should arm ukraine. should the u.s. arm ukraine. i wanted to start the program today with a little bit of a poll to e see just how many of you think you have made up your minds about your own answer to this question. how many of you think you have already decided. how many of you have not yet decided and are open to being swayed. gentlemen, you have a very tall order at hand. for those watching online, on c-span, i invite you to follow us on twitter. and maybe wondering why are we covering this topic now. it's been three years really since we started having this debate here in the united states about whether we should indeed arm ukraine. i think we did have that discussion a couple years ago. but things have changed. we have a new president. the situation on the ground has changed significantly. in ukraine. and we now have a kind of push and you're starting to see people like ambassador wolter. talking about the real possibility of sending some kind of weaponry to ukraine. it's a debate that really started to reemerge again on the p

should arm the ukraine. that is the question at hand. should the u.s. arm ukraine? i wanted to start with a little ll to see how many of you think you have made up your minds about the own -- your own answer to the question. how many of you think you have already decided? how many of you have not decided and are open to being swayed? gentlemen, you have a very tall order at hand. for those of you watching online, on c-span, i invite you tter at thes on twi #futureukraine and you may be wondering why we are covering this topic now. it's been three years since we started having this debate in the u.s. whether or not we should indeed arm ukraine. i think we did have that discussion a couple of years ago , but things have changed, we have a new president. the situation on the ground has changed significantly in ukraine and we now have a kind of push and you are starting to see curte like ambassador welker who has nearly been named as the u.s. representative of talkingnegotiations about the very real possibility of sending some kind of weaponry to u.k. and it's a debate

this is about ukraine, and we cannot understand ukraine and we can't make decisions about ukraine without listening to ukraine. >> and please do not make any decisions about ukraine without ukraine. >> absolutely. on that -- [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> this morning the seventh health, education, labor and pensions committee continues with a series of hearings on health care. the focus today is how to improve the individual insurance market. witnesses will include doctors, executives from hospitals and insurance providers. live coverage begins at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span3 come online at c-span.org or on the free c-span radio app. >> kentucky senator rand paul introduced an amendment repealing the 2001 and 2002 authorization for use of military force in iraq and afghanistan. next, the debate on the amendment from the senate floor afterwards, center devoted 61-36 to table the imminent. this is 50 minutes. >> center for marilyn. >> thank you, mr. president. earlier this week we comm

but i disagree that the notion that ukraine is not the -- the fight in ukraine is not of vital interest to the united states and let my explain i would. we have an absolutely critical interest in maintaining the post-world war ii, post-cold war security order, which was established in europe in 1945, and an order based upon the sanctity or borders, of sovereign states, the resolution of disputes peacefully. that order, following the most destructive war in human history, world war ii, has given us an absolutely unprecedented in history 75 years of -- or 70 plus years of stability and prosperity. in 1945, only 10% of the world's population was not living in poverty. today it's 90% is not living in poverty. 10% live in poverty today. no major wars between major powering are despite all the failures of policies, including many failures of american policy which raj laid out in his presentation. maintaining this is critical for our security and for our well-being. and the problem, it's very simple. we have the word's second greatest military power motherrodding in europe. the kremlin want as

city in ukraine called kharkiv. karr kif. it's eastern ukraine, close to the russian border and march of this year 20,000 people had to be evacuated out of there because arms depot used by ukrainian army caught fire. that's what that looks like. fire is never good but in place storing thousands of tons of artillery shells is really not good. moved 20,000 people out of the way for obvious reasons and that kept exploding and burning for days. kept blowing off artillery shells every direction. happened in march. fire stopped and got back into town found pieces of missiles, artillery shells and tank rounds all over the town. ukrainian government said the fire didn't start by accident. that's nearby where russian and russian-supported troops have been pushing at the border. ukrainians say they think it blew up because somebody flew a drone over the depot and dropped incendiary device into it, set off the fire and rounds going. days-long set of explosions. in march. earlier this month it happened again in city right on the front li

we had many other issues but not ukraine. again, stephen, the rhetoric that you are now using reminds me very much of the rhetoric that was used colin powell and other guys in the security council while preparing a military attack on iraq. it was actually the same wording, iraq does develop weapons of mass destruction we need to protect the national security of the united states of america, we need to protect the national security of our allies and this is why we will move ahead. we know how it all finalised and how it all continues to develop. vladimir putin has put on the table a proposal to introduce un peacekeepers, blue helmets into that disputed zone of east ukraine. the donbass and the luhansk regions. but it‘s interesting that nobody it seems in the west and certainly not petro poroshenko, the ukrainian president, are taking this seriously because president putin says those un peacekeepers should only be on the line of conflict, not throughout the disputed territory and certainly not on the russian border. this prop

ukraine's president front and center. the president of ukraine for his only u.s. television interview he joins us in a foxbusiness explosive. can you get a firm promise to president trump. we will talk to him about pushing back vladimir putin and russia. will they ever get the region back. nato and the trade with the u.s. and much more. the winning streak looks like it's coming to an end. don't count out apple. getting hit for the second day in a row. let's start the countdown. this is a global story as well 15 people dead 20 others the exact location hundred 35 miles face much more on the hurricane and what really faces of in puerto rico until december. you will not believe what they will have to face. no refrigeration. let's quickly check the markets. it might snap the longest winning streak it seemed since early august. yes it is apple. trading at levels not seen in nearly two months steven mnuchin is breaking the news. the president strengthened and he signed an executive order that strengthened the u.s. government's ability to cut off funding to the north kor

ukraine once peace and restoration. russia wants control of ukraine and undermines every effort to restore -- restore sovereign control within the border. tried to exchange peace in ukraine for their freedom. and i'm going to make a very strong message. ukraine would never accept that kind of deal, nor will the international community. [applause] the latest hybrid peacekeeping proposal from moscow is yet another example of russia's real ambition. to legalize its proxies and to freeze the conflict forever. we would welcome any proposal that would bring an end to this in my country. a full-fledged u.n. peacekeeping operation is the only viable solution to deescalate and protect the people of ukraine and to get us closer to a political solution. that is why the peacekeepers mandate should cover the entire occupied area, including the ukrainian and russian state borders. this is a must. aslong as the border is used the means supply route with the manpower and weapons, there will be no peace in my country. should respect bas

from ukraine and their president. but "daily beast" interviewed the activists who were shut up by facebook because russian operatives targeted them to be shut up. around the time that russian troops were literally invading ukraine and taking over the country, facebook was helping russian government shut down opposition voices from the country they were invading. one of the activities said i posted a picture of my city with a picture of a rainbow over it and the picture said everything will be okay. that's what he posted. russian operatives swarmed that and reported it over and over and over again as porn. and that activist was blocked from facebook for a month while russia invaded his country. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg put out a new statement tonight. expressing regret for having made dismissive comments about the power of online misinformation and potentially shaping the outcome of the presidential election last year. but the more we learn about what russia did in our election last year, clear it becomes that russ

i heard very good things, the ukraine is coming along really well. the borders maybe you will tell us how you are doing. and you for being here. that's a real great honor for me to be here in the city, which is so close to you. i'm really happy to hear the words about the progress we both demonstrate after our last meeting. to extend a, i want great sympathy and solidarity to the american people because of the consequences of the you had strong leadership in this hard time. be oury think that would cooperation both in the security defense sector, which is already the first important result under your leadership. the second, we improved our economic cooperation. i just mentioned one thing, between the united states and the ukraine given the last seven months increased 2.5 times because of the implementation of our agreement. this is the symbol that we welcome american companies in the ukrainian market and hundreds of thousands of jobs created in the ukraine and the u.s.. this is effective cooperation between our nations. pres. trump: that's a story th

in twenty fourteen he flew to ukraine amid the my down uprising gave up his georgian passports to become ukrainian and set about reforming the city of odessa but it didn't go as planned. ironically saakashvili is opponent is ukrainian president and former friend petro poroshenko another darling of the west who brought saakashvili in to help drive the kind of change that had once made him such a hit in georgia but the two have clearly fallen out of love. apparently saakashvili lied while applying for citizenship and boris shankar has since renounced that citizenship of his university powell while the latter was visiting his own co in new york. biased many were backed by washington both raised to power on the wings of popular uprisings and both are now all but failing saakashvili seems a spent force he's without a state wanted by his native georgia and not wanted by his adopted ukraine maybe it's time for another period of u.s. exile while poroshenko his own popularity is in tatters the latest poll says only two percent of ukrainians still support him the revolutionary idealism that brough

in the case of ukraine, we are nowhere. of --d have to say, a lot the main highway that leads to an improvement in u.s.-russia relations, goes right through ukraine. that is living up and respecting the minx accord through the wasmity process that actively being worked by ambassador volcker, our special representative for ukraine affairs. it is an important issue, not just for ukraine, for the region, but for people in the united states. that will be an important area. then we have issues such as space, which for example, it must be the level of oxygen when you're at that level. maybe no oxygen at all that keeps us together in a collaborative fashion. there has been a great success between the united states and russia. example, liesr out there, is another issue we will have to come together on. and maybe in ways that are positive. i see the balance sheet. i see the need to come up with a very clear and crisp list of priorities that we can meet on, we can hopefully make progress on, and i can return to you and report on. >>

peacekeepers to help ease the conflict in eastern ukraine i move back to my germany but not ukrainian officials. that it is r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow i'm neki aaron good to have you with us as our. syrian government forces backed by russia have recaptured a launch fortified area held by islamic state in the city of d. . that's according to the russian defense ministry. syrian troops found a network of tunnels after taking a position equipped with weapons medical supplies and food it's also been revealed that the area was defended by terrorists of mainly foremost soviet republic and russian origin on tuesday a russian warship targeted the militants that are helping the syrian army stormed the fortress. the latest operation as part of a larger campaign to force i still find out. which is largely being occupied by the terror group for the last three years since then it has become one of the largest pockets of terrorist forces in syria. these are pictures of two government brigades reuniting after one was trapped inside the arizona for the duration of those t

if he's looking at the rest of the world, he's probably looking to the example of ukraine where ukraine willingly gave up their nuclear weapons after the fall of the soviet union and they were supposed to have security assurances and what happened? russia invaded. nothing happened there. that is more of a long-term issue where we can prove that giving up nuclear weapons, that there are certain security assurances you can expect from the world community. >> also looking at muammar gaddafi who gave up his nuclear program and we know how he wound up. quickly, put on your hat as a former cia officer, congressman. what happens when the president of the united states ridicules kim jong-un and calls him rocket man? how do the north koreans react to that? >> well, i think kim jong-un has shown himself someone who reacts to provocations. whether that reaches the level of him responding in some way, the problem is most of north koreans, the average north korean probably has never seen that or saw that comment because the type of stranglehold that kim jong-un has on information coming in in that c

there are jobs in ukraine but they just don't pay it's much better in poland. they're paid by the box of blueberries there tanya earns on average fifty euros a day average wages in ukraine are only around two hundred euros a month for the same work almost all of those i spoke to have left children at home . has two daughters ten and six years old. i miss them a lot they're still little and it pains my heart but what should i do. if you mean how much more do you earn here. ten times as much. in times as much the polish economy has been booming for years poland needs workers not least because some two million poles have left the. country since i joined the ukrainians fill the gaps in construction in households and in the fields. it's the ukrainians who work here our people referred to germany. poland is one of the main exporting countries for blueberries thanks to the ukrainian workers about eighty tons a day are sent to the rest of europe. in the evening the harvest workers quarters are in a small ukrainian colony. tanya and four friends live in this room they w

you know i think he did well by reviewing the history of what is taking place in the ukraine he he said to to go back and to recall that really the roots of the conflict rose from the rapid expansion of nato eastward. you know to where it threatens the the russian border and there's no question that this is this is accurate he said that he wanted to employ a man the met ments agreement in order to settle the dispute with ukraine but he did remind people that it was not russia but it was the the western inspired codec to ta which began the problems in ukraine and i think that was a good a good reminder to people of how this started he touched on a couple of things that are happening in the ukraine that have been problematic and he said the suppression of linguistic minorities is a problem because early on that you the new ukrainian government. did away with russian as a second language you also mentioned the current ongoing removal of monuments to heroes of world war two which refers to some of the russian monuments within ukraine so there are there are certainly issues there but he didn

and russia the west and russia gauging this standoff over ukraine seeking to influence it. because if you want to the left party has consistently opposed the war at the same time when the civil war in syria escalated how many left leaning people who are not members of the left party went to northern syria to support the kurds isn't this a contradiction what is the left party think about this situation is that what. we discussed it within the faction and it was a heated debate this is the situation we're facing pacifist cannot condone the use of force but anti militarists and this is an important distinction recognize the right to self-defense i don't think we can tell people you have to figure out somehow isis is at the gates you might die but it's not our problem because we are pacifists i do not accept this reasoning i've never been a pacifist i am an anti militarists that means that in my opinion military force should be a last resort we have our national right to self defense that cannot be taken away we should not abuse the idea of defense in self defense so the defens

russian media warned they were about to be attacked by ukraine's new pro western governments. that. just anybody. russian militia surrounded ukrainian army bases as separatists held a referendum to formalize the split to me it reminds very much what happened in stoney a nine hundred forty sixteenth of june so the troops entered referendum or staged a months later and a month later we voluntarily joined so that. so the scenario is very familiar to the people in a stoner if you talk to that. county right there is a former ambassador to russia and has little trust in its president vladimir putin of course we're worried about recent steps well weren't worried about unpredictability of russia we are worried about violations of our air space we do follow rules of military exercises that do not have defensive or friendly character but as a rather. aggressive ones so of course we have to take that everything into account we have to be prepared and we have to react if needed and conventional war is not the only danger. the hard way that there are other ways to be attacked. ten years ago the

over ukraine seeking to win through and see it. as. the left party has consistently opposed the war at the same time when the civil war in syria escalated how many left leaning people who are not members of the left party went to northern syria to support the kurds isn't this a contradiction what is the left party think about this situation that. we discussed it within the faction and it was a heated debate this is the situation with facing a pacifist cannot condone the use of force but anti militarists and this is an important distinction recognize the right to self-defense i don't think we can tell people you have to figure out somehow isis is at the gates you might die but it's not our problem because we are pacifists as you not accept this reasoning i've never been a pacifist i am an anti militarists that means that in my opinion military force should be a last resort we have our national right to self-defense that cannot be taken away we should not abuse the idea of defense and self defense so the defense policy of germany and

to help bring peace to eastern ukraine we've got the full story coming up after the break. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around corporate corporations from washington washington media the media the. voters elected to businessman to run this country business if. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . the war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles of. the new socks for the tell you that every gossip and tabloid lifestyle or news. telling you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with all the. welcome back russian president vladimir putin is pushing for un peacekeepers to be present in ukraine to help resolve the conflict in the east of the country and. the presence of un peacekeepers but. peacekeepers we could provide security for its use missions for there would be fair and reasonable i think it would only contribute to resolving the crisis you se ukraine but consider this in or

over ukraine seeking to influence it. simply. because if you want to the left party has consistently opposed the war at the same time when the civil war in syria escalated how many left leaning people who are not members of the left party went to northern syria to support the kurds isn't this a contradiction what does the left party think about this situation is that what you're. about. we discussed it within the faction and it was a heated debate this is the situation we're facing pacifist cannot condone the use of force but anti militarists and this is an important distinction recognize the right to self-defense i don't think we can tell people you have to figure out somehow isis is at the gates you might die but it's not our problem because we are pacifists as you not accept this reasoning i've never been a pacifist i am an anti militarists that means that in my opinion military force should be a last resort we have our national right to self defense that cannot be taken away we should not abuse the idea of defense in

and russia the west and russia gauging the standoff over ukraine seeking to win through and said. this would. because it's here on the left party has consistently opposed the war at the same time when a civil war in syria escalated how many left leaning are people who are not members of the left party or went to northern syria to support the kurds is there isn't this a contradiction what is the left party think about this situation that. you have no doubt. we discussed it within the faction and it was a heated debate this is the situation with facing a pacifist cannot condone the use of force but anti militarists and this is an important. shouldn't recognize the right to self-defense i don't think we can tell people i have to figure out somehow i says at the gates you might die but it's not our problem because we are pacifists as you not accept this reasoning i've never been a pacifist i am an anti military it means that in my opinion military force should be a last resort we have our national right to self defense that cannot be taken away we should not abuse the idea of defense

ukraine conflict excuse me we've got our story coming up after this short break stay with us. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around. washington washington. the. voters elected a businessman to run this country business equals. boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. anyone else seems wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just to get out to get engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello welcome bag and russian president vladimir putin is pushing for un peacekeepers to be present in ukraine to help resolve the conflict in the east of the country. and the torch of the presence of u.n. peacekeepers or not necessarily peacekeepers but those you can provide security for . would be fair and reasonable usually i think it would only contribute to resolving the crisis in southeast ukraine you can consider this in order to the foreign ministry to introduce such a resolution to the security council. well the move by mos

did in ukraine for the dictator he ran campaigns for. so the fbi had him under surveillance starting in 2014 reportedly because of the spotten assspotolen assets and the fact ukraine is working on that story. this celptocracy movement, the dictator manafort worked for, that's why they were listening in on him and something about how much they knew about paul manafort before manafort became trump's campaign chairman. how much they knew about him and his previous work and his money. all right? they were already deep into paul manafort before the campaign started. and that surveillance on him starting in 2014 was totally unrelated to his work on the trump campaign. now, according to cnn, at some point last year, that surveillance on the ukraine stuff stopped. fbi no longer had the evidence to be able to convince a court that they ought to be able to continue to listen in on paul manafort talking about matters involving money looted out of ukraine. the surveillance some point in 2016 stopped. but then we also know last year the fbi started a

guts gop's anti-russia stance on ukraine. the trump campaign had not given one whit about anything else in the republican party platform but mysteriously showed up in force and without warning to insist that russia language was weakened in regards to the ukraine. that was really early on. it was last july, july 16. on the surface inconsequential story. who knows what is in the party platform and abides by it, not a binding document. it's arcane at most. but josh rogen found out about it, reported it out. described what was known to see the campaign intervene for that strange change. he interviewed subject matter experts from inside normal republican politics bewildered by the change that trump campaign made. and the post published the story. it got picked up here and there. we did a little segment and i remember because my dad called after i got off the air last night and said whoa that story was scary, what do you think it's all about? hi dad. so that was mid-july last year. josh rogen at "washington post," noted in explaini

georgia's president mikheil saakashvili denies illegally entering ukraine. after this quick break. what holds its institutions meeting. he put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. somehow want to be rich. but you'd like to be close this is what before three of the more people get. interested always in the waters about how. there should. be. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington controls the media the media focus voters elected businessmen to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . welcome back to the program georges former president mikhail saakashvili has made an unusual return to ukraine and touring the country illegally on sunday a crowd of supporters swept him across the polish border on to the ukrainian side saakashvili recently became a state this after having had his ukrainian citizenship revoked by the country's president. did. earlier

victory in ukraine exactly in my opinion in ukraine within maybe two years it would be more or less or maybe it would be you know essentially. you're far more optimistic at the. top of the question is what the us are going to do further because it usually is a cunt promise the poor to any kind of terrorism sure i'm sure gangsters in. the world and they give the poor it's what happened in kosovo for instance to give give a poor word to the i've been in i know the can do that's a permit the poor work to the opposition in syria for instance and some very close people to us that they left their lives to paris their lives to work on camera close to langley. they were sure they would there would be a president and minister in in some months years and those in a lower there would be an interesting in the very life it was a lot and no i don't want to just set the bar with the ukraine i was a pessimist until saakashvili got back to a few days ago these days kelly never stops play everything explained who is go ahead saakashvili is the former georgian president who was hired by does hold a share

the former official was once an aide to ukraine's president but then fell out with him a correspondent could partridge looks at how the two western dolling those who were once the closest of allies swiftly became right. remember this guy. the former georgian president turned ukrainian governor has gone from states none to state less in less than two months so i want it gone wrong. in twenty fourteen he flew to ukraine amid the my down uprising gave up his georgian passports to become ukrainian and set about. reforming the city of odessa but it didn't go as planned. ironically really is opponent is ukrainian president and former friend petro poroshenko another darling of the west who brought saakashvili in to help drive the kind of change that did once made him such a hit in georgia but the two have clearly fallen out of love. apparently saakashvili lied while applying for citizenship and bar shanker has since renounced that citizenship of his university powell while the latter was visiting his own co in new york. both men were backed by washington both raised to power on the wings of p

by his adopted ukraine maybe it's time for another period of us exile while poroshenko zone popularity is in tatters the latest poll says only two percent of ukrainians still support him the revolutionary idealism that brought him to power amid the flames on the my den has descended into disillusionment. perhaps the chosen leaders of popular uprisings are always vulnerable to having the various support that put them in power taken away or maybe it's just something about ukraine either way the two one time friends and western allies are playing out a very public spat during personal decline political commentator martin summers told us that saakashvili is dealings with ukraine underscore the political disarray gripping. has really of self is wanted for corruption in georgia was as we know of course the danger of him coming back like this is that the ukrainian authorities who fall out with the most experience in but it's georgia to face trial there so he say he bit of a risk by trying to come back into the country is very old the play such a big role in ukrainian politics unseasoned ukrai

russian media warned they were about to be attacked by ukraine's new pro western governments. that. just anybody. that. russian militia surrounded ukrainian army bases as separatists held a referendum to formalize the split to mean it reminds very much what happened in stoney a nine hundred forty sixteenth of june so the troops sent out referendum was staged a month later and a month later we voluntarily joined. soviet union so the scenario is very familiar to the people in estonia if you talk to them. count iran is a former ambassador to russia and has little trust in its president vladimir putin of course we're worried about recent steps where we're a worried about unpredictability of russia we are worried about violations of our air space we do follow the military exercises that do not have defensive or friendly character but as a rather. aggressive ones so of course we have to take that everything into account we have to be prepared and we have to react if needed and conventional war is not the only danger. the hard way that there are other ways to be attacked. ten years ago the

victory in ukraine exactly in my opinion in ukraine within maybe two years it would be you more or less or maybe it would be you know it's a little bit earlier but. you're far more optimistic at the. top of the question is what the us are going to do further because it usually is a cunt promise the poor to any kind of terrorism sort i'm sure gangsters in. the world and they give the poor it what happened in kosovo for instance to give they could have. been in a no the can do that's a permit the poor work to the opposition in syria for instance and some very close people to us that they left their lives to paris or live to or encounter close to langley. they were sure they would be there would be a president and minister in the in some months is a lower there would be an interesting in the very life you know i don't want soviet just set the bar with ukraine i was a pessimist until saakashvili got back they a few days ago these days kelly never explain everything explain who he is go ahead saakashvili is the former georgian president who was hired by does hold a share of the hold of georg

ukraine has opened a second war front within its own borders this time against press on august twenty ninth ukraine's ministry of information policy announced it had been to two spanish journalists from the country longtime war correspondents on hillsides today and and . were detained it gives but he's pull airport on august twenty fourth and just about two years ago maybe three we with other reporters were included on this list supposedly for information they didn't like in which we reported from. there after with the new president and the parliament in ukraine we had papers from the consulate which we showed the authorities at the airport we were excluded from this black was that this point the surprise was that in the last two days when i tried to enter the country with my partner we were separated and were informed that the secret service had included us on a second blacklist with forty other people they told us that we were a threat to national security and they took our passports and treated us like we were delinquents then came the authorities that deported us to spain through

state let's stay with the ukraine we keep hearing from washington that the us wants to provide ukraine with lethal weapons how serious do you think this is and if this decision is made what the consequences might be. sovereign decision to be made by the us whom they want to sell weapons to or provide their weapons for free wish and it's also up to the country receiving such assistance there's nothing we can do about this but there are general international rules supplying weapons to a conflict zone between. serves the interests of peace it only makes the situation worse if this happens with the crane. so it works when using this step in you will not have a major effect on the situation but the number of victims can certainly. ritual to the petitioner so i'd like to stress i want to make this. everybody nothing will change it will just increase the number of victims that's deplorable and one more thing i'd like to point out to people who does that which is to contemplate making such a decision to be self proclaimed republics. have enough wealth and use that what you can including the on

russia relations goes right through to ukraine and that is leadin is living up andg the accord through the norm in the process that right now is actively being worked out by the special representative for a fairs. it's a critically important issue not just for ukraine and the region but for people here in the united states, so that will be an important area. then we have issues such as space which may be the level of oxygen that keeps us together in a collaborative session. this keeps us together in the united states and russia. another issue i think we have to come together on and maybe in ways that are positive, so i see the balance sheet and the need to come up with a very clear and crisp list of priorities that we can meet on and hopefully make progress and i can return to you on. >> ambassador, can you talk about whether you are going to be willing to meet with opposition figures in russia and discipline through may not agree with? >> that has always been my practice that every other post and it will continue to be my practice. yes, senator. >> ambassador, governor, i just wanted

peacekeepers to be present in ukraine to help resolve the conflict in the east of the country. all the presence of u.n. peacekeepers or not necessarily peacekeepers but those you can provide security for the missions would be fair and reasonable i think it would only contribute to resolving the crisis in southeast ukraine you can consider this in order to the foreign ministry to introduce such a resolution to the security council however the move by moscow has been met with reluctance by kiev ukraine's foreign ministry called the possible resolution a distortion of any peacekeeping operation but the german foreign minister has given his backing to the russian president's idea but it's not that i see reports that president putin has voiced an initiative to do what the chancellor and i have been insisting on for months this is our chance let's make use of it we need more of this detente policy if things work out well with this blue helmets this would be the first step to removing sanctions against russia well here's a quick reminder of how that conflict unfolded back in twenty fo

george hughes former president mikhail saakashvili has made an unusual return to ukraine entering the country illegally on sunday a crowd of supporters swept him across the polish border onto the ukrainian side saakashvili recently became stateless softer having had his ukrainian citizenship revoked by the country's president. earlier on sunday saakashvili attempted to cross the border by train but was forced out by god's he caught a bus and got past a checkpoint with the help of hundreds of locals who actually overpowered the gods ukrainian police say he will now face criminal charges for illegally crossing the border something saakashvili denies the former official was once an aide to ukraine's president but then fell out with him a correspondent looks at how to western darlings who were once the closest of allies became rivals. remember this guy. the former georgian president turned ukrainian governor has gone from state's man to state less in less than two months the western backed star who'd once led the anti corruption and rose revolution in georgia launched an offensive on the

me how price of war in eastern ukraine but downing of m. and seventeen and more recently the cyber attacks on the u.s. and france that many have blamed on russia and this is one very small country trying to work out the friend itself from a giant neighbor. until a friend decided to learn combat they were among hundreds of young women to join the league after russia invaded its neighbor crime here. you can see russia is next . so the first. time in a country that people worried about a little bit like maybe it's going but no we don't know that you want to be ready yeah ok and to actually fight you know we're working on it. that's why we're here you know frightened of the idea that you of course i am war is awful i don't want to have a war in this town. as they say if you don't want to war prepared for war. and stood here feels it has good cools to beacons. in world war two it was invaded by the soviet union the communist empire dominated by russia. but capo caruso was a boy when a stony a finally won independence in one thousand nine hundred

you next write about ukraine. ukraine started with democracy. what would you say the state of democracy in ukraine? >> ukraine is many way as sad situation because fur trying to build a demock sy with assertive, aggressive neighbor,r taking your territory and making the eastern half of your country unstable it is kind of hard to build democracy. they made progress. poroshenko who is president launched anti-corruption campaign. one of the great checks on democracy, one of the greatt challenges for democracy whenn you have corruption. they have made good moves on corruption. there are young people in the legislature determined to deliver democracy. it is vibrant society in its western parts. the problem for ukraine is that with the troubles in eastern ukraine, you don't read much about them in the newspapers these days but people are dying every day in eastern ukraine as these russian separatist its who are supported by the russian armed forces are causing all kind of props. so ukrainians democracy is always on a knife's edge but it is not an auth

tension and violence continued in the ukraine. conflicting accounts of what's happening there i mean it's hard for me to form a clear picture of the conflict. i hear of someone who's recently returned from fighting for dumbass. it feels unsafe to me to ponder dorothy since he no longer shares the government's version oh. event to be a great. question because we're so gosh good heels thought meaningful to you what you call. the group meeting bilbo's of sitting here. with. your should post just it's almost not by the oh that's it nick i just thought i was fit to extol the last q. from butte or so little skill or silly given. where you're going to pull the news to put out the. accuser's uterus lansky but then you. know it was she was just doing a. good end to. the show's good must a show host has a lot. of people who feel the solution to what's true but most of all when they can see any of them with all of us wish they built them think you might be the only do you know of the good all the doing. things good to the see you. look for y