german peter extraction companies are apparently welcome in the baltic states. coffee from the state of lower saxony runs a company that extracts people in latvia. working in the more difficult heavy machines can easily get stuck in the soft ground. the soil yields not only peat but also a lot of dead pine trees some are up to two thousand years old the wood is shredded and then burned in the local power plant. who profited by the these people so that we could keep an eye on the market higher in the baltic states. at the same time pete extraction is decreasing in north. no but london. permits are now harder to get because extraction is now only allowed on old farmland. and flaking eloped is. in germany peat can only be extracted if it lies under meadows and fields and not via peat can be extracted from forest land but the land has to be drained first existing more land cannot be drained but predicts traction permits are relatively easy to get here and there's not a lot of red tape. another advantage is lower labor costs and the peat producers have agreed to rewor

for a minister talking about the ever strange ties between russia and the baltic states and european security. let's look at the be seen north stream gas pipeline. by russia. and germany and the baltics stand against it but one day pastes it well waiting since nobody really wants to blow up a money making pipeline be beneficial to the baltic states and sure that russia not nor e.u. will ever in danger this profitable project well during all those twenty nine years of our independence we have never never had shortage of guys which way buy from russia why should we be afraid that one day russia will cut those supplies will stay without gas this is again and politicize the issue because of americans americans are producing the biggest producers of gas today and tomorrow they will start. selling their gas and so they're interested in this from things this project and will they succeed i don't know i am i'm afraid they might because. europe today being so divided and resolves is breck's it then all of the problems they have inside inside brussels and inside the e.u. well maybes and they mi

by just the three baltic states had to basically reinvent themselves as the west was far away and they didn't have any role models within their borders marta lara stone his first prime minister once said his country needed young leaders because they don't know their own limits they can achieve the impossible. today mark dar works at the bank of a stone here but we first met him fifteen years ago as stone iau was about to join the e.u. and the world wanted to know what kind of people lived within the soon to be member state smart lars considered the father of modern a stony that's relatively low tax rate internet for all and e.u. and nato membership so we made it. and it went much spread of any never suspected. why because although we told to join the e.u. and nato we didn't quite believe we could manage it well not seen it but here we are. his entry into political office wasn't easy in the early nineties estonia had just regained its independence from the soviet union lara was twenty seven then and became an activist figure he always ran the risk of being locked up until he actually be

it'll still be a while before the baltic states have come to terms with their checkered past they've often been at the mercy of their mighty neighbors but that there's a generation that holds its future in its own hands. international talk show before journalists discuss the topic of the week. is not is so necessary as today nor so endangered says french president. will his vision for a new european renaissance to mobilize support for the. that's our topic today on. quadriga thirty minutes w. . sex make. raring to go. if there is any product benefits remember you have to find it between the wife's. literature hundred plus streets. this is d w news coming to you live from new zealand police say forty nine people are dead you know after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of christchurch is one from new zealand dockets. clearly what has happened here is an extraordinary and i'm increasing to take over.

borders with europe the baltic states have been especially alert. border guards on the dunes cover their tracks with sand when their shift is over. it takes time but by eliminating their own tracks they can quickly see whether anyone else has been their. anxiety amongst russia's small neighbors is mounting. so they're putting up benson's to mark their country's frontiers even where there was once a green border i could make misty's. mother yonah has lived in the border town of his status for eighty two years. the front here markers have changed colors more than once they used to be precious and so be it and she used to cross them off and. today that's no longer possible. you never know even if we wanted to we couldn't cross over they used to be lots of mushrooms over there because of that when was the passage closed no question that they close the border when lithuania became a sophron state that was over twenty years ago now that. nothing but nothing in the light of day and. anyone living this close to the border is either very scared or not scared

has become almost impossible in germany so now the industry is getting its raw material from the baltic states. you know i'm going to be also on the extraction permit process in germany takes a long time and it's expensive.

they are 100 percent in no matter what. >> may i remind you when we visited the white house, the baltic statesresident trump tell us? >> the baltic republicans can trust the united states will remain a strong, proud and loyal friend and ally. >> may i add that i'm very grateful. every h estoniaen occupied didn't let us down. knew that the united states of america and other free countries flew our flag blue, black and white is visible and being seen against our occupation. believe me, this was extremely important and this way u.s.a. is standing behind us and beside us and together with us in our free world nowadays. but now we are protecting each other as equal partners, absolutely i have received assurance also assurance that nato does matter. trans-atlantic relations do matter because we have only one free world threatened by nuclear threat not only russia other actors globally. estonia very mindful about other risks. afghanistan and iraq still are. >> bret: last thing madam president and that is the issue of trade. >> we are going to tariff a lot of their products coming in the european unio

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topic same as happened in both yemen angry over and for that matter baltic states and we suspect that that's the signal that will denmark a border barrier a multi-billion euro export industry and a potentially fatal pandemic it's not a good time to be a wild boar in denmark however they are very adept jumpers swimmers and even tunnel is so they sport a wall may prove to be is fruitless is the critics of donald trump's think his whale peter all of a germany. doesn't for mail be a bag of headlines in what's a thirty three and a half minute stay with us. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective and i'm used to surprising us all why not if you think. i'm going to talk about football nazi or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of the slide here. dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime happens each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he

we might run into similar problems if the russians became aggressive in the baltic states and claimedian populations in estonia, latvia and lithuania, where would we be if we had, in the meantime, sanctioned occupations in israel and the golan heights? the un is not going to take any action, but it does not mean to say it agrees with it. it is donald trump ignoring the rules—based world order. he is not the only one. putin has done it, the answer is he has done it and nobody has done very much about it. that is the reality. it is all very well saying we should not legitimise what has happened in crimea, but in a sense, we have, it has happened and nothing has been done about it. but it is important. these structures, like the inadmissibility of acquisition of territory by force are crucial, and john is absolutely right. there is an entire post—war architecture of european diplomacy, of diplomatic usage that can be undermined by a tweet. that architecture will survive trump, putin and many others. one hopes. much depends on the surviving of trump himself and we have to reassess that th

thing in cleveland czech republic same has happened in both human angry over and for that matter baltic states and we suspect that that would signal at will then with a border barrier a multi-billion euro export industry and a potentially fatal pandemic it's not a good time to be a wild boar in denmark however they are very adept jumpers swimmers and even tunnel is so they sport a wall may prove to be is fruitless is the critics of donald trump's think his whale peter all of a germany well talking of dividing lines keeping a close eye on this weekend was happening when india and pakistan skirmishes along the disputed region of kashmir continue as those two nuclear powers tussle for control we'll talk about it when we come back. you know world big part of. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the

we might run into similar problems if the russians became aggressive in the baltic states and claimedpulations in estonia, latvia and lithuania. where would we be if we had sanctioned occupations in israel and the golan heights? the un is not going to take any action but it does not mean to say he agrees with it. it is donald trump ignoring the rules —based world order. putin has done it, the a nswer world order. putin has done it, the answer is he has done it and nobody has done much about it. that is the output. it is all very well saying we should not legitimise what has happened in crimea, but it has happened in crimea, but it has happened and nothing has been done about it. these structures like the inadmissibility of territory by force a re inadmissibility of territory by force are crucial and john is right. there is an entire post—war architecture of european diplomacy and diplomatic usage that can be undermined bya and diplomatic usage that can be undermined by a tweet. that architecture will survive trump, putin and others. one hopes. that depends on the surviving of trump hi

dissolved and some of its former members later joined the west's defense alliance poland and the baltic states used to be aligned with the soviet union in the communist alliance called the warsaw pact after nine hundred eighty nine they along with other former warsaw pact countries joined the nato of the north atlantic treaty organization that nato so to russian president vladimir putin was a sign of russia's weakness today is country is strong and since you create a crisis and the annexation of crimea former communist states are grown concerned about russian intentions that's why the northeast of poland less than a hundred kilometers from the russian border hosts a contingent of u.s. troops there part of nato is planned to secure poland in case of a provocation from the east. these are not pictures stuff an actual war it's an exercise in case of emergency jonathan oakes has been stationed for six months in north a sim poland near the russian border a long way from his home state of tennessee in the u.s. he previously did two tours of duty in iraq as a tank on are. likely not. reckless a comba

happened in the czech republic same as happened in the procurement angry power and for that matter baltic states and we suspect that similar have then what a border barrier or a multi-billion euro ex wild boar in denmark however they are very adept jumpers swimmers and even tunnel is so they sport a wall may prove to be is fruitless is the critics of donald trump's think his whale peter all of a germany. parlous and other french cities are witnessing yellow vest government marches for the sixth straight week and these are live pictures right now in. sizable turnout in the capital around seven thousand people or so expected so they are throughout the weekend now on friday president again appealing for calm to avoid some of the violence seen in previous weeks it certainly got a little bit larger unimproved yes hours that we're going to live pictures what began as a grassroots rally over fuel prices has long since broadened into wider anger at the president thing of the economy as we approach darkness in paris we'll be keeping track on the throughout the hours. right it's no secret about hungary's

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then i heard you referred to the baltic states. 40% of the russian population in and you canoted out be punished for using it in many places. in crimea -- >> is there a question? secretary,ssistant what is the criteria of real democracy for you? if nobody can deny it, that the majority of local populations voted or supported the reunification with russia, so how does it go with real democracy? thank you. i think george in his statement put some of the figures on the table in terms of the quality of that vote, that in certain key districts of crimea, magically, 120% of the population voted, so that is obviously not a free and fair election. have aly, when you change of status of this magnitude that you are asking a , first of to consider all, the home state of the territory gets a vote. there was no effort to involve the entire ukrainian population in this election. number two, you had already purged or send on the run most of the strong ukrainian partisans by the time the vote happened. there was no public discussion. in the kosovo context, we had four years of u.n. resolutions, a wa

feel the same happened in czech republic same as happened in human angry over and for that matter baltic states and we suspect that in similar it will denmark a border barrier a multi-billion euro export industry and a potentially fatal pandemic it's not a good time to be a wild boar in denmark however they are very adept jumpers swimmers and even tunnel is so they sport a wall may prove to be is fruitless is the critics of donald trump's think his whale peter all of a germany. c n n is coming across his mouth for accusations that rigged a hostile audience against american politician bernie sanders. try to solve the stupid american university how can a voter like me feel confident in your ability to represent the party especially given that your response to sexual harassment allegations during your campaign is that you were quote a little bit busy running around the country trying to make the case to be a leftist president. good evening there's a lot of misinformation regarding your plans for universal health care would you please provide a brief overview of your plan and how it differs from th

heavy snow still going to fall in scandinavia sweden in particular differing dian through the baltic states and of course into moscow now all this is taking place in northern europe in the sas with the exception the eastern med it's not quite quite as interesting breeze which isn't allowing the sun to warm things up very much yes we got twenty knowledge is by the same in most america but middle teens otherwise in the eastern med is increasingly windy and likely to wet once again now if you come further south you're picking up up coming showers of the sun's moving quickly north and that when the showers of over he reached nigeria and cameroon you know we're there for a few days yet fairly heavy. right . hello again i missed and a reminder of the news this hour at least three people have died in a cross border shelling between india and pakistan in the disputed kashmir region indian officials say a mother and her two children were killed and tensions remain high after islamabad and new delhi said they chopped down each other's jets on wednesday. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied ac

heavy snow still going to fall in scandinavia sweden in particular differing dian through the baltic states and of course into moscow now all this is taking place in northern europe in the sas with the exception the eastern med it's not quite quite as interesting breeze which isn't allowing the sun to warm things up very much yes we've got twenty now jeanne is by the same in most of america but it's middle teens otherwise and the eastern med is increasingly windy and likely to wet once again now if you come further south you're picking up up coming showers in the sun's moving quickly north and then when the showers of over the reached nigeria and cameroon you know we're there for a few days yet fairly heavy. it does look more like bangladesh is becoming a one party state give me one good reason why the opposition should have been able to do far some of the problem with human rights watch describes our opposition members have been arrested killed and even disappeared. he goes head to head with. do you want to do it develop. this is a development is not the same as democracy. on al-jazeera. c

as far as the decisions nato made to augment the presence in several states in eastern europe that were seen as under the three balticsnd poland, the aired states had a small presence and we now have three battalions as part of the so-called enhanced nato forward presence. it is not up to the russia border, and certainly the russians don't like it but it is by no means a presence that could be seen as anything that is going to threaten russia. it is much too small to have offensive capability. question toecond stephen is, i believe last month or this month, the pentagon ran battleter simulation of -- battle, possibly world war iii where china would hit us in the pacific and russia would hit us in europe. is that true? i am not familiar with that specific game. we at the rand corporation have run a variety of wargames where there has been a challenge, particularly a study published in 2015 which showed that not so much that the united states was incapable of defending the united states but in terms of the defense of the baltics, that it was a difficult military challenge because of the time-distance problem. we don't h

towards scandinavia and it's still cold enough in sweden and norway the snow and that's true the baltic states and probably touching to belarus otherwise these temperature on the high side of normal for march now boston eastern med it's been generally fine recently with the winds winds quite strong suit to newsy and that's one reason why we kept down to eighteen in tunis so breezy weather if you are rather windy than the quiet than to most north africa until you get down towards west africa so not cheery and gonna have both seen a lot of cloud recently and reported significant rain yet the showers come in early and they're still there in the forecast on surprisingly. who was a sponsor. by making every news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's journalists that's right out of the script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most embarrassing a free palestine l

know, you have certain banks, especially those that did business in eastern europe, whether the baltic statesthose are probably the ones most directly implicated. but then you get into correspondent banking, that begins to attach you to bigger money center banks, potentially even exposure in the u.s. jim, bloomberg wrote a story that this highlights how weak the cops were. the policing has been incredibly weak. we talk about the risks in financials themselves, but the regulators need to think about how they have been acting and think about how they are going to act going forward. how to give a shift do you think we will see? james: i am a skeptic. if you look back before the financial crisis, it was really, all for one and one for all. and the crisis gave impetus to a european effort to form a banking union, and they moved ahead well on the regulatory side. you know, the signal supervisory mechanism. but they ran out of energy before they got to the of portsmouth side. and the money of -- to the enforcement side. and the money laundering has to do with enforcement and there really is no enfor

if some kind of crisis did happen, the experts say russia would probably attack the baltic states first on western europe as well. kourtney broke this story. she has that exclusive reporting from the pentagon. walk us through what you've learned and how significant it is. >> reporter: this is coming from the estonia intelligence community. they've been paying attention to russia. they watch them closely. russia is the biggest threat to estonia. they're constantly gathering intelligence on them. most of the findings are not particularly new and that we know that russia tries to meddle in elections. we know they engage in extensive cyber operations and they engage in large scale military exercises. but what's particularly interesting is it looks back at what they did in 2018 and looks forward at 2019. you mentioned the eu parliamentary elections. these are people elected for five years and the estonia intelligence services are saying that they believe russia will attempt to influence and get russia friendly candidates from some of the largest members including italy and france. so that wo

heavy snow still going to fall in scandinavia sweden in particular differing dian through the baltic states and of course into moscow now was taking place in northern europe in the sas with the exception the eastern med it's not quite quite this interesting breeze which isn't allowing the sun to warm things up very much yes we got twenty knowledge is by the same in most america but it's middle teens otherwise on the eastern med is increasingly windy and likely to wet once again. now you come further south you picking up up coming showers that the sun is moving quickly north and that when the showers of over the reached nigeria and cameroon you know we're there for a few days yet fairly heavy. for some it's murder say for others it's a way of life. a battle is a raging between the whaling industry and conservationists as the future of whaling in iceland the quarters decided. people in power are killing whales on other josey. and monday put it on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is

the united states that we would never accept the illegal annexation of the baltics. this is the 81st anniversary of germany's invasion, illegal annexation of austria. these events challenge the world order that we have come to expect. in particular five years ago, the invasion illegal invasion of crimea violated the world order that it kept the peace in europe among major powers for 70 years. so this is an important opportunity to remember. today we'll have an opportunity to listen to speakers who have lived this, these events and then we'll have an opportunity to have a conversation among analysts and thinkers and former officials of these events and we'll have an opportunity for you to ask questions and remind us of yours as well. so, let me again, as the executive vice president here at the institute of peace, bill taylor, i'm welcoming you but ambassador charlie, the ukraine ambassador here in the united states will welcome you. please, take a statement. >> ladies and gentlemen, it's my great pleasure to welcome you to this very important event and timely event.

prevent any threat of the russians ever going beyond the borders of the ukraine, poland or the baltic statesnteresting right now is the rumblings in local governments, that's probably what they're going to do. leland: are they going to do that because they've been named and shamed by the united states, or because the threat that russian aggression -- >> it's all about the threat. the german army is in tatters. they have a long way to go to get back in the game. but -- leland: the u.s. army's in tatters in some ways. >> in some ways. we're down to 30,000 soldiers in europe now. think about that. it was 250,000 when i served there during the cold war. no, our front line is now northeast asia and china, and it's in central europe along the border of russia, and we have of to thicken our forces there in order to deflect the chinese and keep the russians from being aggressive. leland: so many questions in terms of what our readiness is even with our troops that are there. general scales, thank you. >> always a pleasure. thank you, leland. leland: indeed. all right, coming up, a little bit more on

obviously the chinese are staking claims in the south china seas, russia obviously looking at the baltic statesegional. that's an important point. in the cold war, the soviet union was a global adversary. the three disturbers of the peaces are regional adversaries. i don't think war senior about to break out tomorrow, but what this new circumstance in the world means is that the major countries especially the united states, have to take security more serious lis than we have in the past. at least since the fall of the berlin wall, and it also means that we have to go about the business of organizing and maintaining coalitions of like-minded countries to deter and contain the three disturbers of the peace in those three regions. diplomacy and alliances are back. >> don't you also see that they are attacking us internally? i mean on one hand, we have to deal with the international dynamic and the international order is being assaulted by these countries first and foremost russia. but we also have the problem of what's happening domestically where the russians first and foremost are attacking our

to step back for a minute, the russian money was going through the baltics -- lithuania, estonia. former soviet statesst of them have big russian speaking populations. a lot of cultural connections with them. the scandinavian banks, the ones from finland, sweden and denmark, but a lot of these baltic banks. they bought their weight in to these former soviet states. when they bought them, they got the same issues the banks had and did not appear to do much about it. danske but a bank -- bought a ba yearsk in 2007 and for and let russian money rolled through in an ever greater amount. yes, they bought into this issue, but they had plenty of time to do something about it and chose not to. it really was a cascade effect. danske appears to be the biggest hub of this. alsoa and others will might have been involved with it, because all the money slushed through the baltic units of these scandinavian banks were linking to each other. carol: what is interesting -- you look at the history of the last 20 years, it seemed like everyone was ok with so much russian money in particular, whether it was flowing throug

and the united states or closer to home in ukraine in the baltics where there have been. various things whether done by people in the russian state or people you know acting privately we don't exactly know we have our suspicions i suppose and time will tell i think that's a little bit of a rabbit hole though to get into these sorts of accusations that involve secret services and this we're not going to be able to sort them out the reality is of course that states do have a right to protect themselves the question is the state in this case acting more to protect itself from foreign actors i see all war from domestic actors and the and the habit from the kremlin really since two thousand and four after the orange revolution the orange revolution in ukraine right has been to accuse any opposition movement in russia of acting at the behest and with the backing of of foreign governments and so the there is a lot of nervousness that it's ok it's among those in russia who would like to see it for political course at xander would you be concerned if the web traffic is such a liber

baltic banks. they bought their weight in to these former soviet states.hen they bought them, they got the same issues the banks had in terms of moving russian money, and they did not appear to do much about it. danske bought a bank back in 2007, and for years let russian money roll through in an ever greater amount. yes, they bought into this issue, but they had plenty of time to do something about it and chose not to. it really was a cascade effect. and danske appears to be the biggest hub of this. but nordia and swedbank and who knows if there are others to come, might have been involved with it, because all the money slushed through the baltic units of these scandinavian banks were linking to each other. carol: what is interesting -- and take a step back and look at the history of the years to 15 years, everybody seemed like they were ok with so much russian money in particular, whether it was flowing through the u.k., switzerland, cyprus. what is interesting is we talk about how it fuels real estate in new york, london. it bought the chelsea football

and the united states or closer to home in ukraine in the baltics where there have been. various things whether done by people in the russian state or people you know acting through privately we don't exactly know we have our suspicions i suppose and time will tell. i think that's a little bit of a rabbit hole though to get into these sorts of accusations that involve secret services and this we're not going to be able to sort them out the reality is of course that states do have a right to protect themselves the question is the state in this case acting more to protect itself from foreign actors i see all war from domestic actors and and the habit from the kremlin really since two thousand and four after the orange revolution the orange revolution in ukraine right has been to. accuse any opposition movement in russia of acting at the behest and with the backing of of foreign governments and so that there is a lot of nervousness that locates among those in russia who would like to see it for political course xander would you be concerned if the web traffic is suddenly rout

and the united states or closer to home in ukraine in the baltics where there have been. various things whether done by people in the russian state or people you know acting privately we don't exactly know we have our suspicions i suppose and time will tell. i think that's a little bit of a rabbit hole though to get into these sorts of accusations that involve secret services and this we're not going to be able to sort them out the reality is of course that states do have a right to protect themselves the question is the state in this case acting more to protect itself from foreign actors i see all war from domestic actors and the and the habit from the kremlin really since two thousand and four after the orange revolution the orange revolution in ukraine right has been to. accuse any opposition movement in russia of acting at the behest and with the backing of of foreign governments and so that there is a lot of nervousness that locates among those in russia who would like to see it for political course xander would you be concerned if the web traffic is suddenly rerouted