arab-israeli project cut cross these lines though in theory it was a proxy war with the united states and the soviet union. united states supporting israel. pitted aent points, it pro american israel versus a pro american jordan and saudi arabia. lines were not completely drawn. and yet -- and yet it was the war of 1973 that with d henry kissinger vision and drive to lay the oundations to what we can call the retrospect of pacs americana. keystone was egypt. sidot's move to signal the rapid decline of the soviet serious challenger in the merican hegemity middle east. it began with a 1979 peace treaty. this treaty established a for a peace treaty between israel and jordan as 1993 oslo accords between israel and the palestine liberation organization. set the precedent for peace in erences, whether it be madrid or indianapolis. the people in the middle east accustomed to the assumption that only the united states could play the role of mediator. even pro states like syria would visits by secretary of state warren christopher in the s.90 it was extraordinary. and the soviet union isintegrated, so, too, did th

all right more opportunities for tripling the island between the european union the united states could be good days breeding touch not looking to get above three thousand let's get right down to business. this is what we have coming up. i pray no more shall we. the trade deal how much snow but brazil has so far as safeguard the country's by a diet that's the case. not quite one more thing it has the potential to assist the end of summer. not that many good reasons to support free trade agreement between the united states on the european union the dancing tearing down the remaining trade barriers will inject new life into the economy is on both sides of the atlantic. look at it so we'd be talking about consumer groups warned that the deal will destroy vital protections like europe's high end sound and the reward of the grace to the boston especially since hardly anyone representing can see in the stretch is sitting at the negotiating table. us hormone treated me. hillary mosh chickens and genetically modified corn are eating every day. they're old and in the eu. what could products like

call them neo nazis or certainly there are nationalists i don't know why again the united states in the european union want to deal with people like that go ahead. well the united states deals with people who can deliver goods again i'm dumb seeing perilous a serbian two thousand back then put together a coalition of eighteen different parties that had nothing in common that had marginal support in the general population they put forth a candidate for a presidential function that may have won to majority of votes or may have gone into a runoff we'll never know because that very opposition proceeded to burn down the ballots and torch the national assembly and then declare itself the rightful winner of the elections this is the kind of technology works and then of course after they got into power they proceeded to cannibalize themselves and fight each other and violate the constitution in the six ways from sunday so what happens is that the u.s. government picks people who can deliver on the violence to overthrow the regime change and then starts moving these people around the board favoring some and. d

united states to bits per cent. the two sides are to kick off the joint exercises in late february as planned in a move that could affect upcoming cross border family re unions are unification ministry course by on sunday explains. seth curry and the united states looking in their annual joint military drills in the last week after enduring a plant that could jeopardize it earlier and her korean agreement with the long standing the unions for families separated by the korean war. since it's the rok us combined forces command who hold the key result exercises in the new defence training trail from the tree twenty four months it will set times of the foal eagle exercise these rituals that a place every year for every twenty four to april eighteen three the dates coincide with the upcoming family the union's scheduled for that theory twentieth to the twenty fifth at north korea not in that regard the defence ministry said kent and was informed that the date on sunday but has not yet reacted to the plants north korea has after previously threatened to scrap the unions should the south go ahead with the military exercises. you too. we're really seeing the dialogu

the new european union united states him last because the message that only intensify anticipation is that the new people will reopen will be excluded. they will remain low margin was that they will continue to be allowed to use the russian language as an official language in crime here in the interest of the india of the russian speaking regions of ukraine in seoul and soulful normal. no sense we're going to have to prove that the russian speakers and shiny. i think that the real explosion. visitation will come because the people there i understand that no one be they say so. i saw moscow's new saying is is a calming influence in this situation are going to take a quick break and get the reaction of our panel stay with us are watching the postman pat today the world. down to earth. this laid her down to it in front of my face like this in mind that even i as a second patient was think this is the best kind. one day never reach the concealed a foreign account before it's all stand at seven hundred if not thousands of kilometers to get. one of the things they produce what the late keit

and they were creating a strong impression that the united states and european union were with them against their own government. and they felt this was inappropriate and something like that would never be allowed in the united states or in european union countries. but the second complaint was that american officials, european union officials were claiming that ukraine was overwhelming with the european union. and he said wait, there were hundreds of thousands of people in paris demonstrating against same-sex marriage. ... >> it is a tendency on the part of the russian government to question the consistency of what the u.s. does and the sincerity of it and to point out that, you know, what russia does is different from what the u.s. does. that is a general framework. we get into these arguments and that is why there's part there is part of this relationship. one of the analogies that they like to sometimes use, i don't know

. >> both the european union and the united states have expressed alarm at the bloodshed in kiev, holding special meeting in brussels where sanctions against ukraine are discussed. they are sharply opposed by russia. within brussels, simon, just before we came to you just on the wires coming in the last few minutes, we've heard that the german, french and polish ministers have restrained ukraine for more talks. how much progress in their absence has been made and what will it mean that they haven't yet? >> we were warned earlier today in brussels that the three foreign ministers will stay in kiev for as long as the talks are necessary. that clearly is the case. as they continue to run into the evening, there may be some occasion to contribute to this emergency. foreign ministers, there's been talk of a draft letter that's all right been proposed by ambassadors to the european union in brussels. it will include targeted sanctions against officials involved in what the european union pretty much to a man, woman are referring to as the repression. they're holding the ukrainian government ver

the transatlantic trade and investment partnership that the united states and european union are currently negotiating has the potential to become the largest trade and investment deal ever negotiated. covering fully 47% of global gdp. along with the united states' efforts to promote trade with many countries across asia and latin america, through the trans-pacific partnership, tpp, ttip represents the most ambitious american trade agenda in at least a generation, if not ever. moreover, trade liberalization represents one of the very few bipartisan goals and policy priorities that are left here in washington. for those of you who are interested in actually getting things done. despite the overwhelming economic benefits on the table here at the council, we like to think of ttip as far more than a traditional free trade agreement. indeed, these negotiations mark a singular strategic opportunity to revitalize the transatlantic relationship broadly, providing a powerful economic counterpart to the greatest military and security alliance the world has ever known. by revitalizing the world's two

the situation is being whipped up by the european union and the united states of america with the aim of destabilizing the ukraine and trying to play some zero sum game where they hope to eliminate russian influence within that country it is it is a political game that's being employed by western powers that are causing a great deal of havoc on the streets of ukraine and pushing the country towards a very very dangerous situation that will not end well there was serious meddling western meddling in that country and it must stop the european leaders the united states of america should list specter the government of yannick over which there's an election next year if the people don't like him they can vote him out because the danger is that they probably won't talk to people any clearly don't like. being with totally it's not it's not a particular area. mr obama has thirty percent or thirty three percent popular popular in the united states and no one's asking him to leave the markets let's go back to you here i mean this is what it gets down to we know that victoria nuland has spent ab

pleaded to the anti-government crowd's and were creating a strong impression that the united states and the european unionwere resentment of its own government traded they felt this was inappropriate and subsequently they would never be allowed into the united states or in the european union. the second complaint was that american officials european union officials were blaming -- claiming ukraine was overwhelmingly for the european union because of the size of the -- there were hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against same-sex marriage but the socialist government said wait a second. we have won the election and we have the majority of the legitimately elected parliament. we decide what is in the best interest of the country not the size of the crowd. ..

unionizing. >> could become the first foreign owned car factory in the united states with a union. >> some say the action could reverberate through the auto industry. >> surprise. >> they're also running some radio ads as well. >> they're piling out like clowns out of a circus car. >> deprive what it calls the united obama workers union. >> volkswagen is a german company. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. i want you to focus on the word freedom because how many times have we heard the republicans and the conservative movement talk about freedom. they love that word. everything is connected to freedom, except in the workplace. chattanooga, tennessee, is now ground zero when it comes to union rights in america. we got a dandy of an election going on, folks. today workers of the chattanooga volkswagen plant started a voting period as to whether they're going to join the united auto workers. freedom. if this plant votes to unionize, the uaw would establish the first ever german style works council. it would negotiate wages and benefits for the plant. it is a right to

lou: it seems that europe earn union will not act r united states, there has been no evidence of anyrry of activity if you will in brussels, or washington. to move aid to the ukrainians. >> yeah, you know, i think the west is hoping that this will end with a whimper not a bang, they hope that it will just fade in to obscurity, western media, does not present this crisis pro the russian stand . which is important here, the russians are all worked up over this, calling protesters hooligans and nazis. lou: and terrorists. >> and terrorists, right. so thank you are a russian watching television, tonight, your view of what is going on in ukraine, is different from what we see. lou: fundamentally different, what we see is rather opaque. and likely to be i'm sure for another at least several days, general. always good to talk with you. >> thank you, lou. lou: general robert scale, state department's latest travel warning focusing not on travel to dangerous nations like syria or ukraine. but on spring breakers, that right, these folks are drawing the attendtion of our state department, relea

mccain where the anti-government crowd's work creating a strong impression that the united states and the european union were in its own government and felt that this was inappropriate that an assumption like that would never be allowed in the united states or in european countries. but the second complaint was that american officials, european union officials are blaming -- ukraine was overwhelmingly in court nation with the european union. he said wait a second, there were hundreds of thousands of old demonstrating against same-sex marriage but the socialist government said wait a second, we are a majority and a legitimately elected parliament and we decide what is in the best interest of the country not the size of the crowd. lavrov said the government was legitimately elected in ukraine. why would the size of the crowd protesting the policy be an indication of what the ukrainians -- >> guest: you raise an important and general issue which is when the problems in the u.s. russia relationship is a tendency on the part of the russian government to question the consistency of what the u.s. does, the sin

how do you judge what the --opean union, united states are you ready to say something similar?did they behave in a way they should not? >> i don't want to draw any parallels between syria and ukraine. definitely saw some imposed mediation, and some people who were trying to determine for ukraine what they wanted. you remember the footage, when the speaker of the parliament from one of the baltic countries was speaking. germanyign minister of was actually marching in the demonstration with the opposition. going to have a referendum on the independence of scotland. can we expect baltic politicians marching there among those who are pitching for independence? let's see if this is going to happen. some of those things were quite graphic and in our view completely had nothing to do with the idea of no interference . they emphasize sovereignty but they behave as though ukraine was a province of the european union. impolitet least towards our ukrainian friends. importantly,re there was an effort to determine for ukraine what they need to do. you alluded to president yanukovych. i thin

united auto workers. it would have been the first foreign owned plant to unionize in the united states. the uaw still has plans to organize other foreign plants in the south, but of course because of what unfolded here, it's going to be a heavier lift at these other plants. make no mistake. the textbook has been written on how to defeat them. the outcome of the vote was influenced by these guys right here. senator bob corker of tennessee and governor bill haslem. they were pressuring employees to vote no. this was a flat out republican anti-media blitz is what it was. workers were swayed into voting against their own self-interests when you look at it. here's what republicans were saying leading into the vote. put yourself in their position if you heard stuff like this from an elected official. >> the officers a month ago talking about fighting and combat and all of those kind of things, if that's the kind of environment you want, uaw are the people to choose. >> there's no question if the uaw comes there, it will impact our ability to recruit other businesses to tennessee. >> i believe

foreign auto companies have opened factories in the united states generally in states with less unionaw has struggled to add members from those facilities. joining me tonight, bob king, united auto workers president. mr. king, good to have you with us tonight. how big an opportunity is this for the uaw and these workers if this vote is thumbs-up, bob? >> it's tremendously important for the workers in chattanooga, tennessee. it allows them to be a part of the codetermination system globally. they believe in representation. they believe in codetermination. they say codetermination is a critical factor in their success. and this will give chattanooga workers the right to sit on the global works council, to have input on quality and productivity, on where new product goes. it's a tremendous opportunity for the workers in chattanooga. >> so explain this german works council. what does that mean? this is the first time i think a lot in our audience have ever heard that term, what it means, what impact it would have. >> under the german coded codetermination law where it is set up by law in

european union and the united states began lifting sanctions on iran on the 20th of january, follows their deal in november. under that plan, the u.s. agreed to impose no new sanctions. but it did stipulate that most sanctions would remain in place, until nuclear talks resume later this month. mo hamed and professor at the university of tehran says talked would be successful if the u.s. tones down its demands. >> the united states seems to think or imagine that president rohanny is going to give up iran's rights. as a sovereign country, it's rights within the frame work, that's simply not going to happen. they are not going to halt enrichment. he is very serious when he says this, but i think that within the united states, think tanks and so called iran experts like to believe, that the president is going to say one thing today, but do something else tomorrow. i think that's a major misreading of the situation in iran. then obviously we won't come to an agreement and the talks will lead to a dead end. possible. so i think that the only way forward is basically for the united states t

they could turn to the european union and the united states said they would help, as well, or ukraine could turn to russia, the biggest trading partner and that's the core of the issue and why the united states is so interested in this. where will ukraine end up, in whose political satellite? the west or west? russia is concerned about having a country e lined with the eu so close to them so they will be willing to do a lot, extend loans with few requirements to keep ukraine within their spear of influence. however, the protest is on the ground why they rose up three months ago is because they don't want their government to do that and want their government to turn to the west where there is better transparency. how this plays out is unclear. with a temporary government and over the next several days, they will try to hammer out some kind of agreement, political and financial. the outcome is deeply uncertain. for "nightly business report", i'm michelle cabrera. >>> here now to talk more about today's market rally, patricia edwards, managing director of investments. patty, nice to have

what impact and the european union ordered united states have on the events on the ground in the ukraine? >> first of all, how much support they are going to give the ukrainians. i need a government that is reasonably functional, which they don't have, but they also need money which they thought they have. $15 billion was committed by putin but only 3 billion made it to the ukrainian coppers. with the crackdown that failed during the olympics, the money is no longer there. the russian government said you can find the 2 billion from someone else. how about the imf? the imf is under political pressure to provide some financing, which out which ukraine will default, they will have to see a government working in ukraine and that will have to include just folks that will be acceptable to demonstrators, but some the technocrats that have the capability who are pretty corrupt and some of whom come from yanukovych's former supporters in the region. the u.s. has to do a couple of things -- facilitate, use the lever of cash from the imf to facilitate a workable outcome that will make the demonstra

so in theory it was a proxy war between the united states and the soviet union the united states supporting israel in the soviet union supporting the arab side at different points it pitted a pro-american israel nurses are pro-american jordan and a pro-american saudi arabia so the lights were never completely drawn. again it was the arab-israeli war of 1973 that enabled secretary of state henry kissinger with singular vision and drive to lay the foundations of a weekend today call in retrospect the pax americana. the keystone to kissinger's efforts was egypt. it was a move from the soviet to the american sphere. it signaled the rapid decline of the soviet union as a serious challenger to american hegemony in the middle east. the pax america, officially began with the 1979 peace treaty between egypt and israel. this treaty established the precedent for later peace treaty between israel and jordan as well as for the 1993 oslo accords between israel and the palestine liberation organization. it also set the precedent for later peace conferences whether it be in madrid or in annapolis. the peop

no, it is the collapse of the soviet union, a tyrannical totalitarian state. >> the united states is threatening some kind of sanctions, along with the european union. some would argue we should be able to foresee this kind of crisis coming and should have done more anticipatory planning and action. >> i agree with you. i agree with you. i don't want to settle scores right now but i think we were delinquent. this crisis opened up in november, we had plenty of time to reach a common position with europe, and then on that basis so engage the ukrainians and also quietly and construct if the but in a firm passion the russians. >> why didn't we do it? >> well, for one thing the europeans were not particularly anxious or inclined to step forward with some attractive financial offer. i think that was kind of shortsighted. secondly, of course, we have been bogged down in the israeli-palestinian negotiations. the syrian negotiations, the iranian negotiations, so we had plenty on our plate. >> let me go off course here for a second, do you think any of those will succeed? >> i still remain kind

they call for a donors' conference involving the european union, the united states and imf. the white house ss the united states is ready to provide support. the white house also announced major cuts to the u.s. military. defense secretary chuck hagel from the pentagon, outlining a downsizing that will see our army shrink to pre-1940 levels along with across-the-board cuts to every single branch of the military rick acte and reserves and cutso military pay and entitlements. hagel including the emination of the air force's fleet of a-10 attack aircraft, and it is u-2 spyplanes. here is secretary hagel pointing to politics. >> reality of reduced resources and a challenging and changing strategic environment requires us to prioritize and make difficult choices. some of those choices we mt make now. for other choices particularly those involving the ultimate size of ourrmed forces, we have built decision points into our budget plan. we will make these decisions when we have more clarity regarding future spending levels. our budget will give us the flexibility to make different c

particularly the planned free trade agreement of the european union with the united states of america give an important boost to growth in europe. right from the start, britain and germany were among the strongest supporters of such an agreement. and together we will continue to work for speed negotiations and an ambitious result. a result which will include, to state this very clearly, also questions of privacy and data protection. we have to make better use of the strengths of the european union. using it for our joint interests on international climate protection. for no european member state alone would have the political clout to hold its own in international negotiations. a stable european union can reconcile social unrest. for those countries that are members of the euro have to compliment through a strong economic union with a clear-cut and resilient architecture. only through close and more binding economic coordination will we be able to avoid heavy waters in a very bad crisis in the foreseeable future. as i see it, the monetary union has to speed in a targeted manner the ac

and this is moscow's latest warning to the european union and the united states not to try the shyt the ex soviet state's future. the uh . bjp archery and south korean families carefully review nice enough to decades of hard to say goodbye to each other. the final round of re unions ended today at the mt kong on resorts on the northside family members separated for nearly sixty years some for the korean war chatted for one last time that the hotel. i hugged saying and exchanged life is the promise they would meet again. the re union event was the first in more than three years. there were two rounds of three day reunion stopping from last thursday. most families do not know the face of their reticence on the other side of the border since two thousand there have been altogether. i seen such events. scheduling depends on the site of relations between the two countries. so it from me here in the dprk has reported on the family re union sell the relatives separated by the korean war. the bf had just ended at the mt kong and resort. the reports by korean central tv which aired on sunday sai

anybody in washington or in western europe seems to realize is it is placing the european union and the united states on the side of revolutionary chaos and disorder not just in other countries around the world which would be bad enough but in the heartlands of europe this is very dangerous in the responsible and did not the e.u. and the us see the rise of nationalism and extremism in these riots in effect what we're seeing perhaps is a revolution and that's exactly what the nationalists want is that really what the e.u. and us want it. they oughtn't to wanted you're absolutely right for the e.u. especially if there's an enormous power docks here the force is the heart breaking up ukraine are seeking to break up ukraine are the same forces that are seeking to the stabilize western european nations there are major secessionist movements within western european nations we see scotland very peacefully about to become independent with its referendum vote scheduled for later this year spain has acted very successfully to prevent the disintegration of his country especially the barcelona catalonia region t

very divided there isn't any agreement in the european union or even between the european union and the united states for the very reasons that you say that one group of people says we've got to do something we've got to do something superior we've got to do it now and the only thing we can we can think about doing is to impose sanctions by which they're talking to travel to confiscation of assets abroad that sort of thing which actually are quite limited rather personalized sanctions but then again you've got a lot of people and it's unclear in the european union whether they're in the majority or not you say well so actions just no use of the situation not just because you're going to alienate people and make any sort of resolution later more difficult but because they'll simply be ineffective and of course also many opinions here on the program that the west overwhelming support for the protests is actually emboldening them to violence what's your opinion. well i think that's a very very difficult question because the origins of this you know if we go back to november the origins of the of the div

heard from amy kellogg's report earlier from a scholar based in moscow that the european union and united states not compete with that. it is interesting word compete. ben rhodes, the deputy national security advisor for the president just said this on air force one that the united states is not in competition with russia in the future of the ukraine. it is up to the people. so are we in competition with ukraine? should we go to bat over the $15 billion or can we not compete? >> here is rare example of truth out of the white house. we're not competing with russia over the future of ukraine and that is mistake. the russians accuse us as your piece indicated interfering with ukraine internal affairs. unfortunately we're not interfering in ukraine's internal affairs but russians are. the financial lifeline is very important. i don't believe yanukovych would unleash the police violence unless he had political support from moscow. the momentum here unfortunately is all in one direction. jenna: interesting to hear you say that because 10 days ago you wrote a piece where you were asking the question wh

yes we have to be careful but it is not only the european union it's also the united states if i look at the last ten or even twenty years with a lot of regret i see that the even the so-called rich countries like germany france also california i named him day are on the way down if i judge the situation correctly if i travel around in california i see poverty which i have never seen there in recent years if i travel through france paris down to mars it must say it is a frightening increase of poverty so that means the politicians make sure members mistakes. so do you think by curbing the immigration that would take care of the problem or at least partially. i strongly believe that if you have a control of immigration people who are responsible politicians who are responsible for a certain area for a certain area in africa for a certain area here in europe let's take switzerland you only can solve the problems in a positive good way if. these areas limited if as a politician you have to decide for the whole world if you have to decide for both garia and germany we impose the same rule

politics, the european union and the united states is trying to remove all politics from regulation.cepts like independence and impartiality are the core of how our systems are designed. in neither system have we been able to eliminate this entirely. when it comes to basic regulatory choices, politics is necessarily involved. there are laws made by our own legislature, the council of member states, which is a bicameral system. even when we have full delegated powers, we are forced to make judgment calls based on the information available even when it is imperfect. uncertainty is a fact of life. it is a principle that plays a role in both of our systems. alongside all of these decision making processes, we know that public debate is every bit as political and passionate as any electronic campaign. -- electoral campaign. regardless of whether it is executive action. that is the complex space in which ttip takes place. people have very serious concerns about what ttip might mean for regulation. our sharedns is that values toto lower have a real economic impact, well keeping the levels o