. >> next, a discussion about this weekend's alexeis in afghanistan. after that, a conversation on the financial brokering practice known as high frequency trading. at 11:00 p.m., "q & a" with arthur matt taibbi, talking about his book, "the divide." >> next a discussion about the future of afghanistan and this weekend's presidential alexei. from "washington journal," this is 45 minutes. at c-span.org. michael e. o'hanlon is a seniors -- senior fellow at the brookings institute. us talk about the voting in afghanistan. it is gone smoothly. guest: it looks good. there is a long way to go. as you are aware, you have to get 50% of the vote in afghanistan to win. there will be a runoff almost for sure. ran.ate candidates who chances are nobody got more than 35 or 40%. there will have to be a runoff. whoever does not make the runoff will have to decide how they want to react to that. do they blame fraud? do they protest? there is a long way to go in the process. it appears to have been a very good day. security forces protected the polling sites very well.

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alexei has a live here that's starting in minutes and just before his live he was shot at and that's something now that he's to deal with the emotional stress behind that and our producers there shooting all of it and just to see and gather his thoughts and go on air knowing that a bullet was within meters of him is just insane to me i couldn't imagine it. like you the ships following the tumble in kiev now joining us live good to get back on the line here taking cover apparently inside a nearby building alexi the truce that was agreed upon in the overnight apparently in a state of tatas there's no choice at all or even to the moment just to give you an idea of what's happening right now i would probably love to give you a better view of the independence square which is just over here but we were just short we just saw a gun. another one of our characters was marshal for notion who is a war correspondent and she is relentless she was in syria where she snuck in and did the story and they try to make her stop shooting and she just wouldn't quit or she's really impressive and something

this week, russia's economic minister, alexei ulyukayev, called it a very worrying situation. foreign and russian companies are sending cash out of the country to safe havens. $64 billion fled in the first three months of this year. that's more than left russia in all of 2013. could broader sanctions tilt russia into recession? >> broader sanctions could absolutely tilt russia into recession. i think, at the moment, the prospect of broader sanctions against the russian economy is one of the things that is restraining the kremlin's willingness to actually invade eastern ukraine. >> reporter: for now, kliment says, putin's popularity at home is soaring on a wave of nationalistic fervor. >> underneath that is a real risk that this economic weakness can start to hollow out that support very quickly. >> reporter: the west hope that a first wave of sanctions would serve as a warning shot, forcing putin to consider that the price for taking control of ukraine may be an economic crisis in russia. the president said, "this thing is working." in california today, accident investigators

washington has said that this is an increase in rice in china said alexei miller the steel gas promise that this is due to unpaid bills than ninety two point two billion dollars for it right. however the ukrainian prime minister are singing singing singing that all this is basically political been trying to put pressure on russia is trying to put pressure on ukraine. and this is of course can be seen because previously december they receive a discount on top then president of the ad the typical that it signed a deal with russian president went in and they had given disc empty train now the ousted president the chicken cottage is gone this is done is gone and they have received this enormous amount of an increase which now amounts to eighty percent the train the russian government deciding that ethnic russians living in ukraine are threatened. what's the truth on my chest tightens and what can you tell us about this situation amid a tense standoff between russia and you cry. this is being put forth by rush and there's no concrete evidence to it. we tried to get the idea we got to try to

we constantly see it was an extremely stressful tuition and you see here for one of the characters alexei twenty one years of where he walks into a live report and were following him as a follow on correspondence and then the library. he was shot at will is that this window i never hear it. looks like a star in minutes and just before his life he was shot at. that's something now that he's a deal with emotional stress behind that they are producers there should be all that. and just to see him get his thoughts. go on air knowing the board was within meters of him as just that is insane to me i can imagine aussie sell his shares has fallen that some woman key of knowledge or just wanted to get back on the one daddy are taking cover apparently inside a nearby building of lexi the truce was agreed upon in the upper my country in a state of texas the moment just to get an idea of what's happening right now i'll probably love to give you a better view of the independence day which is just always get what we were just shocked that we ate we just saw gunfire. another one ever cared that much of

all of russia's powers in the organization so a bit of give a bit of take as well just briefly mr alexei pushkov there with the red tie who was talking he was saying that the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe is actually in violation of civil rights it's not respecting human rights either he said the current regime in kiev it's not democratic it was not elected democratically it was also brought to power by force we continue to show you live pictures here from strasbourg again this is the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe this is the reaction afterwards with the russian delegation we're going to alexei pushkov here right there in the center we're going to tweet to our troops peter all of it in the very late in the of the future here on ars you can imagine all d.t.s. outside in a venue there and the very latest to come here on the program for the meantime though in less than twenty four hours kiev could carry out its threat to use force against anti-government protesters occupying buildings in eastern ukraine more on that story shortly for now though we're goin

alexei ramirez extended his 16- game hitting streak and sale struck out ten, but the sox lose 3-1. they dropped two of three to the defending champs, and visit the rangers tonight. a little leaguer did something leading duke after one year to enter the nba. but sports. >> early today we have temperatures where the cooling down. front moves through so expect nice weather today. up to 51 degrees by 2:00 p.m.. typical high is about 6 degrees. we will be at 52 today. by 5:00 p.m. we're down to 48. we are dry on friday. but for saturday and much of easter sunday that's gonna be coming up. >> just let that slide off and stick where we are. tri-state work will last until 6:00 between the a's second told loss of 0295. two lanes closed. we will keep hitting these construction spots more traffic coming out. >> much more to come. including the new plan making police officers more mobile and accessible. >> plus -- are taxpayers footing the bill for some of mayor emanuel's travels? what a chicago tribune investigation uncovered. and a teen is in critical condin after being pulled from a pond in

alexei am fascinated by the game theory. the idea that the protests an advantage to you two, disadvantage -- an advantage to putin or disadvantage? >> and don't forget about moldova. >> use all bloomberg headline on moldova. the bloomberg headline on moldova. nsnistria, a little russian sliver of moldova. >> we make jokes about it but it is the respect >> they want to join russia much the way crimea did. it is a self-proclaimed republic at this point. moldovan efforts to cozy up to the ooh much as the ukraine did is threatening the survival. >> richard falkenrath will join us for the entire 7:00 hour. >> banks are getting ready to report their first-quarter earnings number and citigroup will miss a key possible -- profitability target after the fed rejected a plan to return cash to show holders. this was return for tangible equity. this is not a headline number. it is a way for investors to compare the profitability of one bank to another. a big deal for michael corbett, the ceo. >> he is a credibility ceo. he came in to cor

figure eager search in the president and chairman of the management board for ross nafta oil company alexei pushkov chairman of the state duma committees healing to national affairs and dimitri cause ark a deputy prime minister of the russian federation let's now get more from robert oulds chairman of the bridge group same time mr robert oulds thank you very much for joining us here on our seem to national so president obama. has recently put all the blame for the chaos in ukraine and russia let's now have a listen together russia has not lifted a finger to help in fact. there is strong evidence that they have been encouraging because of the. activities that take place in. eastern and southern ukraine the geneva statement pointed towards are we could resolve this statement what it asks of the russians is hardly onerous make a split statement those militias need to lay down their arms so robert how can you comment on that. well this whole crisis was stirred up by the united states in the first place they were the ones who invested five billion dollars funding opposition groups to overthrow t

these developments are forcing it to hold its own military exercises near the border with ukraine alexei pushkov who's the head of the foreign relations committee in russia's parliament told us he why it's not moscow that's presenting a threat here. with nobody's being served in both russia constituting a threat russia has nothing to threaten the united states russia has not been building a military alliance that would come to the american borders unlike the united states that was supporting nato expansion force for all those years. russia is not sending russian troops to any country bordering the united states unlike the united states who are now sending marines and pilots to poland to the baltic republics and so on russia does not pursue a military alliance like nato for instance and so i just want to express the hope that. reason will prevail america's top diplomat john kerry has threatened moscow with more sanctions he said the kremlin is not trying hard enough to defuse tensions in ukraine does this by the military offensive by key is interim government in the country's east which k

alexei said in the stands and watch a lot of football games. stands andt in the watch games.ee the coach run the ball up the middle over and over and they are only getting a yard, yard and a half. the fans around me are hollering at the coach. why are you running the ball up the middle? sitting here in the stands and looking at the jttf concept than the failures pointed out in this report, i hope the coach reads this. i hope we don't continue running the ball up the middle and getting down to the goal line and not able to get across. 100% gets sussed across the goal .ine -- gets us across i hope they listen to you. i hope they listened to everyone involved. . hope they read the report mr. chairman, you are doing a great job in pointing this out, laying out the roadmap. responsibility and i think we are doing a good job telling the respected agencies where we need to go, laying out the direction but not just laying them out but helping them proceed down the road. thank you for that. god bless you. god bless massachusetts and may god continue to bless america because america wa

of nazi collaboration but a decree has been signed guaranteeing a return of their rights artie's alexeiour shows he reports that it's only now that cries of persecution are finally dying down. there are fewer crimean taught r.'s left with every year who still remember that night in one thousand nine hundred forty four when their entire population was deported from the peninsula the land they had inhabited for many centuries as would you only see. each. year. diverse and each year to still wolf just north of the elk too if you will. which is. as mostly. a long way you looked at what. was witnessed the deprivation was initiated by joseph stalin who believed crimean taught r.'s collaborated with nazi invaders and hence were regarded as traitors this woman was born in exile in his biggest star and managed to return to the home of her parents only after the fall of the u.s.s.r. . i was born in deportation and i know what it feels like when people shout at you you're a daughter of a traitor and feels bad. many talked hours but we quoted the march sixteenth referendum on accession to russia so

and a session or maybe this one will break the record as well thank you so much alexei for this obviously if you ask your pouring down on lot of important q. and a marathon session and of course we'll be bringing you more on this in can follow the transmission on the website r t v dot com meantime greece may be showing signs of economic revival and it's still far from a complete recovery the country is struggling to exit a seven year old long recess. and shake off the multi-billion dollar a sturdy plant and posed by the e.u. and with recent protests still fresh in people's minds the rioting may be on the wall for the politicians as match reza now reports. a sadly familiar sight in athens showing their anger at austerity in the bailout conditions they've been forced to endure downtown athens can look like a city under siege with riot police abandoned buildings and graffiti but look closer at the graffiti in greece even the taggers are talking tough about the crisis. that unfortunately people have lost that face i'm a can't find person the role model of a strong and i'm down with you and th

alexei miller he met with the head of ukraine's nafta gas in moscow to discuss gas prices and the outcome is that ukraine will no longer receive the one hundred dollars discount that's per cubic meter previously enjoyed also has one point seven billion dollars of unpaid bills as a lesson a week to pay for those march supplies kiev imports about half of its natural gas from russia and will now be charged more in line with the rest of the e.u. for its gas supplies and the prize to automatically increase from april called when it is time now and we start russia's largest lenders reaction to the rules for the to lety sperm bank has suspended foreign currency lending to individuals expectations of u.s. stimulus tapering as well as ongoing fears of trade sanctions from the west for causing the russian currency to plummet foreign currency lending to corporate clients will continue part not for retail lives. from spare banks in retaliation to visa master card hold to in the process of buying crissy of bank cards after the russian bank was placed on the sanctions list and has announced that russia

russia as punishment for the crisis in ukraine the targets include russian individuals including alexei pushkov who's russia's state duma foreign affairs committee head eager said chen he's head of russia's oil giant ross nath and deputy prime minister dmitri calls acts well businesses and high tech exporters are also on the hit list but so far the financial and energy sectors are not being touched gas problem is not there ross nafta itself wasn't targeted probably because it has contracts with america's exxon mobile new sanctions are built on earlier u.s. and european view the family asset freezes imposed after crimea was reunified with russia but the e.u. is expected to lift further sanctions on individuals on two. tuesday because without the europeans these latest same questions will have little or no impact here is why i take a look at twenty thirteen numbers and you will trade between russia and the us was about twenty eight billion dollars well trade between the e.u. and moscow was a whopping four hundred and billion dollars yeah it's a big difference so no wonder washington is re

ok that santis alexei yarosh reporting for us.now the tanks could be about to roll once again in ukraine non-self to the acting president indicated he wants to resume a crackdown on anti-government forces in the east he says that those opposing the king of authorities have crossed the line after two bodies were found in the region on tuesday pulis live reports. two dead bodies have been found one of which is believed to be that of a local politician belonging to the prime minister's party the acting president blames ante cheerful says for the killings and is using them as a reason to launch a military crackdown now this is in violation of the geneva accord that was agreed to last week but as it is their record is a really failing as a dozen local administration buildings here in eastern ukraine remain occupied it has been expected that there will be a crackdown for quite some time so it doesn't come as a surprise the last time there was a military operation it failed as the tanks st by tear landed up siding with protesters the bod

first clearing themselves of accusations of wrongdoing brought against them by former authorities alexei airships your reports on the probe itself raising questions. at. this daily beast dot com article boasts off exclusive footage it says reveals exactly who is behind the shooting in kiev on february twentieth the writer claims to have sifted through ninety gigabytes of photo and video material to establish the identity of the killers it's attempting headline a tale no doubt but looking at the four pictures provided the only thing they show is people with guns hardly a surprise on that day. it's also claimed the troops in the photos are from the alpha counterterrorism regiment a unit only authorized to shoot at people holding hostages or threatening the lives of v.i.p.'s. but is it nothing of what they did here on their own initiative we took on what was a perfectly legal none of the security forces units short people across there was a point when they opened fire but. it's hit the ground in front of people who are forty three meters away from us but that's it was done in order to stop

these developments are forcing it to hold its own military exercises near the border with ukraine and alexei pushkov who is the head of the foreign relations committee in russia's parliament told r.t. why it's not presenting a threat here. whatever is being said of both russia constituting a threat russia has nothing to threaten the united states russia has not been building a military alliance that would come to the american borders unlike the united states that was supporting nato expansion force for all those years russia is not sending russian troops to any country bordering the united states unlike the united states when i was sending marines and pilots to poland to the baltic republics and so on russia does not possess a military alliance like nato for instance and so i just want to express the hope that. reason will prevail on news coming your way after a very short break. but the lie also believes that it was ethnic cleansing or spores of it was an attempt to seize the opportunity to purge the polish presence from the territories of ukrainians the leaders of the ukrainian insurgent a

constantly it was an extremely stressful situation and you're going to see here for one of our characters alexei when he won through where he walks in to do a live report and we're following him as we follow all of our correspondents and then. i think i have a life right. he was shot at what was that this window. that's been. going to stand there. and we put the camera here. alexa has a live here that's starting in minutes and just before us live he was shot at and that's something now that he's to deal with the emotional stress behind that and our producers there shooting all of it and just to see and gather his thoughts and go on air knowing that a bullet was within meters of him is just insane to me i couldn't imagine it. the kibosh excuse following the top mall in kiev now joining us live good to get back on the line here taking cover apparently inside a nearby building alexi the truce that was agreed upon in the overnight apparently in a state of tatas there's no choice at all or you know it's a moment just to give you an idea of what's happening right now i would probably love to give you

correspondent alexei yarrow chef ski and moscow earlier this week the new york times published in a rangeof photos that were meant to act as evidence of russia's involvement in ukraine but now we're learning that one of the photos may have been mislabeled artie's on a stasi a church going to has more. remember the old days when major publications and media took the time to get facts straight before making headlines out of questionable evidence it might be high time to wave those days goodbye on monday the new york times printed a lead piece linking masked men in eastern ukraine to russia with photos featuring unidentified men the article claimed that the men photographed in ukraine were also previously seen in russian settings these pictures initially provided by key of to the o.s.c. monitoring eastern ukraine were used to build a case alleging proof of russian men present on the ground the state department saying that this further confirms moscow's involvement essentially disregarding questions about whether the seven us whatever stand in a real court of war we see in the photos that hav

dot com at our you tube channel where our correspondent alexei or shows the reporter from the forbidden zone. on our website as well a woman named aida gets on the wrong side of u.s. immigration after finding herself. unable to enter the country because her name sounds like the phrase al qaeda find out more on that on our website. london's main jewish to straight home to a store now selling a controversial brand of clothing popular with neo nazis and open just a couple of blocks from the chief rabbi's office and sparked outrage within the community or his polly boy who reports from london it looks like a typical shop on a typical high street but this particular high street happens to be in the very heart of london's jewish community and the clothes sold in this recently opened shop a favorite of neo nazis. thought steiner was banned outright in germany in two thousand and four because its logo looked too much like the symbols worn by the nazi s.s. the company's rebranded but that hasn't shaken off the association with the far right two years ago the label opened a shop in germany called

that was r t correspondent alexei yarrow saskia in moscow secretary john kerry spoke earlier this evening in washington in a blistering critique he said moscow had failed to uphold the four party agreement is signed last week to ease tensions in eastern ukraine for the very latest let's go to our tease ghione to check in on secretary kerry has dismissed the whole protest movement in the east of the country as sponsored and controlled by moscow he said of the world knows that peaceful protesters don't come heavily armed which of course begs the question why didn't we hear those kinds of statements when protesters used arms at my down in kiev two months ago secretary kerry has put all the response of that responsibility on russia for the crisis currently unfolding in ukraine take a listen nobody should doubt russia's hand in this as nato supreme allied commander in europe wrote this week what is happening in eastern ukraine is a military opposite should that is well planned and organized and we assess that is being carried out at the direction of russia our intelligence community tells me t