voted for young age while western ukraine chose use genco. by the announced result viktor yuschenko lost to victory on a covert each but thousands of people didn't agree with it and they came to the central square of kiev on the 22nd of november. the situation received wide news coverage the country's election commission ignored reports of fraud declaring kremlin back victory the winner international politicians such as former general secretary of nato. became frequent guests in kiev initiating negotiations between parties and they called very little they've only been able to get. the results of the negotiations however were often reached only on paper thus you shan't go never told the supporters to stop blocking government buildings in central kiev. and therefore these nonviolent and very orange protests lasted for a month during which time the previous election results were no marred by massive corruption and new elections were announced an important nuance just 3 months before viktor yuschenko became a victim to a mysterio

competition of the controlled operation was planned to inflame ethnic tensions in the western ukraine in province of. vehicles and you're. talking turkey it was calculated to trigger hostility between the hungary and minority on one side and the ethnic ukrainians in the other part of the region. and the typical. as a couple. it coincides with moscow's long cherished hope that ukraine might be further destabilized by an ethnic conflict and its western tip on the border with hungary. right at the start the trial in krakow took an interesting turn michel implicated a german as having incited him to perpetrate the attack. on the one he has views in common with manu they've taken part in conferences together. but. it was many well. the right wing journalist who had been supporting the separatists in eastern ukraine. another right wing extremist has been called as a witness in krakow are tossed back here he refused to give our camera team an interview. back here might have some vital information he knows both the defendant and manual. he's known them from the. start of hostilities in the uk

specifically in who's who thought western ukraine home of many ukrainian citizens from the hungary an ethnic minority on the night of february 4th 2018 a surveillance camera recorded 2 men trying to throw molotov cocktails at a building used by a hug area an association. they caused only minor damage. the defense attorney explains his client's motives. competition of the controlled operation was planned to inflame ethnic tensions in the western ukraine in province . if you go on you're. talking turkey it was calculated to trigger hostility between the hungary and minority on one side and the ethnic ukrainians in the other part of the region pinching out of the bush typical and i suppose a couple of quid much of it coincides with moscow's long cherished hope that ukraine might be further destabilized by ethnic conflict and its western tip on the border with hungary. right at the start of the trial in krakow took an interesting turn. implicated a german as having incited him to perpetrate the attack. on the world and he has views in common with money they've taken part in conferences to

some of the districts in western ukraine and the rest of the country gave overwhelming support for the new president well i personally think that mrs eland is a little bit more likable than mr trump he seems to be more progressive found to be honest with you i think the the political establishment in the united states is also a little bit more. well i would say reserved in the ukraine because if we take mr proby for example he's not your regular scheming politician he's actually a pretty violent guy i mean he represents a pretty extreme faction of the ukrainian politics he's people were filmed moving around weapons on them on my donkey you know that he's widely speculated to have had some role in the massacre that followed when he alludes to the smell of burning tires ass he did on twitter just the other day how is that not a threat well i think you're describing mr power of your forwarding to martial. law just the russian i mean he he has a previous catchy record and it's recognized not only in russia but also in the wes . welker. parliament so i don't think many people would agree wi

ukraine they have the same perception in memory of the second world war as russians do but in western ukraine you have a very deep. it was considered a defeat. and national humiliation and it's a way to bring people together at least in the west the president of pushing call found out it doesn't work very well he found out the hard way that going down that path doesn't work. what is the appeal of that i mean i think martin is right i mean in times of trouble people want to look at something they make energizes them is the right way to do well i think with. came apart there was a huge incentive to develop new national identities to replace the soviet now the problem is when you develop national identities you tend to look here towards common victories or common humiliation and i think. to get a designated enemy enemy definitely your your other so i think for a lot of the former soviet republics there was an incentive to to see their national identity perhaps in opposition to russia to revive some very ugly elements in ukraine and i think where the ukraine. issue went very bad was kind of align

some of the districts western ukraine and the rest of the country gave overwhelming support for the new president well i personally think that mrs eland is a little bit more likable than mr trump he seems to be more progressive found to be honest with you i think the. the political establishment in the united states is also a little bit more. well i would say reserved in ukraine because if we take mr proby for example he's not your regular scheming politician he's actually a pretty violent guy i mean he represents a pretty extreme faction of the ukrainian politics he's people were filmed moving around weapons on them on my donkey you know that he's widely speculated to have had some role in the massacre that followed when he alludes to the smell of burning tires as he did on twitter just the other day how is that not a threat well i think you're describing mr power be your forwarding. russian i mean he he has a previous catchy record and it's recognised not only in russia but also in the west. part of the middle so i don't think many people would agree with what you just said of course

had over sight of the investigations including the one into hunter biden's employer seen by the western ukraineestern allies inclueing the united states as corrupt. and not aggressively pursuing the investigation into powerfully wealthy people. and biden pressured the government to get rid of the prosecutor. so certainly you have an intersection there. and what giuliani says this is an over simplification. and flat out wrong. that joe biden was pressuring the ukrainen government to get rid of a prosecutor because it would help hunter biden's employer. we found no evidence of that. biden seemed to be carrying out this objective of trying to force the prosecutor out ster to advance this cause of helping ukraine clean up its act and corruption. and it actually could have redounded to the detriment of the oligarch on whose board he was serving. >> it's all about which facts you decide to push hardest. good job for you. you ain't done on this one. i hope you come back. there will be many more chapters of this story. that's my guess. all right. thank you very much. have a good weekend. one of my nec

one thing and we have an ongoing conflict in ukraine and american forces training ukrainians in western ukraine. it is where the seam is between russia and our large partners. we have a commitment to defend our allies. >> les walters. i have a 2-part question. >> i get to pick which one i want to answer. >> the first is related to how we are behind russian and chinese on modernization. the recurring theme i hear from the army as it is not just technology but how you integrate it into war fighting capability which it sounds like you are doing. my first question is how do you think we are doing as far as closing the gap with russia and china and the second part related to that is even though we may be behind on efforts of modernization we are battle tested army, very experienced leadership, innovative. that is an advantage we have over china. russia has had some excursions but experience adds to that. how does that fit into the experience of not only modernization but operational aspect of evaluating that? >> they are related. i can't think of anybody that does it better than the us military. i m

oversight of the investigations including the one into hunter biden's employer who was seen by the western -- ukraine's western allies including the united states as corrupt and has not aggressively pursued these investigations into powerful and wealthy people. biden pressured the ukrainian government to get rid of this prosecutor. so certainly you have an intersection there. what giuliani says -- i think there is an oversimplification and maybe just flat out wrong that joe biden was pressuring the ukrainian government to get rid of a prosecutor because it would help hunter biden's employer. we found no evidence of that. i want to make it clear joe biden rather seemed to be carrying out this objective of trying to force the prosecutor's ouster to advance this cause of helping ukraine clean up its act and its corruption within its ranks. it actually could have ultimately been to the detriment of the oligarch on whose board hunter biden was serving >> right. it gets complicated. it's about which facts you decide to push hardest. ken vogel, good job for you. you ain't done on this one. i hope you come bac

. >> on a quick three-part question with the western balkans and ukraine. and then the comedian entertainers and a politician now. [laughter] >> but we're looking at him closely. and to have no russian influence. what happened with crimea and what happened in ukraine was devastating with the cyberattacks. it is like a playing ground for the russians. to see how effective they are. with that russia hit the bank that they had an account at the bank to destroy 20 years of data and shut down the los angeles port. the magnitude of summer operations. and then with the old soviet empire. with gorbachev and yeltsin are contributors to the country but to build this bridge to block off that ukrainian pour into the black sea. and then the ports into the mediterranean. and that is serious complicating for an challenge policy of a lifetime. but to support the legislation to arm with lethal weapons. >> and then also with the committee on national legislation we really appreciate your leadership on the fragility act to have a great step to strength to prevent conflict so

specifically in who's who bought western ukraine home of many ukrainian citizens from the hungary an ethnic minority on the night of february 4th 2018 a surveillance camera recorded 2 men trying to throw molotov cocktails at a building used by hungary an association. they caused only minor damage. the defense attorney explains his client's motives. competition of the controlled operation was planned to inflame ethnic tensions in the western ukraine in province of. vehicles when you're. talking turkey it was calculated to trigger hostility between the hungary and minority on one side and the ethnic ukrainians in the other part of the region. of the bush typical and i suppose a couple of quid much of it coincides with moscow's long cherished hope that ukraine might be further destabilized by ethnic conflict and its western tip on the border with hungary. right at the start of the trial in krakow took an interesting turn. implicated a german as having incited him to perpetrate the attack. there was another one and he has views in common with money they've taken part in conferences toget

you would sigh ukraine, western balkans, the u.s. has to be engaged there? >> i would key i supported legislation to arm ukraine with lethal weapons. there's a kinetic war on the eastern front of ukraine against the russians. >>> the quaker lobby in the public interest, and we appreciated your leadership, chairman mccaul on the global fragility act. i think it's a great step towards strengthening capacity. i wonder what other steps you think congress and administration could take on the conflict prevention front? >> thank you. i know the one campaign has been very supportive of this initiative and lindsey and i are pushing -- this is going to pass, and lindsey and i were just over in africa to assess the situation, and it is a -- you know, this is going to be the largest populated continent in the world. you look at climate change, it's going to -- there will be droughts in central africa as well. that there exacerbate the problem i think as well so we need to address this right now. time and time again when we don't, then we have to put our military in, you

serious probably the most complicated foreign policy of our lifetime. >> but you would see like ukraine, westernbalkans, laxity that use has to be engaged and key to the stability of -- >> i would argue to arm ukraine with lethal weapons. >> please. >> because there's a kinetic war on the eastern front of ukraine against the russians. >> and then we will go there and then we'll go to the back. >> the friends committee on national legislation, the quaker lobby in the public interest and we really appreciate your leadership, chairman mccaul, in the global fragility act. i think it's a great step toward strengthening u.s. capacity on preventing conflict in fragile states. just wondering what other steps you think congress and the administration could take on the conflict prevention front? >> thank you i do know the one campaign has been very supportive of this initiative, and lindsey and not are pushing -- this is going to pass. lindsey and i were just over in africa to assess the situation and it is, this will be the largest populated continent in the world. you look at climate change. there will

ukraine is trapped. what is happening in donbass. >> in 2013, 2014, russian propaganda, these are crazy anti-semites, nationalists, it was a meme that was picked up by the western media and what do we have now? we have a ukrainian jew who speaks russian has now been elected by 75% of the country to become president. one of the sort of misunderstanding of ukraine that i come across all the time is language is not an issue except maybe in sort of parts of the west. it's a place you can speak ukrainian and russian freely. it's at ease with diversity, both religious, cultural and linguistic. that's been a disservice to ukraine that i partly blame on my sort of industry. it's why you have a small but important point. >> and a new set of talking points, this is going to be a rapid change. we're going to open things up. microphones are coming around. a couple ground rules, please identify yourselves and whatever you say make it a question, and make it brief, and i'll start over here with john. >> thank you, jonathan alchime, columbia university, i would like to ask the panelists to drill a little bit more deeply into the room or lack of room for economic policy making

biden had no background in ukraine, no background in energy, what he did have was a father who was vice president of the united states, who was responsible for all aid flow of westernollars going to ukraine, and joe biden made decisions about when to look the other way, when money disappeared, as they did with prebought bank, and other instances when it did. it is just a pattern, laura, we talked about it on your show before as it relates to china. the biden family has cashed in while joe biden was vice president, and they are not refuting any of the facts, simply attacking me, and in this case, "the new york times." >> laura: in a few moments, i'm going to talk to secretary of state pompeo about biden's curious position on china, that they are not a threat at all. i guess just a friendly country that is not very powerful. do you think we are going to learn more about this ukraine connection, specifically all of the trips that biden made in that last year of the obama-biden presidency? >> yeah, very curious. right before donald trump was being sworn in in the united states, where was joe biden in all places of the world? he was in your crane. very unusual for a sit

moccasin on the 1st question i don't think i i inevitably take an anti western line let me put it that way for example on the ukraine my views are closer to the western line than they are to the russian line just about as one example on wiki leaks you know we should remember that wiki leaks 1st came to build prominence with the lease of the afghan and iraqi war logs which gave enormous detail of the actual definite walk and the in of the dreadful things that are being done. in our name. my take off article due on the wiki leaks leaked american diplomatic cable which details the meeting between british and american diplomats where they were making up this idea of the clearing an environmental protection zone a maritime protection zone around and that is relatively recent of course here people think the earth the sugar sale of story just speaks ill of one of my greek heroes howard wilson the british prime minister of the sixty's and seventy's of that particular episode was much much more recent that was the most recent labor government activities of the americans to the detriment of the chigger sailors tried and david

here later a pro western leader came to barbara in the ukraine. carrying a stone in latvia lithuania mania slovakia mania. time again they have demonstrated their desire and ability to defend freedom against its enemies. and now it is time to make them allies by treaty. nato absorbed 7 members of the all for that alliance georgia and the ukraine who are in the queue to join them. at a security conference in munich clearly sets out his resistance to the direction things are taking. this will remain at the heart of his foreign policy until the present day today actually does when you know when you are at napoleon and their mother did you do it can you. even. marlen the rest of the buzzing 3 minutes of it is that he had an issue an option he made can use the market but i want to migrate to the good business not unless the bushels throughout. egypt in the regions to be used in the bill actually would be. globally visible. just in precious to the near of even your by the assume from your ruby ridge about it but i was really just year. on it was like in

twenty three below the cloud right as you can see that pushes right up into that western side on this way further eastwards ukraine seen some heavy downpours kiev looking pretty unsettled for choose day sixteen sale system eleven twelve degrees there into central pasta tad warmer i was towards the west as we go through tuesday before the next system just pushes in from the atlantic through the middle to latter part of the ways a quite a mobile set up going on there's a little quasi meanwhile across northern parts of africa twenty two celsius there for a bats and for algeria's one there in cairo thirty six celsius some cloud in the rain will make its way through the. choose day. russia has jeopardized the united states security interest we know what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside you can. watch the picture from the inside. i think russia's foreign policy is too soft. russian goals here retreat not peace in. russia coming soon on all jews in. in two thousand and eight al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking skiing. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toug

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course outlawed in an increasing number of countries and ukraine is among a shrinking group of nations where infertile couples from places like western europe can hire women willing to carry implanted embryos the processes the set with ethical issues all clinics profit from the desperation of charles couples and from the plight of poor women alike. whenever the baby moves i speak to it at night when i read my children stories it's for the baby to. cause. the talia is 8 months pregnant it's a girl but it's not hers the tahlia is a surrogate the baby's parents live in germany and. it's such a happy moment when you hold your baby in your arms for the 1st time i'll be happy for them. to tell his own children only with her for the day for the final months of the pregnancy she's moved to be closer to the clinic in the heart you know talia took the decision to become a surrogate to help family finances so that her kids would have it better she tells us her partner earns just 200 euros a month working full time. this clinic on the outskirts of hard to attract childless couples from around the world among them the german couple whose daughter

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then vice president biden was one of several western leaders to push for the ouster of ukraine's then top prosecutor. that ukrainian investigator at the time, or around this time, was looking into a ukrainian energy company in which hunter biden had a financial interest. biden was not alone in pressuring this ukrainian official to step down. there is no evidence that joe biden's actions were connected to his son's business activities. nonetheless, trump said he could be interested in having the attorney general investigate this. in the same interview, he acknowledged vice president joe biden, at the moment, looks poised to be the most likely democrat to face him in the 2020 election. this also comes as the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, is backpedaling rapidly on plans to travel to ukraine and talk about the investigation with ukrainian officials. giuliani went from defending that decision to this morning, telling our colleague mike warren, he's decided not to have the trip because they could be misrepresented, fred. >> the democrats, well, they've issued a new round of

ukraine is consumed by this. david: mr. zelinski positions himself. is a close relationship with the u.s. or westernlp or hindrance? inaine has gotten trouble for being too close to nato. michael: if ukraine became part of nato, that would provoke putin, or even an armed invasion. it's important the united continue to back ukraine. they have given them weapons that has given ukrainian army an advantage. but also the technical assistance is important. guys with the names like guiliani have been kind of messing around a bit in ukraine. ukraine will be turning more to europe for that kind of security assistance for diplomatic help to end the war. it's important though sanction stay because that's the only thing putin understands. david: we talk about ukraine a lot but we don't know enough about it. ukraine, wefrom will go to iran and the conflict that secretary of state pompeo secretary of briefed lawmakers on yesterday. welcome now representative michael mccaul of texas. he comes from the capital. thank you for being with us. rep. mccaul: thank you. david: what can you tell us about what you learned y

italy into the balkans to integrate pushing up towards the black sea into ukraine and some of the wet weather just around that western side of rochelle on the other side of the med a bit of cloud just making its way out of northern parts of libya pushing across to those northern areas of egypt elsewhere it's fine dry sunny and warm. in a two part series. observes the lives of two. twenty years. insights into circumstances that shape lives. in a rapidly changing. twenty years of me starts with blood and land story on how to see you around. the latest news as it breaks. out of the times. payment and then the burnings going to start raining to the press of teach health coverage of protests on fox the cost was obvious but example of those last days from around the world last few days and that is where the water is once more rushing down it's on the welcome to live forever barely begun to live from. the top stories on al-jazeera israeli warplanes have continued to hit targets on the gaza strip off the palestinian fighters thought around two hundred rockets into southern israel and the palestinians have been killed includi

ukraine alone is one hundred fifty thousand and that is ukraine which received the least amount of radioactive contamination dello russo western russia received far more so that's a minimum number thirty five to one hundred thousand dead from chernobyl but i mean even his reason is because she the way the mainstream media have talked about accidents is always that there can be high radiation then there's less radiation and then it becomes safe you seem to suggest that there are a u.s. government coverup that benefits the promotion of an idea that everything from medical tests atomic just to safe by saying low level radiation is going to dangerous well yeah i mean the u.s. government was involved in hiding evidence and denying evidence of their own testing of nuclear weapons in the american heartland right nevada the americans were. americans and the soviets were the only people brave enough to have nuclear test sites blowing up bombs in their continental heartland so they were busy in the early one nine hundred ninety s. trying to cover that story up because they wanted to avoid billion dollar lawsuits the french government wa