sure the balkans perhaps this is early for the balkans but certainly not early for asia. there are those very smart historians in the united states like brooks adams making the important comment that it's eastern asia which is the prize for which all of the energetic nations are grasping. you can see this sort of language here. it's very much not simply being used in the middle east. it is not simply used in the scramble for africa but also used quite importantly in increasing sort of great power tension to asia. this i guess it is hard to see with this map here but essentially what is happening particularly after the sino-japanese war is carve out spheres of influx. you are not taking parts of the dynasty apart but are carving out special interests special ability to create -- to operate minds, create railroads, basically by the eve of the first world war most of the great european powers own most of the chinese economy and are moving in in various parts of china. again, this is not formal colonial rule. based upon where they are geographically in asia you have russians

basically a balkan crisis in the east as i noticed here. and what i mean ensensually is china is the ottomon empire of the east. china is in a similar circumstance. china is a great sort of long lasting dynamic and a political, economic cultural sort of motivation which by the ninth century is getting in trouble which is ottomon empire is doing at the same time. you have difficulties in the ottomon empire in the late 1930s. you may know it's fought in china between the british and the french to obtain more commercial rights in china. this is happening in 1839, 1841. you do have then the japanese war, the japanese who come on-line and do defeat the chinese in war and basically at this point by 1895 things are gang busters. you talk about okay who's paying attention to what in the world in the 1890s, sure the balkans, maybe. perhaps a little early for the balkans but not early for asia. those -- there are those very smart historians in the united states like brooks adams in 1895 making the very important comments that, you know, it's tern asi

they could send 200,000 troops to the balkans and when the u.s. gets involved they would ask for help as well. this just happens again from 1914 through all the weight through to the end. -- through all the way through to the end. there are any number of interesting images that shows a japanese soldier sitting very comfortably with european maidens, whether they be depicted as goddesses, or innocent people saying please come to the party with us, thank you and it is very serious stuff. i tell you this because it is behind sort of the major geopolitical issue that i want to bring home today which japan sort of symbolizes during this war. the major issue is the major fact that the japanese during the first world war are becoming for the first time a world power . with the rest of the japanese war they are a regional power and just by virtue of the fact that they are seen as a very significant -- as a fairly significant -- they can make a difference. everyone wants them on their side. in the economy just continues to grow and make that a reality. thi

we're likely to see thunderstorms that are going to be spawned in western balkan again with a potential of very strong gusts, large hail about the size of four centimeters is likely and tornadic activity are not likely to be ruled out. in fact, this has a history of spawning water spouts in and around greece because the precipitation and thunderstorms are all in store for us there too. the snow is also going to be falling across 15 centimeters of additional snowfall could lead to avalanche. london you saw a little bit of that snow and sleet yesterday. we may see some icy road conditions because your morning lows will be falling down to about freezing point. just 4 for your high. out here across japan the winter pressure pattern is more south. but it's more toward the south we're worried about with the heavy rainfall. this has already produced 60 millimeters of rainfall in 24

he's had wild successes helping broker peace in the balkans, and disappointments. he was this country sleet negotiate and six-party talks to denuclearize -- every codec six more party talks to the nook press north korea which did not achieve their goal. he has met things like mother teresa and sinners like serbian leader slobodan milosevic who died during his trial on genocide charges. ambassador hill is being of the joseph corbett school of international studies at the university of denver. his new book is called "outpost: life on the frontlines of american diplomacy" and it's a fascinating look at both the big picture atreides come section for peace conferences and also the micro, the dilemma of whether to sheikh leaders hand, negotiating a room is decorated of what door to enter through. and let's welcome him. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. your father was a diplomat and certainly an inspiration to you. you spent your childhood in places like belgrade yugoslavia where you home was attacked, and port-au-prince, haiti, where you had to be evacuated.

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it is expected to be mixed with the domestic oil from the balkans north dakota. it is a heavier crude to be mixed with the light crude from the balkans which enables it to flow much easier and be produced. produced. once common goals it is basically american oil lives and dies and is marketed with the policies of the united states of america. our policy is not to export crude oil. i do not no why this is being used to scare people. then we talk about jobs. and west and west virginia it would give us 42,000 jobs all high paying. and they say, they are only contract jobs. yet i here everyone talking about building roads and bridges. those are also seasonal and contracting jobs, not permanent jobs but we are tickled to death to get them. all unions i know of are supportive of this legislation. the other map we had when i first heard about this pipeline i thought it was an anomaly. this is what we have today. this is not foreign to anybody. so you look at public support. here we are, democrats and republicans. the bottom line is if you believe in the polls this has b

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>> there are some people that think russia wants to go to baltic countries and the balkans , poland. myth.s such a it is impossible. you talk to anybody in russia. we don't even think about that. we would never even go to ukraine, not talking about the other countries. >> that is a very arguable point. >> that russians would go to baltic countries -- americans -- it is a myth. land.e enough we have the biggest country in the world. we have so much land. ukraine.ntioned certainly, the west is very concerned about russia going into ukraine. what is it the west doesn't understand about russia and russia, >> moscow and we don't need to occupy ukraine or make it part of russia. nobody wants that. we want them to be neutral. they speak our language, they are our brothers. we want them to be neutral. we see them as a buffer between the western world and the russian world, like finland. we want them to be like finland, that'sutral, befriends, the way russian elites see them, ukraine. it is neutral. it is a buffer. you have poland, the baltic countries, but you put nato and missiles -- this i

army veteran, served in the balkans where he assisted in both civilian and military intelligence activities. so we're just delighted to have you as our speaker, as our first speaker. so please help me welcome vince houghton. >> thank you peter. thank all of you for coming here today. getting a chance to talk about the atomic spies, about nuclear intelligence, this is my field this is also my passion. i try to do everything i can to talk about this to anyone hop wants to listen. so it's nice to actually have people who are interested in this. it does look a little strange walking around d.c. talking to myself about nuclear weapons on a daily basis, so it is always nice to have people who are here and interested. this is my first chance to speak to the smithsonian group. i came to the spy museum in march so i only know you by reputation. but the reputation is that you are, by far, the most educated and most intelligent audiences that we can possibly have here at the spy museum. i'm sorry i don't want to come across like i'm pandering. you're far too intelligent, good looking and well dressed

>> some people think russians want to go to baltic countries or to balkans or to poland.his is a myth. it is impossible. you talk to anybody in russia, we do not think about it. we would not go to ukraine. that is a myth that russians would go to baltic countries. >> to restore the soviet union. >> they need the support, money. russia would never -- we are the biggest country in the world. we have so much land. >> you mentioned ukraine. the west is concerned about russia going into ukraine. what is at the west does not understand about russia and ukraine? >> moscow and russia, we do not need to occupy ukraine or make it part of russia. what we want, we want them to be neutral. they speak our language. we want them to be neutral. we see them as a buffer between western world and russian world. like finland. neutral. friends with europe and russia. the way russian elites see them. neutral, a buffer. you have poland, baltic countries, you put the missiles there, and so on. we are surrounded. this is ukraine. please. >> maybe they want to be american in that part of the world

the border with antwerp, as well as the presence of organized crime, especially from the balkans. >> coulibaly brought his own personal. he is said to have bought the kalashnikov and the rocket launcher used by the kouachi brothers. coulibaly and the brothers had a ready trying to buy weapons in 2011. belgium has often been used as an operating base for french jihadist. the 2013, one of them was killed during a car chase on a belgian road. the police later found this large arsenal at his home. he was reportedly planning a terror attack and had ties to mohammed america -- >> funerals were held for five people killed at french magazine charlie hebdo. people pay their respect to georges wolinski and bernard verlhac. john kerry has arrived in the french capital to pay his respects after those attacks. >> people gathered to pay their respects to cherif kouachi police for a cherif kouachi i -- i people gathered to pay their respects to police officer franck brinsolaro i franck brinsolaro. >> i came to pay tribute to a colleague in his family, to show support. to support the profession. >>

it will pick up even more moisture and cause problems for the balkan peninsula. severe weather and powerful winds and large hail and maybe isolated tornado, talking about heavy rainfall and the flow to the south. look for that down in degrees and also the tip of italy and africa and thunderstorms as well. high of 12 and the cold will sneak out moisture into stockholm, moscow and kia thursday. behind that area wrapping around cold air, single digit highs for london paris and madrid. >>> the forecast into east asia very cold weather taking place for china because the high pressure system is dragging air where you can see the coloration where cold temperatures are on the ground level. something interesting happens looking at this photo, this phenomenon phenomenon that looks like three suns but actually one sun but because of the celsius and air kofrl covered in ice crystals it creates this optical illusion and it is cold. toward the east and into japan, we're talking about wet weather. gusty washington d.c. in terms of winds and oak nowwie will look out for that and

here's the saudis with this very aggressive play, and making american production in places like the balkans simply less profitable. >> right but there are areas where there are public plans of cohesion. saudis agreed to do that on their territory. there are still a lot of hoops to be jumped through to get it up and running. it's not up and running at this point. as far as we know there are none of those rebels training on saudi territory but that is something that they agree on, nonetheless. but there are sharp differences going on intact ticks in the fight against isil. the saudis want to see the u.s. take a more forthright action. they're trying to get permission-to-get man pad missiles up to the syrian opposition they need the united states permission to do that, and so far that has not been forth coming. >> thank you. that's mike viqueira. when we come back, who is king salman? more on the sucks session and succession and leadership. stay with us. it's inside story. >> this is inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. as saudis mourn the death of king abdullah. the two corinth

the balkans, a number based in france have gotten an arsenal of weapons, going to the balkans. you can get this stuff on the black market not difficult to find. europe being the way it is there's no border control. it is fairly easy to bring things across borders. don't have to worry about sea port checks. >> when you look at the details coming in that this group, this terror cell was already under observation before paris, when the news broke yesterday, people instantly thought there must be a tie in. so far there's no link between what happened last night in belgium and what happened in paris last week. >> yeah. i mean there's no link as far as we know but if you just lay the context, what bill and evan talked about who look at the population of america, 330 million people and it is around 100 jihadists we know traveled to syria. france, 66 million, 1200 jihadists. belgium, 11 million out, 350 jihadists. you look at the ratio, there's a melting point in belgium that's a problem. they're trying to address it through various new laws. france tried to address it through a new la

we are likely to see thunderstorms in the western balkan again with potential of very strong gusts. large hail the size of 4 centimeters is likely. and tornadic activity cannot be ruled out. in fact, this has a history of spawning waterspouts in and around greece. excessive precipitation and thunderstorms are all in store for us too. the snow is also going to be falling across french alps. about 15 centimeters of additional snowfall could lead to avalanche. london you saw a little bit of that snow and sleet yesterday. we may see icy road conditions. your morning lows will be falling down to the freezing point. just 4 for your high. out here across japan, the winter pressure pattern is quite strong but it's more toward the south that we are worried of with the heavy rainfall. this has produced 60 millimeters of rainfall in 24 hours. and 70 kilometers per hour winds have been reported in and around kochi prefecture. that system will be moving parallel to the pacific side and we have more inland snowfall across the backbone mountains of japan. just 6 degrees for the high with freezing

. >> reporter: going to the balkan cost as much as -- ball can cost as much as a wedding.t used to be about finding suit fors and eventually husbands for society girls. with so many dating apps and social websites the role of the debutante ball has changed. >> it's no longer a marriage market the way it was. >> reporter: today it's more about being seen rubbing shoulders with the 1%. we followed three young women during their big night. sophia from austin. leah from new york. and britney from kansas city. the preparations began months beforehand. it's a few weeks before the big event and many of the ladies still don't have a date for the ball. so they've come here to the bachelors brunch in hopes of finding an escort. >> can i have your attention for one minute. we have a nice receiving line. the bachelors receiving line. >> reporter: an event organized to pair up high society gals with young men from military academies and ivy league schools. >> it's the other way around in life. the guys pick the girls, hey, come to dinner that kind of thing. here, it's none of that. >>

hail, damaging winds and also tornadoes, especially for the southern areas of italy and the western balkan peninsula into your saturday morning at least. so severe weather is also happening in the southern areas. now temperatures are going to be as follows in the double digits for the mediterranean countries in the single digits for the north. but still on the warmer side in moscow with high of zero degrees, 3 degrees in kiev on the last day of the business week. now, we have the first measurable snowfall of the season in tokyo on friday. the system is now located to the east of the kanto region starting to affect the tohoku region with snowfall and it should intensify even further and affect the western half of hokkaido as we go into the weekend. this is going to be a very heavy snow event. we're expecting winds -- snow of up to 50 sent meters into saturday evening. and then gusts of nearly 130 kilometers per hour so blowing snow will reduce visibility. traveling is going to be very hazardous. and then across the other side of japan we'll also see heavy snowfall probably up to 40 centimet

>> what is the risk associated with the balkanization of credit risk around europe?will make it difficult to see the eurozone as the united front when that credit rate has been subbed out. where will that leave the ecb? >> this is precisely the concern, the selling point. if you could come out which is very complicated. some central banks logic of further -- you do have a balkanized -- therefore, you start to undermine your chances of success. that calls for a more dramatic program. mario draghi will talk a good game he has always done that, but he needs to come up with something big and bold. >> qs so much. -- thank you so much. it is a big week in terms of coverage this week. that will not stop us from taking the ecb press conference live. that is this thursday 1:30 p.m. u.k. time. >> the ecb has now moved to six weeks. on thursday, i sit down with some of the most influential business leaders in the world. >> that is quite a good set up. we will carry on the conversation. stay tuned for that story on "the pulse." >> being a producer, you know, the price differenti

i do want to point out the northern balkans we have a low pressure system over italy that will draw in some moisture already seeing rainfall and flooding problems that will continue on as we go in to wednesday. so look out for that. rain and thunderstorms in to rome. also into madrid. maybe some snow mixing with that. and up towards stockholm we'll see some snow, as well. rain in to warsaw as we go through wednesday. we are looking at some rain and wet weather as we go to north america. we have a low pressure system being generated down toward the desert southwest and crossing into oklahoma and texas. this system will eventually move over the gulf of mexico picking up even more moisture, and that's going to bring some heavy rainfall for the deep south as we go later on this week. in the mean time we do have a low pressure system that's clipping over the great lakes. that's going to bring in some cold air, so snow possible in chicago, d.c. and new york with chilly temperatures in to toronto. and i want to take you over further toward the north and west into western canada. we have a low

that moisture with it and dumping it over the southern portion of italy and along the coast of the balkan peninsula we are looking at the possibility of seeing some severe weather excessive rainfall part of the equation along with strong winds and gusty conditions. some large hail cannot be ruled out along with some isolated tornadoes and thunderstorms. so be prepared for another wild start to the weekend, as we go in to saturday. rain does extend up toward the north into warsaw vienna and kiev and some snow into moscow. temperatures quite chilly in the single zing its to below freezing. back toward the west we're seeing temperatures at 2 to 4 degrees from paris into london. so quite chilly once again. wrapping things up with a look at north america we're keeping an eye on this low pressure system that brought record amounts of snowfall into amarillo, texas, thursday. it is now picking up more moisture. we're looking at the possibility of some heavy rainfall maybe even severe weather along the coast of the carolinas and down to the gulf coast in florida and to look out for some very wet w

over the south of italy and the balkan peninsula and parts of turkey there's a chance of thunderstorms, and even hail for the coastal locations, and inland snow for the mountainous locations. patches of snow for central europe, but temperatures actually warmer than average. zero degrees for the high moscow minus 3 degrees, just a couple of degrees higher than normal. zero degrees in kiev with snow on the menu. but across the west in the teens in madrid as well as lisbon on tuesday. that's all for now. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour, i'm gene otani in tokyo. orld commemorates the liberation of auschwitz. kurdish fighters celebrate the retaking of kobane. islamic state fighters control surrounding areas. angela merkel congratulates the new anti-austerity prime minister on his party's win. those are the headlines. coming up, more on greece and business.

and then another low coming into the balkan peninsula. we'll be seeing some rain into athens with a high of 17 on monday. 4 in paris. madrid at 9 degrees with some wet weather in store. wrapping things up we're looking at the forecast for australia. you may notice a system moving toward the southeastern coast and that means more rain expect the as we go into tuesday as the asian cup games continue for these locations right here with highs in the mid to upper 20s. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended outlook. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. çñ? t the terror threat in europe this as authorities continue to search for the mastermind of a jihadist cell in belgium. in yemen, with the rebels -- who super bowls -- tutsi rebels opened fire on government officials. and 60 children have been kidnapped, including -- 60 people have been kidnapped including ch

i think that is true, that balkanization of our popular culture. what i'm struck by is how the audience has grown to include college professors and nobel laureates were all watching the same shows we are. what is interesting about that is simply that that is how good television has gotten. it is still terrible in some things, but you probably are cells will discuss a tv show before a movie before a novel. television is not like a novel. so much so that there was an adaptation of a novel i had loved, i thought. it was adapted by bbc. tom stoppard wrote the screenplay. the screenplay was so good that it made the novel look bad. that is how things have evolved. nobody is going to movies because all the movie directors are now doing television. spielberg has a television production company. pretty much anybody with the name "s" has a tv show. frank and i work great fans of nora efron. -- are great fans of nora efron. when she was in the hospital dying, she was determined to keep working. she was working on a television treatment. it was about a woman w

it is not moving the balkan through the city right now. moves through lynchburg. if you want to see if you live or work inside the evacuation zone go online and you can see that map we created and look right down to your house like a google map. >> pretty troubling to see it laid out on the map like that. >> pretty surprising. a lot of people didn't know it was that big. it stretched farther than most appreciated including the capitol. >> thrt started with a viewer to find out if has mats are coming thawing the city. if you have a tip, we investigation you to share it. >>> we have breaking news from france a senior u.s. counter terrorism tells us that one person has been killed and two are in custody. they killed a him and seen in a previous attack on a firebomb attack because it had hock eded a car cartoon mocking islam. >>> the public can weigh in on raising the tolls. you have until january 6th to send money to the virginia corporation commission. the owners want a 10 cent hike bringing tolls to 4en 39ed and 15 cent increase during the

itself unilaterally has more entities on its sanctions list from from the balkans, cuba, iran burma and even zimbabwe than north korean entities. we have nearly three times as many zimbabwe entities on the sanctions list as north korea. fourth, there's nothing more the u.s. can do on north korea. again, you'll see that often in the media. and, again that's not true. the u.s. has a number of existing laws and regulations that we've simply not applied as firmly towards north korea as we have to other nations. president obama, the former assistant secretary of state for east asia, etc., etc., have all said there are other measures that we're contemplating, some of them are blood curdling, and yet we still wait a year or more after these statements. a fifth sanction -- a fifth myth sanctions don't work on north korea. well, they do k. we did, we had an extensive program in 2005 against a bank where in conjunction with the u.s. treasury department announcing it as a money laundering concern, there were a number of private meetings with u.s. officials throughout asia with businesses and banks

they went back tonight attacks which they carried out -- you can see up there in the balkans.again, the tried gaming at the old city and this was successful because they could not see that from the air. they could destroy perhaps 50% of the city. these are relatively small raid. perhaps dozens, hundreds of other bombers and aircraft. the idea was hit targets, and if they had to, take a target in the same area again. but the raf quickly concluded that was a bad strategy because if they had to come back to the same target or somewhere near the same target, they would find it better fortified and defended, because the germans would have realized it was a prime target for raf calming. -- bombing. so they would sustain worse losses. so, harris decided the thing to do was carry out massive raids against german targets so they can engage in total destruction of all possible targets in the area as quickly as possible, and also again incidentally, have the propaganda success of having carried out so much destruction so quickly, as well as possibly the emotional satisfaction of having d

certainly that was a complicated and a multifaceted conflict in the balkans that majority of americans were not even familiar with. but tell us why that is another pivotal event for you. >> guest: it was because of the -- well, first of all the u.s. brokered these negotiations and for the first -- the war went on for nearly three years in bosnia. it was vicious savage deadliest war in europe since the time of the nazis since the end of world war ii. the united states policy was to defer to the europeans in trying to resolve this conflict to bring it to a conclusion. and that approach quite clearly failed. and with the massacre in bosnia in the summer in july of 1995 when 8,000 muslim boys and men were herded off and executed by bosnian serb paramilitary forces, when that happened, the worst atrocity in a terrible war, it became very clear to u.s. commentators, an li, foreign policy experts, and eventually the clinton administration, that something had to be done. u.s. had to move on this. that was a primary consideration and a primary reason the united states moved ahead and brokered a

to the east, russian armies pushed their way through poland in the balkans.e south angelo american forces were moving relentlessly up the italian peninsula. to the west, allied armies having advanced through france and the low countries now gather add long the borders of western germany. >> good old m-1 rifle. semi-automatic, breach loaded. seems a lot heavier than it did 20 years ago. my name is john shaw. i was with the 84th infantry division as a buck private during world war ii. i was one of these astp boys, 3,000 shipped down to the 84th division in april before we went overseas, 1944. and we were trained hard and sent overseas in september and were in england for a while. then we caught the red ball express and then before we knew it, we were right on the edge of the line, ready to go into combat. we were, all of us kind of wondering what things were going to be like. we could see the shells going off. we could hear them. and we were all sort of nervous, but i don't think anyone was really fully conscious and aware of what was going to happen. >> the me

that remain true to specific issues allows them to fight for black family while at the same time balkanizingican american conservatives and abortion. both conservatives and nationalists in the community historicically have used the term genocide to describe abortion. this reduction arises from a misappropriation of a quote by margaret sanger founder of planned parenthood. the negro project which was started by her was designed to bring health care to black women in the south. both the negro physician and religious minister should work together in order for the project to succeed and gain the trust of the black community. she wanted a minister to debunchingt claims if they arose that the program was designed to exterminate the community. they would simply turn this phrase and say that she wanted to exterminate the black community not save it and would do that through abortion. slavery's another appeal to promote the idea that black people are being considered less than human by abortion rights act vivets. using the dread scott decision, pro life including african americans, claim that the dec

so they have not been put down -- >> but that's balkanizing the country. you have the chamber of commerce working hand in glove with left wing organizations to disregard. you know, the chamber of commerce wants cheap labor. they talk about high value highly educated sophisticated folks to bring into the country or keep in the country. the reality is nearly everyone is low educated, low skilled. >> you know i think what we're also looking at is, we're looking at a situation that could be possibly yupsed to an event that just we're not allowing them status as a citizen. but if you're allowed to access banking institutions, then why can't we now tax those who are here who claim well we would pay tax if we could. >> you're going to drive them back into the shadows, rebecca. >> how am i doing that? because i pay my taxes and am proud to do it for the american -- >> i'm being facetious. you would be charged. >> i know. but my worry is i agree with you completely, but my worry is different from that. if you're here you're al qaeda. you want to get into a bank. yo

. >> the drug economy has unfortunately been thriving elsewhere and from the balkans and domestic are now pretty well furnished with weapons of that sort. >> reporter: one last line before we hand it back to london an investigation into the man traveling with coulibaly's girlfriend. >> he is suspected of having done the video with coulibaly that was put online shortly after coulibaly was killed. this man has a very good education, comes from a high level engineering school in southern france. not all of these guys are dropout s dropouts. some people talk about terrorists with mbas, this one comes pretty close. >> reporter: thank you very much for joining us this morning. one other line from paris. we're hearing the comedienne very controversial in france and incite ed incited for comments here he was arrested this week putting up a facebook page saying the was charlie coulibaly and it was taken down and investigated by the french prosecutor and we understand he's been taken into custody. many of these people supporting these attacks and fast-tracked through the law. one man yesterday

found out basically the crude oil from canada is expected to be mixed with a domestic oil from the balkans from your region, north dakota. the canadian oil is a heavier crude like venezuelan oil. it will be mixed with the light crude from the balkans which enables it to flow just easier and be produced. once it comingles, this oil is basically american oil. it lives and dies and basically is marketed with the policies of the united states of america. and our policy is not to export crude oil. so i don't know why people are using this argument and scaring people that we'll get no benefit. then we talked about the jobs. and they say well, there's not that many jobs. well in west virginia, you give us 42,000 jobs, we'd be very appreciative, we'll thank you. and these are all high-paying jobs. and they say well, they're only contractual -- they're only contract jobs but yet i hear everybody talking republicans and democrats about building roads and building bridges. those are also seasonal types of jobs. those are all contracting jobs. they're not permanent jobs but we're tickled to death to g

this has happened fairly well in the balkans, for example, where the big added value of the european path has been also an improvement of the relations among countries that were found it quite difficult for historical and even recent political reasons to live together, and look at the balkans now. it's one of the most quiet places in the region. and we would have never said that. that's very much thanks to the fact that we have developed a strong relation through the european union and from the european union on the regional cooperation. i really hope and believe that this could be an added value also for other regions around us. >> now i'll go with the gentleman in the very back, please. whose mike we took away before. >> thank you very much. madame high commissioner, i'm john gizzy, chief political correspondent for "news max." the elephant in the room, so to speak s greece and its selection is this sunday. how seriously does the eu take the talk that certainly the punditocracy lines to bandy about an exit of the euro of the party of the radical left if its takes power and very pos

you know, because now, weapons are coming from the balkans.you have a lot of kalashnikovs that unfortunately you can buy for 2,000 euros. >> numerous suspects were on the run, possibly in france, this country remains on the highest state of alert and belgium on high alert, as well. >> rick leventhal, thank you. >>> and more on charlie hebdo the pontiff condemns killing in the name of god but he also says there are limits regarding freedom of expression if they ridicule somebody's faith. >>> back here on capitol hill lawmakers are being warned their work place is a target. christopher cornell was arrested wednesday and charged with attempting to kill a u.s. government officer and plant pipe bombs at the u.s. capital. the fbi said that cornell expressed his support for isis. his family said that he was egged on he is due in court tomorrow afternoon. >>> as terror plots unfold throughout the world, critics are shocked that the obama administration is continuing to free gitmo detainees who may return to the battlefield. more from the white house.

found out basically the crude oil from canada is expected to be mixed with a domestic oil from the balkans from your region, north dakota. the canadian oil is a heavier crude like venezuelan oil. it will be mixed with the light crude from the balkans which enables it to flow just easier and be produced. once it comingles, this oil is basically american oil. it lives and dies and basically is marketed with the policies of the united states of america. and our policy is not to export crude oil. so i don't know why people are using this argument and scaring people that we'll get no benefit. then we talked about the jobs. and they say well, there's not that many jobs. well in west virginia, you give us 42,000 jobs, we'd be very appreciative, we'll thank you. and these are all high-paying jobs. and they say well, they're only contractual -- they're only contract jobs but yet i hear everybody talking republicans and democrats about building roads and building bridges. those are also seasonal types of jobs. those are all contracting jobs. they're not permanent jobs but we're tickled to death to g

the the us itself unilaterally has more entities on it sanctions list from the balkans cuba iran and even and even zimbabwe the north korean. we have nearly three times as many zimbabwe entities on the sanctioned list is north korean entities. fourth, there is nothing more the us can do on north korea. korea. you will see that often. again that is not true. there are number of laws and regulations that we have simply not applied is firmly to north korea as we have to other nations. president obama they have all said there are other measures we are contemplating, some of the arm bloodcurdling and yet we still waiting here or more. a 5th sanction or a 5th myth, sanctions don't work on north korea. well, they do. we had an extensive program in 2005 against a moscow bank where in conjunction with the u.s. treasury department and announcing it as a money laundering concern their were a number of private meetings throughout asia with businesses and banks that led to over two dozen entities no longer willing to do business with north korea. you finally found a way to hurt us. the obama admi

specialized in balkan history. this was before the collapse of the berlin wall so i was particularly interested in the history of communism and pre-communism, the history of russia and germany and countries that then existed like czechoslovakia which have now fragmented. after i graduated from the school of slavonic studies in london, i was a british council scholar, which is equivalent to a fulbright scholar in sarajevo in the old yugoslavia. this was both before the civil war and the olympics, 1982 1983. then i came to grad school in berkeley. i came as a political scientist. i had the fairly unique achievement of coming as a scholar and then being thrown out as a troublemaker. so i had my moments of failure too. >>what kind of trouble were you making. i made fun of stodgy epidemics -- academics, career academics that have nothing to say for themselves. as you can tell from my work, i find hard to be not a little brutal. and i like to tell what i see is the truth. and american academia is so mired in tradition, i

over decades where people go to fight in hot spots back in the '90s it was chechnyia and then the balkans and some come back to become operational in their own countries. that's why monitoring the travel and xhuncommunication between the u.s. western europe and what goes on in the middle east is very important. >> a question a lot of viewers have is if you knew these guys went to syria, and fought for isis, and came back why are they just walking around and the same could be asked about people in this country, because i have heard of individuals, there was that jihadi from florida who fought with el nusra, came back to florida, went back to syria and died there. why not arrest them when they come back? >> a couple issues. do you have a basis to arrest them if you can prove in court they went to fight, that may be sufficient to give you basis to arrest. at a minimum you want to surveil them. there are resource constraints. if there are literally hundreds of people going back to western europe the ability of the police to literally sit on everybody becomes problematic from the standpoint of