, africa, the middle east and central asia, to namejust a america, africa, the middle east and centralfew. america, africa, the middle east and central asia, to namejust a few. we do know that it will burn up as it re—enters the earth's atmosphere. what falls to earth will probably just be the breed which will land in the sea, rather than where people live —— debris. as for what it might look like, experts say a series of fireballs streaking across the sky, provided that there is no cloud locking it. all of this is a far cry from the space station's glory days, when astronauts spent several days on board. china says it is dealing with the re—entry with a highly responsible attitude, and complying with international conventions. but it all seems pretty embarrassing for the country's space programme. for the country's space programme. for the rest of us, all that remains is to watch, wait and see when and where the space station might fall. drjonathan mcdowell is an astronomer at the harvard—smithsonian center for astrophysics. he is in boston. welcome back to the programme. could you te

their grip in central asia. -- toave tried sustain sustain their soviet area principles in central asia do think there is a great difference in emphasis between any other countries and then, we. they feel that the west, meaning the united states, western alliance,d the nato dozens fact pose a profound -- does in fact pose a profound threat. point of emphasis for them and why they spend the effort they do against their prime target. >> a lot of disinformation targetting the baltics. >> that is true. my last trip, i went to the baltics and i had a meeting with the president of lithuania. they did not care. we sent a squad of nine soldiers, that is fine. just so we had a presence in the baltics. they are very, very concerned and intimidated by the russians. each of these countries to varying degrees has a russian population which the russians exploit. --t is a real concernfor concern for the people there. they do not want to be, a soviet -socialist republic. >> we have troops there now but rather small numbers. there,ong as they stay and they got the plant the american flag, that is a sour

right at the slaves from central asia to form an army for the e.u. bits. they had supplanted some other demons dentist. in september twelve sixteen here at the in general in palestine. the men who call me but the mongols and that's. it was a decisive victory for the most. the member looks at save the muslim world. and their tenuous legitimacy. was about to be struck. there was a member of the boston family who managed to escape from the slaughter in baghdad and make his way to cairo where the man lukes of egypt subsequently recognised his descendents as k.f.c. in cairo and derive benefits in the sea from this kind of shadow puppet caliphate. bolstered by the caliphs indorsement in twelve months you won. the man looks put an end to two centuries of christian crusades. aker. the last crusade the fortress on the mediterranean was captured. meanwhile in anatolia a new muslim power was on the rise. a power which would carry the banner of islam to the gates of constantinople. in six twenty nine joining the life of the prophet muhammad. the first ever battle betw

terrorist network such as al qaeda, daesh, i is horasa, the regional terrorists such as emu, item from central asia and china and pakistani terrorists in pakistan and taliban. all these four categories, the afghans, global, regional and pakistanis from symbiotic relationship among themselves and they are all drawing on the criminalized economy, chiefly on drugs. the drug networks need them and they need the drug income. and unfortunately there has been a growth in the number of the foreign fighters in the country. primarily because four years ago there were 352,000 afghan troops plus 140,000 more or less international troops in afghanistan with a combat role with all the sophisticated weaponry and equipment humanity has ever produced. now, four years ago a decision was made to transition the combat responsibility and security responsibility to the afghans. now, four years ago there was a yan army and still not yet developed with its strategic capabilities including its air force, but the transition has taken place successfully. yes, there has been setback, especially in rural areas, but no major po

harsh climate here camels don't just live in the desert they also come in in colder regions like central asia. they can withstand forty to fifty minus and you know they get long for in the winter and right now they have lost. cano. looks more skinny and. big for you know that look like. something between the sheep and a yard. and his family moved from a few years ago and they wanted to live in harmony with nature by starting a cattle they want to promote sustainable tourism on the island and. they're also working on a cultural center they hope it will become a meeting point for different people institutions and organizations. a place where ideas and projects where a sustainable future. of. this sector and a family is using social media to help promote their ambitions project. they're looking for support to realize their dream. something. i really would like to have volunteer workers to come up here and. both experience and see how beautiful it is and. an experience to work in this fantastic nature. work with the camels and also building on this help us to build up this center. and best have m

but this is central asia we're talking about at the junction between kazakhstan and monk i know we don't often get this part and you might expect they used to springtime falling huge areas covered in snow and then metals this sudden flooding has produced starting that is well it's the worst in thirty years half say they look pretty cheerful about it they're going to all under control and are used to it that is the case currently in central asia has been a sudden warming across the pacific where we've seen almost the opposite from the us flooding which is heavy rain but which has returned in illinois this is this is yesterday they before now that of course is because the cold air is still hanging around this low or being around the north hemisphere to be honest it's still up in central canada so although the snow belt is going out of the way the code is still there and in the northeast corner in connecticut we have more snow so winter has said goodbye to the u.s. you do see snow in april and there's a lot of snow a day puts just doesn't seem quite right having gone past the spring equity

. - we are seeing in eastern europe, central asia increase of 60% of new infection during the last six years because people who inject the drugs don't have access. they are considered as criminal, they are hiding themselves. and we know also in many other places we have bad laws which are not allowing people when they are gay to have access to services. - [narrator] despite advances, critics say the global health system is unprepared for crises. - we have standards laid out under the international health regulations for what the basic requirements are for being prepared for emerging pandemics and other pathogens. countries are not fulfilling those requirements. - we are really in an interconnected world today. we are in a different world. i personally believe that if we don't have a better mechanism for monitoring emerging epidemic, we will face a major problem of controlling new epidemics. - there are people who worry about the intentional biological threat, and the people who worry about the naturally occurring epidemic. and really a lot of the risks are the same, and while there's s

terrorism, we've seen, in our city, aleppo, people from a hundred nations, we've seen people from central asiaseen people from northern africa coming through the turkish border, robbing ourfactories — we lost, like, 40,000 factories — destroying our historical sites, targeting our christian and ethnic — other ethnic groups, armenian groups in my city. of course we will ask for our army, which is a secular army, to protect us. and, stephen, let me say something — as i speak to you now, there are 280 brits on their way from douma now to europe, they're going back to england. when they were getting on the buses, we collected the information of 280 british passports among the jihadis with the nusra front, or isis, which used to be isis, and now they got on the bus and they went to northern syria now. yeah, well, we'll get to what happened in douma later on in this interview, and i know that you've always characterised those who took the rebellious stance against the assad regime, you've always characterised them as terrorists going back to 2011. but it is interesting to note that opposition, human

speculation over where it might fall with estimates including south america, africa, the middle east, central asiahere it came down, most of it is said to have burned up on re—entry with any debris falling into the vast waters below. all this is a far cry from the space station's glory years when two different crews of astronauts visited. china says it's dealt with the situation according to international conventions but it all seems pretty embarrassing for the country's space programme. more than 7,500 tonnes of redundant space hardware is thought to be circling the earth. a uk—led research team is putting a satellite into orbit this evening to try to track the debris and catch it, as our science correspondent, jonathan amos, reports. it's getting extremely busy up in space. it's notjust the working satellites, but all the debris from past missions as well. more than 7,500 tonnes of redundant hardware are now thought to be circling earth. it's material that poses a collision hazard, with the danger of creating even more debris. that's where this small european satellite comes in. known as "remove

and from tbilisi georgia is guilty human rights watch south caucasus direct in the europe and central asia division very good to see all three of you us and you can jenna should imagine that this is a good moment for you. yes shane this is a miraculous beautiful miraculously the moment i see little as a metaphor because it's gigantic what has happened today this is what the people of our mean you know were hoping for and for. a final. in a final effort to come to the streets in such big numbers they could make their voices be heard loud and clear enough that the country needs change and that the government and the state are there to serve them and that they have to really now take the steps that they have voted for in the change from presidential to parliamentary system and therefore now it starts to be time for people's voices to be heard i just want to say one thing jane is that an armenian but i'm not from armenia i am of the asked for an armenian and i live in canada i happen to be in berlin for my professional work so but this makes no difference because the resignation of says sarkoz

i did my ph.d on central asia.esse: so you know about the country and you are over there trying to make deals and giving speeches. and they open up surveillance on you because they think you are doing something illegal and colluding with the russians. >> similar to the iraq situation back in the early 2000s, if you have fake intelligence and you are able to sell that to the congress and the american people, then one thing leads to another and you have a nice little conflict. jesse: they are investigating the abuse of the fisa court. they presented a dossier that was salacious and unverified. that's a crime, you are not allowed to do that. the white house chief of staff was involved in pushing the investigation forward with the fbi counter-intelligence people. and harry reid was involved and briefed by the cia director and wrote a letter to james comey urging the opening of the investigation. when you were being surveilled, were you talking to donald trump and people in the campaign? >> i have never spoken to donald

abandoned villages just as they've adapted to chernobyl's forests originally from the open step of central asia scientists brought them here in the one nine hundred ninety s. in the hope they would keep the grass down and prevent wildfires around the reactor . it's time to check radiation levels after all we're only twenty kilometers away from the reactor. because of the background radiation where we are now is the same as in the here you know the radiation has migrated into deeper layers the soil in that region you have there doesn't necessarily mean it's a fair wage for the rhythm of the. say he has spent the past twenty years studying the effects of radiation as it passes through the ecosystem while animals in and around two noble undoubtedly carry heightened levels of radiation say says it's not enough to impact their ability to survive and reproduce a conclusion that many international scientists would agree with but what about his own health does he worry or conger through so far i've been fine so why should. we get a call from one of said he's colleagues a group of horses has been spotte

estimates including south america, africa, central asia, the middle east, just to name a few. the south pacific is where it came down. it came down into the vast waters below. all this is a far cry from the space station's glory years, when two different crews of astronauts visited. china says it's dealt with the situation according to international conventions. but it all seems pretty embarrassing for the country's space programme. lebo diseko, bbc news. doctorjonathan mcdowell is an astronomer at the harvard—smithsonian centre for astrophysics. he's in boston and joins us now. good to see you. why has this been so good to see you. why has this been so difficult for us to know when it is going to come down and where? well, it is not an easy problem. we did it well with when it but the trouble is that as this space station is flying at 26,000 kilometres an hour around the earth, it is skimming the upper atmosphere. now when we have satellites that are way out in space, well above the atmosphere, no problem, i can tell you where they are going to be a month from now but when we

speculation over where it might fall with estimates including south america, africa, the middle east, central asiato the vast waters below. all this is a far cry from the space station‘s glory years when two different crews of astronauts visited. china says it‘s dealt with the situation according to international conventions but it all seems pretty embarrassing for the country‘s space programme. "i" if you haven‘t dared look outside now, here is the weather forecast. some people are seeing rain, some seeing snow. this was the scene in north yorkshire are short time ago, aims mix of rain and sleet. this system is bumping into some cold air. northern areas will see snow, but in the south, milder air, so just rain we are seeing. a number of warnings are in place, with more snow to come this afternoon as it continues to push north. the rain further south will push its way north, leaving bright and sunny spells and a few thundery showers. we need to keep an eye on the snow, particularly for the hills of northern ireland and for much of northern england as well, pushing northern england as well, pushing

many of those countries in central asia fit into that criteria you were talking about. since they and western europe are our closest allies, those problems are also our problems. they have so many economic difficulties and conflicts in the region and don't have the capacity to deal with the heroin flows that are affecting europe. maybe not as in as a deadly way but they are having serious consequences for human security there as well. >> it's 5:00 p.m. want to take up too much time. >> we have one minute, 30 seconds maybe. >> is not easy from a counterfeiting medicine perspective. we have an obligation regardless of government involvement or not. we knock our heads against the wall sometimes that the lies behind us and we try to do the best we can to take out of circulation what we can but it can be extremely frustrating. >> thank you so much to our audience and our panel. that will be offered to today. the briefing is concluded. [applause] [inaudible conversation] tonight on c-span2 book tv and business and economics starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern with the vice presiden

an end stalin accused the crimean tatars on months of collaboration and have been reported to central asia. which surely. it was not until the late one nine hundred eighty s. that they were allowed to return to their homeland for three hundred years but she soraya was the capital of the state of the crimean tatars the crimean khanate. when mongol had germany came to an end they dominated crimea and large parts of modern day ukraine. in fifteen seventy one crimean tatar warriors advanced as far as moscow and set fire to the city. the khan palace is a reminder of long gone power and glory she has good radiance he lets them the kind palace is a unique monument to history and architecture and it is the only palace of the crimea. a pearl in the world's cultural heritage. but for us crimean tars from the palace is also a symbol of our self-confidence and our identity our link to this palace along with the rebirth of our tatarstan or it. seems today as if it were calling the crimean tars to return and to see new opportunities for themselves here. this place is sacred to us it's a bridge to our ro

central asia, interesting about incentives. to a worsed relationship than what we have now. putin has taken on quite a few policy roles and they have played out well for the kremlin. theyis point it seems that just want to see what comes next and maybe we will have a summit at the white house. it may be that will be a time that we can see it. i don't think anybody in the surpassing idea which one is more likely. that is exactly how we should be thinking about foreign policy. if it has been dominated by foreign policy i don't think the next two years will be very much. solving economic in succession it will drive public opinion and it has been since 2014 and there will be a refocus . i am not sure what the consequences will be whether foreign policy and what they tried to achieve. i think it will be an important shift. i would put my money on -- not staying in the government. we don't know how much authority he has to dictate and what the country wants to do. or this very hard-line approach to the west. country,c election that would be a strong signal that things are about to

i meet people from central asia and pakistan and lebanon, they expect it. closely as a much better partner in the next 10 years than the united states or europe. francine: thank you for joining us. vasileios gkianakis and christopher pissarides will stick around. you can browse recent charts featured on bloomberg tv and save them for future reference. it is a cool application. this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ taylor: this is "bloomberg surveillance." an acquisition that could transform the supermarket business in the u k, sainsbury's k., sainsbury could create a supermarket giant to rival tesco in market share by acquiring asda. rising gas prices to the highest on record. gasolineat a time when futures are the highest since august. inventories are covering lower since january. danish electric vehicle sales fell dramatically after the government faced out subsidies. bloomberg spoke to the prime minister. >> we have a tax incentive for electric cars. you can discuss whether it should be bigger. i will not exclude that. today's paper is about the su

pakistan said no, the helicopter was flying to central asia or repairs. they've taken a tougher line and suspended aggressively. one tenth the number that we h had. one called indicated government control and another indicated taliban control. from theug end of the bush administration t took 150,000 troop peak to the forces and and prioritization of afghan security forces in the lead of combat to today. they make themselves instantly vulnerable to the power and that's why they haven't been able to take significant cities and the u.s. and its afghan partners haven't been able to change taliban control ofta the countries in the areas where it's particularly strongest. january 21 licenses will still be in this war. so thank you for listening. [applause] this isn't the first time it sounds like the vietnam all over again in some ways. >> it's hard enough just to try to tell you what happens. [laughter] i am kind of reluctant to give peopleof advice about this histy that but a couple of common sene answers if you look at the above history of the war like this

toughened by life on the steps of central asia. an army. that would soon erode the power of the caliphs. by the hour i'm certain i will be yet dad she and i say and i'm a sigh and there are more of a day when i better see how you like that martha sim milat that iraq was wow home. and know of with an ak eighty. eight forty seven here and some era. turkic army commanders installed a motto a kill as the tenth of a bassett calif. and for a century to come. they would effectively root the caliphate. appointing deposing torturing and even killing a string of twelve caliphs who were little more than puppets. yanni. me was sherry at. the above us but you know what's even worse what. the caliphate really had become a symbol and had no effective power anymore and in the muslim world we had a motive of different political regimes in the various reaching from the us today spain to this continent often this period is seen as a period of decline because of these political divisions. but it wasn't just a matter of the slow fracturing of the state. as its

they look at their map around them with china to the north -- with russia to the north and central asia to the west. to all the east and southeast they have the united states. they would love for the u.s. to get out of japan and south korea and for the u.s. to stop doing their freedom of navigation operations in the south china sea. they would love that and i think they are working slowly toward that to increase their ability in the next half century. host: we saw this pivot to asia concept. does that still exist in any way, shape, or form in this administration? guest: it exists in a kind of rhetorical sense. there is this time that the trump administration has invoked numerous times of the in the pacific asindo opposed to the asia-pacific. that seems to be some kind of iteration of the idea of a kind of ideological, moral construct for u.s. involvement in that region. the indo pacific as opposed to the asia-pacific is actually an interesting term because it expands the region we are talking about in terms of u.s. involvement and it brings india and supply. india is a democracy and arr

very important for russia because it's important role for the middle, and take for example, the central asia and for r russia is important as neighbors. and as far as syria, iran contributes to the fighting with isis, but at the same time, nobody knows what the intentions of iran would be, post-conflict. whether they'd like to remain in syria, whether they'd like their bases to be in syria and also take into consideration the considerations of israel. you know we have very good relations have israel now days. despite the fact that we agreed to disagree on certain issues, but still, relations are very good as well. so, we cannot ignore what israelis think and what it's doing. sometimes things which are detrimental. so, i just mentioned several players, we can of course, mention saudi arabia, also, but if we come back to the russia america, there's also coordination, was a bit ambiguous. because on the one side we cannot deny that we managed to work out together at the security counsel, the resolution 2254 which is very important corps resolution for the solution of the syrian conflict. and it

pakistan said no, the helicopter was flying to central asia for repairs. [laughter] the trump administration has come in and they taken a tougher line of pakistan. they suspended and tweeted aggressively. [laughter] we have 10 to 15,000 troops on the ground. 1/10 the number that we had when, at the peak of the obama -- the book describes this exercise the cia analytical unit would do this. every six months it was called district assessment. color-coded maps of the districts, one color indicated government control, another color indicating taliban control. another indicating contested or local control. and the maps were a big hit because they're fun to look after the throwing them on tables in the eisenhower office building. they would update them every six months. throughout all of this from the beginning of this bush administration through the 150,000 troops to the withdrawal of us forces and prioritization of afghan security forces in the lead of combat to today. the central picture is not change. he is a stalemate. it is a stalemate because the taliban,