as provided by law in bulgaria. a secular law that seems to have the backing of the orthodox church. >> if there was a way to open the doors of all the houses currently standing empty in the european union to all of the continent's homeless, there were no longer be any homeless -- that's according to a british newspaper. it says 11 million houses are vacant, which, statistically speaking, means three vacant homes for every homeless person, and yet, it does not write work like that. in big cities especially, property is increasingly seen as an investment rather than living space. this has pushed up property prices, driving a growing number of people who earn little to the edge of cities like madrid. in the course of the last few decades, europe's biggest slum has emerged on the outskirts of the spanish capital. >> this muddy track takes us from the heart of spain to a site usually associated with developing countries. susanna knows her way around. she is a social worker for a local ngo. this used to be a cattle herdi

provided vital in bulgaria. it seems chants are. there was no way to oakland and tools or the housing is currently standing empty in the european union to all of the continent's hundred s and would no longer be any home the next. that's according to british newspaper. it says eleven million ounces of bacon which statistically speaking means three vacant homes for every homeless person. and yet it does not like what like that in big cities especially property is increasingly seen as an investment rather than living space. this has cost of property price is thriving and growing number of people do and little to the end of the keys like good rates. and because of the last few decades. europe's biggest slum has unmatched on the outskirts of the spanish capital. the king and i were out. this money tracking system the hardest game to assign usually associated with developing countries susanna camacho knows her way around kenya crayon she's a social worker for a local in geo. this used to be a cattle herding trail know what's a sixteen km

a joint naval exercise between the u.s., romania and bulgaria has the guns and black sea. >> tensions in turkey as the funeral of a teenager whose death sparked protests in 30 cities gets under way. >> and preaching the gospel is a competitive business, and nigeria, one year on, stemmed the tide away from the catholic church. >> libya's prime minister fled the country after being voted out of office by parliament. ali zeaedan was in malta before going to another european country that despite libya's state staying they banned him in leaving because of an investigation into financial irleg u latteries. he lost the parliament's confidence after a ship filled with libyan oil from the rebels and escaped. >> muammar gaddafi was overflown in 2011, but many militias are out of the control. john hendren has a report from misrata where dozens of fighters joined pro-government forces. >> libya's post revolutionary army is a marriage of former enemies. there are long-time rebels gaoled by muammar gaddafi's regime. like this general. >> i'm still in a state of ecstasy from the victory of the 17 ja

in the northstonia to bulgaria in the south feel threatened. you doesn't have the influence that it had a decade ago. >> the russian ambassador to the the unitedto nations is here. he looked at me and said, show me $60 billion coming in here. believe the russians do they have the resources to do that. >> europe, russia is making a bet that europe is too linked in with russia because of its energy needs. russia is now the top dog in the world of natural gas market. from now that will not be the case. it is now. the web work of hype lines going into europe compromises europe. and makes it impossible for the individual european countries to enact the sanctions and level of punishment to russia that president obama would like to see. likes are looking at a president , the reason he came into office was to get his out of war and conflict, and not engage in conflict because he wanted to give it to asia, and do some nationbuilding at home. like cs. the pivot to asia is 20 years late. after the berlin wall fell, the americans wanted to give it to asia.

trawler arriving today for what's been called previously scheduled military exercises with romania and bulgariapentagon confirms russia holding military exercises of its own, not far from ukraine's border. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. how serious are they taking new military exercises. >> they are watching it all very carefully. u.s. defense officials tell me as of this morning russia was poised for a large air defense drill in western russia. according to russian news reports, exercises held 280 miles east of the ukrainian border testing the s300 air defense missiles. 3500 russian troops involved, 1,000 pieces of military hardware culminating in live fire drills. they will last a month we're told. the head of u.s. military intelligence said in an interview with npr that the dia warned the administration seven to tep days before russia invade ukraine of imminent russian military movements pushing back on the notion there was any sort of intelligence failure. meanwhile the navy destroyer, crossed the black sea on previously scheduled exercises with om an

from estonia in the north to bulgaria in the south feel threaten. europe doesn't have the influence it had a half decade ago in this part of the world. >> rose: i made the point that europe says they're prepared to spend $16 billion and he basically looked at me and said really. show me $16 billion that's coming in here. how much do you think they've spent so far. this seem the russians don't believe europe has the will in a sense or the economic resources to do that. >> europe is, excuse me, russia is making a bet that europe is too linked in with russia because of the energy needs. russia is the top dog natural gas market. ten years from now that won't be the case anymore but it is now. the web work of pipeline going into europe essentially comprises europe and makes it impossible for the individual european countries to enact the sanctions and level of punish that president obama would like to. >> rose: are we looking at the president too because since he's been in the office and because he came in office in part was to get us out of war and conf

bulgaria are running exercises in the black sea and said they won't recognize sunday's referendum on crimea. more news in the next hour. >> the acts ukrainian prime minister is in washington to see the president. what can he ask for in the way of help and what can he expect to get? that's the inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. prime minister yatsenyuk was named interim prime minister of ukraine as demonstrators clashed with police and as the old government fell. in the drama filled days that followed president yanukovych fled the country and russian forces took control of the crimea peninsula, and now that former of ukraine, formerly russia, is now heading to its independent status. it is assumed that it will be an interim status before it joins russia. what is at stake for the united states? what american national interests are on the line when people in other countries argue over a territory and in international board changes. prime minister yatsenyuk comes to washington hoping the u.s. will back its threats with action. president obama hosted his first meeting with ukraine's

he got free health cover in bulgaria. there was something that got lost and the mail came back to my father. basically, the health service system would not let my father go. based on some kind of internal rules, despite the evidence that he was detached from the health service system, they were able to keep enrolling him automatically and able to change his plans and increase his premiums up to $357. i think this is meeting last year. you make wonderful presentations analysis. i guess you can assume how much is $357 from a patient that is $350. i met most of you in a closed session. my opinion is the board wasn't that friendly in the closed session as it appears to be in the open session. i will say as i said last year. you have thousands of members which is a huge organization. not all live here in san francisco and have the opportunity to attend these meetings and have access to the information. it's not that easy to come from a different country and speak another language and follow all the rules. actually i have a com

. >> this morning we learn there's a uss guided missile destroyer doing exercises with bulgaria and romania. the pentagon said it's not related to the current tensions on that peninsula. >> thank you very much. >>> in seattle, federal investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong in a horrific 2e8 vision helicopter crash. it smashed into the street a few hundred yards from the space needle. it hit three cars setting them on fire. the experienced pilot and photographer were on the plane working for komo tv. they were pronounced dead at the scene. he was one of the nicest men ever, so loved and respected. he was a great photographer. he was just a great person. >> a third man was seriously injured. he was on fire when he escaped from his car. the helicopter her was a temporary replacement while the station's chopper was in the shop. the mayor says the city will look at rules as it investigates. >>> on a lighter note, there's two mega million winners. the lucky winners will split the jackpot, third largest so far. there were eight tickets matching five numbers worth a million a piece.

now this is a previously planned military exercise planned with romania and bulgaria but it comes as tension in the neighboring ukraine don't summer and ivan watson is on a boat in the bosphorus strait part of the waterway that divides europe and asia. ivan is this adding to tensions in the area? >> reporter: well, there's clearly a message that's being sent here. we'll pan the cam radio right over right now so you can see this u.s. argueded missile destroyer from norfolk, virginia. the truxtun with a crew of approximately 300 on board. steaming right now, jake, up the bosphorus strait. it is that geographic natural choke point and the only way any sea vessel can get into the black sea. now the u.s. navy said this was a previously scheduled journey to conduct joint naval operations, as you mentioned, with bulgaria and romania. but the situation in the black sea and in the crimean peninsula is anything but normal. crimea is home to the ukrainian and russian navy. last tuesday we spoke from this very same point in this bosphorus strait about russian war ships, two of them that had sail

leaving behind two baseball caps in the talmud silver which investigators were able to extract dna bulgaria had previously identified suspected associates of the bombers two lebanese men to be a bit with has a lot. the suspects remain at large or gary has made extradition request eleven on for the accomplice is but so far they have been unanswered. the year the last july with the armed wing of hezbollah on its terrorism like the convenience of it up. it's a jewish religious law it has come under fire in the uk. the country's top veterinarian called for a band called rachel animal slaughter ahead of the race veterinary assistance an idea that animals killed in this fashion experience unnecessary suffering and more humane methods should be adopted. jewish and muslim leaders have spoken out against the talents pointing out that a captive bolt that is used in the uk before the animal was killed because of the more suffering and pain and religious slaughter this is curious european country to tackle the issue of free to animal slaughter market and kosher slaughter last month citing new regulatio

valencia play for more than an hour with ten men for the still enough to knock up with what's real in bulgaria salzburg was held when neil will drop by a bottle of the bacon beyond company knocked out victoria pills in for one thing is at alkmaar one one million home to nc but as a time this afternoon on sport angeles billboard for the whole crew here actually chilly we are back for regularly scheduled broadcast on friday the playful sessions adding a case of the art in the back alongside his cv eight forty pm beijing done with cia back in a one cylinder nearest er friday afternoon and she can't see the pups. and mdm moving moving moving ukrainian places deadly street clashes in tea at protesters and police killed the dramatic deal between the president and the opposition and what happens now to a country cup between east and what a lot like walter and this is the key the thing. watching the new craters high stakes

bulgaria's touchdown strike is to many countries oppose them. any match announced it had at least a three million ukrainians. just like it's not good at them. we're coming to bishan to keep the jokes you. when you might get an a trans fats in mice money and ukraine. romans twelve percent of ukrainian ttp. i want to say once again i understand these people. to read tonight that he wants to protest against the petite women. instead of democracy hence piracy case to take a step. got there early just to increase he says like an excuse to go to the zoo. a change of heart to see us. at the height of the ross dependency in kiev the twenty oh five different painting goes to the beach in a organized a coup de tat he cute or obese. it's a crap time. without any he'll proceed says don't they use tara. oh crumbs. the whole day. i'm using weapons and honesty me and i knew from the previous heat is affected it timely to extend its anti semite. because i know it is only wednesday. the new season campaign. people here hate for . demolition job on that so many e

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industry with spain and romania are torn and then he's yet to other states like germany france and bulgaria. i decided to put a hold on at the start of two men will be getting commons. gina london attack she's joining us out tonight that mr ahmed oh why would the eu budget is excluded shale gas from its lakes legislation. this latest legislation is an update about environmental impact assessment of what we wanted was to have a compulsory assessment every time that this planned school exploration the core drilling i do not foresee the agreement between menace to get from solomon with dom member state governments leaves out the compulsively element is still not up to the end of the two member states how they can to do that. we think that that's the real ira. we need to be actually looking at the potential impact. every time that we're putting in place additional duty and trading or indeed extraction why is trying to bunt in countries like germany and from friends. i'd say that's because they've got governments that the british to wood thinking on the upper hand. i think that what it is is tha

there is a disagreement behind the scenes between colleges like bulgaria and even germany. about how flawed the sanctions with the result of the important economic sectors in. in some european countries. actually i'm beginning to deep and especially the unending she stocked up on all my cooperation with russia. so i think it's more a question of political egos. because of the complete success. russia has jumped the fence was surprisingly calm specific actually might know that a lot of large companies do not agree with these threats including going through something the united states including several sets of eight c to. a brush being blamed for the addicks to cry they're estimating international tension despite the referendum was actually the initiative all of them a component part of security professor an acclaimed russian store and crisp enemy believes the vote was fair and transparent the western media and western politicians have on my feet the site of ukraine ukrainian government the interim government's point of view all this art was walking in that referendum last we

students for the seventy six schools were offering korean and a curriculum classes were opened and when bulgaria no other countries for the first time daily with thirteen. so was the booming interest in the korean language here to stay. as we provide the training which means to make an effort to learn their culture. i mean we will continue to be successful and why we are foreigners will show their love and appreciation for it. this is the case is as it is working to expand a korean language program the one thousand classes in twenty eight countries by the end of issue then i did on this the breakthrough in the search for malaysia airlines flight. race seven no large objects found in the indian ocean are thought to be possible to bring you from the missing plane search crews are currently in the area but are having a hard time locating the objects too cheap or visibility of the rain and clouds are cunningly as well it's in you he hunts for missing malaysia airlines flight three seventy australian authority see that too i've just spotted in the southern indian ocean on thursday could be related to

many countries mark this holiday for example a native and bulgaria as the last thing on some holiday which is also a celebration of the beginning of spring. some of the day reserve the store. we will prosper. the beatles poster or a parameter for the rights of government local beaches as i have instructed wages of state employees will be increase from april first. i like to express gratitude to all the companies that supported my initiative and increase the salaries of employees one and a half million people of kansas and will receive a higher pay to see what is happening in the world countries are cutting wages jobs pensions book as extends creating new jobs and increasingly it is all this is happening because of our unit in peace and stability. this is the eternal idea of the world and united team we are developing and enjoying the spirit in our country thanks to this trip. more to brush the edges. his thousands carson and some mma state theater cause a storm of emotion and applause from the audience in great critical acclaim in el monte this performance has become the first leg of

bulgaria, the baltics, finland, sweden, all of their gas comes from russia.s are particularly vulnerable because they are not connected to the eu gas grid. if russia decides to suspend its gas exports to eu, the baltics will be completely cut off from gas supplies. you sum up the annual consumption of the baltics, finland, bulgaria and -- these markets are very vulnerable but very small. it could cause problems, yes. thinklly quickly, do you we will see russian gas disruptions? >> no, we won't. they cannot afford it financially. they cannot afford it. if they decide to press this be finished.will >> thank you very much for joining us. next, next reports earnings today. ♪ >> welcome back to "countdown." >> ukraine's interim prime minister arseny yatsenyuk has warned that russia will try to further provoke tensions with ukraine. he spoke in an exclusive interview with ryan chilcote. >> it means a lot for the people of ukraine. started with the prior european slogans. the people have their dream. tos is the first step execute this stream. a dream for a better li

of the council's provisional procedure, i invite the albania,ative of germany, austria, belgium, bulgaria, canada, cyprus, estonia,denmark, then, finland, georgia, greece, japan,, iceland, italy, malta, liechtenstein, montenegro, norway, new zealand, the netherlands, poland, portugal, republic of moldova, czech republic, the mania, slovakia, slovenia, sweden, turkey, and ukraine to participate in this media. it is so decided. the security council will now begin consideration of item two of the agenda. members of the council have 2014-189,em document s- fte text of a dra resolution submitted by albania, germany, australia, austria, belgium, bulgaria, canada, cyprus, deutsche, denmark, spain, estonia, the united states of america, finland, france, georgia, greece, japan,, iceland, italy, lithuania, in stein, moldova, norway, new zealand the portugal,s, portland, although the, czech republic, the united kingdom, northern sweden, slovakia, turkey, and ukraine. four tonow give the council members who wish to make a statement before the vote. i give the floor from their presented above the russ

as tensions in neighboring ukraine simmer this ship is taking part in exercises with romania and bulgariat of the waterway that sdrid decides them. >> the u.s. navy destroyer truckston sailed past us at full speed in the straight. the u.s. navy said this was a previously scheduled trip into the black sea to conduct joint maneuvers with the countries of bulgaria and romania. there is nothing normal about that in the crimian peninsula that sticks out into the black sea where the russian military has occupied ukrainian territory and blockaded ukrainian naval vessels from being able to move out of their ports. at this time it's a very delicate time for negotiations between washington and moscow. movements by the militaries are seen as important symbols, signs of support for allied countries in the region particularly in the baltics and eastern europe. very concerned about russian military maneuvers into the ukraine. reporting from the straight in istanbul. >> what a shot. thank you so much. let me tell you coming up in about 20 minutes, we will talk to a columnist who said this is a new cold

putin inches to go back to lithuania, latvia, estonia, bulgaria, hungary? if you really serious about putting back together the evil empire? i hope not. >> i want to thank you, frank keating, the ceo at the american bankers association. also a two-term governor of the state of oklahoma. for more on the sanctions regarding the ukraine and russia, let's stay in washington with our chief will -- chief washington correspondent, peter cook. throwing back and forth sanctions, is this escapade escalating? >> it is escalating once again. they laughed at the last list of people targeted by the u.s. sanctions. they may not be laughing quite as hard at the list the president unveiled today. he designated 20 more russians with asset freezes and travel bans. the group includes 16 government officials, and also on the list for the first time, a bank. it is russia's 17th pig bank. -- biggest bank. and they are targeting entire sectors of the russian economy if vladimir putin moves beyond crimea. >> the preferred outcome of the sanctions would not only have a significant i

several european nations such as bulgaria, lithuania and the czech republic get most of the gas fromare heavily dependent on russia to get energy. >> ceo of the american petroleum institute in washington. the oil and gas industry's lobbying arm. >> they have to think twice about how they react. they have to be fearful of the repercussions of that. >> some say america could do more to help. critics argue this administration has worked to live an exploitation of our oil and gas services because they are not clean enough. the energy industry says we need to export more natural gas>> wutding -- we would be in a closer position to say we are in the game and we are going to play for keeps. >> the government improved only one that is gas driven. it won't be functional until next year. seven others received conditional approval. >> is it true you can say europe we are going to take as much energy as we can take. there won't be much done about it immediately. >> those terminals we would like to have by the department of energy and regulatory agency in washington those will be built over the n

so romania, bulgaria, slovakia, estonia, have all joined nato. georgia was interested in joining.alent and that was okay because we knew russia was highly sensitive about ukraine joining and that was fine. but ukraine is a member of partnership for peace. so they have every right to come to nate and ask for this. this is really the fundamental purpose of nato, to provide the bedrock of stability in europe. >> when you look at the precision of this invasion, did putin do this under the cover of olympics. knowing things in kiev were heating up, did he amass his troops and put into plan an action oor put a plan into step in without anyone firing a shot? >> right. i think probably existing plans. normally countries have these plans on the shelf, so to speak. they pull them off the shelf, dust them, look at them, i'm sure that was being done. everyone in the street, in kiev, knew the hammer was coming as far as the olympics was over. that's why they forced temple of action to get the previous president out of there. they knew if they didn't take action before the olympics was over that

-189, the text of a draft resolution submitted by albania, germany, australia, austria, belgium, bulgaria, canada, cyprus, denmark, spain, estonia, the united states of america, finland, france, georgia, greece, hungary, iceland, italy, japan, latvia, liechtenstein, lithuania, moldova, norway, new zealand the netherlands, poland, portugal, czech republic, the united kingdom, northern ireland, slovakia, sweden, turkey, and ukraine. i shall now give the four to council members who wish to make a statement before the vote. i give the floor from the representative of the russian federation. >> thank you, madam president. many times we have put forth in this chamber the essence of the russian position regarding the cost of developing the internal crisis in the ukraine. this is the general context that is important for understanding how we view the u.s. drafted resolution, brought to vote today. it is a secret to no one that the russian federation will vote against the resolution. we cannot go along with a basic assumption that is declaring illegal the 16 march planned referendum, where the ver

take the eastern bloc countries we november -- we know of, poland, czechoslovakia, romaine yow, bulgaria, yugoslavia, those countries, and so that agreement was made at yalta. the agreement was agreed to by churchill and roosevelt and by stalin. and then it collapsed in, it collapsed in on germany, carved that part of the world up according to the plan at yalta. can you imagine, mr. speaker, sitting at yalta in the crimea with a map of the world and drawing on that map, this is the line east of which people will live under the soviet influence which hadn't technically formed yet and west of the line people will live under wench influence and even carved up berlin itself, we had a u.s. sector a french sector a british sector and a russian sector of berlin itself. that set the destiny far lot of history that was to come after that but what he saw happen over the course of 45 years of cold war, mr. speaker, was that these countries that had been taken over by russia and some of them were mostly within the sphere but i will say the countries that are eastern bloc satellites of the soviet uni

of the cold war was not about changing bulgaria's status.the real issue is how to make ukraine succeed, rather than have it dismembered by russia. a very going to take ambitious and creative policy on the part of the west. >> the idea i assume you are talking about is that ukraine would a relationship with russia, but also the ceo -- also the eu. those things could benefit everybody. >> sure, and the new government in kiev is talking exactly that line. this week, the prime minister said a number of very important courseabout the future pcs. it is a very divisive issue in ukraine. he said, the eu is getting his , and without any invidious measures that might be harmful to eastern ukraine, to the russian economy, the new government is trying to find a way to unify the country, to put the economy back on its feet, to unite the society at a time when the russians are doing everything to create social tension. i think there is no way to describe russian policy as other than terribly threatening to the post-cold war order. i think the ukrainian go

bulgaria are running exercises in the black sea and said they won't recognize sunday's referendum oncrimea. more news in the next hour. >> the acts ukrainian prime minister is in washington to see the president. what can he ask for in the way of help and what can he expect to get? that's the inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez.

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to the slovak republic to bulgaria.ukraine with enhanced nato that will be a formidable military antidote. >> all right. that is an optimistic view. because i don't think these people in europe will do anything but we'll see. >> what has he won? >> he's shown the world -- >> he's irrational. not a member of the g eight anymore the glow from sochi is over. he doesn't care. >> he doesn't care. >> on a plane, looking back. hind sight. >> hind sight you're mocking of me last week was not only cruel and unnecessary, but inaccurate. >> i believe this will be a terrible act. >> if it was a pilot suicide, it's not islamic terrorism. >> nobody said that here >> terrible occurrence a tragedy. they'll find the wreckage. >> yes. soon. i don't know how much that is going to lead >> remember, lithium ion batteries in the belly of the aircraft. >> the key to this is the fbi breaking down communications of the pilots seeing if they had conversations with anyone, if they had written anything. >> there is no evidence yet. >> no. >> remem

energy, 34% of all natural gas sold in europe is russian gas, several european nati nations such as bulgarialic get most of their gas from russia. >> europe is heavily dependent on russia, most of the gas flows through ukraine to get there. >> they have to think twice about how they react. they have always got to be fearful of the repercussions of that. >> some say america could do more to help. but critics argue that this administration has worked to limit the exportation of our resources because they say they're not clean enough. they say we need to limit the natural gas, or lng. >> we would be in a closer position to tell others in a very serious way, we're in a game and we'll play for keeps. >> as president, he approved only one gas export terminal. and it wouldn't be ready until next year. >> is it true or untrue, jack, that the president could stand up today and say europe, we're going to give you as much energy as you can take but because these lng plants have not been built there is not much that can be done about it immediately. >> well, john, the important thing is the signal, thos

navy began joint exercises with the navies of bulgaria and romania in the black sea, just across from crimea. russia continues to hold ukrainian military bases there, and says it's acting to protect ethnic russians. but ukraine argues a 1994 agreement obligated russia, the u.s. and britain to protect it's territorial integrity, after ukraine gave up it's soviet-era nuclear weapons. the russians have so far ignored such claims, and crimea plans to vote sunday in a referendum on whether to leave ukraine and become part of russia. today, the g-7 countries, the u.s. plus britain, canada, france, germany, italy and japan, warned: and, they said: we would not recognize the outcome. >> it can get ugly fast if the wrong choices are made. and it can get ugly in multiple directions. >> sreenivasan: ahead of the crimea vote, secretary of state john kerry announced he'll meet with the russian foreign minister in london on friday. he spoke at a house hearing. >> we do not seek a world in which we have to apply additional costs to the choices that have been made thus far. but we will do what we hav

the ship will be taking part in naval exercises with romania and bulgaria.outine or not, this sends a message and it it comes one day o after the united states announced it is beefing up f-15 flights over the nat -- the nato flights over the baltic region. tension times in that part of the world. >> the phone conversation between president obama and shanelling president vladimir putin taking place on thursday but taking place after the president came into the briefing room and announced those sufferings against russia. what can you tell us about that conversation? >> well, the conversation lasted about an hour, according to the white house. it was the second conversation since this crisis began. the white house says that president obama kept insisting that this was an illegitimate for russia to be in crimea. they want them to bring their troops back to the basis in crimea. they want them to talk to the new ukrainian government and to allow international monitors into that region. the president, in a statement in the briefing room, was also talked about this

the industry with spain remaining following their lead yet other states like germany france and bulgaria have decided to put it on hold grain activists sharon wilson explained why people are so against fracking. there actually has been quite a bit of research and we do know that that fracking causes a lot of harm fracking enabled drilling has tremendous emissions the methane is bad for our climate we do know that water is getting contaminated and eighty six percent of americans want clean renewable energy resources anyone who watch what's happening in the united states and in australia and canada would know that there are too many problems to go forward with this at this time. sunday's the final day of the sochi twenty forty paralympics has been a remarkable event seeing the team rush to excel with a record breaking medal haul all season see friends in sochi with the updates. well the games are not over these athletes are still up in the mountain cluster competing for the medals and of course if the opening ceremonies were any indication of what to expect the closing ceremonies of the tw

status, just as in most to have the cold war -- in most of the cold war it wasn't about changing bulgaria's status. the real issue is how to make ukraine succeed rather than having it dismembered by russia. that's going to take a very ambitious and creative policy on the part of the west. >> charlie: the idea i assume you're talking about is ukraine would have its relationship with russia but also allowed to have a relationship with the e.u. >> absolutely. >> charlie: two things, it would benefit everybody. >> sure, and the new government in kiev is talking exactly that line. this week, prime minister yatsenyuk said a number of very important things about the future course he sees. he said, nato membership, not at all on the agenda, because that's a very divisive issue in ukraine. he also said the e.u. is opening its market to us, and without any invidious measures that might be harmful to eastern ukraine, the russian economy, the new government is trying to find a way to unify the country, put the economy back on its feet to unit the society at a time when the russians are doing everything