and the united states has been equally hostile to hugo chavez. is whole protest movement if you will has been funded and also encouraged by the united states. so he's been addressing that in this press conference that he's had tonight. this comes a day ahead of a massive rally that's supposed to be held here in caracas and around the country and anti-government rally if you will and the government will also have its own ra rally on saturday. >> how much momentum does this movement have right now? >> that's going to be the key question tomorrow. the opposition leader that called this demonstration, his name is enrique capriles, a former candidate that lost the elections by less than 2%. he's the one that called this rally. it will be interesting to see the turnout tomorrow, i think that will give everyone a good sense of how the momentum is going in this opposition movement. something gaining speed or something petering out if you will. we've had two days of relatively calm in the capitol so that will be the question on everybody's mind tomorrow to

and obviously your role, the leadership that the united states has shown has been critical and very much admired. and the diligence of the way that the united states has been able to bring both partners much closer together over the past several months has really given me a lot of hope. and so i would just like to commend the dramatic role of the united states in that regard. as you're very well aware, we're obviously a stakeholder in all final status negotiations and, therefore, our national interest in these issues are of paramount importance. but i am cautiously optimistic even with the major challenges that america has been really working tirelessly to really improve the situation between the israelis and the palestinians. obviously, as you mentioned, sir, the main challenge that we have is how do we bring a political, comprehensive solution to the syrian people. our major concern in the area is the rise of extremism in syria, the sectarian violence, and if we don't find a solution, the spillover in the region and the effect that will have. but, again, i'm sure that our views are sim

united states congress it's called the children in families first. bill does say the united states should be committed to doing a better job than it has been doing in terms of just the kind of numbers you're talking about and i myself would love to see those figures kept better in part because i feel completely confident that if we have the figures they would help show even more than the data we have today that it. does an amazingly good job of helping kids get good homes and that the numbers of a abuse and neglect of all the kids who come into this country are infinitesimal they are truly tiny compared to of course. what happened. as i wonder how how could we have that data because we have the data. we have many studies over the years what we don't have is one hundred percent perfection in terms of keeping track of every single kid who comes into this country i would like to do that but if you don't have the means of tracking every single kid can you even argue that your data the data that is proving that this whole operation is successful is there i mean if you don't have the mechanism if you don't have the central authority because in the united state

the united states has been warning russia that it would be a grave mistake to intervene militarily in the ukraine and if that is indeed what has happened here, and president obama said they are not going to engage in a chess board. he's going to be using the power of his presidency, the force of his oval office to worn russia about what their move should or should not be. we've asked jay carney, what are the u.s. options if russia has indeed intervened militarily earlier today at the briefing at the white house, wolf, jay carney did not have a good answer for that. they are not going to speculate what the options are. if russia has crossed a line and invaded. >> as we wait for the president, i want to just play the remarks we heard from the united states am boss for to the united states nations, samantha power. she had some very strong words. >> the united states stays with crimea region. we are disturbed about the deployments into the crimea. the united states calls on russia to pull back the military forces that are being built up in the region to stand down and to allow the ukraini

now, as many of you are aware, the united states -- where we live -- [laughter] has long been at the forefront of explodable technology having advanced in two short centuries from barrels labeled tnt -- [laughter] -- to today's flying tnt barrel delivering unmanned aerial vehicles. and you know what they say, if you got 'em, smoke 'em. >> you united states has been conducting targeted killings in battlefield tour 10.5 years. 375 of these strikes under president obama. >> jon: president obama is our country's all-time leader in outside battlefield sky killing or bsk for those of you -- he's like barry bombs. la laugh -- [laughter] of drone strikes, if will you. but there are limits to this practice. >> for the record, i do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any united states citizen with a drone or with a shotgun without due process. >> jon: what a relief. [ laughter ] of course, that was in may. how does that statement hold up in february? >> officials confirm that indeed the obama administration is trying to decide whether it can legally lau

relationship as being the british and united states, they are reminding people that the original special relationship of the united states was with france. and france has been with us more often than many other allies. >> even if obama wanted to go in a new direction, steve, how willing are allies to join and step up the pressure on syria? >> i think after the first chemical weapons deal there was no doubt at that point in my mind as you and i discussed before, we walked away from the insurgency and civil war on the ground and notion of trying to help regime change happen there. but now syria has gone soft on chemical weapons and russia has been using the olympics as kind of cloud cover to remove the global attention on the chemical weapons deal. so assad is really gaming this. and i think it's going to be hard for the united states to automatically bring everybody back into a marshall position to try to compel syria to go a different thing. it's a real mess. and one can hope through diplomacy and maybe ships coming online and i don't think obama has any kind of appetite for coming back and pretending we might go to war again with syria. >> while you are ta

now, as many of you are aware, the united states -- where we live -- [laughter] has long been at theexplodable technology having advanced in two short centuries from barrels labeled tnt -- [laughter] -- to today's flying tnt barrel delivering unmanned aerial vehicles. and you know what they say, if you got 'em, smoke 'em. >> you united states has been conducting targeted killings in battlefield tour 10.5 years. 375 of these strikes under president obama. >> jon: president obama is our country's all-time leader in outside battlefield sky killing or bsk

different had we. >> well, ray, let's be honest that unfortunately a lot of the argument in the united states has been much more about the politics of the united states than it is about either the geopolitics of the region or the suffering of the syrian people. but there continue to be a range of other things whether it's trying to implement financial sanctions on the russian banks that are facilitating the arms deals to doing a lot more on the humanitarian side, including i would love to see some of the anti-immigration folks who have been amongst the harshest critics call on the president to take in more syrian refugees than we have up until now. >> michael, what about the near term? >> we're currently exploring some of those options and implementing them including increasing financial aid and indirectly arming some of the opposition particularly south of the country where the presence and dominance of the jihadi drops have been much less so than the north. the u.s. has committed millions of dollars working with saudi arabia to run light weapons, ak-4 ak-47s, missiles,d assigned itself in the south.

the united states has been largely absent from the field. i think if we want to move in the ukraine and western direction, we have to step forward. the thing i think is most important is for the united states to make it clear. we see ukraine's future as being a member of nato. not from membership at the european union. >> there was a great opportunity there and we will see how it develops. thank you so much for your insight and the thoughts and prayers of all americans are with the ukrainian people this morning. thank you. >> thank you, eric. >> that is so true. with the former president on the run, thousands of u crapians are flocking to his luxury estate outside the capital because they are curious and want to take a look around. the gates of the estate thrown open after he fled. the lavish grounds are a symbol of the allegationed corruption taking place. there is a private ship, gardens and a private golf course and some took time to play a few rounds themselves as you can see here. back here at home, the nation's governors are gathering

far ride the freedom of the united states has been. carrying a gun is commonplace in some states like texas. but given the overbearing presence of the arms trade throughout the area how could it be otherwise. of the two hundred eighty million guns in circulation in the us a search warrant for any gun store. heading to thomasville in the state of georgia we've gone to a gun show a real arms fair. now each month. each year five thousand gun shows enter towns for three days in a carnival spirit. entry is free provided you carefully hole store away your weapons to avoid any accidents. you are about as safe as i stood in front of a spread on tables are pistol shotguns even assault rifles that can be bought as easily as firing a vacuum cleaner. in the aisles many women of color alone with friends or family with husbands or even children in. the stands or all complied by recognized vendors and individuals. such onesie like that it just comes on. a gun shows anyone can come and sell their own weapons that are on display and with no verification

>> you know, what is interesting is over the last year the united states has been decreasing dependentens on oil through excellent policies like fuel efficiency standards. that's the path forward. when you start to build large infrastructure projects you locus into a continued dependence on dirtier sources of energy at the time because of major threats of climate change we need to reduce it. >> the report from the state department says that keystone xl can drive production and climate emissions. it gives the president the ground to reject the pipeline. >> we'll talk about the pol tickets and the way forward for all the different sides of the argument when we come back. this is "inside story." stay with us. >> welcome back to "inside story", i'm ray suarez. we are talking about canada's oil and america's energy policy, the keystone xl pipe stone has become an important symbol in the abstract and on the ground as the country debates energy security. we are joined by director of the brookings institution, director of the national resources defense counsel, and michael wattly, executive vice

what he doesn't say there is, what the united states would do about that if anything, so that's the unknown question here, clearly, there has been tense diplomatic effort between the united states and russia over the past several days. the president said he had spoken to president putin several days ago. so the question here now is, how will this message be received in moscow? will it have any bearing at all on how putin decides to play out his hand in ukraine? >> all good questions. thank you for your reporting from d.c. tonight. >>> violations of sovereignty, violations of international law. >> i think war would be terribly unpopular in russia. when you look at crimea as a function of a subset of the ukraine, i think you've got a place that this is semiautonomous republic. you have all of these republics that have, ethnic lines that has drawn the geographic lines. can we say that russia at this point is not just protecting russian interests there? it's a major military base in the black sea. 2,000 troops, i'm not condoning any of this action. i'm just saying, be careful about -- in the west, i have to tell you the press and i

but he has no choice, but at this point to negotiate, and recall this is something that the united states has been trying to get to sit down for some time. you remember that big blow up, when the taliban showed up, flew their flag, and karzai left in a huff, saying we are not negotiating. apparently he has gone behind the united states back, and is talking directly to the taliban. >> mike, there is another issue that the white house is dealing with that report. the congressional budget office that says that the affordable care act can have a much larger impact than once suspected. >> and that is the topic of conversation, just over my left shoulder as the chairman of the council of economic advise discoers, is briefing reporters and the reason they bring out the big guns is because this is potentially explosive. but the white house does have an explanation for this. now the ceo says the bottom line that something republicans are seizing on, is only ba marry care would cost this country the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs. that the cost curb is feinting down, but at least the growth of health care c

>> over the last year the united states has been decreasing dependence on oil with the policies like fuel efficiency standards. that is the path forward. when you start to build large infrastructure projects for dirty forms of energy you start to lock us in into a continued dependence on the dirty energy. this report from the state department, it clearly says that keystone under a low price and constrained pipeline capacity scenario can drive production and therefore drive climate emissions. it is giving the president to grouped to reject the pipeline. we'll talk about the politics and the way forward for all of the sides of the argument when we come back. this is inside story, stay with us. more fun than the camp because it teaches us and makes us >>> welcome back to inside story. i'm ray suarez. on this edition of the program, we are talking about canada's oil and america's energy policy, the keystone pipeline is becoming a symbol in the abstract and on the ground as the country debates jobs and carbon emissions and energy. susan and charles, and michael, executive vice president o

. >>> the united states has been hit by severe weather this winter. our meteorologist robert speta tells us where things are headed. robert? >> yes, gene, what we are seeing right now is this storm system that is not only just bringing, well over a dozen reports of tornadoes in southern portions of illinois, but also the heavy snowfall in the north. video out of illinois to start off with here, and this is just showing a traffic accident. one of the highways here, 20 vehicles involved, not due to high winds or anything like that but there was something some very intense fog, reduced visibility, and well, very slick roads combining with that due to the heavy snowfall. and also a little farther toward the north out of wisconsin, you can see how slick that is and the cars sliding about 30 centimeters fell. and many of these schools across the state were closed. and it does look like that is going to continue to transfer farther off towards the east across much of ontario, the great lakes, even over towards quebec. widespread snow totals, 15 to 20 centime

has caught its quarry, namely, the united states. it has relegitimized the assad government getting rid of his chemical stock piles. only 11% of those chemical stock piles have been removed from the country. even the watchdog -- i'm sorry the agency responsible for the removal is casting about, whether a june 13th deadline can be met. the russian government has categorically rejected a resolution that would authorizes humanitarian corridors into the country on a larger scale than homs because they feel any punitive action he are a context for military invasion from the west. bashar al-assad thinks he will never ever be forced from power and i'm afraid i think he's increasingly more and more right. >> so in a very powerful position but so powerful that there's really no limit to what he could do, where it would start to have a diplomatic cost to russia? >> well you just put the president of the united states on the air after a confab with the king of saudi arabia, the emphasis is on relief, not crisis mitigation. you can't really treas this crisis with this regime and this man in power and yet the west and the united states do not want to take what action was nece

. >> it's been clear that maybe the president of the united states has been a bit naive about vladimir putin and his ambitions. >> you served the president of the united states, you were named as his ambassador in moscow, you're a scholar when it comes to russia and the former soviet union. is the president a bit naive when it comes to putin? >> no. and i worked with the president for five years, wolf. i worked with at the white house for three years before going to moscow. i think the president has a very clear understanding of president putin and his motivations. and this is really not the time to talk about who's weak and who's not. i think we need to talk about how to resolve this crisis. and i want to be clear, it's not too late to resolve this crisis. you'll recall back in 2004 during the orange revolution regions in the east in crimea itself also made noises about sovereignty. eventually there was a political resolution that led to free and fair elections and a new constitution. i would hope that that moment has not yet passed and we can work with our european allies, ultimately

united states has been hit by severe weather this winter. our meteorologist roberts bennett tells us where things are headed robber. plus target with all what is going on out here in the western great lakes exciting off with ease and basically everywhere east of the mississippi river that is now off course in or if we are seeing some fairly heavy snow fall right now across parts of ontario a study out there towards parts of western new york in quebec. you can see the ball about ten or twenty seven years going to the next twenty four to forty dollars of years so snow is deftly coming down a coveted by weeds around ninety km for ourselves what we are going to see isn't blowing snow accompanied by that white out conditions and that has already been causing some problems out there on the roads especially for those of you in western new york in northwestern pennsylvania with a new video coming out of raf. now this is on interstate eighty eight in the car. heigl. earlier on on wednesday and alice's to the slick production and drove on the specific

dead in the water and allowing bigger trips to travel from asia to the east coast of the united states has been sidelined by more than a billion and a half dollars in cost over runs. that's bad news for places like the port of savannah. >> any delay in the canal's expansion limits in the state of georgia g and in the united states east coast. it's about bringing better economies to scale and commerce. >> reporter: this port like those from miami to new york has been spending big dollars preparing for big ships bringing goods to them. the delay hurts gulf ports preparing to expert liquid gas to asia. >> we've been spending about a billion dollars and will spent $1.4 billion to handle commerce. >> reporter: the delay isn't seen as bad news for everyone. hear at the port of los angeles, the big ships can come in and dock and unload and cargo can go by rail or truck to the midwest but they see the delay as temporary. >> the panama canal is going to finish whether it's today, tomorrow, next week or next year. >> reporter: so the port is spending over a billion dollars to improve facilities to preven

i mean, the united states has been successful with its high immigration systems primarily because upon coming to the united states highly skilled immigrants have an employer to go to. that is response why immigrants succeed. bring people to detroit, to do what? if it is a hope that these people will be entrepreneurs, it's called the entrepreneur visa, and perhaps they could try to access that. >> a lot of immigrants talking about the united states is the ultimate dream instead of places like germany, explain why. >> the united states has the advantage for all the people who vie for the same people for the very best. the reason why they come to the united states is because they have an opportunity to get the best returns on what they have put in themselves, into their own human capitol, their education, their experiences. in no other places can you see returns that are massive and quick. immigrants at the high end go to places where interest are other immigrants of the same type. there is an immigration affect that greats greater opportunities for all involved. >> this is certainly inte

ukraine's nascent democratic system by siding with the protesters so on equivocally as the united states has been doing because you know you can blame all things on the unocal has by the one would think that democracy is more precious and democratic institutions democratic procedures should be valued higher than ousting an unpleasant or even a dictatorial leader from power especially when you have elections coming up next year the united states has also suggested that the protests suit should demonstrate restraint and i agree with that they certainly did things which we perhaps should of advise them to do but if you contrast their behavior with the behavior of the burqa as ordered by you'll recall which the one saw it was brutal of slaughtering scores of people the other side was seizing buildings there's no comparison you know you talk about the presidential election was scheduled for two thousand and fifteen we all knew mr covert was preparing to steal that election the same way he tried to steal the election of two thousand and four when i was in kiev. micio going to make sure that the most po

approach that has greatly helped. >> another thing that helped is the relationship with the united states, which allows goods in haiti and getting them to the united states. >> the united states has been an agreed partner. in the northern part it was billed $250 million. that has been successful venture, creating 2,000 jobs. >> you are proud of that. there has been criticisms, that was supposed to create 65,000 jobs. the reporting is 3,000 jobs. it's not going to happen overnight. there's a few prerequisites, and a point that is going to start to be -- a port is going to be built, an airport that is going to be finished. we finish the runway and the terminals, it's a work in progress. it gives us a platform. this is what - this is why we are happy to have that part. i mean, prior to that there was nothing. >> what has to happen for you to fe at the point -- for you to be at the point where you are, the destination where you are. >> we are taking it one investor at a time. in haiti, four years ago nobody would think that we are at a point where we have a lot more work to do. we understand that will take many years. we have to take one step at a time, having one investor at a time. we h

doing what washington wants to dictate to them to do the prisons system in the united states has been no terror are notoriously. disregarding of the rights of prisoners even the most fundamental rights including the right to to live switzerland has the saga to jeopardize its axis to the european single market in favor of backing tougher immigration rules and the nationwide referendum the new legislation invalidates longstanding agreements with brussels causing some high ranking in your official circle for a reassessment of relations so it's once parliament's has three years to put the referendum results and said law earlier my colleague rory singh shaved the scots the issue with a piece. the majority voted in favor but look a quarter of people in switzerland were not born in switzerland there were eighty five eighty thousand migrants last year it only has a population of eight million people wages have been driven down this putting pressure on houses the health care system and transport quite frankly is the democratic wish of the swiss people that they want to control their own border

the united states has been involved in venezuela for the entire time of the since java's was elected in one thousand nine hundred eight took office in one thousand nine hundred nine so of course they were involved in the u.s. backed military coup in two thousand and two we have state department documents that actually say explicitly that they paid big money to the groups that were organized but then after they were caught with that and had to back. off. the media we increased funding to the same groups and they've been funding these groups all the way along with the total of one hundred million dollars in fact there's five million dollars in the fiscal year two thousand and fourteen federal budget right now to go to opposition groups so it's no secret but i think what was what i was trying to call attention to in that column is you can tell from the language of the state department when these protests broke out they didn't see anything like a call for dialogue or you know condemning violence. we took the side of the protesters and made it clear who side they were on and they supporte

doing what washington wants to dictate to them to do the prisons system in the united states has been no terror notoriously. disregarding of the rights of prisoners even the most fundamental rights including the return to live. up next on our to international sky rescue report on how medical care is delivered to nomadic people in russia's far north don't go away. i just first state of the city address new york mayor bill de blasio said that he would put forward legislation for the city to issue special municipal identification cards to undocumented immigrants he summed up his feelings by saying to all my fellow new yorkers who are undocumented i say new york city is your home too and we will not force any of our residents to live their lives in the shadows yeah that sounds nice but the reason these illegal immigrants live their lives in the shadows is because they immigrated illegally why should new yorkers bend over backwards for illegal criminal immigrants this is the same logic that if i catch a guy breaking into my house as a gracious host i should offer him a pizza because it's h

doing what washington wants to dictate to them to do the prisons system in the united states has been no terror are notoriously. disregarding of the rights of prisoners even the most fundamental rights including the right to to live and still to come in the program igniting the debates. people are coming not from the your to come from your form i know i don't so that's your fault you guzzle pushers control your heart all this will be bringing you the showdown between european officials over immigration issues that have been on the minds of many and the clock ahead of the european parliamentary elections. transit road to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of moscow. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. i. welcome back to r.c. answer national with no pay still inside for syria the violence is increasingly spilling over its borders into neighboring countries lebanon's been hit the hardest with successor and divisions there now threaten to grow and so full blown civil war arts is more a financial reports from behind

there is no need to have -- >> we need to interrupt you, let's go to president obama. >> united states has been responding to events as they unfolded ukraine. we've been very clear about one fundamental printable, the ukrainian people have the opportunity to determine their own future. we have encouraged them to end the violence, and to pursue a course in which they stabilize their country, forge a broad-based government, and moved to elections this spring. i also spoke several days ago myh president putin, and ministry has been in daily to mitigation with russian officials. we have been clear that they can be a part of an international effort to support the success of the united ukraine going for, which is not only in the interest of people of the ukraine, but also in russia's interest. we're now deeply concerned about reports of military movements taken by the russian federation inside of ukraine. russia has a historic relationship with ukraine, including cultural and economic ties. any violation of ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity would be deeply destabilizing, which is not in

think that red the congress of the united states itself and especially the house, they are in a terrible way historically. the president of the united states has beenaying i'm going to ignore you. the supreme court has grabbed immigration and racial issues and social and cultural and moral issues and the federal reserve, we heard that, we heard janet yellen talk about the market today. epa runs environmental issues and what exactly -- they are even losing the wer of the purse. i thought the battle was better and more justified on the budget issue. because the house can say that we are the ones who decide what the money is going to be spent upon. and we're not going to spend that on this one item called obamacare. but now you have all of these spending and allocations in all these things have been done and i think that congress would come off terribly if it said we're not going to pay for them afte having voted for them. neil: we know that you are right and the debt ceiling addresses this. so your quite right about this. but the devil in this case is in the perception and i would like to raise that issue and this comes with the same thing the last s

doing what washington wants to dictate to them to do the prisons system in the united states has been no terror notoriously. disregarding of the rights of prisoners even the most fundamental rights including the right to to live. still to come in the program igniting the debate. i mean not for me you were to come from your film i know you don't. control you. will be bringing you this showdown between european officials over immigration issues that have been on the minds of many in the block ahead of the european parliamentary election day with us. interview. choose your language. choose the consensus. choose the opinions that you think. choose the stories to. choose access to. thirteen minutes past the hour thanks for staying with us with no peace deal in sight for syria violence is increasingly spilling over the borders into neighboring countries lebanon hit the hardest with sectarian divisions they are now threatening to grow into a full blown civil war artillery of an ocean or reports from behind the lebanese rebel lines or jihadists are being bred for battle. was the syrian confli

after growing steadily for almost six decades the number of children being adopted into the united states has been. falling sharply recently if i'm not mistaken number drawn by a hospital in two thousand and four in two thousand and ten and russia just recently became yet another country in this growing list of countries banning or restricting adoption into your country how do you explain that well i don't think it has anything to do with any diminishing need for homes for children i think it's because the forces. or hostile to international adoption notice the numbers going out and set out to turn that around so i think it's very deliberate political action both by governments and by n.g.o.s and why would be those hostile forces those host governments interested in. doing what seems to be against the interests of children well that's a great question i think the primary forces here are organizations that purport to be child friendly so. save the children and other child. human rights organizations are driving those numbers down even more than governments and i'm not entirely sure why that is i th