china's economic interests with russia different between china and the u.s. and russia and the u.s. is that it. cannot be engagement between china and the u.s. which means that perhaps the russian side want to develop more konami partnership with the chinese side but i think that the dependence is more skewed towards the chinese because china deafening need russian oil and gas. i don't know how much other for example economic. market pasa t. the rush russians can offer a two for chinese products so in that case i think the chinese do have to realize heavily on the western market which means that the interest for the for china in mattering through these current you know relation between the russia and the west will be very tricky ok i'm going to have in washington your book if i can jump in on the ok i was going to promote your book for you're going to write me give me the title of your book and then go ahead. book is this is going to talk directly about the book. i think the idea of returning to multiple aready is something that i don't believe. what is true that the only people our

the character and context, china is one of those that i worry about and what i perceive as reality is the unintended consequence the way this government and in europe pushed russiaoward china and the and forseen, unintended consequence china and as you represent a significant threat for the rest of the world does not see it that way. >> if you put talk to the pentagon right now, this is cambridge stuff but most people would have said we are 10 years away from a serious confrontation so the plot is the brogue chinese general who identify as the scientists to is in charge of all future weapons design and instead to taken out they kidnapped him and his wife and children and put them on their side. well the families in the north korean death camp he does science weapons higher than anything we have but we don't know. lou: there is the tale. you talk about alex hock for i do as my favorite character. has you talk about the book itself how to deal without giving too much away but it ties the reader in 30 seconds? >> it is a lot of fun to read. i remember treating my mind as a temple i would treat it as the amusement park. [laughter] lou: i would corroborate that. abso

times at the same time last year for the first pen to paper to china exceeded the turnover with russia chinaith the rest of the world has decreased by nine percent in march announcing the three hundred and thirty two billion us dollars free and all this to reports. china's exports fell by six point six percent in comparison with the same period. doesn't that seem to love and even seventy billion us dollars. imports fell by eleven point three percent the level of one hundred sixty two billion us dollars the bank of america will pay a six hundred and eighty three billion dollars in fines for misleading advice about credit card operations bbc reports. seven hundred and thirty eight billion will be paid as compensation to the clients and the other forty five million as a penalty fee. around three million clients making victims of its leading actress of the bank. the eye the ha beach was telling comment on the twenty eight fighters in six week categories competed in the finals of the national championship the competitions were held among both amateurs and professionals as a result cover and the f

going to be very geo politically important strategically going forward. >> are you worried about russia and china>> russia declared the arctic as russian china targeted kana the's resources and the base -- canada's resources and the base is about the size of australia and completely untapped. it is harsh but there is no infrastructure up there to explore it. the u.s. would have if we did a union like the europeans the u.s. would have business opportunities to build out the infrastructure,ic lore and develop, huge job capability and more secure border. >> canada recently expel the russian minister in. >> yes, over ukraine. >> over ukraine. >> over ukraine. >> why? >> there is a million and a half ukrainians living in canada the largest diaspora of ukrainians outside ukraine except for russia. so there is a great deal of interest and they are very important and influential people and there is a lot of anger about what is going on. >> we have a phenomenon in the u.s., some described it as a hispanicization of the u.s. what impact would a canadian u.s. coalition, more than that what you describe in y

playing in his decree on business to enter into the markets in central asia the caucasus western china or russia the baboon the interesting during the first agreement on cooperation in the sphere of small and medium enterprises aluminum processing in financial sector development or sign today. extending people have the opportunity to legalize or capital and property in two thousand fourteen to two thousand fifteen according to the deputy prime minister of finance pockets o'connell the legalization of funds will be made by creating them to special counsel to extend second level banks where they will be accruing interest also can't people be able to invest in the country's economy by purchasing government securities shares of national companies or facilities under the privatization program in the case of these options do not satisfy citizens. they're entitled to withdraw the money from deposit account in this case the bank will hold ten percent of the legalized capital. on the book looks really that is the cd. the main approach to legalization the money is mitchell benefit for the state is the red

ob says adding that the trade turnover between russia china is going every year but at the same time there's no hope whatsoever of creating any sort of political or millet read below between russia and china. i feel so stressed that the time of blokes of countries forming society blokes is obsolete. this is something outdated and needs to go away. another peculiar question coming from. i well no matter how full nsa whistleblower had more snow than i can during this journey session he asked whether russia's conducting mass online surveillance and asking for time and impersonal a date set up a long line of descent that for certain cases like that exists but this is the only applaud the decision of a quart and russia has no mass cases of online surveillance i wanted so much for bringing us the hype with your jet ski they are falling on tourism which is cute and it isn't going and now that you can fall on my website now for the count of the situation like cent of the end of march the voters and national affairs analyst and was with us here in the studio wh

. >> most of our attention is focused on north korea, russia, china and ukraine. competition for the resources if you are president, you is to weigh, do i focus on the ukrainian border or do i divert assets in this region. >> reporter: even with the best of military assets, time is running out. scouring the seabed may soon be the only hope if the black box's beacons go site. >> joining me now by phone is commander william marks from the uss blue ridge. can you bring us up to date on your operation? >> sure thing. thanks for having me. we launched our p-8 patrol aircraft for today just a little while ago. that's in transit out to the search area. we are flying pretty much every day. we are in a supporting role in this tremendous international coalition we have here. so we get our air tasks from the australians coordinating the search areas. but we did just launch our p-8 flight fts for day. this area is much closer than the area last week. so the flight out there, probably about 2 hours or so. and that gives us almost five hours on station time for search area. and

russia, china, usa?" guest: well, in theory, yes. but you have to have approval of the un security council. the united states has a veto securityability of the council to make any decision on where it is going to send troops. i cannot imagine the united states agreeing to have blue helmets sent into the united states. it would have to agree to it. same with russia. and china. britain and france as well. host: why the blue helmets? it has been the color since the very beginning. it was one -- as i understand it -- it was visible. it has a soothing feel. the -- they associate it with peace. it is there with the u.n. logo and the flag, it is blue. the things they have stuck with. back to the white house's 2015 budget proposal for the united nations. $1.5 billion is what the white house would like congress to international organization. what are we talking about here? for the u.n.s regular budget, the day to day operations. the secretariat building here on the east side of manhattan at 42nd street and 1st avenue overlooking the east rive

pretty tremendous and frankly russia and china do call each other strategic partners for a reason but all this is of course happening. the crisis in ukraine amid tensions between russia and the west sanctions threats of isolation and so on and china has been taking pretty much a neutral stance on this but many analysts do agree that the sanctions not only form of the russian economy western economies could be affected negatively as well . diana is the one caught would actually benefit from the situation. well china's economy has come a long way since it was one of the world's poorest countries if you go back to the one nine hundred seventy s. in just three decades it's risen civic and the second largest global economy impressive production figures along with the cheap labor they've helped china to achieve the highs as well the country has overtaken europe's main powerhouse germany by reforms like mass privatization and opening the country to rein in vestments it's also the largest trading nation a little title belongs to the u.s. for decades a huge trade with china has reached a recor

the u.s., france, russia, china, britain, they all want iran to scale back their nuclear program.aking earlier today, the u.n. atomic energy chief said that iran is indeed into -- implementing last year's nuclear deal that has been in place for the last three months now. john has more from vienna on the potential threats to the agreement. >> they have been fine up until now. the whole situation with ukraine, the annexation of crimea, everyone is worried how as awill play out bargaining tool to get some sort of leverage. there is also a deal being negotiated that at the moment between russia and iran. a huge oil deal. this would automatically trigger sanctions in the u.s.. was november when they concluded, a positive thing, i suppose, that iran is also talking about [indiscernible] and if they were to lift sanctions, that would be a confidence building measure. >> that is john clemens, vienna. members of the opposition and nicolas maduro have agreed to hold talks that will be mediated by the vatican. laying the groundwork for that eventual meeting tomorrow, putting an end to two mo

while the count and that makes it difficult to teach it in countries like russia china and at that time she's with the intent is over eighty cents that. and the coda on united nations body to take control of this regulation. the problem he is that the un is represented by governments and meaning that if they eat the plastic planted the three counties that piping comes to fruition been in china and russia for example would have the sewing pallets at the security council to attend down in proposals put on the table regarding the incident. went to the us has been supervising i can. up until now. we expect them to be loosened their grip on the system. the agency was plentiful and can be a great model and meets washington's rules that no one governmental group the government had control of the incident and in the us will not be as influential as as they perhaps the time now got the idea of that today is as a racing in brazil is not to make any political decisions. excellent debate that will influence future of on site the partisans need to be tabled before the incident happened for me is tha

has changed neil continues to expand despite breaking agreements not to expand which surround russia and china with faces all offers from russia to jointly run the missile shield that nato setting up in europe are wholly ignored couldn't they have given russia a nice we sat on the state department that she used to have good teams tough on a lot of money for democracy development and regime change into the former soviet union ukraine got five billion alone as revealed by assistant secretary of state who went in her own speech these sorts of things have pushed russia to form the shanghai cooperation organization with china which is basically warsaw pact round two. yet history is repeating itself but don't let the mainstream media hype about russian aggression and unwillingness to cooperate for you. history shows can be aggressive and cooperate one really is. just typing. room you knew him. we will . he did his duty is your girl in this journal was going on i've been so great to be with us coming up in this blog. violence ahead of afghanistan's election the surprise wedding. joe jonas has been sh

china seas. on the other hand if the u.s. does counter act russia in the ukraine, it may send a message to japan if japan wants to be aggressive over the islands, that could cause tension. the three sides are locked in this careful dance over what's going to happen with these islands. i think the importance of them cannot be overstated. >> i'm always interested when people say country c is watching to see what country b is doing in country a and who they're doing about that. there are their own risks and benefits that all get gamed out individually. does china make its conclusion abouts how it's going to confront the united states based on what it sees happening in eastern europe, a place where we've dug in for 40 years after the second world war? >> that's a good point but it is the best data point that china does have. this is how the u.s. is acting right now. yes, things are different in ukraine. it's not the same treaty alliance with ukraine. it's not part of n.a.t.o. japan is a much more important ahigh school of the united states. the--japan i

and russia-china.there you go or the same old? >> it has evolved considerably. areimir putin, the chinese familiar with. they're not likely to be surprised by this sort of behavior. they have been the quietest in response to the annexation of ukraine. no chinese reaction whatsoever. the have abstained from u.n. vote. they correctly assess they have leverage.n and there ar chinese back to capabilities and cyber war. how are america's capabilities compared to the chinese on that lovely echo how do the chinese capabilities in hard power infrastructure compare with america's? >> nobody knows on the cyber security side because there's never been a conflict. both states have proven their ability to ask full trait data from the targets quite successfully. we have targeted the chinese and they have targeted us. their program is more indiscriminate and involves a greater gray area of quasi-actors who target economic and industrial this oldies and companies. -- facilities and companies. it is rare for the u.s. g

as this alternative pole of economic activity. >> an energy deal between russia and chinaeans what to the west? . >> first of all, less leverage over russia. it means that a strategic partnership that was forged between russia and china is now cemented, literally, with the natural gas pipeline. it means a more of a multi-polar world, especially if, as is rumored, the deal is priced in euro, wan or rubal, non-dollar kurns sees. >> if china is picking up the slack, europe is not interested in shutting off the gas, what other options does the west have to try to push back against putin? >> the west doesn't have a whole lot of effective options beyond these tools. >> how does this end? >> in terms of a new regional order as we have seen in the former soviet space. this is absolutely revolutionary. it is destablizing the post-cold war order, but it is still a regional situation. this is about russia's hogemy, pushing back against the west, all of the tools whether et cetera eu trade arrangements or ng ngos acting like special forces, the way putined accused them to. this is a l

international now while the west is weighing in with yet more sanctions russia and china are busy talking business the situation in ukraine along with major economic issues they're all on the table as russia's foreign minister pays a working visit to beijing on to go piskun off has the details. moscow and beijing have been working on a major energy deal for a few years now and we're talking about russia supplying up to seventy billion cubic meters of natural gas to china for thirty years so lots of other projects as well since russian companies are interested in are looking at purchasing you wind bonds or bonds in the chinese currency and is also reportedly interested in alternative energy projects in the crimea all this is of course happening. the crisis in ukraine amid tensions between russia and the west saying sions threats of isolation and so on china's been so you can pretty much a neutral stance on this but many analysts do agree that sanctions not only form of the russian economy western economies could be affected negatively as well while they agree that china is the one who woul

government's initiatives in attracting foreign investment from a number of countries including russia china and will reach what he said the government has decided to increase the budget if the cypress investment promotion agency previous year by one point eight million euros eight speaking at the ninth cyprus summit of the economist titled cyprus on the mend and open discussion with government. the trio cut business and echoes him sydney costs us to see aiden said the country is passing to one of the most critical time periods in its modern history he blamed several factors including the apartment restructuring of the banking sector the negative external environment and announced finances the negative economic growth in the country. president monson see ideas and forty delegates about implementing prudent fiscal policies and use an old structural changes to turn the current crisis into an opportunity. as will the surprise taken from the nation's rivers. using advanced knowledge of the water is filtered and seminars to remove the money and organic contaminants the result is more to the safe

china historically have very difficult relations. some sort ofe increased cooperation. there has been between russia and china will st. ifre is less of a political they want to swallow russia and have or should be its main supplier of gas and raw materials. russia is anxious to go into the hands of china because china's economy is more precious. russia's trying to play with oh china and the united states. it is a difficult game. it is antagonizing as we proceed. >> you are sticking with me. we have a lot more to talk about. i appreciate it. coming up next, elon musk at making a big announcement today that could have historic implications. find out why spacex is making headlines today. later on we are going to talk china. putting youroid money to work in the world's second-largest economy? we will answer that and more when "street smart" continues. we will be right back. ♪ >> welcome back. earlier, elon musk held a special conference where he rocket. it reusable .retty significant it is overused. every reporter in america that covers this kind of thing right "ow is using the word "stage without knowing what it means. it

a light kit just like russia china with their own ways more street newly minted speeds the cranberries but the risks associated with the coins on no one to friends in asia then else when the wolves the coins are being used by top traffic us payments can be settled in the photo currency with the high level of anonymity this website first came to moses in january. it advertises the fact that he was a mom so that coins can be remiss if we don't disclosing any posts no information at soul the singapore was money to real full routines announced last month that he will stop to regulate businesses handling the coins to test the issuance of money laundering and financing of terrorism. singapore has grown into the city state that it now. it's quite pleasing as few restrictions as possible on the way people do business. it's no searching for the best way to deal with the coins. this will allow businesses to capitalize on the new photo currency. my old dentist you won't. singapore. i wish i had to went there with me i guess i can lace agate good morning people in many areas in central and eastern

neil continues to expand despite breaking agreements not to expand which surround russia and china with faces all offers from russia to join the one the missile shield that nato setting up in europe are wholly ignored conclusion may have given russia nice we sat on the state department that she used to head to teach on a lot of money for democracy development and regime change into the former soviet union ukraine got five billion alone as revealed by assistant secretary of state and went in her own speech these sorts of things have pushed russia to form the shanghai cooperation organization with china which is basically warsaw pact not to. yet history is repeating itself but what the mainstream media hype of russian aggression out on willingness to cooperate for you. history shows can be aggressive and cooperate one really is just my opinion room. a tool. eye. i will the i do. journal to lead you to do with religion headlines this hour. gary and selected it. exit poll suggests. obama is on course for another convincing win search the wreckage of that makes three seven hits two ships to

langer was the flow russia and china top multi billion dollar gas deals with for why it was shutting its doors may be giving beijing push towards moscow. plus the scramble for resources is creating heat in the arctic where us led military forces are stoking tensions as governments by forty and tap northern beaches. in. the you're watching a tv national me read accounts are welcome to the program. ukraine selkirk leaders say it launched a military assault an end to government for testers in eastern ukraine activists now occupy government building at least a dozen cities demanding and referendum on the region's future the protests is drawn to the world's focus with foreign politicians and media lashing out at russia's alleged involvement in the protest british know when to find out who is really behind the barricades. more suspicious of the mosque man tt dodson camouflage and protect craving head of the home of the russian weapons and to demonstrate in a series the east and south with ukraine. take control of local administrations media and politicians in the west seem to have come up

of the united states from that very agency, leaving the agency at the mercy of leadership from russia, china, cuba, venezuela. the countries that tend to fill the space when we depart. again our goal is to use the u.n. system to advance the interest of the united states and the american people, being excluded from those agencies does not allow us to do that, and of course, we can go through agency by agency, if you like, but you're familiar with these organizations as i am, vaccinations for children, weapons inspectors in the iaea, the postal system. this is the international system and it is strongly in the u.s. national interest to be a part of it. but that in no way detracts from the firmness of our opposition to palestinian unilateral moves. >> prior to mrs. lowey, i would like for all the members, this is a very active subcommittee and the membership in the subcommittee will have many questions. if we can stick to the timeline i think we can make more than one round of questions. i turn to mrs. lowey. >> thank you, madam chair. again welcome. i'm going to move to another issue, but i ju

and we could go on for an hour about the strategic competition between russia or china. between russia and china, and you also have powers in the middle east like iran, saudi arabia, and others. the eastern hemsster -- hemisphere is a much more complex issue. >> i appreciate the complexity. let me turn to your questions now and invite them. i guess i'll call on people. is there a microphone -- there's a microphone that will come to you. this gentleman right here, who is holding up his hand. you, sir. just wait for the microphone. if you could stand up and say your name so we can good it to know each other. >> i'm michael, and the question i'm asking is, the last time the u.s. had a big rebalanced strategy in the late 40's and 50s didn't involve a lot of institutional changes for the federal government and the defense establishment in general. are there institutional changes that are necessary to facilitate the rebound eurasian and what are they? >> here's the difficulty. we want to pivot to asia if the middle east allows. but the middle east doesn't often allow. the sam

can they account on china and russia as they ratchet up the threats? welcome to "the journal editorial report." i'm paul gigot. the supreme court on tuesday upheld a 2006 michigan voter referendum banning racial preferences in admissions to its public university. preserving the status quo in that state and seven others that have ended affirmative action since 1996. the 6-2 decision produced five different opinions including a 58-page decent by justice soto mayor who compared michigan's reference dumb to jim crow laws in the south and writing that a majority of the michigan electorate changed the basic rules of the political process in that state in a matter that uniquely disadvantaged racial minorities. the political diary editor, jason riley, and senior editorial writer, collin leavy. colin, you wrote about this for us. the opinion was splintered with a lot of different points of view, what should be the main takeaway from the opinion? >> right, paul, the main takeaway is that the justices got to the right answer but they were most incredibilityal. th

russia. if you are trying to signal to china, you cannot do bigfoot with territorial moves. ia is having its way with the ukraine and the sanctions or sort of a landing with a ping. what is the message it sends? president obama is being hobbled to some extent by the development in russia and ukraine. >> you mentioned the visit to asia. >> they want to believe it is a pivot to asia. even as president obama holds back opposition's likely talks about the territory dispute with japan, he says is important for both sides to cap down any rhetoric. they believe that he wants to talk about asia, but how far he is willing to push back against china and how much he focuses on asia when so much is spinning out of control in europe, it is still very much in doubt to all of these leaders in all of these countries. >> we turn to margaret carson and megan mcardle. the supreme court this week ruled in favor of michigan voters who do not want affirmative action. is it good or bad? >> not as bad as -- justice kennedy writing for the plurality called it a "modest decision." if you doubt the ves

sanctions because all that would accomplish in the long run is cementing a relationship between russia and china it would push russia into the arms of china and this would undo all the diplomacy that richard nixon began in one nine hundred seventy two the last thing the united states needs is for a russia china alliance which would destabilize the u.s. dollar and could well replace the u.s. the u.s. dollar is the international currency or russia's deputy foreign minister says moscow will have to react to america's sanctions you can head to r.t. dot com for details opinions and analysis on the escalating diplomatic tensions. now on the program a series of blasts in iraq on monday killed at least fifty the carnage comes as the country prepares to vote in its first general elections since the twenty eleven pullout of u.s. troops most of the explosions tired of polling stations but the biggest was at a political rally in the northeast and that killed thirty people in iraq is going through one of its deadliest waves of sectarian violence more than nine hundred civilians killed in the country this mon

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but imagine if you have china and russia on this. >> your point is well taken. agency to take control of this is the international telecommunication union and guess who controls them largely? cline china and russia >> and they are not friends of freedom. the people of the arab springs organized because of the internet. they were not able to get together because of the dictatorship. and the itu and run by dictators. you put them together, they are not about freedom or reactive problem solving which is how the united states handles this. their first move is getting rid of anmity on the internet. >> the obama administration says it is dangerous for one government to have control over the internet. what is driving the president to do this? was it guilt from the isofame -- irs fallout? >> remember, the president of brazil canceled a state dinner for president obama. so it is russia, it is china, but because of snowden, that is impacting how the president is seen around the world. >> i can envision this future controlling body, especially associate would the united nat

secondly while countries like russia, china, and saudi arabia increase their spending this is for a number of reasons including internal physical pressures and insistence of expanding their political will beyond their border as with russia and ukraine. with u.s. they can spend less due to the regional network that they're part of. countries like russia can look to their neighbors as ally. the u.s. is not able to undergo military operations by it is any more. it simply can cannot afford it. >> well, the 500 male students and staff at a high school in the western french town are submitting dna samples after the rape of a 16-year-old student. groups have raised concern over the mass dna student. authorities say those who do not provide a sample will be considered a suspect. a girlfriend was raped in the bathroom last september. >> we heard about the rape at the school. we weren't previously told about it. everyone is participating without any problems. we're all in solidarity with the girl who was raped, and we all want to find who did it. >> okay, let's bring in martin reardon, who has worke

we go on for an hour about the search each competition between russia or china. etween russia and china. and you also have powers in the middle east like iran, saudi arabia and others. the eastern hemisphere is a much more complex issue that we're dealing with compared to the western hemisphere. >> i appreciate the complexity. let me turn to your questions now and invite them. i guess i'll be calling on people. is there a microphone? there is a michael buble, to you. i'll go with this gentleman right here. wait for the mic for but if i could ask you to stand up and say your name so we can get to know each other just a little bit. >> i'm michael, and the question is, the last time you set a big rebounds strategy in the late '40s and early '50s involved a lot of institutional changes for the federal government and the establishment in general. on their institutional changes you think are necessary to facilitate the rebalance asia, and if so, what are they? >> here's the difficulty here we want to give it to asia if the middle east allows, but the middle east doesn't

and that is russia and china. so we have certain countries on restrictions that they freely cannotroam the united states. >> and the troubling accusation over the political a sazination. mohammed nagnewas 42 years at the time. and the most noted resistor in italy when two unknown gun men on a motor bike totally opened fire and whacked him in his car while he was going there. a defector according to the police fingered the ambassador for that murder. he was never charged and there was a trial of an iranian that was acquitted. involvement in hostage attacking and human rights abuses and terrorism is not uknock to hammid a bu levi. all of the diplomats have been in one form or another involved in criminal activities. is it true that the so- called terrorist diplomats come from iran and that is a possibility? >> we do know that iran is a foremost state sponsored state of terrorism. it is a tactic and not far out of the question that the diplomats would support this type of activity. and the italy case that you referre

russia, china and north korea all in a hack attack and we are doing absolutely nothing to stop them.rtbeat will soon by hit by hackers. sounds like we need some boots on the ground in the cyber war that has already begun and we are already losing big time. what say you, captain? >> the u.s. government has a working on that military defense systems for some time but the fact of the matter is it is always easier to disrupt than it is to defend. the attack becomes more effective, you can overcome the system knows where we are getting more involved to try to look at identifying who these people are. charles: how come these bad guys are always one step ahead? >> the fact of the matter is tens of thousands of attacks. the defense industries, not just the defense industry. you can get in through one of these suppliers or the lawyer's office, anything that you have that network you are hooked to other people. could be some guy sitting in an apartment in eastern europe or it could be a dedicated cell in china. charles: robert, here is the thing. obviously from an industry point of view this i

obviously saying that the trade turnover between russia and china is growing every year but at the same time there is no talk whatsoever of creating any sort of political or military block between russia and china he also stressed that the time of blocks of countries forming certain blocks is obsolete this is something outdated and needs to go away another peculiar question coming from a well known man former n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden came during this q. and a session he asked whether russia is conducting mass online surveillance and asking for. personal data online said that of course certain cases like that exist but this is done only upon a decision of a court and russia has no mass cases of online surveillance. right alexis thank you so much for bringing us the highlights here have ski there following president putin securing day which is ongoing and that you can follow on r.t. dot com our web site now for more analysis of the situation let's talk again to mark sobota who's international affairs analyst and who is with us here in the s