. >>> the greek prime minister alexis tsipras, is holding formal talks with president putin in moscow at a time his country's future is in doubt. his first action was to pay his respects at the tomb of te unknown soldier. his visit comes on the eve of a deadline for greece to pay the international monetary fund 450 million euros. mr. tsipras' first two months in power have been dominated by the installment of its 240 billion international bailout program. in the latest sign of worsening relations between athens and its european creditors. greece demanded almost 280 billion euros in world war ii reparations from germany. mr. tsipras' visit to moscow appears to have widespread back backing amongst residents in athens. >> translator: i think what he's doing is right. i think he should have all these alliances with russia and the united states and europe. i believe he's making a lot of effort and these efforts will show if he succeeds in writingbringing results. >> shouldn't europe be obliged to help us? they should help us. they should give the government funds. since they are not givein

. >> korean and russian leaders meet in moscow. brian: another black citizen shot dead by police in the u.s. the officer has been charged with murder. >> and the biggest oil deal in a decade. a mega merger. brian: welcome to the program. russian president vladimir putin has offered greece increased -- he stopped short of extending direct financial aid to the country. >> alexi sippers -- there was speculation that tsipras might seek aid from russia for a bargaining chip with creditors. >> the greek prime minister alexis sippers and vladimir putin did not let it dampen the moodtsip. said athens has ther right to look to moscow foras stronger economic ties. before getting down to business, they visited the tomb of the unknown soldier. on his wish list, low gas prices and deferral of outstanding debts. despite the budding friendship, greece and russia are both under economic strain. moscow is feeling the pinch of eu sanctions, something both countries opposed. putin clarified their plans. >> i want to assure you that we are not going t

it is not clear if moscow has the money or the will. the mega-factories may survive if they specialize and decrease their scale of operations. if the quality of the environment could also be improved, many people would choose to stay. they have become siberians just like vasili. would he leave bratsk if he had a choice? translator: no, no, no... even if i had the chance. you become attached. narrator: so russia has harnessed key natural resources provided by her physical geography. and centralized planners briefly brought prestige to a failed soviet state. now, under economic privatization it is not clear if the remote city of bratsk can survive without large subsidies from a distant national government. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by annenberg/cpb narrator: our focus is russia, more formally called the russian federation and a look at the city of st. petersburg. once russia's capital, st. petersburg is located far to the north. its relative location to european economic markets and cultu

tsipras will meet with putin in moscow. the greek government says it doesn't want support from russia , at least on the financial front. and, closing a loophole. ed miliband pledges to end the non-domicile rule that allows some people in the u.k. to avoid paying their income tax. good morning. welcome to "the pulse." i'm guy johnson. francine lacqua is off today. we begin with the mega oil deal. shell has agreed to buy bg group for around 47 billion pounds around $70 billion in cash and stocks. that makes it the biggest deal in the oil and gas industry for at least a decade. caroline hyde joins us at the touchscreen. caroline: a cool 47 billion pounds. a cool 50% premium on bg's share price. this is record data in terms of size of move, but if you go back, it is only since july 2014 when we last saw this price on bg group. that was the amount that the oil prices plummeted dragging down the price of oil stocks. suddenly, everything looks a little bit fairer valued. that is what has capitalized this deal to spark the biggest

moscow is extremely reluctant to pour money in greece or anywhere else. russia's own economy is shrinking in the region of 3.8% this year. so whatever alexis tsipras has to say that they come i don't think there's any chance at all that russia wants to bail out the greek economy. there are other areas agricultural ties between the two countries, where things might pick up. when the eu intersections pressure countered with sanctions of its own -- russia countered with sanctions of its own. but beyond that, perhaps a reduction of the gas price degrees, there is -- gas price to increase, there's little rusher with you at this stage. genie: anything with regard to the eu and changing its image? rob: absolutely. putin's policy anywhere tends to be opportunistic. one can detect when he could do with the european union, to widen cracks where fishers of started to appear. he went to budapest not that long ago. with cyprus as well, the cypriot president was in moscow very recently. he was offered an extension to a loan on much more favorable terms that had hithert

moscow. ♪ ♪ >>> we begin in yemen where a saudi-led campaign against houthi fighters is entering its third week. intense fighting taking place in aden where rockets have reportedly landed on houses. the world health organization says at least 643 people have died and more than 2,200 have been injured since march 19th. the first medical surprise have start ahead driving. doctors without borders say they made it to some of the hospitals in a ben tennessee. and a ryne vinnie war ship have his arrived for what teheran describes as an anti piracy operation. but u.s. secretary of state john kerry says they are supplying the houthi rebels. >> there are surprise coming from iran, there are a number of flights every single week flying in. and we trace those flights and we know this. we are well aware of the support that iran has been giving to yemen. and iran needs to recognize that the united states is not going to stand by while the region is destabilized or while people engage, you know, in overt warfare across lines international boundaries and other countries. >> more now on the situatio

you are negotiating with a planned trip to moscow to have president neck send visit moscow for the moscow summit. the north vietnamese are winning. what was the thinking of his decision to them escalating? negroponte: it was an important weekend. we had meetings. i remember the general calling me in on friday afternoon. he said you should stick around. the president has decided with a certainty that he will mind haiphong and bomb hanoi. we will do staff work and then have an nfc meeting on monday. he asked me to write a justification for doing this. kt: what was the background in mining haiphong harbor? it was the largest harbor in vietnam. negroponte: is the escalation we had previously avoided. mr. nixon felt that he could not go to moscow on his summit with mr. brezhnev while his client was invading a friend of ours. so we had to take some firm action. so we had an nfc meeting that monday morning. then, the action was undertaken. it continued -- kt: president next and -- president nixon decided we were going to bomb hanoi and mine haiphong harbor knowing that moscow hung in the balance

rory challands has the latest from moscow. >> reporter: alexis paid his respects at moscow's tomb of the unknown soldier well aware that europe is watching his visit closely. this is useful geopolitical theatre for both greece and russia. greece shows europe it has options beyond the euro zone. russia shows the even u. its unity is fragile. vladimir putin denied a greek bailout was on the cards though assistance in other forms was discussed. >> translator: the greek side has not addressed us with any requests for aid. we discussed cooperation in various soak tours the sectors of the he tonight my including energy project. >> reporter: before coming here greece had been warned not to break the line of the approximated even u sanctions. russia has long complained its weak are weakness following the collapse of the soviet union was exploited by the west. now that it senses fragility within the european union at any point to throughs for its own benefits, greece is one opportunity for russia, but there are others. hungary's prime minister welcomed vladimir putina to budapest in february.

. >>> greek minister alexis tsipras is in moscow talk with vladimir putin. he's here at the tomb of the unknown soldiers. russia indicated that it could lift import sanction assist boost trade with greece. live to moscow and rory challands. aren't major the europeans are happy. >> no they are not. this is the scenery that people are scared of. greece defaults on loans and abandons e.u. greece may walk from the eurozone into the arms of russia for a fag bailout package there'll be a string attached to that and russia would have a sympathetic country acting in its interests from within of the european union and maybe greece would use veto and make life for russia easy ruin the european unity over sanctions against russia. that's the nightmare scenario that's what peep in the european union is worried about. >> to explain it like that it sounds clausible. we have been down this path so many times before. what are the chances of that happening, and, as you say, greece falling into the arms of russia after that? >> well as you say, it is plausible logically, and

two months after stalin opened the churches, secretary of state was in moscow in a meeting setting up the conference. he announced as they met at fdr wanted china to be a signatory along with britain, russia and america in a for par statement calling for united action against the axis powers and the creation of an international peacekeeping organization. fdr, unique in this generation did not think the white race should rule the world. stalin refused to agree to china as the fourth policeman. whereupon he said he would pack his bags and go home. before the meeting was over he read a note from stalin and nothing changed his mind and china became the fourth signatory. when fdr and stalin finally met in late november 1943, they discovered they had a lot in common. particularly in aversion to colonialism and as they talk about france, realize a shared a dislike of both the country and of its leaders. said fdr no frenchman over 40 and particularly no frenchman who would ever take part in the present french government should be allowed to return to positioned in the future. sat stalin of th

moscow, russia. a car with a dashcam is driving down a highway. >> dashboard cameras on the road always seem to start the same way. everything is going fine. we're on the road, driving along. when you see a dashboard camera, you know, wait a few seconds. something will happen. >> that something is a commercial plane crashing on approach to an airport. it slides off the runway at more than 100 miles per hour. >> all this debris is on the highway, hitting cars. >> you can hear pieces of the plane dropping as it breaks apart. >> in one case, what looks like a wheel from the landing gear flies onto the road and hits a car. >> i mean, it was probably one of the things driving down the highway and all of a sudden your car is careening to the other wall and you're wondering what just happened. >> many of us have been in a situation where we have to act quickly on the road. but very few of us have been in a situation where a plane is crashing and debris is coming at us. you see seats from the airplane, and y

. >>> greek prime minister is in moscow today. russia's president says greece has not asked for money. rory challands has more on why these talks have some in the e.u. worried. >> reporter: there is a nightmare scenario that goes like this. greece decides it doesn't want to pay its debt defaults leaves the euro zone and runs straight into the arms of russia. russia offers a aid package, in return for weakening sanctions on moscow. that's a possible scenario but maybe not that likely. greece is saying it wants to sort out its financial problems within the euro zone and you have to ask whether russia can afford to bail out greece when it has plenty of economic problems of its own. maybe smaller trade packages like lifting of russia's embargo on fruit and vegetables just for greece or an energy package for athens. but greece will have to offer something in return and the big question is what will that be? >> rory challands reporting from moscow. >>> twitter shares are up on rumors that google may be looking to take over the social me

you are already negotiating with a planned trip to moscow to have nixon visit moscow for the moscow summit. the north vietnamese look like they are winning. what was around the thinking of nixon's decision to escalate? >> it was very important. he did it on the eighth of may. in the preceding days had some meetings. i remember general haig calling me in on a friday afternoon. said, you better stick around. it is a certainty the president is going to bomb hanoi. we will spend the weekend here during staff work and we will have an nsc meeting on monday. he asked me to write a justification for doing this. kathleen mcfarland: what was a background in mining the largest harbor in vietnam? >> think mr. nixon's felt he felt he could not go to moscow on the summit --he had to take some firm action. we had an nsc meeting on monday morning, and in the action was undertaken. -- then the action was undertaken. kathleen mcfarland: president nixon decided we were going to bomb hanoi mine the harbor knowing that may be the moscow summit hung in the balance. >> i will passes back to winston. -- pass this

rory challands is in moscow and he joins us live now. rory why are people a bit uneasy about this meeting when tsipras and vladimir putin? >> reporter: because it throws essentially the whole unity of the european union's position on sanctions against russia into doubt. what the e.u. leaders were particularly worried about was that tsipras would come here be offered some deal by the russians that he couldn't refuse, and that the russians would demand in return for this offer, the use of greece's veto within the european union to essentially soften the effect of sanctions on russia. now what we were sort of expecting or at least what was being touted coming into this meeting was that there was going to be possibly some lifting offered by russia of the -- the embargo on trades -- sorry, on food and food products that it hits the whole european union with. there is expectation that maybe it would be lifted from greece, an exemption would be given to them. we didn't get that. what we got at the most from russia was an offer of maybe some par

. >> why the greek prime minister has traveled to moscow. >> china's economic mood music enters a minor key. i'm reporting from the world's biggest piano factory where they say there's still plenty of room for growth on a major scale. >> hello we begin in yemen where aid is start to go trickle in as the saudi-led operation against houthi fighters continues. fighting has been focused on the area in southeast yemen. thirty houthis there reportedly having killed in battles. on yemen's border with saudi arabia sussecond al-qaeda fighters took control of a border post. two soldiers were killed there. jordan is pushing a draft resolution in the u.n. to try to stop the conflict from escalating. >> the humanitarian situation is described as catastrophic in aden. some aid has arrived. >> bombs light the sky over yemen. airstrikes by the and you had led coalition have now entered a third week. the coalition hasn't been able to defeat houthi rebels who together with soldiers loyal to the past president ali abdullah saleh took control of the country in a coupe earlier this year. on the ground, figh

what is the reaction thus far from moscow? >> reporter: well the usual sort of diplomatic rhetoric of disappointment, i suppose, the kremlin's spokesman said this was not contribute to the peace process in ukraine, and it would destabilize the country. what russia is really worried about is the further encroachment of nato on russian borders. that's really what this whole ukrainian crisis is about. and why it started. but there's something else that the russians are going to be watching for very closely. they are going to be looking at who exactly is being trained by these paratroopers. there are various irregular brigades that are being incorporated into though outfit that these -- these american troops are going to be training. some of these irregular brigades have quite right-wing affiliations, if those particular militias are being trained by the u.s. troops then it will give the russians a very good case for saying that america is training fascists and as they say neo-nazis. >> yeah that is the russian narrative, at least

the secretary of state was in moscow two two weeks after the churches were open. fdr announced he wanted china to be a significant player. he called for action against the powers and the creation of international peace corporation. fdr didn't think the white race should rule the world. stalin refused to agree as china as the fourth police man. he said he would pack his bags and go home. before the meeting was over a note was read from stalin announcing he had changed his mind and china was the forth signitory. when fdr and stalin finally met in late november 1943 they discovered they had a lot in common particularly aversion for france. they realized they shared a dislike of the country and its leaders. said fdr; no frenchman over 40 and particularly no frenchman who took part in the present french future should be alloweded positions in the future. they should not be allowed to share the fruits of the peace in collaboration collaboration with germany. fdr was chair of the chair conference and dominated the proceedings. as the conference progressed he let stalin w

petersburg in him from moscow. we don't have a street named after us that they might make a proposal and then the moscow government might rename street. and maybe we might have a bridge named after boris ¥quex with regard to the assassination i have already said what i think about it and don't think there is any need for me to repeat myself with regard to flowers in the names of streets, you know that it is up to local authorities and regional authorities to decide that there is a lot according to which flags can be after ten years since his death. but i repeat moscow authorities can and should make an appropriate decision as for flowers and others things of similar nature i don't know why there is a need for such restrictions restrictions, and i don't welcome that. on the contrary there is nothing wrong with that. what is wrong with people playing flowers, if this does not interfere with other people i think there is no problem interfere with that. you mentioned -- it is also strange. i definitely think that he d

petersburg, i have from moscow. but the president might make a proposal and then the moscow government might rename the street to vladimir visclosky street and maybe we might have the bridge named after four boris themselves -- after boris nemtsov. pres. putin: i don't think there is any need for me to repeat myself. it is up to local and regional authorities. there is a law according to which flags can be set up at a place where someone was killed after 10 years since his death. but i repeat, moscow authorities can and should make an appropriate decision as for flowers and other things. i don't know why there is a need for such restrictions and i don't welcome that. on the contrary, i don't think there is anything wrong with that, with people laying icons or flowers. i will definitely talk to the moscow mayor and make sure that they don't interfere with that. you mentioned discuss the -- v iscosky street. i think vladimir visclosky deserves to have a street named after him in moscow. and i will also talk to the mos

december 29, 2012, moscow, russia. a car with a dash cam is driving down a highway. >> dashboard cameras on the road always seem to start the same way, everything's going fine, we're on the road, just driving along. when you see a dashboard camera you know, wait a few seconds, something will happen. >> that something is a commercial plane crashing on approach to the airport. it slides off the runway at more than 100 miles per hour. >> all of this debris is on the highway hitting cars. >> you can hear pieces of the plane dropping as it breaks apart. >> and in one case, what looks like a wheel from the landing gear slides right on to the road and hits a car. >> i mean, it was probably one of the things you're driving down the highway and your car's careening toward the wall and wondering what just happened. >> many of us have been in a situation where we have to act quickly on the road. but very few of us is in a situation where a plane is crashing and debris is coming at us. >> you see seats from the plane and you don't

from moscow rory challands reports. >> alexis tsipras paid his respects at the moscow tomb of the unknown soldier. knowing this is political theater. greece shows europe it has options beyond the euro zone. russia shows the e.u. that it's unity is fragile. even though a greek bailout was not on the cards assistance of other forms was discussed. >> the greek side has not addressed us with any asks for aid. we discussed cooperation including the possibility of developing major energy project. >> before coming here tsipras has been warned not to break the e.u.'s line on sanctions. russia has long complained that it's weakness following the collapse of the soviet union was exploited by the west. now that it senses fragility within the european union it wants to use that for its own benefits. greece is one opportunity for russia but there are others. hungary's prime minister welcomed vladimir putin to budapest. there are the far right european parties like france russian bank with links to the kremlin has lent mariely pens party $10 million although the figure is rumored to be far higher. >> y

we'll see. >> thank you rory challands in moscow. >>> the u.s. says that missiles will be used to protect europe but russia calls the program a threat to moscow. the move comes just days after russia threatened poland over its involvement in a larger american missiles program. >>> well the senate could vote as soon as tomorrow whether to approve loretta lynch as the next attorney general. that vote has been delayed. the republicans held up the the vote because of legislation of human trafficking. >>> the repatriate act would authorize controversial provisions for another five years including the nsa's domestic surveillance authority. >>> well there are two new studies out adding fuel to the debate over fracking. researchers say they have linked the drilling method to a series of small earthquakes. residents say they hope this will lead to changes. >> meredith's land sits on gas gas-rich shale deposits. since drilling began next door, she said her land has not sat still. >> do you see how low it is sitting? there is a sinkhole underneath the house

no all this makes the timing of the trip to moscow all the more interesting. the greek officials insist that tsipras is not looking for money from russian president vladimir putin, and putin does not appearing to offering any but it could be uncomfort for european governments trying to present an united front against russia over ukraine. bans on some european imports were part of tit for tat measures imposed by moscow in really tallation for restrictions. and should they lift restrictions it could be very embarrassing for the rest of europe. >> where does greece stand on western sanctions against russia. >> tsipras has cam out and said full stop that the sanctions are that may cause a crack in the e.u. front. as oil revenues have gone down, russia has been left without revenue out of pocket and is not in good financial shape at all. >> this morningin the trial against boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. >> the defense trying to show older brother influence and try to show that the motive had more to do with that than terrorism. >> one expert testified th

there were refuseniks all over moscow. andrei sakharov had just been -- actually, in 1987, he'd not been let out of captivity just yet. so i mean, things were very tense. the fact that we struck up a friendship immediately was extremely surprising and unusual and rare and, frankly, i thought, uncomfortable. c-span: what's the difference in your age? >> guest: i think 19 years. another thing to add to the long list of many differences between the two of us. c-span: what's he doing right now? >> guest: he teaches physics. he's a -- his title is distinguished professor of physics at the university of maryland. he teaches plasma physics for the controlled fusion topic and also space science issues, an area that he spent more than 15 years in. c-span: is he still a russian citizen? >> guest: yes, he is. c-span: think he'll ever become an american? >> guest: well, i think that's a highly personal decision. i have an ex-husband who was an englishman and i was under tremendous pressure to -- when i was just married -- under tremen

. >>> the greek prime minister alexis tsipras is in moscow when his country's standing in eurozone is hanging in the balance and has to pay the international money fund almost half a billion dollars and he's visiting the western countries in case his country should fail. >> reporter: a long shared history of greece and russia the orthodox faith is part of that. more important perhaps the people here in this old athens church, than for the concerned atheist who leads the greek government. even with this country teetering on the financial brink in europe, there are limits to what it can athieve elsewhere. >> even moscow and beijing do realize that greece is of more value if it is part of eurozone. >> i don't see the greek government despite its difficult financial situation, asking for a loan from russia. >> reporter: as he arrives at the kremlin, what does alexis tsipras himself believe while the eu locks horn with russia over ukraine. there are certainly some european suspicions of an implied threat. if eurozone won't be more lenient with greece in its hour of need perhaps there are o

for more about this, we are joined now via skype from moscow by andrew roth. he has reported the story for the new york times. so what are the american advisors doing on the ground? >> hi hari. the american advisor who came from in the hudson 73rd airborne based if italy and they come to train ukraine's fat guard b a thousand members of the national guard are engaged in in combat in the east of the country an they're going to be working on what they said were military training as well as specifically focusing on the officer corps. so this is a very new unit that the national guard so the officers a lot of them haven't had much training yet at all. >> srennivasan: so this is short of supplying any arms or weapons to the ukraine. the united states has refused to do that right? >> so far they have. the united states has supplied somewhat is you will caed nond lethal aid to ukraine. that includes promises to supply humvees both armoured and unarmoured. dronesment but they haven't yet agreed to supply lethal aid, weapons in particular anti-tank weapons that both pe

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and moscow is not happy. ♪ >>> again with the breaking news out of iraq a former iraqi vice president has been killed. he is said to have helped a role in helping isil to expand. omar joining us live on the phone from baghdad. he has been on the run for more than a decade. >> yes, he was, and he was very elusive. the americans considered him the -- [ inaudible ] so was the iraqi government. he found them. he did [ inaudible ] after the execution of saadam hussein, he became the head of the party which has been banned in iraq. he formed an armed group. he gathered all of the members of the former regime including members of the security forces the former iraqi arms and other nationalists into a movement that thought the iraqi government when they were in [ inaudible ] last year however, [ inaudible ] his men made a temporary alliance with isil. they took over power, but there were differences between the two, and then isil kind of turned their backs on them. so at the later stage he denounced isil several times. >> omar is there any reason to think that his death will have any effect o

you are already negotiating with a planned trip to moscow to have nixon visit moscow for the moscow summit. the north vietnamese look like they are winning. they threw everything. what went around the thinking of nixon's decision to escalate? john: it was very important. he did it on the eighth of may. in the preceding days had some meetings. i remember general haig calling me in on a friday afternoon. said, you better stick around. it is a certainty the president is going to bomb hanoi. we will spend the weekend here doing staff work and we will have an nsc meeting on monday. he asked me to write a justification for doing this. kt: what was a background in mining the largest harbor in vietnam? john: it is the kind of escalation we had avoided previously but i thought that mr. nixon felt -- he felt he could not go to moscow on the -- he had to take some firm action. we had an nsc meeting on monday morning, and then the action was undertaken. kt: talk about those five or six days. president nixon decided we were going to bomb hanoi, mine the harbor, knowing that may be the moscow summit hun

. >>> as greece is preparing to make a payment its prime minister is on its way to moscow moscow. patricia sabga is with us. greece is on a diplomatic tight rope. >> it is on a diplomatic tithe rope. the statement we are good for the money that was the word from greece's finance minister, greece has to pay nearly half of imfimf bailout loan. two sides haggle bitterly over the terms of a new bailout program. if you recall, greek prime minister alexis tsipras and his syriza party were swept into office, that makes the timing of prime minister tsipras trip to moscow all the more suspect. state visit could get backs up in europe if russia agreed to lift restrictions of imports of greek agricultural products. now, if greek products are allowed to start flowing back into russia it will be embarrassing to the rest of europe. >> thank you, patricia sabga. >>> in other news this afternoon, in afghanistan shopkeepers have closed their doors to protest tax hikes. jennifer glasse reports from kabul. >> reporter: shops are closed across the capital. kabul's central market is like a ghost town.

in moscow. there's thought that vladimir putin may make an offer of help. [ bell tolls ] >>> orthodoxy has bonded greeks and russians for 1,000 years. the russian church in athens is a reminder that it was greek missionaries in the past. this holy week a different mission was bound for moscow. greece needs money and friend to face a hostile creditor. face a hostile creditor. russia want to prevent e.u. sanctions, sanctions that prompted it to ban european products. >> russia will try to tempt greece through various deals and a unilateral suspension of the counter-sanctions. that's on greig agricultural products. but whether they can make a very tempting offer of let's say offering $30, 40 billion, which is the amount greece will neat in the future, it is unlikely. >> a direct russian loan to greece is not the only option. russia could lift the import ban for a billion dollars of greek products. because greece spends 10 times that amount russia could lower the price and bid for infrastructure, su

we are live in moscow live now. why is europe uneasy about this tsipras visit? >> there's a nightmare scenario really here that many european leaders and they are restless nights might be considering at the moment going something like this. what if greece defaults on all its debts and it throws off austerity measures. it exits the euro zone and straight into the arms of russia russia offers it some sort of financial deal, an aid package, but also, it comes with strings attached. grease has to use its e.u. veto at russia's behest basically toll ruin all that unity the european union has worked hard on to come to some sort of common position on russia and on sanctions and its position on ukraine. that's what europe is particularly worried about that's the nightmare scenario at the moment. >> it is quite a scenario there. how likely is that to actually happen? >> it's plausible and it is possible but there are more likely scenarios, the talk coming out of athens and moscow, it seems like there are other things that might be on the table first. one thing greece has

for the first time since 1998, moscow is being excluded. a consequence of moscow's involvement in ukraine and its annexation of crimea. reporter: the german foreign minister welcomed the eu foreign-policy chief to lubeck. they are meeting with foreign ministers from the seven most industrialized nations, but not russia. when moscow rejoins the group will be high on the agenda. he said that would depend on ending the crisis in ukraine. >> i have no interest in isolating russia. i would be pleased if we could reach a state of affairs where russia could return to the g8 group, but that could only be done by finding a solution to the ukraine conflict. >> they ukrainian conflict. reporter: the foreign ministers of france, germany russia and ukraine issued a joint statement in berlin on monday, calling for both sides to withdraw heavy weapons from the front. in lubeck, authorities deployed right control vehicles to keep anti-globalization protesters in check. so far, their numbers are less than expected. critics accuse the g-7 countries of domina

seeking new friends to avoid economic collapse - why the greek prime minister travels to moscow. >> and china's mood music enters a minor key. i'm reporting from china's biggest piano factory where there's room for movement on a bigger scale >>> we begin in yemen, where aid is starting to trickle in at the saudi led operation continues. 30 hooties have been killed in battles with other tribal militias much on yemen's boarder, suspected al qaeda fighters stormed and took control of a border post. two soldiers have been killed. jordan is pushing a draft resolution at the u.n. to stop the conflict escalating. the humanitarian situation on the ground is described as catastrophic. come said has arrived. >> in the last 24 hours about 12 metric tonnes of medical supplies arrived in aden, and distributed to health centers. and hospitals. medical assistance has been delivered. food supplies have been distributed to 300 displaced families . >> hashem ahelbarra explains how civilians are caught up in the war. >>> saudi led air strikes on yemen continues. . >> there is concern about the rising deat

al jazeera moscow. >> to other news in europe now. one of the two russians accused of poisoning letvinenko. he said he probably unwhittingly handled radioactive material. british authorities believe that litvinenk ko was killed with green tea laced with poison. >>> in france air traffic controllers are protesting with a two-day strike. >>> police in london are investigating a gem heist. detectives say that burglars used heavy cutting equipment to tear through a wall of the building. >>> the family of a syrian born imam who was shot dead in broad deadline in london are appealing for his help to find his killers. the police have launched a murder investigation but friends of abdul hadi are anwar arwani are mystified. he was found with shotgun wounds to the chest. the police have been fingerprinting the scene. they've cordoned off the area and launched a investigation. but they say they're keeping an open mind as to possible motive to the killing. mr. arwani was a critic of the government in syria. he had come to britain in the mid 1990s

erik: mission to moscow. greek prime minister alexis tsipras meets with vladimir putin when his country is running out of cash. stephanie: if money talks in politics, ted cruz is shouting. the candidate is raking it in. bloomberg exclusivea. welcome to the second hour of "market makers," i'm stephanie ruhle. stephanie: i' -- erik: i'm erik schatzker. stephanie: you look off the charts today. red socks, a blue striped shirt. double stripe is a risk. erik: thank you. we begin with the blockbuster deal rocking the energy business around the world. shall agreed to by the british producer bg group for $70 billion. some cash but a lot in stock. the biggest transaction and energy in at least a decade. shell is paying a 50% premium over bg's closing price yesterday after a run-up in shares. shawl's ceo told bloomberg it is a bargain. >> if you look in the sector 50% premium is middle-of-the-road. if you look at what it does for the key metrics of the company, you will see it is immediately going to be accretive in te

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. >>> vladimir putin's 13th annual question and answer marathon has wrapped up in moscow. the public asked the russian president questions for four hours. >> translator: we must use the current situation that is because of the sanctions to reach new levels of development. and i hope that this is encouraging as to develop high-tech industries with faster rates of growth than before. >>> about 3 million questions were submitted. patricia sabga joins us now with more. >> reporter: out of that pile of millions of questions, the kremlin plucked some softballs. one woman asked if putin could persuade her husband to let her get a puppy. but the imf now expects russia's economy to contract by 3.8% this year, thanks to the double whammy of sanctions and low oil prices. the kremlin needs oil to fetch north of $100 a barrel to meet its budget this year. the gap impacts every part of the russian budget and nearly every aspect of every day life for many russians. russians are also grappling with an eye watering inflation rate that hit 16.9% last month, that's the highest in more than a

rural service was cut in half after moscow/subsidies. outside russia it's vladimir putin's vision that is the main concern. many and the west have begun to see russia as a security threat. are they right to be afraid of russia? >> no, they are not right. i believe the theory comes from countries that want to create riusussia as an eneemmy. sarah: so another marathon session has wrapped up. the only question left now is whether mr. putin can actually deliver on the promises he made here. kathy: four hours. that is a lot of time to answer questions. other news from around the world. fighting is underway for control of rammadi. u.s. led coalition forces have launched airstrikes. the iraqi government troops also reported to be fighting against i.s. tens of thousands of -- are fleeing as the violence intensifies. south africa's president has condemned violence against foreigners as shocking and unacceptable. five people have been killed since last week in attacks on migrants who have been accused of taking local jobs. mr. zuma said the attack

we are in moscow with more on eye why the bilateral talks has some people in the e.u. worried. >> there's a nightmare scenario here and it goes like this. really here that many european leaders and they are restless nights might be considering at the moment going something like this. what if greece defaults on all its debts and it throws off austerity measures. it exits the euro zone and straight into the arms of russia, russia offers it some sort of financial deal, an aid package, but also, it comes with strings attached. grease has to use its e.u. veto at russia's behest basically toll ruin all that unity the european union has worked hard on to come to some sort of common position on russia and on sanctions and its position on ukraine. maybe a smaller trade package is more likely, like lifting of russia's embargo on european fruit and vegetables like put in place last year, giving freese and exemption. that greece will have to offer something in return. the big question is what will that be. >> vile forces shot dead a palestinian man after he stabbed two soldiers ne

friends to save off economic collapse by the greek prime minister is traveling to moscow. >> turkish president holds talks in tehran amid differences over the war in yemen. we'll be live from istanbul with the latest. >> in sport turkish say two suspects arrested after the countries leading team was attacked by gunfire. >> pro-russian separatists released 16 ukrainian soldiers. they've been held in eastern ukraine since january. both ukraine and agreed to exchange prisoners as part of the ceasefire deal. the separatists say they've released all ukrainian prisoners and are waiting for kiev to do the same. >> sporadic fighting continues in eastern ukraine despite a ceasefire. people have been hiding in underground shelters for months, including children living with

lower oil prices and sanctions imposed by moscow -- imposed on moscow over ukraine are weighing heavily. anchor: putin was very upbeat saying nothing first and everything working. he's even promising a return to economic growth in two years. anchor: we're going to start with this report on putin's marathon national pep talk. reporter: once a year, flatter putin answers donations questions on tv. nearly half the population tunes in. putin answered 90 questions from over 2 million submitted. most focused on the country's economic faculties. sanctions have hit russia hard but president putin pointed to the first signs of recovery. the ruble is stabilizing, he said. it is unfair to say every thing is bad. satellite links abroad in questions from across the country. people in crimea asked what the future hold for ukraine. putin was scathing about the government of ukraine. among the studio guests was a former liberal politician who asked if russian troops were fighting alongside separatists in eastern ukraine. i can tell you directly and affinity very -- and definitively, there are no russia

rory challands joins us live from moscow. what can you tell us about what the paratroopers are expected to do. >> they've come from italy the 173rd airborne brigade of the u.s. army, and they are expected to be on a kind of rotating mission in ukraine for the next six months or so. they're going to be training the ukrainian national guard. they are the only foreign troops in ukraine at the moment. there are already on the ground there some 75 british military advisors. they are on a rotate mission as well. 200 canadians are going to be arriving, as well. at the moment, they are all going to be located in the west of the country doing training and things like that, but of course this hasn't gone down well with moscow. they don't like what's happening at all. >> on that point will the u.s. mission be primarily to prepare the ukrainian forces for defense, or is it possible that some of the people, their tranquil then go to the west to go on the offense against the allegedly russian backed forces there? >> well, what they're sayi

troops rave in ukraine prompting a stern warning from moscow. >> another iraqi major city may be falling to isil. why coalition say that's not a big deal. >> there is still cleanup that needs to happen. >> five years after the worst oil spill in u.s. history we take you to new orleans for a

he has just arrived in moscow to talk money. that is being seen as a sign of closeer ties between the countries. that sent a message to the rest of europe, what is it? >> orthodoxy has bonded greeks and russians for a thousand years. it was greek missionaries who converted slavs to christianity. grease needs money and friends to face increasingly hostile creditors in europe. and russia needs imports in the face of sanctions. >> whether they can make a very attempting offer let's say offering $30 billion europes the amount that greece will need in the future. >> a direct russian loan to greece isn't the only option. russia could lift its import ban for more than a billion dollars worth of greek products and because greece spends ten times that amount buying russian gas russia could lower the price. and it could bid for infrastructure that greece is privatizing such as port authorities and rail. >> these are all parts of the bilateral relationship, but greece wants to remind europe of its strategic value and demonstrate it has fri

it was the same going in to the first round of discussions in moscow at the end of january. but the middle east is currently going through turbulent changes. changes that could well already be having an affect on the balance of power in the syrian conflict. >> between iran and the west worries saudi arabia and israel, but it suits tehran's ally syria just fine. the rise of islamic state in northern syria and iraq means syria's unyielding president is no longer the west's regional public enemy number one. russian analysts think it's all playing very well for bashar al-assad and very badly for syria's option opposition. >> iran could help syrian force who is are loyal to bashar al-assad government to fight off this islamic militants. one thing is sure, that bashar al-assad and quite stable, and actually he is the president who is ready to deal with opposition. >> the man who mediated four days of talks here thinks it's positive the delegates did not get into a fist fight. but in syria the very real fighting drags on while all around governments are reevaluates who they conside

cnn's matthew chance is in moscow monitoring the epic event. good morning, matthew. >> reporter: good morning, john. there has been 2.2 million questions submitted to vladimir putin. hopefully he won't get to all of them, but it is expected to be a marathon session. last year, he than went on for three hours and 48 minutes. the kremlin says it is a range of topics. the conflict in ukraine and sanctions over the russia alleged involvement in ukraine. the country's sinking economy. all of these part of the conversation that putin will be leading on the slick set of russian television. a lot of anticipation. russian television is just running a countdown clock in the minutes before the question and answer session starts. a lot of anticipation. >> excitement. 2.5 million questions and counting. matthew, you will monitor. thank you. >>> retailers have raised minimum wage to $9? some say it is not good enough. raise it higher. we have that after the break. technology gives you control and now technology gives you home security and control in a new an