because what do unions want? unions want to charge, if you will, walmart higher than what the market will bear. and that's fine. if they want to go on strike and they somehow cripple walmart and they can't pay, that's their right to do it. if they can extract higher wages, good for them. it's kind of the workers versus the walmart corporation. but let's not confuse it, that this is any bigger issue than the unions lining their coffers and looking out solely for their union members. they're not -- that's all they're looking out for. they're not looking out for the worker at large. if they were, they were say, forget about it, minimum wage or any kind of contract. let's just let walmart pay what the market will bear and if there's 1,000 people waiting to get a job, so be it. if walmart can only get zero people waiting for a job, than they have to raise their wages in order to entice people to work there. >> gary, walmart workers aren't ionized. >> brenda, why is it up to walmart to raise the standard of living? i m

so to see incurring bank purely as a result of our relationship our membership of the european union is an analysis that i would i would challenge absolutely and the you mentioned these prevailing are for the exits and i think one country that was sort of subjected to the same sort of pressure was icelandic which was at that time also on track of joining the e.u. it had massive crisis similar crisis to yours but the icelandic officials decided to defy that pressure and obviously they were also you know sometimes threatened sometimes told that nobody would ever deal with i. again that he had they decided to decline bailing out banks and nowadays if you look around their economies back on track it's growing they're getting those loans easily unemployment is falling i mean i think it's ultimately a different country to emerge from from this crisis do you think be. irish people have the right to feel cheated because better than they were they were told that there was no other way out of this crisis but obviously there was a way a shorter way and probably last demanding way to completely

when virginians felt a proprietary pride in the union. for lee, an honorable peace would restore to this out prosperity and influence, his words, he associated with the halcyon days of an imagined passed before the nation had drifted away from the principles of the viejo founders. from april on restoration would be least political keyword, and we see it crop up again and again and again. his post war correspondents. for example, six months after this surrender he wrote his friend the following command. as long as virtue is dominant in their public, so long is the happiness of the people secure the money and never a merciful god save us from destruction and restores to the bright hopes and prospects of the past. this was a fundamentally backward idea. lee's hopes for restoration or promised not only honest doubts about the case that his army was blameless. he elaborated that case on april 10 in his farewell address drafted under these guidance by charles marshall. again, after four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and

don't you think that democracy is a bit too complicated than which trade union or reach. agreement if you decide to align yourself with don't you think that you give too little credit to your country of forty five million people by reducing it to a simple or maybe a complicated but a single decision like that. i think you are perfectly right with that and if you listen to most of the speeches here on the under my done especially in the very first of the of the done it was really of. the european values and the rippin practices if we're talking about this decision agreement is about so two hundred of pages which do not mean changes right away but for many years both the korean government and the opposition have been convinced in the ukrainians that this decision agreement will be a solution to many problems fighting corruption the rule of law democracy and human rights efficient economy prosperity all those things. could be much easier to reach with this decision agreement that's what was the government and the opposition have been saying for quite a long time so no with t

trophies to the union army as he put it. many of these white officers and comrades share the conviction that the role in the last battle had indecisive. the cauvery recounted the scene for his mother and sisters in a letter. the morning of the night came to the cauvery was being pushed back rapidly towards the station. the boys were fine, scores of them. over the hill a dark column was spied coming down the road to quicktime. what a relief from the office spent. the colored race of those men so long as they brought relief to espey saw courage and determination in the polls like faces. moreover, african-american troops understood themselves to be an army of liberation whose defeat of flavors that nailed the coffin the coffin of slavery itself. abundant evidence exists that slaves sought appomattox is a freedom day. it was the very moment of emancipation, the moment the fact to the lincoln's proclamation had long since been passed. virginia saves for the first year the tidings of the surrender of thought on this against a defe

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and some prominent newspapers as well as some prominent european union officials are saying that the government now in ukraine is illegitimate which is rather strange isn't it because two weeks ago they were negotiations with it so are we experiencing a second orange revolution in ukraine a lot towards going to turn into a second orange revolution. and of course it's likely thirdly as you say to talk about non-legitimate government that's very clear but it also has not been entirely throbbed run the thirteen by the ukrainian government of course to abandon a walkout from the authority and agreement as you said earlier. in the and the signal of the ukrainian government was one that was of course slightly poor from the outside but was also based on very very you know. in terms of its own survival the leads that are standing behind the government have come to the conclusion that they cannot make the leap of faith told the west nile their business model would be in danger so they try to continue the equidistance game that they've been trying to play between the west and russia and that's

and union dictating the sovereignty of the ukraine saying that we simply will not x. . trilateral negotiations with russia when both the ukraine and russia have requested it so i don't quite understand that. we have thirty seconds left to alexander give you the last word of the program go ahead alexander london quickly we're not talking about the association agreements of the european union has with other countries we're talking about vis association agreement if the e.u. e.u. wants an association agreement with you with the ukraine which will work it has to be a workable the grievance and it has to involve russia now this is simply elementary it's practical reality one can get on one's high horse and argue otherwise but if all right we're going to gentlemen we have run out of time fascinating discussion many thanks to my guests today in london and brussels and here in moscow and thanks to our viewers for watching us here dorothy see you next time and remember cross talk rules. leave. this is the place that has been consecrated to god for almost a thousand of years peop

the european union of the customs union is sometimes debated here in ukraine but i think it's absolutely gorgeous for most of the people. who fall of the situation in the economy and job politics that it could be much easier in a close association with european union. ok i would like to come back to this issue of russia suppose it intimidation the kremlin's position has been that this this dispute is all about economy it and that russia believes its economic interests will suffer if european goods will start sliding into europe into ukraine rather and later into russia tax free i wonder if you think that russia could have protected its economic interests in some other way without apply i'm due process onto your crane was there any other way to go around this dispute. i find some of the economic arguments that you mention quite artificial and profound i think many people in ukraine feel that this pressure was not just about the economy it was pretty much about geopolitics and pretty much. absolutely mr shelley but let me stay on their own the question do you believe that russia is given i

well welcome to worlds apart this year marks fortune years since arlen joined the european union but you don't see much celeb rationed here and that may be due to the fact that few have paid a higher price for this integration than the arash people each one of whom already contributed almost nine thousand tourists in taxes to effectively safeguard the euro was that worthwhile to discuss that i'm knowledge oin by the country's minister for european affairs pascal donahue mr donahue thank you very much for your time i know that when i was celebrating the thirty if thirtieth anniversary of joining the euro there was this whole program of exhibitions and conferences to solve their cation but we don't see. that level of celebration this time around and i wonder whether it is due to all this perhaps it reflects maybe a broader more skeptical reassessment of joining the e.u. well the main reason for the change in diet mood is the scale of the economic crisis that audience house and jerked over the last five years. we gone through a period in which our economy went to a very sharp decline we

union. glad to be joined by russia's ambassador to the european union. with new shoes off. welcome to talk you think of. with so called by ukraine of course because as you know the situation in ukraine has polarized many people. brussels most nokia's in the middle. first of all we would like to see and we like to hear. will russia received from ukraine in exchange for its assistance lopez who lived in a completely agree with your assumption that. the events in ukraine have four eyes. of moscow and brussels. i don't have that impression. they have indeed always keep praying. that's it. on this occasion he spends the other ukrainian society is divided and we all are witnesses to that the book. russia is interested in and told the eu is equally interested. it's to see stability in ukraine see the canteen. overcoming the current crisis minimizing its economic effect. and home meets commission on human epo the use of the population you've mentioned that no role in group b in ukraine has rained a

that goes against the grain of the credit union. >> normally credit unions lend a few thousand.s was doing exactly what caused the banking system to fall over. it's a similarity about what went wrong with the banks in ireland and the credit union. bad loans, the lack of regulation and oversight. in the same way that the banks had to be bailed out by the tax payer the tax payer is having to find $70 million to support the failed credit union. the difference is this: while the institutional investors in the banks never lost money, the investors in the credit union were the people in the town, and they don't have the safety net. >> the credit union relies on people saving and borrowing. the fear is that knew bridge went big because it couldn't make the credit union model work. >> there's 100,000 in arrears out of 800,000 mortgages. unemployment of close to 13%, it's not possible that credit unions could be immune to that. >> newbridge was one of 12 credit unions not to belong to an accession, which insists that the model is rely ible. >> the model has come through the recession. wi

the european union itself may have helped or aided through its policies some of these conflicts. how would they argue well let me explain that for example the conflict in libya or the conflict in syria where some of the european countries sided with the. opposition against the sovereign government but my question is a bit different i know that your country in particular has a unique experience first with the. sectarian strife and done with conflict resolution you are more knowledgeable on that they share than any other kind of country in europe but for some reason when it came to your both libya and syria are led to a back seat you. essentially gave the initiative to your france and the united kingdom why is arlen so passive on those issues of war and peace especially given your unique experience. your question base based on two premises start are wrong again the first of premises that the european union was involved in the policy decisions that led to some of the countries further but it's a different story there's a difference between european countries and the european union d

response and this need not be blaming the european union for the exercise of power it's. it does not one of your favorite phrases is the voluntary sharing of summer and started on for size common european values. common to european approaches so it seems to me that whenever it is convenient for your class you would stress the commonality but whenever it is it may not fit your narrative few strands the individual is a man of the rights. and the reason of course is the first part of the concept which is voluntarily sharing this what you decide on the different elements of your national sovereignty what you will do with contraries when you believe it's in the south it's in the interests of your own country when it comes to where your armed forces go when it comes to the exercise of your foreign policy in a very sensitive matter that's what islands has decided as i think is the case for most of the member states that we believe that scenario of of national competence and it's precisely because of the heritage of history and history that we have a dialogue complicit and that w

it goes against the grain of the credit union. >> normal unions lend a few thousand.his is what caused the banking system to fall over. >> it's similar to what went wrong with the banks, and the credit union is striking. the banks had to be bailed out, so the taxpayer is having to find $70 million to support the failed credit union. the difference is this - while the institutional investors in the bank never lost money, institutional investors in the credit union were the people of this down. they don't have the safety net. >> the credit union system relies on people being able to save. in ireland, where they can't repay the bills, the fear is that newbridge went big because it couldn't make the credit union model work. >> you have 800,000 mortgages. unemployment of close to 13%. i mean, it's not possible that credit unions could be immune to that kind of thing. >> newbridge was one of 12 credit unions not to belong to an association. it insists the model is viable. >> the movement is solid. it has come through. much better than financial institutions. with the except

i don't have unions paying me $252,000 in 2012-13. msnbc puts out a statement that independent from them schultz' radio website advertising to a variety of clients, union and nonunion. and donating honorairies and speaking engagement s blah, blah, blah. this seems an odd -- i'm not getting the union part of this. are you? >> well, i am in a sense. look, i don't have a problem with reporters taking honorariums. i never have. >> neither do i. >> so long as they're covering the issue about which they receive an honorarium they recuse themselves from covering the issue. >> he's a liberal talk show host -- and a hack. >> but they want him to do their bidding across the board. so he really shouldn't be taking their money without being honest he's doing the bidding of unions. that's the problem. >> let's stay on msnbc you have another host comparing obamacare, using the word obamacare to moral equivalent of the n-word. >> it's a word that's been with us for years. like it or not it's indelibly printed in the pages of american history. a word

union tax fairness act. we need to insist this president treats it is unions fairly. actually treats all americans fairly in comparison to the union. >> is this another example of the law being set up to work one way and then the president under pressure from his base by executive fiat just saying, basically a line item ve the to saying i will change it. >> this is something they had to issue rules on. they will hide behind that process. this isn't the first time he's granted special treatment to the unions. they granted 1700 waivers and half the people affected by those were union oh members. oddly enough. this will continue. you have the cadillac fee that will be coming in the future. i'm sure the unions will rail against it and try to get an exemptions from that as well. we have to be very watchful. that's what we are trying to do now is raise the profile. appreciate the fact that you are raising the profile so we can make sure the ruling doesn't become permanent. >> people need to know what's going on. they need to pay attention. senator, good to see you. thank yo

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and union dictating the sovereignty of the ukraine saying that we we simply will not x. . trilateral negotiations with russia when both the ukraine and russia have requested it so i don't quite understand that. we have thirty seconds left to alexander give you the last word of the program go ahead alexander london quickly we're not talking about the association agreements of the european union has with other countries we're talking about vis association agreement if the e.u. e.u. wants an association agreement with you with the ukraine which will work it has to be a workable the green and and it has to involve russia now this is simply elementary it's practical reality one can get on one's high horse and argue otherwise but if all right we're going to gentlemen have run out of time fascinating discussion many thanks to my guest today in london and brussels and here in moscow and thanks to our viewers for watching us here dorothy see you next time and remember cross talk rules. leave. councils here in the u.k. are calling for tougher laws to police aggressive bankers finall

in the unions no matter where they sleep in union of the customs union is sometimes debated here in ukraine but i think it's absolutely gorgeous for most of the people. who fall of the situation in the economy and in geopolitics that it could be much easier in a close association with the european union. ok i would like to come back to this issue of russia's supposed intimidation the kremlin's position has been that this this dispute is all about economy it and that russia believes its economic interests will suffer if european goods will start sliding into europe into ukraine rather and later into russia tax free i wonder if you think that russia could have protected its economic interests in some other way without apply i'm due process onto your crane was there any other way to go around this dispute. well. i find some of the economic arguments that you mention quite artificial and not that profound i think many people in ukraine feel that this pressure was not just about the economy it was pretty much about geopolitics and pretty much. absolutely mr schiewe but let me stay on the

of does ukraine join the european union or the customs union for the. to of what has been going on for the last twenty years since the collapse of the soviet union the west for the last twenty years has been attempting to place a sanitary cordon around russia in the form of a u. states and nato states and now we're seeing the construction of a missile defense shield. in romania and in the czech and in poland and when it comes so ukraine does it look as if i let me just ask you when it comes to ukraine does it look as if perhaps the e.u. is winning because after all now you have a code which is always breaking hints of doing yet another u. turn so he's going to revisit this again in march and look at more renegotiations i mean how would russia regard that. it's a big decision it's a major choice for the for ukraine to have a join the european union or the customs union but presently on a coach which is on its regrettably. being put on the immense pressure by western major and also what we're seeing in western politicians and we've also had the former pre

union i think the ideal of building a successful ukraine without join in unions no matter whether it's the rippin union of the customs soon in is sometimes debated here in ukraine but i think it's absolutely gorgeous for most of the people. who fall of the situation in the economy and in geopolitics that it could be much easier in a close association with european union. ok i would like to come back to this issue of russia's supposed intimidation the kremlin position has been that this this dispute is all about economy it and that russia believes its economic interests will suffer if european goods will start sliding into europe into ukraine rather and later into russia tax free i wonder if you think that russia could have protected its economic interests in some other way without apply i'm due process onto your crane was there any other way to go around this dispute. i find some of the economic arguments that you mention quite artificial and not that profound i think many people in ukraine feel that this pressure was not just about the economy it was pretty much about geopolitics and

in a show of support for the cold really really workers union and the korean confederation of trade unions. explaining its decision to the tnt team to state the fifty two years said he was appalled by the government to use it for sunday and police were reading in the office of the korean confederation of trade unions to rest key union leaders of the state run real operator for rio the korean confederation of trade unions is the second largest trade union center in is considered to be more militants. eft you said such plunger of the major labor union federation by the authorities was unprecedented. rio has been striking for more than two weeks in protest of the government's decision to create a subsidiary of three new high speed teach next train service. a new base the first step toward privatization. the government said the strike is illegal and dispatched hundreds of riot policemen in ctu headquarters. taking into custody more than one can read her team member union workers. ctu is demanding the government apologize for the week and take disciplinary action against those responsible for d

the european union needs you and you need the european union and if you need it you will be simple you. know all that while many politicians in the e.u. blame rush out for interference in ukraine's internal affairs international relations professor mark bowden takes issue with the e.u. stones. the fact that they are essentially on the ground in kiev cheerleading the protesters are calling for a revolution in the country this is a tantamount to the regime change that has been called for in german newspapers earlier today this is a most agree just violation of the united nations charter and international law violation of sovereignty and the non interference in the domestic affairs of other states and i think russia cannot take the whole world community cannot take this agree just like that. and with a little less piggy bank crane wanted time to sort out the problem of with ever growing foreign debt and a range compensation form and an modernization program kiev said this could have helped to save jobs before it entered into any deal with the easy and robert oulds child the bridge group o

i don't have unions paying me $252,000 in 2012-13. nbc news says they sell advertising to a variety of clients, union and nonunion. blah, blah, blah. this seems an odd -- i'm not getting the union part of this. are you? >> well, i am in a sense. look, i don't have a problem with reporters taking honorariums. >> neither do i. >> as long as they are covers the issue when they refuse themselv -- recuse themselveses from covering the issue. >> he's a liberal talk show host -- and a hack. >>le they want him to do their bidding so he shouldn't take their money without admitting he's doing the bidding of the unions. >> let's stay on nbc. you have another host comparing obamacare, using the word obamacare to moral equivalent of the n-word. >> it's a word that's been with us for years. like it or not it is printed in the pages of american history. a word that was ornlally intended as are a derogatory term meant to shame, divide and demean. the word was conceived of by a group of wealthy white men who needed to put themselves above a black man

that goes against the grain of the credit union. >> global credit unions only lend a few thousand at this one was doing what exactly caused the banking system to fall. the bad loans and the lack of regulation and over sights. and in just the same way the banks had to be bailed out by the taxpayer so the taxpayer is having to find 7 $70 million to support this failed credit union. the difference is this. the institution investors in the banks never lost any money, the institution investors in this credit union were the people of this town. and they don't have that safety net. the credit union system relies on people being able to save and want to borrow. in austerity island where many say they can't repay their bills and pay the loan. the fear is newbridge went big because they couldn't make the credit union moted el wor modele you have people in arrears and unemployment close to 13% it's not possible that credit unions could be immune to that kind of thing. newbridge was one of many that didn't belongs to the national association. they say it's still viable. >> the movement was comin

for the european union. european union. and. ok well thank you very much for that thank you let me just quickly ask you about this that's what people are protesting about they know exactly what they want and they echo the sentiments of what we just heard from bruce here i would disagree with that because essentially there's been a lot of misconception about the nature of this protest everyone most of the media reported that this is the. protest in kiev and i've been i spent several nights on my down on the independence square talking to the people there was a huge part of crowd we were just spreading these these bands ukrainian flag and saying we're again here those people i talked with them what they were saying is we want to live in a country where law is respected where law is observed the laws are proper and fine we don't want this corruption and we understand they told me that will not be part of the european union any time soon probably in the next fifty years but there was another part of the crowd which carried party slo

secures cut price gas and a fifteen billion dollar injection during talks here in moscow but the customs union apparently wasn't raised despite pro e.u. protesters suspicions of a secretly european bloc plot. and the syrian army moves in to clear the damascus suburb of address from extremists who according to locals launched a religious massacre beheading adults and children and wiping out entire families. if you just joined us it's kevin i would r.t. h.q. live really just after midnight now in moscow our top story a new energy boom may be coming to the british countryside but so far it's far from warm welcome a government report has laid the groundwork now to open up vast swathes of the u.k. for oil exploration including the shale gas drilling that's one of the crucial bits knows a lot of it it's all here in the light blue on this map you can see just how much lands been earmarked for potential fracking much of it as well pristine british countryside first made sense of this weighty report for us. well this is a regulatory roadmap on shore oil and gas exploration and it's the government setti

kiev totesters want have closer ties with the european union, not with russia. and yet the agreement ties ukraine closer to moscow. one accused president yanukovych of betraying ukraine from national interest. thatsters are angry ukraine rejected the deal with the eu in favor of closer relations with russia. they are demanding early parliamentary elections and are vowing to continue their protest until there demands are met. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. >> those protesters received a visit from two u.s. senators, christopher murphy and john mccain. tonight, senator murphy finds me from apical little. -- senator murphy joins me from capitol hill. get involved in what was an internal ukrainian dispute? it comes to decisions the ukraine makes, it is in the u.s. interest for ukraine to orient itself towards europe. it is also in the american interest to promote human rights across the globe and senator mccain and i decided to make the strip only after the anna kovacic government -- after the ovych government had a brutal crackdown. we did not hear what we want

without the customs union, many theomists are saying -- customs union without ukraine will not get off the ground at all. utin needs kiev for his own geopolitical ambitions. there's a fear inside the kremlin at the prospect of a historical extension of russia itself -- joining in any formal way with european political and economic structures -- that would be not only a literal or very objective loss in terms of the customs union, but also a kind of psychological one for a lot of russian policymakers who would be very averse to the idea of seeing ukraine go out of its orbit and join europe. >> live from moscow where those talks are underway. we are expecting a press conference to be held within the next couple of hours as they come to an end. thank you. insula merkel has been sworn in for her third term as german chancellor. 86 days after she won the election, but failed to grab the outright majority she needs to rule alone. she faced a vote by the lower house with a grand coalition holds a comfortable majority. it she was confirmed by the presidential -- you were looking at the picture

this is the latest move in a batting between boeing and the union. they have been exploring ending the production out of the north-west. the local union voted one boeing offer down and another labour offer was rejected. now union officials are ordering another looking at the second office. replaces pensions with a retirement plan, and requiring workers to pay for more health care. some union workers made it clear they want another chance to strike a deal. >> i believe it will be different. i believe people know that jobs are at risk. families are at risk and community is at risk. a union rep tells us they'll vote no on the contract and are working out details on when the vote will happen. >> no matter where the 777x is built it will bring in many millions. >> a final deal between san francisco's transit system and the two largest unions is in site. the tentative agreement ends eight months of negotiations including two crippling transit strikes for bart. the contract gives workers more paid medical leave, which was the final obstacle in the way of a

union any different from a host of other creditors? >> well, the union says that the state is not insolve vant and the state could kick in money. snider wants to wait to see how the bankruptcy process plays out before he decides whether the state can give aid to property the city. we know that and will see if the state stops up. >> scott cohn, thanks for your reporting. >>> despite the dire outlook, what it spawn sd a lynch pin of the economic recovery. sales of cars and light trucks last month rose to the highest level since february of 2007 on pace now to move nearly 16.5 million units for the year. big gains for detroit's big three. general motors say 14% increase thanks to tahoe and sierra and ford sales up 7% a boost from the ford fusion sedan and the f 150 pickups and chrysler rose 16% on sales of damage rom pickups and the jeep grand cherokee. phil lebeau joins us from chicago with more on what drove those number sales so much higher. phil, a lot of auto makers ran black friday promotions this year. did they really help? >> huge

practice sleeping vic govt no choice but to force a lot the union has great day. are you the government is carried out on one end and the trail on the other. the state owned corporation had summoned around one hundred and fifty rail union members as part of its investigation into last days in compensation resulting from the strike union members continue to demand that the government's preferred plan to establish a new rail operator something they claim is the first act like try to take each. in the meantime prosecutors announced wednesday that they're now seeking a rest for three more union members in addition to that a warrant issued monday the strike as curveball the railway services nationwide and cargo trains continued to be had the hardest and their operations have been cut virtually in half. amy has quite the trip drivers twelve thousand strong said wednesday. i will pick up a site that's not be delivered because of the railway strike and experts say that is to strike continues small and medium size business is will she or he thinks the supply shortage. comm

and a wall on the workers the british government accused of attacking trade unions after ordering an investigation into protesting time. twelve o'clock noon right here in moscow this is international with world headlines from all of us here welcome to the program anti-government protests in the center of ukraine's capital continue to expand after the opposition called on demonstrators to blockade the government quarter people have started to build barricades following the so-called millions march on sunday a short while ago i spoke to scott he's in kiev following developments for. despite the fact that the the weather here in kiev has taken a turn for the worse hundreds of protesters still remain in the square behind me and hundreds of protesters are continuing their blockade of key governmental buildings now they've used wooden pallets and vehicles to effectively surround the administrative hearts of this country effectively trying to strangle the work of the government without taking over any more buildings by force now i went to see one of the picket lines number of the picket lin

the union members voted it both down. ac transit provides more than 180,000 trips per day. >>> the latest on the target security breach. j. p. morgan chase is limiting the use of debit cards for customers at risk in target stores. in a statement released, the bank says the move gives additional security for at-risk accounts. they are temporarily limited to $100 a day and limiting purchases to $300 a day. they say it's automatically reissuing affected debit cards. york time is reporting that stolen information is already popping up on the black market. a fraud tracking could told the times they are seeing an increase of 10 to 20 times the number of high-value stolen credible cards on the black market. in response, target is offering an apology and a store-wide sale, offering customers a 10% discount through sunday, the company's way of trying to bring back a little good will of the company. >>> the mother of a girl on life support has written an emotional letter about her legal battle. in the letter she writes that she kno

and former soviet union countries have eliminated 80% of their nuclear arsenals.he deal had other attractions for both countries. >> what it removed was a huge proliferation concern. if russia had to store that, they would have had to add steps to secure and protect it. by blengd it down and then burning the fuel in nuclear power plants we don't have to worry about it anymore. >> the 100 u.s. nuclear power plants account for nearly a third of the world's power. >> 10% of the electricity generated in the united states over the last two decades, 20 years, has come from former weapons material that has been converted. >> but the climate for continued cooperation may have passed. russia refused to renew the nuclear threat reduction program with the u.s. which expired last month and since japan's nuclear plant disaster, the market has changed too. american power generation from now on it will be fuel already enriched in russia's own processing plants. tom ackerman, al jazeera, washington. >>> answer increase in the number of fish off of california is bringing about a s

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critics say the real problem is the unions, they claim that the unions protect teachers at the expense of students. the student for union facts took out a full page in the new york times attacking the president saying, and i'm quoting here, the teacher's union continues to protect incompetent teachers and refuses to award outstanding teachers with merit-based pay. the fact is the union has seen better days, the national association of teacher's union is losing members, holding teachers but losing revenue. this debate over the effectiveness has been going on for the better part of a century. but consider this, after world war ii in high school graduation rates the united states was number one, and today, the united states is number 22, as the debate goes on, megyn. >>> all right, trace, thank you. >>> joining us now, the woman in the advertisement, randy winegarten, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> let's start with that critic, the critics say that unions are the bad guy. >> it is so disappointing that richard berman would put an ad like that in today after the biggest actions

ripping on unions for failing our children? in a kelly file first, head of one of america's largest teachers union joins us live. next. looking forward to this, pl leno last night, or if you did, we've got the story from behind the scenes. don't go away. >> trace? >> it's news campaign american federation of teachers says public education is under attack and two, under found funded but look at this. united states rank theed number five in the world in per student spending. now, during national day of action you talked about teachers came out to reclaim public education. some of those opposed these common core standards american federation of teachers supports common core but cautions it's not a silver bullet. critics say the unions protect teachers at the expense of students. the center for union facts took out a full page ad in "new york times" attacking asd president randy winegarten saying teacher union continues to protect incompetent teachers. the fact is that unions have seen better days. national education association is

according to the president's army has all the chances to join the economic union. early in the giddiness that this circuit the place. countries that joined the union shall accept all the agreements there are some problems we still consider them together but we shouldn't allow any ascension to the customs union with the preservation of special regimes. i offered to support good use. on the floor addition to a foe in the opening of the week but the wall. the weather this is going to get government topical stuff instead insist on the creation of the special fund to support company was under a one joining the customs union. bishkek also expects to receive financial assistance and a mom of two hundred million dollars to equip the customs and border crossing points of the frontiers. in addition the prime minister of ukraine the kala as otto arrived in moscow to take part in the meeting the leaders of the state also discussed the treaty on the establishment of the eurasian economic union which is expected to be signed in may of next year this water shortages income extend

and the support of the customs union. it means that we are responsible for people for our motherland and we'll also the fence of the borders of the customs union and beneath the unit among the most to you additionally shot water cannons were bullets and teargas to riot squads of the anti government demonstrations in istanbul the demonstration was sanctioned by the local authorities to cement of the protest aions demand resignation of the government and ministers which might be involved in the corruption according to the facts are operational and ride which was held on december seventeen the beginning of the operation was surprising even for the leaders of the country. i missed it you can build on called operation as a dirty operation aimed at undermining his rule was only a total twenty four people have now been formally arrested including the sun and the minister of internal affairs and the son of the economic minister is worth noting that this is the first time when the skin of the scale directly concern the new guns en