government launched an elaborate international sting to nab viktor bout. what makes bout so dangerous? and how did d.e.a. agents eventually grab him? the answers in our story later. [ticking] this is what espionage looks like. the man driving the car is gregg bergersen. he's a civilian analyst at the pentagon with one of the nation's highest security clearances. his companion is tai shen kuo, a spy for the people's republic of china. bergersen knew a secret that the chinese desperately wanted to know, and neither man knows that what they're about to do is being recorded by two cameras the fbi has concealed in their car. >> let you have the money. >> oh, oh. are you sure that that's okay? >> yeah, it's fine. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm bob simon. in this edition, we turn our attention to some foreign intrigue. first, a story about a mysterious computer virus that struck an iranian nuclear plant. later, the report of how american agents hunted a notorious arms dealer. and finally, an account of a chinese-american spy trying to steal u.s. military s

many in the media blame the second coming of the prime minister viktor orban. >> viktor orban lost thelection in 2002. and the lesson he learnt from the lost election was his biggest enemy, besides the media. >> you don't have to be critical or the opposition. if you try to be middle of the road, independent. that can cause you problems. >> hungary witnessed two major media protests this year. the largest was in october, when the government tried to pass the world's first internet tax, a tax on data. what it proposed would have made watching videos on youtube a money spinner for the ot government. protests from so big laws from solved. all media outlets were required to pay half of advertising revenues for the government. newspapers ran blank pages in protest. tv screens faded to black and radio stations broadcast the sound of static. hungary's largest private broadcaster said the law would hit them harder than any other media outlet. they said the orban government was targetting them deliberately. >> this advertising tax is against rpl. we have 15% of the market, and we pay 80% of the

ukraine had been a declared non-alliance state since 2010, under the presidency of viktor yanukovych. at the end of that time they said basically that right, he's gone, viktor yanukovych's gone, we are in a position to declare non-aligned status. this is what they have done, it's left a door open for them to join n.a.t.o. russia's response has been quick to voice their concern. listen to the ward of dmitri medvedev. he is saying and chose his words carefully - an application for nato membership will turn ukraine into a potential military opponent for russia. so those are strong words. russia had been worried and continues to be worried about n.a.t.o.'s ongoing east wood expansion, and ukraine would be a former soviet state too far. >> where does it leave the peace talks that may take place as soon as tomorrow? >> i don't know. i think there's a lot of confusion in minsk and ukraine itself. petro porashenko announced in the last 12 hours that the talks will go ahead. but if you talk to the donetsk people's republic, the rebels who will be part of the talks, there doesn't seem to be a f

that's america tonight, we do hope you join us on wednesday on our program shiela mc-viktor will continuexclusive in depth use of burn pits used in iraq and afghanistan and the concern that toxic smoke from them has sickened millions of veterans and out lawed in 2009 but the military still using them as late as last year and we will explain why. if you want to comment on any stories you have seen log on to our website al jazeera/america tonight and join the conversation with us on twitter or at our facebook page, good night, we will have more of america tonight tomorrow. teach for america is supposed to educate poor children. >> schools where kids need grade teaching the most. >> can unprepared teachers make a difference? >> why are we sending them teachers with 5 weeks of training? >> new terror threats to international travel. also lebanon says it has the wife of isil's leader in custody. do they have the right person? >> the death penalty case in texas that has republicans and democrats calling for mercy. welcome to consider this, those stories and much more straight ahead. >> britain'

ing leading to a resignation of viktor yanukovych. started with backing pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine. robert cap lal kaplan, the chief strategy and why america was responding the way it was. >> russia comprises half the land mass, and yet has less population than bangladesh. putin knows it has been invaded by swedes, lithuanians and poles. foreign policy for russia is always looking for targets of opportunity not to recreate the soviet union. , soviet union collapsed because of the financial burden of actually ruling places like ukraine and the warsaw pacts what he wants to do is recreate the soviet sphere of influence. >> i think that's right. they have to worry about what might happen down the road. even if they don't face immediate dangers right now they have to wonder what might happen in the future. and remember, over the past 20 years, russia has seen nato gradually moving its borders easteastward. given that history and geographic location, i think the way about right and the contrast with the united states couldn

weeks of protests led to the departure of pro-russian president viktor yanukovych. the e.u. and kiev wanted closer ties with europe. in response russia started to back pro-russian separatists. we talk to sieve ward, harvard professor. and robert kaplan a chief political strategist from springfield massachusetts - about what was at stake and why russia was responding the way it was. >> russia comprises half the long attitudes of the earth, yet it has less people than bangladesh. land powers are perennially insecure and rush say is the ultimate land power. vladimir putin nose that russia has been invaded not just by the germans and french but swedes lithuanians and polls. foreign policies are looking for targets of opportunity not to recreate the soviet union. vladimir putin is smart enough to know that the soviet union collapse because of the financial burden of ruling places like ukraine and warsaw packed places. he wants to recreate the soviet sphere of influence. that's right. if you look at russia's history and geographic situation, you have to worry about what might happ

pro-russian president viktor yanukovych fled the capital and office. crimea and outraged president obama announced sweeping sanctions -- >> this is not our preferred outcome. these sanctions would not only have a significant impact on the russian economy but could also be disruptive to the global economy. >> reporter: to this day. president putin refuses to break with the pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine. and successive rounds of western sanctions totally tens of billions of dollars have taken their toll on the russian economy. >> the most important thing about sanctions is that right now they're preventing russia from renegotiating its $600 billion in debt. that's a big deal because as the ruble starts to lose value that becomes more and more oppressive as inflation rises. >> reporter: the crisis in ukraine took an even more grave turn when malaysia airlines flight 17 was shot out of the sky near the russian border. ukraine says it was a russian missile which brought the plane downment russia and the pro-russian separatists in control of the

[ticking] >> viktor bout, in my eyes, is one of the most dangerous men on the face of the earth. >> onth? >> without a doubt

viktor. >> she can understand and accept anything that is explained to her and proven to her even herbut she says that under such bizarre circumstances and with so many questions, investigators have a long way to go to convince her that her son lennon killed himself. >> the last time she heard lennon lacy was around the time she snapped this selfie. last night pic before the game. he was a high school student and a lineman on the football team focused on a professional football career. >> he was a physical fit 17-year-old, very athletic. very, very athletic. down to his food, everything he drank. >> lennon had asthma and had to exercise at night after the temperature dropped. something his family says he did often. lennon headed out for a walk the night of august 28th. they never saw him alive again. the next morning -- >> it's a black male hanging from the swing. >> lennon's body was found dangling, covered in fire ants, in the center of a mobile home park. >> it's out in the open. there's trailers all around. people were, you know, around the clock at these hours of the day. someone

we need to tackle the viktor that transports the malaria the mosquitos and tackle with drives hopefullyh vaccines and it's the combination of all those interventions that really makes the difference, so comprehensive approaches including environmental management that your previous report was alluding to in bangladesh and manmade malaria and preventing malaria and need tools being brought together and what we witnessed, it's a combination of all of this that delivers impact and allows us to move forward. >> doctor, well done to you and everybody else who is doing everything they can and good luck in the future, thank you very much indeed. >> thank you for your support. >> reporter: in nigeria the group boko haram continues to capture towns north of the country, all part of attempt to establish a so called counter fate there and how is boko haram governing these areas? we report from the area of yola. >> reporter: when boko haram was here she was in school, her family fled without her, for three weeks she lived under the rule before taking a back road to escape. >> translator: they are pa

we had a president called viktor, who is now hiding in russia. he had imprisoned the number one on the batkivshchyna list, yulia tymoshenko. she has been released, but now the current number one on the party list is in prison, this time in russia... >> what? say it again please? >> the number one on the list of yulia tymoshenko's party, batkivshchyna, is currently in a russian prison. i have a question: on what conditions will you release ukrainian pilot savchenko, ukrainian film director oleg sentsov and at least 30 ukrainian prisoners of war whom you are keeping in various prisons in russia? thank you. >> let's begin with the second question, and then i will certainly answer your first question. the question about ukrainian citizen savchenko and the conditions for her release. i have an open and, as far as i can see, a clear position on this issue. you can see in this audience the colleagues of our journalists they are also your colleagues who have died in the line of duty in southeast ukraine. i want to stress that they did not take part in fi