embassy in caracas to the department of foreign affairs in the secretary of state of the u.s. prove that they have developed what it is call a document a call a strategic points from the u.s. team in venezuela for the program matic support from the u.s. to the opposition youth sectors in venezuela that document also supported by many many implementation actions that we'll also have proof of coming from the year two thousand and ten two thousand and eleven twelve and thirteen and recently dizzy year this function as diplomats from the consulate were traveling all around the country. calling. to receive training for actually make. on on solve issues in the country so to try to promote and non-democratic. social problems in the country on the iraq is in advance of the government let me just ask you but but there are issues of the country is facing a deep economic crisis at the moment there is assuring crime rate people are not happy in the country do they not have a right to express our unhappiness and protest. that is a quiet simple way to see things were happening in the countr

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(cheers and applause) there's the magazine, foreign affairs. now, now gideon, help me out here. got a battle. the ukraine, some of them want to go into the eu, the european union and some of them want to stay with russia. if ukraine is not in europe right now what continent is it on? >> well, it's part of eurasia but part of eastern europe and the former soviet bloc. it's basically robin to russia's batman. and the challenge here, the challenge here is to try to attract it to the west, to get it to flip sides. >> so the rebels in the streets what are they fighting for. >> they're fighting for a better future. >> stephen: that sounds leak a political speech, what really -- >> countries have to develop over time. and ukraine basically after the end of the soviet union faced two tracks, it could stay as a stagnant, corrupt, authoritarian country tied to russia or it could essentially join the west. it commod earnize, liberalize, become a democracy. at the last minute when it looked like it was going to trade up permits, abusive relationship with its boyfriend from the hood to a nic

the poll says 57% of the japanese public approves abe's handling of foreign affairs, while 38% disapprove. asked about exercising japan's right to collect a defense, 29% said it should be permitted, and 22% disagreed. >>> new york state lawmakers will deliberate a bill that's being backed by korean-american groups. the legislation would require textbooks to refer to the body of water between the japanese archipelago and the korean peninsula as both the sea of japan and the east sea. the state senate and assembly will decide whether both names will be used in new public school textbooks. the bill's sponsor is state senator toby ann stavisky. she said in a statement that the widely used name sea of jan be was established when japan annexeds korean peninsula. she said the bill is intended to provide new york students with a fuller and more balanced picture of east asia. officials at the japanese consulate general in new york are trying to gain the understanding of japan's position that the sea of japan is the only internationally established name for the waterway. a similar bill was passed l

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foreign affairs commissioner catherine ashton has met with the leaders of the opposition and the acting president here in the ukrainian capital and has recognized illegitimacy of the ousting of president you know and has pledged financial support from the e.u. the i.m.f. and the united states have also pledged to do the same but we are talking about billions of dollars here and news about this these plans to help financially haven't been greeted with applause in the western states in the e.u. itself especially in the most economically troubled countries. greece. and then they all for ukraine all the money they should support this now that i'm wearing green if i find is completely wrong to the european union well first of all this mines here crane we don't have any job and at the same time we have debts to pay it's not right to give us money. clearly is in need of financial assistance the ukrainian economy was in bad shape before the events unfolded here and now it's even in need of more help but the question is how expensive is this justice and is this the system's going to be and secon

foreign affairs commissioner catherine ashton has met with the leaders of the opposition and the acting president here in the ukrainian capital and has pledged financial support from the e.u. meanwhile in the e.u. most debt stricken nations are not very happy about the idea of financially helping ukraine right now. first they put greece. and then they owe for ukraine all the money they should support us now that we're in great need i find is completely wrong to the european union or first all this money to ukraine we don't have any job and at the same time we have debts to pay it's not right to give all this money to ukraine. is in need of financial assistance the economy is in bad shape and it was even before the events here in kiev but the question is at what price is this help going to come. meanwhile ukraine's finance ministry is calling for a donor's conference with brussels or washington and the international monetary fund it says it needs financial assistance for the next three years as well as urgent aid in the short term while the i.m.f. requiring painful economic reforms in re

rebellion which is the true story and they should now make amends for that subject of coverage foreign affairs editor for the chronicles magazine mr of courage thank you very much indeed for your time and sharing your views with it's. luke by tower the situation unfolded in kiev on tuesday when violence returns to the ukrainian capital first the opposition rounded the crowds and urged them to march on the parliament the. trouble began one radical protesters broke through police lines and this is haitian escalated even further one rioters tried to storm the office of ukraine's ruling party setting it on fire police struggled to contain the thousands of protesters throwing rocks and molotov cocktails some even using trucks to break through the security cordon three people were killed becoming the first victims of this street violence which continued to escalate and less than two hours later a police officer died while protesters attacked security forces. meanwhile down west has also spread to regional centers in western ukraine rioters have seized local government buildings and police stations i

camp in turkey all going to bring in a subjective it shows a writer international affairs and foreign affairs editor for the magazine chronicles thank you so much mr fyshe for joining us here and here national to discuss the situation in ukraine and around as well as we now make sure unowned plans to meet both the government and ukrainian opposition so what's her agenda do you think joining her visit in ukraine. quite clearly her agenda is regime change because the claim that she is coming to ukraine to aid the ukrainians you know overcoming the price of the prices is remain this and of the term fraternal assistance to the socialist bloc that was the essence of the pression of doctrine back in the one nine hundred sixty s. specifically in one thousand sixty eight with the if you're patient of czechoslovakia but at least with. the border of the socialist bloc marked the end of the doctrine itself the doctrine of limited sovereignty with the united states so-called benevolent global hegemony there is no border you have a new can the cranny of the world every spot of the world is a legitimate ta

used in my done which is false and which has been confronted by the minister of foreign affairs of russia also there is some academic institutions in washington d.c. like brookings institute. jacob talbot already twitted that put news going after georgia maybe not to crimea so this is total nonsense and actually we're now seeing that interference from the west is only fueling the crisis in ukraine and all we're living through more of casualties and they have already announced the possibilities of sanctions but i believe that they should consider imposing those sanctions on themselves because they are now to blame for the ask the lation of the crisis and for more casualties in the straits of ukraine how would rise of this kind have been dealt with may be have happened elsewhere in europe. well we have already seen germany france and other countries are very strict on on those protesters and had it been happening somewhere in the united states of america for example or in the center of europe i think the protesters would be crushed very quickly because this is the. direct threat to the litt

chief representative catherine ashton and iranian foreign affairs minister devon side a side by side surrounded by negotiators from all five permanent members of the united nations security council plus germany the steamy days of talks are said to be the first steps towards a comprehensive agreement on the downs contested nuclear program during these negotiations on a coke and some agreements old concerns about the rain in the few credible to trust coastal be intensive and difficult book buying ahead of us. the overall objective remains to seek a comprehensive solution that would ensure all the wrongs make a program is exclusively peaceful. well the atmosphere was said to be good and talks constructive. deputy foreign affairs minister feels a breakthrough agreement will still take some time unknown this fall apart so come back into the gown has agreed to curb credit sneak in a program for the next six months in return for the lifting of an estimated seven billion us dollars in sanctions get many more concessions are needed to satisfy world powers. they include halting any possible pl

that's a mouthful steve paris and target eleven he has ridden a bike although foreign affairs now i'm at the madeira have two strong words to say about washington's involvement in these protests is seed may be trying to divert attention here and find a scapegoat and it was an oversea accused them of his domestic problems. my new show called skating on anything. we are that scene so a few years and many years on calling the us to respect the new un democracy and the side of the venezuelan people already decided what kind of cool them and they won a hat. so we will never accept for any country. not from the us the kind of god. it's a stool with the valor of involvement in national affairs in our country. we have said they knew that respect will be the basis for our relationships is not about escaping any kind of a cottage in the eye many actions that had been done by these groups which are very violent. they had support from the us government and we denounce it from the boys of allah precedents that these actions are pointed statement from the us and with the economical support of the u

ones you called very clearly the executive unilateral that the president is unconstrained on foreign affairs and the other you don't name so i will ask you to come up with a name of the constitutional constraint it says the president really needs congressional support. on the roots of that historic clash. >> it is a good way to define it. thank you. so there has been a debate that goes back about the washington presidency when the constitution was being drafted. i think it reflects the completing the use of the constitution themselves. the article confederation failed because it wasn't strong enough and that there was no executive branch the constitution learned from experience and they thought this was a failure they have gone too far into the word reluctance to create a monarch in the united states that they also realized we needed somebody that can be somebody in the executive branch and they wanted to make sure the president would have enough of authority including during wartime. we are not creating the king said there has been a debate that has gone on with the constitution was drafted

the country with opposing sides blaming each other for escalating the violence trip of it as a foreign affairs editor at the chronicles magazine here's his take we have witnessed brazen hypocrisy from the european union ever since the beginning of this crisis from the phase of demonstrations early on the protests degenerated into hooliganism in mid december and into terrorism since january nineteenth and we can no longer use the term demonstrators i would rather use the term rebels because we are looking at de facto belly and for you to call beach to continue listening to the player calls from the west and he has also being called by biden and by kerry and for restraint would be simply so defeating because all of these people are up to no good they want regime change they are interested in a geo political control over the key country in central eastern europe that was sarah the traffic of a foreign affairs editor at the chronicles magazine. a former cia analyst is suing the state department for putting him on a watch lists ray mcgovern has filed a civil rights suit against secretary of state j

that was there that try to advance to a foreign affairs editor and the chronicles magazine. a former cia analyst is suing the state department for putting him on a watch list raymond other and has filed a civil rights suit again secretary of state john kerry and the george washington university police department it's over an incident that happened three years ago at the university for mcgovern was protesting a speech from then secretary of state hillary clinton take a look at what happens the satellite click here. mourinho mcgovern a us military veterans as he was trying to peacefully protest when police removed him from this bj and used a brutal sports leaving him battered and bruised you can see his injuries. in this photo here after the ordeal the governor believes this incident has kept him on the state department's radar and as proof. this can be be on the lookout document that mcgovern says was given to authorities alerting them to be careful if they come across canada and contacts diplomatic security. for more and as i spoke earlier when tomorrow overheating hillier.

russian ministry of foreign affairs which generally doesn't jump in in matters that concern you krane they all have already said that it's vital that the opposition the government stop. issuing forth preconditions and especially for the opposition . to calm down their. their militant rightwing protesting. parts of the protest and to sit down to the table with the government in order to solve the situation that seems to be rapidly spiraling out of control and then of course we've heard from several other officials. european european leaders heard from catherine ashton very. kind of representatives of nato all of whom are saying that violence is definitely not the acceptable way and that the also again sit down have a dialogue by the government and the leaders of the opposition the irony of course is that just a couple of months ago i with my own eyes have seen very many of these very western leaders out there on the europe on the independence square siding with the protesters feeding literally cookies to the rightwing groups who have permeated essentially the protesters on my down so a

in a geo political control over the key country in central eastern europe that was try vetch a foreign affairs editor at the chronicle's magazine. play a former cia analyst is suing the state department for putting him on a watch list ray mcgovern has filed a civil rights suit against secretary of state john kerry and the george washington university police department it's over an incident that happened three years ago at the university where mcgovern was protesting a speech from then secretary of state hillary clinton take a look at what happened so the service for. scout bicycles can access a lot here. so this is america this is our off the corner. mcgovern a u.s. military veteran says he was trying to peacefully protest when police removed him from the speech and used a brutal force leaving him battered and bruised you can see his injuries in this photo here after the ordeal mcgovern believes this incident has kept him on the state department's radar and there is proof this is the beyond the lookout document that mcgovern says was given to authorities alerting them to be careful if they com

it is where we begin our broadcast tonight with our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. >> reporter: north korea kim jong-un at his father's grave, a birthday tribute. even as the u.n. accuses the kim regime of vast horrors going back decades, deaths, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, sexual violence and forced abortions. >> there will be no excusing a failure of action because we didn't know. we do know. >> reporter: the survivors of the prison kept pictures to illustrate the torture and public execution of hundreds of thousands. for the u.n. and for human rights watch, an advocacy group. this man, a prisoner at camp 15 said a fellow prisoner trying to escape was dragged back to the camp behind a truck then executed for all to see. this woman, in prison for 28 years, drew pictures after she got out. she said guards would spit in their mouths. if they gagged, they would be beaten, former guards told human rights watch many people lost their minds, children starved. families searched for snakes and mice to feed their children. and the report says that whe

it says that the president needs congressional support to do most of what he does in the foreign affairs and tell us about the roots of that. >> i think it is probably a good way to define it. there has been a db2 that goes back to james madison during the washington presidency and when it was being drafted. and i think it reflects the competing views of the constitution themselves. the articles had failed in large part because the federal government was not strong enough and there was no executive under the article confederation and the drafted the constitution were people that learned from lm experience and they thought they had gone too far and they were understandably reluctant to create a new monarchy in the uniteunitedunited states and tht wanwant it but they also that bd we need somebody that can be somebody in the executive branch so they created the presidency and they wanted to make sure he would have enough to carry out the responsibilities including during the wartime during the revolutionary war not having the executive general washington to report to that they also wanted t

but it also is very, that can be dangerous, because i write about foreign affairs. and um, there are times when i should write about foreign affairs issues that may not make the list at all. you can tell. there are certain issues that just do not make the list. you write a political, sizzling piece about you know governor chris christie, goes to the top of the list. but if you write about the problem of water in chad, you are not going to make the list. as a journalist, as a columnist, do you start saying, i am not going to write about this whole set of issues because they are not going to make, most tweeted. >> so what do i do? >> i write about them and despite that. some days it does not go up the list. "the new york times" is going to have more of a lefty readership, and the new york times online will have more of a young and left readership. just by its nature. if you were to write a pro- george w. bush column, it is not good to make the list, baby. it is not going to get near. in the way you would a pro-obama one. >> dan rather sitting here a couple of years ag

. >> topics like syria and iran are on the table but at least for now foreign affairs seem overshadowedaffairs of the heart. >> jon: yes. [ laughter ] they do seem overshadowed because you are blocking all the >> welcome back. my guest tonight a staff writer at the new yorker. her new book is called the sixth extinction, an unnatural history. please welcome to the program elizabeth kolbert. [cheers and applause] how are you? >> pretty good, how are you? >> jon: very well, thank you. the book is called "the sixth extinction." there have been five extinction events thus far. >> heretofore, yeah. >> jon: those are what? the fifth and most famous is the extinction that did in the dinosaurs. >> jon: that was an asteroid. >> that was an asteroid. >> jon: and prior to that what had extincted the animal? >> a variety of thingsism tinted -- things extincted the animals. the first is 450 million years ago believed to be caused about a sudden cold snap. >> jon: polar vortex if you will. >> major, major polar vortex. >> jon: the sixth extinction is caused by an invasive species that you write about

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senior foreign affairs correspondent amy kellogg is watching the situation from moscow. hello, amy. >> hi, bret. well, as we have been talking about, ukraine has really been caught in this tug of war between russia and the west with both sides accused of meddling and no deal ever being in sight, but finally tonight, as some top european diplomats are on their way to kiev, ukrainians themselves, bret, actually took matters of peace at least into their own hands and have agreed there is a truce now and a way forward to solve the issues that have led to the bloodshed. the truce was announced on victor yanukovych's website. whether any of that will take or hold tonight is not clear, and the scene immediately after word of the truce was out was hardly one of calm. there is still chaos and the opposition says there are people who are simply not accounted for at this hour. in the lead-up to the announcement of the truce, there was talk of a massive military intervention to deal with the tens of thousands of protesters who had become violent in response to the police brutality t

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she meddled in foreign affairs. foreign affairs is really about people, a human story. what drew me to this. you have these amazing diplomats, people like lincoln's guy in st. pete pete that walks around st. petersburg getting in fist fights. jenna: a good american. >> he has to deal with his wife trying to get her people appointed to their own diplom diplomatic appoint manies. jenna: what do you think really characterizes lincoln's foreign policy and who do you think embodies that philosophy today? >> well, the biggest thing, i think, that lincoln did is he was a master of patience, of knowing when to act and when not to act. he compared his decision making process to watching a pear on the tree. he said he would watch it, he would watch it, he would watch it and then pluck the pear. he would make his decision. that's just a really important skill in foreign relations. changes in the international power grid happen glacially. jenna: one wonders if anyone has a great deal of patience these days if they did during lincoln's time. thank you so much. jon: a new blast of wi

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. >> mike, before you were a diplomat you wrote a article in foreign affairs in 2008. it was a tough piece on putin's russia. really tough. now is it easy to understand in that context why the putin government and why putin himself probably mistrusts you. >> i don't want to make it about me personally. i think my record as an adviser to president obama, which really goes back seven years, not just the five years, i've been with the government for five but with him for seven, we have developed a very, you know, clear strategy for how to engage with russia. we've achieved a lot through cooperation and mutual respect. and i would hope that president putin understands that in the same way that i wrote that foreign affairs piece, i also was part and, you know, intimate player in developing that strategy which i think has made russia better off and the united states better off. >> 30 seconds, mike. did putin say anything to you in what was your -- what i assume will be your last meeting with him? >> i haven't seen him yet. i'm sure -- i've exchanged conversations about these

last year, in the march issue of the journal of foreign affairs i had a piece called "capitalism and inequality: what the right and left get wrong" and i am still working on that one. >> is there a date certain when it was founded? >> no. in fact one of the interesting fallacies in writing this history of capitalism is despite the notion of finding the starting point. there was a big debate about who was most responsible for the orig origins of capitalism. was it puritans or was it jews. it is more accurate to think it about capitalism as an extension of a process that has been going on for a long time. trade has been going on in one form or another for as far as as we know. for a lot of the middle ages, from the high middle ages on, there was substantial amount of commerce in europe, but it was confined to european islands within a larger agriculture sea. capitalism picked up a lot after about 1600 and since then it has expanded in its geographical range. first it was about trading things and then it moved into the realm of production and that is capitalism through wage labor. capit

but it also is very, that can be dangerous, because i write about foreign affairs. and um, there are times when i should write about foreign affairs issues that may not make the list at all. you can tell. there are certain issues that just do not make the list. you write a political, sizzling piece about you know governor chris christie, goes to the top of the list. but if you write about the problem of water in chad, you are not going to make the list. as a journalist, as a columnist, do you start saying, i am not going to write about this whole set of issues because they are not going to make, most tweeted. most viewed, whatever. >> so what do i do? >> i write about them and despite that. some days it does not go up the list. there is a perverse -- look "the , new york times" is going to have more of a lefty readership, and the new york times online will have more of a young and left readership. just by its nature. if you were to write a pro-george w. bush column, it is not good to make the list, baby. it is not going to get near. in the way you would a pro-obama

department is probably not empowered to do inside reporting because it is like a min industry of foreign affairs. but there are significant questions at home in the united states, and some of the big headlines have to do with surveillance, for example the nsa, the crack down on edward snowden is another example, when it comes to freedom at home, and the birth of whistle blowers. and then there are broader questions. police brutality, solitary confinement, the use of the death penalty. so certainly there are a lot of important issues at home that deserving a spotlight as well. >> and if some other country took it upon itself to write a report, would bit heard? would bit hear in fog by bottom at the state department. >> that's an interest c. penny question too. i would say the more countries that are speaking out in the international context about human rights the healthier it is, and it would force whatever country is asking those questions to also face a similar spotlight. amnesty international wants to see a bigger and bigger culture of global accountability for all of the governments that are

i knew the minister of foreign affairs dylan is construed as an entry on presidents have extended this coming election candidates getting his recent official visit to cyprus the two ministers discuss bilateral relations relations between the european union and china and other teaching on matters. the senator said she got that is probably among the few countries in the world that understands the cyprus issue whether the cause of its own internal problem. thing is tied to this said both countries and the kids think of that rating on different issues to understand and couldn't understand here that they said talks focused on when to take growing economic condition is seeking to contact secretary and the focus on trade in bed sometimes but then the price the camino. generally this means is it's not too cutesy i'm still says but the gossip is still not been impeached in the state is going to athletes and the nazis and the nasty got in the teens. so when the state takes him when it's me and ivy since that is to make the society how the media diligently. thus the psyches of light and seek in n

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but it also is very -- that can be dangerous because i write about foreign affairs. there are times when i should write about, you know, foreign affairs issues that may make -- may not make the list. you can tell that there are certain issues that just don't make the list. you write a political, sizzling piece about, you know, governor christie or whenever and it goes to the top of the list. but if you write about the problem of water in chad your not going to make the list. as a journalist, as a columnist for the you start saying, i'm just not going to write about this whole set of issues because they're not going to be most tweeted, most viewed. >> what do you do? >> i write about them to spike that. some days it does not go up the list, but there is a perverse -- look, the new york times is going to have more of a left. the new york times online will have more of a young and left just by the nature of it. if you were to write a pro george w. bush column it is not going to make the list. it is not even going to get near, but if you write -- in the way you would pro

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the left today has essentially reversed that, they want to hamstring the president strongly in foreign affairs but leave him wide open in domestic affairs, at least if their person is in office. now, that all changed. we lived under that of limited government for about 150 years, but it changed during the new deal, and that's where the problem that's before us right now began. it began with the courts allowing the congress to regulate in vast areas, and as a result, you had the creation through a series of supreme court opinions of the modern executive state, where most of our laws of written today. the congress passes a law and then these agencies, and there are well over 300 today in washington, write the rules and regulations, essentially legislate, and that's where so much of our law gets done today. so what obama is doing is turning to his agencies, h.h.s., the i.r.s. and so on and so forth, and giving them instructions as to how he wants this broad statute to be carried out. and he is doing it in ways that raise very serious questions about whether he is in fact re-writing the law. but t

the ministry of foreign affairs has been putting out statements saying what has gone on in ukraine amountso a power grab. the interim government resorted to what it calls terrorist tack tigs. russia recalled its -- tactics. russia recalled its ambassador to ukraine, and there's nobody in ukraine that russia can do business with, and russia doesn't regard the interim government as legitimate. other than strong statements, russia hasn't actually been making any overt actions. essentially it is sitting on the sidelines and waiting to see what happens. that might not continue though if russia feels that ethnic r h russians in ukraine are victimized. if that happens, russia might get more directly involved than it is at the moment. >> after a time utility use few days tensions are simmering in the russian-speaking district of ukraine. david chater is in a city where pro-russian citizens are vocing their opposition. >> still standing their ground, the pro-europe contesters in the city showing their defiance, trying to repeat the miracle of kiev's independence square in karkiev, an hour's drive f

and then reported back to the foreign affairs council, i believe, by phone.u know, the white house has put out a very strong statement that this violence should stop. there needs to be mediation here. but first and foremost, the government has to pull back, not fire upon its citizens. i would suspect that everyone is looking at additional sanctions, additional measures that can be taken, to tell president yanukovych and the government in kiev to think twice about what they're doing. to listen to the voices of the ukrainian people. and to work together with the entire international community, with everyone in the international community to try to have the future that the people of ukraine hope for. >> what do we say to vladimir putin in russia who they've been arguing that we have no right to meddle, as he would put it, in ukraine. that it's his backyard that it's outside of our severe of influence. what is the united states argument for being engaged here? >> well, i think the argument is that this is not a zero sum game. this is not about the ukrainian peopl

. >> reporter: the european union foreign affairs chief was here for the last two days, meeting withembers of the new government, members of the opposition, members of the new government. no deals were made. ukraine needs $35 billion estimated over the two next years. and russia very unhappy with this government saying it was basically formed by bandits, and from the russian foreign minister, he accuses europe of playing a dangerous game. >> translator: it is dangerous and counterproductive to try to force upon ukraine a choice of the principle you are either with us or against us. we are interested in ukraine being a common european family in all meanings of the word. >> reporter: russia has long been involved here, offering $15 billion in aid. and viktor yanukovych at this hour still a wanted man, still on the lamb. any word you are hearing on him facing charges at the international court of the hague. >> reporter: yeah, the parliament voted today to be a party to the rome agreement so that allows the former president to be tried at the hague if he is found elsewhere, and that i th