in terms of the economic union, well, what we see now is something that is built on the foundations of another union which was customs union. so now it's a new level is built. and we also have military union that is there. all what is common about these unions is that they're not just russia-driven, but they're russia-controlled. and it's russia who is the part of the union that is mostly interested in adding members. it's a very different story from the european union, right? it's the members who are knocking on the doors of european union. here it's russia knocking on the doors of the potential members. and, again, the idea is not recreation of the soviet union. again, that's, that's -- this is not, this is not the agenda. but the idea is of creation of a very integrated economically and political space that would be controlled by russia. thank you for the questions. >> richard been. [inaudible] international journal of intelligence. in your book on yalta, you dealt a lot with how roosevelt and churchill had to play into stalin's desires. they didn't really understand what he was aft

you to move beyond blk simple desegregation to economic development, to starting the ees black economic union setting ua professional athletes talking to small -- black small business ah people in georgia, alabama, tennessee? what led i you to that sense th that was the direction things had to go into? >> well, it was understanding that people had to get off of their butts. regardless of what the to condition, use intelligence and labor as they could to deliver a themselves. we couldn'tny depend on a government or corporate america or anyone else. so i was always a person that ib advocated economic development because america is a capitalisa. while you were down there, you talked to young people about thh necessity of completing school, becoming economically viable and +g:ry[8+oe-6]>l[d34l[d34

so in kazakhstan, they had three republics, finding the agreement of economic unions. o as far as i know, this is the first time since 1991 that they were union and not commonwealth and we use up lots of political vocabulary. and so in 1991 it was from kazakhstan but the word came that there's another entity of the soviet socialist republics and at that time the republic other together against the same person and at that time they decided that any kind of union is gone, it wasn't just a slavic republics of central asia republics that all of them. and so that turned out to be the launch of my book and the welcoming news from the author and i was looking for a publisher. and that is one of the events that no one could predict and that is interested and publishing and publishing this book. and so why i wrote this book, one of them is that i wasn't in the soviet union or the ukraine most of the events in my book take place here. the chronological sculptors from july 1991 that starts with president george bush and mikhail gorbachev and that goes all the way to december. and

you to move beyond blk simple desegregation to economic development, to starting the ees black economic union setting ua these offices all over the country, traveling through the k deep south in a bus with other professional athletes talking to small -- black small business ah people in georgia, alabama, tennessee? what led i you to that sense th that was the direction things had to go into? >> well, it was understanding that people had to get off of their butts. regardless of what the to condition, use intelligence and labor as they could to deliver a themselves. we couldn'tny depend on a government or corporate america or anyone else. so i was always a person that ib advocated economic development because america is a capitalist society. it's based on economics. if you don't use economics in your community, your community will never grow. the jewish community in this country and the world has proven s minority and apply the right principals and emancipate yourself. i thought the african-american d community had to apply itself, have the greatest community, the safest communities and probabl

they try to create military, political and economic union that would compete with your european union, nato on the one hand and china on the other hand. that is the way how i see them looking at that. in terms of the authoritarian regimes, ukraine -- not estonia, not las via, not lithuania -- but ukraine creates a major challenge to that kind of arrangement, authoritarian arrangement that exists in russia today. because good half of ukraine speaks russian. in terms of many elements, not all, but many elements of political culture, they're very close. and many pro-democratic activists in russia look at ukraine and kiev with hope that this middle class that has ability to modellize itself without support from e.u. or u.s. maybe moral sport, but that's a real threat, domestic threat to regime, to regime in moscow, to regime in belarus. again, kazakhs are in a different group. so it's the it's a possible, potential adversary. one reason for that politics, and another one is to preclude successful, mostly orthodox country the become democratic. so democracy and ukraine, sometimes for good

don't know what to do the government is nonexistent it's subservient to the troika and their economic interest union reps say they feel like slaves working under a government that doesn't serve their interests it's already hard to find a job and that's appalling to me and also lucky enough to have one fear that heavy taxation will eventually force them out onto the streets as well what rising taxes and minimal make up our taxi drivers making ends meet let's find out. who let me. many times return home unable to cover our basic needs they're taxing everything that moves and they expect you to pay for it somehow if you don't you're in danger of going to prison having your house repossessed we mortgaged our lives our children's and grandchildren's lives to pay off debts that we didn't create and we're sitting here taking it with our hands tied what baffles most greeks is the audacity of the government to increase the already high burden of responsibility workers have tried to contact the finance ministry to understand how they justify their latest tax increases and where they expect. both to find this

union. many armenians believe joining may have more to do with politics than economics.is a top destination for armenian labor my grass and europe needs their constant support. >> armenia has security problems and they think that the ski to the security issues is in the hands of putin. >> reporter: for now, entry to the block has been delayed. armenia may still be negotiating its terms. but consumers like susan worry that once signed they will end up the losers. >> if there is a customs union that makes you to choose between certain products and that these products are not going to be as various as we have, it already going to become not good for me because i am used to buy, okay, french cheese, german beer, there should be different alternatives for people. >> reporter: you don't have to look far to see armenia's historic and cultural ties to russia. whether or not it makes economic sense, the customs union will make those ties stronger. al jazerra armenia. >>> somali security forces say that they have recovered dozens of weapons after a battle with a militia in mogadis

successful currency unions require political and economic unions as well. doessalmond pretense he not have just one plan b that he has three. apparently they are like buses amid all come along right at the same time. the only problem is all of them seem to be going in the wrong direction and he's refusing to jump on any of them -- joining and independent scottish currency, also ruled out. using the pound without the support of a central bank, rejected by his own experts. three weeks until the vote on the most basic question what money people in an independent scotland would use, the proponents of separation apparently have no answer. choice is clear. stay together and retain the certainty of a single currency for the united kingdom, one of our greatest advantages, or take a leap into the unknown with a man without a plan for scotland currently. our third great advantages our common purpose, our solidarity, pooling risks across the country of over 60 million people rather than 5 million people. all nations and regions in the u.k. lean on each other in the go

harrison has pointed out these he also has a responsibility to quote support the general economic policies in the union with a view to contributing to the achievement of the objectives of the union these include full employment and balanced economic growth you know that quote that comes directly from the e.c.b. is website but even with only one primary and i mean primary mandate to handle the e.c.b. has.

average eighty four percent of union workforce is actually have benefits including health insurance compared to fifty four percent of our non-u. counterparts there's an economic element to this when you take that and you look at what unions actually do for local economies in this in this entire debate over income in inequality and the wage gap we're the last line of defense to protect the american dream that's why they're coming after us and coming after the middle class well and also unions historically have funded the democratic party and this is this is not so much like a union as well democrats although we have brought us the ability to unionize but unions are democracies inside institutions that are going to absolutely i think it's interesting when you when you know in two thousand and ten really set the stage for all of this when you have when you have scott walker attacking collective bargaining in wisconsin and you have you have michigan turning to right to work and you have john k. second ohio trying to decimate labor unions set the stage for all of this where today we find ourselves where eight americans eight americans now make more than three poin

imagine that it would face competition that will once again excessive break economic and social tensions within the european union. so i think it is a law it is a promise that we knew full well that we would not keep. the g. seven russia for the situation in ukraine without more sanctions which is well known why our question leaders calling on russia and on putting it turned to violence is now the government in kiev i mean they do have a newly elected president right now so why not ask him and the government. was still that's a good question because we are at the culmination of a cold war that has been fought against russia by the. the european capitals have completely submitted on an international level it's as simple as that and a shame as well. and i would like to seize this opportunity to express my compassion and my sadness and my disgust to see these civil victims in the east of ukraine. who are dying surrounded by the general indifference of the european political world and media. it is a real scandal which is happening on our doorstep and you're right to say that from the moment she crane has legitimate g

friends to the table of nightmares that i want to leave the european union i can't invite them to join. in but also say the economic levels of ukraine are so low compared to our ways on a social level so it would be once again and ancient european competition which would be insurmountable for our country i think the average salary is around three hundred euro's a gallon magine that would face competition that will once again excessive brain economic and social tensions within the european union. so i think it is annoying it is a promise that we knew full well that we would not keep. the g. seven and russia for the situationally crane without more sanctions which is well known why our question leaders calling on russia and on putin it devalues another government in kiev i mean they do have a newly elected president right now so why not ask him and the government. was still that's a good question because we are at the culmination of a cold war that has been fought against russia by the united states which the european capitals have completely submitted on an international level it's as simple as that under shame as w

the custom union being this economic union between russia and belarus and cas i canstan.y have invited ukraine and the eu to be a part of it what this is hopefully going to turn in to is the stepping stone for type of more developed negotiations to try to find a slooings to the conflict in ukraine. >> what is the latest on these captured pair atroopers in eastern ukraine? >> the latest is that russia has admitted that, yes, these men have been captured but russia's justification for this is it was a mistake, that they crossed in to ukraine because of some sort of navigational error that they have been patrolling the border. this wasn't, as russia is saying, any kind of incursion, military incursion in to eastern ukraine now, the ukrainian account is these men were picked up 20 or 30 kilometers inside of the border. if that is true, if that's the case the t would have to be a fairly serious orientseering mistake by these supposedly trained men whetherp who strayed so far into ukraine. >> we have heard these den aisles over and over again. rory, thank you. >> stephanie a hu

union. >> many believe joining may have more to do with politics than economics. russia is a top destination for labor my grants and eurovan needs moscowts continued support over the old conflict. >> armenia has some security problems. they think the key to the security issues is in the hand putin. >> arm mean i can't may be negotiating terms. susan worried once signed, they will end up the losers? >> if there is a customs union that makes you to choose between certain product and this products are not going to be as various as we have, it already going to become not good for me because i am used to buy, okay, french cheese, german beer. there should be different alternatives for people. >> you don't have to look far to see ties to russia. whether or not it makes economic sense, the customs union will make those ties stronger. >> a landslide in northern india has killed seven people. three houses were destroyed trapping 8 people inside their homes. rescuers were able to pull one woman out alive. india is experiencing the highest level of rainfall since june, last

harrison has pointed out these he also has a responsibility to quote support the general economic policies in the union with a view to contributing to the achievement of the objectives of the union these include full employment and balanced economic growth you know that quote that comes directly from the e.c. these website but even with only one primary and i mean primary mandate to handle the e.c.b. hasn't been meeting its two percent per year obligation so basically things look bleak in europe so is mario draghi in denial perhaps just maybe he is but i think matt o'brien at the washington post put it best when he wrote europe hasn't recovered because it hasn't let itself too much fiscal austerity and too little monetary stimulus have instead put it more than half. way to a lost decade that's already worse than the one nine hundred thirty s. . so you just heard me say that europe is in trouble and economically speaking european countries are far worse off than the us today but our next guest our next guest doesn't necessarily agree with that boom bust dave jim rickards is bullish on europe's political

russia is given ultimatum, scale back or face more economic sanctions. the european union wants sanctions to be adopted within a week. eu leader did say not immediately impose the sanctions. it's a difficult situation as russia is the eu's number three trading partner and one of the biggest oil and gas psuppliers. this will be a key a general daf item at the nato summit president obama will attend later this week. >>> unrest in pack kistapakista. thousands of antigovernment protestors tried to raid the prime minister's home. they want the prime minister to step down over allegations of vote per fraud in the election that brought him to office last year in the first democratic transfer of power. the prime minister says he will not resign. >>> now to news out of central america. relatives of miners missing after the gold mine collapse in ni nicaragua are still hopeful. >>> now to latest on the ebola outbreak. director of cdc and other experts will visit the ebola station in guinea. they met with staff a yesterday. they say the key to eliminating ebola is increase support for

russia has been given an result may attempt, scale back in the country or face more economic sanctions. the european unionwants sanctions to be adopted in a week. russia is u.s.'s number three trading partner and one of its biggest oil and gas suppliers. russian shaf's aggressive behavior toward ukraine will be an agenda item at the summit president obama will attend this week. >>> back in our area, labor day weekend means almost back to school. kids in philadelphia are getting supplies they need to hit the books. we were in philadelphia for the tools for back to school drive. there were backpacks filled with notebooks, pencil, crayons, other supplies free for kids. a back to school supply drive brought out athletes to participate in the ultimate back to school challenge. everyone at the event donated school supplies. a team representing the elementary school came out on top so their student got the supplies collected. >>> in sports u eagles trim their roster to 53 players. we'll hear from the general manager on the cut. it was a record setting day for penn state quarterback hack enburg. highlights from t

unions. robert wiersema has taught economics since 1991. this includes 17 years as a public school teacher. he also served as the member of a local public school board for eight years, including two years as president. he left his union and year ago this month. he wants to help members make informed decisions about their membership. jennifer parrish has let the statewide coalition in minnesota for the last nine years that fights against meaning mean is a -- against the unionization of home care workers. jennifer is also a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit who is challenging the constitutionality of compulsory unionism, of childcare providers and other independent business owners. her legal efforts in addition to her grass roots efforts will lead to the change. please welcome our panel. [applause] >> thank you. thank you to the heritage foundation for hosting this event. imagine talking to a friend having them tell you that were the last five years i have been a fan of the dallas cowboys. i do not like the dallas cowboys, i would would rather be a washington redskins fan, but i cannot opt out of

and a ukraine which is more to the russian forming economic union. >> so this military convoy that wee red cross has acknowledged their offer but said it won't accept it just yet because of the implications behind having the offer and then the military vehicles and everyone you see here cross into that region. what's your take on that? and this perceived or the effort to at least make it look like we're here to help? >> well, the russians have been preparing the russian public through their media. i was in moscow a few weeks ago. for some kind of humanitarian or so-called peacekeeping mission. now, someone joked that the russians spell peacekeeping a little different. p-i-c-e as in keeping a piece of ukraine. the control over the ukraine military. the tremendous civilian deaths. the numbers of civilian deaths and damage being caused in eastern ukraine. and that somebody needs to use what the united nations whats come to call the right to protect. the right to protect citizens in a neighboring country. >> there have been a lot of arguments but not a lot was done to help ukraine when th

the region even closer to an all-out war and now russia could be favoring more economic sanctions from the european unioncbs news correspondent wendy gillette has the very latest. >> reporter: ukraine's president says the situation in his country is nearing ah the tipping point. >> we are very close to the point of no return. point of no return is full scale war. >> reporter: nato estimates 1,000 russian troops currently occupy ukraine. moscow says its forces only crossed the border by accident and denies that it's supplying weapons to rebels. nearly 2600 people have been killed in eastern ukraine since fighting broke out in mid april. >> we continue to urge russia to stop hostile, to stop the flow of arms, equipment and personnel into the conflict region and to withdraw its forces from ukraine. >> reporter: the european union began drawing up sanctions to force russia's hand. >> russia is practically in the war against europe. >> reporter: pro-russia forces killed and injured several ukrainian soldiers saturday as they were passing through a humanitarian corridor after retreating from a city now control

issue on the agenda will be consideration of the economic link between the customs union and ukraine between the european union and ukraine. which is an important subject. we. urged our partners to begin. politicised professional and pragmatic dialogue. conversation about how the commitments of ukrainian state on the free trade area with the c i s and. the commitments of which the agrarian side is ready to take with him but not yet rectified association agreement with the e.u. . coincide so how they're actually made to put together. this topic as you know. is laying with the. existing prices because the accusations. towards president xi are no coverage last november were. the association agreement and that served as a pretext to. begin the possible action to organize the protests which ended in a military an armed. and before that moment and after that moment we regularly urged the card is to sit down at the same table and talk about the situation how would we find the. solutions to. where there is the contradiction of the commitments of ukraine towards the c.i.s. free trade area and

the union will agree to a temporary layoff in nick -- economic crisis. last january the city gave their final offer and threatened to sue the union if they did not comply. the battle began in 2009 when the recession hit. since then the largest municipal union had no contract and they you put up a very vocal fight. >> it was a battle our members stood up for, they have been working every day, not going on strike, through the blizzard through the snow. >> reporter: matthews confirms that the bid for the democratic national convention played a role, but in the coming months they can begin the new negotiations on a new contract with a new mayor. >> trains will shuttle back and forth on a single track so crews can work on the in order of the bridge. it wasn't scheduled until after labor day. it is expected to run until october 21. >>> three men hailed heros after they jumped into a action a woman suffered a heart attack and drove into cobbs creek, dann cuellar has the story. >> you saved our sister, we appreciate it. and you can feel the love here in the room.

now the european union is warning russia that enough is enough and it's threatening new economic sanctionscbs news correspondent wendy gillette has details. >> reporter: the european union is giving russia an ultimatum. scale back its troops in ukraine within a week or face tougher economic sanctions. >> we are very close to the point of no return. point of no return is full scale war. >> reporter: nato estimates 1,000 russian troops currently occupy ukraine and says there are 20,000 more at the border. moscow has denied sending them in only saying that some troops may have entered ukraine by accident. russia has also repeatedly said it's not supplying weapons to rebels. >> we have to address the completely unacceptable situation of having russian troops on ukrainian soil. >> reporter: members of the european union declined to immediately impose new sanctions. some are worried about the financial implications that sanctions will bring to their countries. but there was still plenty of tough talk. >> russia is practically in the war against europe. >> reporter: pro-russia forces killed and i

people in this country, that a currency union that you are proposing is the second best option for scotland. the pound sterling only works if you have an economic and political union -- >> i want to hear from members of the audience, if you would like to contribute some points. it is not the case that you have not given us your plan b. you said no to the union. you do not support that. the white paper says that if somebody wants to argue the case for a separate scottish country, they need to win an election. it leaves us with the point of independence, if we cannot have a currency union, we will use the pound anyway. isn't that right? >> you're right to point out that we do not need permission to use the currency. the argument is they will deny us the assets of the bank of england, the financial assets of the country. the reason that would not happen is if you deny us the financial assets of the u.k., the people watching at home in england and wales tonight and northern ireland will get stuck with all the liabilities. there is no way given the enormous debts that alistair darling builds up that any u.k. chancellor is one to let scotland off wit

union. and how we should respond to those changes. there was also the economic opportunity that was perceived by europe, actually before it was perceived by the united states for some of the opportunities through change in the soviet union. and so i think there were other interests at play as the soviet union was struggling to deal with a reform that really wasn't invited. it was imposed. but it was invited, i think, for noble reason and noble expectation. however, at the time, most of us in the united states were cynical of the person that presented the reform. and is there a machiavellian reason for gorbachev to do what he's doing or was it, in fact, a noble call? i think history has shown that it was more noble than machiavellian. but he came from a machiavellian society, so i'm sure machiavelli guided a lot of the people around him. and some of those players are still on the stage. and they are looking for machiavelli to give them another opportunity, and we're witnessing that now. so i think that would be an interesting thing to put in the mix, not just wha

union. >> many believe that joining may have more to do with politics than economics. russia is a top destination for my grants. they need the support. >> ampleenians thing the key to this security issues is in the hands of putin. >> for now, entry to the block has been delayed. armenia may be negotiating terms. consumers like susan worry once signed, they will end up the loserses. >> if there is a custom union that makes you to choose between certain product and this products are not going to be as various as we have, it's already going to become not good for me because i am used to buy, okay, french cheese, german beer. there should be different alternatives for people. >> you don't have to look forward to see armeania's historic and cultura ties to russia, whether or not it makes economic sense, the customs union will make those ties stronger. robin steel walker, al jazeera, yedava. >> the world health source is warming against false cures for the deadly ebola virus. supplement markers began targeting ebola patients days after they said it was ethical to treat with

states on the periphery of russia that lean toward moscow economically, politically, and for security. he does not want to re-create the soviet union and be this possible for the economic basket cases on the periphery. but he does want to re-create this buffer, if you will, the has been a big part of russian history for a long time. and frankly, i think he sees ukraine as a launchpad of that. kiev is where the russian empire was founded over a thousand years ago. i think he does see it as a made-up state. and i think that he will never rest easy as long as he thinks that ukraine might slide west. and away from russia and not a part of that buffer of states. >> let's get to policy. what should the united states do? we will hear tomorrow from the assistant secretary of state of europe, who is been at the center of this. i appreciate what president obama has tried to do and he has worked very hard on this, sanctions on russia to drive up the cost. he did not have much help from the europeans until two weeks ago when they finally joined the united states and canada in tough sanctions. second, try to help the ukrainian state which is a