. >> latvia says it is reviewing its army. >> along with other baltic eu companies, latvia has a sizable ethnic russian minority from its large neighbor. many say they are facing increasing discrimination. reg ishares the latvia love of cranberries. otherwise he has little in common with them. the ethnic russian refuses to apply for latvian citizenship even though he has been living in riga for 25 years. >> i don't feel like i belong to this nation. somebody has been telling you for years that you are an occupier and a nobody, why should i take an oath? there is not a single reason when i should become a latvian citizen. we are constantly put down and mistreated that is just not for me. grace he and others like him are referred to as noncitizens. they have fewer rights than latvians. for example, they don't have the right to vote, and they often earn less. that's why many shop at the cheap central market. they have latvian passports, but on the upper left it says aliens. most of them are former soviet nationals. elizabeth says there are similarities between the large russian minority her

went to latvia because regulators were breathing down their neck. does it dry up the swamp for other operators if the leagues choose the people they want to do business with? >> i don't think particularly. the nba is a small slice of this pie. if you're opening up, you're not doing it for the nba, you're doing it for the nfl, hockey baseball. they'll want other exclusives. online operators. there will be better legal climate and more people will jump in the game. i don't think it's really something that just the nba will benefit from or exclusively get. it will be widespread. >> benjamin, you've been, like every member of the panel, pretty expansive about the future of this industry. is this something that can be controlled, managed to the advantage of the sports networks, or are freelancers going to get in on this action just as the more legit legalized does? >> it will become legalized, which it will because it's pretty much legalized all over the world except here. all of western europe in england england, wales, ireland, there are people who hav

we did just here for the president of latvia and they hold the rotating president of the eu and they said there will be more sanctions on thursday and the president of latvia saying we should expect an expansion of the individuals that will be suspect to asset freezing in the european union. it is difficult to know. there are a lot of companies in the eu and we may have to wait until thursday morning. >> let's get the investor perspective. we are joined by lucy mcdonald great to have you with us. this story comes out we probably sit at your terminal and think i saw that coming, but does this act like gloom for you? >> it is a bit of a sideshow the issue we need to keep an ion is the corporate -- eye on is the corporate debt. is it a surprise? no, it is an ongoing cut. and something from a global equity perspective you need to watch for some downgrades to earnings on the margin. it is not a big part of many companies but consumer companies in europe like the one you mentioned yesterday, on the margin the ruble weakness is helpful than me to see any volatility that comes from it. >> ov

they include estonia latvia and bulgaria. soviet styled monuments are everywhere. in russay, bulgaria's fifth largest cemetery, a glimpse into shared legacy with moscow. in fact ties to eastern europe, a diaspora of russian speakers who have spread out over the region for centuries. 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

conceivably, you could let him do it and take latvia and estonia. then we would mobilize nato to respond on a larger world front. that would be a much more risky prospect than i think. to create a tripwire where you make it clear that nato would be involved in the united states would be and therefore the risks are much, much higher than you might calculate in light of the operation seizing crimea. >> would you see that as, that is the end of nato? >> it would certainly be the end of nato if the soviet union moves into a nato neighbor. absolutely it would. i do not see that happening. putin is a nasty piece of work. i probably should not have said that. i do not believe he is evil incarnate. i think if we tell him quite clearly what we will not stand for in terms of nato members especially, there won't be such an action. >> the best way to tell him is to do something to make him think about it. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here today. i appreciate your service very much. we have talked a lot about isis and the middle east. the fact

. >> if he takes similar action in latvia, you know his little green men and all of those things going into latvian territory and nato does not respond, is that in effect, the end of nato. >> >> i would say so, because nato is meant to be a collective alliance. and the united states doesn't respond, that certainly would be the result. now conceivably we could let him do it, let him take latvia or estonia, and then we would mobilize nato to counter this somehow either on the spot or on a larger world front, but that would be a much more risky enterprise than doing what i advocate which is simply to create a trip wire within latvia and estonia which communicates clearly to russia that nato will be involved that the united states particularly is present and, therefore the risks you are taking are much, much higher than you might calculate in the light of the ease of the operation in seizing crimea. >> dr. scowcroft, i'll end with -- would you also see that as that's the end of nato? >> oh, well, certainly it would be the end of nato if the soviet union moved into a nato member and we did

. >> interior ministers from across the eu are meeting in the latvia capital to look at measures includingnternet surveillance and storing airline passenger information but critics are asking for more details on what will be collected, arguing that it could infringe citizens' rights. the prospect of homegrown jihadists is one of the issues causing concern in europe. in belgium, the focus has been on the district in brussels. >> the neighborhood was one of the targets of recent counterterror police raids. community leaders are now working to stop some of society's most disaffected from turning to extremism. >> dw's max hoffman went there and has this msn report. >> the midday prayer is not usually a place for cameras, but he wants to demonstrate that his community has nothing to hide. many belgians are worried about what has been happening and demand that the imam takes a stand against jihad is him -- jihadism. >> we are supposed to help out like a fire department. that's the feeling we have been getting. even the fire department has consulted in advance so they can make preparations. we we

. >> if he takes similar action in latvia, you know his little green men and all of those things. going into latvian territory. and nato does not respond. is that in effect the end of nato? >> i would say so. because nato's meant to be a collective alliance. and if the united states doesn't respond that certainly would be the result. now conceivably we could let him do it, let him take latvia and we would mobilize nato to counter this somehow. either on the spot or on the larger world front. but would be a much more risky enterprise than doing what i advocate, which simply create a trip wire within latvia which communicates clearly to russia that nato will be involved, that the united states, particularly, is present. and therefore, the risks you're taking are much much higher than you might calculate in the light of the ease of the operation in seizing crimea. >> and doctor, i'll end with did you see that that's as that's the end of nato? >> certainly it would be the end of nato if the soviet union moved into a nato member. and we did nothing. absolutely it would. but i don't see

latvia's president says there are further facing visa bans because of russia's control.putin says ukraine is responsible for the renewed violence. >> european finance managers appear to be willing to work with greece, that is if the new prime minister of greece drops the debt coming down, the german finance minister says that does not make sense. and the country likely will not have to make any more economic overhauls. there is word today of another intelligence gathering program. according to the "wall street journal," the wall justice department has a program to track data and wrote time hundreds of millions of records about motors, the primary goal is to hunt drug traffickers, but it can be as for other crimes. >> robert kraft busy. he says his team needs an apology. that may be. kraft spoke at a super bowl press conference in arizona and says if the nfl finds nothing was done in deflate gate the league should apologize was up at the same time, a new development indicates -- vox boards says the nfl is focusing its investigation on a patriots locker room attendant. >>

taking on napoli looking to keep ahead of roma roma came from two goals down to draw with city rivals latviaess 0 toti got goals. he celebrated in through toti style taking a self e making him the highest scorer in had a roma hives dash history on level. >> a big setback at the asian cup. qatar was beaten 4-1 by united arab em raets. off a perfect stop with the opening goal midway through the 1st half but all downhill from there. a series of offensive errors allowing kabril to allow a quarrelizer. 4-1 to uae three-time champ picks around the bahrain, getting a round going in one. j. c. wrapping it up from a corner around the final score. the palestinian national football team have qualified for the aidsian cup for the first time. he will face japan on monday but life for many of the palestinian players is far from easy. stefanie dekker met one of the palestine's best young talents to join his teammates in australia. hopes to be on the pitch. the last member of his team here he was arrested by israeli authorities nine months ago while returning from training abroad. >> spending that amount of

a lot the, -- in latvia they invested 100 million in education and skills. the public and private partnership is something we need to invest in. the macro policies on their own, we need qe, the school policies, we need banks to lend again, but we need to go a step further because otherwise we will not create the jobs we are looking for. >> if qe in europe will work, to appoint you could say it has already worked. when you look at currency variation and where the euro is at the moment, you cannot than i that there are expectations that -- you cannot deny that there are expectations that qe will be announced and significant. >> i want to point out on the question of u.s. doing well as it ties into structural reform. you can do a natural vision of -- you can do an attribution of the two countries and it's a wise one doing better in one of the other? i think the vitality existing in the u.s., entrepreneurship, big data, the flexibility goes to structural reforms. there is twice the rate of entrepreneurship in u.s. that there is elsewhere. if you go through the s

. >> look at latvia and estonia, which became full members of european union and nato but they're nothnic russians are under clear discrimination in those countries, and look at what happened with ukraine. united states all this year supported de-russification. if you're russian, you can be killed. if you're russians, your civic rights would not be protected. if you're ukrainian or ultra- nationalist, okay, you will be in the parliament, you will be the president, everything will be to you. but here, if you're russian, bombs, artillery and killings will be answer. this is, we're sorry, we answer strongly no. >> narrator: it is a sentiment that has played well at home. on the streets where they demonstrated against him only two years earlier, they were now singing his praises. meanwhile, the united states was calling for strong sanctions against russia, but in the capitals of europe, there was reluctance. >> we keep on trying to bring mr. putin in. we invite him to our summit meetings. we try and treat russia as a normal country. and we think we're trying to calm things down, but in fa

agency for fundamental rights issued a 2013 report on anti-semitism in france germany hungary italy latvia belgium sweden and the united kingdom were 90% -- where 90% of europe's jews reside, where nearly 3/4 of respondents said that anti-semitism had worsened over the past five years where they live. in france, home to europe's largest jewish population, it's been reported that the number of french jews immigrating to israel in 2014 had doubled compared to 2013, and for the first time ever, more jews moved to israel from france than any other country in the world. anti-semitic acts in european countries in 2014 included violent attacks death threats and the desecration of jewish homes, commercial property, cemeteries and places of worship. on may 24 of 2014, a gunman opened fire at the jewish museum of belgium in brussels, belgium and killed four people. on july 29 molotov cocktails were thrown at the synagogue in warpetol germany which had been burned to the ground by the nazis during the 1938 kristol kristolnacht and had only been rebuilt in 2002. and we have all been shocked by the rec

it's a sign that lithuania like latvia is commenting its european identity and looking west, firmly rejecting old ties with russia. russia's muscle flexing over ukraine's closer ties to europe led to frequent russian incursions into baltic air space, most recently on christmas day over astonia, an incident russia denies. for the 3 million people there is sorrow for the loss of currency and fears of economic uncertainty. >> translator: since the borders are gone the world became global. i think it's the best time to have the euro. if we close ourselves off, that might be pooittic but it's better to go global with the euro. >> translator: what we lithuanians are a bit afraid that we will wake up with higher prices. >> reporter: as others have discovered to their cost in recent years, having the euro doesn't guarantee economic or political good times. simon mcgregor-wood, al jazeera. >>> well elsewhere in the region the ukrainian president poroshenko said it was the most difficult year since 19 4r5 whether world war ii ended. he praised ukrainians for standing up to defend the mother land. in th

what happened in latvia or astonia, these are countries that are members of nato, suddenly we woke up and there were little green men inside nato. would countries like germany be willing to start a war against russia to drive little green men out of astonia? or on the other hand are we going to sit there and say i guess nato doesn't work. so the u.s. could easily find itself in a terrible position with no good choices. >> let me ask you about those little green men. what do you think is the true danger of that infiltration, that potential infiltration? does that mean a breakup of the e.u.? does it mean nato doesn't work? how high a cost are we talking about right now? >> i think if you could demonstrate to the world that the nato alliance which is our strongest and oldest military alliance, is a kind of a hollow facade and that in fact it can be -- being a member of nato doesn't mean you're secure, then i think that is -- that strikes at every single alliance the united states has around the world. >> really quick here josh earnest was just holding a presser at the white house and he

lithuania, latvia and estonia. these people have been forcibly incorporated into the soviet union in 1939 1940 as a result of the molotov treaty packed. so they agreed to germans as liberators. they are excited that they are going to get rid of the communists. as the germans pushed deeper into out of the baltic states and into russia proper on their way, there are some rations to create them in a welcoming manner are the germans are opening up -- the soviets see them as allowing to this their religion again. there's many people the soviet union were certainly not thrilled with stalin's policies during the 19 dirtiest, but as the europeans is we see that this initial support of the germans dissipates and this is most noteworthy in the town of path loss, which is one of the smaller -- a small city large town that sits outside of leningrad. this town was occupied by one of the divisions i look back the 121st infantry division. they settle a deceased line for some 900 days, the kids in september 1941 and continues towa

latvia lithuania and astonia. these are countries that want their independence.lly joined the european union and nato. and in response russia shut off their energy. shut off that you are natural gas in the dead of winter. and friends when you do this people suffer and die. the list goes on. central asian states from developing closer ties and relations with the west. if you look at mall dove have a, estimates are over 2,000 russian troops in the transnistria region creating a the frozen conflict. and the question is what happens next? are those russian speakers going to be protected in the same way the russian speakers were protected in crimea? and what does that mean to the world's stability? it is the obama administration's repeated demonstrations of weakness from new start to -- that created had conditions that ultimately let to crimea. what should congress do? with the russian economy floundering, congressional action could help strengthen ukrainian resolve, reassure nervous allies and friends and deter further russian aggression. sanctions are important. but

iraq and afghanistan but ebola, adding some capability and some rotations to forces going to astonia latviand lithuania to make sure vladimir putin takes seriously our nato commitments to those countries and a few other sundry things. anyway, we're just under $600 billion. for reference the cold war average for the united states was about $500 billion. so i'm adjusting for inflation. this is 2015 dollars sofment we're a little bit above the cold war average. on the other hand, we're much below the cold war average in the size of the military so we've gotten a lot more expensive per person. and meanwhile, while we still represent 40% of global military spending, there's an interesting thing going on, china and russia have very clearly moved into the number two and three positions behind us in a way that they were not in the 1990's. in the 1990's a lot of our big allies were in that number two and number three role as russia was essentially collapsing and chineyazz was still beginning its rise. now we're at a point where our budget of just under $600 billion than includes the war costs is sti

adding some capability and some rotations to forces going to estonia, latvia and lithuania to make surements to those countries. and a few other sundry things. anyway, we're at just under $600 billion. for reference the cold war average for the united states was about $500 billion. so, i'm adjusting for inflation. this is 2015 dollars. so we're a little bit above the cold war average. on the other hand we're much below the cold war average in the size of the military. so we've gotten a lot more expensive per person. and meanwhile, while we still represent 40% of global military spending there's an interesting thing going on china and russia have very clearly moved in to theymsumber two and three positions behind us in a way that they were not in the 1990s. in the 1990s, a lot of our big allies were in that sort of number two number three role as russia was essentially collapsing, and china was still beginning its rise. and now we're at a point where our budget of just under $600 billion, and that includes the war costs is still three to four times china's. but on the trajectories that b