it was called the balkans.der box in the middle east, a situation which could easily spin out of control in exactly the way that the balkans took things out of control in europe in 1914. we also have a geopolitical rivalry that looks similar in some respects today, it's between china and the united states. back then of course it was between brittain and its empire and a rising germany. today we are lulled by the prospect of globalization will somehow save us from catastrophe because we are so interdependent. back then they had the same illusion. they thought the steam engine, telegraph, air power would save them because they were becoming increasingly interdependent. >> walter, when you listen to these similarities, where do you come up? >> biggest similarity is that the same problem that helped drive world war i and the balkans, the bad fit between state boundaries and nationalism, the popular forces of identity, culture, language, we see that all over the middle east today and that's driving a lot of conflict

definitely don't need any more rain down toward the balkan peninsula. looks like that is going to be the case. we're also watching what's happening over into the british eye yeses. we have a frontal system moving in that may bring some scattered showers coming up for tuesday and that's something we'll be looking at wednesday as wimbledon takes place. temperatures low 20s and the clouds increase by thursday as another system approaches bringing another significant chance for rain by the weekend. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended outlook. >>> and that's all from me today. gene otani will bring you more updates at the top of the hour. thank you for watching. 1uogo'Ño >> welcome back. here are the headlines and putin asksadimir perlman to cancel a resolution allowing him to centered sent to ukraine, a further softening of russia's stance on the country. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in kurdistan, the latest stop on his diplomatic drive to try and keep iraq from splitting apart. marinefar right leader le pen may have tri

by next week, central europe and balkan peninsula will have to look out for this weather system. let's wrap things up with a look at asia. the rainy season continues to dominate the weather picture for western japan into china. a record 237 millimeters fell over a 24-hour period. it looks like the rain will be a big part of the story for tokyo, western japan, south korea and central and eastern china will also deal with rain. in fact, also looking out for some monsoonal rains and a low pressure system into the philippines where about 113 millimeters of fell over a 24-hour period. flooding and land slides a concern down there. saturday, more rain. seoul, tokyo, high in the mid to upper 20s but a chance for rain. that extends into manila. have a good day wherever you are. here is your extended outlook. >>> children at an elementary school in northeastern japan are back in the swim in their own pool for the first time in over three years. the swimming lessons were not held there since the tsunami in march 2011. all 80 students at the elementary school splashed in the water on friday

, but down towards the southern tip of the balkans, southern greece and western turkey, check this out, warm weather expected, sunny skies, highs will be in the upper 30s. we are also keeping an eye out for another low pressure system in the northeastern portions of europe. that's going to bring rain and much cooler temperatures, look at this, moscow, high of 16 degrees for our thursday. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here is your extended outlook. >>> before we wrap up, we take you to los angeles where fans from around the world gather to remember the king of pop. they're marking the fifth anniversary of michael jackson's death. jackson died in his home on june 25th, 2009. he was given an overdose of anesthetic. his popularity is still strong. his last album released in may sold well in the u.s. many came to the hollywood walk of fame to pay tribute to the music icon. >> it feels like it was just yesterday, to be honest. it seems like -- i can't believe it was five years ago, honestly. >> even though he's not physically here, his legend lives on through all of us. >> fans

lots of rain to talk about from germany all the way down into the balkan peninsula. so have the umbrella with you as you go out the door. berlin at 17 with a chance for rain. 19 in warsaw. 25 with a chance of thunderstorms in rome. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended outlook. >>> and that's all for this hour on "newsline." i'm shery ahn. thank you for watching. 'Ño in the headlines this hour molecules out what washington -- a new reality rules out what washington had been looking for. russian lawmakers rescind the resolution that allowed support the fragiles cease-fire in east the country teeters on the brink of collapse. and in india, people are voting in their third elections this year. 200 candidates are vying for 200 seat in the country's new parliament.

balkanization the internet. i assume what you are touching on is when countries like europe are razil and others applying various restrictions access to nities for our digital goods and services us to makes it hard for have that seamless internet. flesh out that concept if you the balkanization of the internet. because i think it is important really understand the implications of the economic arm being done to the american bra brand. your companies have gone to great lengths to constantly innovate, by and large they like to be left alone by government. > that is an accurate statement. >> be left alone and innovate. -- d about john claim those who are up in arms. flesh out how these overly broad practices have damaged companies and what you mean by balkanization of the internet that you feel has taken place. and i feel so strongly about i'm investigating it as chairman of the finance committee because i think this implications on the global competitiveness of some most important companies. >> thank you, we apprec

like such as in front of it does not actually accomplish the goal i think was intended to reduce balkanindiscriminate searches and at the same time will prove to be a straitjacket not withstanding what the did the the attorney general says. i would like to see his justification for each of the insurances he gave us about how he would conduct those searches. i think it will require him to immediately become creative about the meaning of those words in a way i think senator mikulski -- wyden would not approve but all of us believe should be carried out and i would suggest to the chairmen who suggested that if we if i understood her correctly instead of a list of magic words that even harley geiger won't defense we should try to find a principle that says what we think is necessary to avoid bulked election ended is something along the lines of narrowing the search, avoiding unnecessary collection of innocent parties's information. and we don't look for things like that. weiner rosa search, and that is probably the way to get out of a solution that satisfies no one. >> thank you very much.

. >> several days of heavy rain took their toll into the balkans earlier this month.more than 50 lives were lost and tens of thousands were forced to leave their homes. and now the people are facing in other danger. at the flooding -- epic flooding has dislodged set -- dislodged thousands of landmines. >> you need a boat to get around here. the streets and houses have been inundated vice stagnant water full of debris. for the inhabitants of this serbian town southwest of belgrade, it is exact -- it is a disaster. >> there are so many cats and dogs, it stinks. it is getting better every day. >> it is 30 degrees in the shade so the danger of an outbreak of disease increases radically. bottled water is the only potable water to be found. the biggest hotel is now an emergency hospital. many residents are coming in for checkups. >> we still have the situation under control. thank god we haven't had any patients come to us with any serious diseases that could cause us concern. >> diarrhea and eczema are the most frequent complaints treated here. the line of outpatients wait

but there is the whole issue of neighborhoods, balkans, ukraine. i don't think we have time to get into the turkish question, although peter is one of the world's specialists on that. but is it just kind of dead or is there some hope? who would like to deal with that, isabelle? >> some of the discussion is already under way, and that is already in motion. so if i'm correct, it's serbia montenegro who are in the wings to join. i've spoken to people in the european institutions. they just said at the moment there is enlargement fatigue and you can't expect another wave following the serbia and montenegro joining. mostly over concern of the economy. a lot of the arguments that britain have thrown up romania and bulgaria joining. so those issues will have to be resolved to some degree and there has to be a slightly more open debate before that enlargement process will continue, as it's done in the past. >> thank you. peter, any views, including on the ukraine, what extent the ukraine crisis, you know, calls for and how -- to what extent has it increase

military operations in the balkans, rwanda and somalia please welcome steve vogel. [applause] >> thank you very much, thank you. we will make this instead of a lecture make this more of a conversation about steve's book. you might have noticed the subtitle, "through the perilous fight: 6 weeks that saved the nation". i want to ask steve howe did 6 weeks save the nation? >> good question. you have to start with you have to imagine the scene president james madison confronted on the morning of aug. 261814 when he comes back to washington and you have every federal building save one has been destroyed. the great landmarks of this country, the capital, the white house and with it the supreme court, library of congress, they have been gutted. you have an american army that has been vanquished, on the run. you have a british force that just left the capital by lands but then you have a second british force moving up the potomac river and still frightening the nation's capital in alexandria. the united states treasury it this point two using the war of 1812 is broke. don't

heavy rain is still pounding the eastern half of the mediterranean countries from italy through the balkan peninsula in the black sea region. the resort city, ten people have been killed due to torrential rain and flooding. unfortunately, that weather will likely continue into your saturday. but sunny weather will come back in italy by your sunday. temperatures are as follows. down in the teens in berlin and warsaw. cool for this time of the year. plenty of sunshine. and nice and comfortable conditions for the west. 22 in harris. as well as london. >>> now, weather for your brazil. three games are set and it's going to be quite muggy and rainy, and hot. i think the best spot is going to be 16 degrees. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thank you for joining us. er tavis: good evening. from los angeles, i am tavis smiley. tonight, a conversation with writer and novelist nomi prins tome, "all the presidents' bankers," talking about more power than presidents by controlling so much capital. then, we will turn to noah

. >> running under the black sea in the balkans, the new pipeline will allow russia to export gas directlyeurope while skipping over ukraine. questioned. recently whether the project was being carried out in compliance with european law. is themain concern company set up for this project has been awarded the contract to , construct, and operate the gas pipeline without transparency. >> as ukraine and russia remain locked in dispute over gas prices, concern about energy independence from moscow has deepened. bulgaria remains optimistic it will eventually get the green light. but russia is serious. its envoy to the european union they did not want further sanctions against moscow. serbia will continue building is section of the pipeline. >> we were telling about the clashes in sÃo paulo ahead of the world cup. there is another cloud hanging over fifa ahead of the world cup. budweiser and bp are putting pressure on fifa to address graft allegations. there are allegations that graft played a part in r to host the next world cup. they say the allegations are not good for football or its partner

it will be affecting ukraine and poland and thunderstorms continue in the balkans. flooding, large hail and damaging gusts will be a potential. we are likely to see another atlantic system in the british isles. meanwhile here across london on thursday we're likely to see partly sunny skies with 19 degrees in the forecast. but from friday, a chance of thunderstorms there. and looking at those heavy rain pulling in for the weekend. you may have to arrange your weekend plans in munich and in paris. the rest of the temperatures are looking like this. in europe, take a look at this. in athens, 38 degrees. and we have a high pressure system cresting overhead. surging all that heat. the heat wave could continue. now across the americas the midsection of the u.s. and eastern seaboards are looking at drenching thunderstorms. we may see 50 millimeters of additional rainfall in new york city and boston but it's that will be pulling away. the midsection is a concern with the severe thunderstorms. the darker shaded area, include rapid city will find severe thunderstorms. dry thu

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petersburg and moscow and also seeing another low pressure system bringing rain for the balkan peninsula. i know we don't need any more rain but it looks like more of it will be in the forecast as we go throughout our tuesday. another low pressure system developing over the british isles. that is spreading some rain influence into france. meanwhile high pressure is controlling the iberian peninsula. great conditions down there. highs near 30 degrees coming up for our tuesday but yes rain from london into paris, and also into the southern portions of germany, and also more rain for warsaw and kiev as we go throughout our tuesday. i am concerned about a weather system developing in the americas. low pressure is near the border of canada and the united states, we see the extended cold front wrapping around down into the ohio river valley. another low pressure system developing further back to the west so we're focusing on areas like iowa, illinois, into nebraska, where we are going to see the moderate risk of severe weather. we have some strong storms on sunday, weakened a little bit on mon

the balkan peninsula, you have a few thunderstorms continuing to erupt out here. actually some of these could become rather severe. heavy rainfall occurring with these. so localized flash flooding. but in the northeastern europe, staying relatively dry at least for the time being. actually warm. we see a it willle warming trend mu nick, moscow. all the way up to 31 there on your friday. here's the extended outlook. >>> and that's all for this hour on "newsline." i'm shery ahn. thank you for watching. 1x1xa7guc >> these are the headlines for you this hour. the g7 meet for the first time in 17 years without russia. warning tors give a the russian president, vladimir putin, that more sanctions could be on the way over the crisis in ukraine. voters in the central england town of new work to the polls to elect a new member of parliament ukipthe euro skeptic party hoping to capitalize on recent success, they want to secure their first british mp. a manhunt underway in canada for a man believe

. >> even today, the balkan nations have differing views about the killing. bosnian serbs unveiled a statue to honor the assassin on friday in sarajevo. they consider him a freedom fighter and a national hero. bosnian muslims and croats say the one you meant is a provocation. they believe he was a terrorist. -- bosnian muslims and croats say the monument is a provocation. >> in his speech, the president warned against particular is him and hostility toward the european union. he affirmed what he called european values. >> a return to the nationstate and its classic form cannot be the answer europe is seeking to globalization and the confusion it brings. we cannot solve our present problems by withdrawal or voluntary isolation. >> is from east germany and recalled the determination with which eastern european's rejoin the european community as the soviet empire collapsed a quarter-century ago. >> they knew that each european country on its own was too small to play a meaningful role on the world stage of the future. >> too small even to retain its own scope fo

now it's over toward the balkan peninsula. that's going to be the big topic as we take a look ahead here through the next 24 hours. showers actually in warsaw and vienna. want to wrap up really quickly with the forecast at the world cup. i know a lot of you are watching the games here. if you're watching france versus nigeria, sunny skies, high of 27 there on your monday. here's the extended outlook. >>> that's all for this hour on "newsline." i'm shery ahn. thank you for watching. >> and paris, but top stories for you that our -- slamic militants change their name to the islamic state, demanding allegiance from muslims worldwide. trying to push the insurgents from the northern city. psychiatrist who examined oscar pistorius for a month in south africa have given their of valuation. they say the track started was not suffering from a mental condition that would have distinguished is the ability from right and wrong when he shot his girlfriend

we're talking about the balkan peninsula. if you're up towards the north, specifically moscow, beautiful day setting up here on your wednesday. here's the extended outlook. >>> and that's all for this hour on "newsline." i'm shery ahn. thank you for watching. a1x1x >> thank you for watching i am invingt-quatre," paris. here are the headlines this hour. barack obama threw his weight behind eastern europe, saying it would not stand alone. he gave a speech in warsaw after telling the ukrainian president-elect that the u.s. is absolutely committed to the ukraine's future. china turns over security to try to snuff out any commemoration of the pro-democracy protests at kamman square -- tiananmen square. -- 25 been 30 years since years since troops left thousands dead.

will continue to create stormy weather for the southern portions of europe and into parts of the balkan peninsula. so we need to be aware of the possibility of seeing that activity stretching from spain all the way into the eastern portions of europe. but like i mentioned, as the cold front sweeps through, we have warm air surging in. and that's allowing temperatures to move into the mid-20s for places like paris up to the low 30s for madrid, under partly cloudy skies. but we do see the rain and thunderstorms stretching to the eastern portions of the continent. we're also talking about a lot of rain in east asia. you can see the cloud cover extending from japan all the way down into places like the philippines and the indochina peninsula. in the tochiki prefecture up to 126 millimeters of rain fell over a 24 hour period. it looks like as this system continues to move toward the north and east the tropical storm that was in effect has now merged with the system. it has just become a low pressure system. but the remnants is bringing a lot of moisture into japan. so be prepared to see some

i came out of the balkan experience.t is not so easy to draw these boundaries and not have many thousands of civilians suffer for it. iraq has been around for some time. problems withwere western powers, namely britain and france, drawing lines. but it has also held for some years. i am not sure we should go immediately to some kind of partition plan. >> thank you very much. three journalists working in egypt for the broadcaster al jazeera were jailed for seven years today, on charges of spreading false news and supporting the banned muslim brotherhood. the verdict has sparked international outrage, and those involved deny the charges. theeport from cairo. >> the defendants' cage. inside, an australian and two algeria colleagues, just really to al jazeera colleagues, hoping this will end. it has been dismissed as a vindictive farce. the verdict is all the more shocking. guilty. .> seven years >> peter's parents, watching a live feed in australia. >> my god. my god. >> of 20 people on trial, only 2 were acquitted. the res

expect frequent lightning, heavy rainfall, even more hail over toward the balkan peninsula and continuing into italy where rome, still expecting thunderstorms. a high of 25 there on your monday. let's stay on that p topic of severe weather. across the high plains we're still watching a low pressure area. see it pushing toward ontario. cold front extends towards the south. along that more severe thunderstorms could be popping up. actually, just yesterday we saw some -- several reports of tornadoes, about ten reports of tornadoes, large hail out of this storm system. that is still a threat into the midwestern states. also the southwest some fire weather in place there for you. but this is the big topic i want to say. you have that low. warm air pumping in ahead of it. and while this is typical for this time of year, into the 30s across the gulf states. but look at these high temperatures across the northeast. it sure feels like summer out here, here in mid-june. washington, d.c., getting up to 34 on your tuesday into wednesday. up to 31 and to 32 there into new york city. staying on the top

several low pressure areas pushing across italy, over towards the balkan peninsula, even into western portions of turkey. already we have seen numerous reports of large hail and some damaging winds, even earlier this week. one report of a tornado out here. well, that threat is still going to be there, but tapering off as we head into the weekend. behind it some dryer conditions work their way in, some warming temperatures as well. high wind warnings over towards the netherlands and northern portions of germany. that will keep things cool. berlin, high of 19. london and paris both into the low 20s. let's move over towards eastern asia. the rainy season continuing to dominate. for now, japan high pressure is in place. afternoon thunderstorms still can't be ruled out, but by the weekend, we're going to see a big change-up. we had that rainy season, new low will develop along that. and that's going to race off towards the northeast and you can see by saturday, some heavy showers there into kyushu and by sunday morning, tokyo, be ready for wet, windy conditions. for now, partly cloudy skie

we have a low pressure area pushing a i cross the balkan peninsula. this has brought some torrential rainfall. actually severe flooding. upwards of ten deaths have been reported at this time. the good news, at least, we're going to look at improving conditions. that's going to push there towards the east going through the coming days. elsewhere still some showers off towards the north and relatively dry into london and paris. let's wrap things up really quick into brazil. if you're near the coast, a few of the matches out here, we'll be seeing some rain showers as we head through friday. likely going to be having some impact on the games. here's your extended outlook. >>> and that concludes this edition of "newsline." i'm keikichi hanada. on behalf of our team, thank you for staying with us. mw >> welcome back to the newsroom in paris. sunni top cleric says militants must be expelled from the country before it is too hee as barack obama says will send 300 military advisers to try and help the iraqi army stopped the isis advance. the ukrainian presiden

well, what we do have is a low pushing through italy over towards the balkan peninsula. this has been bringing the rain showers, some thunderstorms. we've seen several reports of large hail even on western portions of the mediterranean. a few storms flaired up there. brought about 10 cent meters of hail accumulation. almost looked like snow. that's going to continue to push east. still looking at storms especially near the immediate coastlines. for the most part a lot of you seeing some decent weather here on your wednesday. here's the extended outlook. >>> here's another look at our top story. a bomb has torn through a venue in northeastern nigeria where fans had gathered to watch a world cup soccer match. at least 13 people, including young children, have been killed. the explosion happened in the town of damaturu, the capital of yobe state. reuters news agency quoted witnesses as saying an attacker dropped a device in front of a venue tuesday night before running off. no one has claimed responsibility for the explosion. damaturu and the surrounding area are at the hea

wife of a former camden county prosecutor, educate ann leads and the flight crew including co-pilot balkanike devies from marlton. >>> the weather should cooperate for runners who will gather in fairmont park for the fifth annual odyssey half marathon. the 13.1 mile race starts at memorial hall. it heads through trails and park roads of the schuylkill river loop and fairmont park. last year the odyssey was named one of the top 100 road races in north america. >>> later this morning, the 39th annual festival will kick off in philadelphia. it stretches 12 city blocks in south philly near 23rd and south streets. it's the largest african-american street festival held in the country. typically bringing in nearly half a million people. >>> tens of thousands of nascar fans are in the poconos for today's pocono 400. the race in long pond, monroe county, gets under way at 1:00 this afternoon. denny hamlin is sitting in the pole position. he has four wins at pocono raceway which is considered one of the most unique tracks in nascar. they call it the tricky triangle. about 80,000 people are expected

large hail, tornadoes possible out of that and flip side, western turkey, eastern portions of the balkans, thunderstorms expected out here for you, but i'll get out of the way because if you're in central europe sunny skies and temperatures in the mid 20s here in your forecast. here's the extended outlook. >>> and before we go, a creature from the deep has been thrilling moviegoers for decades. "godzilla" made his screen debut in 1954. a japanese artist just completed a monster sized painting to mark the anniversary. >> whoa! >> filmmakers and actors gathered at a studio in central tokyo, the birth place of the "godzilla" series. they celebrated the unveiling of the giant mural. the japanese artist spent three months working on the piece. it's 14 meters high and 17 meters wide. the first "godzilla" movie was released six decades ago. the well-known monster has starred in 28 films produced in japan. they filmed the hollywood version that opened in the u.s. last month. >> it's just fantastic. i'm very honored. it's a phenomenal piece of work. >> the new godzilla has become one of the year's

marks the 15th anniversary of poland's membership in nato, and we honor polish service in the balkans and iraq and afghanistan. we are proud to call: one of our strongest and closest allies. proud to call poland one of our strongest and closest allies. [applause] this is the poland we celebrate today, the free and democratic forebears andur some who are here today dreamed of and fought for and in some cases died for. polandwing and secure that you, particularly the young people who are here today, have enjoyed for your entire lives. it is a wonderful story, but the story of this nation reminds us that freedom is not guaranteed. history cautions us to never take rs for granted. progress forake granted. on the same day 25 years ago that poles were voting here, tanks were crushing peaceful anmenracy protests in tian square on the other side of the world. the blessings of liberty must be earned and renewed by every generation, including our own. this is the work to which we rededicate ourselves today. our democracies must be defined not by what or who we are against but by a politics of i

of this rain and stormy activity to extend into portions of northern italy and once again into the balkaneninsula. finally, we wrap things wup wit a look at brazil. for the monday forecast for the world cup, rain expected for the eastern coast. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended outlook. >>> and that's all for this hour on "newsline." i'm shery ahn. thank you for watching. 'Ño >> welcome back to the france 34 newsroom. these are the headlines. u.s. secretary of state john kerry makes an unannounced stop in baghdad. he is there to try to personally convince the shiite led government to give more power to its political opponents before the sunni led insurgency sees even more console -- control. three more journalists from al jazeera are sentenced to seven years of prison in egypt. they were arrested last year during the crackdown on muslim brotherhood. meeting of eu a foreign ministers just days

he put a bar so high on military intervention, haitis in the '90s, the balkans would not have been donender the provision of this trade. >> mary, can you point to a foreign policy success over the last five years? can you cite one? >> well, like i said, the retreat from iraq. i guess he got osama bin laden, but i think one of the reasons why the u.s. looks so weak is because our economy is weak. and he also has a lot of responsibility there. >> all right, mary, thank you. >>> still ahead, eric shinseki resigns amid outrage over care delays and cover-ups at v.a. hospitals worldwide. will his ouster make a difference? we'll have a doctor in the system next. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition inharge™. [ bottle ] ensure®. upgrafor the most advanced norelshaving experience.00 with gyroflex 3d technology, you can get to those hard to reach places for the ultimate shave we

flesh out that concept if you would of the balkanization of the internet.because i think it is important for people to really understand the implications of the economic harm being done to the american brand. your companies have gone to great lengths to constantly innovate, by and large they like to be left alone by government. >> that is an accurate statement. >> be left alone and innovate. i read about john chambers and those who are up in arms. flesh out how these overly broad n.s.a. practices have damaged companies and what you mean by the balkanization of the internet that you feel has taken place. by the way, i feel so strongly about there that i'm investigating it as chairman of the finance committee because i think this has big implications on the global competitiveness of some of our most important companies. we will be following up as well. >> thank you, we appreciate that. the two concepts are interrelated. the internet as i mentioned in my testimony is built on open interoperable global platforms. they are also heavily reliant on trust. so what

cleansing ethnic cleansing ethnic cleansing ethnic cleansing the term however was nothing new in the balkans as it was first used in world war two describe how the creation was to share were clans in croatia unwelcome ethnic elements such as serbs and jews in the minds of the serbs during the one nine hundred ninety s. this was very much engraved in their national memory. didn't care because he knew he had the support of just the right people german foreign minister hun steve genscher in almost daily contact with zagreb gave his go ahead for croatian secession and actually pressured its western allies to recognize slovenia and croatia. as the house votes in a sort of another variant of father combination of those the germans said with phobia it was geo political in the sense of one nine hundred fourteen and one nine hundred forty one and that continue eighty also reflected itself in the almost visceral preference for the cross in the slogans who after all had belonged to the german cultural and state structures for hundreds of years there was however one problem in this plan the serbs who ar

that is eliminating iranian influence and the other thing they want to do is they want to split and balkanize iraq into three parts one shia south the other is the northern chords in the center they want the sunni kind of republic so that all these parts will be too weak to withstand us domination there will be no national entity to create any problems for the u.s. especially in terms of becoming a regional rival israel obviously we can't talk about isis without discussing syria i'm going to have to ask you to be brief but we have breaking news essentially out of syria syrian chemical weapons were apparently completely destroyed that's according to the two chemical weapons officials organizations what does that mean for the war and international attitudes towards the syrian government. that the syrian government has you are saying they have destroyed their chemical weapons that's right that's according to the watchdogs which we're following the process right so if the syrian government has destroyed destroy the chemical weapons i think they're just of fulfilling their the promises they made.

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frozen at the moment by other gas from finance pipeline would ship gas to western europe via the balkans as you can see just that so obviously totally avoiding ukraine so with that in mind it's in everyone's interest to come to a compromise on these ongoing gas price disputes as soon as possible. the launch of the football world cup in brazil is just a day away now and as well as a sporting extravaganza it's also become a political battleground between the israelis and the palestinians israel sports minister has been forced to defend her country's highly controversial ban on all palestinians including athletes traveling abroad some it calls for israel to be expelled from favor you get the full story on our t.v. dot com. and while you're there you can check this story out a perfect spot for a dip if it wasn't teeming with dorsal fins holidaymakers in alabama advice to stay away from the beach if they don't want to become shark bait check out the footage for yourself on r.t. dot com. your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't. call it different. the boss repeats the same old joke o

cleansing ethnic cleansing a snake cleansing ethnic cleansing the term however was nothing new in the balkansas it was first used in world war two to describe how the creation was to say we're cleansing croatia unwelcome ethnic elements such as serbs and jews in the minds of the serbs during the one nine hundred ninety s. this was very much engraved in their national memory you know didn't care because he knew he had the support of just the right people german foreign minister hun steve genscher in almost daily contact with zagreb gave his go ahead for croatian secession and actually pressured its western allies to recognize slovenia and croatia.

really sure what to make of them but i think what this looks to me what with my experiences in the balkan wars is that it's a play for time because in a couple of days supposed to sign the association agreement with the e.u. at which point the position of the junta and pushing it would be incredibly strengthened and then they can impose demands from from what they see as a position of strength and they wouldn't have to have the european diplomacy behind this is what i think this is the ploy i think this is what they're stalling for think so ok or jump in i really don't think the association agreement this is the economic chapter of the association agreement and it means very little other than the end of eastern ukrainian industry which cannot conceivably compete with the german. i think porsche inc is his his means are limited at this point his army is ragtag yes they can kill a lot of people but there is another problem which is that ukraine cannot as an economic entity cannot be solved without russian participation take the example of the reunification of germany and this cost hundreds

cleansing ethnic cleansing a snake cleansing ethnic cleansing the term however was nothing new in the balkans as it was first used in world war two to describe how the creation was to shape our clans in croatia unwelcome ethnic elements such as serbs and jews in the minds of the serbs during the one nine hundred ninety s. this was very much engraved in their national memory. didn't care because he knew he had the support of just the right people german foreign minister hun states or in almost daily contact with zagreb gave his go ahead for croatian secession and actually pressured its western allies to recognize slovenia and croatia. as the house votes of the seven other the. combination of the genocide with phobia it was geo political in the sense of one thousand nine hundred eighteen and one nine hundred forty one and that continue eighty also reflected its. in the almost visceral preference for the cross of the slovenes who after all had belonged to the german cultural and state structures for hundreds of years there was however one problem in this plan the serbs who are now constitutional

distance from the ukrainian civil war and i think that it can no longer afford to do so because both balkans personal reputation and russia standing as a great power will be put under question if this apparent passivity persists. all right well thank you very much for coming on to r.t. you we do have to leave it there that's the foreign affairs on this surge of thrift of it thank you. and look now more of the world security has been stepped up across afghanistan during voting in the second round of the presidential election the taliban have issued further threats to disrupt polling last saturday presidential front runner up to a lot of dollar escaped an assassination attempt when a suicide bomber attacked his convoy in the capital kabul. around president says the country has reached agreement with international mediators for it to restart enriching uranium and that the west will lift some sanctions imposed over the country's nuclear program the deal is expected to be finalized before the twenty eighth of june last november world powers and iran reached a temporary agreement under which iran'