nato has done a lot of work with moldova? how do we go forward not just with moldova but other count flees that area who may be leaning away from europe. thank you. >> we'll take one more question. >> in the back. >> i'm with the lithuanian defense attache and thank you very much for the present stations. there would be a lot of questions but due to time limits probably there's a short time so i'll be very short. one of the nato vulnerabilities is the time which is used to -- for decision making process and some of the aspects need to be improved and eventually one of the aspects would be an appointment of the new assistant secretary general for intelligence due to the fact that intelligence is one of the most important issues for a lot of planning will depend on. do you see any other possibilities to increase the speed of decision making process in nato? even in the present situation? thank you. >> thank you for that question. we'll turn it over to the panelists if they want to tackle any questions. >> i'm happy to touch on

. >> i wanted to mention on moldova. i want to mention a book we have out we're calling europe's gray zone. the reality is we're facing a vast space of europe in europe's east, nonn non-nato eu europe ts turbulent, it's violent, there are lingering issues not only russian engagement but corrupt elites, legacy issues, those trying to block it within many of these countries and these people -- the people of that region don't know where their future lies and i would argue we haven't been all that engaged to help them find that out so this is my other point, i don't know that nato leads on that, though at the moment, frankly the european union should be having a real rethink of their eastern partnership policies, the eastern partnership has been the way the eu has engaged these countries, particularly the ones we're talking about and i think people in the region don't understand because this is a process like many of the eu processes where a country like moldova has a stack of paper in front of it, it's got to do all this st

merkel.gela presidential candidates have won elections in both bulgaria and moldova.he results will add to concerns about western unity following tom -- following donald trump selection last week. >> bulgaria has a new president. on the fronttory pages of monday's national newspapers. state has no executive powers in the former nations. the pollcomments -- gives the post more authority. commanderair force now secured the majority vote. serving as a boost to moscow. like donald trump, his policies -- sure is a newcomer to politics. >> during his election campaign, the new american president elect says he is openly ready to develop an in-depth relationship with russia. this brings big hope for finding a peaceful resolution to the conflicts of syria and ukraine and avoiding further confrontation and escalation. reporter: elsewhere, voters have elected a pro-moscow candidate for the presidential election. president ofthe leftists and rightists. i will be president for those who want to be part of the eu and those who want a closer approach to russia. >> the poll was partl

countries like ukraine and georgia and moldova. in this gray zone is incredibly dangerous. aempb what i think we were to argue is we try to erase this gray zone, make it clear that they are welcome to join our institutions and i think the other side would argue we should focus on u.s./russian relations. >> let's hear -- >> i won't speak to you. >> with respect to the gray zone, i don't want a gray zone either. the problem is that we ourselves created this gray zone because we declared at the nato summit in 2008 that ukraine and georgia would become members of nato. it was quite clear there were serious differences within the nato alliance about making that happen. so we created a situation in which there was a strong incentive for russia to take advantage of that gray zone. now it was their decision to do it. it wasn't our responsibility that they chose to do. but we created that situation. i think we have to be honest with ourselves about that. >> the only point i would make is russia is in the gray zone. and so the question is, what do we do at this point in order to in f

nato has done a lot of work with moldova. how do we go forward not just with moldova but other countries in that area who may be leaning away from europe? thank you. >> we'll take one more question. >> thank you, i'm with the lithuanian defense attache. thank you very much, there will be a lot of questions but probably due to time limit there is will be a short time so i'll be very short. one of the nato vulnerabilities is the time which is used to decision making process and some of the aspects have already been improved and eventually one of the aspects would be an appointment of the new assistant secretary general for intelligence due to the fact that intelligence is one of the most important issues with a lot of planning will depend on and do you see any other possibilities to increase the speed of decision-making process in nato? even in the present situation. >> thank you, we'll turn it over to the panelists if they want to tackle any of the questions, please. >> i'd be happy to touch on these quickly and then unfortuna

we now have pro-russian elections that took place in moldova and bulgaria. they are worried about the defense of the eastern countries in the baltics and poland. at those countries also wanted .o have reinforcements by nato trump said that every cent given to nato is very dubious as an expense. so there are worries on both fronts, so to speak. genie: pierre, thanks for that. over to the u.k., where the man accused of murdering british labour mp jo cox goes on trial today. the death of the former aid worker, who is a fervent supporter of staying in the eu, sent shockwaves just before the brexit vote to leave. was the 16th of june, a few days before the u.k. voted to leave the e.u. ox was shot mp jo c and stabbed multiple times on her way to a meeting. several hours later, she died of her wounds. the man suspected of her murder is thomas meyer. when he was charged with her murder engine, he gave his name as "death to traders, freedom -- itors, freedom for britain." she had begun to make a name for herself as a campaigning in peak. she was a strong advocate for

pro-russia candidate won moldova's presidential election. could power be shifting russia's way? in this village, they speak of a new era, a new world. russia, they believe, is coming in from the cold. steve rosenberg, bbc news, northern russia. katty: the view from russia. quick look at other news from around the world. the world health organization declared that the zika emergency is over but warns that zika still poses a significant and enduring threat. the infection has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains. the infection is mainly spread by mosquitoes. the obama administration has blocked new offshore drilling for oil and gas in the arctic ocean as part of a five-year plan for energy development. environmental groups welcomed the decision, saying that arctic drilling would harm marine mammals and make global warming worse. president-elect donald trump has said he will remove restrictions on oil and gas companies. attackers have thrown petrol bombs, fireworks, and stones and migrant tents on the greek island of chios, forcing 150 to flee. it

child abuse images, and have been part of major corruption cases" in ukraine, uzbekistan, latvia and moldovauding in the arms industry. given the seriousness of this issue and the prime minister's commitment to deal with criminality, but the lack of progress on slps, will she agree to meet me to discuss a joint way forward? >> the right hon. gentleman raises issues around criminality and investigations into criminal activity that is taking place, and talks about the issue of websites peddling child abuse and child sexual exploitation. it is precisely in order to increase our ability to deal with this criminal activity that we created the national crime agency and have been ensuring that we are working with the city on other issues such as money laundering. we are looking at the whole question of how we can ensure that we are taking effective action on criminal activity. i am pleased to say to the right hon. he keeps asking me to meet him. as he knows, i do meet him on occasioni am always happy to do sobut if he wants to talk to me about dealing with criminal activity, then i will be able to

advocate not just for considering but actually giving lethal defensive weapons to ukraine, georgia and moldova who have no data article v guarantees so the least what to do is give him those weapons. second at think we need to continue to leave the door open for cooperation with russia. this is something general breedlove mentioned but let's be realistic. i'm also very much a fan of the -- much more rational, realism pruden in our policy. no more wishful thinking with regard to russia. we can keep the door open. we can keep our hand extended in certain areas but we should not fruitlessly run after the russians in the hopes that might cooperate even officially counterterrorism where i actively been one of those people trying to get him to cooperate in the past professional he, and it hasn't worked. so i would prefer to actually have them make the first move when it comes to things of that nature. second, or third rather we need to restart our dialogue on strategic stability issues. general breedlove touched upon but i'm sure others mentioned it as well, but the anywhere there's a greatest dange

we don't know if governor putin is behind it is it some russian teenager in moldova doing this? we don't know. as journalist we are assessed with the accuracy, is it true or not? not one document produced by wikileaks over the past 8 years has been proved untrue. why is our speculation about russia more important than that fact. >> we have got to leave it there. is vice president biden looking to life after >>> finally tonight, vice president joe biden was in florida today. weighs supposed to be campaigning for hillary clinton but might have gotten a little carried away plugging himself as ray ban. >> her dad was from scranton. her grand pop worked in a silk mill, oh, sorry. i'm doing this because maybe when i need a job, ray ban may have me as a sponsor. i have been wearing these since i have been 15 years old. i don't know. but, look, guys, you know, and she also knows that globalization hasn't been -- hasn't been good for everybody. >> he might still be there. i'm not sure. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and

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and don ukraine i think ukraine, georgia, moldova all the same but on ukraine specifically, if the russians and the separatists do not implement men's can come we should not only increased sanctions, we should be providing arms -- minsk -- to the opinion government and ask the question what about congress? congress is way ahead of the administration on this. .. not a doesn't in any leader's mind, map for georgia and ukraine was a presidential priority. which is only reason we got the language that we got in that communique, that they will be member nations sometime. the president has to own these issues in order to bring others along. >> we have a conflict between john having last word but also being the one where they laid down the groundwork of 30 minutes. do you have comments about we open to questions? your cities. you're the host. >> i will speak. first 100 days the president has to state publicly our interest in the global order and transatlantic relationship and strengthening nato and eu. two, or or she should reendorse the warsaw summit decision on increasing our military capabiliti

we saw in moldova over the weekend. with respect to hacking, the instability is of hackin hackini think us on the we've spent a lot of time on but the real issue, the underlying issue is if the documents produced a genuine document, we talk about the production of bogus documents, not talking about production of genuine documents which have been doctored to change the meaning which is what we saw for example, in ukraine with russian intelligence agencies. what we're looking at here is by all accounts so far production of genuine documents, that feeds a narrative. that feeds directly into a russian narrative which looks to discredit american democratic processes, political processes both your but more important abroad. >> you seem to want to say something to that, respond to that in someway spent i think there are a lot of things to say about that because i think on one level as a blow to putin might say there's been a little bit of hysteria about russia's role in our election, which is not to say that it doesn't exist a

in moldova and georgia, physical presence of russia's aggression. recently, we saw an attack here in the united states, a cyberattack where they compromised our cyberinformation and then used it to try to discredit the american democratic election system. it was not, in my view, and i think the view of experts, an effort to elect any one specific as president. but it was an attempt to discredit democratic elections. that's not the bess wait ft way countries to survive. when you look at the foreign policy institute and your objective to robust support for democratic allies, and human rights, it is under attack. we need to do something about that. whether we're attacked by a mig or attacked by a mouse, we need to respond. currently, the obama administration is looking at a response. i have encouraged them to take a pretty robust response. i am developing legislation that will give us additional tool that is we can use against russia. it's going to be a bipartisan effort. senator mccain and graham has already talked about efforts in this regard. senato

an advocate not for just considering but giving lethal defensive weapons to ukraine, georgia and moldova who have no guarantees so the least we can do is give them those weapons. secondly, i think we need to continue to leave the door open for cooperation with russia. this is something general breed love mentioned, as well. let's be realistic. i'm very much a fan of the idea of being much more rational, realist, prudent in our policy. no more wishful thinking with regard to russia. we can keep the door open and keep our hand extended in certain areas but hud should not run after the russians in the hopes that they might cooperate even on issues like counter-terrorism where i have actively been one of those people trying to get them to cooperate in the past professionally and it hasn't worked. i would prefer toe actually have them make the first move when it comes to things that have nature. second, or third rather, we need to restart our dialogue on strategic stability issues and general breed love touched bonn upon it. i'm sure others mentioned it, as well. but the area where there's th

on ukraine, i think ukraine, georgia, moldova all in the same, but on ukraine specifically, if the russians and the separatists do not implement minsk, we should not only increase sanctions. we should be providing arms to the ukrainian government. and you asked a question, what about congress? congress is way ahead of the administration on this. i mean, from the beginning of the conflict, there has been legislation on the books authorizing lethal military assistance to the ukrainians. so congress, i don't think, is going to be a problem on that. on syria, i think we have to see. but i would like -- sanctions, yeah. i think we have to take a step back, though, too. david mentioned something in an earlier panel that i thought was actually correct. the president has to take leadership. has to own these policies. in order to bring along our international partners, bring along the american people. i mean, you might not have agreed with president bush on his europe policy about, you know, freedom agenda, europe, but when we went to bucharest summit, there was not a doubt in any leader's mind that