but the balkans were particularly dangerous because of where they were. there were a number of interest met. i do like the middle east today oppressed the south china sea is today, not just local interest. in the balkans jihadists is a very active, competing local nationalisms and these are becoming more vociferous rather than less. what you all said were great our interest. you have the russians, i think was sort of a sentimental stuff, mostly the pan slavic stuff, but there was -- and a warm water port which is much more important. and the strange going from the black sea to the mediterranean were hugely important for russia. over half its grain exports were not the way, great deal of international machinery was coming in. it was a vital for the russians. then you had austria-hungary assaying germany interest. angulated italy, and so you had a sort of combination of very dangerous local rivalries with outside powers being dragged in. >> robert, i'd be interested, because you have a perspective -- a little bit longer perspective in terms of research over

you compare it to the balkans on the eve of n.a.t.o.'s war. some 40% of americans were in favour of intervening. we were opposed and yet we wept in and bombed the balkans and came to a resolution here. is it fair to use public opinion polls to decide these kind of issues? >> i think politicians will look at polls, but i tend to agree with you. people will rarely support - public opinion will rarely support that type of intervention. if we were going to lisp to public -- lisp to public -- listen to public opinion, there would be no leadership. what is important to look ot when we compare bosnia to syria, we are dealing with two different countries in terms of population or territories. the neighbourhood is different. we can hardly compare the position of croatia or yugoslavia, iran, iraq, israel. different neighbourhood. the types of center and the deppsity of the interests in the region are different. those are elements taken into account by people who died on intervening or not. >> is the bottom line that we do not have strong enough leadersh

hill believes lfn lessons from e balkans can be learned. creating a different government that is acceptable to syria's sectarian groups. >> identifying what is syria going to look like in the future politically? will it have a bicameral parliament, will it have a prime minister or a ceremonial president, strong president, there are a lot of questions and i think until those are answered it's hard to foresee a real effort by a country like the u.s. to be in any way mill trailer involved. >> but -- militarily involved. >> but that's not happening. assad wants the united nations to rid his country of what he calls terrorists. court nid keeley, al jazeera. >> last year i publish a piece in foreign policy, calling international community to act in syria but since then the situation in syria has moved are in another direction. i think the best way is really through dialogue, through peace conferences to find a solution to address the situation within syria and i think what united states and owner other european allies and ar arabic islamic sts is

there's going to be a certain percentage of american oil going to market on this as well from the balkanesn't that serve as good economic interest for the country? >> there's u.s. oil production happening now. that's one of the factors that's going to be considered by the state department. do we need tar sands oil if we're already receiving some oil from the u.s.? but there's bigger issues going on with this pipeline. the tar sands oil is much worse for the environment, much worse for water, and we have to ask ourselves big questions about whether it's in the national interest. >> well, there would be more oil from this hemisphere that would make us energy independent. wouldn't it do that? we would not be as dependent on mid eastern oil if we have access to this oil even if it is going to be on the open market or whatnot. doesn't it make sense to do this? >> that's not the case. we have seen transcanada acknowledge this is an export pipeline. they're desperate to ship this oil overseas. this is a pipeline that would go through the united states. there is no benefit for our country but we

focus on in the balkans share the same concerns and called for solidarity the two goal lead. monday's protest the peaceful than nothing like last week's violent unrest that the town morning post the most expensive like the rift between its people and politicians. i'm glad the chefs and syrian city of homes to see some relief from the government's each with four hundred and fifty people but come on that but at present. thus the humanitarian operation had a bizarre ending with one hundred and fifteen and disappearing from tacoma boy i'm on the operation had been extended up the lines on as a most reached agreements with the syrian government and the ceasefire to allow affect patients have held up the little episode five the mom's sense of it the second round of peace talks is underway in geneva on the battlefield atmosphere is the stanzas of a head start on monday hit to lead to lift and civilian casualties were reported. it is not acceptable that the division would send its own mitigation that all these while it is getting all the people in syria. this must stop. we asked me t

cost up front and change the way these companies are doing business and this kind of fractured balkanized internet is completely different than the free flowing internet that we're used to and that we've had they could present some new opportunities for people to better protect the privacy of their citizens and offer some new innovation within other countries and new tech companies are as up but also have some pitfalls as more repressive regimes could use the excuse of walling off their internet to spy on their own citizens to censor the internet as well so the kind of higher ground the u.s. had in promoting a free and open internet has been lost as a result is known as the revelations and it's kind of given these more authoritarian regimes a tool to put in i can put in more censorship interesting the internet times are a changing and i guess we'll see how this plays out thanks sam very interesting that was political commentator sam sachs now to ukraine where the future is uncertain the people are deciding on a new government after the ousting of the president a violent uprising resulted

it's influence grew with a successful intervention in the balkans. since the cold war, many former east bloc countries joined n.a.t.o., expansion has been controversial. when ukraine tried to join moscow intervened and vladimir putin threated to aim nuclear missiles at the former soviet republic. >> n.a.t.o. will talk about will and show engage in syria and other areas. >> kimberley marchant, a professor, joins me now. and carl voeker from california. we appreciate you both coming in. >> professor, you are here with me. we are delighted you are. do you think this will divide russia and the west. the one thing to keep in mind that separates ukraine from the examples is that there's a significant chunk of the population that identifies with russia. they see russia as the source of the homeland in terms of ancient times. it's not the case that the ukrainian population is eager to join n.a.t.o. and we have to go in to prevent n.a.t.o.... do you worry we could see a tug of war over-ukraine. >> i don't think what we have seen is the end. russia will try to

afghanistan, the whole of africa, mali, the balkans. we are allies in nato.jointly work for better coordination between nato as a transatlantic alliance. in spite of many ditches of opinion that have always existed and still exist between us and our partisan friends on both sides "the atlantic", we, the united states of america and europe, we could not wish for a better partner. our relations are of prime importance. and britain is one if not the most important anchor of stability in this relationship. ladies and gentlemen, we need to reform the political shape of europe in keeping with the times so that europe may fulfill its second promise too, the promise of freedom. freedom of opinion, freedom of faith, freedom of the press, and the four freedoms of the single market. free trade, freedom of movement, freedom of services and free exchange of capital and payments. these are the crucial conditions for democracy and prosperity and they belong together. a europe without borders is one of the greatest achievements of european unification. all member states, all

. >> that is why the balkans has become an adjective and not just and now. when you become vulcanized, you have multiple cultures and one society. >> let's talk about green energy. i would love to have green energy. i would love to have it. if it was competitive with existing energy. , competitive when we start using resources available under our land and on our shores. the united states has years of oil and natural gas, and we are for been to use it. allowing for building a liquid five natural gas conversion plants, how much we could sell .o china we would lower the price of energy all over the world. energy is become one of the biggest costs and manufacturing. green energy has been a scam. clash -- cash for clunkers. bribes and corruption to build .olar plants that are phony we are not going to take it anymore. >> i would like to make one point. if it is a good idea, you do not need government money for it. ice cream.idizes state.nny we are building a nanny state. president obama says i have a pan, and i have a phone. he wants to be the imperial president.

europeans would be eager best the command structure is integrated maybe not their own but with the balkans extend data out word to the middle east there be a lot more nervousness if the u.s. would pullout in to nato members had to foot their own military expenses to meet whatever threats are out there. asia is another case. the united states is the least distrusted actor in the region and so many argue it is the linchpin for stability. again there are different views if it is the source of stability or instability for the region that at the moment even for democracy's cannot really trust one another. if there were to remove all of our bases the first thing japan wants to do is a self-defense force but don't kid ourselves for them to become a normal nation began how would that make the tidies or the koreans feel? also with some southeast asia and countries like be a nod, indonesia where they have concerns about china's rise in the maritime editions. so having the of the military there can put a lid on potentially escalating targets spiraling out of control. >> host: how the servicemen are b

violent protests have spread across the balkan state of bosnia with government buildings set alight overnight. the people haven't seen scenes like this since the war in the early 1990s. the poor state of the economy is fueling the unrest. many demonstrators are workers who say they have been out of pay and work for months. >> with the government headquarters in flames, the demonstrators chant, bosnia, we love you. the building was consumed in moments. the blaze was started by protesters. inside the tower were officials, many were forced to jump for their lives. throughout bosnia, demonstrators are angry about poverty, unemployment, and corruption. in the capital, they also stormed government headquarters where there were violent scenes. he protests triggered by the bankruptcy of companies. tens of thousands slated to lose their jobs. this demonstrator shouts put he vultturs in jail. this is just one of many who are frustrated. in over 30 cities, including here, people have taken to the streets to denounce corrupt officials and the lack of jobs. >> a lot of companies are going bust. we're drow

the scenes brought back memories of the balkans conflict in the early 1990's, but there was also understanding for the protesters' frustrations. >> what has happened is a shame, but it was necessary. it had to be done, because they are so shameless. >> the misery has reached a point where people are going crazy. violent protests spread to most major cities on friday. protesters focused their angle on symbols of political power. politicians deny responsibility unrest. the interior minister, a millionaire businessman, blamed government incompetence and corruption. >> these perpetrators were children whose parents have no bread to eat. these are children who wait seven or eight years to get a job. chaos, but nothe one understands how it ended -- how it has been years in the making. >> demonstrators blamed the government for their misery and are demanding change. >> there have been more protests and the spanish capital madrid against government plans to drastically restrict access to abortions. demonstrators are demanding the resignation of a major justice. he has been at the forefront of drafting

in some parts of the country unemployment stands at record levels, the highest in the balkans. bickering leaders in place through a power sharing system created under bosnia's peace deal are seen as ineffective and corrupt. the tusla protesters included workers made redundant when state run companies were sold off. they have been joined by students and hard-up families. >> well, the drought situation across the west has changed in terms of what is happening now. we have a lot of rain as well as snow. this makes a dent in the drought. it will not fix the drought. as you can see across washington, oregon and california, we are getting plenty. that will last through the weekend. let's look at the snow situation in oregon. some locations saw 10 inches in 24 hours. we expect another 10 inches in some of those locations. by the end of the weekend we are looking at 2-3 feet, especially in the higher elevations of california. let's look at the snow all the way through idaho, to parts of montana, and northern california. for seattle the temperatures have been coming up over the last cou

meanwhile, down towards italy, over towards the balkan peninsula, some rain showers and some severe thunderstorms possible here. rather strong at the very least, and then out ahead of this front that's pushing through, though, mild weather flowing in from the south. what i mean by that, take a look at bucharest, nearly 20 degrees above your average. budapest at 11. your average right around 5 for this time of year. kiev at 7. talk about mild weather. look over towards sochi where the winter olympics are going on right now. absolutely beautiful here on your thursday. friday, some rain showers moving through in the city. higher elevations, you could see some snow out of that. and then even over towards saturday temperatures climbing all the way up to 16 degrees. over towards eastern asia the big topic really has been this front that is lingering in southeastern china over towards taiwan and the southern japanese islands. sea effect snow as well in northern parts of japan, mainland japan being dominated by high pressure. as far as that front, though, that's improving, as well, because this is going

but just a little over a decade ago we had big civil wars in the balkans, and that may have been unthinkable, too. >> we saw yanukovych trying to bring order, if you will, back to kiev. the reality is he didn't have an use of force option. the president had lost the royalty of the regence across the ukraine. if he wanted to go down the path of using violence in a sustained way it would have led to outright warfare. we came close and we're tremendously grateful to the leadership pickerly you polish democratic leadership, the germans and the french to divert this. i think you saw the kremlin come together realization that they probably bet on the wrong horse, and this was going to lead to a defeat to russian interest if they stuck by him. i think that's what forced the president's hand and foreclosed his option. this is not a man who wants to compromise. he ran out of options as his power base began to crumble. >> but russia is not going to sit by and was watch ukraine drt out of its orbit, is it? >> it won't. this is something of utmost importance if not existential to president putin itself.

and into the balkans. you've been seeing storm after storm out here in slovenia. you had some fairly heavy snowfall. over the past several days. now there's some good news that we're going to be seeing over the next, well rest of the week, really, high pressure is going to start to retreat off towards the east. that's been bringing this very cold air. you're starting to see a warm-up in belgrade up to 13. well above average. bucharest up to 1. kiev going from minus 2 up to 2 degrees there on your friday. so our attention really is shifting from eastern europe to western europe. now we have a new storm system that's coming in. this is bringing some snowfall across the higher elevations into the alpine regions. down towards the south, the iberian peninsula. you're going to be continuing to see some heavy rainfall here on wednesday as this next system starts to come onshore. not to mention gusty winds with this one. that's about 100 kilometers per hour. some higher elevations, you can see about 30 centimeters of snowfall. so a very messy winter storm, indeed, coming

sand place on till thursday was sad to see the next one coming from the west italy over towards the balkan peninsula. also this range are spent from here nearly cindy some isolated thunderstorms popping up but this one units of the higher elevations are looking at cell in the new chapters well we smiled in itself happens when i'm twenty one and the whole world is watching the olympics and are always on wednesday of some rain showers to take a look on friday. absolute beautiful weather here. going into the end the week is a set of forecasts. i am noon. i know it has. i know. two. i do the row. this is like this aren't you note on the intel the eggs. as the eye. did ha well chilled great chance they said it expected to create an easy design. from the latest in its latest technology to explore alternate history and beauty of the corner of the work. it wasn't for him. and after europeans and dairy. it needs to get close to the world with japan. this year. i did did you. i've. seriously stay tuned soon. she was too a hanger

as we look farther east towards italy and the balkan peninsula, showers here, too, as a new low pressure system starts to push overhead. lfr that's actually brought some heavy rainfall in the past 72 hours out there and some areas about 90 to 100 millimeters has been recorded. take a look at your temperatures, rome with a high of 13, rain showers for you. athens, similar conditions, up to 19. vienna at 6, warsaw at four and london you still have those showers, temperatures remaining in the single digits. where it's not remaining in single digits is down here towards southern australia. at least there's some relief in sight. but right now it is just hot across much of southern australia over towards victoria. i want to take you to a video out of this region, where we have been seeing this heat, and in adelaide, temperatures rose to 42 degrees centigrade here on wednesday. previously the temperature climbed to that amount a dozen times thus far this year. needless to say this has been causing problems. firefighters continuing to battle several blazes. a bush fire in bangor also has burnt 3

defense within their own country, but within the permanent -- the permian and southern europe and balkans extending outward, i think there would be a lot more concern and nervousness if the u.s. were to suddenly pull out in new members, germany, you know, italy and poland had to foot their own military expenses. the united states is the least distrusted actor. many have argued that the u.s. is in some ways the linchpin for stability in the region. it is not -- again, there are different views about whether the u.s. military presence as a source of stability for instability and further militarization. at the moment even to democracies who are members, japan and south korea, even they can't really trust one another. so of course the united states were to remove all of the troops the first thing that japan would want to do is raise their self-defense. let's not kid ourselves. the military. it would give them the right to expand and become a normal nation. so japan begins to build its military, how would that make the chinese feel, how would that make the koreans feel. so it would not make ot

freezing rain as well so many commuters are really the most local on the road to even self aware the balkans is a winter weather is here look at the risk of some severe thunderstorms down into deep south but this is gonna move out of the way up here going into tuesday. eventually it'll go off over the atlantic but unfortunately there's not much to break them up another storm system coming out of the rockies. it is gonna bring some widespread still fall across the central plains in yet again of the ohio river valley in the mid atlantic states by wednesday into thursday we're looking at while another winter storm so so pretty on the favorable weather out here temperatures look like this so check out with my kids eat free i tried to learn minus six you are getting up to one. snow showers there in your forecast now over towards europe italy you've been seeing some pretty severe weather out here storm system now moving overhead all force the ball can still bring some heavy rainfall with this well but it's back towards the west the british isles in the iberian peninsula. one storm after another th

as london paris madrid list and all that rain showers in the forecast over towards italy into the balkans its upper low pressure systems gonna be moving trickier happen to see us showers there but the big thing is that in doing the work its way towards the east in the seventy third out the we can't expect someone with others and really convincing year and forecast higher elevations. this is likely going to be single for snow this is the forecast. i am noon. and. i know. choose life so she tells me it's the us. and. it is. ch. i do i do. he cordially commander known as tiny little holes in china. the main cause of the air pollution currently plaguing the country. here the quality of the cap

eastern europe, over towards the balkans, you're also looking at low pressure area coming through bringing some showers. i think the big topic for eastern europe is not what's going on over here, it's down there towards the black sea. eastern parts of it. the olympics are being held starting off this week. and this is the warmest olympics -- winter olympics, excuse me, ever, to be held. and in to the olympic stadium you're actually expecting temperatures up to 14 by your sunday. now don't worry about the snow melting for some of these winter sports. most of them are being held in the mountains outside of the city. temperatures there, below zero. here's the extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us.  hello it it's 1:00 p.m. in the french capital. raise thes ready to curtain on sochi 2014. a lavish opening ceremony is expected. there is no let up in the international criticism. conversationatic about ukraine's future is posted online forcing washington to apologize to the european union. they step

italy and over towards the balkan peninsula, rain showers and a low pressure system that's continuing to move east bringing snow toward kiev and over toward sochi. have the winter olympics going on. rain showers on your tuesday, and then, a gradual warming trend up till thursday, up to 15 here for your high. let's get back to some of the wintry weather, as well, over towards the americas. we had a severe system over the weekend. now that's moving off towards the east. left thousands without power up and down the eastern seaboard. but another storm is coming in here from the west. this one's going to bring some heavy snowfall across the western great lakes over towards illinois and much of the midwest. you're going to look at 5 to 10 centimeters. freezing rain in here. monday morning's commute if you're in chicago, likely going to be a slow go with this one as it continues to track overhead. also the pacific northwest, a separate system here bringing some windy conditions and even some snowfall out here in the higher elevations. here's the extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for t

one big problem in the south with the kind you get the ballot box and about me is that many in the balkans nations been on top of that election officials announced today that the books of twenty four thousand to one of the number of polling offices that they require for tomorrow be given above but i get each polling station of the book is caught go ahead and in some areas of the stuff they have none at all actually talking about picking people out to the problem they come to vote and then baking them to free falling offices of the well received. but it's very likely that many areas that the south which is the opposition stronghold also the entire province is the focus will proceed and the laughter of a rerun of the election of the late today. there were many thanks indeed to be a paperback called costs for the finals medical workers in ukraine have locally strong questioning the protests to use as he was abducted and tortured. to meet robot on call who went missing for eight days is being treated in hospital with severe injuries police to place them on a wanted list but they denied that th

out for that was going on the west era of central portions of the year by an eagle which was the balkan peninsula when looking at some rain showers have to slowly weaken to continue to work east. and while that's even drop its still funky add in all reports ot as well. yet some rain showers here forecasted on your tuesday wednesday a higher level but look at warming up till thursday in the fifteen degrees there let's go back to the cold weather over here corset and women talking about cross the pacific coast it is melting off. it's not good news the prom is it also is read on salting and avalanches and we see here in the white is the abolition of eyes trees here on your monday in off their fourth title extending down here towards the south we did see that heaviest of the snow fall into the mountains here due to a recent storm while a lot of smelting and if your spirits be extra careful in even if you're out of bounds these mounds of those hillsides could give way. we also look at some c effect snow off towards the north some very gusty winds accompanying that in two parts hokkaido duffl

marcus thank you fills in this market papadopoulos said it is all politics versus what is russian balkans commentator live from london thanks very much indeed for joining us here in our international where you can witness the ukrainian drama on. hold on a website don't call them the once picture arrest independence square and flourishing kiev has been turned into a wasteland plotted with a brilliant. people picked their way between raging fire to the it should have gotten shot screaming in clashes as bosses battled with security forces at what you don't come from or footage. of it back in just a moment with more news for you from ukraine this is the internet. transit. your best way to the heart of most. of the journalists have the specific tendency of seeking out negative stories about russia and what could be more negative than the possibility of a major terror attack when it comes to the western media there's a tendency to look at the caucasus emirate through the prism of what the russians do that is don't look at the idiology don't look at the actions of the caucasus emirate mujahideen

some of the reverse out here western europe that was unpacking here in italy in over towards the balkans jostled into some heavy rainfall and gusty winds with a separate low pressure system that's moving through your area that will continue to track east moving over towards parts of russia not for talking about with the sochi olympics bring out thursday actually seen some pretty beautiful weather out here seventeen degrees every hike same by friday and saturday still to the double digits now there will be changed by sunday that was going to be tracking east. we knew some rainfall for the temperatures still staying relatively warm at least for the city the higher elevations will be colder. about some real winter weather out here though for south eastern portions of the us a significant snow storms last ice storm actually developing out here what's going to be happening. this is going the reason was pretty up damaging the all weather for most of you actually some of the national weather service meteorologist out here. i've seen this could be rather catastrophic as the system does develop s

live on air and online this is r t international with me marina costs of our balkans to the program with ukraine's economy balancing on the verge of default the country's new leadership is welcoming western diplomats in the hope of getting urgent aid e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton has promised support as that washington well let's get more now from our office following developments for us in kiev hi there you go or so can you tell us more about what the new leaders in ukraine have been up to in their friends for a stage of power. well the manhunt continues here in kiev former officials are being searched for around fifty of them have been arrested and are currently reportedly under investigation being accused of being responsible for the deaths of civilians during the violent street fighting last week between the writers and the police the whereabouts of ousted president the three in the court which are still unknown and he's also wanted on the same charges in the meantime the e.u. foreign affairs commissioner catherine ashton has met with the leaders of the opposition and th

o allah i e add you haven't seen the heavy snowfall here across most of the balkans off through eastern europe the good news is a leader in the seat in next three days is some improving conditions now what's been going all the cool clear is the high pressure. the siberian high off of a rush it now it's thirty pax was the sweet that one stubborn lol on after another down here was a self that is going away and we are seeing is much milder weather going in to weaken accidentally fee of up to two degrees until it still sounds silly but a death only improve in belgrade getting up to thirteen degrees there and that doubled as budapest up to six is a bulb above average temperatures so the police and improving conditions in our attention is now going away from eastern europe wax has done a look back towards western year because this is where the severe winter storm is right now we are seeing is this one come onshore it will be bringing widespread snow fall to the alpine region some areas fifteen twenty five centimeters could be expected here. across the british isles and regions where i do not

over towards italy and into the balkans, a separate low pressure system is going to be moving through here. athens you have showers there. but the big thing is that's continuing to work its way toward the east and into sochi, throughout the weekend, expect some wet weather. some drizzly conditions here in your forecast. higher elevations, this slykely going to be changing over to snow. here's the extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. mwc >> the tony blair of italy is set to become the new prime minister. he is due to replace the current premier who is set to resign today. tension rising again in thailand. thousands of riot police have moved into bangkok trying to clear areas that have been occupied by protesters for weeks.

in the governments particular german government impossible to stage a kind of localized war in the balkans but at another level all the governments concerned were willing to accept the risk of a general war if the miscalculation if the calculation went wrong now if you look at the present situation i don't see any evidence that the chinese or american or to the japanese governments want to run the risk of a general war taking place great war happening in the pacific so that's something that could change but you're quite right that the danger that i see of the situation is one where if you like these american alliances would lose their credibility because of america's own internal domestic political and economic problems declining military strength perhaps growth of isolationism might create a situation where it was tempting for the chinese in particular to use military force in a limited scale the would nonetheless raise the question mark of the validity of the american alliance and the americans might that feel the need to go to war with a larger scale in order to make show support their

correspondent who spent twenty years covering conflicts around the globe latin america the middle east balkans africa. so i know the military really well and blind obedience. aggressiveness resort to violence. all of these things you know destruction of kind of individual individuality all these things work really well on a battlefield they don't work very well in a peacetime society so when clapper made this comment edward snowden and his quote unquote accomplices and he was clearly referring to journalists such as. glenn greenwald should be prosecuted i understood exactly what he was saying that he comes out he was a former lieutenant general he comes out of this military culture which detests the press and has always made war on an independent press. their version of journalism are all the little sort of lackeys who sit through their press conferences and follow them around and write sort of glowing tribute to their heroism or whatever they're directed to write in press pools but actual journalism is something that within the military culture they're deeply hostile to. the triumph of milita

it's trying to turn over a new leaf that is quite important here a little i want to ask you about balkans chief executive antony jenkins turning down the bonus for the second year how important is it the banking chiefs do they does it have a significance do you guys can. i'm not so certain i care all that much i do believe that in many respects the bonus is more than likely deferred a little bit further and i think it's mostly a p.r. exercise. on behalf of barclays perhaps it is a way off leading by example by the head of the bank book i start if he stays there gets gets the bank on its feet once again i'm proves to its shareholders he's worthy of a bonus find some stuff worthy of a bonus then i would expect in a few years time more than make up for the losses that he's made over the last couple of years oh yeah. let's talk about women because lawyers are keen to get more female what is in the industry would how your personal experience do women make the industry more moral. i think it's an interesting case actually and i don't subscribe to the view that women are more risk averse than me

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eastern european countries in the ninety's as there is a good rationale to to do the same thing for the balkan countries but the offer to the offer to ukraine and georgia back in two thousand and eight two for a prospect of nato membership in the in the future that was that was very ill conceived because it contrasted with basic principle of just martin how do you look at it because i obviously from where i'm sitting in moscow we did seen as very much an anti russia alliance and again if you look at the the association agreement the view which didn't sign if you look very closely the fine print it does talk about military intelligence joint work a mutual work and this is so it's often a really big red flag here is that the expansion just continues and what other reason could it be is that what the ham in russia that's it's it's plain as day here. i think that if you start off with in nine hundred forty nine going to set up . europe was divided between eastern europe which was which under the soviet union and then the rest of europe so therefore it really had a meaning and was really put to pro

look we have a historical precedent if you see what the united states and the nato powers did in the balkans in the late ninety's and in the early part of the previous decade you begin to see that there is a sort of a strategy here whether or not they want to make the west of. ukraine into a a grand scale kosovo may be somewhat of a an oversimplification but certainly making it into essentially a de facto nato protectorate as they did in kosovo and of course you can see today the tremendous cost social political and economic costs of that sort of policy if you ask anybody living in kosovo or for that matter many of the former soviet republics because of the way in which the soviet union was dismantled because of the way in which the western powers moved into eastern europe and so ukraine is in many ways a battleground certainly a battleground of words and economic battleground but militarily speaking as well we shouldn't forget that right before the on the eve of the beijing olympics the georgia russia war rather the georgia war in south the said began and it was precisely at that moment tha

the front range with his use of tech companies are doing the business and this kind of fractured of balkan eisner has completely different than the free flowing internet that were used to it that we pack. they could present new opportunities for people to better protect the privacy of their citizens and offers new innovation within other countries and new tech of the startup. we also have some pitfalls as more repressive regimes could use the excuse of walling off their net to spy on their own citizens to censor the internet as well so they can hire brown the us had been promoting a free and open it has been losses resulting from this new revelations of its kind in giving these were for authoritarian regimes are told to quit and i can put in more censorship and to see the internets times are changing and i guess we'll see how this plays out banks and very interesting local commentators in fact. now few ukraine where the future is uncertain. the people are deciding on a new government after the ousting of the president a violent uprising resulted in thousands dead and today a very divided c

or marcus papadopoulos who's a commentator on russia and the balkans thinks that the e.u. is violating international law by threatening ukraine with sanctions. what rights does the government have to impose sanctions on another country to impose sanctions on a government that happens to believe that its economic pathway lies with russia as opposed to the european union who gives them that fight that's not in accordance with the internet with international law it's not in in accordance with the mechanisms of the united nations the only way that further bloodshed and civil war could be can be averted in ukraine is for washington and brussels to firstly categorically in unequivocal condemn the violent protests what with what we're seeing in kiev to violently condemn the militants what they've been doing in the last forty eight hours are killin injuring and capturing police officers and event the next step of washington and brussels would be to leave ukraine an independent sovereign country to deal with its own affairs well we'll be following the ongoing turmoil in ukraine and

walker's awareness use any content or on russia in the balkans since the eu is funny to international goal by threatening ukraine with the sanctions. mulroney was that governments have to impose sanctions. one of the country to impose sanctions on the government's happens to fully fund its economic off lady lions with russia as a place to the european union. the kids and i thought the stalled in accordance with the institution's national is not a made in accordance with the mechanisms of the united nations. the yemeni why not but the plot states and civil war could be affected in ukraine. peaceful washington and brussels to firstly to collect clean on the critically. and violent protests which i've seen in kiev to bomb the content the minutes and small ice cream to rein in the loss for state i was on the scale in danger in capturing police officers. and then the next ample portions in brussels would be to leave you crying and independents open country to deal with its own offense of course will be forming the ongoing turmoil in ukrainian breed of leeches from key and the skins begin t