and we know how that ended. >> thank you, sergei. >> thank you sergei. i want to ask one question myself. i happen to be part of a group called the european leadership network, which has russian participants, european and american participants. and which put out recently a study about the kinds of close military encounters that have happened recently in the european airspace and elsewhere. my question to you is this sergei. if it is our first priority to try to find a way to calm down the situation in eastern ukraine, to obtain a cease-fire, should it not be one of our next priorities to try to figure out a way to create an arrangement given the complete breakdown of mutual trust, to create an arrangement that would at least enable all of us, russia, nato, the united states, european countries, so avoid avoidable, unnecessary potentially danger

tell us about sergei and his story. >> well sergei was a simple tax lawyer working for me and i fellof the putin regime when i started to invest in russian companies and complain about the corruption of those companies. so i was kicked out of the country. my offices were raided. sergei was my lawyer. he started to investigate why the police were raiding my offices. he discovered that they raided my offices to seize documents that were then used in a $230 million tax rebate fraud where the officials were stealing the taxes that we had paid to the russian government. so they weren't stealing my money, because we had already taken the money out. they were stealing their own money. the sharks were feeding on their own blood. sergei discovered this, and he was a patriot. he was a good, honest russian citizen. >> and he was just 35 years old. >> young man, smart man. idealistic man. he said to himself, this shouldn't be happening. our president shouldn't want our $230 million of our own tax money stolen. he said, i'm going to testify against these people. he testified against them. the sam

thank you. >> thank you, sergei. the issue we are discussing here, the issues we are discussing here, i think, are no laughing matter from any side. and while i want to thank you for your explanations and for your presentation, i want to tell the audience that if you are interested in these issues of east-west relations, with ukraine, don't leave the room because we will continue in just one second with a parliamentary conclusion of this morning's debate with three highly respected parliamentarians from the u.s., from europe and, of course, from the russian federation. so thank you very much, sergei and come back as you have done each year. thank you so much. [applause] >> next, live, your questions and comments on "washington journal." then "newsmakers" with representative smith. later, a senate hearing on the 2016 budget request. >> tonight on "q and a". >> the sinew -- sidney awards are given for the best magazine. they can before journals, or obscure literary magazines. the idea is that they always come out in th

thank you. >> thank you sergei. the issue we are discussing here the issues we are discussing here, i think are no laughing matter from any side. and while i want to thank you for your explanations and for your presentation, i want to tell the audience that if you are interested in these issues of east-west relations, with ukraine, don't leave the room, because we will continue in just one second with a parliamentary conclusion of this morning's debate with three highly respected parliamentarians from the u.s., from europe and, of course from the russian federation. so thank you very much, sergei, and come back as you have done each year. thank you so much. [applause] >> vice president biden also attended the munich security conference and delivered remarks. the hill newspaper writes that the vice president offered strong words against's russia's moves in ukraine suggesting russian president vladimir putin would buck any peace proposal. he also accused president putin of using, quote, bar barbarian practices. presid

google under sergey is different.ergei in an interview with "businessweek" and pointed to the glasses and said these things are basically done and the reporter almost fell out of his chair. they wanted to build and beta things in public and i don't think that works when looking at these kinds of technologies and the kind of money investment they're putting into the r&d products. tony fidell running nest, overseeing the google glass project, he is not going to put anything out until its is 1,000% finished like the apple folks. >> does it allow someone else to do an end run around them? >> it possibly could. i mean they definitely showed their hand when they put google glass out. i think it was a bad idea and a lot of the google x folks i spoke to, half a dozen people that worked on glass, they all think the same thing. they thought that the version they put out was a very, very early version, two to it three to maybe four very versions later should have been the public product that came out. sur g sergei wanted to get

, we have a>> thank you, sergei. we have a huge number of questions. there is no way we can handle all of those. the next question comes from one of our young leaders. the leader's -- the leader is there? >> yes. the good news that comes out is the minsk accords made these agreements on the table, while the bad news -- not all of the signatories to the minsk agreements are willing to fulfill the minsk agreements. i mean the ukrainian part -- shelling civilians, etc. -- and i also mean the russian part, because you are party to the minsk agreements as well. but we see the russian party over the line and be certain operations with militants, which you admit you have an influence on. let's imagine you really want to implement the minsk agreements. what influence can you, as the minister of foreign affairs of russia -- what guarantees and [indiscernible] to fulfill them to the full extent and to bring peace? >> as soon as the keeper disappearance -- key participants, the leaders of the self-proclaimed republic achieve ag

i have a young lawyer, 35 years old, sergei, worked for an american law firm.and figures out the corruption of the people involved, he testifies against them, and the same people he testified against arrest him, put him in jail and torture him for 358 days and kill him for exposing them. >> jon: unbelievable. so you decide at that point you will continue to fight to expose them. >> i got the news the morning after they killed him and it was just the worst possible thing i could have ever heard, it was like a knife going into my heart. and i made a vow to him and myself that i would get these people and make sure they faced justice. >> jon: that is how you end up pursuing a law that's been passed a statute that says if you are involved in this type of captivity arresting, torturing that you go on a list and we can seize your passport. >> we lobbied for sergei's law in washington. it's the only thing everyone agreed on in washington. >> jon: who is it for? a good question. there's no russia torturing lobbying in washington so that's why there's 92 in favor. >> jo

>> that is google's most audacious step forward and this was initiated after sergey brin, the googleofounder, took over google x. and the idea here is that we have a car that drives in the city and provides a services, transportation services, like a taxi without a driver. it is making amazing progress. >> to what extent was that car a pivot from your car? >> it was a pivot. i was more interested in highway driving. i felt that 86% of transportation takes place on highways. but it turns out there are many car companies on the same topic. we are taking the audacious here by saying that if you can solve inner-city driving you can solve so much of transportation. and you can possibly eliminate car ownership of the way that we know it. i think it is a great vision. >> will we see self driving cars on the road? on a grand scale? >> i think it will happen fast. i think that within 15 years you can see cities full of self driving cars where transportation is really on demand. where you do not have to own a car. >> i want to talk about when larry page met you because he actually came to the

sergey lavrov said the separatists are ready to pull out heavy weapons from the front lines. >> a ceasefire is in place and almost front line areas in ukraine, in some areas separatist's say they are ready to pull out heavy weapons. the only exception is the town of debaltseve. we are very concerned about what's going on there. >> an associate professor at the kiev academy thinks the agreement is in at that time jeers there's no doubt in anyone's minds with the exception of the russians that there are russian troops on the ground and they are better equipped with more troops and high weaponry than most european nato countries. minsk is in at that timers. the ceasefire line drown and signed by putin and by the separatist leaders was specifically included debaltseve on the ukrainian side. it has nothing to do with shelling. we're talking about invasion with up wards of 100 tanks. we're talking about heavy weaponry we're talking about this place. the town of debaltseve has been completely flattened. yes, it's strategic and important, but this is not the way you behave if you have signed a ceas

my question to you is this sergei. if it is our first priority to try to find a way to calm down the situation in eastern ukraine, to obtain a cease-fire, should it not be one of our next priorities to try to figure out a way to create an arrangement given the complete breakdown of mutual trust, to create an arrangement that would at least enable all of us, russia, nato, the united states, european countries, so avoid avoidable, unnecessary potentially dangerous close military encounters? i think this is the last thing we need in this situation. so why can't we stick our heads together and create an arrangement that will make sure that our airplanes, your ships, our military installations don't come as close to each other as has happened in recent weeks too often? and if i just may invite edward lucas to add his question, because i think his question goes exactly in the right -- in the same direction, if i'm not totally mistaken. edward? he's over there. >> minister, a few weeks ago a plane leaving copenhagen airport o

the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has said that it's the ukrainian's fault for the situation in debaltseve, and they had essentially broken the ceasefire by trying to pull out by trying to break out of the kettle of the caused drop. we can listen to sergey lavrov now. >> in some areas separatists say they are ready to pull out heavy weapons. the only exception is the town of debaltseve with that we are very concerned about what's going on there. >> we can talk now to associate professor at the kiev academy joining us live now from kiev. where does this leave minutes minsk? >> in at that timers. i want to make one comment. these aren't rebels, these aren't represent are a activities, these are russian forces russian mercenary people that have invaded this country. the problem -- >> this is categorically denied by the russian authorities isn't it, and consistently denied. >> well, consistently, but at the same time, if you watch the security council united nations security council yesterday there was no doubt in anybody's mind, with the exception of the russians that they are r

russian foreign minister sergey lavrov is in attendance. our dplowkour diplomatic representative james bays is present. james. >> because sergey lavrov turned up some other key players with regard to ukraine are here. including the ukrainian foreign minister. so it's ended up being a debate that's dominated by ukraine. strong words very important time in ukraine because remember that those minsk peace deals that were done had a key time line and that was a pull back of heavy weapons. that's supposed to happen in just a matter of hours. no one thinks it's going to happen. the ukrainian foreign minister when he spoke to the council adrian in the last few minutes said, and this is first time he said it actually in the council creurchukraine is considering asking the u.n. to send a peace keeping mission to the ukraine. violating those minsk protocols minsk agreements that were made he said they were turning ukraine into a shooting range were his words. >> james, thank you james bays our like dploik editor diplomatic editor in new york. al jazee

these guys killed sergei magnitsky for money. they all got rich, bank accounts, villas, cars.hy should we allow them to travel to america, keep their accounts here and spend that money? everyone says, yes, that's easy. it doesn't stop anything to keep them from doing that. this started snowballing. against the interest of the u.s. administration -- the u.s. administration at that time wanted to play nice with russia. we got the magnitsky law passed 92-4 in the senate. one thing in washington everyone could agree on. zblm oil prices down 50%. the russian economy being sanctioned. banks are in trouble. how does this play out for putin? >> well, there's zimbabwe-north korea, runs russia truly into the ground and stays in power. that could happen. there's also the ukraine-georgia-kyrgyzstan scenario. people say, why are we allowing him to ruin everyone's life? makes small decisions, doesn't have to be big, sparks a million people on red square and they get rid of him. or it could be some members of army and police decide palace kooi. let's get rid of him. we don't know. in the mea

>> guest: a zero day is a full ability, so sergei ivanov and jody exploit the vulnerability is executable and software that the vendor does know about and therefore, there's no patch available yet zero day exploit is the malicious code that hackers developed to attack that hole and attained access to the system and install a virus or a trojan horse or something else on the system. i described the equivalent of a burglar using a crowbar to open a window and again into to house the that's what a zero day exploit is. >> host: and wired reporter kim zetter is the author of this book, "countdown to zero day." thanks for being with the. >> guest: thanks for having me. >> every weekend tv offers programmiprogrammi ng focus on nonfiction authors and books. keep watching for more on c-span2 and watch any of our past programs online at booktv.org. >> while in corpus christi we spoke with robert worcester author of american military frontiers should force the varied roles the military has played in america's western expansion. >> when people think of the military in the american west they think of f

but russian foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke and mentioned ukraine only momentarily. >> a blatant assault on the u.n. charter. one that has already cost some 5700 lives and forced the displacement of more than 1.7 million ukrainians. >> ukraine's foreign minister told the council russia was turning his country into a shooting range. in an interview with al jazeera he told me wants eu or u.n. monitors sent to his country. >> we have been contemplating the idea of putting additional element. it could be u.n. element it could be eu element on the ground, and we need to stabilize the touch line in order to eliminate the possible risk for further attacks. it is exactly what we have in mind. >> reporter: the ukrainian plan will be difficult to achieve. u.n. monitors would require security council approval. russia is likely to veto that. meanwhile, going the eu route it is unlikely some european european countries would be unlikely to send their troops into a battle ground. the mission of the os the from the osce. really important to keep a pressure. >> the security council has anonymity

russian foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke. >> russian is trained arming and fighting alongside a u.n. charter and an assault on its neighbors territorial integrity. one that's caused 5700 lives and forced the glaisment of 1-- displacement of 1.7 million ukrainians. >> in an interview with al jazeera he told me wants eu or u.n. monitors sent to his country. >> we have been contemplating the idea of putting an additional element. it could be u.n. element it could be eu element on the ground. and we need to stabilize the touch line in order to eliminate the possible stretch for attacks. it's exactly what we have in mind. >> the plan to get an u.n. or eu are input would be difficult to achieve. meanwhile going the eu route it's likely some european countries would be thrownt send their people into -- to reluctant to send their people into the front line of a war zone. monitoring mission from the osce is strengthened. >> the if osce has no reliable verification all agreements are really questioned and this is really important to keep the pressure. >> the council has now met to discuss ukr

petro porashenko denied any such thing was going on and now this is something confirmed by sergey lavrov saying it is something that happened, and he said that was petro porashenko's answer then, and now we are in a situation that we are in at the moment with the ukranian army a position of value, and of value to the rebels who control it. >> the control of debaltseve. the battle for it seems to have been crucial to the full implementation of the ceasefire, can we expect it will take place across the ukraine. >> that is the question. we'll have to wait and see happened. the separatists say they are pulling back heavily artillery from quieter parts of the frontline. now they control debaltseve it looks as if they are going to be satisfied for the moment. but, of course time will tell whether it holds or not, and whether they have further ambitions. we'll wait to see whether the ceasefire that was agreed and - well, it was delayed until sunday. that's when it officially came in at midnight on sunday morning. what was going upon in debaltseve meant the -- going on in debaltseve meant the fi

sergei lavrov and his ukrainian counterpart are attending. >>> u.s. secretary of state john kerry and iran's foreign minister have met for a second day of nuclear talks in geneva. these are live pictures now of john kerry. kerry said that significant gaps still remain ahead of a march deadline for a deal. the parties have already missed a november task. meanwhile, the president has announced laws discriminating against states trying to develop. they have long maintained their nuclear program is not for weapons. >> this domineering behavior is discrimination. any developing country could be the target of such behavior, too. >> the afghan army has launched a series of long range againsts. >> the government is aiming to strike before the spring offensive. >> our troops, our forces have proved they're capable of defending the country. as you're aware we have planned many independent operations. right now we have a very good operation going on in helmand. >> for years the police have trained to fight the taliban but a shortage of fund have led to a decreas

sergei lavrov has decided to come his or her, his ukrainian counterpart is also here and the lithuanian foreign minister also in new york. we expect them to raise what is going on in ukraine and to criticize russia for its annexation of crimea. and the tension that continues in eastern ukraine. >> france has taken passports from six who have gone to fight to in syria. >> we know they were planning to fight in iraq and syria and their departure was i am meant. now at the same time a further 40 french citizens are having their passports examined, and it's very likely that they'll be banned from traveling abroad. this is all the result of legislation brought in last november to counter the real concern of the number of people in this country. the number of people in this country planning to go to iraq and syria. the prime minister put that figure in around 1400, and this is why these measures have been introduced. >> australia's prime minister tony abbott has announced new measures to combat what he calls homegrown terrorists, but some muslims are feeling unfairly targeted. we have reports

sergey lavrov was there. questioned the u.n.'s tactics in solving problems. >> it's time to answer the question: do we really want to see the u.n. an effective and influential instrument of preserving peace and security or are we ready to allow it to turn into the arena of propaganda struggle? if this happens, it will have have a negative impact on other international and regional platforms and will further weaken our ability to solve problems today. >> greece is preparing a list of economic reforms to submit to euro zone financiers. without the extension to the bailout which expires on saturday, greece faces potential bankruptcy.. that could lead to its leaving the euro zone. >>> two former british foreign secretary ofsecretaries, have been suspended, due to their offering services to a chinese business. the two men insist they did not break any rules. >>> the former president of the maldives had been literally dragged before court after being charged with antiterrorism laws. are tried over his decision to arrest a top judge thr

but the country's foreign minister, sergei lavrov is visiting beijing to meet with counterparts froma. they say the united states is biased toward authorities in kiev. take a listen. >> translator: there has been confirmation that the u.s. was directly involved from the beginning of this anti-governmental coup d'etat. president obama literally called it the transition of power. secondarily i'd like to note that this rhetoric shows washington's intention to continue doing everything possible to unconditionally support ukraine's authorities who have apparently taken a course toward military solutions to the conflict. >> reporter: so sergei lavrov there the russian foreign minister. essentially saying it's almost expected from a russian point of view for the united states at some point to step in and -- and provide whatever support it can to the ukrainian government. >> so in some ways this isn't anything new, and you will think that russia has a plan. the strategy, if you listen to u.s. official though appears not to use these weapons now change the balance of power, to make it too cos

we will call him sergey. >> i was shooting downwards at their feet.se, i could have hit them in the arm or anywhere but i didn't shoot to kill. i also shot upwards, at the police who were on top of the shopping center. and that is why they retreated. >> reporter: sergey says he took up a position behind one of these pillars here and he mentions being able to see that clock over there on the far side of the bank, and the edge of the shopping center, which is the part of the square that was controlled by the riot police. so from here he had a bird's eye view right over the front line. >> reporter: amid the chaos, the man in charge of security at the protest camp sent his men to search the conservatory building. >> they went and checked all the floors. roughly half an hour later, they returned and told me there were no firing positions from the conservatory. >> reporter: the lawyers and prosecutors say their attempts to find out what really happened on that day are being blocked by the court. in the absence of a thorough and transparent investigation, co

at one point, sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister, took a break, spoke to journalists, they asked him how it was going, his reply, super. they asked him to clarify what he meant, better than super. there is a possibility that these talks may not culminate on thursday night, maybe go into the next morning. >> the americans have not ruled that out, there is some talk that the white house is preparing some legislation unclear where that will go clearly they're thinking about it as a last resort. but does the idea of the west in some fashion tarming ukrainians change the dynamic where you are? >> absolutely yes. it would, it would turn this from a situation in which the west likes to think that it is broadly offering support to ukraine on a diplomatic and economic front, onto which the west would give ukraine help on a military front as well. that would not go down well on moscow, moscow has always accused the west of fomenting this situation. that the ukrainian crisis as a whole wouldn't have happened if the west hadn't encouraged what they call a coup, an armed coup in kiev that kic

>> russian foreign minister sergei lavrov told the russian news agency he is certain a political solution to the conflict can be arranged in these talks in minsk but those who have followed the conflict for a long time would argue there are too many sticking points and an immediate cease-fire is already the major breakthrough for today. >> with so many sticking points and so much at stake what are the expectations there will be a deal at the end of the day? >> well, and anonymous source in the administration of the kremlin today told reporters the chances are 70 to 30, but i would argue they are lower. expectations should not be too high because the sticking points are about who and how the border between russia and ukraine will be controlled, so that no more troops and heavier weapons can be brought in from russia to eastern ukraine as we have heard reports over the last month and we. the major issue is about how to deal how to reach this immediate cease-fire and the key question is, of course, will there be an agreement on the front lines? the pro-russian rebels and the kremlin argue th

. >> reporter: speaking in beijing, russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov accused the u.s. of supporting the ukranian authorities. pentagon officials say it is unlikely that the threat of providing better weaponry to the forces could change the calculus. in an interview with cnn over the weekend president obama said vladimir putin's position is helping his image at home. >> i'm not wildly optimistic about the orientation changes. the one thing that has been successful for vladimir putin is his politics. >> a white house official is quoted as saying the president is considering military aid and tougher sanction and they may be the preferred option. he stressed the president made no decision. >>> thank you. the white house has made a decision about what it wants to get done in the next year. president obama released a $4 trillion budget proposal he says will help the middle class. this report from the white house. >> president obama's budget blueprint reflects his priority including half a trillion for defense spending. >> 400 trillion for infrastructure, and spending on educ

and in other news this morning, google's cofounders larry page and sergey blend, they're planning to sell shares that they own, $4.4 billion of those. that is a huge amount. but even once those transactions are complete, the two cofounders, they are still going to own a majority stake in that company. 52% in terms of the voting rights and shares in google. they're up 4% year to date. >> and carolyn, the dow closed back near 18,000 on friday. the s&p finished at an all time high. what analyst think we're going to see this week in the markets? >> well look, it's certainly going to be a turbulent one. when the traders go back online tomorrow morning, they're going to be watching is there a deal in brussels between greece and its international lenders. then they'll also want to see whether that very shaky cease-fire in ukraine, between russia and ukraine which that holds up. we'll get a report card from walmart and last but not least we'll get the minutes from the fnc and that will tell us when and how much the feds is going to raise rates. >> thank you so much. we greatly appreciate it.

>> you think about steve jobs at apple, mark zuckerberg at facebook, larry and sergey at google.ere a magic that a founder brings that would be lost if you weren't here? >> i think so. every founder is useful. because of that vision, that commitment, the willingness to take bold risks. >> you joined greylock as a partner in 2009. and you have a really unique investing philosophy in that the best companies to invest in are actually the companies you don't agree on. >> most people think that the way that a venture partnership works is everyone votes to do a deal, and when everyone says yes, this is a good deal, then that is the deal that happens. however, the best deals are not all where everyone's voting, 'yes, i would do the deal, too.' the really bold deals that transform industries are the ones that initially seem a little crazy. a little out there. not quite right. like linkedin in its early days. and they end up growing to something that is great. >> didn't you guys disagree on facebook and airbnb? >> yes, there was disagreements in the partnership. as a matter of fact, a par

lieutenant sergei was a lawyer in kiev until he joined up just two months ago. how did that happen? >> when i saw on tv -- >> reporter: the war? >> yeah, war children, i can't stay at home. >> reporter: so you came back as an officer. >> yeah. >> reporter: today with the artillery booming close by, his unit received maps from army s.o.s., a group that delivers donations to the military. the soldiers are short some things, they told us, but they are not desperate for high-tech american weapons. do you need help from the united states? >> not military yes. >> reporter: what they do need is a completely revamped army. deep-rooted corruption and neglect meant that these men just got a few weeks of basic training before they were flung into this. and behind the lines, they say the army is failing. anton, a volunteer, tells us the men in his unit lack everything from clear orders to the right salary. his message is not for the u.s. but for ukraine's president-- stop lying to us. the bottom line, though, scott is that these men are facing russia's military might with very little chance the

. >> stewart: and, russian foreign minister sergei lavrov warned the west against sending more arms. >> ( translated ): there are growing appeals in the west to support kiev's policy of militarisation, to pump ukraine full of lethal weapons and to bring it into nato. this will only exacerbate the tragedy of ukraine. >> stewart: but vice president joe biden responded this way: >> we will continue to provide ukraine with security assistance, not to encourage war but to allow ukraine to defend itself. let me be clear: we do not believe there is a military solution in ukraine. but let me be equally clear: we do not believe russia has the right to do what they are doing. >> stewart: today, at that security conference in munich ukrainian president petro poroshenko displayed documents which he said proved russia's deep involvement in the fighting. porshenko met in kiev thursday with merkel and french president francois hollande. they then traveled to moscow for meetings with russian president vladimir putin. a ceasefire was struck in minsk last september but was violated almost immediately