that freezes up money for ukraine to go after ukraine, syria, i don't think western firms or company should be involved in privatization in russia. they need the money. we shouldn't be helping putin carry out aggression in military action. >> i think the issue that for both of you saying the sanctions if they're going to work, they never work by just imposing sanctions in the country and the country changes mind on policy. if they work, they work part of broader strategy, diplomacy, engagement, trade, military pressure, we saw a lot of the things brought to bare in the iran deal. as you know, we start linking the sanctions on ukraine with syria, they only get to a situation where it's not clear exactly what we are negotiating on, why would we list the sanctions on say if russia makes progress on ukraine and the whole things becomes more muddled. but i would also caution on the same note against some of the further sanction that is david is suggesting. if we start to sanction basically everybody at the top of the russian federal government, we cut down our opportunities for diplomacy

support for the revolution was lower in eastern ukraine where she is from. although most ukrainians were unhappy with corruption, many like tonya felt torn over the recent rolution, which is revolution, maidan named for the plaza where the revolution take place -- took place. ♪ announcer: despite the difficult situation she finds herself in, she still has hope for the future. she has received training at the democracy project and now has work with the city council. her town council and others like it across ukraine received support from the u.n. democracy fund, to help bring about reform in the country and give greater voice to the citizens. many of those consuls -- cou ncils like this one are enthusiastic supporters of reform. ya, at the -- oksan council, is in favor of the revolution. announcer: it is 10:00 a.m. on a thursday and oksanya is supervising a session. public representatives from the surrounding region have come to the city to vote on aundle of new proposals with far-reaching effects. she says the support they have received through the ui demo

and don ukraine i think ukraine, georgia, moldova all the same but on ukraine specifically, if the russians and the separatists do not implement men's can come we should not only increased sanctions, we should be providing arms -- minsk -- to the opinion government and ask the question what about congress? congress is way ahead of the administration on this. .. not a doesn't in any leader's mind, map for georgia and ukraine was a presidential priority. which is only reason we got the language that we got in that communique, that they will be member nations sometime. the president has to own these issues in order to bring others along. >> we have a conflict between john having last word but also being the one where they laid down the groundwork of 30 minutes. do you have comments about we open to questions? your cities. you're the host. >> i will speak. first 100 days the president has to state publicly our interest in the global order and transatlantic relationship and strengthening nato and eu. two, or or she should reendorse the warsaw summit decision on increasing our military capabiliti

russia, get out of ukraine. respect ukraine's sovereignty territorial integrity, we don't need a bigger discussion and argument about that. we even offered putin the mh 17 was an opportunity for him to pull the plug. he's not interested. he wanted to destabilize ukraine so ukraine is unattractive and unappealing to the west so we lose interest and joouk an unstable place which by the sway not in russia's interest to have a destabilized ukraine on the border. >> let's hold it there. i'm going ask about syria and come to the audience after that. be thinking about what questions you would like to ask. now about syria, we have a civil war. we have an isis stronghold. we have a regime that has killed a lot of owen people but a war that's out of control. russia has come in militarily, after taking away some chemical weapons. but they did come in militarily. they argue that they are going after terrorists inside syria and they include in that the optician to assad and they need to reestablish security as the first pryt

there is strong support in the congress for ukraine and i think the sense in congress is that to ukraine you need to tighten pressure on russia. >> this legislation ready to go. there's a variety of measures, a lot of support. this isn't something that the current administration has been willing to go to the mat to prevent. in fact, they support pressure on russia, although i agree with your characterization but it hasn't been enough and we don't see a code of sanctions the rather a failure of maintenance which is what has caused the fall of an economic impact you describe. the legislation that exists is a brighter differ proposals. there's lots of calls. i think the tiny chance but it could be a lame duck passage of more measures from congress this year, more likely next year. the challenge is there are a number of ideas and it's a concern, a real concern, that this idea isn't just on the congress companies elsewhere. linking to economic leverage such as it is pursuant to ukraine related sanctions with measures to try and pressure russia over syria. so linking the two which i think is a

and moregeorgia recently in crimea and the ukraine. they are all politicians so they understand the difference between campaigning and governing, and i think they are looking closely at his appointments, particularly the appointment of secretary of state. president obama was there on his underscore the successes administration has had in europe, and to assure them following his own conversations with mr. trump about the us of u.s. policy. -- about the course of u.s. policy. onlet's get some background 80, and key alliance formed at the conclusion of world war ii. there are currently 28 member countries. the headquarters is in belgium. this basic premise is a principal political decision-making body. one key aspect of article five of the nato treaty shall be considered an attack against all and it is yet to be invoked again. remarkable thes one time article five has been invoked was against the united states. until 9/11 it was assumed the reason it would be invoked was because of a soviet attack. birth duringe its the cold war, so it wa

this a response to russian aggression in crimea and ukraine. after wales nato created, expanded size of nrf and created bgtf, about 5,000. after warsaw nato deploying east 4,000 troops in these battalions. before nato announced this decision at the warsaw summit in july, as far back as january, the russians announced they were going to add 3,000 -- i'm sorry, three divisions to their western military district. since then, they have changed those numbers. they are adding two divisions or 20,000 troops to western military district and one of these has been reassigned to southern military district, which is the one closest to ukrainian border. so this is currently the balance of power in the northeast. you see on the left the size of the nato defense border, the fourth bar shows nato enhanced forward presence. the fifth bar shows if we added on top of that the vjtf. the sixth bar shows greater size of 30,000 of nato's rapid response force. and then the last before the red one, this is if we added all these nato capabilities together what they woul

this is not the ukraine that the protesters had fought for. the nationalists are not only strong, they're also hostile towards the young pro-european activists. there are now places in kiev where nazariy sovsun no longer feels safe. sovsun: at this station right now, i avoid kontraktova plozdha, because just recently there were attacks on the ravers, there were at least two attacks. one guy was beaten really seriously. reporter: but the ravers are not giving up their vision of a democratic ukraine, no matter how long the road ahead. michelle: more about the young pro-western raves from ukraine will soon be available in an upcoming dw documentary. be sure to tune in. the financial crisis of 2008 threatened to bring local craftsmen in a rural town in sardinia to its knees. banks stopped giving out loans. without credit, small local businesses started to fold. but a group of friends, who had grown up on the island in the mediterranean, came up with a solution. they realized that local companies still had the potential to produce goods and service

you know, we're in eastern ukraine now. how far is it going to go if we change and we say that well, okay, you know, i know russia doesn't like it. so maybe we change our policies. in fact, i would go another direction which is you know, i mean i think in terms of georgia and ukraine, we ought to be out there with a u.s. policy of membership for both of them as soon as we can get it. because i think that's the only way first of all, i think it's in our interests to have both of this em in the alliance. they both clearly want it. we've always maintain add open door policy. but i think it sends a very strong signal, as well that this is the path we're going to take. just one other thing on the nato expansion although i think john has really answered that. spent the '90s and into the 2000s working with russia. nato/russia council. we have gone over and above what we should have had to do to try to make it clear, i mean, i remember discussions in the '90s about russia becoming a member of nato. i mean, we have in so many ways s

issue, ithe ukraine have a chart showing the ukraine 29 bonds, shooting up the most in nine months. is it a valid concern that donald trump will be less willing than obama to protect ukraine from russian aggression? yes, i think the yields are up more than 80 basis points and the reason for that is that maybe people do believe that ukraine is now more vulnerable under a president trump fan under president obama. mr. trump has said he would recognizing russia's annexation of crimea and that could lead to the lifting of u.s. sanctions against russia. --putin's bruton economic aides says they expect just that. there is concern about the ongoing conflict in eastern ukraine and whether a trump administration is less willing than the obama administration to apply pressure on russia to withdraw its influence over that conflict, and to reach some kind of settlement. i think ukraine is very much concerned it will be more vulnerable and this could lead to an extreme increase in fighting. mark: tony, thanks a lot. john is still here. we have had all sorts of leaders across the globe comment on

and the ukraine criticism, the ukraine propaganda, i'm not going to analyze it because we don't have enough time, like it was directed not so much against ukraine but against the policy of the federation. [inaudible] which inspired the mind on revolution. [inaudible] [inaudible] but as the enemies of putin and, therefore, enemies of russia. this is a very important factor. because it is related to the fear of kremlin toward this possibility of maidan revolution petition in russia. so policy was reinforced not after maidan but in 2012 after -- in moscow -- [inaudible] limited the activities of the civil society which used censorship, persecution of opposition. this is when these so-called legislation against the ngos and foreign agents was introduced as propaganda was against the position as hidden western agents who conduct pro-u.s. policand our channels of input of the so-called color revolutions. the attitude towards putin is not linear. one should not receive 96% as the resultf euphoria of recognition of charismatic of putin. [inaudib] he is a charismatic leader, a demagogue who w

on ukraine, i think ukraine, georgia, moldova all in the same, but on ukraine specifically, if the russians and the separatists do not implement minsk, we should not only increase sanctions. we should be providing arms to the ukrainian government. and you asked a question, what about congress? congress is way ahead of the administration on this. i mean, from the beginning of the conflict, there has been legislation on the books authorizing lethal military assistance to the ukrainians. so congress, i don't think, is going to be a problem on that. on syria, i think we have to see. but i would like -- sanctions, yeah. i think we have to take a step back, though, too. david mentioned something in an earlier panel that i thought was actually correct. the president has to take leadership. has to own these policies. in order to bring along our international partners, bring along the american people. i mean, you might not have agreed with president bush on his europe policy about, you know, freedom agenda, europe, but when we went to bucharest summit, there was not a doubt in any leader's mind that

sentiments toward ukraine. list of unfriendly nations and estoniaithuania after the revolution of 2004 took place. within the context of this anti-western propaganda mother is a growing attitude towards germany the attractiveness of china has to medically raised as the anti-west desha hasatically raised as -- as part ofy raised anti-west -- the aggression comes from right to defend ourselves. [indiscernible] this is a war, we need to be patient. the most important motto here is we can achieve everything as long as there is no war. this is the illustration of the idea that russia has always taken. after putin came to power, the environment of animosity much to secure -- confrontation with creating an impression that russia counteracts the western influence. playing a more significant role in international areas. this is increasing influence, brings respect from other nations. restoration of the great powers, this is what people expected from putin. element inportant and, crimea annexation anti-western confrontat

and he needs little victories, like he has got in syria or ukraine. so, putin right now is going to try to get from the new american administration a consolidation, if you will, an and knowledge meant of his victories, the annexation of crimea, what is going on in eastern ukraine, what is going on in syria. he needs for the new administration to say, all right, vladimir, this is your victory. you won, you did everything right. we are going to establish the new world order together with you. i'm not sure if the new administration in the u.s. is ready for such a thing. we do not know yet. charlie: clearly, the new administration does not even have its team together, but that is one of the questions, the important questions, that came out of the campaign. what will be the relationship if donald trump wins between a president trump and a president putin? what kind of relationship? what kind of understandings might they have about the world order? my opinion is that putin has already worked out that model that he would like to use with donald trump. he wor

that of course could mean a change of policy, could mean a change of support towards ukraine. the scariest for ukrainian power would be simply not pro-russian policies coming from trump, but something i believe my really isolationism,be cutting down military budgets and investments, military investments, or support tort allies. in the name of reducing the budget and taxes for taxpayers. i would say that is the immediate concern of ukrainian leaders, but it's interesting to said that ukrainian leaders are removing all the hostile comments they had against trump before they found out about the victory. suddenly he's being very friendly and open. maybe there will be a lot of republicans who will tell trump to continue to support the ukraine. reporter: thanks for sharing that with us. president barack obama has spoken to his newly elected successor and invited him to the white house for talks tomorrow. in the past couple of hours, he has said he is heartened by trump's call for unity and promised to work with him for a smooth transition. it is no secret that the president-elect an

i would say ukraine might have a value in and of itself on top of that. charlie: as a border? neighbor,t is a near and you would like to have a government in kiev that is answerable to the -- to moscow, yes. but these are indeed just playing cards for him and nothing more, bargaining chips. --how weak is the russian economy? it is deteriorating. it is gradually losing its competitiveness. howan see this easily from are becomingoducts a smaller and smaller part of the whole manufacturing base. the nexte are at circle already, even education is getting worse because for the kind of industry you have in russia today, you don't need the kind of education that we used to have. nobody needs that science. so the degeneration is taking place and this is a process that has gone away already. this this mean that as a result of these economic problems, the regime will collapse? no, that does not mean that. a deterioration of the economy, in and of itself, is not going to drag down the foundations of regime. ♪ no matter how low the price of oil is, the regime will be able to withstand s

it gives a new plank of engage ago country like ukraine. japan and south korea wanted to be partners, they have been rebuffed. we have an article five commitment to those countries as well and if we really want to harness combined assets we should see how we should develop that so they could also provide activities. if australia is an enhanced opportunity partner, why aren't these others given that same opportunity? so i think there's rich area for new thinking. >> anyone else? richard? >> do we want to open it up to the audience who have questions. we have colleagues with a microphone so please raise your hand. please identify yourself and make your question brief. we'll go a little bit over. >> daphne comelli, potomac institutes. in view of the upcoming elections and the changes in europe, where do you see u.s. support for nato going at this point. i know it's everybody's guess, but in any case where would the pendulum swing in terms of u.s. support for nato. >> thank you for that question. can we take one more? we'll take a couple questi

and he needs little victories, like he's got in syria for example or ukraine. so putin right now is going to try to get from the new american administration and a consolidation, if you will, of the acknowledgment of his victory, the annexation of crimea, what's going on in eastern ukraine, what's going on in syria. he needs for the new administration to say all right, vladimir this is your victory. we're going to establish the new worm order together with you. i'm not sure if the new administration in the u.s. is ready for such a thing. >> rose: we don't know yet. clearly the new administration doesn't even have its team together. but that is one of the questions, an important question that came out of the campaign. what will be the relationship if donald trump wins between a president trump and a president putin. what kind of relationship, what kind of understandings might they have about the world order? >> my opinion is that putin has already worked out that model that he would like to use with donald trump. he worked it out on berstoni. he's going to look f

are perhaps guided by russian forces on the territory of ukraine. from scotland and i want to go back to a tweet during the december month saying they would soon be calling me exit."rigg any reaction? guest: mr. trump at that time, he has made himself clear that he thinks that brexit is a good idea. it is not clear if the fully understands how it is rated with britain in the european union or what the consequences will be for britain. being that hisr golf course in scotland and about the time of the vote, and commenting that all the people , when him favored brexit in fact, scots voted to stay in the european union, as opposed to england, which voted to leave. it is important to understand ant the u.k. has been integral part of the european they gonce 1974, and as through this divorce, there is going to be a lot of disruption in terms of regulation. for example, u.s. firms that have based themselves in britain in order to have a doorway into the european union and the rest of europe, the 28 member states, 27, with britain as the 28th, in terms of ha

while crimea was part of ukraine in 2014, the year of the revolution. the pro europe protests led to the ousting of the russia-friendly regime of viktor yanukovych. many are disenchanted by persistent corruption and the oligarchs who will not go away. reporter: three years ago, this man spent months demonstrating against you came for russian government. president viktor yanukovych was forced out of power and many thought things would change, but the post-soviet elite has maintain power and corruption is rampant. >> they still are in the country with the oligarchs who can call it counter revolution also, if you want, and this is bad, but this is something that i was expecting. you know, i was saying just after that it is not going to be better. i was sure it was going to be worse. reporter: three years on, might on square -- the square, the center of the protesting kiev, highlights huge discrepancies in ukrainian society. the wealth of the elite and the poverty of the overwhelming majority. soldiers in uniform hang out with ordinary people. the ukrainian

the independent osce report is not yet available. >> four eastern ukraine, this is the third winter at war. our efforts to revitalize the so-called minsk peace process ended in a deadlock could ukraine and russia-backed separatists cannot agree on a role to bring peace to the region. brent: all right, time for a check of the business news. the oil industry is hoping for a deal that probably will never come. reporter: that's right. all eyes on the oil-producing countries. oil prices dropped as much as 4% ahead of the opec meeting on wednesday. the aim is to cut production to bolster prices. experience shows that that is easier said than done. many doubt we will see a deal. it means losing market share. in the meantime, the economies of many opec members are suffering. the situation is particularly difficult in iraq. reporter: iraqi troops advancing on mosul. the battle for the city has been raging for a month now with no end in sight. the fighting has cost many lives and plenty of money. retreating i.s. fighters leave burning oil fields behind. iraq's budget is in tatters. the countries

will be maintained. >> japan's ambassador to ukraine spoke as the representative of the group of seven nations. the facility was built with aid from the g7 and other members of the international community. >> we think that the completion of the new safe confinement, in the 30th year since the c catastrophe is a significant achievement to provide a stable and environmentally safe condition. >> in april 1986, a nuclear reactor at the chernobyl plant exploded during a test run, releasing huge amounts of radioactive materials. the reactor was later coveredby a concrete and metal structure, called a sarcophagus, to enclose radioactive substances. but concerns were growing that they would leak from the abelging structur ure >>> south korea's opposition party are considering how to proceed with an impeachment motion against president park guen-hye. park says she'll step down before her term expires in february 2018 over an influence peddling scandal. >> translator: if ruling and opposition party lawmakers discuss and come up with a plan to minimize confusion and the vacuum in state affairs th

this a response to russian aggression in crimea and ukraine. after wales nato created, expanded size of nrf and created bgtf, about 5,000. after warsaw nato deploying east 4,000 troops in these battalions. before nato announced this decision at the warsaw summit in july, as far back as january, the russians announced they were going to add 3,000 -- i'm sorry, three divisions to their western military district. since then, they have changed those numbers. they are adding two divisions or 20,000 troops to western military district and one of these has been reassigned to southern military district, which is the one closest to ukrainian border. so this is currently the balance of power in the northeast. you see on the left the size of the nato defense border, the fourth bar shows nato enhanced forward presence. the fifth bar shows if we added on top of that the vjtf. the sixth bar shows greater size of 30,000 of nato's rapid response force. and then the last before the red one, this is if we added all these nato capabilities together what they woul

will be maintained. >> japan's ambassador to ukraine spoke as the representatative o the group of seven nations. the facility was built with aid from the g-7 and other members of the international community. >> we, the members think that the completion of the sliding of the new safe confinement is a significant achievement to convert the chernobyl site into stable and environmentally safe condition. >> exploded at a test run releasing nuclear materials. the reactor was later covered by a concrete and medal structure to enclose the radio active substances. but concerns were growing that they would leak from the aging structure. >>> singapore's president and first lady are visiting japan. the emperor and empress welcomed the couple at the imperial palace on wednesday. tony and his wife, mary, are on a five-day state visit to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic ties.. thee crown prince andnd shinzo were also there to greet them. tan took a moment to review the ground self-defense force honor guard. more than 130 people welcomed the presidential couple, including schoolchildren and embassy off

our worry is that he will cut a deal with putin and give away ukraine to the russians. essentially abandoning one of our key allies in the region, walking away from our longstanding effort to try to rid ukraine of russian influence. so i hope that he will spend the time to get up to speed. if he spends time with people understand what russia is trying to do, he will continue the policy of supporting the ukrainian government and support all efforts by putin to make ukraine a proxy state of moscow. >> what's the most pressing concern you have right now about the trump presidency? >> well, my most pressing concern is the threat to the united states of terrorism abroad. if donald trump sticks on his plan to ban muslims from the united states, even if he doesn't achieve it through an act of congress. if he continues to talk in a way that makes muslims in the united states make them feel like they're not part of the collective, i hope the smart people can say the way we protect ourselves against lone wolf attackers is to build communities. not to continue this talk that every

sanctions that were imposed because of ukraine and because of crimea. these economic sanctions are hurting russia, and it's a big priority for the government to get them removed. so, i think there is a feeling that maybe, if the relationship improves, they could get rid of the sanctions. and then overall, better relations. really for mr. putin, it's transactional. he wants -- he wants, you know, real things. not just kind of a buddy-buddy relationship with donald trump. >> interesting. also, also, william, i think that russia yearns again to be a superpower, right? it's not a superpower right now. its economy is in the tank. right? and, to appear on the same stage with the american president might give the illusion that russia is again a superpower? >> it certainly contributes to the idea that russia is a great power. which it is. it's a large country in between china and europe. two of the three richest markets in the world. has a lot of potential influence both global affairs and affairs closer to home. the problem for putin is that just establishing

the activities in ukraine and then the occupation and activities in eastern part of ukraine all have made it more challenging for nato to meet the nato requirements for a session. that's a strategy that we have to counter. i would like to see ukraine in nato. i would like to see us develop a path that we can get there. the same thing is there with -- and they recognize as long as they can continue that uncertainty that because of the border uncertainty issues, it's unlikely that georgia can make it to full participation in nato. we should counter that by showing a way that they can get full participation in nato. i very much want to go oen o a path that we can get there. that will require the u.s. leadership because we're more intere interest interested in that expansion. >> okay. let's go over here. yes, right there. yeah. i would say to do that and that's in particular and that's the defense and any less secure and then going to approach and is there any alternative as an independent if they have to. >> yeah, that's a great question. a lot of things. >> that's beyond the foreign po

with regard to the question on ukraine, i agree with curt voelker. don't agree with the facts you laid out. i think the facts are different. if you take one bit about the allegation that nato is moving its military closer, if you look at the numbers of forces that nato has placed in the east, they are in no way a threat to russia. and it was only done after a long and careful evaluation chlt thanks. >> i agree with what was said about the other answers. i'll adjust believe focus on the decision-making. i think it is time fortunate tow to, for the north atlantic council, the political leadership to realize it is not in a military implementation business. that it has created these forces t can create whether these forces enter combat. but i think it should defer to sacu and other military commanders the authority to train these forces, to have snap exercises for these forces, to move them two to three times a year across the alliance, it will improve readiness, which is a key need of the alliance and it will improve deterrence in europe to have these f

and the third very important look what happened in ukraine. through the war in the battle the population has very horrific memories. this is a very significant reason. of course russia violates what international law but the key punishment and therefore an ethical. therefore it is unethical act because russia restores its status by conducting ethical policy. it's not only people but also service of a system of protection of defense. therefore despite the fact that one other way official media say they're only volunteers there, people are perfectly aware that russian military the volunteers were the troops fight their and this is the right thing because there were is the worst cheating in the war. >> trimmer questions but they must be very short. >> will very quickly respond to these because we are already past time. i see three handset. >> i like to ask in the context of the if you're defined as a foreign agent. >> with american propaganda being such a cornerstone of pollutants popularity, his notion that president putin, i'm sorry president t

mike brookbank, news 5. >> i guess we are going to ukraine. >> that is where we are the champions. i like it. there is some sunshine in this cloudy forecast. up tonight as well. i love it when you get those clouds at sunset. it doesn't get more beautiful than that. thank you, wooster for this great shot. we have some chill moving in as temperatures drop off. a little more cloud cover east and 54 kirkland and for this evening plans if you are grabbing a bite to eat it is 55 in madison and picking up on a little bi has just popped back up on the power of 5. chagrin falls will be having light rainfall driving on 422 into cuyahoga. solon and orange may have a little bit of light rain action, but that is really it. temperatures for the south 56 ashland and 54. hour by hour we expect our temperatures to drop off but not significant because we are keeping added cloud cover. yesterday was upper 70s being squeezed out by the first cold front that hit in a second is ushering in these darker blues that will keep your highs tomorrow down into the lower 50s. is interesting because it doesn't ac

born in ukraine. got her ph.d. here in the united states, and like wise arguing the case that now is not the time to reengage with russia. to kick us off, i'm going to pose the question again which is is it time after the u.s. presidential election for the united states to reengage with russia and i'm going to turn it to tom graham to start us off. >> thank you, kurt. and thank you to the mccain institute for hosting this event this evening. both paul and i and i think the others are glad to be here. the eruption of the ukraine crisis in 2014 marked the end of an era in u.s.-russian relations. developing a new approach to be one of the priorities of the administration. it is different than 25 years ago. the global balance of power is shifting from europe to asia, new technologies are defusing power and changing the way society's interact. in our interconnected world it is ground us to isolate another major power. second, russia may be in a prolonged period of stagnation. but branding purpose and time spent and made

or deep stabilize the ukraine government that destabilize the ukraine -- destabilize the ukraine government? we continue to see firing along theexchanged line of contact and recently what yet another reaffirmation of the ceasefire, the number of incidents has increased. i think both countries will probably engage in actions and counteractions to try to promote instability. and clearly the russians want to sustain influence in a traditional part of a greater russia, which is ukraine. so i suspect that sort of pressure will continue. i don't see much prospect for resolution or compliance with the accords. i think we just continue the stale mate we are in. mr. schiff: do you ascribe any significance to the timing of that resumption of that campaign following the discussion with the president-elect? mr. clapper: i can't speculate on what impacts any discussions with the new administration would have but i can tell you right now that the russians are sustaining their behavior. they are increasingly putting more pressure on opposition on in aleppo and indiscriminately bombing women, children and

we continue to stand with the people of ukraine and for the basic principal that nations have control of destiny and russia complies with the agreement. as part of the coalition against isil, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure. here in berlin this week coalition members are meeting to ensure we remain unified and focused on our mission to destroy isil. we are grateful for vital contributions germany has made to this fight, training local forces in iraq, sharing intelligence, providing aircraft including the recent deployment of additional nato awax and as iraqi forces continue deliberation of mosul, i'm pleased that nato will begin to begin training additional forces in iraq which started this january. we also continue to stand united with germany and our nato allies in our ongoing efforts to build peace and stability in afghanistan. on syria, it's clear that the attacks on civilians by the assad regime and russia will only worsen the humanitarian catastrophe and a negotiated end to the conflict is the only way to achieve lasting peace in syria. angela and

and then came ukraine. the revolution of 2004 took place, and ukraine is, from time to time, becomes the unfriendly country or even an enemy. but lately within the context of the general anti-western propaganda there's growing antipathy toward germany which is very nonuncharacteristic because it was always a positive sentiment toward germany as well as toward poland and great britain. if we take 2008, we can see the list of the friendly nations and enemy nations. the attractiveness of china has dramatically raised as the rhetorical -- of the west. but first of all, it's the fault of the united states. there is no doubt, but they carry the burden of the worsening of the situation. and russia was always represented as a victim of the foreign animosity, foreign aggression which allows to use in the domestic policy to preserve the domestic policy. the aggression comes from outside from the only defender, but what is also important is the rise of the anxieties and feelings of the pre-war state of mind because th

i talked to him about ukraine. i urged him to instruct his negotiators to work with ourselves, with france, with germany, with ukraine to see if we could get that done before my term is up. as usual, it was a candid and courteous meeting, but very clear about the strong differences we have on policy. d not, because that's behind us, and i was focused in this brief discussion on moving forward. i already made clear to him our concerns around cyber attacks specific, as well as concerns we had surrounding the dnc hack. then't think this will be norm, but as i've said before, the concern i have has less to do with any particular misinformation or propaganda that is being put out by any particular party, and a greater generalabout the misinformation from all kinds of sources, both domestic, foreign, that make itia, very difficult for voters to fi gure out what's true and what's not. and let me put it this way, i strong, ac have a press, and responsible and we have a strong, civic culture and an engaged then various atte

juncker urging the dutch government to ignore the result on ukraine. frankly, it's a disgrace. it's worse that it is supported by people in the british parliament. they are desperate to beat britain inside this awful, single market. i'm sorry, it simply isn't going to happen. 17.4 million people who could not have been clearer. we voted to say we want our country back. in the end, that is what is going to happen. i have to confess, though, mrs. mays position, in her five minutes was somewhat curious for her to argue that britain must have a full vote and a full say in all of the affairs up until the time we leave is a very mixed message. i have seen already this morning, some take it as as sign of weakness. we need to get on with it. every single day that goes by is a lost opportunity. you only have to see after seven years of negotiation, the proposed trade agreement with canada, having been vetoed absolutely proves in modern 21st century global economy simply isn't fit for purpose. i want us to get on with it. this club is very expensive. we are paying in net, 30 million poun

. >> and crimea but occupies territories in ukraine so people want to know why this matters. if trump softens on russia -- >> flynn supports softening those sanctions. >> if you start taking money from someone, it seems that -- well, that just impeaches everything you say about them hence forward. you look like the person getting paid. >> considering what a huge issue this was, this was a big problem to him yet. but the prism -- >> in his case taking money from the anti-mullah group in iran. >> the former milosevic government as well. but the prism through which we have to judge these appointments is we have to remember what donald trump ran as. experience in any of this but the one thing he was going to do was being b a good manager who picks someone who has experience. if you look at flynn the up with thing that distinguishes him from everyone else is he was loyal. guy of his pedigree who was loyal to donald trump the whole experience, he's been in iraq but he's not like a condi rice or a colin powell type figuring. >> the "times" has been active reporting on this whole pro

they were talking about the ongoing conflict in syria and iraq and ukraine. most of this, of course, regarding russia and its role in these conflicts. we know from the white house press statement which came out later today that all leaders agreed on the need of extent of sanctions on russia regarding the ukraine conflict as long as russia fails to meet the minsk process. >> one of those leaders was british prime minister theresa may. what kind of reception did she get? >> quite a normal one. i know the british made quite a fuss about the seating arrangement, ensuring she did not sit very close to barack obama or angela merkel, trying to read into it some importance about the deterioration of the relationship with the european union and international community. what we could see was that theresa may tried to make a point in saying that great written, of course, will continue to play a major role in international security, britain will continue to meet its commitments also within europe, although britain wants to leave the european union, so i think all of this

all these crises that i mentioned, ukraine, georgia, syrian refugee, syrian civil war, isis, libya, these are things that nato is largely not dealing with -- or not dealing with effectively at the moment. and i think a new administration needs to call on nato to do that. finally -- thirdly, i'm sorry, thirdly, we need to reiterate our commitment and belief to a europe whole free and at peace. a europe where all the people of europe have the same rights as everybody else to chart their own destiny as democracies, market economies in a secure environment. there shouldn't be a dividing line that says some countries that happen to make it in in 2002 are covered and those that were left out, well, too bad and now you're part of russia's fear of influence. we should not accept that. finally, we should reach out to russia but we should do so on the basis of making clear that russia has the choice to make. nato is there as a collective defense organization. one, based on these core values. it does not threaten anyone or seek to threaten anyone, but it will be strong in defending its members. and

in fomenting that conflict in eastern ukraine. russia clearly did not like it. dispute divided the art world. it could either be one of the most important discoveries in recent years are a very well-crafted fate. experts cannot agree on the authenticity of 65 drawings that could have been the work of vincent van gogh. it's been hailed as the biggest art discovery in years. unsigned drawings that are said to be the work of vincent van gogh. a sketchbook with an unusual format, a unique and very thin type of paper. reporter: the sketches were found in a southern france city betweenn gogh lived 1888-1890. they are now being published worldwide after being authenticated by an art historian and van gogh expert. >> i've seen many men goes that were supposedly been goes, and they were not. here i have in my hand something that i knew was very special, and i looked at it and i saw all the things that van gogh stands for. >> they had been dismissed as complete fakes. >> an important aspect of the drawings that we've seen is that they are d

i talked to him about ukraine. to instruct his negotiators to work with ourselves, with france, with germany, with ukraine to see if we could get that done before my term is up. usual, it was a candid and courteous meeting, but very clear about the strong governance as we have -- differences we have on policy. the issues in the election did not, because that's behind us, and i was focused in this brief discussion on moving forward. i already made clear to him our concerns around cyber attacks specific, as well as concerns we had surrounding the dnc hack. then't think this will be norm, but as i've said before, the concern i have has less to do with any particular misinformation or propaganda that is being put out by any particular party, and a greater generalabout the misinformation from all kinds of sources, both domestic, foreign, that make itia, very difficult for voters to fi gure out what's true and what's not. and let me put it this way, i strong, ac have a press, and responsible and we have a strong, civic c

and so in -- on issues like ukraine, on issues like syria, we've had very significant differences. and my hope is the president-elect coming in takes a similarly constructive approach. finding areas where we can cooperate with russia. where our values and interests align. but that the president-elect also is willing to stand up to russia where they are deviating from our values and international norms. and i don't expect that the president-elect will follow exactly our approach, but my hope is he does not simply take a real politic approach and suggest that, you know, if we just cut some deals with russia, even if it hurts people or even if it violates international norms or even if it leaves smaller countries vulnerable, or creates long-term problems in regions like syria, that we just do whatever's convenient at the time. and that will be something that i think we'll learn more about as the president-elect puts his team together. i am encouraged by the president-elect's insistence that nato is a commitment that does not change, and his full commitment to nato as the foundation fo

disagreements over the conflicts in syria and ukraine have been the main source of tension between russia and the u.s. trump's transition team confirmed that trump told putin he's looking forward to building a strong and enduring relationship with russia. >>> meanwhile, u.s. president barack obama has suggested trump will be pragmatic in office. given the president-elect's campaign rhetoric, that could come as a surprise to some. >> this office has a way of waking you up. and those aspects of his positions or predispositions that don't match up with real y reality, he will find shaken up pretty quick. >> o obama spoke in his first ns conference since the election and says he gave trump some advice in their recent meeting at the white house. he says he told him that campaigning is different from governing, adding he thinks trump recognizes that. obama also says the president-elect expressed great interest in maintaining country's core strategic relationships. >>> according to south korean media, seoul has confirmed it knew pyongyang sent a senior diplomat to meet with u.s. experts in switz

with the negative sentiments toward ukraine have grown. general, the list of nations was always led by the former soviet , latvia, lithuania, and estonia, later it was georgia, and then came ukraine. after the revolution of 2004 took place. the unfriendly country or the enemy. within the context of this general anti-western propaganda, there is a growing attitude towards germany. there was always a positive sentiment toward germany as well as poland. take a look at the list of enemy nations. the attractiveness of china has has dramatically raised as part of the rhetorical attack of the west. russia was always presented as a victim of foreign aggression, domesticows it to use policy, a sort of moral righteousness. what is also important is the feelings of the prewar state of this threat of war remains al removes all the clais andnst the government increases the personal ambitions. this is a war, we need to be patient. the most important motto here is we can endure everything as long as there is no war. this is the illustration of the idea t

it was trump that said that ukraine is basically russian anyway. that russians don't have anyone in southeast ukraine. trump hates the idea of the u.s. exceptionalism, that's really music to putin's ears so they're going to work much more closely together and i expect that u.s. sanctions under trump against russia are going to diminish. but there's no question that will make other countries uneasy because it's the idea of shared values that brought the europeans and americans so close together and that's what trump will throw away. he really views alliances as much more transactional, the way he views his business and the way he views his marriages. it doesn't have to do with underlying values, it these do with are we both getting something out of the deal? and in that regard if he can sit down with putin and get something done, that's great and if europeans aren't paying as much for defense, they're not important. that's a repudiation of how the u.s. has engaged in foreign policy for decades now. >> i want to start with where jim woolsey started.