some easter eu states like:, like lithuania are very skeptical of russia's intentions. -- some eastern eu states like poland, like lithuania. >> those countries were the ones supporting arms deliveries to ukraine, and of course, they are very skeptical of this cease-fire agreement, saying that in no case should the sanctions be taken back now just because of this cease-fire deal, but first of all, everybody needed to be very cautious about this deal and see what really happens on the ground. >> thanks for joining us from that eu summit in brussels. >> we're going to pick up on that issue now, what's going to happen on the ground. for more analysis, we are joined in the studio from the european council on foreign relations. welcome to the program. you just heard from our correspondent in brussels talking about focusing on the ground now. what do you think? is this agreement viable on the ground? >> the problem is that with each point agreed on or mentioned there are different positions between kiev and moscow. as each point has to be clarified and implemented and at some point implement

she babysat for them in lithuania and they were sponsoring her as a student in the u.s.as that call about? >> and it just kind of kept snowballing from there till we figured we had to go up and track her down. >>> a missionary's unusually close relationship with a young exchange student. >> did you ask him? actions while taking or after stopping chantix. some people had seizures while taking chantix. if you have any of these stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix or history of seizures. don't take chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these stop chantix and see your doctor right away as some can be life-threatening. tell your doctor if you have a history of heart or blood vessel problems or develop new or worse symptoms. get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. use caution when driving or operating machinery. common side effects include naus

likewise in latvia and also lithuania. i met with the president of lithuania a woman that a lot of people refer to in very admiring terms as a tough cookie and that is apparent when you meet her. but the concerns about the russian aggression are clearly there, and they are very concerned that if eastern ukraine falls they're next. and thus that's another reason, i think that these courageous people who had had so many years after the breakup of the soviet union so many years of corruption and bad government now having thrown off the shackles of corruption having a new government after all of those are protests in the center of the capital city of ukraine, and i think it's incumbent upon us to help that little country defend itself against the russian aggression. when a russian tank is bearing down on you you need something that can penetrate the steel armor of that tank in order to stop that tank and all the other tanks' advance. let me stop right there and shift gears. department of homeland security. the clock is ticking

. >> lithuania's president says that his country will bring back conscription, due to growing fears of action by russia lithuania ended in september 2008, it already had nearly 16,000 active military personnel. if the plan is approved by the parliament, it will be renewed for five years. >> secret documents obtained by al jazeera's investigative unit reveal how intelligence agencies spied on green peace. the revelations come from the spy cables hundreds of secret documents leaked to this network. they also expose other unusual targets. phil reese reports. >> the spy cables give a glimpse into how intelligence agencies hunt for information. and who they choose as targets. there are the usual suspects. but also the less publicized such as environmental group green peace. a confidentble document from 2010 shows how in the run up to the g 20 summit spieses ask for specific security assessments on the head of green peace and two other sup africans lists as dangerous persons. sadly the assumption that we make especially after the edward snowden leaks and the information came out that in fact

out at establishing what occurred in the ukraine and looking to other countries, estonia latvia, lithuania. we need to have a buffer on the ground of strength. >> thank you for joining us. in other news, tens of thousands in argentina have been marching through the capital. a body was found with a gunshot wound to the head before he was due to testify in congress against kitchener. an airstrike in southern niger. an unidentified plane came by. it is not clear who was responsible for the air raid. it comes -- the funeral of one of the two men killed in denmark. a security guard was shot outside of copenhagen. a televised address was given to the nation. greece says it will ask the eurozone for a six-month extension of the bailout loan. it will not be the renewal of the current deal. greece is likely to run out of money by the end of the month unless a compromise is reached. obama says the united states is not at war with islam. that was part of his remarks to a white house summit. he also said that those who fight for islamic state and al qaeda are not just l -- are terrorists. >> given the

. >>> a dramatic scene in lithuania captured from a few different angles. check this out. a first shot from a police cam dash cam. you see a car pulling up into view. listen to this. you hear a woman scream. the woman and a man jump out of the car. you can see that the man is holding a small child. the police spring into action. this 10-month-old child reportedly is choking on some bacon that he had chewed. at this moment the child has lost consciousness and is turning blue. you can see the father holding the child in his arms hitting the child on the back shaking the child. >> he is trying to do that. >> oh, yeah. he's trying desperately to save his son's life. the officers begin driving down the road. you can hear the sirens. you can see them weaving in and out of traffic. they're going at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour. they know there's a hospital close by and they're trying to get there as quickly as possible. you're seeing them pull into the parking lot of this local hospital. they rush the child inside. immediately the staff, they spring into action. they resusci

present danger russia is trying to destabilize the baltic countries and former states astonia and lithuaniaould be with troopers. >> bombers off the coast and not in uk air space and the jets were reportedly close to the air space on wednesday and escorted out of the region without incident. >> with the separatists challenging the bounds of the week-old ceasefire that asked the u.n. to send in peace keeping forces and al jazeera's paul brennan spent the day with fighters as they pushed their way through the east. >> reporter: these are the russian soldiers who are claiming victory in the battle for dubusana and flying the flag and alie -- allegiance is declared and street by street combat continued here for four days after the supposed ceasefire deal. small numbers of ukrainian soldiers held up and stranded inside the town the dead lie where they fell. on the approach road to dubusana in a cross we found the aftermath of a battle the crossing was littered with the vertebrae of increasingly desperate struggle with numerous casualties on both sides here. here is a burned out tank absolutely b

he says that russia poses a clear danger to baltic states latvia lithuania estonia, all once part of the soviet union. he says the nato must prepare for aggression from russia in whatever form it takes. "the independent" sent reporters to the capital of latvia to see how locals their feel about the situation. -- see how locals there feel about the situation. many feel they could be next in the kremlin's firing line. annette: u.s. presidential hopeful jeb bush gave his first major foreign-policy speech in chicago. how did it go down? florence: it depends on who you ask, as you can imagine. he tried to differentiate himself from his father and his brother, both former u.s. presidents. he said he would be his own man when it comes to foreign policy. he has drawn criticism from left-wing publications. "the daily beast" made fun of him for this beach. -- this speech. they said he bungled facts and pronunciation when he was speaking about boko haram. you can see some u.s. publications poking fun at him. "the daily beast" said he tried to sound presidential, but he sounded like a not well-v

. >> latvia, lithuania all were part of russia. >> history. the core problem is n.a.t.o.ansion, that george ca said was a fate -- george ca said what is a fateful area. it was perceived as not a sorority or fraternity, but a military organization. the parameters negotiated settlement, in minsk, and have been on the table for months. it includes no nato expansions. >> do you believe they'll get a deal in minsk? >> it will be tough, but the alternative is disaster. if you go back to the soviet union, so were the countries, the russian foreign ministry wants to extend the umbrella. ukraine is an existential problem. i go to russia, i go for 35 years, the upper marriage, gorbachev's wife was ukranian. the baltics go. what stake does russia have. they have economic problems. i would say the real domestic problem is more cold war, less space for optimism. >>. >> it's a problem. if we continue to send weapons, it will be a proxy warheading to a cold car. >> you know the story. i don't look at this. same thing - should have been a political solution. the fact is every time we don

. >> he said that multinational command centers would be set up in bulgaria, lithuania, poland and romania with immediate effect. >> our correspondent has been following that summit in brussels for us. the nato secretary-general said that nato is prepared to defend its allies. did he elaborate on that? how far is nato willing to go here? >> nato is a military alliance and is obliged to defend everyone in the end. nato would have the means or obligation to defend if there is a russian attack, but this is a very unlikely event. nobody has calculated that rush is about to attack anyone. it is meant to deter russia from further aggression and is also meant to reassure especially the baltic states that nato is standing by because there is no big nato headquarters are nato troops. this is kind of a reassurance that nobody would come to help them. >> as you said already, it's basically just assigned towards moscow not to push it any further, but will that be enough? one of the kremlin is an impressed by this at all? >> well, nato is excluding any military option in this conflict. nato is relying

latvia estonia, and lithuania, all of them have russian-speaking minorities. and mr. fallon said that it would be likely that russia could use covert tactics, such as undercover forces deployed in crimea against one of those three countries. well, international monitors from the osc have been barred from debaltseve but they witnessed the shelling from the addition. alexander hook described the overall state of the cease-fire. >> reporter: i have just returned from a town to the north of debaltseve late last night where me and my team have tried to access the city of debaltseve. despite the fact we have not been able to access the town we have monitored from a distance the shelling of the town by unidentified forces. we have not been able to access the town but we can attest that the city has been under fire. >> does the situation in bedalt bebattle sieve, the fact of the ukrainian withdrawal does that not make a mockery of the cease-fire that your organization is meant to be monitoring? >> the osc special monitoring has been prevented by accessing the town by the rebe

. >>> lithuania's president says his country will bring back conscription due to fears of russia.t has 16,000 active military personnel already. if approved conscription will be renewed for five years. >>> fighters from the islamic state of iraq and the levant have kidnapped at least 90 piem people from christian villages in the northeast of syria. the villagers were attacked on monday morning. the head of a syrian political party in iraq says that they are working to find the missing people, but have so far had no luck. >> translator: until now we haven't been able to contact any of the hostages, as i said 90 to 150 people were kidnapped and two people are missing, so we think they have been killed. >>> live now to beirut and zana hoda is following this story from there. what is the latest zana? >> reporter: well, we know that community leaders from the syrian christians, they have been appealing for help asking the international community for help. like you mentioned the islamic state -- islamic state of iraq and the levant captured up to 90 people. isil managed to control three

. >>> lithuania's president says his country will bring back con con -- conscription because of growingf russia. if approved conscription will be renewed for five years. >>> euro zone finance ministers have proposed greece's economic reforms. greece has handed over a proposeded list of changes to the european countries to which it owes money. it is hoping to get a four-month extension to its bailout. john psaropoulos has more now from athens. >> reporter: the euro group have given the nod to this list but they do specify that it has got to be deepened and broadened. in other words it has to be made more specific. how these goals are going to be achieved. and then of course the final approval to this list of things will be given at the end of april, and greece does nths graduate from this governing agenda until the end of june. the way the euro group phrased it is the institutions consider this list of measures to be sufficiently comprehensive to be a valid starting point. so from the european point of view we're still trying to conclude the current program as it were which is what this

the leaders of other former russian republics, georgia, moldova, latvia lithuania, all launching alongsideresident poroshenko. ukraine is trying to move forward into the future. but it still remains chained to its past. craig dale, nhk world. >>> rescue crews in bangladesh are looking for survivors of a ferry accident. at least 66 people have been confirmed dead. the ferry was crossing the padma river west of the capital dhaka. it collided with a cargo vessel and sank. local media quoted an official saying about 90 people were rescued or managed to swim ashore. survivors reportedly said that the vote was carrying more than 200 people well over its capacity. ferries remain a key means of transportation in bangladesh where there are many rivers but not enough bridges. >>> communities around japan have been celebrating something traditionally chinese. they've held street parties to mark the lunar new year. a woman from china helped build friendship using her skills as a dancer. more from nhk world. >> reporter: every year celebrated with a festival. about 100,000 people attend in the local ch

lithuania and estonia ukraine's leader urged the deployment the united nations in the country's easto enforce a cease-fire. government troops are now withdrawn from the strategic rail hub following one of the largest battles in the 10 month conflict. expanding latest fund-raising rounds -- the mobile car booking application. the company was valued at $40 billion, one of the highest evaluations for a technology startup. a luxury condo in manhattan could set a new record for the most extensive -- most expensive residential property. it is being put on the market for $150 million. so far the highest price ever paid for a condo in manhattan. richard dreyfus has agreed to a four-hour miniseries about the financier according to a person at the abc television network. submitted three say it will air around the end of the year. he was sentenced to 150 years in prison after his ponzi scheme collapsed. you can find more of that story at bloomberg.com. >> has ricky, head of global affect strategy at -- we just did the math. as i said swiss francs are at the weakest level -- jordan says we are r

lithuania plans to restart service in the face of growing fears about russia about 3 1/2 thousand mend between 19 and 26 would be recruited for nine months each year. the university students would be exempt. the move was prompted by military drills. now, a last minute deal to prevent greece defaulting on it's debt has been agreed after euro zone finance ministers approve the plan to reform it's economy. and list of measures submitted this morning includes a honest of anti-austerity procedures. for the poorest. greece also wants to off aid to those on low pensions and stop people's homes being repossessed. it plans to pay ever the those measures by tackling tax evasion, corruption, and the smuggling of fuel and to be co, and by making the government more efficient. cutting the number of ministries and getting rid of benefits such as official cars. live you to athens and speak to our correspondent p how much of a compromise has this been? it's not everything they promised during the election, is it. >> it has managed to put those u.p.s. pros very prominently in it's governing agenda, th

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take a listen to the lit lit lithuania foreign minister. >> i don't know.far we all expect that there would be some agreement. we expect a diplomatic solution. but question only judge on the developments on the ground. so everything would be decide edd it will change the situation otherwise i do not see any possibility to even see any improvement. >> reporter: so lithuania's prime minister saying this is perhaps the most logical solution to the problem. but, of course as i mentioned there are differing opinions here. we have 28-member states and 28 different opinions on what to do and how to implement. what is the best plan going forward? i spoke to the foreign minister of slovakia. >> it's an urgent thing right now. it's being discussed. i personally am not in favor of sending arms. sending arms to one party inevitably pushes the other party to get more arms from other suppliers. and it is not favorable. it looks like we're having a moment. they were supposed to talk about the threat of the islamic state. they were going to talk about africa but ukraine wi

lithuania plans to restart service in the face of growing fears about russia, and about 3 1/2 thousand aged between 19 and 26, would be recruited for nine months each year. university students would be exempt. the move was prompted by drills near the baltic state which is are members of nato. >> after the finance minister to improve it's economy the list of measures submitted this morning include as host of anti-policies including electricity, healthcare, food and public transport for the poorest, greece also wants to offer aid to those on low pensions, and stop people's main homes being repossessed. by tackling tax evasion corruption, and the smuggling of fuel and tobacco. and cutting a number of ministries and getting rid of benefits such as official cars cars. >> one of greece's disposessed at 40, she has lost her book maker shot and owed the tax man $35,000 she cannot pay. she is one of those that vow to help. >> we are not in charge, i agree, they are trying but have we gained with the resistence, nothing. has given up hope we will regain our honor but how are they going to go bac

a group of former soviet countries this is lithuania estonia, latvia.ichael fallon says putin poses real and present danger to the baltics. nato has to be ready for any aggression from russia what form it takes. those are his words. my question, is he looking for a war with nato forces overall? >> no, but i think, the british defense secretary is exactly right. putin will keep on doing this. he is trying to reconstitute the old soviet union, make no mistake about it. cheryl: he wants mother russia mother russia back from 1985. >> you know what? he will keep doing this as long as we keep sending all wrong signals. when we cut the united states army to pre-world war ii levels that is the wrong signal. president obama goes to nato brussels last march, as far as georgia is concerned, a country's application for nato membership the united states supported since 2005, when president obama says last year georgia is not currently on a path to nato membership that is the wrong message to send to a thug like vladmir putin. cheryl: well you know, he doesn't have t

president of lieutenant lieutenant -- take a look at that map right there you can see how close lithuania is it's of course a former soviet state, which shares a border with rush shank territory. >>> time to check in with shepard smith live from the fox news desk. >>> cops say a college freshman tied up a woman stuffed a necktie in her mouth and beat her with a belt. prosecutors called it sexual assault. but the suspect says the two of them were just acting out a movie, 50 shades of gray. of course that box office hit is all about bondage, we'll break down the legal claim. >>> plus we're expecting to hear from the veterans affairs secretary. you may know he's on video claiming he served in the special forces, turns out he didn't serve in special forces. so what will the secretary have to say now? will there be an apology? we'll hear it live coming up at the top of the hour on shep part smith reporting. >>> crowd goes wile fans rushing on to the court at the kansas state basketball game. court storming, becoming a growing trend but is it just a happy situation or a seriously dangerous situ

i do know in the balkan -- in lithuania, we are upgrading our presence. those are nato countries. we're going to upgrade our military presence in those countries. we're already doing it in poland. we could see a significant upgrade of the american military presence on those countries that do border russia. this is a very serious situation. we need to be careful. we need to be very firm. and we need to take every opportunity to make it clear in that conversation with putin. there needs to be more of that and we need to be very very clear that we are headed towards arming -- providing certainly defensive and maybe offensive weapons to ukraine. >> okay. good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> i appreciate your time. thank you. you bet. get your cell phones out. want to know what you think. tonight's question -- do you think we the united states, should arm ukraine forces? text "a" for yes. text "b" for no. you can always follow us on twitter @wegoted. >>> coming up the jobs report has promising numbers. is it historic? the tpp could put the brakes on economic growth. we'll

lithuania's president says his country will bring back to conscription because of growing fears of russiaeady has nearly 16,000 active military personnel. if approved by think parliament conscription will be renewed for at least five years. >>> officials for football's governing body say they will recommending that the 2022 world cup in qatar should be played in november and december to avoid the extreme summer heat. so jo how did they come to this decision? >> well, adrian they considered many factors. they were here for three days in doha discussing all of these factors. the most important was the element of heat. as we know it gets very hot here in doha up to about 50 degrees in the summer and this is one thing they have been discussing ever since qatar have been awarded the world cup. they have been talking about the implications and one of cornerstones of the bid was this revolutionary cooling technology. but it seems it wasn't really enough. and another thing they were talking about is how it would fit into a general sporting calendar and the winter olympics will be held in february

to mushroom into an all out war, isn't the danger russia wins and moves on to overtakes stonia or lithuaniat's a very big concern. estonia. that's why what was discussed at the security conference is so important. even those migmig -- miss merkel is visiting president obama there are 50 countries in europe and many concerned about russian expansionism. they've seen it the last several years in georgia and malldovadova and armenia and you have to put all national policies together to stop this. >> also russia has nuclear weapons, right. what's to say it won't use them if it feels cornered? >> that is a significant concern. i think if russia takes that step they show themselves to be the pariah riper rye -- pareja that they are. i'm not sure they would do that. arming ukraine would cause difficulties with russia was said. i think there is a requirement to stand up to their attempt to overtake slices of land. i don't think president putin would misjudge enough. he has threatened aircraft with nuclear capabilities. i don't think he would go there. that would be idiotic. >> i home you're right,

when i first walked in senator heinrich was talking about lithuania. their concern was that all of our attention seemed to be in that part of the world concentrated on i crane. it's true. we've never had -- i happened to be there when they had their election for the first time in 96 years. they don't have a communist in their government in the ukraine. we have that problem at the same time as the others you're addressing. what do you think about our european strength as it is right now? are we adequate? are we becoming inadequate? >> i think that our strength in europe is our alliance with nato and the political solidarity that that represents, which is very important when it comes to the baltic states. and also the response in ukraine, which while not a nato nation is certainly a european nation. and european unity is a part of that. one of our strengths is that. another strength of course is our military strength. and there i understand that we are adding forces, rotational force to the baltic states as a presence there as a deterrent to any russian

since you said you would support putting forces in estonia lithuania and latvia. thank you. >> thank you. >> senator heinrich. >> thank you chairman. dr. carter you've spoken quite effectively about the need to address runaway costs needless overhead, waste at the dod. i want to touch on the fiscal impact of operating the guantanamo detention facility. maintaining the prison at guantanamo has cost the american taxpayers almost $5 billion since it opened in 2002. an average of $493 million for the last five years. in fact, in 2014 we spent more than $3 million per guantanamo detainee. that compares to about $78,000 per prisoner per year we use to house hardened criminals in the florence colorado super max prison. do you intend to review the cost effectiveness of continuing to operate the facility at guantanamo versus placing high-risk detainees that need to continue to be detained in a more fiscally responsible setting? >> senator, i understand the cost numbers you're citing. they broadly correspond to what i understand. i think the issue that guantanamo will ultim

but hasn't increased security, because there is no way that russia is going to attack estonia or lithuania for that matter, because it is not in russia's interests. >> what about all those russians in eastern estonia do they see themselves suffering like the russians in crimea? no, they do not. >> they feel part of the european union and believe solutions to their problems will come from europe. they are looking to answers from brussels not moscow. >> the question is whether nato's actions might drive pro european estonian russians towards moscow. >> american and other nato soldiers will be parading in this square in a few days time literally on the russian border in celebration of estonia's national day of independence. american western leaders accuse vladimir putin of paranoia over nato's advance. >> politicians here talk about whether their country might be betrayed to the russians over the river by rogue elements in the east of the country. it is not paranoia, then it's certainly outright suspicion. it isn't at all clear if nato's presence will make things better or worse. al jazeera o

. >> i this happened in lithuania. dash cam video shows his gesturing to police at intersection, then he runs into the patrol car with a visibly limp child. the child choked on food and became unconscious and the dad was panicking. he sits in the front seat trying to comfort the child as the officer races lights and sirens blazing passing cars after car after car this will know reach the hospital. by the way the baby did survive. >> thank god. >> suspended for something he tweeted about penn state. how he inadvertently put down the student who raised money for thon. >> and, a trip to a local car wash ends in that mess that we showed you yesterday on good day philadelphia. how a driver went airborne and destroyed these brand new cars that were up for sale. >>> tide at one in the second periods. this is jeff skinner tic-tac-toe. two to one carolina later in the period on the power play. the hurricanes strike again. jordan with a goal right there. carolina hands the flyers the loss, four to one the final. phillies with fi

in bulgaria, estonia, latvia lithuania, holland -- poland and armenia. if the crisis arises, they will assure national and nato forces from across the alliance are able to act as one from the start. they will make rapid deployment easier, support planning for collective defense, and help coordinate training and a are sizes. >> jordan has intensified its airstrikes on the islamic state following the immolation of a captured jordanian fighter pilot in syria. jordan says dozens of fighter jets struck isis sites on thursday in syria, and for the first time, in iraq. jordan has vowed to expand its role in the u.s.-led anti-isis coalition following the pilot's death. jordan's announcement followed reports that the united arab emirates, a key coalition member, suspended its airstrikes in december over concerns for its pilots' safety. meanwhile, scores of people were killed in and around the syrian capital of damascus on thursday when rebels fired a barrage of rockets into several neighborhoods and government warplanes bombed opposition-held areas. greece's new

having just returned from ukraine and also when i first walked in senator heinrich was talking about lithuania and that area. their concern was all of our attention seemed to be in that part of the world concentrated on ukraine. it's true, we have never had -- i happen to be there when they had their election for the first time in 96 years they don't have a communist in their parliament in ukraine. so we have that problem at the same time as the others you're addressing. what do you think about our european strength as it is right now? are we adequate? are we becoming inadequate? >> i think that our strength in europe is our alliance with nato and the political solidarity that that represents, which is very important when it comes to the baltic states and also the response in ukraine, which while not a nato nation is certainly a european nation and european unity is an important part of that. so one of our strengths is that. another strength is our military strength. and there i understand that we are adding forces rotational forces to the baltic states as a presence there as a deterrent to an

include, not surprisingly, the vulnerable feeling ones like the baltic states in particular latvia lithuania, and the only one the report says at the moment is at the 2% level is estonia. the problem is estonia is a very small player in this fight, in this context, and certainly in terms of defense spending. so the concern will be what the messages are from the big players. this isn't something that's going to change overnight, but it's what's the long-term intended, which i think is the concern. >> as you say, among those big players. france freezing its defense spending. and meanwhile, russia increasing its spending to 4.2%. i mentioned earlier that america has already expressed concern about the amount that its european partners are spending on defense. is anything going to change do you think, in light of this report? and also in light of the current economic situation of many of the eurozone economies? >> well quite. there are huge pressures on all the countries, really. nobody is expecting that this -- nobody is really spoiling for a fight between russia and nato particularly in milita

they sent to a house in 450 lithuania. the system is not only complicated. it doesn't work. the machinery doesn't work. you've got to almost the end -- thin it down and complexity. host: you were part of the debate in 2012. have you ruled out running? guest: there are no probable circumstances where we will end upper running. host: have you talked to mitt romney? guest: i talked him it when he was first looking at it. it is very hard. anybody who has never done it has no idea how hard it is. there is a new generation coming along like scott walker who did well in iowa and showed up on the c-span coverage. you have jeb bush who is sort of between the two generations. and then you have a whole group of people, the john k six. the chris christies. this number is very competitive situation. mitt went out and talked honestly with a number of his friends. the net conclusion was that , while he could be a candidate and engaged in a race he wasn't , going to have the kind of financial addvantage he had last time. there were too many people who can raise their own money this time and

before that for in the nazis, he worked as a secret service police chief in lithuania during massacres there at the start of the war. he was the one who would sign the orders rounding up the jews, thousands and thousands of jews from around the city and turn them over to the gestapo, where 60,000 of them were led to a death pit outside town and massacred to death. his signature was at the bottom of those orders. and yet in the view of the cia, he was a cold war asset. he became a spy in europe for america. even though in the cia's own files they noted almost in passing he was under the control of the gestapo during the war and he was probably involved in the massacres but he was u.s. material. probably the most insidious of the nazi spies and a man i devote a fair amount of attention in the book was a prussian barron. he was a spy but not very good. once on a train in us a trea in 1953 he lost a suitcase filled with top secret u.s. documents, getting it mixed up with another passenger's luggage. he opened the bag and realize instead of secret spy photos to there were pajamas and a shav

lit lithuania lithuanian man of the year was a soldier. so our interactions with these countries in this rotational capability, which is a part of this larger assurance construct that nato has put forward, i think is the right way to go. >> you can watch this entire pentagon briefing with nato commander general breedlove at our website. go to c-span.org. >>> the federal communications commission holds a meeting on open internet rules and access to broadband. they'll be examining a proposal by tom wheeler that would give fcc authority to assure they give consumers access to all legal content and applications on an equal basis without favoring or blocking some sources. you can see the meeting live tomorrow here on c-span 3 beginning at 10:30 a.m. eastern. >> the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. next weekend, we've partnered with comcast for a visit to galveston, texas. >> with the opening of the suez canal in 1869, sailing ships were

it was embarassment, he talked about the battle over the tv tower in talon, when it happened in lithuaniait was embarassment. that is poor staff work. poor staff work that kept him from going to paris. but when you have poor staff work, it is because you don't have people on your staff who will say, mr. president, you have got to go to paris. who will speak up but rather instead they will feedback what he wants to hear. so, he is doing poorly right now. but as far as legacy goes i think all those issues will be transcended by the event of his election. gerri: wow doug thanks for coming on the show of the fascinating analysis. >> thank you. >> it is a special presidents' day episode on tonight's "strange inheritance" on fox business's new hit. jamie colby meets a family who inherits rare letters written to their grandmother from a young john f. kennedy. here is a peek. >> when i first looked at them, i went oh wow, promptly put them in safe deposit box. >> there they remained for the next quarter century but a surprise phone call from a stranger will reignite this family's interest in thei

if it's latvia or lithuania or estonia, do you believe, that would, nonetheless happen?ink if they were under attack i have no doubt that the u.s. would say, that is an article v situation and we have to go to their defense. otherwise, i think nato would lose all credibility. and i think the russians must be aware of that. what's perhaps more likely and more difficult to deal with is the notion that it wouldn't really be a straight forward attack. it would be stirring up a bit of trouble, encouraging the russians in latvia to sort of be a bit rebellious or ballsy. they did this kidnapping already once. they could call a little bit of trouble there, rather like what they're doing sending aircraft down the channel. it's the kind of thing where there'll be little provocations. >> bielwe'll watch this. john, thank you very much. >>> let's catch up with the business news. that means aaron. of course, greek. >> this is hot off the press. we're starting to see who's siding with bho who at the moment. the netherlands has sided with germany. the finance minister from the netherla

lithuania shares a border with russia.raged by this as a leader of a baltic state? >> i'm certainly a little bit -- able to feel less constrained than i west 24 hours ago. any progress is progress. there is a difference between a baltic state and ukraine, which is not an ally of any sort. the willingness of the united states or the europeans to prevent putin from destroying ukraine is pretty limited. what can we do to stop russia and ukraine? why do you think there's an answer to that question? >> thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. ian bremmer with eurasia group. >> what do you think? will the cease-fire work this time? this is "bloomberg surveillance" on bloomberg television. ♪ >> good morning everyone. futures up 10, dow futures up 83. the ruble ever so slightly weaker. let's get to our top headlines from around the world. >> italian court has sentenced to cast to 30 years in prison -- at the helm of the cruise ship when it capsized three years ago. the accident killed and 32 people. he has denied any wrongdoing.

having just returned from ukraine and also when i first walked in senator heinrich was talking about lithuania and that area. their concern was all of our attention seemed to be in that part of the world concentrated on ukraine. it's true, we have never had -- i happen to be there when they had their election for the first time in 96 years they don't have a communist in their parliament in ukraine. so we have that problem at the same time as the others you're addressing. what do you think about our european strength as it is right now? are we adequate? are we becoming inadequate? >> i think that our strength in europe is our alliance with nato and the political solidarity that that represents, which is very important when it comes to the baltic states and also the response in ukraine, which while not a nato nation is certainly a european nation and european unity is an important part of that. so one of our strengths is that. another strength is our military strength. and there i understand that we are adding forces rotational forces to the baltic states as a presence there as a deterrent to an

traveled to the region several times, not too long ago, and whether you are in estonia, latvia, lithuaniaerned. i want to support ukraine in terms of them getting the weapons they have been asking for for over a year. peter: there is bipartisan support on the hill. lethal aid, wouldn't that risk escalating the confrontation with russia? >> i was there the day that russian helicopters landed at the gas plant north of crimea. we have been asking from that day -- there has been huge escalation in spite of the fact that we have done very little to help our friends in ukraine. the president did not want to give night vision goggles because they thought that would be too provocative. peter co -- peter: there is bipartisan support on capitol hill right now? >> there is turmoil all around the world and our friends no longer trust us, our friends do not fear of -- our enemies do not fear us. we are seeing it in north korea, the middle east, and in russia and ukraine. peter: you have been in control for the senate for about a month. have you had someone of a reality check the fact that the presiden

they 450 to a house in lithuania. the system is not only complicated. it doesn't work. machinery doesn't work. so you've got to almost then it down in complexity to get to something the human beings can make functional host: you were part of the debate in 2012. have you ruled out? guest: there are no probable circumstances where we will end up running host: did it decide you that mitt romney decided not to run? guest: no. i talked to mitt when he was first looking at. first of all, it's very, very hard. anybody who has never done it has no idea how hard it is. there is a new generation coming along like scott walker who did well in iowa and showed up on the c-span coverage. you have jeb bush who is sort of between the two generations. and then you have a whole group of people john caseigs. chris christies. this number is very competitive situation. mitt went out and talked honestly with a number of his friends. the next conclusion was that while he could be a candidate action engaged in a race, he wasn't going to have the kind of financial addvantage he had last time. t

i am interested to know there is an lng receiving ship in a report and -- a port in lithuania. i think they are getting it from norway. we have a lot of gas in this country. we should be ready to help lng there is plenty of oil around that should get there. we want to relieve those countries of this dependence on russian oil and gas. maybe it would teach them a little bit of a lesson. because in addition to lower oil prices, they will lose market share, probably permanently. but then i would not hesitate -- i think i am here in madeleine's camp, let's do everything we can to train and equip decently the ukrainian armed forces. they have boots on the ground. they are their roots -- their boots. let's help them be effective. there are russian boots on the ground. don't anybody kid themselves about what is going on. >> dr. albright, i would suggest you become a member of the budget committee again. we can use your expertise and experience. >> thank you, mr. chairman for this outstanding hearing. thank you for attending. the three of you. it is such an honor to have you here with y

. >> now you've got trips in lithuania getting ready for what they're concerned about, rattling by russiaell. the president doesn't spend a whole lot of time even talking about that situation, brad. >> well look. first of all, i disagree with general hayden about us going gentle but i'll say this. i think what his comments reflect is how complex these foreign policy situations are. look. republicans and conservatives want to criticize the president buzz they think things are black and white. of course we need russian support in containing iran's nuclear ambitions. and of course, that is going to have some impact in the way we deal with vladmir putin. it should. it's not a black and white question of these foreign policy issues. >> when you're a sovereign country and getting invaded by another country for no legitimate reason and it's taking your territory from you, that is black and white. and again, this is an issue not just conservatives. it's the center left. you have the most respected policies on the left in this country a week or two ago saying it's no brainer that we should be armi

>> because we have made a commitment to estonia, lot the other, lithuania, other nato allies. we have to cleared many times over that they are covered by our defense guaranteed. we have not made that commitment to ukraine. the text of the budapest memorandum suggests this. >> i would like to come back to the memorandum. jeremy, you pulled that out of context. the budapest memorandum was on security assurances, not guarantees. we were not going to provide the ukrainians a guarantee. the 82nd airborne was not going to comment there is a violation of that memorandum. maybe in negotiations we say one thing and walk away from it. the problem for the bush and clinton administrations was getting a hold of nuclear weapons. we wanted to make sure those weapons were eliminated. this is part of that agreement. i think there is a certain amount of u.s. obligation. >> i would like to respond. if we are ukraine now putin pay the higher price for achieving his objectives. we are demonstrating to russia more determination in the baltic states. we need to demonstrate that we are serious in the