. >> on this edition for saturday april 26, the crisis in ukraine intensifies. new demand from pro russian separatists, new sanction against russia. in our signature segment, wide area surveillance, every person, every car, monitored from the sky. >> it allows us to rewind time and go back and see events that we didn't know occurred at the time they occurred. >> and some of the biggest companies in silicon valley settle a big lawsuit. next on "pbs news hour weekend."

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eastern ukraine three weeks ago say they are willing to release eight international military observers they detained, but only if other separatists in custody are also freed. recent satellite images show tens of thousands of russian troops massed along the border with ukraine. the pentagon said yesterday that russian fighter jets have made about half a dozen incursions into ukrainian air space. the united states and its european allies are expected to announce a new round of sanction against russia on monday. president obama is in malaysia tonight, his third leg of his trip to asia. pe wrooped up a trip to asia with a warning to north korea. >> we will not hesitate to use our military might to defend our allies and way of life.

our resolve only grows stronger in the face of aggression. our alliance does not waiver, it just gains the support of the rest of the world. >> in afghan today, five nto troops were killed when a british helicopter crashed. the chopper went down in kandahar city in the southern part of the country. an afghan official atibuted the crash to technical problems. the nationalities of the victims were not immediately released. the latest presidential election results out of afghanistan showed the foreign minister abdullah abdullah in the lead with 45%, followed by exworld bank economist with 31%. the two will compete in a runoff election six weeks from now. both candidates have said they will findsign a security pact w theted states. the agreement would put about 10,000 american troops in afghanistan beyond the end of this year. less than 24 hours after a tornado swept through north carolina, other parts of the nation could face severe storms

tonight and tomorrow. this is the weather channel forecast for to fight, then this is what could be in store tomorrow. that twister in north carolina last eveng damaged hundreds of homes and left thousands without power, at least 30 people were reported injured. word that the scientists whose work in the 1960s helped establish the link between genetics and obesity has died. the canadian born douglas coleman was 82. he discovered that a blood-born substance could curb hunger. that discovery helped a team in rockefeller university working in the 1990s identified gene lepti nah sends signals to the brain that controls appetite. some who are obese have plenty of leptin but their bodies are somehow resistant to it. another piece of titanic memorabilia has sold for a large sum of money. a letter written by a passenger esther hart to her family in

england went for $200,000 today during an auction in london. in the london she relates how the sailors aboard the ship described what they called the wonderful passage up till now. hours later, the ship struck an iceberg and sank. hart and her daughter were among some of the 700 survivors but her husband died along with more than 1,500 others. last night on "the news hour" you heard how the new sanctions planned against russia would affect the economy there, but that might come to at a cost to some of their business partners in the west, most of all germany. we're joined tonight in washington by the executive director of the transatlantic academy. and steven, it's clear that the stakes are higher in europe rather than the united states when it comes to the situation with russia, but just for

context, can you tell us what are the most significant economic ties between europe and russia? and most specifically germany because of its position as a power player? >> yes. well, first of all, with the german case, energy is a very big factor. they getn't about a third of their energy from russia, both gas and oil. that's a major player. also, the german energy companies are very closely linked in with other russian companies. so there's a really close interlocking between these two. secondly, they sell a lot of automobiles and manufacturing to russia, engineering is a big thing. i think up with of the most interesting facts i've seen recently is the head of seimans went to moscow the week after the annexation of crimea and met with putin and assured them that they would continue a long-term relationship with russia. that was a signal to me the german business community is clearly concerned about maintaining its investments and even broadening them in the future. >> on the front pages of the new

york times there's an article that details just how concerned the european business community is about these sanctions. what is it that the european business community wants and what doesn't it want? >> i think it can live -- it's going to have to live with some modified or at least targeted zangs, but not major sectoral sanctions on sectors like energy or finance. it's not just germany. there's a lot of russian money in london, for example. the italians have a lot of energy connections with the russians. so it goes way beyond that. and i think that's the concern that they have. what they're lobbying for now is to stay cool. that's what companies are saying to obama. don't make this bigger than it has to be. let's try not to do any long term damage to our economic relationship, and most importantly, we're just coming out of an economic crisis, don't pull us back into another one by

a new financial crisis with russia. >> chancellor merkel will be at the white house on friday. last time she was in the states, there was a state dinner in her honor. now she's coming after it was revealed the nsa has been wiretapping her phone. what's the conversation going to be like? dha what's going to be the first thing on the agenda and what's going to be the second thing on the agenda? >> if it's merkel, she definitely wants to get the nsa thing behind them and she'll press on that a lot. but this big transatlantic trade agreement is stalling right now in the congress and the eu. she's certainly going to want to push on that. obama wants to get some sense from her on how far russia will go on russian policies and sanctions. he knows without germany being closely aligned with the american position, the u.s. will be isolated and the policy will be pretty ineffective.

>> merkel has a relationship with putin and obama. how does her relations with each man affect their relationship with each other? >> that's a good point. it seems to me has a very bad relationship with putin. she doesn't like him at all. she thinks he's overly macho and kind of ridiculous in some ways. she had a famous statement when she was talking to obama about putin saying he lives in another world. at the same time, her relationship with obama is not very good. she got incensed over the bugging of her phone and let obama know it. at the same time, she's a practical business-like politician, very realistic and she knows she can't let her personal emotions get too involved in these bigger interstate relationships. so i would see nem having a very business like relationship. they also respect each other as very smart, realistic politicians. i think obama really depends on merkel right now for advice on russia.

she's spending so much time talking to putin and the russians. >> thank you so much for your time. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> police always have the act to conduct surveil lapse on individual suspects. now officers can watch over an entire city. the center for investigative reporting in partnership with kqed in san francisco went to one city conducting a secret test of the technology. amanda pike has the story. >> 911 what is your emergency. >> reporter: that this may look like a typical satellite map. but you're actually watching a crime unfold. >> snatched my mom's purse away from her and ran off.

>> a robbery in a residential street. on the left, a man is about to steal a necklace from a woman on the sidewalk. >> i remember this call, it was basically our typical middle age woman walking down the street with a friend of hers, having a conversation. young male grabs her chain off of her neck, runs down the street and disappears. >> doug katani is a sergeant with the l.a. county sheriff's department. in traditional policing, we won't be able to solve these types of crimes. 99% of the time, we're not going to find anybody. >> but the sheriff's department wasn't just relying on traditional policing. for almost two weeks in 2012, it watched compton from the sky, testing a new technology called wide area surveillance. unbeknownst to residents on the ground.

>> we basically kept it pretty hush-hush. >> the array of this cameras on this plane can produce high resolution images for up to six hours. it can track every person and vehicle on the ground, beaming back the pictures in real time. it's city-wide surveillance on an unprecedented scale. >> what we essentially do is a live version of google earth with a full tivo capability. it allows us to see events we didn't know occurred at the time they occurred. >> ross mcnutt is the president of the surveillance systems, the company that ran the test in compton. mcnutt developed a similar system in the air force that was used in iq and afghanistan. >> it was at the height of the ied problem, and our objective was to be able to follow the bombers from where the bomb went off back to the house that they were building the bombs and be able to use that.

towards the end of the time when the system was deployed, we looked at it and said hey, there's some real law enforcement application to this. >> mcnutt redesigned the original system to make it more affordable for local law enforcement. he tested in philadelphia, baltimore and dayton where he said it provided police with useful leads on shootings, armed robberies and narcotics cases. the l.a. county sheriff department chose compton as a test site because it's a compact city with a high crime rate. >> anywhere within that whole area, we can zoom down live or after the fact to resolutions just barely to be able to follow people. >> my first initial thought was oh, big brother. but if it was surveillance, you would have a ability to solve a lot of the unsolvable crimes with no witnesses, no videotapes, no fingerprints. >> from a mobile command center,

mcnutt monitors 911 calls like the robbery call you heard earlier. >> tre had been a rash of crimes in compton with people getting necklaces snatched. so the l.a.'s sheriff department asked us to investigate this. >> this is where the robbery occurred. just walking down the street, she think headquarters he's a regular pedestrian. doesn't notice anything about him. grabs the necklace off of her neck, runs down the street. >> we w to the address and we watched it. and what we saw was somebody getting out of a car here, and then the person walks down the street here while the car circles around to the other side of the block. what you have is a person walking down the road there and just a moment here is where the necklace is stolen right there. and then the person is going to run off quickly to get back into the car that's driven around the block. and then we can follow that person off. >> the system doesn't have the resolution to identify license

plate or people. a person is just a pixel. analysts track the car and rely on cameras at traffic lights or gas stions to capture a closeup image. in this case, the suspects eventually drove out of camera range without being identified. but the experiment still gave police some valuable lea >> now, we know that that car was involved. so that way our deputies can start monitoring those streets. maybe they will see that car with the two bad guys in there and maybe we can stop them and arrest hmm them. >> so far, no police department has purchased the system which mcnutt says cost under $4 million, less than one police helicopter. but the technology doesn't provide the kind of detailed images that would hold up in court. >> it was a great experiment, but in the end, the resolution wasn't enough for us to use it here on a day to day basis. >> while some officers say the resolution isn't sharp enough,

privacy advocates worry that wide area surveillance is already too powerful. >> i think it's a huge concern. i think it's another example of technology advancing and completely outpacing the development of the law. >> reporter: jennifer lynch is the attorney with the electronic frontier foundation a civil liberties organization based in san francisco. >> if you ask law enforcement if what they're doing is legal, they will say well, we have no expectation of privacy in public, but the ability to backtrack through time, to map a car going from one location to another is completely different. with surveillanceamera that can capture 2k5 square miles, it's capturing a lot of people's activities who aren't doing anything wrong, who are innocent citizens. and that's a problem. >> mcnutt believes that persistent surveillance could lead to a lasting drop in crime, but acknowledges privacy concerns. >> there is a tradeoff between

security and some aspects of priva privacy. by the fact that we're actually able to provide useful information against multiple crimes and contribute to solving murders to the case you saw, a necklace snatch. that allows us to provide more security with less loss of privacy than any of the other options that are out there. >> i'm sure people once they find out that this experiment went on, they might be a little upset. but knowing that we can't see into their bedroom windows, we can't see into their pools, their showers. you know, i'm sure they'll be okay with it. the amount of technology out in today's aej with cameras at atms, every 7-eleven, every supermarket, every light pole, red light cameras. people have just gotten used to being watched for the most part. >> for now, deputies are back to

patrolling the streets of compton from the ground. >> we're sticking with our traditional policing techniques and tactics, boots on the ground, drive around the neighbors. stopping the bd guys and waving to the good folks. >> in the meantime, mcnut continues to pitch his technology to preliminaries across the country. in a few years, he hopes to double the system's range, to watch over large cities like san francisco or washington, d.c. with wide area surveillance. >> as a result of that story by the center for investigative reporting, naqed, compton's mayor now wants them to notify the public before musing any monitoring devices. american more about the monitoring of america. visit newshour.pbs.org.

apple, adobe, google and intel have settled a lawsuit alleging they co-lewded no tot go after each other's employees, holding down salaries. the settlement was settled for $325 million. that's the head leap. l -- headline. what do they allege these companies did. did one ceo call up another and say don't hire my guy? >> we're talking about 64,000 people who joined the class in this lawsuit. it was the companies that you mentioned. and what we're talking about is essentially an unwritten agreement, kind of a quiet understanding between steve jobs and eric schmidt when he was ceo of google and the ceo of intel and some of the others, engineers are essentially the key people in a lot of these things. and, you know, job competition is very fierce. and so there was some, especially colorful e-mails that have emerged as evidence in the

trial. and i think the companies didn't want to seehose e-mails exposed. they've been exposed but there would have been a lot more, i think, information, a lot more disclosure that would have been just as colorful. >> is that why this is settl >> i think so. i think this is being described as kind of a bargain. the plaintiffs were seeking $3 billion. had they prevailed, it would have allowed damages, $9 billion. money they can afford. they collectively have more than $200 billion of cash on their balance sheets but you don't to have to pay that kind of money. but i was surprised by the amount. it actually worked out to just a few thousand dollars per employee. the employees will take a cut of about $9 million for their expenses. and the lead plaintiffs will probably get back larger payment, but most of the people who are members of the class, $3,000. >> isn't it kind of the principle of the thing? is you have very, very talented people who want to be paid for their talent. and essentially what these companies did was we're not going to necessarily pay you for

all your talent. >> exactly. the companies are always first to talk about how quickly, you know, they want to work in an unfettered marketplace and not have any extra regulation holding them down. and yet through this kind of -- the evidence that's been shown so far has shown they colluded to not extend that to their employees. the justice department brought this to light in 2009. and they settled in 2010. so these companies have been operating under sort of a -- i wouldn't call it a consent decr decree, but it's without any financial statements. it expires in 2015. there may be higher waejs. it's much more free work place, mood between work place. >> this comes an an interesting

time. we heard about the prosts in front of the buses that ferry people to fairous campus ps .people having their google glasses ripped off of their faces. smart uh cars being overturned in california. it's what wired magazine, silicon valley needs to lose the arrogance or risk destruction. overstated or is it really a problem? >> there is a social moment there is a big political moment. sensitivities are high and it's another reason why these companies would rather settle and put this thing to rest and write a relatively small check. the appearances in light of this social and political moment that's occurring right now, the optics have been absolutely devastating. the fact that have they had this unwritten agreement to basically hold down salaries. >> when the ceos are making so much money and the companies a making so much money. thanks so much. >> you bet.

and now a new look at the pioneering work of the lart artist andy warhol. he was trying to make art on the computer in the 1980s. it was unheard of a few years ago. >> reporter: it's recognizably an andy warhol. an original reworked version of one of his most famous images but created digitally. one of 12 that were found after something of a technological treasure hunt. and they may never have been discovered had it not been for this. >> youtube pictures in 1985 on a basic home computer. commissions for an advert by a company who wants to show off

the graphic capabilities of their new commodore device. three years ago, an artist stumbled on this footage and began investigating whether there was more warhol computer art. he found a cache of floppy disks but formats that were obsolete. with the help of forensic computer experts, the images were eventually retrieved 56 more than 30 years of being trapped inside. today's digital artists believe had he still been alive, warhol would be leading the field with this type of art. >> to know that warhol had the bravery and the courage to go into this format and really see what would happen and what he could produce. and some of them are quite primitive, but there are a couple that really made it. >> the works will now go on display at the andy warhol museum, celebrating an artist who has more than his 15 minutes

of fame. >> join us on air and on line tomorrow. making a sense of the showdown between russia and ukine, the long complicated history that led up to the current crisis. that's it for this edition of pbs "news hour weekend." i'm allison stewart. thank you for watching.

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