do you think president poroshenko has got your back?president and the prime minister. it has been from the very beginning, when the law was being passed in parliament. the parliamentary committee on healthca re parliament. the parliamentary committee on healthcare supported the law. the working group went through the entire law and presented the final reading. the fact that the parliamentary committee has called field sacking and one of the most critical voices against you in the parliament comes from poroshenko's own party, that doesn't give you pause? what would give me pause is if the ukrainian people came out and said that's not what we want, we haven't heard that. we travel to each of the 25 regions in ukraine and met with 10,000 doctors, patients, government officials and spoke to them face—to—face and presented the new plan and the support by the ukrainian people went from 30% in october of 2016 to 72% in august of 2017. so what we have is the support of the ukrainian people and that's what's is the important. the reason i began

that's of course the biggest headlines created by mikaele such as billy, who was a mate of mr poroshenko's, was invited to run 0dis, the keyboard in the ukraine —— mikhail saakashvili. within months he fell out with the president and now believes the president and now believes the president is a crook —— key port —— of odessa. looking at the ukrainian

ukrainian president petro poroshenko has announced a change in the operation against two self-proclaimed republics in the country's eastern donbass region the battle the separatists will cease being coordinated by the country's security services and will instead be under the direct control of the military it comes just as ukraine receives the first batch of javelin antitank missiles from the us part of a forty seven million dollar military aid package we continue to work on strengthening our defense capability in order to repel russian aggression i am sincerely grateful for the fair decision of donald j. trump in support of ukraine and in defense of freedom and democracy. ukraine has been pushing for western countries to provide more military equipment the u.s. government says it will also supply technical assistant assistance transportation training and other related elements of logistics and program support after an attack after a coup in twenty fourteen ukraine started a so-called antiterrorist operation a military campaign against separatists in the pro russian east of the country mo

gained ukrainian citizenship although it meant losing his georgian passport crane's president petro poroshenko called to the governor of the deaths of profits but he resigned in november two thousand and sixteen using kardashian go off corruption a few days later us across really announced plans to create a new political force in ukraine but that didn't happen the government revoked his ukrainian citizenship in july last year he stayed close so close really was first sent to poland then to the netherlands where he now lives on the temporary asylum status meanwhile a court in georgia found him guilty of abuse of power in connection with a two thousand and six murder case. he was sentenced to three years in prison absentee here. in ukraine the prosecutor accused saakashvili of having connections with a suspected criminal gang led by ukraine's former president viktor yanukovych. so where does all of this leave the man who was once hailed as a champion of democracy. i'm sami's a down in the dutch capital i've come to amsterdam to discuss with mr saakashvili his rise and fall and how he plans to co

russian gas to germany through the baltic sea following a meeting with ukrainian president petro poroshenko german chancellor angela merkel said the project would not go ahead without ukrainian involvement in overland transit ukraine fears that if it's tonight this role it could face losses of up to two billion euros a year scenario it says would amount to an economic and energy blockade of the country. how would you like to own some dinosaur bones turns out they're pretty sought after among the super wealthy this week to fossilized skeletons were sold at a paris auction for more than one point four million euros each the are named buyer is now the owner of an allosaurus and departed the two dinosaurs roamed the earth during the late jurassic period around one hundred fifty million years ago dinosaur skeleton auctions are rare and the bones are usually snapped up by ultra rich collectors or museums in europe and the u.s. . this week saw the russian ruble continue to slide against the dollar as tensions mounted between the united states and russia the full came in response to a sharply escal

on a controversial gas pipeline project here in europe thank you sumi ukrainian president petro poroshenko has demanded a stop to the north stream through pipeline it links russia and germany under the baltic leaving the current trends a country of ukraine out of the equation in a meeting with german chancellor angela merkel poroshenko called the project a political bribe to inflict an economic an energy blockage against ukraine. the planned pipeline will be twelve hundred kilometers long and transports russian gas to europe via the baltic sea but the north stream too isn't simply an economic project it's taken on a political dimension to specifically concerning the role of ukraine in overland translators. it's better. for the dependence on russian gas persists but for ukraine revenues are at stake and there is also a strategic significance that's why we've made clear that from our standpoint the north stream to project is impossible if we don't have clarity about ukraine's role as a transit location all of i think it. needs to move. further talks between the governments of germany and ukr

that i brought with me we will believe that poroshenko. have interest in supporting us that it would have steak and support you so they would be that easy for that they had to know it's all started nicely and well it all started beautiful people brought this government fifty four percent we had my dad and we all the criticism we had on them and with all this crap said we had of them we still thought they'll make this time it will be different why because it was after my dad because that's european choice because if you know how entrenched corruption. was you start somewhere only get one thousand that's all you were prepared you know given. the u.k. ukrainian civil rights advocate said last year he knew he quit early just blaming everything and everyone else for not achieving anything during that the well that's not exactly right with the chief benefit we built a road that hadn't been built for forty years we had it built we brought a lot of new people for the customs of the first time in history of the city of odessa customs police and pro

up exactly because when i went there we all believed that i brought with me we will believe that poroshenko would have. interest in supporting us that carefully would have stake and support you so they would be that easy for that they had to know it's all started nicely and well it all started beautiful people brought this government oppression fifty four percent we had my dad and we'd all the criticisms we had all of them and with all the scraps that we had of them we still thought they'll make this time it will be different why because it was after my dad because that's european choice because it's you know how entrenched corruption in this country you start somewhere only get one thousand that's all you were prepared to give it maxine every star v.u.k. ukrainian civil rights advocate said last year he knew he quit early just blaming everything and everyone else for not achieving anything hearing that the world that's not exactly right we didn't achieve anything we built a road that had not been built for forty years we had it built we brought a lot of new people for the customs of the fi

sanctions on russian all or darks following the lead of the united states ukrainian president petro poroshenko made those comments in berlin where he's held talks with chancellor angela merkel pushing cool thanked merkel for berlin support and maintaining sanctions against moscow put in place after russia occupied crimea in two thousand and fourteen but your leader is also addressed by lateral trade issues as well as the north stream natural gas pipeline which will bypass ukraine and poland now one of the world's richest and most influential men will be grilled in the u.s. senate today facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is set to appear before lawmakers on capitol hill second berg's been on damage control after it was revealed that the data of millions of facebook users may have been improperly shared the news has left users around the world wondering whether they should close their accounts to death as claire richardson reports. in washington d.c. spring is in the air well almost but with facebook making all the wrong headlines and what better season for some digital cleaning many americans have

did you actually discuss a request of president poroshenko to provide ukraine membership action plan? and what is your opinion on this issue? thank you. secretary pompeo: so there was discussion today about ukraine, ukraine's potential entry to be a nato partner, that there's much work to do along the way to achieve that. i think that i'm always careful to describe consensus when there were lots of differing voices about how to approach it and what the right action set ought to be to achieve it, but i think there was a large group who are hopeful that the ukrainians will begin to take the actions that would put them in a place where they could, in fact, be an aspirant to become a nato member. ms. nauert: everyone, thank you. thank you so much. secretary pompeo: okay, thank you, all. ms. nauert: mr. secretary, thank you. we've had an awfully long day, as you can imagine. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1970 nine, c-span was created as a public service i america's cable television companies and today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house,

here in europe thanks very much phil indeed we're following the story ukraine's president petro poroshenko has demanded a stop to the controversial north stream to pipeline from russia to germany via the baltic sea the project was called quote political bribe for loyalty to russia to inflict an economic and energy blockade against ukraine on what the pipeline was one of the main talking points during a meeting between poroshenko and german chancellor angela merkel let's take a look at what's at stake here portugal's problem actually is easy to understand until just a few years ago millions of tons of gas were actually passed from russia to the western european countries via the ukraine then the north stream pipeline one was built and now the north stream two is planned and that means that the ukraine will not be needed any longer as a transit country the implications are not only economic as ukraine will lose millions but also political in a sensitive context with next door neighbor russia. the planned pipeline will be twelve hundred kilometers long and transports russian gas to europe via

ukrainian president petro poroshenko has announced a change in the operation against two self-proclaimed republics in the country's eastern donbass region the battle with separatists will cease being coordinated by the country's security services and will instead be under the direct control of the military now this comes just as ukraine receives its first batch of javelin antitank missiles from the u.s. that's part of forty seven million dollars worth of military aid ukraine has been pushing for western countries to provide more military equipment the u.s. government says that it will also supply what it calls technical assistance transfer states transportation training and other related elements of logistics and program support following a coup in two thousand and fourteen ukraine started the so-called antiterrorist operation a military campaign against separatists in the pro russian east of the country while the turn thousand have been killed in this ongoing conflict. international affairs commentator mark thaw. me now good evening to you marco quite a few changes going on here but the

and the legitimate president unocal which was removed by the regime of poroshenko and the government of the winner so they call it the people in premier decided to have a referendum and so they voted ninety seven percent voted in favor of independence crimea because the they were freed of the changes that took place in kiev and later on very soon they decided to ask in other referendum to join russia and this is you know how how the creamier became part of russia is a point made repeatedly by a foreign minister as well but there you see as the saying that nato battle groups now as you mentioned on a stone in poland in lithuania latvia they're wasting their time and including british troops that is wasting their time on your borders and spending money but you're not denying that vladimir putin is a militaristic leader who is looking for expansionism of a russian federation he has expanded the russian federation you know like this deals because. there is a very good institute international institute of strategic studies which is based in london and they just released a report and if yo

sanctions on russian all of our following the lead of the united states ukrainian president petro poroshenko made comments in berlin where he's held talks with chancellor angela merkel part of shameful thanked america for berlin support in maintaining sanctions against moscow put in place after russia annexed crimea in two thousand and fourteen the two leaders also addressed bilateral trade issues as well as the nord stream natural gas pipeline which will bypass ukraine and poland while chancellor merkel has also gathered her cabinet today for its first close meeting to set the government's priorities for the next four years the two day retreat is taking place outside of berlin in the state of london book some of the most pressing issues on the table include drafting a new budget reforming germany's refugee policy and minimizing the damage to the country's auto industry in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal. and let's bring in our chief political editor michelle a crew from her she's covering the cabinet meeting for us hi michelle so this is a two day closer treat outside of berlin why

ukrainian president petro poroshenko has demanded a stop to the controversial nude string to pipeline from russia to germany via the baltic sea during a meeting with german chancellor i'm going to buckle he called the project a political bribe to russia to inflict an economic and energy bill case against ukraine plans until just a few years ago millions of tons of gas needed in western europe all through ukraine then the pipeline north stream one was built and now north stream is also planned that means ukraine will not be needed as a transit country which means it will lose millions in revenue every year but the implications are not just economic it's also a politically sensitive topic crane with next door neighbor russia. the planned pipeline will be twelve hundred kilometers long and transports russian gas to europe via the baltic sea but the north stream too isn't simply an economic project it's taken on a political dimension to specifically concerning the role of ukraine in overland translators. it's better. for the dependence on russian gas persists but for ukraine revenues are

liars you think you're going to be the last man standing here it becomes a joke is that you said poroshenko is a thief who is mega corrupt and he's plundering the whole of europe we will go to parliament and call for his impeachment serious charges but you laid not one shred of evidence while there is howling more than there is well there's plenty of evidence would you you say this to you but you don't do the hard look we don't do the analysis you don't know we didn't say sions you know you haven't we did you have to put it out there we in the public domain everybody says this about we just had a bunch of big scandals very well documented about president abusing his power about president of using for office taking part in money laundering reinforcing the oligarchs having direct conflict of course the proof that you could take to court where's the proof to which court the court therefore called full course that fully controlled by the way we are court look we have lots of lawsuits against them in every court but as a rule we are losing the legal system in this country does work or does contr