secretary of state says russia has lied about it's involvement in the conflict in year ukraine.n kerry was speaking and now turning their attention to mario in the south. and the last minute vote by greece to reform it's economy has been approved by euro zone finance ministers. now, just this month serious president denied using barrel bombs but human rights watch says it has evidence the government has used them to attack rebel held areas. it says manufacture than 6,000 people have been killed by barrel bombs. syria's government is also accused of deliberately bombing hospital, schools and mosques even in areas are there is no fighting. human rights watch is calling toism pose sanctions. it next discusses syria on thursday. al jazeera has been following developments at the united nations for us, james, is human rights watch likely to get it's wish on thursday. >> i this they it would be very hard to do that because of the position of the russians i have just come down the corridor from the news conference that is currently underway where human rights watch have been presenting

russia is not anymore a danger for eastern europe. people know about soviets, but the soviet union is not russia today. everything i hear in america and i live in america for 25 years, for the last 10 years, i hear putin did this, putin did that. i think mr. pomeranz probably has roots in eastern europe. i am an engineer, but i know something about history of those countries. i think he is biased about the will of the big corporations in america. see they destroyed industries in eastern europe. romania was put down. >> host: george, thank you for your call. your response? >> guest: i think this crisis is not the result of neocons in the state department. this crisis emerged from ukraine. it was an exercise by ukrainians in their home country, to pursue a different path. it escalated into a crisis, and a change in government, and the state department was not directly or indirectly involved in that transformation. this is a ukrainian transformation a ukrainian decision to move closer to the west. this has not been masterminded from behind the scenes. >>

with respect to russia and iran, is it possible to talk with russia about syria? can we talk to iran? >> of course. after we talked to russia, the fact that chemical weapons have been removed by a large have a lot to do with russia. in turn, this also proves that if russia, the united states and others have different opinions on how to deal with assad, we are not getting closer to another solution. it is more competition. the more you come to a unified position on assad, the more you will be able to define a course that takes you out of the crisis. yesterday i talked to the prime and mr. of iraq -- to the prime minister of iraq and what he told me on the basis of the challenge of ias is that he sees the atrocities that assad committed in a different light. i'm not all that convinced of -- when people and their hopes on assad and that he could be reformed, i was reluctant to believe that. one also have to look at a situation and say that with russia, a solution is easier to find than without russia. obviously one shouldn't lose sight of the syrian population because

this is about russia not just taking care of the western influence in ukraine it's about russia taking over a country that is independent, sovereign and a neighbor. >> is there a risk of really escalating this situation, making it harder to talk about the russians about disengaging making it harder for the separatists to end their battle? >> there is a risk that with more arms the level of fighting will increase but it is our contention that these kinds of arms will really fundamentally pose a choice to the separatists and to the russians which is from the separatist, we believe that they themselves are not able to achieve much militarily once ukraine has better arms and will have to rely on direct russian military intervention. the choice is up to moscow, is moscow willing to sit down with kiev and negotiate a true end to this conflict one that recognizes the independence and territorial integrity of ukraine or are they going to invade full force with all the consequences diplomatic, economic and strategic that that would have? faces. it is a one that they don't want to face which is

are warning russia about what's at stake if the new cease-fire agreement in ukraine fails. they blame president vladimir putin or meddling in the conflict between pro-russian separatists and government forces. and they say they won't hesitate to take further action if fighting continues to grind on. more from nhk world's craig dale. >> reporter: european union leaders have spent the better part of a year talking about the crisis in ukraine. as they gathered in brussels they made it clear there's a lot riding on the latest cease-fire. >> this is not just about the independence and stability or integrity of ukraine. the whole geopolitical order in europe after 1989 is at stake. >> reporter: ukrainian military forces have been fighting since last april to contain an uprising in the country's east. pro-russian separatists want independence. many agree they've been receiving help in the form of weapons and troops from russia. something officials in moscow deny. german chancellor angela merkel and french president francois hollande guided difficult discussions this week to get a

in the book, about book, about how putin actually strangely maybe ironically allows many different voices to be heard in russia. the press and the media in general are quite diverse. putin does not seem to really care. he care. he does not care that much about critical voices in the media as long as they are politically impotent. you can pretty much say anything you want to. and and also on the other side is more extreme nationalist views putin is by know means -- anyone who is under the illusion that the best thing that could happen is to bring down the putin regime and let the russian people choose who they really want is making a huge mistake. i guarantee you. he is more moderate than probably the median russian voter and certainly more than many, many influential figures speaking about issues of nationalism extremism, racism and all other things. but you can say about putin is he ultimately is of russia 1st. everything else is just amusing. the idea that they're was a soviet union. and this is this is not peculiar to putin. this goes far back in russian history. the ussr and satellite states in central and

analysis about russia or putin. >> charlie: because he surprises you? >> yes, he's an agile tactics and he's shown nat in ukraine. but i think the thing to remember about russia is he's playing over the long term a relatively weak strategic end. russia's had the potential to diversify, it has a smart population, but it hasn't done it. corruption is eating away at the rising middle class in russia. demography is a huge challenge. when you think in the huge expanse to have the earth that runs from the euro mountains across siberia to the far east there are only about 30 million or 40 million russians sitting on the periodic table of element and looking along the border of a billion of chinese so russia's got a lot of challenges before it. in ukraine we've seen the most significant challenge to the european order since the cold war and it's important to work with the european partners to produce steady counterpressure against russia, to do everything we can to help ukrainians rebuild. in many ways, the best antidote to what putin can do is toe show ukraine

hundreds of thousands of people have fled to russia about 40,000 have sought refuge in a region wherels say they have take then up to 200 refugees every day. some live in temporary accommodation, others are sent to cities around western russia, thousands of kilometers from their homelands. rory challands reports from the arctic city. >> reporter: it's been seven months since dimitri and his wife and son fled the bombs of eastern ukraine. they left behind a house and everything in it. now they share one room in a college dormitory. they haven't even a spoon or a fork when they arrived. but this family doesn't do much complaining. >> translator: he started working as a builder on a construction site a month ago he got work at the port. a representative from the company came here and said he needed men. several guys from the dorm got jobs there. i work as a shop assistant. >> reporter: the dorm houses 50 thief ukrainian refugees at the moment. down from a peek of 128. since december the 1st. they have been paying their own way after the russian government shut off financial support. than

it's about gas. russiaones cut off natural gas shipments to ukraine if it doesn't get sufficient payment by the end of the week. the company has received $15 million from kiev but says that only covers about a day's worth of gas. kiev has preserved supplies and europe could send gas to ukraine if necessary. >>> in the epicenter of the conflict, the cease-fire between ukraine and russian-backed separatists is mostly holding. but it's on a hair trigger. both sides have been pulling back their heavy weapons, but they also say they could move them quickly back into position if either side violates the deal. cnn's diana magnay is inside the shattered eastern city of donetsk and reports the truce is givening civilians a chance to -- giving civilians a chance to clean up and assess what's left of their broken lives. >> reporter: there's not much life on these trashed streets. nearly ever home's been hit. a few elderly men left making sandbags. when was the last time that this area got badly hit? >> translator: yes

already so is this not a huge failure for the western alliance and what does it say about what could happen if russias what you're talking about in lithowania and astonia? >> first of all to provide effective defense of our allies and to that end we have decided to take concrete steps to enhance our collective defense next we have also decided to stable up with ukraine and help ukraine in different ways. if russia continues her aggression against ukraine, i wouldn't exclude that individual allies might take further steps to assist ukraine. >> should they take further steps, should the u.s. provide lethal aid to the ukrainians? >> my personal view is that if the current ceasefire doesn't hold and if it's clear that it is russia and the separatists that violate the ceasefire, then time has come to provide military assistance to ukraine. ukraine is an independent sovereign nation. ukraine has the right to defend herself and i think we have an obligation to help ukraine. >> what about putin and russia's position that ukraine should be under, you know, within russia's sphere of influence? >> i don't accep

russia is not any more a danger for eastern europe. people know about soviets but soviet union is not russia today. everything i hear in america -- and i lived in america for 25 years. for the last 10 years, i hear putin did that. putin is doing this, doing that. i think mr. pomeranz probably has roots in eastern europe. i am an engineer but i know something about history of those countries. i think he is biased about the will of the big corporations in america. see, they destroyed industries in eastern europe. romania was put down. host: george, thank you for your call. your response? guest: i think this crisis is not the result of neocons in the state department. this crisis emerged from ukraine. it was an exer size by ukraineians to pursue a different path. it escalated to a crisis and a changing government and the state department was not involved in that. it is a ukrainian decision to move closer to the west. this has not been masterminded from behind the scenes. host: next to john in providence road rhode island good morning. caller: hi. the gentl

about in the recent past. >> the u.s. and german leaders want russia to believe there is a united approach a common determination to end the crisis in ukraine and there will be harsh consequences if russia doesn't help. all that could hang on developments in minsk and that becomes a hugely significant and important are meeting. >> thank you very much, everybody. >> allen fisher at the white house in washington. >> jamie mcintire, the white house is reluctant. what kind of weapons does ukraine want from the u.s? >> a whole lot of things, secure communications, and the kinds of things that the pentagon and the white house are considering are things that they referred to as defensive lethal weapons things like for instance antitank missiles that could take out russian tanks. russia has been putting a lot of tanks into eastern ukraine. also something called counter battery radar which has the ability to track incoming rockets and mortar rounds and redirect fire back at the source of those things. and also antiaircraft systems that could perhaps neutralize

of a bigger story that we talk about in the book about how putin actually strangely r maybe ironically, allows many different voices to be heard in russia. the press and the media in general are quite diverse. putin doesn't seem to really care. he doesn't really care that much about critical voices in the media as long as they're kept p politically impotent. you can pretty much say anything you want to. and also on the other side these more extreme nationalist views, putin is by no means, i mean anybody who is under the illusion that best thing that could happen is to bring down the russian regime and let the people choose what they really want is making a huge mistake, i guarantee you. he is more moderate than probably the median russian voter and certainly more than many many influential figures speaking about nationalism extremism, racism and all kinds of other things. i think what you can say about putin is is he, ultimately, is a russia firster of an extreme stripe. everything else is just usable for him. the idea that there was a soviet union, and this is not peculiar to putin, this goes far back in russian history, the ussr and i

russia. that's what he was about.he first 14 years, putin was lucky because he was able to do as the russians say, rule like stalin but live like russian who owns chelsea. but if you think in the mind of an autocrat, perfect world. you can go on yachts in the mediterranean, london football clubs but also authoritarian at home. putin's problem even before the ukrainian crisis, this was breaking down somewhat because the russian economy wasn't working. it wasn't delivering the results needed to sustain this. he was looking for some other source of legitimacy. yanukovych the ousted ukrainian president, partly offered that. he could have sort of a mini putin, a minikleptocracy next door, reinforcing him a little bit. what he's discovered now, i think somewhat to his surprise, i don't think he has a master plan, i think it's been tactical, he can use extreme nationalism as a new source of legitimacy. the thing is it's not going to last. this is a house of cards. >> bill, paint a picture of the russian economy. you know thi

but to see something like that happen, we're talking about russia, we're talking about iran, we're talking about hezbollah, we're talking about a number of actors who are going to have to do that. i don't think we're there yet. i think the granularity of the solution. >> on the one hand it's granularity. on the other hand, what you are advocating which by the way is the white house policy at the moment this policy of arming the moderate opposition. i have a hard time saying it because we don't get it right all the time. it creates a power vacuum. i know in iraq that power vacuum has allowed i.s.i.l. come in and take up large parts of iraq. how do you address this, whether it's the humanitarian side or the government side, you are advocating a position that weakens the government of syria. while we don't like the government of syria, no government tends to result in more refugees and more starvation. >> excellent point. when i was in beirut and a couple of other yais about a areas about a month and a half ago, when you talk to them about what their plan is for the future they're not looking

chuck hagel said today that he is worried about this, that some members face concern about russia and other member states aren't as worried about isis. he says that there's a lot of challenges to worry about. gregg: thank you so much. jenna: 's following developments in the boko haram terror group. a national force of about 7500 troops to fight them. plus near the nigerian the border near cameroon young people were slaughtered who resisted joining them in the fight. gregg: now in the race to the white house in 2016 governor jeb bush seems to be sounding a lot like a presidential candidate in the general election. as he laid out an agenda that focuses on middle-class economics. >> the opportunity gap is the defining issue of our time. more americans are stuck at their income level than ever before and it's very hard for people to go from the bottom rungs of the economy to the top or even to the middle. this should alarm you. it has alarmed me. gregg: joining us now to talk about it, fox news contributor, juan williams. gentlemen, thank you for being here. median household income has go

russia. it was not hope about the central eastern countries joining n.a.t.o. there was an understanding that the border would not be extended. then the shooting came and vladimir putin had a plan of re-establishing what he saw as an historical right for russia. but by the time the u.s. or so it says had the only super-power in international relations, and the misunderstanding is there. russia sees the war as not during the cold war, but its sphere of influence, and the u.s. sees it as the only superpower. the problem is that as things stand, look at the map area what is happening in libya, iran syria, there's no way they can fix those things. iraq and libya and afghanistan remember. we have to reconcile the ways of looking as international relations and we have to come to terms that russia is looking to be a major actor and wants to be recognised as such. >> i want to pick it up there with you when we come back. back with more "inside story" in a moment. when we return further inside the stand off between east and west. the intentions of russia's leader and th

. >>> european leaders were in moscow talking with russia about stopping the conflict in ukraine. the next step will be a conference call on sunday, involving putin and ukraine's president. but positions that could derail the peace process. >> this is a moment when the united states and europe must stand together, stand firm. russia cannot be allowed to redraw the map of europe. because that's exactly what they are doing. >> the u.s. and its european allies accused putin of supportingsupporting ukrainian rebels. a design to annex eastern ukraine, a charge moscow denies. ending the crisis is expected to dominate the security council meeting. western leaders are hoping to find a peaceful solution in ukraine, previous attempts have failed to stop the violence for more than a few days. >> in eastern ukraine there is no sign of peace. charles stratford takes us to the hard hit city of donetske where fighting has begun once again. >> another attempt at securing a truce. few people brave the streets of donetsk. the sound of nearby shelling echoed throughout the city. we're at a separatis

now, this agreement by russian president vladimir putin as well - how serious to you think is russia aboutporting a ceasefire. >> i think russia is eager to reach a settlement. the leader of the ukraine and russia want to reach an agreement, and to reach democracy, but there are a lot of challenges ahead. one is the fact that we don't have a clear picture of the ceasefire. it's in the hands of the oec. they have numbers to observe and are in a position to prevent violence from escalating. so the only way to really make it work is with a proper presence or a peacekeeping force. that has not been envisaged, and it's not clear which would be used. there's also the border between russia and ukraine which will be given back at the end of the year after an agreement is reached on the state of the region. there is a bit of contradiction, and i don't think - i don't think that the league of debaltseve and donetsk will be happy with the region if the borders are not clear. there's a lot of challenges ahead. >> indeed as you say, and so much to talk about. thank you so much for your insight. speakin

late since the fighting began almost one year ago hundreds of thousands of people have fled to russia. about0 have sought reffege in the rostof region. officials there say they have taken up to 200 refugees a day. some of them live in temporary accommodations. others are sent on to cities around western russia. thousands of kilometers from their homeland. errorrory challands reports from the arctic city of lumansk. >> it's been seven months since they have fled the bombs of eastern ukraine. they left behind a house and everything in it. now, they share one room in a college dormitory. they haven't even a spoon or a fork when they arrived. but this family doesn't do much complaining. >> he started working as a builder on a construction site. a month ago, he got work at the port. a representative from the company came here and said he needed men. several guys from the dorm got jobs there and work as a shop assistant. >> the dorm houses 53 ukrainian refugees at the moment down from a peak of 128. since december 1st, they have been paying their own way after the russian government shut off finan

we will talk about russia next. >> we will go into the details of that. t game to play here? if you are to think of a game and think about what is happening with greece and the eurogroup what is it? poker, chess. hans nichols was talking about monopoly. is it jenga? or is it the game patients. or operation. the patient is on the table and you are trying to remove things. >> is that the credit crunch? >> that is the end of the game. >> coming up, we also talk russia. battles around the transport hub threatening to undermine the peace accord signed this weekend. we will take a look at the fragile truce next. ♪ >> we just had some breaking news from the bank of indonesia, unexpectedly cutting rates. economists were expecting a hold. this is significant because we are seeing central-bank easing around the world. >> as an economist, you are thinking, what has happened since the beginning of the year? have any of these central banks actually delivered rate cuts? you have not got enough fingers on your hand. i am pretty surprised. it has been days since we had th

russia has an economy in tatters right now. the ruble lost half its value against the dollar last year. oil is about $50 barrel now.conomy. hurting right now. they need sanctions relief and i think they're going to get it. >> j.d. gordon, thank you. >>> you want cheaper oil? get ready for more expensive gas. we explain, you explode. test. test. test. you just got a big bump in miles. so this is a great opportunity for an upgrade. sound good? great. because you're not you you're a whole airline... and it's not a ticket you're upgrading it's your entire operations, from domestic to international... which means you need help from a whole team of advisors. from workforce strategies to tech solutions and a thousand other things. so you call pwc. the right people to get the extraordinary done. ♪ ♪ >>> timing is everything. just when prices are finally coming down at the pump taxpayers become the chump because according to the president's budget director, the president is now open to hiking the gas tax. republicans wouldn't go along with that, would they? i don't know. fox news's capitol hill senior producer says they just might

russia. what has reaction been like in moscow? >> putin and other officials are satisfied with the terms we saw. they are trying to keep the game face on. not give too much away about what russia is trying to do to get it. whether we look at the likely geography of the new rebel held territories in the amount of territory they have expanded. the fact that the border essentially remains a no man's land, russia will continue to supply rebels with weapons and other necessary supplies to keep the conflict going. the kremlin did not have to give up all that much. he did not have to go back on his tactical priorities. the deal did ask a lot of porsche inc. oh. -- a lot of poroshenko. >> two civilians were killed near lou wants -- its location makes it vital to both sides of the conflict. >> rebels not invited to the talks battled for control of the area in eastern ukraine. kiev has accused pro-russian separatists of the pulling another 50 tanks and rebels claim they have made advances against ukraine's military. >> villagers have repelled the army's third attempt to play -- to break through the blockade. >> they are trying to wrestle control from the government. the sepa

. >> let's talk about russia quickly. a lot of talk about the usefulness of sanctions.u think about the sanctions and they are affecting your fists? >> of they have affected russia but the drop in oil prices have the biggest race on the country right now. an enormous drop on the oil side. this is going to put stress on many countries around the world. i saw the figure that $1.2 trillion of wealth will be transport from oil producing countries to consuming countries. it is great for india and china. it's a great for the u.s. that means it will be stress through many oil-producing countries. because oil perhaps is hurting russia more than the sanctions, are you telling government leaders they can roll back the sanctions or lobbying to prevent the imposition of more? >> we have made our views that we think sanctions and needs be clear, well to wind, if there used so we know if we can work. we are never going to work out of the boundaries of the sanctions. sanctions are probably not achieving what their objective is. that is the oil price. it is it nobody's interest to have

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

this is not about ukraine, it's about russia. in some ways it began with georgia in 2008. we in the west, have to take on board the upprevent reality that we are dealing with a different russia, bend on rewriting security rules, we have to find a way of containing it. my fear about the potential nightmare scenarios that i think we can't rule out is that we could see if wusha in whatever way is not stop d in ukraine, have could move on the baltic states. >> thank you >>> the internet of things promises to connect everything in our lives, that opens the door to cyber criminals. president obama is creating a new agency. will that do anything? stick around. >> rain pryor >> everyone wants to be that thing... and i'm not that thing i'm like hello... i'm me... >> surviving a chaotic childhood >> i'm like dad... they're hookers in this house... >> ...and breaking free and following her own path >> when you come to a show of mine... someone in that audience didn't like what i just said... >> every sunday, join us for exclusive... revealing... and surprising talks with the most int

russia's border not berlin ukraine. it's existential. when you hear already russian generals talking aboutility of using tactical nuclear weapons, you know that russia is shall we say, stressed. the problem here in part are the remarks about putin. something strange has happened. the demonization of putin, which is beyond any factual basis, leads to a kind of amnesia among people here who should know better. kleptocracy, that's not characteristic of the russian economy, they had the biggest grain bumper crop in decades this year. they manufacture a lot of stuff. if they are dependent on minerals as they are, blame god not putin. the fact is this economic system was created by yeltsin, mr. browder knows that he worked in russia at the time. miss freeland knows this because she wrote one of the best books about this. suddenly it's about putin, he inherited this system. but something has happened here. this vilification of putin, i've been doing this -- i'm probably the oldest at this table -- i do not recall this public vilification referring to the russian leader as a hitler which is comple

russia. this officer is making a routine traffic stop. but there's nothing routine about. >> rather than actually pull over, he hits the cop and keeps driving. now the policeman is on the hood of the car, yelling at the guy as he continues to basically speed down the streets. >> this is somebody who can arrest you. >> and the windshields come on, it's like, are you serious? i'm on the hood of your car and you turn on windshield, you're going to prison, son. >> there must have been some point where he knew he was past the point of no return. he knew he was going to get a ticket and he was worried about that? now he's got a person on the hood of his car. so things just got a lot worse. by the way, this policeman has a really good grip. he's hanging on and he's not giving up. >> the officer's ride on the hood of the car comes to an abrupt stop. >> the cop rolls out of the shot and the driver turns to the left and keeps going. the cop is suddenly nowhere to be seen. >> the cop tumbled off the car, it looked like it was at a low enough speed and off to the side where the cop w

with respect to the two governments that have the most influence, russia and iran, is it possible to talk about russia with russia and syria in addition to ukraine? can we talk to iran in regards to syria? >> of course, of course i mean after we talked to russia, the fact that chemical weapons have been removed by and large, from syria, has a lot to do with russia and in turn, this also proves that if russia and the united states and others have different opinions on how to deal with this, why not get closer to a solution? the more you come to a unified position on assad i think the more you will be able to define a cause that can take you out of this crisis. yesterday i talked to the prime minister of iran and what he told me on the basis of the challenges of is is that he sees -- the challenges of isis is that he sees the charges will continue, but i have not been convinced -- i have also been in these periods were people have hopes on assad and hopes that he would reform, i was somewhat reluctant to believe that, but when he would look at a situation and say with russia, russia is easier to

john kerry accuses russia of lying about having troops in ukraine. while britain announces it is going to help train the ukrainian army. spy agencies losing focus al jazeera investigative unit discovered how some are being used to for politics rather than security. history are has been made at the fifa world cup recommends moving the coup to the winter, why the european football bosses are seeing red. >> . >> fighters from the islamic state of iraq can kidnapped at least 90 people from christian villages in the northeast of syria. the syrian observatory says that the villages were attacked on monday morning. the head of a syrian party in iraq says that they are working to find the missing people but so far have had no luck. >> until now we haven't been able to contact any of the hostages 90 to 150 people were kidnapped and two people are missing. so we think they have been killed. hive now to beirut following the story from there, what is the latest. >> well, like you mentioned 90 of syrian christians have been captured by the islamic state of iraq,

this is not about ukraine, it's about russia. in some ways it began with georgia in 2008.we in the west have to take on board the upprevent reality that we are dealing with a different russia bend on rewriting security rules, we have to find a way of containing it. my fear about the potential nightmare scenarios that i think we can't rule out is that we could see if wusha in whatever way is not stop d in ukraine have could move on the baltic states. >> thank you >>> the internet of things promises to connect everything in our lives, that opens the door to cyber criminals. president obama is creating a new agency. will that do anything? stick around. another day, and more harks. more news of -- hacks. more news of companies being hack said. today forbes.com was hacked last thanksgiving. delta airlines said it was compromised, obscene material was put on it they took control of it. president obama made cyber security a top priority following a against sony. he is doing what past administrations have done create a new agency this one to monitor cyber threats. science and tech

about money? >> well, let's say the first eight or ten years of putin's reign over russia, it was about stealing asuch money as he could. some people, including myself, believe he's the richest man in the world or one of the richest in the world with hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth stolen in russia. it's changed, though, it's mutated. >> really? you understand numbers. you understand the numbers of the russian companies. you really think putin is the richest man in the world? >> i really think that. i'm not saying that crazily. >> estimate his net worth. >> $200 billion. >> really. >> i believe it's $200 billion. after 14 years in power in russia and the amount of money that the country has made and the amount of money that hasn't been spent on schools and roads and hospitals and so on, all that money is in property, swiss bank accounts, shares, hedge funds managed for putin and his cronies. >> it would explain why he personally has so much power. right? it is not the power of the party or the army you worry about or the state. >> the power is simple in russia. whoever has the power to ar

secretary of state says that russia has repeatedly lied to him about its activities in the ukraine. told a committee that he thinks russia is engaged in what he termed an extensive propaganda exercise. britain's prime minister says the u.k. will send military personnel to ukraine. david cameron said they will help train the country's army. all of this while peace talks have ended. it was called off with tension over who is at fault for the continued violence. fears are growing that the city of mariupol could become the latest battlefield. paul brennan has seen yuan ukrainian soldiers digging new defensive positions. >> reporter: the ukrainians delivered fresh tank to the front line on tuesday. while it's true that the guns have fallen silent along large sections of the line of conflict it's not happening here. >> bombing every day from separatists, and we can't give him -- >> reporter: youing can't rely. >> we can't. >> reporter: you are under orders. >> the fire is only one day. >> reporter: we passed abandoned houses and waving between ukrainian military defensive positions. there

they don't talk about pro-russian separatists backed by russia. they talk about russia russian forces russian weapons and an uptick in those weapons going in which is really turning the tide against ukrainian forces there. so when we reached out to russia with that assessment and got yet another denial from moscow have a listen to how secretary kerry and the ukrainian prime minister pushed back. >> kremlin spokesman took particular issue with you saying that there are russian forces inside ukraine escalating the situation. he said there are no russian tanks or army in ukraine. these accusations are not true. i wonder if you could react to that. >> mr. prime minister is it true that as the kremlin just said today, there are no russians on the ground? >> it seems to me the only country who strongly deny clear military russian boots on the ground is russian federation and personally president putin. if they need i can give them my gloves. >> reporter: he was using humor but it was bitter humor. i was just a couple of feet from the ukrainian prime mini

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the impact of sanctions from russia. about 1% of revenue is from russia.e block on diesel engine experts in particular hit numbers. they had not one but two profit warnings. that drove shares down by a third overall. we are respecting the first drop in sales for a decade at a decade at rolls-royce. expecting profit to drop. the targets do not look pretty. after perhaps these two dire profit warnings, we are not expecting things to look much prettier next year. the new cfo breathing new life into the company. job cuts. we cannot control the external environment. we can control costs. they are going to try to cut down costs. an economy going down particularly in china and asia. little bit problematic because of the oil industry. capital expenditure being cut. also, sale of assets to siemens. the aircraft is not being made anymore. >> a lot of numbers focus. whether the company is going to guide lower in terms of market expectations. broadly, structurally, calls for the company to have a dramatic change of focus. >> toward the end of last year, you saw the im

and when you think about russia/ukraine the cease-fire seems to be working and what's really going to kick in we've already seen what happens with low energy prices on the negative side. we've seen rig counts coming down energy companies reporting lackluster if not bad earnings. we haven't seen kick in to a t extent is the positive influence which is consumer spending that continues to pick up. it starts in restaurants and work into specialty apparel and see things we haven't seen in the first part of this year. consumers are getting used to lower energy prices there's more of them working. we have the highest level of consumer confidence we've in about ten years. >> art, i saw some numbers today forecasting second quarter corporate earnings and the comparisons to last year were not going to be particularly good. largely because as you pointed to a moment ago, energy companies are not having favorable comparisons. can the market keep moving higher if the overall earnings growth isn't there? >> well i tell you this and i think that's very true. if you look at the downward revisions we

it flows about the new russia that he talks about. in encroaching around what he deems to be spheres of influence. we don't deal with spheres of influence in that way. we deal with independence and sovereignty of nations and respected for agreements. the bucharest agreement says we would all protect, russia included would protect the territory tech raty of ukraine. president putin has made a set clear on all of that. he has empowered, encouraged and facilitated, directly, land grabs in order to try to destabilize ukraine itself. and it stems from his policy his decisions, which violate all the international norms with respected to territory and behavior. so we have, i think, made it very clear -- look. i don't think anybody on this committee is suggesting the united states ought to be sending the 101st airborne or the 82nd or even something greater than that. that's what i hear. russia is about to go into recession this year, according to economic predictions. the long term is a problem. our preference is to deescalate this. it could

russia in the conference. there were given the country of ukraine. you talk about aggression. you keep playing with putin and you will get us all killed. if we have a war with russia it will arrive in the lower 48. as far as aggression goes, you say we cannot tolerate aggression with russia, but what about israel? they seem to attack everybody generally unprovoked. nobody seems to talk about that. you and the rest of them are taking jewish lobbyist's money. host: you are making lots of assertions there. you don't have evidence of that against the congressman making the ascension that israel attacks all of its neighbors unprovoked. guest: there is a lot in those comments. if you want to defend vladimir putin and russia, you can. i will not. this is not the first time. aggression in crimea and georgia -- excuse me. mitt romney declared it russia is america's biggest geopolitical foe and president obama laughed that off. we are seeing russia is a dangerous foe, but we also have to understand they only respond to strength. when you talk to the leaders in that region of the world, t

because the us and russia have about 90-odd percent of the nuclear weapons in the world today. if they continue to make severe cuts in their arsenals, which leaves them, by the way, with more than enough weapons to destroy the world over, so they're not cutting back in this new start treaty in any way that will make this country less secure. and that is what all the military experts say. they all support this new start treaty. the military country supports the new start treaty, because it will take the us and russia closer to bringing together the other nuclear states when they see that the us and russia really are serious, and don't intend to keep weapons while telling everyone else they can't have them. then you will find all countries, including countries like iran... if they feel that everyone is being treated the same way, and held to the same standards, you will find that is the root to dealing with the nuclear arsenals that are preventing... that are creating so much danger, because it's the nuclear materials that can slip out of those arsenals into the hands of terroris

russia. he's about dividing the east from the west. he's about doing everything he can to regain influence over the former states of the soviet union, and he is somebody who will take advantage of other countries and weakness if he sees that. frankly, we've got to take a tougher stand against him because we're engaged in a whole new chapter of the cold war. >> president obama is not tough enough with president putin. >> pardon me? >> the president has not been tough enough with vladimir putin? >> i think the west needs to be much tougher. the west combined with the united states needs to be much tougher in drawing the line on vladimir putin. i think we ought to be providing military aid to the ukrainians. i think we ought to be bolstering nato. i think we ought to be doing everything we can to provide other energy supplies so that russia isn't the only country that provides energy to those countries in that part of the world. i think we've got to take a number of steps here to make very clear to putin that he cannot simply use military