, as you know, there

factor into the whole process? keeping in mind activities in ukraine with russia, isis, and the growing threat of north korea, did you take into account any of these? >> there are current and anticipated security challenges. we do, in fact, talk about each of those threats that you just mentioned. the real challenge is that when this budgets were built and when this army was constructed, and planned, those threats were not anticipated. we did not expect there would be a sizable continuing force in afghanistan. they throughout there would be a very, very small force if any in iraq. i si l was not on the planning horiz horizon. relationship with russia was envisioned to be very different than it has developed. the unpredictable nature of north korea. but our best effort of what we thought the future security environment would require of the army and based our recommendations on that. >> that's exactly right. with some exceptions at a classified level, we're confident. we have the strongest army in the world. we're confident about our capability to win decisively over any given adv

extent did current events factor into the whole process? keeping in mind activities in ukraine with russia, isis, and the growing threat of north korea, did you take into account any of these? >> there are current and anticipated security challenges. we do, in fact, talk about each of those threats that you just mentioned. the real challenge is that when this budgets were built and when this army was constructed, and planned, those threats were not anticipated. we did not expect there would be a sizable continuing force in afghanistan. they throughout there would be a very, very small force if any in iraq. i si l was not on the planning horiz horizon. relationship with russia was envisioned to be very different than it has developed. the unpredictable nature of north korea. but our best effort of what we thought the future security environment would require of the army and based our recommendations on that. >> that's exactly right. with some exceptions at a classified level, we're confident. we have the strongest army in the world. we're confident about our capability to win decisiv

aim at russia's involvement in the conflicts in ukraine and syria. our correspondent joinsous now from moscow. the president only lightly l lightly touched on russia referencing those conflicts where russia stands on the opposite side to the u.s. >> reporter: yes. i was a little confused, actually, and i think some people that i was looking at on twitter were confuseed as well by the way that obama phrased it. 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 res

including combating the islamic state, the ukraine-russia complicate, and u.s. leadership around the world. this is an hour. >> good morning, everybody. we're starting on time for once, and i'm very pleased to welcome congressman ed royce, chairman of the house attorney affairs committee, republican, of california. we have an hour to talk about national security, the plans ahead, all of the challenges we face, all of the solutions you have in mind, and the president's state of the union next week. so, i'm not going to take another second, but i would like to welcome mrs. royce, because i'm delighted to have her here. [ applause ] over to you. >> thank you, the state of the union is coming up here, the seventh state of the union. and we've had seven years now of policies that have frankly been focused on befriending our enemies and distancing ourselves from our allies, ignoring our allies. and the consequences of -- there was an historic opportunity in iran to have a -- a chance at reaching out to the people of that country who had gone to the streets after a stolen election, and many

after the wars in ukraine and syria, but they haven't produced the results he was looking for. >> translation: today i would particularly like to congratulate those service men who are fighting international terrorism, making a stand for russia's international interests far away and showing their strong will and decisiveness. the whole country's success depends on the effective work and xhooechlts of all of us. we are-- achievements. we are united and our responsibility is for our designee. >> reporter: if he truly believed that his ambitious foreign policy initiative in syria would divert international attention away from his land grab in ukraine, he will be disappointed. there has been no concession in foreign sanctions against russia. the price of oil and the value of the ruble will continue the spectacular fall. they may find themselves with the president on a rocky road. fire works will welcome in the new year, but seeing it in on red square has been scrapped. 90,000 rebelers gathered in one place was considered an unnecessary risk in these times >>> lots more still to co

pretty unique. 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. >>> we begin tonight with breaking news. suspe

be packed this weekend. >> 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 televi

that russia was behind a power outage in western ukraine. officials are westing if hackers carried out a nightmare scenario taking down a pure grid. >> the c.i.a. and security firms are investigating whether russia is behind a power attack in ukraine. it came weeks after power was cut to cream i can't. multiple reports say malicious software was found on a ukrainian power company's network. russia is blamed for the december 23 outage. if confirmed, this would be the first documented cyber attack on a power facility, something security experts have warned about for years. >> before the internet, you had to get physical access to protect it. now everything is going digital. we're taking old technology, trying to mesh it with new technology, put it on the internet and anything that touches the internet or wireless has the vulnerability that comes with being on the internet. >> some u.s. power facilities were the target of a malicious software campaign in 2014 and last spring, the department of homeland security put out a bulletin warning power companies about the malware known at blac

: thank you for inviting me. emily: you were born in the ukraine. how much of a connection do you still feel to the people and the country? max: any time i am told that -- oh, you are a russian, i know you are, i feel the need to say, no, actually, i am a jew who was born in the ukraine. it is still a part of what defined me. what defines me. i haven't been back in a long time. on occasion, i miss it. emily: what do you miss? max: the people are very genuine. they don't pretend to be anything they're not. emily: what do you think you would be doing if you were still there today? max: probably writing code of some form. i was already sort of proto-entrepreneurial when i was there, so i probably would be starting a company of some sort. but -- more or less the same thing. emily: have you been following what has been going on there recently? i mean, are you worried about the civil war? max: yes, i am very worried. i -- i don't think it's possible not to follow it. as an engineer and an entrepreneur, i always sort of, like, well, let me think through this, i must have a solution. and it is

corrupt to the core. ukraine or north african or the other places you know -- >> you don't want to tax the rich id than the poor. do you agree that tax and capital gains are skewing the situation? >> absolutely. everyone should pay their taxes fair an squares if it was a fair system. jerry brown proposed a 13% flat tax on all income, how much you earn, how much you give away and your increase in wealth that's your income and you pay 13% and everyone does from beginning to end and you'll get tons of money, you'll stop getting all these lawyers and accountants, favor-grabbers and we'll have a society that finally lives on morality and really work. >> should we be thinking differently about someone like me who earns their income through labor who earns it and gets a check from someone versus someone who invests their capital takes remarkable risks, >> no. >> as far as you believe, everyone should be taxed on what they earn. >> from the first to the last dollar, and if you help people use spending. write a damn check to them ali and they will then know exactly what they're getting from wha

from the holiday. lawrence lee, al jazeera. beijing. >> ukraines ministry of health says there has been 83 confirmed deaths now from the hwen in one swine flu. more than 30 people have died it has effected 18 regions in ukraine, including kiev, and donetsk. health officials have closed and are advising people to avoided crowded places. brazil's health minister says the country is losing the battle against the zika virus, around 220,000 troops are being mobilized there to battle the moss toe blamed for spreading the disease. the world health organization is trying to establish a firm link between zika and microcephaly, a condition for babies that are born with ab normally small heads a possibliesman says so far the evidence is circumstantial. of course the huge increase of zika, is pushing north. >> and mow the big task is to try to establish the link here. what is the link, what exactly is the rink, is it zika alone, or with something else. >> the moment in which 40 inmates escape add prison in brazil. the man escaped after a war in the north eastern state, 37 of the inmates were recapt