john siegenthaler, see you back leer at 11 eastern, 8:00 pacific. one city last a plan. up next: "consider this" with antonio mora. i'll see you back here at 11:00 about. 11:00. >> the deadly violence in ukraine leads to a major agreement. we'll go to kiev and also talk to a former russian form minister. plus venezuela' venezuela'ss another turn. smear campaign strong enough for congress but made for the oscars. hello i'm antonio mora. here's more on what is ahead. >> a new deal that may end three months of protests in ukraine.

all of it coming in the wake of those blood yir battles in the streets. everyone is waiting to see what happens next. >> antigovernment protesters have once again gathered in the streets in caracas. >> that banging of pots and pans has really become the hallmark of protests. >> the book is called young money. >> shadowing entry level in investment firms. >> what they thought was a safe environment, unleashed what they thought about the occupy movement about hillary clinton. >> we begin with ukraine where a major deal has been struck to end the violence between police and antigovernment protesters that has threatened to destroy the country. in kiev's independence square protesters shouted shame when one of the signatories

opposition leader vitaly klitschko spoke up about the exchange. security forces on thursday. the protesters in the square want president viktor yanukovych out of office now and applauded when one faction leader threatened an armed attack if he hasn't resigned by 10:00 saturday morning. but the deal leaves yanukovych in place though it limits his powers by limiting the 2004 state constitution, mandate being presidential elections by december. for more let's go to kiev and al jazeera correspondent nick shifrin. what's the atmosphere like in independence square tonight? >> well, antonio, you just laid it out. they're still here. they're not going anywhere. about 50,000 people, a few hours ago, listening to the opposition

leaders, and they did boo. they actually tried to kind of overwhelm the sound of one of the more popular opposition leaders. and when that right wing leader that you just mentioned got on stage there was huge applause for not only the line about an armed insurrection against the presidential palace but when he said quite more insightful things than that, quite more personal things about the president. so there's a real taste for blood right now. and that is because not only of these funerals that were held during this evening, almost a candlelight vigil during that talk, but also a real sense of just yesterday morning was the most deadly moment for the protesters, if you take the protesters number, that was the most deadly day in ukrainian history since the end of the soviet union. so their memory is very, very short. and they want to feel that the sacrifices they have made, that rcheverything they've done the

blood they've spilled will actually be repaid. and it is not repaid in a kind of long bullet point list of an agreement. it is repaid when yanukovych walks out of the palace, not any of this will get them out of their trenches and agree to the deal which requires them to leave independence square. >> and that's a worrisome development because as you said there's a long list of things ukraine's parliament agreed to. blanket amnesty to protestors, and a measure that should free former yul temeshenko and make it work but again it doesn't seem to satisfy the protesters.

>> well on paper i think it does satisfy people. but in a day or a week perhaps we will begin to talk about the sobering up of the young youthful enthusiasm and the passion and the anger that is still fueling the people to stay in independence square and in these trenches just a few feet below me here. but right now, i think that anger is still very hot, and i think the memory of yesterday morning is still seared in their mind. you know you talk to a lot of these kids, some of them are in their young 20s or teens, some of them are older but they talk about yesterday as that is their war. they went through their iwo jima, through their absolutely horrific moments yesterday charging up a hill using plastic shields against automatic weapons. that's what they want all of us,

they want the people on the stage a few hours to remember. antonio you're right on paper, this is a deal that gives a lot to the opposition, a lot to the people who have been filling square for the last few months and perhaps over a little more time that anger will moderate and the notion of what they accomplished here will actually set in and the people will begin to feel proud or at least satisfied with some of the things they get and at least yanukovych is in power. >> it was an awfully deadly day. al jazeera's nick shifrin many thanks. and russia also refused to sign it which has many wondering if moscow might try to are work against it. >> i'm joined by andre kosorov, very good to have you on the show. ukraine opposition leader

arsenyi yatsenyuk said, i'm concerned that the rurgse russie not part of the agreement. >> i understand his feeling because russia should be a helping hand to ukraine, and we tried in my time, we thought that movement of ukraine to democracy would enhance our movement to the same direction. but somehow crème marin chose to step on different path. and that is very awkward and upsetting for me and many people. as for agreement itself it looks

like a good agreement but of course everything will depend on the ability and resolve of ukrainian people to see that this agreement is fully implemented and lived up to by president yanukovych. and there is little trust so ifully understanifully understaf the square so to say. signature it's a little bit unclear to me personally why he did not it is not there. it is probably also a personal problem a guy who was sent there by president putin. he is kind of a fern, quite a character, i know him for many years. so it could be as well is personal, you know, political

stance. but of course, i wouldn't expect unfortunately today's russia to be very supportive of real democratic change in ukraine, unfortunately. >> on the other hand, president putin spent apparently an hour on the phone with president obama. they agreed on the need to implement the agreement quickly, to stabilize ukraine's economic situation and they urged both sides to restrain from violence. then a former kremlin advisor is reporting that probably putin is furious about this agreement, do you think he will cooperate? >> i hope so, they will put as good faith as possible. but let's face it: the maidan as they call this independence square, that's surprising in

ukraine, it kind of shows russia's today's russia's kremlin's actually a heal, that people could insist on change and that change is possible and that people in the very, very neighbor and sister actually country might not agree to box themselves into a cornler that's against the west and against the change and everything. so i hope that they will learn the lesson too. but of course it is a painful lrch for them. >> it does seem with these developments it's less likely that the worst case scenario that russia will possibly send

troops into ukraine, that might not happen now. but a splitting of the ukraine's, ukraine's eastern provinces are closer culturally and politically to russia. if ukraine moves towards an agreement with the european union and more a pro-western way do you think that would happen? >> well of course you wouldn't expect unfortunately russia to be helpful to the real change if real change would develop in ukraine. and there are more than one ways for russia to exercise its influence. it's power. and you know, the best way which the west can do and i welcome of course the conversation between two presidents, and i think that obama administration actually does goes through the optimum

more or less in this case because they have to be supportive on one way but very cautious on the other. but the best way, what actually america and the west could do for ukraine and for the change as a matter of fact for russia proper is to encourage investment of western intellectual capital and capital itself into shale gas exploration in the ukraine. if ukraine becomes one day independent producer of gas and probably oil, that would be real game changer also for russia because today russia could avoid reforms, sitting on the oil kind of windfall. but if ukraine starts to produce

shale gas, then i would make that into that field. >> former russia minister, andre kosarev, it's nice ohave you on the show, thanks. >> thank you. >> switching gears to venezuela, blocked access to zello a push to talk walkie talkie app, as they communicate in venezuela and ukraine. internet access was also pulled down for 30 hours in the city of san crastol. meantime, friday saw the death of hennessey kcarmona, fired on by government officials called

collectivos, large cities, rallies have been scheduled for saturday. i'm joined in washington, d.c, by christopher sabatini. christopher, glad to have you with us. has the ma mad maduro giambi -- >> had kicked out cnn andest pad espaniole. no tolerance fo dissent. now it's clearly moving against the only remaining independent channels within the country. the first being cnn in

espaniole. he has also stride to move to interfere in, have really become the sole means. >> and try to control every aspect of venezuelan society now. it's very troubling. >> it's not just information, there are reports that the government is dispatching 3,000 troopers to san carlos carlo cht does the government want a civil war? is there any chance that venezuela could be heading towards that? >> well, you know the problem with venezuela for a while now is chavez now maduro means of resolving conflict and taken over sort of the channels of

communication and independent expression. i think there is a very real concern here that as they've done this, the country's become more polarized. at the same time it has lost the ability to resolve these conflicts peacefully. first of all, maduro has raised the rhetoric and discourse, causing the regime fascist. and armed thugs to control these crowds. i think the possibility of real violence is very imminent. >> the maduro government has been piling on against the protesters, he has accused them of using sharp shooters, he accused of shooting the beauty queen herself. these are not students, these are fascist vandals. but there was a mother there who

spoke very passionately about these vandals she said enough of the fascist talk. we are not fascists, we are venezuelans. u.s. interests that want to grab venezuela's oil? >> well, first of all i don't know if it takes a fascist to protest the venezuela violence. 56%, highest inflation rate in the world. scarcity rates, according to their own central bank 20% of the goods are not available. basic goods like toilet paper, milk, beans, it doesn't take a fascist to support this.

these are common complaints about a completely failed economic situation in venezuela now. and clearly what this country has failed to do is blaming others. they blame the opposition and accuse them of plotting a coup, but the united states, classic tactic to try to divert the blame. they kicked out protesters, claiming they were behind the movement. >> in the lateliest he addresses maduro's big support, the military. he says do not obey unjust orders, do not become the face of oppression, do you think that will resonate? >> the problem is that again, for the last 14, 15 years, of chavez mo and maduromo.

, the four different armed forces, the national police, at the command of the government, and it's been very cruptded also by narcotics trade and contraband trade as well as these collectivos, there may come a point where they refuse the orders of this government. you have to understand they have been very infiltrated and politicized by this government for 14 years. >> let's listen to the mother of the wounded protest again. >> she says she's no oligarch, you can look at her manned, she has no jewels.

she says mad row is going to fight bullets with protests, will this escalate? >> two things antonio. the opposition has doubled down on the electoral strategy. it has surveilled to allow them to capture very legitimate popular frustrations over the economic conditions. now they're taking to the streets and to the large part this is because the other avenues of protest and independent voices have been completely closed down. the risk is, you are going to save many, using the military to contain and control those dimension dx and opposition complies, these are citizens they are complaining about their economic situation their

political situation the security situation. the risk is that this has become very much very heated and increasingly maduro was asking his thugs and the armed forces to control them and this could lead to a very volatile situation. it is led to a situation where anything can happen across all of these situations that are not northwesterly dependent on one request control and plan sectors,. >> thank you for joining us. >> coming up could u.s. troops find themselves between israelis and palestinians? looking down the brong road to become the 1%. our social editor anthony is.

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>> palestine yafn leader mahmoud abbas, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has yet to trust a third party for nato negotiator. i recently had the chance to speak with john denny. , a research professor of joint interagency intergovernmental and multinational security studies at the strategic studies institute at the u.s. army war college. john, that's the longest title i've ever had to read. it's good to have you on the show. thank you very much. >> i want to start with nato providing security for the gaza

strip. what happened then that kept this from not going forward and why is it being brought up again? >> well it's actually a long standing proposal as you mentioned. it goes back to really the late years of the second clinton administration. and for a variety of reasons, many of them having to do with politics, stars haven't been aligned in the right way, timing among the israelis, the palestinians, brought up again, embraced again by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas. in terms of the emphasis the u.s. administration is putting on the peace negotiations, the time may be ripe to talk about these kinds of details. >> i want to get t to israeli politics in a minute. do you think they would be

successful in a situation such as this where there is just so much bad feeling and so many issues? >> i think so, i think nato has said it would be interested in helping if three conditions were met. peace agreement between the parties, they would have to invite nato in, and if those conditions are met then i think nato would be able -- would be at least able to provide a role and would be willing as well. >> those are big ifs. benjamin netanyahu has said he would only trust the israeli army to provide the security. not another force. the u.s. its most important ally. why wouldn't he trust a force led by the united states? >> bear in mind, this is the starting point for negotiation. nothing is easy or simple in

israeli-palestinian negotiations. this shouldn't be either. the u.s. and israel have a long history of working together in peace keeping operations in this part of the world. for example in the sinai peninsula, there have been thousands of peace keepers in the sinai including hundreds of americans for the last 30 years hoping to implement that agreement. so i think if the u.s. and israel can work together in that context i think there's reason to believe they can work together in this context as well. >> why do you think mahmoud abbas has made this suggestion in the first place? he would be willing to rely on nato providing security indefinitely. >> yeah, i think that again this is a starting point of negotiations. i think you're seeing posturing on both sides of the negotiating table. i don't think the u.s. is going to sign up for indefinite peace keeping there. i think there is room for negotiation. if we look at the example much

bobosnia, that lasted about eigt to ten years. i think that's kind of commitment the west would be willing to make and would be willing to assist with. >> even if it's not indefinitely, eight to year agreement or even yet, the u.s. military is pulled out of iraq, fully on its way out of afghanistan, that people in the united states we are very war-weary, do you think the american people could get behind such an action? >> i think so antonio. i think the u.s. and its western allies have a strategic interest. making sure there's straibility in the world and a moral role, there is downsizing in terms of budgets and military structures on both sides of the atlantic. but i think if the agreement were in place, if there were a u.n. mandate and if nato were invited in to assist, in that

type of agreement. >> how about financially because most nato governments are still in austerity mode after the recession. >> yeah, that's certainly true. as a result of the insolvent debt crisis, you are seeing budgets cut on both sides of the atlantic again. but countervailing trends, we saw congress provide relief from sequestration. and poland are actually increasing the defense budget. peace keeping operations, i think there are countervailing trends and i think the allies would be willing and able to make that kind of commitment. >> it is an important suggestion to be discussed in the end of this never ending middle eastern. issue. john denny thank you for coming

on. the wall street world, accordingly to a new book the reality of life for these aspieraspiring masters of the universe, he spent years shadowing other leading financial firms for his last book. young money. it's amazing you got that kind of access and that they were willing to talk to you. but one of the things that you point out in the book is that really this is kind of -- you actually say it's glamour meets mass activism because they really work awfully hard. >> they do. and on the one hand they these are 22-year-olds, they are making $90,000 to $120,000 to $130,000. that's great money. on the other hand, they don't have much time to spend it.

they are in the office 100 to 110 hours a week, there is the banker eight hour day, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. the next day. a lot of the people i followed were truly miserable. >> the fact that they were making all this money, one calculating how much they would make if they were paid by the hour, they said $16 an hour, which is still good money but one complaining about a $25,000 bonus this not being enough, can we really feel sorry for them? >> that's something i tried to put aside for the sake of this book. i wanted to keep my own judgments out of this. these are eight people and this is not a culture that has really ever been examined in depth. these people are not allowed to speak to the media. i had to change all their names,

without the permission of their employers. i wanted to let them tell their stories and i don't feel sorry for them much but about halfway through reporting my book it occurred to me that i probably wouldn't switch places with these guys. they are incredibly unhappy and i don't think i would want to do that. >> one subject you raise and you do it in pretty colorful words that i can't use on the air, are jerks born or are they brought into a vortex that turns them into jerks? >> i wouldn't accessory any of them ownerof -- characterize anm as jerks. what they told me these eight people is that they had come for reasons having to do more with security and stability and having a job after college. big banks are very good at recruiting. they come to your college if you

go to an ivy league school, just drop your resume in a box, we'll call you, you won't have to worry and you only have to do it for two years and you can go follow your true passions and become an archaeologist or whatever. they pay you good for a couple of years but the question that has been raised so much in the media over the last decade in particular and some of the 1% --ers have taken -- wall streeters have been demonized as being these horrible human beings and being premiu prima d, how many television anchors are prima donnas, how many athletes become prima donnas,. >> money is transformative.

their behavior affects millions of people. if someone in silicon valley or someone on the jets screws up, they're not getting people floakeforeclosed on. wall street has a real effect on the rest of the country, it touches everyone's lives, that's when so many people get angry when the financial sector screws up. >> an interesting social media posting that hermela aregawi our social media producer has pulled up. >> goldman sachs, he really likes your book but says this about the people you profiled. there's an argument to be made that clearly the type of person he might gravitate towards would be the left leaning cynical bankers and vice versa, considerable risk, would be similarly minded. he added this doesn't make your

conclusions less relevant but what about the analysts who go on to have fulfilling successful careers? >> that's very interesting. i talk about that a bit in the book. there is an inherent selection bias, people who agreed to talk to me to put their careers on the line to talk to me. so clearly they found something redeeming in me, clearly they were a little bit more sort of renegade than their colleagues. so i think that's a fair point. i also met people who were incredibly successful and happy on wall street who loved their jobs and couldn't imagine doing anything else for the rest of their lives and those people still exist. what i see is the average harvard student who is studying history or philosophy. they used to go to wall street just because it was there and the money was there. i don't think that's happening as much anymore. >> seems the money is down a

little bit when it comes to that path to wall street. one of the things your book has generated the most controversy about. this secret meeting of big witiowigswhere a lot of them drn drag. let's catch up with this. >> what's the difference between hillary clinton and a catfish? >> one has whiskers and stinks and the other is a fish. >> that's the audio from a performance that was going on. you snuck your way into this. my reaction, it seems sad. i'm not a secret society kind of guy but -- >> you wouldn't admit it if you were. it's against the rules. >> completely classless it seems. >> oh yeah, this is something that would be cut from the wolf

of wall street for being too over the top. it's consisting of a bunch of wall street big wigs, behaving like 19-year-old college students. it was incredible. >> how do they get so far out of touch? >> i think a lot of it is social isolation. if you get that wealthy, all your friends are bankers, all your acquaintances are bankers, working for you as hired help or working below you in your company or below you. i don't think these people have social circles other than wall street. >> of the eight you profiled, only three are left on wall street. young money, inside the world of wall street post crash recruits. kevin thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me.

>> hermella you have a racially charged case. >> three 19-year-old suspects on a james meredith noose case. on friday campus police calvin sellers say he and the university's lawyer believe, quote, sufficient evidence exists to bring criminal charges against the suspects. all three suspects are white. and decline to testify against their attorneys. if the act was done to intimidate african americans. based on the action he committed it seems otherwise. carol says, if found guilty, hanging a noose on james meredith statute, the three should spend a thousand hours in public service. >> police are aggressively pursuing the charges but if if

it's found to be free speech it could be upheld. >> very ugly free speech, hermella, thank you. legos, how the company went from near bankruptcy to box office gold. presidential campaign, how smears could dictate this year's oscar race.

>> with a wide array of video games, comics cartoons and now a

megahit movie, the little lego is bigger than ever. just a decade ago, though, the company was facing a collapse, finding 90% of its line was u unprofitable. how did it fight back? we're joined from mountain view, california, the author of the book, brick by brick, how lego rewrote the rules of innovation. david glad to have you on the show. an entire generation of the kids today have seen the movie, mobile apps, web games, read the books, the comic books, they've watched tv shows animated shorts. it's conceivable they might not have even played with real legos.

>> that's right, yes. but when you think of what lego's real job is, buying plastic as 75 cents a kilogram, and selling it at about $50 a kilogram, the japanese or eastern europeans will make a box of bricks for much less than lego and have them out of business. they have to tell those stories and have those cartoons and all the other events to get the kids involved in the stories and make those boxes of bri bricks irresistible. >> in the end they were named the toy of the century but before then they were on the edge of collapse. why? >> back in the 1990s a lot of companies lost their heads. a lot of companies thought they were going to be disrupted by

the digital, the virtual experience. in the 1990s, they thought the nintendos were going to replace the actual toys. they brought in the nonfamily guy to run this family-owned company and he started investing in all new kinds of play experiences and they end up with a lot of experiences, lego star wars and leg lego harry potter. but there they weren't very good, they got themselves into businesses that they didn't understand, not very profitable, they didn't make money for them. it all came crashing down at 2003. they almost went out of business ten years ago. >> what did they do to make it come back from the brink? >> they learned a couple of lessons. the digital did not disrupt the

physical. if they play with virtual legso they want more boxes of bricks not less. with the cartoon with the comic book with the lego movie. the other thing they learned is, it can't just be a box of bricks. they have to work on developing all these complementary innovations. sorry go ahead. >> not only were they doing that, they were growing by leaps and bounds during the recession, what are the lfns that that success in that turn around can teach to other industries? >> you know it's kind of amazing that here is a company that is doing incremental improvement in its products and they have been growing 24% a year and growing profits 40% a year every year for the last five years and they are selling a box of bricks.

and the lesson i draw is they are spushly good at doing these portfolios of innovations. the box of bricks, the video games, lots of little innovations, each of which is fairly low risk but together makes an unbeetable sense to the market. the car max, apple and red bull, are doing same kind of innovation strategy and it's what saved lego. >> unfortunately, we can't invest in them, they are owned privately by a family in denmark. is that why we don't hear about lego very much, it is a low key private family? >> it must be part of it. i've found a half dozen different lists of the most innovative companies and lego isn't in the top give any of them. it is that untold story i was

happy to tell through the book. >> with that am of profit, you would think you could hear it more. david thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me. >> a man made issue has made things worse. and whispers and smears are part of any oscar campaign but does the negativity work? the surprising answer, coming up.

this is the 900 page document we call obama care. it could change costs coverage and pretty much all of health care in america. well, my show sorts this all out. in fact, my staff has read the entire thing. which is probably more then most members of congress can claim. we'll separate politics from policy and just prescribe the facts. >> today's data dive gets rocked by rock salt. another polar vortex may be on the way next week and more snow

is coming to the northwest and northeast. left over known has alternated to ice and with no salt to get rid of it there are a lot of angry residents. seeing enough red that would seem to melt the snow on its own. some places have found creative alternatives. polk county, wisconsin has under its use of liquid cheese brine to help melt the ice. no wonder the state loves its cheese. wisconsin has already used 60% more salt than the average of the past five winters. bergen county new jersey has been using a derivative of pickle juice, only a third of the price. other states have tried beet syrup, poet juice, and sand. sand covers but does it melt

snow? indiana's department of transportation has nearly blown its budget for salt. 31 million of its $33 million budget is gone. the shortage of rock salt has of course driven up the price. there are stories of price gouging around the country. in chicago normal price is around $50 a ton but that shot up five fold to nearly $250. atlanta, contractor negotiating with one and selling to the other. some see opportunity no matter what the cost. coming up do smear campaigns work to win an oscar, the sometimes ugly business of the academy awards.

>> some of the most underhanded tricks of presidential campaigns and mud slinging, no matter true or false have overtaken oscar campaigns but do they work? bill wyman, good to see you. we have already seen some targeted campaigns against dallas buyers club and wolf of wall street. are they having an effect? >> it's hard to tell and you have to remember, this is hollywood. there is a lot of acting going on so there's smear campaigns and then there's the telling people that you're the victim of smear campaigns. it benefits you on both sides, quite often. dallas buyers club it might a little bit. if it is indeed true that the lead character was made to be something that he really wasn't. on the other hand, most people give math knew mcconaughey really -- matthew mcconaughey

really high chances of winning best actor. the wolf of wall street, i don't see that as a big winner in any case so it's hard to tell. >> moifs are somehow seen or the actors to as victims? >> oh absolutely. in basketball it is called, what is it called, flopping oh my god i'm the victim of a smear campaign. people do this really well. the academy runs a very, very tight ship. they don't let a lot of this get out of hand. there is a lot of pressure that builds up underneath the surface. occasionally you get little samples of it. it doesn't happen that much but it always makes every annual campaign interesting. >> some people think the greatest of all time might have lost the oscar because of a smear campaign.

>> right, zen kane he didn't like it all, he banned it from his newspapers, william randolph hearst. but if he took not a liking to a certain movie. one or two over the years where you have seen this happen but on the other hand, there is a whole lot of movies, a beautiful mind is a really good example that still won best picture and best director. so it's hard to tell how much it actually affects. >> ben afte affleck and matt da, were up for best screenplay, for goodwill hunting. >> that was a good example, where it was a backlash. the voters are a very small group, 6,000 people based in the film industry. they are very smart people and wrernt born yesterday. a -- weren't born yesterday.

it turned out with goodwill hunting there really wasn't any basis to these allegations. and again, it's really interesting because this was sort of the rise of the in indy film. it wroo was an your in your fil. >> hahey they set, we didn't wre it. but ben affleck would be for argo after there were astacks on its veracity. >> ben affleck is very well liked and he is an actor. the actors make up the largest part of the academy. he wasn't even nominated for

best director. you have to take it into account too. >> social media has a new wrinkle on the smear campaigns. hermella. >> zero dark 30 was targeted for its depiction of torture. a lot of tweets like, oh torture works? thanks hollywood. i think it's dangerous about a film that spreads the subject to be so commended. how does it play into the oscar smear campaign now? >> i think it does too. if you are embarking on the oscar smeesh are -- smear campaign, you can push your particular position along. i accessory zero dark 30 along with wolf of wall street. again it's kind of hard to say, katherine bigelow won the oscar

and best picture a year or two earlier so if you say oh it didn't win it's hard to say that it was because the smear campaign because it's hard to see you know someone like her. it's very rare for people to win things that close together. she's obviously very well respected in hollywood. >> then there's the flip side of it, positive campaigning that's big for it too. robert redford didn't get a nomination, he didn't campaign for it. if politics is a big part of the process? >> it works for some people not for others. some people who dismissed the oscars, are snubbed by the academy. woody allen who has never participated in any of the nonsense, are still and were still academy award favorites. there are rules that apply to certain people and rules that apply to others. it was kind of unusual that

redford didn't get nominated but it seems like one of these days he will get in there. >> we'll know about it. in a little over a week. the show may be over but the conversation continues, have a great weekend. >> good evening everyone, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. uneasy peace. angry protesters speak out after a deal with the ukrainian president. spreading across venezuela, that's president blames the u.s. a story first reported on al jazeera america, a powerful california politician now facing criminal charges. and a number zero. a city w