he is in belarus. he is preparing for an election that could see him retain power for five feet year -- five yours . he sat down with ryan chilcote. ryan asked him how his fifth campaign will be different from the ones in the past given what is going on in crimea. >> everyone thinks that crimea and ukraine is a bluff. ryan the opposition to use you says crimea is like a present to you. >> that is cynical. we could lose our country because of our policies. belarus is in a difficult situation. i am happy there are people who think this way. they have demonstrated they are not ready to take power in belarus and keep the country together. i would be delighted if the opposition does not try to come to power. if you cannot keep the country together, don't take power. don't go after that responsibility. it is cynical to suggest the situation in crimea and the ukraine -- how could it be? the people in belarus have begun to understand the values belarusians think that our state should be stable and peace is the

belarus is in a difficult position.do your politically but because of its dependence on russia. it has really been hit by the decline in the price of oil.a lot of the demand for belarus and exports has disappeared. that has investors concerned. will they get their money back? you look at borrowing costs right now, the yield is about 12.5%. relative to the region, that is better than what the ukrainians are paying, but much worse than what the russians are paying. it gives you a sense of the concerns. at one point, it spiked up to 20% when the president mentioned restructuring. it is a real issue. 12.5% is a lot. francine: he wants to go back to the market. ryan: there is the prospect of a loan. there is the prospect for an imf deal. they want reforms before they give the money. in addition to that, there's the idea of tapping international markets. the real sort of safety is always russia. he has gone to russia. francine: ryan, thank you so much. we will have plenty more later on. "the pulse" is coming up next. we will

belarus has begun to understand.or a while that our state should be stable and peace is the main priority. maybe we will be a bit poorer, we don't have all the resources to be so rich but we will live in a peaceful country where our children and old people will not be dying from shrapnel and bullets. francine: condoleeza rice called him europe's last dictator. how is he viewed by e.u. leaders? >> the interesting thing is there is a prospect of a little bit of a thaw in terms of relations between the european union and the united states and president lukashenko. the crackdown on the opposition which we were just talking about there. there is this sense that perhaps because of the sorry steist relationship between russia and the russian president and the west, that actually -- he is the lesser of evils. he said i'm not the last dictator anymore. he doesn't say who is. but he sort of infers that he is talking about putin. he says i'm the lesser of the evils now. he says he is joking but there is a little bit of truth in

she is belarus. his grandfather's name was #spirit of. bill: spirit gone. >> #spirit gone.ame #. sp why are i deal in. let me get into both sides of the argument. >> a really great tradition. >> i don't want my child to be named michael. >> he is worried that michael is such a popular name given to splendid. >> it's unique. >> instead of talking is through his next decision was to go online and sign the petition so that he can get signatures. if you get to hundred thousand signatures and he wins. the petition is up to 2500 signatures. the part of this that angered me me my wife has always been time in brooklyn in south jersey. how does she know a culture name. >> are you ready for the solution? take your wife on vacation. i would like to run some is by you, and i want your natural reaction. okay. second name hank their name row on ricky. gary. alan. sorry, guys. you will lose. >> how did this -- how do they decide? >> he did not consult with her. bill: right in the husband handbook. i'm tired from hearing this. can you imagine their holiday dinners? >> for that name. i just

alena is from belarus and married doug 13 days ago. she spoke with reporters while sitting next to her lawyer. >> my reaction, it's difficult to explain my reaction. i was shock. my hands shake. tom: after driving his gyrocopter up from the couple's home in florida, on wednesday doug hughes took off from an airport in gettysburg, flew into d.c.'s restricted airspace and landed on the west lawn of capitol. he said he wanted to deliver letters to members of congress asking for campaign finance reform. alena says she supports her husband but this has been tough. the couple has a 12-year-old daughter. >> i need to support my daughter and i need to explain to her what happened because i was really worried her reaction. >> she was traumatized too. tom: as for the gyrocopter doug hughes flew to the capitol alena says she bought it two years ago and she did not support the purchase. she said she did not think it was a good use of the family's money. reporting live outside the capitol, abc 7 news. leon: new information from fairfax county where

the eurasian economic union with belarus, the significance is that to me is nations closer to us we don't care if a person with you in this territory or across the border exit the living standards of proof. their rights their rights and not been infringed upon. if that's the case we don't care. people people have a good life in those countries that are treated fairly, this is the kind of relationship we have a cast on, belarus, you mentioned armenia. we would like this to be developed. this is the main thing. is not that we want to keep those countries in our sphere of influence. is not our goal to rebuild an empire. now, this is a natural integration process. the whole world is taking this latin american in with north america also, the us and canada, europe, asia. in what we do the same thing they tell us were building an empire. we can't have integration? is not our goal to rebuild an empire. we don't have imperial aspirations, but we want to make sure that neighboring countries have this decent life by developing cooperation with the. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: so russi

nuclear war with 5 nato nations russia threatening to use nuclear weapons if nato reinforces latvia, belarus and estonia. president obama all the while ignores china's rising military right, and influence in latin american with present of russia and iran. kerry proclaimed the era of monroe doctrine to be over, opening wide his arms to the instruction of foreign powers in in hemisphere, since then china pledged to invest $250 billion over the next decade in latin american. china's strategic influence is rising dramatically throughout the hemisphere, for example beijing backed, ports company now controls both ends of the panama canal. as for russia, its foreign minister, lab officer last week was in colombia, guatemala, nick gregory, and -- nic nirveg -- nicaragua meeting with its leaders, what is on the list in sailings, russian sales. construct of russian military basis in strategic locations. in this hemisphere. all that, while the obama administration and secretary kerry were busy negotiating with iranians. when is the last time kerry was in central or south america? 4 months ago in per an

chance to rerelease and redisperse the radio pivot in the environment as we see this in ukraine and belarus. >> joining me live from phoenix. thank you for joining us on the program. >> thank you. >> now russia's gas giant gazprom blame the weakened rubed for its troubled relationship. gazprom, russia pushed up gas prices after ukraine's former president viktor yanukovych was deposed. in response the ukrainian government, which replaced him refused to pay the debt that it owed. we have more now from moscow. >> considering the gazprom's revenues increased by 6.4% in 2014, it's the problem is not that gazprom can't sell enough gas. the problem is the devaluing ruble. gazprom owes a lot of debt, and because of the debt, servicing it has become more expensive for the company. on top that have the spats ongoing with ukraine over the ukrainian gas contracts that really explains why gazprom's problems. it does face significant issue and the issue is this, it's main customer it's biggest customer, europe is trying to wig the out from within its grasp. a week ago it opened an antitrust case against

ultimately 335,000 people forced from their homes a totals of 5 million in ukraine belarus and russia lost their homes. a concrete shelter was built to enclose the demands reactor. that is scheduled to be replaced in 2018. it is a tourist attraction since 2011. barbara. >>> dr. roberts gale, coordinated efforts for victims of chernobyl. when it comes to long lasting direct medical effects what can we say is more prevalent because of the chernobyl disaster? >> fortunately, the news is mostly good. there were unfortunately little more than 7,000 cases of thyroid cancer exclusively in young people that have occurred in the 15 years since the accidents. that is essentially over. and we haven't really found any convincing evidence of any other health effects i'm speaking of direct medical effects, not psychological effects or the tragedy of having to move, but in terms of cancers or heart disease or things of that nature we haven't found any convincing evidence of that, investigations from hundreds of scientists from many countries. >> of course there are people who disagree with that, we

if ukraine were being invaded by belarus, we might give them some weapons and not worry about it.hy don't we help ukraine? because we are afraid of russia's arsenal. we are afraid also that this is an irrational country. it might sell nuclear weapons to other people. we don't know what it might do. it might run off the ramp and do something crazy. what is the way in the past that we've dealt with a country like that? it is called deterrence. it is not an aggressive policy. it is defense. the deterrence argument is, if you bomb us, we will bomb you back. it is very unattractive as a policy. mutual assured destruction, dr. strangelove, it is a horrible thought. given that this is the only policy we have that we know works and we are capable of using towards putin's russia which does not want to be engaged with us, which comes out propaganda against us in all kinds of countries, whether it is funding the czech president's election, funding the far right in france, this is a country that doesn't want to be part of our system anymore. we can deter. we can make sure that putin knows. th

russian bikers, the group known as the night wolves showed up earlier at a border crossing between belarus and poland. the polish government warned them they would not be allowed over the border. they were celebrating the victory over the nat dys70 years analyst nazis 70 years ago. >> monitors for the organization for cooperation in europe criticized the results. they said there was no credible opposition to the leader in power since 1989. many of his most vocal opponents are in jail or have fled overseas. the japanese shinzo abe is visiting the u.s., his visit got off to a less formal start today with a little sightseeing and a historic announcement. mike viqueria records from washington. >> reporter: first thing in america for shinzo abe this year marks 150 years since abraham lincoln won the american civil war. and world war ii that saw japanese forces defeated, japan seems prepared to beef up its military. it's a move welcomed by the secretary of state. >> today we mark the establishment of japan's capacity to defend not just its own territory but also, the united states and other part

i visited next on, russia ukraine also belarus. and that everybody. then president of ukraine. he arranged a group of scientists to meet me. during the meeting, at the end of the meeting a certain percent of the scientists informed me it was genocide. it was not genocide. they said we don't have an idea. as a politician have had decide whether it was or was not genocide? in my report i said crime against humanity. well, is going to decide? obviously genocide is not a generic term. it is a legal term. that is why they propose armenia to set up a joint committee. and we should often propose. at this joint community should not be limited. from 3rd countries. in the 3rd countries of the archives. committed in a letter the letter prime minister committed to accept let them study. let's open the archives and will accept the outcome. easy to convince parliamentarians. adopted resolution. it is not to solve the problem. parliament, some countries in europe, latin america adopted such a resolution, but it did not help. turkey and armenia and turkish and armenian people should pull this

maybe belarus or telecom companies or maybe this come on. we're not naive babes in the woods.nalism and that's awesome, bob mcdon't what bob mcdonald pales in comparison to what's in this book. >> and what bob mcdonald did -- >> pales in comparison to this book. the clintons have made $150 million over the past decade because of contacts during public service. i will sit back and let you ask the tough questions. i'm just curious, though, why are the clintons held to a standard that bob mcdonald's not held to that bob menendez is not held to that all of these congressmen that get thrown into jail for going on a -- going to a redskins game or going on a golf trip compare to 150$150 million. >> the golfing trips your friends in congress who called them out on that and held them accountable? >> what do you mean? the justice department did. >> it wasn't peter schweizer, it was the justice department. >> oh, no no no. are you saying that news -- that newspapers and reporters shouldn't -- shouldn't go out and report on this? because i'll tell you, when peter schweizer was talking abo

we build our relations as part of a -- our economic union with kazakhstan, belarus, these alliances it is not to make those nations closer to us. the significance is to create better conditions for all the people living in our countries to have open borders we don't care if a russian person lives here on this to s territory or cross the border. we care about their rights not being infringed upon, they are allowed to speak their mother tongue. if that is the case, we don't care if people have a good life in those countries and they are treated fairly -- this is the kind of relationship we have with kazakhstan and armenia. we would like this growth -- this is the main thing -- it is not that the want to keep those countries under our influence. it is not our goal to rebuild an empire like they accuse us. this is a natural integration process. the whole world is thinking this way of integration. latin america, in north america also, we see the u.s. and canada, europe, asia everywhere. when we do the same thing, they tell us we are building an empire. why can't we have integration? it is n

if ukraine were being invaded by belarus we might give it some radar weapons and not worry about it. we are afraid of the russian nuclear arsenal. we are afraid also as one of my opponent said that this is irrational country. we don't know what it might do. it might run off the ranch and do something crazy. what is the way in the past in which we have dealt with a country like that? deterrence. the deterrence the deterrence argument is if you bomb us we will body back. it it is very unattractive as a policy and no one likes it. mutually assured destruction, doctor strangelove, or will thought given that this given that this is the only policy we have in the only policy we're capable of using now was putin's russia which pumps out propaganda in all kinds of different ways in countries whether it's funding the czech president election the funding the far right in france a country that does not want to be part of our system anymore and has made that clear. we can make sure that pruden knows that the russian regime the word cronies is an important one. rich friends. somehow very powerful

it was a signature of bill clinton which ended up either way with disarming small nuclear arms in belarusit created an a nuclear-free fall of the soviet union but territorial integrity. if we think the crimea is locally are wrong because the message is being sent to every country of the world if you want to protect your sovereignty gets nukes. that's why you hold the ukraine tragedy it's an issue that affects everybody on this planet. i hope eventually we will recognize it's not about isolating russia. it's about isolating putin's regime. we don't engage the virus. it needs to be contained. thank you. [applause] ..

it was a signature of bill clinton which ended up either way with disarming small nuclear arms in belarus created an a nuclear-free fall of the soviet union but territorial integrity. if we think the crimea is locally are wrong because the message is being sent to every country of the world if you want to protect your sovereignty gets nukes. that's why you hold the ukraine tragedy it's an issue that affects everybody on this planet. i hope eventually we will recognize it's not about isolating russia. it's about isolating putin's regime. we don't engage the virus. it needs to be contained. thank you. [applause] .. you can say anything. billions and billions, you've got to be kidding. it is not true. billions and billions were not invested. what was invested was invested to make money. putin's cronies. why are they cronies? why are they not his comrades? this is all about the wording. this is not about the facts. if indeed the ukraine had nuclear missiles, can you imagine what we would have? there would be nobody left to play it. thank heavens they do not have missiles in that country. and

and i visited russia ukraine and also belarus for fact finding. visit. and i met everybody. and then president of ukraine was obviously for genocide. and he arranged a group of scientists to meet me. 30% of those scientists historians told me it was a genocide. and 30% of them said no it was not genocide. and another 30% said, we don't have idea, i don't have idea. so as a politician, how can i decide whether it was or it was not genocide? in my report i said crime against humanity for 1932 and '33. well who is going to decide whether it was a genocide or not? obviously, genocide is not a generic term. it's a legal term. and to our -- historians also decide. that's why we propose armenia to set up a joint committee of historians and scientists. proposed in the archives. and this joint committee shouldn't be limited with armenia and turkey scientists and the scientist historians from third countries could also participate. and the third countries should also open the archives. . and committed in our letter in the letter of the prime minister committed to accept the outcome of

if ukraine were being invaded by belarus, yeah, we might give them some radar weapons and not worry about it. why don't we help ukraine? because we're afraid of russia's nuclear arsenal. and we are afraid also, as one of my opponents said we are afraid that this is an irrational country. it might sell nuclear weapons to other people, someone said. we don't know what it might do. it might run off the ranch and do something crazy. what is the way in the past in which we've dealt with a country like that? it's called deterrence. deterrence is not an aggressive policy. it is not an offensive policy. it is defense. the argument is if you bomb us, we will bomb you back. it's very unattractive as a policy, and no one likes it. it's a mutually assured destruction, dr. strangelove, it's a horrible thought. given that this is the only policy we have that we know that works and the only policy that we are capable of using now towards putin's russia, which does not want to be engaged with us anymore which pumps out propaganda against us in all kinds of different ways in all kinds of countries whether