they are protesting helsinki's cost-cutting measures and backing the lottery-playing policy. >> when people started talking about is playing the lottery, everyone wanted to take part. not only here but in the neighboring villages as well. >> then comes the most exciting part -- the drawing of the lottery numbers. they have a ticket with four of the winning numbers, worth more than 100 euros. >> and win the jackpot, we'll throw a big party. >> so far, they have invested 1200 euros but only one -- won a thousand. maybe playing the lottery is not the best way for them to get out of debt after all. >> that's all for today. thanks very much for watching during 2014. for me and all the team here, i would like to raise a glass to you, our viewers, and wish you a happy new year. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >>> glad to have you with us on this edition of "newsline." it's tuesday january 13th. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. china's state-run agency xinhua says police in the country's

continue poor relations, if you like, or, you know it doesn't seem to be heading towards any kind of helsinki scenario. >> not right now. there has been an exploitation of sect arian fears by all sides leaders have been exploiting sectarianism and people are blowing up each other's mosques and 16 goings and all kinds of crimes being committed and they are losing. isil is the great new threat that challenges everybody. the drop in income from oil prices is a second threat and third is instability. some of these countries libya yemen, syria, parts of iraq, a lot of countries lebanon to some extent, a lot of countries are showing that they're quite brittle and this only endangers the bigger countries like saudi arabia and iran. my guess that is they will continue to test the waters in terms of promoting an official dialogue with each other, get to go a high level and addressing some of the big issues between them. there aren't really major security threats between them. that's my point. neither of them covets the other's territories but they are both political heavyweights and want to make sure

they helsinki commission was requested to be there as a monitor to make sure the elections were free and fair and make sure there would be a measure of respectability and parted and credibility visited upon the person who won this election. at that time, it was not known who was likely to win. i remember growing up in there and speaking to people in the government and the ukraine. we had just one room before passed a bill in the house of representatives to provide a billion dollars worth of emergency moneys to ukraine. vladimir beeton recounted and said our natural gas bill went up $1 billion. that is the pressure that that new government, formed by its people that resisted some of the problems they had in their government. they did that democratic thing and elected a new president. and this is the kind of pressure they are under. i traveled back to ukrainian in november because they had their parliamentary election. they affiliated much more strongly with europe than with russia, the previous soviet union. we seem that has happened since then. last april russia reestablished itself

called the territorial integrity -- prevails over self-determination principle according to the helsinki final act. and actually, that is self-determination is actually used by the armenians from september 23, 18991, when armenia formally deoffense its claims to azerbaijan region because they knew that soviet union was collapsing and just like the bosnian serbs, thought that union was collapsing, that if they went along the lines of annexation that would be denounced by the whole world but self-determination principle works sometimes same as done by the pro-russian separatists in ukraine. so there are a lot of cases. >> okay. thank you very much. exactly what you are -- your presentation is great as far as one more showing the complexities of the conflict there. i didn't use -- i used both information from azerbaijany government and armenian government, but all information regarding the killings is good from the official documents of trial in budapest. all published. [inaudible] >> i did. what i found in translation of trial. now, it's very hard sometimes. i know. and right now, honestly

the helsinki commission is known for our participation in the organization for security and cooperation in europe, but i think it's best known because we put a spotlight on human rights issues. we try to live up to that motto "never again." we try to say that we will not let violations of basic human rights go unchallenged. so on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz and birkenau which are the iconic symbols today of the holocaust let us rededicate ourselves to make sure never again becomes a reality. with that, mr. president, i would yield the floor. ms. mikulski: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. ms. mikulski: mr. president i rise first to thank my colleague from maryland for his eloquent words on the holocaust and the survivors of the holocaust and the compelling voices that come out of those death camps. in addition, my colleague has always been a champion for human rights whether it's on the helsinki commission, whether it's his advocacy to let soviet jews get out of the soviet union, always to find a way that where people are repressed

and other miscreants, is it not time for a return to the cold war tactics such as a full-fledged helsinki inspection and reporting process? to get the attention of the likes of vladimir putin and the ayatollahs? host: a lot to talk about in there. guest: i think you are right. i think one of the challenges is how to be preventative and how to be predictive -- predictive with analysis. that is the holy grail of national security. not constantly dealing with the past, as you said. but trying to forecast what is coming next. who are the real actors and what are the threats to the u.s.? what really are the risks of an iranian nuclear program? does that spohn and spark an arms race in the middle east? what happens with the adventurism of russia and the expansion of power? there is a question as to what is next in terms of the west's relationship with russia. finally, the question of cyber threats. think 2014 was a year or the u.s. and the populace became aware of this. you had the retail sector hit hard, the banks hit hard. then to close out the year, the sony attacks out of north korea. the n