we are still a much bigger trading partner with china than russia, and we will have plenty of natural gas if we could get the insraoeurpb mentalist out of the hair, but the whole time obama has been in office, we have to get a republican president, we absolutely have to. >> one of the things that i thought in this in the $2 trillion debt thing, there is a reason why right now why the chinese have this position with us. we buy their stuff. >> yeah, and they finance us. >> why are we always on the defense? >> they believe in our economy. it's part of the obama foreign policy. what ben said scares me about the alliance. nixon, to reverse that is dangerous. >> well, that's what is going on in the ukraine, it's a big thing i think. >> you are totally exaggerating this, charlie. >> oh, yeah. >> it's not a military alliance, and when it becomes a military alliance, then we can say -- >> economic alliances are more important than the military alliances, by the way. >> you are a master of changing the conversation. >> and he is a food snob. >> yeah, i thought i was bad. but i will tell you, th

china also burns more coal than all of the countries in the world combined. the deal with russia would represent 15% of china's energy needs and allows china to diversify the sources and in the long-term could help ease the horrible pollution problem from the burning of fossil fuels. what message does the china/russia energy pack sends to the united states? the state department downplayed it as a routine busy story. >> energy is a global market. and there are negotiations about deals happening all over the world pishly between major consumers and major producers, and that looks like -- it looks like the discussion was about exactly that. >> vladimir putin has been promoting his vision for a new russia that's second to none. it was on display at the winter olympics in sober. after outrage in the west over russian annexation, this deal raises the profile of putin and russia on the world stage. this is the biggest energy deal russia has made since the break-up of the soviet union. china is also unhappy with the united states. while it holds the largest investment in u.s. debt and is

china's ties are more strained than ever. today china is signing deals with russia and building stronger relations with that country. >> we have the national forecast, we are watching the two storms here on either of the coasts. northeast bringing in the cooler air. it is calm for now. the high pressure over a the southern plains and bringing in the heat, dry air and winds and there is a high fire danger as the temperatures could be climbing up to a hundred degrees again. a nice storm off the coast of california and bringing in the needed moisture, not a lot, but a little bit is good. the snow there in parts of the southwest and along with rain. needed moisture there. but it is the lack of moisture and the heat that is giving a high fire danger again today from new mexico, texas and oklahoma as the temperatures are climbing up to a hundred degrees. these are the highs this afternoon. the cooler air is pushed to the north. to the west in the upper 50s. here is needed moisture, a little bit, not a lot, we take anything we can get. snow in the higher elevations and win

than half a dozen. and they've been protesting outside the court. >> orla, thank you very much, indeed. >>> we've got some news that's coming in the last few minutes really. russia and china have signed a long-awaited gas supply agreement. it's a big deal. we have no details about the actual cost of it. but unofficially it's put up more than $400 billion. let's just analyze that a bit. aaron's with me now. long awaited, certainly. >> yep. >> even more importantly politically now, perhaps, than it would have been six months, a year ago. a big deal. >> it is a big deal. 38 billion cubic meters of gas every single year. you say it's been a long time coming. a decade. this has been in the making for a decade. there's always been sticking points about the price. obviously they've come to an agreement. very important, as you say, very important for russia, to be frank, russia, many will say, has all its economic eggs in one basket. that is energy, basically. they've got a lot of it and it needs buyers. china now -- it's interesting. this would come from the eastern part of russia. a different gas field to the one that supplies western europe with its gas. they've got to build a

china and russia, strategically advantaged. the sanctions pending in terms of impact. >> it a lot more than a deal of china buying russia's natural, it is potentially an alliance between the two. they were economical, political, military. so for 40 years we have enjoyed the united states economic political and military dominance in the world. it's about to change because of russia and china get together not only selling each other that's come out of china developing the energy resources, china developing and selling to russia other goods and russia buying chinese technology, you could see a relationship between the two were they reach an alliance. and it is an anti-american alliance. lou: and anti-american alliance and what is your instinct about what the consequences will be as a result? >> i think much about what it's wanted. see some part of ukraine. >> all of this discussion, talking about this in the obama administration's foreign policy. that speaks very loudly. >> yes, absolutely. >> thank you very much. lou: a reminder to vote in tonight's poll. do you find it interesting that the obama administration is no longer calling

china look bigger. but we are still bigger than china based on exchange rates. >> china may be an economic challenge. russias a more nasty foreign-policy challenge. it just seems to get tenser. >> we had russia calling for an emergency meeting. i think this will be little more than a mudslinging match. separatists who are pro-russian, shooting down two helicopters and killing ukrainian troops. we see the situation escalating. despite the escalation of sanctions, the situation on the ground seems to get worse. we do not see putin changing. >> let's talk about sanctions. why not tougher sections? why not go after the big banks? ratchet them up right now? >> the u.s. administration says if we throw all sanctions out immediately, we keep nothing in our pocket. we need to drip them out little by little. we need to warn putin and get him to pull back from the brink. for the europeans, there is division within 28 economies. some like britain want to go whole hog. others like germany and italy and others are not so sure. it will boomerang back on their economies. >> germany is the key. >> germany is one key. we hav

and jail more of our people than even china and russia do and then to pay for their misdeeds, they demand. to collect it, they build a tax system so complex, most of us have to hire specialists to deal with it. it is not a good thing when government is so big that it has 22 million employees. voluntary is better than force. free is better than coerced. we're better off when government is small and people are left free. we had this once in our country. that's what made america great. let's try to have that again. that's our show. see you next week. chris wallaced more. have a great day. >>> i'm chris wallace. now house republicans will have a select committee investigate benghazi. after newly released e-mails raised more questions about the white house response. >> this document was not about benghazi. >> it was for the -- >> it wasn't her only prep. >> the american people to their credit, want to know the truth. this e-mail is proof positive they were manipulated. >> we'll talk about kelly ayotte, one of the senators leading the harj for answers, and answer schiff, a member of the house i

while a major energy deal between russia and china makes perfect business sense to both countries, don't kid yourself. this deal is about much more than business. few are more qualified to comment on today's china-russia deal and what it means for u.s. policy than former national security adviser samuel sandy berger he is now chair of the albright stone bridge group here in washington, d.c. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> let's talk about this gas deal, first of all. on one level it makes a lot of sense. russia has ample gas. china is going around the world looking for energy where it can find it, but as i implied there is more than politics here. these are two major powers pushing back against the united states and the west right now. >> this has to be seen as a marriage of converging interest, not enduring love. the sino-soviet relationship is a troubled one over the years. they have fought wars, their borders are quite unstable, but circumstances now make the deal right. putin has wanted this deal for a very long time as an eastern market for his energy. i subject when the price is revealed china got a good deal. we'll see

china got a good deal. than whatven cheaper russia has been charging the eeo -- eu, and it should be something around $350, so it is quite cheap, and that would suggest that russia is willing to try to appear less dependent on its supplying europe. >> in short, russia is looking to share with other trade partners further east. as some countries give russia the cold shoulder in the form of sanctions due to ongoing tensions in ukraine. yet, even a deal with china cannot make up the shortfall if european countries decide to rethink their dependence on gazprom. the eu is russia's largest trading partner by a large margin, and they cannot afford to lose it. >> russia still needs europe, because that is where the infrastructure is, and some of the structures still need to pay for themselves. the biggest market for russia is still europe. >> a large part of the pipeline that will stretch across siberia has to be built. the extensions are two to be co-funded by beijing. the stockking at market figures next, trading higher this session after we saw a drop on tuesday. the federal reserve is in focus as the minutes f

than a decade. the reports we heard from both the leaders of china and russia that the cooperation between china and russia in the oil and gas has been strengthened even the further the historic deal between russia and china to supply the land of the dragon the with the russian natural gas. could be signed any moment moreover it has been said that the war on signing the contract will be continued during today and tomorrow and shanghai so there's still plenty of time for the signature to be added on this agreement for russia this is a diversification off its energy markets especially in the times when europe was talking about possible sanctions against moscow for china this is a good chance to jump ball from this huge dependency on coal in the industry the dependency which is taking human lives every year is giving severe environmental threat and also some of the biggest cities in china are losing money because of air pollution so clearly this is a win win situation and this is not even the only contract which is which is on the agenda here in shanghai many other deals in all spheres from a response

than 100 people have died. rescue workers are searching rubble in the most recent attack. >>> china and russia has signed one of world's biggest energy deals after more than ten years of negotiations. >>> former egyptian president has been sentenced to three years in prison for embezzlement. his sons were also convicted and will four years behind bars. >>> a bleak picture is unfolding in the balkans. millions of people have been effected. as the water starts to recreed the true scale is beginning to emerge. it's estimated between 1 and 1.6 milli 1.6 million bosnians have been effected. bosnia's refugee minister described the situation as catastrophic. barnaby phillips reports. >> reporter: in the mountains in central bosnia, this used to be a village play ground, and this was the front garden. >> translator: i wanted to stay, but some lads saved me. a bulldozer came for me, the operator lowered the bucket and took me away. >> reporter: in the local poultry farm the turkeys have drowned and livelihoods are in ruins. this is northern bosnia, and here too withdrawing flood waters reveal dead livestock. the floods

putin on a visit to shanghai is lined with a whole number of agreements aimed at bringing russia and china closer than ever before the two sides are aiming to increase annual trade to two hundred billion dollars within five years also moving closer is a potential huge gas deal that has been in the works for more than a decade oxys alexei you'd ask in our reports. we heard from both the leaders of china and russia that the cooperation between china and russia in the oil and gas field has been strengthened even further the historic deal between russia and china to supply the land of the dragon the with the russian natural gas could be signed any moment moreover it has been said that the war on signing the contract will be continued during today and tomorrow and shanghai so there's still plenty of time for the signature to be added on this agreement for russia this is a diversification of its energy markets especially in the times when europe was talking about possible sanctions against moscow for china this is a good chance to jump off from this huge dependency on coal in the industry the dependency whi

but after more than a decade of talks.. russia and china have signed a $400 billion dollar oil deal. russia's gazprom will supply natural gas to china through a new pipeline for the next 30 years. futures traders are already factoring in what it will mean for the price of nat gas.. the pipeline is seen as a way for russian president vladimer putin to pump more money into his country's economy-- as relations with the with the u.s. and europe breakdown. a judge has cleared the way for shareholders to sue bp through a class action lawsuit. investors claim the company mislead them about the severity of the 20-10 oil spill. especially investors who purchased shares after the deepwater horizon explosion. bp tells first business: "it believes that all of the plaintiffs' securities claims are meritless and will continue to vigorously defend against them." another recall is coming from general motors... this time-- 218,000 older chevy aveo subcompact cars have dashboard daytime running lights that can overheat, melt and catch fire. there are no repo

considering the chinese president to be a trusted friend and said relations between china and russia were stronger now thanever have been and mr. putin is hoping to secure a major gas deal here which will be worth billions to russia and of course russia needs that money because of the sanctions that have been applied to russia because of its annexation of crimea and also the dealings over ukraine and we see a spirit of cooperation between china and russia just as relations between beijing and washington are at the state of heightened tension. >> thank you for the update from shanghai. the white house says cia will not have a cover for spying operations and follows a black lash over the u.s. spy agency's use of immobilization program in pakistan, intelligence in the search for bin-baden and thousands have been killed by the taliban in recent years and rates of polio have risen. they accused the government of another poison gas attack in central hama and shows people suffocating and opposition fighters say forces have used chlorine gas in a number of assaults on the town in recent months. in northern aleppo

create a global archive of past climate, lonnie has made more than 50 expeditions to africa, antarctica, bolivia, china, greenland, peru, russiaand the united states. at the end of every expedition, the ice is rushed back to the cold room at ohio state university, where it is preserved in a frozen library, waiting to be deciphered. thompson: and we now have 7,000 meters of core we store at minus 30. and it turns out now that it's the only tropical archive of ice cores on earth. narrator: these cores are crucial links in the history of climate, connecting the polar regions to the tropics. by analyzing this archive and comparing it to other climate records, a global understanding of past climate is emerging. woman: what we want to do is get it back to the lab and start working on it as quickly as possible, because everybody's really curious to see what kind of information it has. as a matter of fact, as we're drilling this, we're often talking about what information this record might hold and how it might fit in with all the other records. it's another piece of a global puzzle, and we feel that every one of these pieces is criti

forfeiture for accounts in vehicles and companies that are doing no more than exploiting american luxury vehicles in countries like china or russiaey are worth more. in this operation they are ceasing 10's of millions of dollars that are doing nothing more than ceasing. >> secret service -- >> you have two federal law enforcement agencies and one of them has a direct financial incentive and they are one way what customs does is not. >> the core mission is to protect the president a. >> i love the clip that the organization the americans for forfeiture reform posted on the web site showing a missouri police chief closely defending civil forfeiture. >> there are some -- >> there is not really on the forfeiture status. >> it is revealing. >> police chief ken burden talking about the pennies from heaven it is supposed to go to an education fund. because he gets the forfeiture dollars he gets to spend it however he wants. this is a scam and the citizens of missouri. >> thank you. coming up even the people who teach their kids to play the piano inspired the wrath of government bullies. why? that is next. next. relax into child's pose.

china as a a savior. putin said he wanted to see a chinese wind phil russia's economic sales. matters more for russia thanhina. >> one of the great messages of 1989 is we got so wrong in our -- what is good intelligence on the chinese military? these people spend all day looking at the china military. do we have a clue? >> the question with the chinese military is no important one. the people you just mentioned are the specialists. they know more than i do. the question is, china's foreign policy is not a confrontational one at this point. it's is a key difference between china and russia and why i don't think we can see meaningful china-russia axes. what china wants is relatively constructive peaceful relations with united states and with the west to facilitate his rise as a global economic power. is actually looking exactly the opposite. putin is thriving right now on direct confrontation with the west. those are two very different things and i think they drive a wedge between the foreign-policy priorities of china and russia. >> we have to end up with a projection. the washington consensus that we all

intelligence officials see hackers as more motivated to harm than the united states, than hackers in russia orr china. some national employees are revealing sensitive information on the linker in profiles. this despite a policy to submit any information intended for public disclosure, before it is published. form err c,i clan officer lindsaymore ran says this is very dangerous. now inning, fromclu to concerned citizens could go on linked in or other social networking sites and be able to find who are the people who areworking on classified contracts. and be able to target those people. >> the federal government says the economy shoulder rank during the first three months of 2014. could this dip be the leading edge of another reception. hey, alley, what do you think, is this an ominous sign of things to come. >> certainly doesn't sound good. you never want to hear of an economy contracting. we are not far enough away from the last one. here is my view, don't panic. no one surprised, economists that is, that a gross domestic product fell by an annual rate of one percentage point. that means we have slo

china was looking to match what it got from central asia. vladimir putin and xi jinping closed the gap to sign a better than $400 billion action. they'll have two pipe lines coming from china to russia. they want to have this up and running by 2018. this was very important for vladimir putin on many, many levels. first and foremost, it kind of ends the isolation at least right now from the business community because of the sanctions and it proves that it can turn eastward growth. his priorities are china, south korea, japan, and eventually india, and thirdly we see the dramatic slowdown in russia. economic growth is over 1% and projections of a recession in 2013. this is a sign he can go into the rest of the year pushing growth to try to revive the scenario particularly ahead of the st. petersburg economic forum that starts on thursday. cnn, st. petersberg. >>> about 110 protesters were arrested on wednesday during a sit in outside mcdonald's corporate campus in suburban chicago. this latest move by workers and activists demanding higher wages. mcdonald's says it respects the right to protest but it's focusing on a shareholder's meeting set for later today. >>> you're watching "cnn

china and russia. russia. has an advantage in energy in china as are the largest energy marketing the wall it's already thirty percent more energy than the consumption then the united states looks like a school to become twice as big as the u.s. in about ten years our saw saw i think that it is a strong complementarity between the two economies and i think what what's going on now is is very very important step forward and in this relationship if if the managed care for a would have become very big and what about what do you think china stands to gain other than simple energy supplies i think of the obviously china hopes their russian economy would do well china is advantages in mass manufacturing of consumer goods especially cheaper consumer goods and russia is a large consumer market so if the russian economy does well and it's helped china to to the two economies together with energy and with with manufacturing i think it could help each other large the global economy is not doing very well it's two percent and it's going to be sluggish for a long time we need to adventure out and strike a strategic deal and a lot of people are ca

russia is china's largest trading partner. for china. the united states and the e.u. are still much larger trading partners than russia because the russian economy is those relatively small so i don't think we should see this as. an either or situation on the other hand the fact that in these situations china i know has come to a really important deal on gas with russia sends the message that china is by no child china has its own world it's able to get on with a range of partners and in this situation russia and this comparable china with some of the things really the. gas so i think that it does send a message from the chinese point of view to the rest of the world you know that this relationship with russia is very important i mean to be getting more important from the russians up on the russian side of both the something the russians really wanted in this situation because they because there's always concern about the extent to which you're well carrying on. receiving a wanting the same amounts of gas from russia because of the political problems on . jack right hand that that on china i miss a chance thank

for the high returns that come from risk, no risk would probably be greater right now than a bet on russia or chinathese countries are leading the headlines with allegations of every kind of thing: government sponsoredded sigher crime and imperialism beyond its borders. is now the time to buy after the fear is its greatest? >> we have charles sizemore. sizemore investment capital chief investment officer. charles, i was a informal meeting with some big hedge fund guys here in new york. they're saying we're not in the stock market. we're in these ventures and russia and china. i would say, are you mad? look at the headlines. they would say, that's the point. is that your point as well? >> exactly. the key point on russia that it's cheap. when imr i'm talking about cheap, six times earnings. david: charles, forgive me for interrupting before you talk about rush shea want to talk about china. i want to mention these walls of worry and investors folks like us are concerned about. we have china slowdown. the cyber headlines front page headlines in the "wall street journal" among others. possible moves,

intelligence officials see iranian hangers as more motivated to harm the united states than, say, hackers in russia or china. an investigation found some national security agency employees are revealing sensitive government information on their linked-in profiles that describe clearance levels, classified project names and what those programs are about. this despite an nsa policy that requires current and former employees to submit any information intended for public disclosure before it is published. former cia clandestine officer lindsey moran says this is dangerous. >> now, anyone from the aclu to concerned citizens to a foreign intelligence services could go on linked-inner other social networking sites and be able to find, who are the people who are working on classified contracts and be able to target those people. >> 14 ukrainian soldiers were killed today when pro-russian separatists shot down their helicopter in easternvan. van ukraine's acting president says the hemming was shot down. one was a general. slovyansk has become the epicenter of fighting. at least 35 people were killed today, an attack

russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution to the international criminal court. more than 60 countries back that resolution.ur diplomatic correspondent james bays has more from the u.n. headquarters in new york. >> after more than three years of bloodshed this was the chance for the security council to refer all the crimes committed in syria to the international criminal court. 13 countries, a large majority from in favour, but it will not happen. only two states voted against, but russia and china are permanent members of the security council. this is the fourth time they have used their veto on a resolution related to syria. >> today is about accountability for crimes so extensive, so deadly that they have few equals in modern history. sadly, because of the decision by the russian federation to back the syrian regime, no matter what it does, the syrian people will not see justice today. they will see crime, but not punishment. >> the russian ambassador made it clear he felt the french, who drafted the vetoed resolution were looking for more than justice. >> is this just, to try and create a pretext for ar

russia and one foot on china. then with the situation, situation changes, they can select one. so in that case, russia may support more military support to north korea than before. that's what i believe. >> thank you. >> thank you, dr. king. thank you, general jung, for your great remarks. i think it is the remarks that you made about the allies are very, very important. and there's nothing that you said that i could possibly disagree with. it is good to hear particularly on capitol hill and in america for you to outline how strong and important the allies is. i don't think we can emphasize that enough, so i thank you very much for that. there are many issues that i think we could discuss, but i will come to one question. i would just like to mention, i think readiness is important to i think the command structures are important. i think the conditions based for transfer is very important. i do wonder, you know, what is a better command structure than the combined forces command. my opinion is i don't think there's any better structured than the combined forces command. so my personal opinion, i would like to see that remain and evolves to the next level

deny everything and putin in china $400 billion with china russia strategically advantage as a result, the sanctions in terms of impact >> you are right to point this out more thanuying the natural-gas potentially an alliance. in the 1970's economically politically militarily the great achievement was to break that alignment. we have enjoyed united states said dominance in the world. that is about to change because of they get together not only selling each other goods to develop them sell to russia and other goods you can see a relationship between the two and is the entire american and allied hands. >> what is your instinct with the consequences with the result? to make it got what it wanted it is the weekend government and the eastern part of the ukraine. lou: all this discussion we have not mentioned the foreign policy that speaks very loudly. >> absolutely. lou: thank you very much. a reminder to vote in the online poll. do you find interesting the administration is no longer called the scandals cody? tweet your response and what do you think about that question mark north carolina police that rob day barbecue restaurant at gunpoint. a sign is posted their

for russia and china, no gas deal has marted more than this one. change high. >> the head of thailand's military has mediating attacks between opponents in bangkok. there has yet to be a breakthrough. they say it is not a coup but an opportunity to bring in talks. >>> former golfer number one errory mcilroy said that his errory mcilroy said that his game may suffer after his split. the performance review. errory mcilroy said that his game may suffer after his split. that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's someone around the office who hasn't had a performance review in a while. someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. i'm looking at you phone company dsl. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. >> welcome back. you're watching the news hour on al jazeera. >> a series of attacks have left 100 people dead. rescue workers are combing through the rubble in the central city jos. and an entire

china -- russia has become afraid of china and china has to become afraid of russia. >> i think they have moved to the opposite direction and russia knows that they have few options today other thanhey have just signed that gas deal. they are both focused on trying to find the american supercritical on this issue. cyber security with ian bremmer. next we look at microsoft. it was interesting on twitter last night, the way that this played out. microsoft and a new vision for microsoft. city, the york markets are quiet, but up. this is "bloomberg surveillance ," stay with us. >> good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." let's look at the twitter question of the day. really straightforward but what is a bigger gamble? equities or atlantic city. housing stocks or atlantic city? this is bloomberg surveillance. good morning, everyone. tom keene with adam johnson. scarlet fu called in, devastated that lundquist was taken out of the game, cristina alesci said, i can come in. >> they got her medicated. rangersre wearing your blue dress. >> let's get to our top headlines today. >> here we are. defense secretary chuck hagel has asked the pentagon to review the military health care s

on a deal with china on , but theeveral years deal was never consummated because china wanted a lower price than russia willing to give. i believe that -- we don't know what the price of this deal was, how much the gas is going to be. my suspicion is that prices low, and mr. putin was desperate to show the west that he had an alternate to europe, as the consummate the deal. but of course, this deal will only produce gas for china in for five years. they have to build pipelines. host: a caller joins us from [indiscernible] -- were western backed provocateurs. it is never been disproven, maybe your guests could clear that up. it is true where it this was raised. with this story was based upon the statement of a doctor who was questioned by reporters, and he denied it. i think we can probably chalk this up to russian disinformation, of which there has been a vast quantity. host: another viewer saying that this has been a foreign-policy failure of president barack obama. guest: i disagree. i think that we will know whether or not -- we will know how this turns out in weeks, or months, or years ahead. but w

from the air today the china need clean energy needs to end its own coal which they have seventy percent which is more than the rest of the. combined energy which of course russia has an abundance of well i spoke to some of the national petroleum china officials in beijing. there were cautiously optimistic saying as you said it's all about the price at the moment but they highlighted that russia is the partner for china let's listen to one of the top officials from. china has a lot of resources natural gas and shale gas but we of course need more we could y. them from different countries from the u.s. to north africa but we insist that we want to buy from gas prom which we see as our main strategic partner so you can see for yourself it's pretty obvious that they want to trade with with moscow. the russian president who is coming here as well talks to the russian press ahead of the summit and he underlined again how important politically and economically russia and china. for together but here in south you can see it's not about russia it's not only about russia you can see all the businesses all the foreign american u.s. businesses here why does everyone need

businesses, and go after the choke points which may be china, russia or other hackers and organizations around the world. >> other than these indictments, is there anything else that the u.s. government can do to crack down on this type of cyber espionage. >> clearly we'll see the leg work, they take cyber security and cyber theft seriously. what i expect to see is an education mission to part of this. the u.s. can go after the hackers. businesses can put in the resources to protect against foreseeable breaches. consumers, there'll be data breaches. if consumers can get educated, and part of what the government is going to do is use smarter passwords and be careful about what is posted online. you have the consumer aspect, business, and the third side, what we see and continue to see is the government enforcing against that type of unlawful conduct. >> privacy data and security expert - thank you for the insight. >>> south korea's president is taking action after last month's ferry disaster. park geun-hye announced the coast guard will be broken up and replaced with a safety agency. it failed to see hundreds of passen

a historic people to asia having signed hundreds of billions of dollars worth of deals russia and china closer than ever before. did fail in its proclaimed mission of isolating russia and the sanction threats just on demanding trust in the dollar. jim rogers renowned and master of businessmen and author welcome to the program great to have you with us so we're going to start with the sanctions the west is busy with them coming up with a new round for russia but russia meanwhile has made a historic thirty year gas deal with china how painful d. is saying the consequences could be for europe and the united states. well i will have to say. washington seems to be making one mistake after another and i don't like saying it since i'm an american citizen but you know america's driving russia and china together americas driving russia more and more to asia that cannot be good for america but they see keep making mistakes in washington so you're saying he was sent here by and willingly pushed russia and china together well unfortunately because seems to really bungled this whole thing very badly as you know

than 100 people. another 17 have been killed today in alagarno in the northeast of the country. >>> china and russia agreecontract in shanghai after a decade of talks on the multibillion dollar deal. >>> let's return now to those floods in bosnia and serbia, killing some 40 people. and both countries are acquiring huge international help. we can speak now to the crown prince of serbia, alexander. he joins us on the phone from belgrade. you have been out visiting some of the worst affected areas. just describe how bad it is. >> it's very bad. my wife and i have been out. and we delivered aid. we noticed many houses have been destroyed. there's so many refugees. there's about 35,000 to 40,000 have been evacuated to stadiums, to dormitories of students. and the floods were quite shocking. we could see the damage, bridges destroyed. roads have been sort of made impassable. landslides. and the fear of an epidemic because the weather is warming up now. >> what sort of international aid is getting through? and how much more is needed? >> well, we're very grateful for international aid. but this is going to be lo

russia's involvement in ukraine. the gas deal has been in the works for more than a decade. >> one of the many international issues that russia and chinae eye to eye on is syria. the pentagon said the regime there is moving what's left of is chemical stockpile. a spokesperson said bashar al assad's government is start to go eliminate weapons after months of delays it blamed on security concerns. the news follows an announcement by the u.n. that syria had destroyed its entire declared stockpile, used for producing a deadly nerve gas. >> pope francis is going to be in israel sunday and in the lead up to that visit, we're looking at issues that are facing the region. aljazeera's nick schiffron reports on why christians feel threatened in the holy land. >> in northern israel, a catholic parade thanks god for protecting the image of virgin mary. today's it's these christians who feel they need protection. >> whether muslim, whether jews, more and more. >> we are afraid, because there was an escalation, very dangerous escalation. >> that is hate crimes against christians in israel. in this jerusalem church, the words jesus is garbage was scr

than three years of unrest. the criticism was primarily aimed at the u.n., the organization accused of turning russia and will stop china bashar al-assad's allies are seen as untrustworthy in syria. every year, thousands of women are killed in india as a dowry payment. the age-old custom where the wife's family has to hand over pavements of money and gifts to her husband to secure her well-being. were released on dowry related deaths and is asking users to help light the problem by joining a social media campaign and it is receiving a great deal of support. many have posted selfies to the organization's facebook page. they are posted along with the anti-dowry pledge, hands-on heart, taking a stand against the patriarchal practice. they hope the campaign will raise awareness of the crimes and abuses generated by the dowry system which still exists despite being illegal. dowry related deaths have been constantly rising since 2011. were reportedly killed over dowry in india in 2012. that's around one death every hour. violenceaign targeting against women in india, a number of muslims have tried to tackle the rampant proble

cooperation in china. .e have tried with russia perhaps that is lessons learned here and why haven't we tried with china? should we echo >> it's easier to make the case that iran poses a threat to russia than it is to make the case that north korea poses a threat to china. pushhad the opportunity to military cooperation -- to push the frontier of military , it would be maritime cooperation. i would not place a high priority on it. i'm not sure i would understand what the underlying rationale -- unless the world changes to the point that the chinese would view the north koreans as dangerous, even to them. >> there's a reason why maritime issues have made the strategic cut already. these are concern -- are of concern to both countries. chinafferences between and the nest is, this could be part of the discussion of reassurance. it is an issue if you have japan, korea and u.s. integrated in missile-defense. we will have to bring it up and we already do. it is not central to the agenda that you underscored. >> there are some legal restraints as well. technology being heavily controlled. i think that would quickly get into an area that may be prohibited. we have a relationship with pla, but even