also expanded its blacklist.the food chain, targeting more senior russian officials like the head of the russian presidential administration. also, targeting some of russia's business leaders. back to you. >> what does it mean for business? >> it is an interesting one. you and jon were discussing some of these russian businessmen that have been targeted. i will give you a couple more. russian billionaires have been targeted, longtime friend of president putin. contracts asrth of part of those $50 billion or two games. they are on the list as is gennady timchenko, one-time owner of guns or -- gunvor, the swiss trader you were talking about. the u.s., backing that obligation. substantiated, the u.s. alleging that president putin has a financial interest. that is something the kremlin has denied. another interesting one, yuri kovalchuk. -- yuri sanctioning russia's largest lso about $10 billion worth of sanctions. >> they don't seem to bother, do they? >> they don't. at least publicly. they have either said they don

blacklist.asset freezes on another twelve russian officials following washington's footsteps which is also extended. a little i personally don't have an account in it but i will definitely. president putin says he wants to get his pay checks from bank of to joking at the choice of people talking to us measures some of them having to do with the situation in crimea we take a deeper look later in the program. because in eastern ukraine.

he was one of the blacklisted directors back in the mccarthy era in the 1950's who was prevented fromworking by the government because he had been to some communist meetings, and sort of a dark day, a dark era in american history where the government was just for talking, just for going to meetings, was denying people the right to work. tavis: i often wonder what america lost as a result of all those brilliant, talented people like your grandfather and like paul robeson and other giants who got blackballed, blacklisted because -- it is insane. the things that happen in america offends me every time i think about it. >> it is worth remembering because it was not that long ago. tavis: you get a chance to do the stuff you are doing including "hitrecord on tv" on pivot. good to have you here. that is our show. thanks for watching and as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with the usually silent tell her about his new acclaimed ."cumentary, "tim's vermeer that is n

the blacklist period was one of the dark chapters in american history.really behave any better than anybody else did. >> i've never read karl marx and i don't know the faces of communism. beyond what i've picked up from hearsay. from what i've heard, i don't like it. >> in 1955, the academy passed a bylaw that prohibited any blacklisted writer from being nominated for an oscar. when the "bridge on the river kwai" won best screenplay in 1957, the original novelist collected the oscar but he didn't write the script. >> for the best writing of a motion picture -- >> the two writers who did, michael wilson and carl foreman, were on the blacklist. so for the academy, they didn't exist. >> some people committed suicide when they were on that list. there were people that moved to europe and never came back. >> some blacklisted writers continued working under pseudonyms. >> the nominations for best picture motion picture story are robert rich. >> when they won oscars for best screenplay, there was no one to walk up the aisle. >> vice president of the screen writ

brussels blacklist the uncertainties of the asset freezes on the twelve russian officials were able to switch to digital has extended its range but i personally don't have an accountant but i will definitely open for a month the concert it was to get paychecks from mercy of my co teacher to have a choice people targeted by u s pledges. some of them have little to do with the situation but it would take a seat on the link to it because in eastern ukraine the sentinel over the contamination from the adult groups which are claimed to be gaining momentum of a new t shirt the eye. this is akin to the beach before it is daddy what's going on but never celebrated every year enough to the republic officially became part of russia and georgia probably encouraged to leave ukraine and georgia the russian federation last sunday. less than a week later. totally legal procedures were wrapped up russia officially accepted the peninsula into the tyre tree. while the skies with his help by stopping follow what's the most contested from opel which is the capital of crime and loneliness of a stone cold i

blacklist the e.u. slaps visa bans and asset freezes on another twelve russian officials following washington's footsteps which is also extended its sanctions. i personally don't have an accountant but i will definitely. president putin says he wants to get his pay checks from bank of to joking at the choice of people targeted by u.s. measures some of them having little to do with the situation in crimea we take a deeper look later in the program. russian speakers in eastern ukraine and. intimidation from me a nazi groups which claimed to be gaining momentum under the new leadership. from the center here in moscow this is r.t. international with the twenty four hours a day moscow and celebrating their reunion after the republican officially became part of russia the majority of crimea voted to leave ukraine and join the russian federation last sunday and less than a week later after all the legal procedures were wrapped up russia officially accepted the peninsula into its territory where crowds have gat

the u-s is blacklisting 29 russian and crimean leaders, along with their main bank. russia returned the favor by banning nine federal lawmakers, including house speaker john boehner and senators durbin and mccain. a major overhaul of the o'hare branch of the c-t-a blue line starts tonight. and that means some tracks will be closed all weekend. erik runge is live at the blue line stop on california with more. erik? >> it's the first of several closures over the next several weekends as the cta concert starts to improve the blue line. will start here at 10:00 tonight here at the california stop. that's between western and logan square. it will remain closed until monday at 4:00 a.m.. crews will start working on the track to make a smoother and faster ride for people. all part of the your new blue $492 million improvement project. the upgrade will be made over 10 weeks finishing in august. this is part of a larger cta $4 billion project that should eliminate blue line slow zones and also improve the stations along the way. and it will cut the time from o'hare to downtow

the president announcing he will expand sanctions against russia, and the executive order will blacklist wealthy individuals with ties to the government and the bank used by them. the sanctions open the door to broader measures against russian energy exports. and military court ruling against jail time for an army general charged with mistreating a female captain who also happened to be his former misstress. brigham deer genre tires he says with a reprimand, and must pay 20,000-dollars in restitution. s. ♪ . >> welcome to spring. about 30 minutes ago, the sun passes directly over the equator, as it appears -- about 12 hours ofdy light today. doesn't mean we are getting warmer temperatures. colder weather is coming down across the great lakes and through new england. it is into the 50's now, washington, d.c. and d.c., atlanta up to 59 degrees but colder air will continue to push east. this is all with this area of snow and rain that came through last night. temperatures climb add bit, this is a front, though, that moved through, and behind it we have this gusty winds so looking at a littl

it is not clear whose names appear on the blacklist. the white house has already said sanctions will not apply to russian president vladimir putin. the state department said further sanctions were an option if russia fails to play ball. >> the announcement today and the signing of executive order provided authority to put a range of sanctions in place. whether that is individuals or financial institutions, we may start with a list and can expand it. to can apply more broadly. >> the u.s. has already said it has pulled out of preparations for the g8 in sochi and has suspended all talks with russia discerning trade and investment. it is still determined to seek a diplomatic solution, but the message was clear. if russia and allies take further steps to undermine ukrainian democracy, or will be further political and economic isolation. as the standoff drags on, it is overshadowing what should be a celebratory event. the sochi paralympics kickoff today. it will be short of foreign dignitaries in the wake of the russian incursion. german del

when washington slap moscow with sanctions compiling blacklists of officials. visa bans and asset freezes one bank also ending up on the u.s. list. is a little slow but i personally don't have any counted but i will definitely aid when i'm president vladimir putin apparently surprised by sanctions applied to that bank this as it's been revealed that a number of officials on the u.s. list are not connected to the ukraine crisis. the scenes in spain's capital on saturday thousands of protesters from around the country converge on madrid where their month long lost their m.t.'s tara the march takes a violent turn. five am in moscow we bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news moscow and crimea marking their reunion this week after the vast majority of people on the peninsula vote to rejoin russia after the votes were counted the celebration happened in both russia russia's capital moscow and crimea is main city of simferopol fireworks drawing crowds many crimean saying they're ecstatic about the peninsula's new status take a listen. watching

in cairo along with two colleagues they have been charged with aiding a organization that being blacklisted muslim brotherhood which has been demonstrated against the government says the military ousted the party's former is the most presidents muhammad more see last july. if found guilty dress faces up to seven years behind bars the trial has been adjourned until march twenty four the atari o'dowd is your network is facing increasing pressure from egypt's new government's sports his ouster is egyptian al it is one of the few remaining channels regarded as pro muslim brotherhood can tar was a strong ally and financial backer of the isms party and its movement against the interim governments and is now home to a number of its senior for the good figures who fled egypt to escape the military crackdown against the brotherhood party. i israel has maintained its pure speed security and that the investigation of the disappearance and possible hijacking of malaysian airlines flight in each three seventeen. after security assessment conducted by israeli security officials in aviation authorities a

they said even the youngest grandchild was put on the blacklists. my eldest son went to the kindergarten and preschool and took him away. he said i cannot risk the lives of my family. that is what the situation was like. >> keep your cool. i would like someone from the bench to speak now. the gentleman in the black jacket. >> could you speak on the current situation in krimea. i represent to the moscow. what do you think is going to happen in crimea in the near future? >> i am here now. a friend of mine lives near the this city. i came to find a temporary refuge here for a wild. as for crimea, everything that is happening in crimea today is a natural breeze wants to the regime change that took place this year. the power that was done by radical mobsters. if you compare them to the 45 million population of ukraine. crimeans do not want to obey, and will not obey nationalists. of course i sympathize for what is happening with the militia units. they want to defend themselves, their families. their homes. this is a natural desire of the people. i know

for example the eu could blacklist some russian companies and not allow eu firms to do business with them. isn't she warned and tough to say the sanctions are well chosen domain the effect of the wealthy russian oligarchs i think they're the ones who feel it is to catch auckland issues if their accounts are present. if their money gets tighter and their businesses are affected. and here the one to have influence over pre teens fourteen russia toned down its rhetoric monday foreign minister sergei lavrov said his country would be making some proposals to resolve the crisis but he didn't provide details. in crimea the self appointed leadership doesn't appear ready for dialogue. the pro kremlin parliament is convinced that the region will soon be part of the russian federation meanwhile washington is calling on mask out to make some major concessions for all the details of the corresponding index soared to a standing by in the us capital's any of that the us state department and gave the briefing it says basically russia said fool some of its plans are ounce what more can you tell us we

key but i will definitely open one on monday well brussels also weighed in at the mornings to its blacklist of russian officials and that the eu and the us of threatening restrictions against the russian economy as well in case of any escalation these foreign minister has warned sanctions against moscow to make. actually it's europe itself. the books i've listed the eu governments like to differ. some commentators have abundance he says. ashley become a habit in europe to play in moscow. russia has accused the carousel. that's the vision that many politicians in hiring see from the front of the cold war not stuck in this situation you're accused of fondling a economic crisis it is time for dinner. in launching tool if you crave with a victory if they hope to bring to the electorate before the routine election match up with a trailer because it wasn't realistic lighting was not his voluntary based on sound means that political ambition self when in reality came into the pockets of ansett which was the only possible camp with the mouth the state dept of my new years because economically you c

words will follow by a fresh wave of sanctions as well as both europe and washington extending that blacklist of russian on crime in official stuff with the u s targeting president putin's judo partners. moscow responded with a visa bans on other us politicians but he said. things will not be taken father of the month and while some in the eu of thing calling for trade restrictions financial banks but catcher john he says that come and of very heavy cost to press us. all of the european nations cup format far too many problems going forward and therefore also hard can it possibly chart drawn to say that suddenly we're not going to be able to build their boss claims because of the market that any important data that we're going to stop exploiting a hundred billion euros worth of cars just from germany in the united kingdom the end of the streets of moscow on iran and russia ultimately the european union is playing with fire and is playing with fire to mom's handled very important elections to the european parliament where we like to see an incredible growth in extremist why those extremists co

is it going to be an expansion of the blacklist they have for russian officials, or will they go themic sanctions? don't forget. it is a two-day summit. if they want, they can move this not only into the wee hours of tomorrow, but they could go into friday. back to you. >> ryan, thank you so much. ryan chilcote with the latest from the eu leaders in brussels. we have an exclusive interview coming up with the alcatel lucent ceo. >> michel combes. about the amazing acceleration of the alcatel lucent share price over 12 months. we will talk to him more broadly. hans nichols is at tech conference in berlin. he is talking about innovation. we have got the security story to talk about. lust, some amazing valuations put on tech companies. all of that part of the conversation we will have. for those listening on bloomberg radio, "first word " is up next. " surveillance is coming up" next in new york. in europe, , we will talk exclusively to tell lucent. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg surveillance." >> australia leads the search for debris. it is the best leave we have now. -- lead we have now. plan

chilcote, are we expecting another russian blacklist here, another list of sanctions? is that the next step? >> there is no question the eu leader would like to punish vladimir putin for pushing forward with annexing crimea. the question in their mind is they are gathering right now, how they do it and when they do it. one option is to expand the blacklist of russian officials that will be subjected to asset freezes. maybe go further up the food chain and subject ibo closer to putin-- people closer to to sanctions. they make decisions by consensus. there are 28 countries, and it is not clear all of them are ready to stomach that yet. the finnish prime minister said the markets are already doing a good job of pushing russia and he thinks that might be the most effective tool. in moscow they are not paying attention at all. the lower house and the parliament just approve the annexation of crimea, so tomorrow it goes to the upper house and it is a done deal. they are understandably saying even if we go ahead with economic sanctions, is that really going to change putin's

and washington rushed to slap moscow with sanctions compiling blacklists of officials and now facing visa bans and asset freezes one bank also ending up on the u.s. list. is a little slow i personally don't have any count in it but i will definitely open one on monday russian president putin apparently surprised by sanctions applied to the russian bank as it's been revealed a number of officials on the u.s. list are not connected with the crisis in the ukraine. these were scenes in spain's capital saturday thousands of protesters from all over the country converging in madrid where their month long staring march the violent turn. to am in moscow good to have you with us our top story this hour moscow and crimea marked their reunion this week after the vast majority of people on the peninsula voted to rejoin russia after the votes were counted it was celebration in both the russian capital and in crimea his main city of simferopol fireworks drew large crowds with many crimean the saying they were ecstatic about the peninsula's new status. watching that one them well that we have now f

sanctions triggered our return ation russia social media has met and decided to blacklist the american president himself and down lytle this site states where i could bama is no longer welcome in this hobby shop on local newspaper posted a message on his twitter page sanctioning the us leaders and members of congress from entering its offices in the barren city of almost and one irish pub in central russia is perhaps a saying the us leader from popping in for penned. and back in k. of frustration is growing with the self appointed leadership of ukraine the new government came to power in the aftermath of the bloody coup promising a radical changes but who crane's interim prime minister hasn't managed to deliver on many of those promises and fog has a backtrack a must as aussies merino closer up found out. the self-proclaimed governments in kiev came to power banking on people's frustration over the collapse deal. yet if the e.u. agreement is not signs then according to article one one one of the criminal code the president will get ten to fifteen years behind bars. however later are su

the first option is to expand their blacklist that they have that subjects russian officials to asset freezes in those -- and those travel bans. there is a perception that they went after smaller-fry russian officials and they should go further up the food chain to some of the closer associates of president putin. the second option would be to go after -- impose wider economic sanctions. keep in mind the european union is comprised of 28 different nations. they make decisions here by consensus. there does not appear to be the appetite from all of the ae you countries to -- of the eu countries to go forward with economic sanctions at this point. for example, cyprus has said they do not see the need for any more sanctions. they do have a vote. meanwhile, interesting, in moscow, you have the russian president meeting with the un's secretary-general -- the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon. thead the lower house of russian parliament go ahead and improve the -- approve the annexation of crimea. now the bill goes to the upper house. the federation council. they will approve it tomorrow an

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thinking of fort bragg or where people came back they were afraid to use the kelp because they are blacklisted. has that changed? >> i think a lot of progress was made. my husband was injured 2003 and when i was reading the book by a track down his neurosurgeon and narrow psychiatrist or psychologist, one of the other providers and asked and i asked what happened? how did this happen? how did he slips through the? he said fort campbell was one of the worst places to go in the early days. 40 be a and bright and one of the things that was really helpful as part of our recovery was to call attention to the gaps of the services that we sought to tell our story with the attempt to make things better for troops after us. and as part of a larger community with other veterans working together for positive change. things have changed bryan was set back to his artillery battery he should have been sent at a minimum to a medical but then there was a warrior transition in your net specifically decided -- designed for wounded warriors in those who knew how to let them navigate the system with a medical eva

the executive order will blacklist individuals with tied to the government and a bank used by then. >> i sign add new executive order today that gives us the authority to impose sanctions not just on individuals but on key sectors of the russian economy. cheese would not only have a significant impact, but can be disruptive to the global economy. >> a general avoideds jail time during his

one is to take that blacklist they currently have of 21 russian and crimean officials that they intend to subject to asset freezes and travel bans and expand it. potentially even to russian business leaders, both of state-controlled companies and the so-called oligarchs. doin --cond option is is to impose economic sanctions. several officials we spoke with think that is unlikely at this point. the reason is, the eu rules by consensus. each country has their own economic interest. they are concerned about economic growth right now. has made itus which very clear that they are against sanctions. countries like hungary and romania are on the fence. we did hear from angela merkel and david cameron yesterday speaking on the telephone, saying they believe it is time to ratchet up sanctions. >> ryan, the annex nation of crimea, it is not exactly a done deal yet, is it? >> it isn't a done deal. , russianotesters militia, russian forces, moving on to ukrainian installations in crimea yesterday. including one naval base. keep in mind, there were several hundred ukrainian troopshole -- on their b

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as the national democratic institute blacklisted as foreign agents sort of kicked out of the country.i think that is a very difficult needle to thread and that's the reason why the obama administration spen spent such e time thinking about this because there are things we can work on with regards to russia. we can even work on counterterrorism, but i think one of the most fruitful conversations you can have moving forward and it may be bee start but wilthat start but wilo something larger is a discussion about economic opportunity for the minorities because russia and the united states on a number of issues with radical islam are wired to listen when we talk so we could start a dialogue on security and migrate into a larger conversation about not using blunt force to deal with your sort of discrepancies in the minority and have had become a larger conversation but it's not an easy conversation to have. >> the offer mac of u.s. russian relations in the 21st century. the director of the center for the east european studies at georgetown university examines the current revision should be

needed more names to the blacklist of individuals who will face freezing as a consequence the russian market is open davis' three percent low on friday and credit rating agency fitch has slashed russia's credit outlook to negative attitude this is a financial institution to face u.s. sanctions over the ukrainian crisis bank or cea now the european commission will also examine how to enforce a potential trade war against russia and this talk of a trade agreement with ukraine we're going to focus our attention so today on how london may be impacted considering the city is such a popular place for russians and indeed russian money as well now british properties all top of the shopping u.s. for wealthy russians with real estate have a six point five billion dollars and it doesn't stop that some twenty eight russian with a market value of over three hundred billion dollars are listed on the london stock exchange which equates to ten percent britain grounds three year invest of visas to foreigners who invest over one point five million dollars in government bonds now london is also the plac

president obama is now expanding the sanctions against russia after the actions in ukraine and blacklisted> i signed a new executive order today and giving us the authority to impose sanctions not just on individuals but key sectors of the russian economy. this is not our preferred outcome. the sanctions not only have a significant impact on the russian economy and could be disruptive to the global economy. >> a u.s. mail taxpayer general is not spending time in jail for inappropriate relationships, the judge sin sentenced him with a fine. >> a ship is looking for what may be pieces of the missing jet liner. it is located 1500 miles off the australia coast in the indian ocean. the associated press is reporting that three gun lake killed in an attack in afghanistan. no guests were hurt. the attack is coming two weeks before african's presidential elections. "real money" is next. ♪ >> the truth about interest rates in america, the feds are saying one thing and the banks are saying some other and before you home by a home or car we sort it. the sanctions imposed by the urs is not going to sto

the president took to the south lawn of the white house this morning to announce a new blacklist, essentially, of a wide assortment of politically connected russian zillionaires. >> the united states is today moving as we said we would to impose additional costs on russia. we're imposing sanctions on more senior officials of the russian government. in addition, we are today sanctioning a number of other individuals with substantial resources and influence who provide material support to the russian leadership. as well as a bank that provides material support to these individuals. >> a bank. you know, what is considered to be kind of the nuclear options when it comes to sanctions include cutting off a country from the banking system. not allowing a country any access to international capital or currency by isolating their banking system so it can't do any international work. one senator on the foreign relations committee told us on this show last night he thinks russia may be heading for that nuclear option, but of course, that would take a lot of international work to get the world to agree t

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domestic violence sort of rash where people were back and afraid to seek help because they might be blacklisted. i wonder if that has changed. >> i think a lot of progress has been made. my husband was injured early in the war in october of 2003 and from what i heard, when i was writing this book i tracked down his neurosurgeon and narrow psychiatrist, one of his other providers and asked about it and when i tracked down his narrow psychologist, what happened? how did this happen? how did he slipped through the cracks? fort campbell was one of the worst places for people for pd is to go in those days so for me and brian one of the things we really found helpful as part of our recovery was to try to call attention to the gaps and services that we saw and to tell our stories in an attempt to make things better for troops continuing to come home after us and to do that as part of a larger community, organizations of other veterans working together for positive change and things have changed. brian was in back of his artillery battery for reasons completely beyond my comprehension. they had medical

achieve that over the next three months meanwhile both brussels and washington have extended their blacklists of russian and crimean officials in fact many of those added to the sanctions list in the u.s. have little to do with ukraine an executive director at the wrong pole institute daniel mcadams told my colleague bill dodd he believes there is very little logic and these restrictions. question is what is the end goal of these of these sanctions against russian individuals it doesn't make any sense to me what specifically does the us warrant it seems to me the russian side has had specific goals in mind they wanted to uphold the february twenty first agreement they wanted to recognize the referendum in crimea but with the us you have some sort of vague notion that these people are being punished for undermining democracy in ukraine if that's the measurement stick then what about all of the u.s. state department officials and all of the ngos who precipitated the problem in the first place by being involved with the overthrow of the legally crimean government they should be subject to their

violence sort of rash were people came out and they were afraid to seek help because they might be blacklisted. wondering if all these years later it has been changed to? because my husband was injured early in the war in october 2003, and from what i've heard when i was writing this book, i tracked down his neurosurgeon and his nurse -- one of the other provided and when i tracked down his narrow psychologist instead what happened, how did this happen, how did he slip through the cracks and he said fort campbell was one of the worst places for people with tbi to go in those early days. so for me and for brian one of the things that was really helpful as part of a recovery was to call attention to the gaps in services that we saw, and to tell our stories and attempt to make things better for troops continuing to come home after us. and do that as part of a larger community, to do that part of organizations of other veterans who working together for positive change. things have changed. bryan was sent back to his artillery battery for reasons completely gone by coverage. they had medical holdin

the great james spader is here, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] james spader from "the blacklist!"steve: always fun to watch. >> jimmy: always fun to watch him. from the new movie "muppets most wanted" -- oh, you've got to have green on st. patrick's day. the one and only kermit the frog is stopping by! [ cheers and applause ] kermit the frog! and kermit is going to sing a a song for us later on the show, too. it's going to be very nice. and we have -- talking about music, these guys, we always try to get them every st. paddy's day. they're always booked and doing something because they're uber famous and just a great, great irish band. we have black 47 on the show tonight. [ cheers and applause ] it's going to be fun. i read something that really disturbed me the other day. american kids are ranked 30th in the world in terms of math skills. and so -- and nobody seems to know how to turn this thing around. i think the problem is that today's kids just can't relate to old-fashioned things like numbers. [ laughter ] so we've updated math to make the equations about stuff modern kids

company it's accused of a similar type of activity. ,he targeted company, huawei has essentially been blacklisted me was after being labeled a threat to national security. the newly disclosed leaks show the nsa has created backdoors into huawei's networks -- the same activity is warned huawei could help carry out against the undead states. the nsa's spying included accessing e-mails of top company executives. the republican head of the house intelligence committee continues a campaign to paint nsa whistleblower edward snowden as a russian spy. "meet theo nbc's press, commerce number mike rogers can everyone in u.s. intelligence community believes snowden is under the influence of russian agents. rogers also attempted to link snowden to russia's interference in ukraine. >> we know today intelligence official in the united states does not believe that mr. snowden is not under the influence of russian intelligence services. we believe he is. i certainly believe he is today. i believe there's more to the story. he is under the influence of russian intelligence officials today. he is supporting, in an

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authorities are coming up with the name of potential russian oligarchs who they will put together a blacklist. these guys to not have much to do with crimea and they got out of their oil and gas business when they sold their stake for $5.1 billion last year. what is happening is their company, which is based in luxembourg, they will actually 5.4 alienwe for about euros. -- billion euros. they will use that as a launching pad for further oil and gas investment. they want to use that to build. it is based in hamburg and it has interest in the north sea and germany, denmark, and also egypt. it has some luminaries on it like lord brown, a former chief executive officer of bp. ceo.w gould was a former they are on the board or advising level one. we -- rweense, rgb can pay down debt. they want to focus on their core business, power generation. it is an interesting deal all around. >> watch out for shares in rwe this morning. >> the world's longest civil war might be coming to an end. ♪ >> welcome back. the high-octane world of finance is stressful enough, yet two hong kong bankers spend their downt

likes of secretary kerry saying stuff like, we may have trade sanctions against russia, kind of blacklistingsia as a place to invest. >> thank you so much. ryan monitoring the situation on the ground in kiev. we will keep you updated on the press conference. the two main headlines, vladimir putin saying there is no need to send troops to ukraine yet. he is also saying that former president yanukovych is the legitimate president of ukraine. in terms of market reaction, we have seen a couple of movements. dax, it isll up the pushing higher on the back of this message from vladimir putin. he does not see this government in the ukraine right now as fully legitimate. when we talk about escalation risk, you do get a sense that it seems to be diminishing. he is talking about extreme cases that we are not yet at. the market is seeing a bit of a rebound from yesterday. >> it is interesting because likely -- he is legitimizing what he has done so far. >> that is where the debate will ndgin with ae you -- the eu a russia itself. european union ministers going to do about this? do,s a difficult thing to

the first one is to expand the blacklisted russian officials they will subject to asset freezes and travel bans. they might go further up the food chain in the kremlin. they might perhaps go after business leaders. controlledf state companies, maybe some oligarchs and option two would be to go after full-blown economic sanctions. all thers have to make decisions by consensus and it does not appear all the leaders have the appetite to do that. cyprus counts, they get a lot of financial assistance and investment from russia. they have said they are against ratcheting up sanctions. it's not entirely clear they could pull that off. investors do not think they are really going to be too aggressive just yet in terms of sanctions. the russian stock market limited on february 28 as troops surfaced in crimea. this week, monday and tuesday had the biggest two-day day gain in four years because investors said the sanctions are probably not coming. we are stillthat talking about sanctions and they have not happened yet? is it because of the political consensus not being built? it's because they need c

and washington extending their blacklist of russian and crimean officials with the u.s.argeting president putin's judo partners moscow responded with visa bans on several u.s. politicians but has said it won't take things further for now richard wellings from the is a tutor of economic affairs doesn't believe the restrictions will bring any results . the evidence shows that sanctions tend not to be effect safe and if they are effects if they only work if their post on more green countries perhaps have surrounded by enemies and really russia doesn't fit into that kind of country to live in it's one of the world's major economies or huge natural resources so the likelihood of the sanctions being effective actually very low which clearly western governors have to supply some of the hard lines at least pay lip service to them clearly it's was the swirls the east these countries have massive trade flows with russia and also of course there are countries in southern europe that are hugely reliant on oil imports in absolute terrible economic difficulty to greece italy spain por

balanced sort of rash were people came back and they were afraid to seek help because they might be blacklisted just wondering all these years later if that is change the? i think a lot of progress has been made. my husband was injured early in the war in october 2003, and from what i've heard when i was writing this book, i tracked down his neurosurgeon and his nurse i can't just -- no psychiatrist, and asked him about it if i tracked down his nurse psychologist an instead le what happened, how did this happen, how did he slip through the cracks, and he said yeah, fort campbell is one of the worst places for people with tb i do in those early days. so for me and for brian one of the things was really helpful as part of our recovery was to try to call attention to the gaps in services that we saw, and to tell our stories in an attempt to make things better for troops continue to come home after us. and to do that as part of a larger community, to do that as part of or decisions of other veterans who working together for positive change. things have changed. bryan was sent back to his artillery

thinking of fort bragg or where people came back they were afraid to use the kelp because they are blacklisted. has that changed? >> i think a lot of progress was made. my husband was injured 2003 and when i was reading the book by a track down his neurosurgeon and narrow psychiatrist or psychologist, one of the other providers and asked and i asked what happened? how did this happen? how did he slips through the? he said fort campbell was one of the worst places to go in the early days. 40 be a and bright and one of the things that was really helpful as part of our recovery was to call attention to the gaps of the services that we sought to tell our story with the attempt to make things better for troops after us. and as part of a larger community with other veterans working together for positive change. things have changed bryan was set back to his artillery battery he should have been sent at a minimum to a medical but then there was a warrior transition in your net specifically decided -- designed for wounded warriors in those who knew how to let them navigate the system with a medical eva

one, to expand an existing blacklist of 21 russian and crimean officials that are now subject to eu assetzes and travel bans. or, to introduce economic sanctions. there are many skeptics when it comes to whether they will introduce economic sanctions. they have to make decisions by consensus. many countries have sizable trade relationships with russia. they are concerned this could hit their economies. it is not certain we are going to see that. countries like cyprus which saw a 6% decline in its gdp last year, cyprus has already said they see no case for ratcheting up sanctions against russia. angela merkel, david cameron spoke by phone yesterday. they said sanctions need to be tightened. back to you. ,> the annex nation of crimea it isn't yet a done deal, is it? >> it isn't a done deal. we saw just yesterday, late last night, both russian forces and protesters storming a number of bases including a ukrainian naval headquarters in crimea. there are many ukrainian troops holed up at those bases. literally hostage to the fact that they are in a region of their country that is declaring ind