with that, i believe it's helped some democratization for eastern europe. it's helped opportunity, but unfortunately, their efforts have not been enough to ensure or help the countries with sustainable impact. so i conclude here in sort of the second round of comments, i'll return to talk about the opportunities i see for cooperation between the u.s. and some of the new democracies that have developed around the globe in the last two decades. >> great. thanks very much. >>> michael. >> thank you very much. >> first of all, many thanks to organizing this and kindly inviting me here it's a great honor. i'd like to say a few words about the united states when it comes to democracy and offer an opinion on that issue and i'm afraid i will differ from what tsveta has just said. and that europe has been changing greatly. the united states the most point of reference for anyone striving for freedom under communist rule in eastern europe and the americans were the first to come after transition in 1989. even though in terms of quantity, the u.s. funding was quickly

they are working in eastern europe.ans. they have a fairly flit cal approach to supporting that abroad. they seek to often times in general seek to build a reservoir of democratic acts and state institutions. they would push their country in a more democratic direction and opportune moment. in other words, they approach very much like the u.s. approach except with less emphasis on the election. to the extent that they build on eastern europe and have a number of petitioners, they have indeed done that. it would seem they have succeeded. they have themselves in power by the u.s. in part and who are now seeking to share some of best practices of their own. including best parts that were developed by the u.s. >> to the conversations they had with a number, they shared that it was external with the u.s. support that helped development a sector of political access in eastern europe. those are actions that would probably have been under developed or missing because of the nature of their work and they have powerful political

perhaps the biggest surprise for me, we saw an cold war europe this clear dividing line between eastern and western europe. this was the warsaw pact over here, this was nato. the fact that russia got left on the periphery -- i mean russia, not the soviet union -- with nato expanding into eastern europe, there is still a dividing line -- just moved eastward. i came to see 1989 not as an end to the 21st century. so many organizations that dominated the 20th century persisted into the cold war -- into the post-cold war world. when you get to 9/11, you are trying to respond to 9/11 with cold war institutions. if you look at the 9/11 report, the report says one of the reasons the united states was unprepared to deal with 9/11 was because its security institutions were still those formulated to fight the cold war. that is true, but that was also a strategic decision in 1990 to protect ash to perpetuate his institution. i came to see 1989 not so much as an ending because there was so much perpetuation from the 20th century into the 21st. we are living with that awkward juxtaposition between co

we believe such assistance extended to democracy and freedom in poland and all of eastern europe is the best investment in the future and peace, better than tanks and warplanes, an investment leading to greater security. [applause] poland has already done much to patch up the divisions in europe to create better and more optimistic prospects. poland's efforts are viewed with sympathetic interest by the west, and for this, thanks are in order. we believe that the west's contribution to the process will grow now. we have heard many beautiful words of encouragement. these are appreciated, but being a worker, i must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. [laughter] [applause] let deeds follow words now. [applause] the decision by the congress of the united states about granting economic aid to my country opens a new road. for this wonderful decision, i thank you warmly. and i promise you that this aid will not be wasted and will never be forgotten. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, from this podium i am expressing words of gratitude to t

for people in eastern europe, they saw what they wanted their countries to be like. apart from the personal relationships that president regan built, the model that gave the people in eastern europe and the former soviet something to shoot for was an important motivating factor. >> do you think it transported societies. >> the countries of eastern europe and the soviet union were modern, industrialized urban economy were well educated populous. the political and economic system were a bad fit for such a society. they could look across the border and see people that looked like them, dressed like them, that they wanted to be like. people talked at the time. they spent a lot of time in the soviet union, and people would say i want to live in a normal country. they recognised that their country was an aberration from the other modernized society, and look across the border and say that's what i want. >> 25 years later, there's cultural differences between east and west. what have we learnt? >> well, i think the differences are significant. one thing we learnt, that is h

gorbachev -- he sees it not only in eastern europe that the soviet union. i have said that we would be discussing a rapid change inside eastern europe and we have been talking about that today just before you ok then. -- you came in. we have been talking about the gorbachev meeting, and one of the things we have determined we will discuss is this change. >> [indiscernible] >> i don't see that they are related. >> [indiscernible] >> i don't know. i think it is way too early to speak. on thespoken out question of german reunification. what they have had to say about it. i don't know whether the development of today speeds up today or not. >> [indiscernible] discussing those and i know'm sure, they are interested. >> thank you. to himlike to talk soon. i talked to him quite recently. >> [indiscernible] not yet, no. >> [indiscernible] >> personally, i don't know. i talked to him very recently. >> thank you. >> the berlin wall had separated east and west since august 13, 1961. as the wall came down on november 9, 1989, senate minority leader bob dole, republican

has built or sought to build actors in central and eastern europe and we have a number of practitioners and academics argued that it has, indeed, done that, weave seen that it has succeeded because the center in eastern europeans who were themselves empowered by the u.s. in part and who are seeking to share the best practices of their own demeanor democratization experience including best practices that were developed by the u.s. in fact, thinking with the conversations that i had with those individuals they oftentimes shared that it was external and primarily u.s. support that helped develop a whole sector of political actors in central and eastern europe and those are actors that would have probably been underdeveloped or missing because of the nature of their work and its opposition to powerful domestic, political and economic actors. so again, stepping back, what that tells me is that u.s. democracy promotion has mattered, but also the specific activities through which it has been implemented has also mattered because it has produced enduring domestic actors and it has empowered end

when we came into office in 1989, there was a lot of ferment in eastern europe, and we decided we wanted to try to make it different from earlier cases where berlin in '53, hungary, and so on, to try to keep the violence down and to keep it at underneath the level at which the soviet union would feel compelled to respond. >> charles, mrs. thatcher had very famously said that she thought gorbachev was a man you could do business with. but that didn't mean, i assume that she thought that he was trying to dismantle communism in any sense or let alone the soviet empire. >> i think she realized he was trying to reform communism, make it a somewhat more humane doctrine. as she constantly advised him that was a useless task because communism was unreformable and should be gotten rid of. i think she also believed in his basic humanity, that he was a decent man, a man who was far less likelier than earlier soviet leaders to crush dissent and repreparation in eastern europe. indeed, one of the miracles of the wall coming down was the fact that the soviet union stood back, did nothing to e defend t

in fact, russia has ties to nearly every part of eastern europe. thanks to energy economics and a diaspora of russian speakers, and enclaves who have spread out over centuries. like in ukraine, some fear an emboldened russian president vladimir putin could further destabilize the region. andettes in enclaves like these where ooshes putin wields an outsized influence. >> my personal opinion is russia is started to get involved in ukraine only to help. without any intention to repoot what happened in crimea. >> adrian blames recent tensions in ukraine on nato's expansion into eastern europe. moscow's traditional turf. >> in my opinion, the west won the cold war.and has since been trying to put russia in the corner . >> russia in the 1990s was a very weak and many respects humiliated country that was not able to project force. was not able to defend its interests as it saw them at the time. so when large numbers of former soviet slights joined nato or eu, the russians viewed this as a slight. >> and yet, despite those memberships, russia's roots run d

liking ukraine, some feel an emboldened vladimir putin could use pro-russian groups in eastern europe to further destabilize the region. it's in enclaves like these where putin wields an outsized influence. >> translator: my personal opinion is that russia has started to get involved in ukraine only to help, without intentionally trying to pretty what happened in crimea. >> andrea is like many in ukraine that don't blame russia. >> translator: in my opinion the west won the cold war. and has since been trying to put russia in the corner. >> russia in the 1990s was a very weap weak and in many rments humiliated country and was not able to project force, was not able to defend its interests as as it saw them at the time. so when large numbers of former soviet satellites joined nato or the eu the russians viewed this as a slight. >> and yet despite those memberships russia's roots run deep across eastern europe. russian speakers make up more than a third of the population. they account for a quarter of the people in estonia where riots erupted in 2007 when the government relocated a famo

the movement to demand rights for people in eastern europe and finally, the eastern german movement, the people who were prep pressuring the regime to open up thing knew opening up would be the end of their regime and that, indeed, happened after 89. there was no way of reforming. there were some ideas, too, of reforming the east german system but that was certainly not successful it had to be replaced and people in east germany had, of course, a clear alternative. that was west germany, joining the republic of germany and that's how it happened. there was a possibility through the german constitution based upon making east germany and the states, the old states of germany part of the fair republic of germany. that's how it happened. these two parts of german, east germany and west germany grew together. it worked a combination of factors inside east germany, inside eastern europe and the soviet union. go gorbachev's reform was an important factor in allowing this to come to fruition. in november of 1989, you know, it went and came to the collapse the wall. a unification of germany a

to those listening throughout eastern europe, i extend my warmest greetings and the goodwill of the american people. to those listening in east berlin, a special word. , ihough i cannot be with you address my remarks to you just as surely to those standing here before me. i join you as i join your fellow countrymen of the west in this german]lief -- [speaking [applause] behind me stands a wall that has circled the free sectors of this city. part of a vast system of barriers that divide the entire continent of europe. south, those barriers cut across germany and a gash of barbed wire, concrete, guard towers. further south, there may be no obvious wall, but there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same. still a restriction on the right to travel. still an instrument to impose on ordinary men and women the will of acreage ontarian state. totalitarian state. yes, it is here in berlin where the wall emerges most clearly. cutting across your city, where the news photos and television onto the world. standing in front of the brandenburg gate, every man is determined and separated from his

role in supporting democracy in central and eastern europe and i did not give them opportunity to give me a line rehearsed to please u.s. donors. it's evidence that i collected indirectly and that came up in conversations about central and eastern european democracy promotion. again, my conclusions are not to dispute problems with u.s. democracy promotion or its unintended negative consequences. but just to highlight that it can and has mattered and that it's an investment whose payoffs go up and down in the short and long term as we saw in the first panel. but it's an important investment. in conclusion, allow me to return to the merits and limitations of the central and eastern europeans as democracy promoters. again, to discover those i talked to their recipients in their neighborhood. those recipients highlighted three important merits. the first one is the firsthand experience with democratizatio fl that they have. a lot of the individuals were the organizing source of the domestic breakthroughs. they have this unique experience with this as well as moral authority in the eyes of

. >> this is a familiar site for many living in eastern europe. in bulgaria's fifth largest city, ceremonies honoring red army soldiers, legacy with moscow. in fact, russia has ties to nearly every part of eastern europe. thanks to energy, economics, and a diaspora of russian speakers and ethnic enclaves who spread out across the region over centuries. like in ukraine, some feel an emboldened russian president vladimir putin could use pro-russian troops in eastern europe. and it's in enclaves like this where putin holds a larger influence. >> my personal opinion, russia got involved in ukraine only to help. without repeating what happened in crimea. >> he blames recent tensions in ukraine on nato's expansion into eastern europe, moscow's traditional turf. >> in my opinion the west won the cold war. and has since been trying to put russia in the corner. >> russia in the 1990s was a very weak and in many respects humiliated country was not able to project for us, was not able to defend its interests as they saw them at that time. when other force he

support that helped develop a sector of political actors in central and eastern europe. those are actors that would have probably been under developed or missing because of the nature of their work and its opposition to powerful domestic political and economic actors. again stepping back, what that tells me is that u.s. democracy promotion has mattered but also the specific activities through which it has been implemented has also mattered. because it has produced enduring domestic actors. it has empowered enduring domestic actors. the caveat here is that some of those actors are struggling to survive. they have the withdrawal of u.s. support have become somewhat dependant on eu funding. but they are active and they are an important part of the domestic debate in those countries, which again i think is a positive sign. at this point i want to pause a little bit and say that i trust these findings primarily because i did not ask the central and eastern europe yaps about the u.s. role in supporting democracy in central and eastern

in eastern europe, there are some sounds that they think are in agreement that most people who are noteastern europe will think are very, very much in disagreement in the style of music called ganga. [singing ganga music] [shrill yell] in gangan music, they sound notes at the same time that are very, very close together. and in bosnia, that sound is of the essence of music. what constituteseing in agreement or being dissant or being consonant is a culturally determined thing. and it can change over time. [ensemble plays early music] (narrator) within the western classical tradition, ideas have varied over time as to what combinations of notes make good harmony. the story of how these ideas developed can be traced back through the baroque, renaissance, and medieval periods. (man) well, the term harmony is used in western music to describe the simultaneous sounding of several notes-- what we call chords. that's what we use as the basis of our music in the 19th and 20th century, but it really wasn't always the case. in order to understand the development of harmony, you have to really go

in fact, russia has ties to nearly every part of eastern europe.to energy economics and a diasper of russian speakers and ethnic enclaves who spread out over the centuries. like in ukraine some fear a president vladimir putin could use pro-russian groups in europe to further destabilize the region and it's enclaves like this where putin has an out sized influence. >> translator: my personal opinion is that russia has started to get involved in ukraine only to help. >> reporter: without any intention of repeating what happened in crimea, and like many in bulgaria with sanctions and believes resent tensions in ukraine with nato expansion in europe, moscow's traditional turf. >> translator: in my opinion the west won the cold war. and since been trying to put russia in the corner. >> russia in the 1990s was a very weak and respects humiliated country not able to protect force and not able to defend its interests as it saw them at the time so when large numbers of former soviet satellites joined nato or joined the e u the russians viewed this as a slig

. >> this is a familiar site, for many living in eastern europe. soviet style monuments are everywhere, bulgaria's fifth largest city, cemeteries honoring red army soldiers off a game into a shared history and legacy with moscow. >> in fact, russia has tied to nearly every part of eastern europe thanks to energy, economics and russian speakers and enclave who spread out across the region. some fear a president could you pro-russian groups in eastern europe to further destabilize the region. the point is you don't necessarily they have the economic -- the economic strangle hold. getting them to back off is going to be a lot more complicated than it ayer poos to be. >> i can't wait to see the rest of the reporting on this. real money, coming up at the top of the hour here. the national rifle association, took a rare loss on election okay. this new law, some call it the strictest gun law, and the reality is this law and efforts to duplicate are now spreading all across the country, we have learned there are four other states to do what happened in was

. >> let's talk about eastern europe. these tensions between russia and ukraine and eastern europe have exacerbated already slowing economies. some are worried about a recession in western european countries. what are you seeing? >> well, first, i think europe is in a recovery mode. there is no doubt about it. but this recovery mode has been put in doubt by the fact that there is die virgentions inside europe about the policy to be implemented. this divergentions now is taking place inside the european central bank which has many choices and cannot make what seems to me as obvious choices because the different constituents of europe do not agree. at least for the moment. now. >> means we are in the middle of a crisis in europe. this crisis is not due to the fact that there is lack of economic development. we are in the middle of a recovery in europe. actually 2014, particularly for the car industry >> has been pretty good with an increase of the sales of cars around 5 to 6%. this was something we didn't see for a while. i

army europe well before current security crisis in eastern europe. we did that with restructuring of forces in europe to better integrate with nato. we knew we didn't know what would be next, operation contingency. we wouldn't do it alone. if we were going to respond to each other, we needed to train, work, live together and to understand and build that inner operability. the next exercise we did confined to that, we were going to use nato response force dedicated by united states army come from the united states twice a year to exercise our contribution to the nato response force brigade size element. this was in the fall. due to sequestration we couldn't bring it over. we didn't want to die on the vine, used brigade hair quarters, mechanized battalion from czech republic, platoons from nine different nations, czech artillery. we created a multinational brigade and gave them a full exercise against full spectrum of military probabilities they would encounter. that was the full principle getting after operational preparedness. we learned a lot of valu

world war, this leaves the allies to downplay stories of german atrocities being committed in eastern europe because the case was so overstated in the first world war. in each of the outbreak cases, we try to capture part of the mood of the country at the beginning of the conflict, sort of to get at what the message is from all of the different sources from 1914. in the case of france, it is overwhelmingly that france is fighting a defensive war, that france has been attacked by germany, and the french nation needs to rise up and defend the home front. in this case, you have, for example,, a french soldier in the woods saying, no one shall pass, the idea that germany has taken part of france, but they will not gain any more territory. images, french soldiers are leading straight out of paris. there were a lot of memoirs written. one of the most popular and friends was "under fire -- in france was "under fire." this dwells much more on the trauma of combat, about the ways in which is not glorious and how it is traumatic for the combatants. what is interesting with b arbussa, he comes after th

as we said on the last earnings call the effect of sanctions are biting hard in eastern europe and russia in particular. that served as a significant downward pressure on our earnings in europe. the u.s. economy is outperforming the rest of the world not by a little but by a significant margin and right now the world outside of north america is not performing at anywhere near the levels that you would have expected at this point in a recovery. >> i want to thank you for all you are doing for veterans and for coming on in a fortuitous time and i think it will have results in 2015. thank you so much, sir. >> thank you. >>> the stock is down a lot. it is kind of interesting company, kelly services. stick with cramer. >>> once again i want to thank all the veterans out there. all of "mad money" supports what you are doing and what you have done. thank you so much. >>> the s&p did hit an all-time high again today. i think the only hot zone i am worried about right now is ukraine, but you have to keep an eye on it. ukraine is saying that there are rebel troops massing and we know germany is say

they want power and influence in eastern europe more than nato and the united states does. if you do a comparison of forces, you'll see nato is vastly superior to russia in every measurement that you could imagine. lou: then why in the world has our generals, nato, european allies and this president decided to simply pitch ukraine and crimea into the hands of vladimir putin? >> a couple of reasons. first of all, i think they see sort of a symmetry of strategic ends. the president says and maybe he's got a point. lou: general, forgive me. the asymmetry. >> i'm sorry. war college phrase, lou. lou: let's talk plain old american! [ laughter ]. lou: we look chicken and putin looks smart and tougher than we do, and the fact is he's winning. do we have any generals? do we have anybody in this government or some government of europe that understands that once the ground is taken, you've got a real problem about getting it back? >> once it's gone, it's gone, lou, no question about it. i've spoken to many generals in the pentagon who say okay, this is territory that's contiguous to r

good news for those of you in eastern europe. high pressure is dominate iing.peratures staying on the cool side. moscow with a high of 3. here's your extended forecast. >>> we'd like to remind you of our lead stories. tokyo's benchmark index rose above 17,000 this morning. the highest in seven years. the bank of japan's stimulus package on friday is boosting stock prices. the nikkei is trading at 16,941. up 3.2% higher than the close on friday. the market was shut on monday for a public holiday. >>> the dollar is now trading at 113.54 to 59. earlier in new york, the dollar was at 114 yen. that's the highest it's been in seven years. >>> turkish coast guard officers are searching for survivors after a fishing boat sank off the coast of istanbul. the boat was carrying dozens of migrants. at least 22 people were killed. the accident occurred in the bospheres strait. officials believe there were more than 40 people on board. that's over five times the vessel's capacity. the people on board are believed to be mostly from afghanistan. migrants from the middle east ha

i'm talking about people who had lived in france for 200 and 300 years as well as people from eastern europealking around with yellow stars, seeing little kid goes to school with yellow starts. maintain every family had to deal with this issue, every gentile family had to deal with this issue. mommy, my friend has a yellow star. what does that mean? or the little jewish boy saying, mommy, what is a jew? why die have to wear this? that changed attitudes, and the german racial policy became obvious. people were saying, there but for the grace of god go i'm other. a pros -- protestant. i'm a muslim. maybe they'll do that to muslims.

moscow built a web of pipelines, linking it's siberian gas fields to gas-thirsty households in eastern europe, using ukraine as a transit state. and that means that it's vulnerable if it turns up the sticking on the like it did over the summer. they temporarily allowed russian gas to flow as winder loomed. >> but that doesn't solve the issue of what's going in eastern ukraine. there's fighting there. and there could be sabotage of a pipeline, and there are no guarantees against that. >> back on the front lines in poland, restaurant owner, lushio vachi, said another grass disruption would raise energy costs and tighten his budget. his pizzeria rise on natural gas for both heating and cooking. poland rise on russia for 2/3 of its natural gas imports. >> it's a big problem. a very big problem. in the economy -- >> in a bold attempt to fix that problem, poland is taking the most aggressive action of any european country to free itself of russia's energy dominance. poland expects a natural gas terminal to be built by 2015, and that will help poland wean off of the 10 billion cubic metres of natura

. -- appalling -- followingfalling sales in eastern europe. finally, some good news in the music streaming service. spoitify saw taylor swift pull her music last month. cobalt a company that connects royalties for musicians said spotify brought in 13% more for its artists than apple in the past three months. it is a big shift in the music industry. perhaps it is not all over for spotify yet. >> another sign of the digital revolution having an effect on musicians and their incomes. thank you so much. welcome back. it is time to take a look at what has been making look -- making news in the days's newspapers. nicholas rushworth. looking at the french newspapers, not surprisingly looking at a political scandal. >> the latest scandal in france. it centers on a former prime minister and the chief of staff. the former prime minister is reeling from a report that he urged presidents francois hollande's chief of staff to push ahead with legal complaints against the former resident -- president, nicolas sarkozy. "le figaro" says it is a scandalous stat

come from eastern europe. i'm talking about people who had lived in france for 200 and 300 years as well as people from eastern europe. walking around with yellow stars, seeing little kid goes to school with yellow starts. maintain every family had to deal with this issue, every gentile family had to deal with this issue. mommy, my friend has a yellow star. what does that mean? or the little jewish boy saying, mommy, what is a jew? why die have to wear this? that changed attitudes, and the german racial policy became obvious. people were saying, there but for the grace of god go i'm other. a pros -- protestant. i'm a muslim. maybe they'll do that to muslims. that was major mistake but for two years -- the last jews were sent to auschwitz from paris a week before the liberation. questions? >> well, you have been a great audience. i really appreciate it. the become is for sale back there. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> journalist an inside gopal is the author of "no good men among the living" from the per

two of my grandparents ended up in texas from eastern europe. they went there because -- my grandmother's brother was there, my grandfather's cousin was there. they ended up in the middle of texas from eastern europe. because they knew people. the: jeffrey passel from jews hispanic trans project joining us. taking a look at immigration. michael dell north carolina, independent line. i find this immigration sides buttingwo heads. it has been invisible as it is a simple text. the people who need to have worked to feed themselves who come to this country -- they are doing it because in their country, they face extreme poverty, violence, corruption -- things that americans are not used to under streets. they have no clue that -- this is the country that we have found it to the entire time on immigration. i am an electrician. i have been in the trade 40 years. ot getelling you, we can n it done without them. i hire people from every race, creed -- i have them working next to me. they show up every day. guest: the labor force participation -- to use t

today armenian food infuses he flavor from the mediterranean, middle east, and eastern europe. >> this is our 55th year and in san francisco we're the largest armenian food festival and widely recognized as one of the best food festivals in the area. we have vendors that come up from fresno, from los angeles showing off their craft. we really feel like we have something for everyone in the neighborhood and that's really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. >> we are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work preparing some delicious armenian kabob. this is a staple in armenian cooking, is that right? >> absolutely, since the beginning of time. our soldiers used to skewer it on the swords. we have a combination of beef and lam and parsley. and every september over 2000 pounds of meat being cooked in three days. >> after all that savory protein, i was ready to check out the fresh veggie options. >> this is armenian cheat sheet. it's tomatos and mint and olive oil. that makes summer food. and wh

i'm talking about people who lived in france for 200 or 300 years, as well as people from eastern europe. walking around with yellow stars, meant that every family had to deal with this issue. every general tile family had to deal with this [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> 10:00 start, i think we'll begin the session this morning, anand gopal has been a journalist for the "christian science monitor" and reported for harpers are the nation, in the new, foreign policy and other poxes. gonial is a fellow at the new america foundation and will speak about this first book "no good men among the living: america, the taliban and the war through afghan eyes." >> so, my book, the subtitle of the book is wow the war through afghan eyes." i want to explain about how i got to the point of wanting to write other book threw the eyes of afghans and what that means. before i start that i want to tell you about a story about the first time i meat member of the taliban. this is back in 2008. and at the time i was sort of traving aro

we've had some travel issues in eastern europe.are traveling toward this region, heavy rainfall the name of the game, and that's a warm spot here, this milder spot. up to the north, talking about significant snow accumulations and significantly compared to what we talked about around western new york. ten centers in lithuania. the temperature is quite cold. 1 in warsaw. minus 9 in moscow. we do expect the temps to warm up across portions of eastern europe and asia. but it is a cool weather pattern across this portion of the world and travel, upward of 60-minute delays. more news coming back shortly. eh, you don't want that one. yea, actually i do. it's mucinex fast-max night time and it's got a nasal decongestant. is that really a thing? it sounds made up. mucinex fast max night time for multi-symptom relief. breathe easy. sleep easy. let's end this. >>> a new chance of life and a new engagement ring. amber vinson, one of the dallas nurses infected with ebola lost her ring when her apartment was decontaminated. >> but now she and h

now with the islamic state on the rampage, with all of the strategic tensions in eastern europe, thatob has become very to friend. the implication is the white house thinks that chuck hagel is no longer the right man for the job. >> it seems like the white house doesn't want somebody else. in terms of getting that through it is not going to be easy. >> whoever they pick to take on this job and a number of names are being floated around that person will have to be confirmed in the congress. the balance of power has changed in congress since those midterm elections we heard about. the senate is now controlled by the republican party. the incoming of the all-important armed services committee in the senate is john, perhaps obama's strongest critic on all things national security. he will have to face som>> than. >> plenty of positive signals in international talks with vienna. >> u.s. secretary of state john kerry mirrored that sentiment saying that real and substantial progress was also made. he called on american lawmakers not to impose their sanctions on tehran. >> wrapping up this ta

good news for those of you in eastern europe, high pressure is dominating. temperatures staying on the cool side. moscow just with a high of 3. here's your extended forecast. >>> people across japan have celebrated culture day on monday. in the city of nara people gathered to watch one of the country's oldest performance arts. ♪ musicians and dancers put on a performance of gagaku, an art form associated with japan's imperial court. the setting was -- a 1200-year-old shrine with unesco world heritage status. ♪ a quartet of dancers in battle armor acted out a piece called tiheraku. the piece is performed only on special occasions. >>> and that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm yuko aotani in tokyo. we will be back with more news at the top of the hour. so do join us then. thank you very much for watching. movie. >>> good oening. i'm tavis smiley. her latest movie is called "nightcrawler" and it takes us into the murky world of local television news where violence and crime win the ratings race. we're glad you joined us. our conversation with rene rene

a middle class emerging in eastern europe and bulgaria, indycars -- romania. that is not just do flat taxes takcare ofing will itself. it won't in that environment. ecause they are being acvely opposed and undercut by inrnational forces and market forces. americans sometimes we have a hard time understanding how amica grew. we grew because the government helped us grow. verything from the transcontinental railroads to university systems and interstate highway we put that through the government. so, we should be explaining to eople abroad they need to have their governments serve their purposes we should help them define a to do that rather than saying as ronald reagan did just out of the way. that is fine if erything is going and alll set up and so forth. and it worked for reagan in that brief slice of american history a formula for long-term strategicuccess. china and about russ russia. china one of the most important feels itself ascending and you say you have to be pgmatic. trying to endency of strike deals in order for politicians to feel good that we trad

ali and his team traveled to eastern europe and the arctic to battl document the battle of natural resourcesen russia and the west. here is a look of some of what you'll see. >> it's a routine nato exercise in military readiness. but demonstrations had taken on a new urgency for the west. here in the mountains of romania these soldiers are training for battle just a seven-hour drive from ukraine. despite good relation with russia, nato uses the command center to be nato's eyes and ears in the sky when it comes to russia. >> that's al jazeera america ali velshi with his new series the new cold war. that's all next week with ali velshi 7:00 p.m. eastern and 4:00 p.m. pacific. as you saw in the clip, nato is ready to support ukraine if called. we continue our conversation, george in washington, otilia in london and michael, the ofce in kiev. is it realistic to think that nato under its current rules of engagement would come to the defense of ukraine? >> well, nato as an organization cannot be involved because ukraine is not a nato member right now. but nato member and the united states and euro