so maybe fiona wants to stand. everybody hear okay? we're very happy to be here, very happy to see all of you and very happy for the chance to talk about the new edition of our book. we would like to call it a new book altogether. we had an edition a year ago, we have added about 40-50% new material onto the book. we haven't revised what was there. the book about vladimir putin, a book that we originally wrote to try to explain who this individual is, what kind of ideas he has, what is his outlook and are where those -- and where those ideas came from. that was the first edition of the book. we decided last year slightly before all of the events that began to transpire in ukraine that we desperately needed to write maybe another book, maybe a new edition that would explain how putin looks at the outside world. how he understands and what he knows of the outside world. and so what you'll find in this book is, as i said about ten chapters that explain who he is how he came to power how he keeps power, how he manages his system and explai

but let me tell you fiona ma she worked on freeing incarcerated women that were convicted because of domestic violence fiona there she is i want it acknowledge a member of the school board who is angle education advisors hydra mendosa i think she's up there and our law enforcement is here without our law enforcement those are the individuals the departments that help us with our domestic violence against women i want to action our sheriff mr. dreaming i didn't with his wife and from the san francisco police department and some of his esteemed members commander mows over here so, now let me introduce the director of violence anti violence program with the mayor's office >> (clapping.) >> marily it is my honor to stand you to introduce the next speaker but first can i see you rise? can i see the one? great, thank you for the honor of allowing me to introduce the next speaker i want to action before i introduce some of the city departments that are key working forward with ending violence against women and girls our probation officer chief ass also in the countryside alongside with the

indeed. >> ifill: fiona hill, director of center on the u.s.ngs institution and michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia and now professor at stanford university. thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: an egyptian court ruled today that two al-jazeera journalists who had been jailed for more than 400 days will be released on bail. mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed- still face a retrial. their colleague, australian peter greste, was freed a few weeks ago. today's ruling is a small victory for press freedom advocates. but a new report released in washington warns that journalists are increasingly coming under threat. e indicators of reporters without border are uncontestable. there was a drastic decline in freedom of information in 2014. >> reporter: the world's largest press freedom group surveyed 180 countries and fully two-thirds in its estimation saw greater restrictions last year. the list placed finland first as most free, with much of europe near the top. the united states was 49th, with the report citing lack of a federal shield law

let me bring in fiona hill. she's a co-operative.>> thank you. >> the last cease fire didn't stick. who is to say this one will? >> i think that's the right perception over this deal wondering whether it will indeed stick. the last agreement was in september, and obviously many months of carnage and fighting on the ground have come since then. what we have to do is think about this as an interim step as yet another agreement to try to bring an end to fighting on the ground that we can then use as a basis for further negotiations. this agreement seems to have an awful lot of provisions for dialogue and for future agreements about the status of these territories within ukraine, about the future configuration of ukraine itself but i think we're very far away from any kind of final status final agreement about how ukraine will look. >> i wanted to talk to you. you've been studying russian politics for decades. one of the things that jumped out at me was it was vladimir putin that we heard from first in this post-agreement. it wasn't ange

so fiona read that piece and i just felt okay. sixes have changes and i have to get out.o that's how i started. i was scared very scared. i didn't know how people would respond. >> and i know that the people have responded well, and you raised an important conversation, more about what it means to be an american. then what it means to be a sikh captain american. until next time, ranch and i will see you online. >>> iran's supreme leader signals he may endorse a nuclear deal as world leaders discuss how to get talks back on track. ♪ you are watchingays. i am jame dutton. new help for a peace plan to help resolve the conflict in easternvan. nigeria postpone's presidential elections. we will hear from the opposition candidates and president goodluck jonathan's campaign. what could be the first election lasts for indian india's prime minister.

so fiona read that piece and i just felt okay. sixes have changes and i have to get out.o that's how i started. i was scared very scared. i didn't know how people would respond. >> and i know that the people have responded well, and you raised an important conversation, more about what it means to be an american. then what it means to be a sikh captain american. until next time, ranch and i will see you online. , and we cannot close our eyes to tanks that are crossing the border from russia and coming in to ukraine. a top u.s. diplomate calls for a cease fire. >> the air force responds with deadly strikes on rebel held suburbs.

so fiona read that piece and i just felt okay. sixes have changes and i have to get out.o that's how i started. i was scared very scared. i didn't know how people would respond. >> and i know that the people have responded well, and you raised an important conversation, more about what it means to be an american. then what it means to be a sikh captain american. until next time, ranch and i will see you online. this is al jazeera. welcome to the news hour. from al jazeera fuse center here, these are the top stories. isil release as video showing the killing of a jordanian pilot held captive by the group. and it's target the other strong holds. anti-terrorist alert after an attack on soldiers guarding a jewish center. twenty-first to give the go ahead for a controversial

let me give the mic to fiona. talk a little bit about this notion of where are the misreadings. >> they're hear. you know, this is to the.that i certainly got millions of people appear. comes upon some long but interesting gentleman did a few things the that people were not expecting on the european continent. of course napoleon got to moscow and got get repulsed. also a hundred years since the beginning of world war i also most importantly in the perspective of pollutant in the anniversary at the end of world war ii. so for putin world war ii was a lightbulb. this particular.for the future of russia and ukraine. it has not escaped anyone's notice. so many of the images of world war ii. the minorities. this conflict in ukraine. ukraine. they're are so many competing maladies about what is going on here. and against this backdrop of all these anniversaries, if i hold the mic further i can still hear. a. a bit of feedback hear. can you still hear? against all these anniversaries it is important to understand the kin

that is what fiona hill my co-author and i have sought to do in a book we published in 2013 and havesued an expanded edition that just came out last week trying to give a picture of the way he thinks. and where those ideas come from. our thesis is that if we don't understand how he's thinking there is no way we can plan our own response and strategy to his actions. >> well clifford to that point, we have to understand what he understands and thinks about us and you write that putin does not understand the west which is bizarre to me. you write what we fail to appreciate, however, is how dangerously little putin understands about us our motive and our mentality and our values and of course being americans we have to make it all about us. but please explain how is it that putin after all of this time still doesn't understand us? >> well understand his background. his only professional background before he became deputy mayor of the city of st. petersburg as the soviet union collapsed in 1991-92, his only background was as a kgb agent operative of the intelligence services and his speci

the chicago area more than 4000 -- by fiona present world to does not know how to say the name.eks of winter. >> we are under 30 minutes of trading. hitting our radar before the bell today. we'll peabody and bloomberg's olivia sterns joins us now. really, groundhog day? yes of course. >> showing me up. >> victory last night, bad news for the stock market? >> are we just going to blame everything on them? no, i am a patriots fan. >> the s&p ended the year with nearly 84% loss on average. is that because everyone was too hung over to trade the next day or the next year? >> every time the patriots win, the stock market falls the following year. this is a relation and not causation. we have a diehard fan on set with us. >> i will blame everything on tommy and bill. when will it end? it is unbelievable. unbelievable. it has been cemented. >> i am a yankees fan. my question is does deflate gate make it a little bittersweet? >> i'm sticking with the party line on deflate gate. >> hold on. on friday, he could not tell the difference between a deflated ball and a regular ball. it is very

fiona simon & schuster writer who got the ibo price.simon & schuster like all the other big five have an ironclad nonnegotiable absolutely universal policy that if you sell a book through them you have to let them also do your e-book rights. but not if you are hugh howley. they need you more than you need them. so he was able to get the exception to the rule that had no exceptions and as a consequence was able to retain more earnings from his art than it would have otherwise. and then there's people who start off like jonathon colton who became an independent is supposed success and state and independent musical success by touring and doing his gigs as an nda. all of those companies, all of those individuals represent a kind of existence proof to be a success of your independent. that matters a lot because not independent architect or come major publishing world has been subject to the same 20 the same 21st century mergers and acquisition concentration that every other sector has been subject to weather that is automaking or energy or l