he may not see russia in that same way but russia is part of europe. he's gone on to say russia has a eurasian perspective. it's a unique civilization. he's trying to carve out russia being like the united states and china. in his idea, only three country matter, and russia will be one of them. a land mass, a struggling of continents and the fact russia is still with us in many respects as an empire and has been for hundreds of years and is quite unique in a geopolitical context and in an economic context, vast natural resources. so he's trying to carve out the position that is very much unique to russia and he's posing that challenge to himself and the rest of us. >> charlie: michael, what is the policy making, where are we today and what options do we have and what policies can we enact that might make the relationship better or is the ball simply in his court? >> well, when i was in government i never allowed us to make the goal of any bilateral relationship to make it better, it's what's in our national interest. up until this latest crisis, we had

and not from russia and from russia. if you say for you may -- it would be a long process and a function for many of you. that is why this is the political side of the factions. from my point of view in this case, the application of sanctions demonstrates the political solution and political dialogue. economically speaking. it is not a dramatic situation. in many other countries, the world economy is not so good and fair will be problems, sanctions with small countries, cuba will work in upcountry like russia with capacity and without it. it is where we bear for everyone sell i don't say that we don't suffer. we suffered from sanctions it is fleer. we suffer mainly in provincial areas in new technologies. it doesn't mean that. it will affect everybody. and also someone else. >> let me ask you, how concerned you are, russia's nuclear capability that comes up a lot in the russian sources. starting with one expert who said it is not inconceivable to this expert that russia and the united states could be on the brink of war

russia is part of europe. it just is. russia is part of europe. he also has said that russia has this eurasian perspective, neither east nor west, it is a unique civilization. what he is trying to carve out is an idea of russia being like the u.s. and china and the ability to be three countries that matter. them. will be one of it is a straddling of confidence -- confident. it is quite unique and he is trying to stay in a geopolitical context. is trying to carve out this position that is neither of the above but is unique to russia. that is the challenge that he is posing to himself as well as to the rest of us. >> what is the challenge for the united states, you are part of as ambassador.g where are we today and what options do we have, and what policies can weigh an act that might make the relationship better, or is the ball simply in his court? allowed us to make the goal of any bilateral relationship to make it better. up till this latest crisis we had a clear strategy of trying to integrate russia into the international system and work with r

and if you have, told russia, needs security is coming from russia. and political documents, russia now is not, russia is not enemy of nato. were is a logical piece of these decisions? that's why we created russian nato council precisely, because it was clear it was not our possibly to stop it but we wanted to create, trying to say let us work together. but most russian nato counterparts all countries in national capacity. it was not nato countries and russia but it was enhanced with each country sitting around a table discussing common problems trying to find common solutions. but, unfortunately, we failed. >> we have about eight, nine minutes to go. let's get the gentlemen in the back to his been waiting patiently, then we will move to the front. and did you identify yourself. >> the council of kennedy for democracy. mr. minister, in your remarks you said we should study the lessons of ukraine. the president of ukraine, poroshenko, has studied those problems, and he thinks the solution is to correct the situation which is politically corrupt. that k

who are in favor of a lot based state in russia -- law-based state in russia. know the want to answer to this question -- would you go back to russia and would you challenge putin? i am doing in any case is regarded by the current regime as a challenge. i do not know whether vladimir putin feels this challenge today. whole,ime, as a certainly feels of this challenge. when we see this conducted our first conference. we can -- we conducted in eight cities. all of the groups that took part were invited to the local and that conducted so-called prophylactic meetings with them. choosinghe question of the most effective place for doing what i want to do. if i returned to russia, i would immediately of course turn up under house arrest, not in prison. there is a new practice that russian authorities put to their opponents under house arrest. every six months, areat -- our investing organs extend the term of the investigation of one of ukos criminal cases. if i returned to russia, i would not be free to act. it is more convenient for me to act from abroad. >> is there

russia is part of europe. it just is. russia is part of europe. he also has said that russia has this eurasian perspective, neither east nor west, it is a unique civilization. what he is trying to carve out is an idea of russia being like the u.s. and china and the ability to be three countries that matter. russia will be one of them. it is a straddling of confidence -- confident. it is quite unique and he is trying to stay in a geopolitical context. is trying to carve out this position that is neither of the above but is unique to russia. that is the challenge that he is posing to himself as well as to the rest of us. >> what is the challenge for the united states, you are part of the policymaking as ambassador. where are we today and what options do we have, and what policies can weigh an act that might make the relationship better, or is the ball simply in his court? >> i never allowed us to make the goal of any bilateral relationship to make it better. up till this latest crisis we had a clear strategy of trying to integrate russia into the in

vladimir putin's aggression outside of russia creates a situation in russia where the national chov insists are on the rise, bringing things close to a crisis. seeing his popularity fulling in russia, and the rise of the choefannists, vladimir putin attempts to take over their deaneda by -- agenda by means of aggression. it's escalating and i thing we have stepped on to a path of no return. as a result of taking the path, the regime will be destroyed. what sorts of losses this will bring to russia and the whole world is something we super yet to see -- we have yet to see. >> you are a dissident, an ex oligarch, a hated class. how can you convince them? do you think you can be a legitimate engager if you will? >> i am not a dissident. and i'm certainly not an oligarch any more. dissidents are people who serve an idea, and who find the notion of compromise impossible. i believe that compromise is also an idea. a person who spent 10 years in jill is not an oligarch, but i have some opportunities. they have their limit, of course. >> you have been asked about your past role as an oligarch. you

, raping mother russia, of crimea. so it is all stout, 5-4, nikita khrushchev's fault. he kept crimea from stalin and many other great things. he put khrushchev at the middlef of it. and in 1954 crimea was transferred from the russian republic within the soviet unionian to the ukrainian union. it was more economic and administrative because crimea is connected to ukraine but not russia. that is why there is new offense in the areas on the border precisely because the russian's need some connection to crimea otherwise it becomes an economic issue. my books that geled the past issues and new issues together. the book isn't so much about nikita khrushchev. people keep asking me him and when i say he is my grandfather -- my mother julia was adopted by the older khrushchev who were her grandparents who were her daughter. by the reason i think the stor is so important is because personal stories are rarely told. it is all about the man going to the united states and he and jimmy carter didn't get along. or how ronald reagan

in russia it is different read in russia up in town now predation and looting is what happens in russia. so the money leaves russia and is put into european banks. in those people who have eluded russia protect their gains in europe believe so the rule of law is not emerging in russia because they don't have an interest in emerging. now, do they now have an increased interest in rule of law? it is entirely possible that when the industrialists petitions for his release from house arrest, one of their efforts was to say to my but the owners illegally. get approval for the purchase of the line bury that own a bit -- not only did the owners legally but it was approved. we can't go back on these type of agreements. the messages, guess what, there are new set of rules. so from that point of view i am a little discouraged by the message. rule of law, c'mon. but he should not completely this mess the power of the 110. >> well, we have come to the end of our session, but i have one last question. falls on this message of property rights. and isn't the money when the wind. you talk about this as

>> now the situation in russia is not very simple. as a consequence of all of these national chauvinistic moods that have arisen in the country. a large part of the people have moved over to the side as they see life in the way that the current regime is prop gandizing it to the public. those people who see the situation in another way have now been-- become the minority. it's very important for that half year or a year during which this situation will continue in the public consciousness, it's important that this minority during this period would not feel itself alone. and moscow people do gather in rather large marches for peace, and people can feel that they're shoulder to shoulder to someone who thinks like them am but if you take smaller towns, ones that aren't as big as moscow, than the situation there is different, of course. the task of that movement, the organization that i have created is to help people who hold a pro european position who are in favor of creation of a law-based tate in russia, to not feel themselves outside

anyway, russia and ukraine. they have signed a gas deal, as you've been hearing, that will see moscow resume supplies of gas to its ex-soviet neighbor. it certainly eases the threat of a gas shortage, which gets a third of its gas from russia. russia cut off supplies to ukraine several months ago because of "the unpaid debts" by kiev. after several rounds of failed talks, this deal certainly eases the concerns over a new gas war. the package, it is worth that. $4.6 billion in total. ukraine must pay just over $3 billion to cover debts for supplies from russia's gazprom, but the eu and the imf have already agreed to help ukraine fund some of its new gas supplies. russia is insisting, though, stump up the cash. cash up front. christian schultz, he says it is good news for the eurozone economy. >> the crisis in eastern ukraine was terrible for the ukrainian economy, for ukraine as a whole. russia itself, because of the western sanctions, because of the outflows of western money from russia is also an economic crisi

into russia. it's because of a lack of stimulus from the european central bank, the result of roger mercado's economic policy, there's a situation that she's in a bit of a bind and not supporting stimulus. but it is effecting her economy, but will it change her approach. >> you brought up ukraine, you are reading about vo political issues. how big a thought was that. it didn't seem to be jumping off the page. people that you are concerned with, how concerned are they with the geopolitical system. >> the ukraine stuff is affecting germany, russia, middle east, hasn't spilled into a spectacular increase in the oil price, but everyone thinks it wouldn't take a lot to see a significant change, and the risks are severe on the downside. you could see the political factors become more apparent than they have been. it's causing a risk aversion as to what people are thinking. >> why were people able to brush that off this summer? >> partly because it's the summer, and partly, you know, so far the indicator

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louisa finds out that she's going to russia. she's very shocked as you might be and two weeks before they left her father-in-law made a very critical decision. he decided that john and lisa quincy had three sons and the two older sons would not go to pressure. they would stay behind in boston and john quincy and lisa would be allowed to take their 2-year-old. she had no say in this decision. she was heartbroken. she wrote every preparation was made without the slightest consultation with me even the disposal of my children. she was shunned -- stunned and shocked an anguished over this. this was the heir of jane austen when women didn't have a lot of decision-making power even in their role as mother or things like this. she cried out in her diary this is agony can ambitions pay suc such -- [inaudible] this makes her very relatable today in my opinion because we know people whose families are separated by distance, by divorce. we can understand her emotion and being forced to be separated from her children. it makes john adams he

are a 25% shareholder in russia. a company really well placed in russia. megaphone is a strong company. our operations and you raise a countries, weven are seeing 5% growth. 50% of margins in these countries. a great opportunity ahead with internet era, which we are investing for. >> we have to talk about yoga, your telephone company in spain. you are looking to sell it, having pulled it off the market for 15 months. how is the process going? how soon before you sell it? >> it is a beautiful little asset. thepeople, getting 7% of spanish market. down -- but they are stuck between the big boys, all going converge to. what we will keep fighting as long as we were -are there. giving the positioning and convergence, we need to find a long-term solution. we are in that process and we will come back when we have some news. >> can you tell us who your are talking of to? orange and vodafone were in the running before? is it the same old characters who are interested? >> we know pretty much the characters we have around us. i won't go into any specific. it is a ver

he was until recently, russia's most famous prisoner. president putin pardoned him in december, after more than 10 years of imprisonment. he was an oligarch who became wealthy in the era of soviet crony capitalism. when masked men arrested him, he was russia's richest man and the chairman of yukos oil. he and his partner, platon lebedev, were convicted of charges of tax fraud and embezzlement in two widely criticized trials. amnesty international declared them prisoners of conscience trapped in judicial cortex the answer to political, not legal consideration. his story has come to symbolize russia's turn to authoritarianism under putin. in an impassioned closing arguments following his second trial, he told the judge, "your honor, much more than our two fates are in your hands. here and now, the fate of every citizen in our country is being decided." he has lived in self-imposed exile in switzerland since his release. last month, he relaunched his open russia foundation and seeks to start a civil movement to challenge putin's grip on pow

they use fighting pedophilia in russia to attack gay people. it's interesting to know that they sometimes either pretepd or they don't know genuinely the difference between pedophilia and homosexuality. and they use this words interchangeably in their dialogue with the victim. >> jon: please welcome, ben steele. [ applause ] so i want to get some context for this. what we showed, that was a clip of someone from the human rights group speaking about this anti-gay violence in russia that has really spiked. >> over the last few years really. there'sj! a dramatic increase i violence against gay people across russia. and vigilante groups lure gay people to meet up and then assault them, attack them violently, and humiliate them as well, sometimes pouring urine on them and outing them as well by posting on social media. >> jon: and they are actively soliciting for them, pretending, and when they draw them in they attack them. >> that's right >> jon: so the film has incredibly nauseating footage of these groups. they've allowed you in to film them. we

and adams is one of the few remaining diplomats in russia. all the other diplomats went home because they could, they were close, but he's stuck here in russia while his country is at war. emperor alexander held a lot of victory ceremonies at the kashan cathedral. it was newly built, he was showing off his architecture. and that's where a lot of the victory ceremonies were held when there were victories during his pursuit of napoleon. across russia. now, emperor alexander's relationship with the adamss takes an important turn. he offers in 1813 to mediate a peace treaty between america and great britain. and a lot of that was borne out of his relationship with the adamses. and adams responds very positively. he doesn't know what james madison is going to say, but he's pretty confident madison would agree to a russian mediation and, in fact, he's right. madison sends a delegation, he doesn't even wait for senate approval on his delegates, he just sends them onward to st. petersburg. and the british, however, have a very different reaction. the

she loses two pregnancies while she's in russia. she had lost two pregnancies before this time, so her health is delicate. so they talk about different scenarios. but if they waited until after the baby was born in august? it would still be a while before would be safe for an infant to travel by ship. so he turned it down. he doesn't use the term pregnant in his letter to president madison, but he did note the dedication and devotion that a parent should have to his family. so madison can kind of read between the lines about what that is about. he also tells madison i have long entertained the deep and serious distrust of the qualifications for a seat on the bench. he wrote his father a letter and then i am sorry, very sorry to disappoint expectations of my country by withholding myself in the judgment seat. but happier for me than it would be to disappoint their expectations upon the seat itself. what adams knew as he knew what his talents were and he knew what they were. he knew that he was not a judge. he was a lawyer by training

not russia, because russia will keep on pushing their neighbors. quarterback we return, with with more inside story, we will continue our look at russian moves and motivations in it's regularses with with nato, states from the former soviet union, and old friends in asia and the mideast, stay with us. has spent billions of dollars on domestic counter-terrorism operations. >> i wanted to be in on the big game and to be paid top-dollar for it. that's it. >> many of these involved targeted informant led stings. >> to them, everyone in the muslim community is a potential informant or a potential terrorist. rush are sha and the world today on the program, a russian spy plane strayed into astonian air space at midweek, astoria summons the ambassador, in hall h land to lodge a protest. for it's part, the plane was on a training flight and had not violated astonian air space, last month astoria accused rush are sha of kidnapping a security guard near the border. russian is intercepted by both danish and swedish military jets before entering the skies over

yeah, my case was a lot louder. >> let me go back to russia, what is the future for russia near and long-term? >> today, the economic situation in the country is not a very good. >> and the oil price? >> yes, we are spending the resources we have a cumulative. the oil and gas industry have , for the most part, fallen under the political management and these people have reduced efficiency in a greater way. despite the high prices, expenditures are growing at the same rate or faster. nevertheless, we still do have reserves and for some period of time there should be enough of them. if prices do not jump up to $200 a barrel, i think that the authorities are going to have a harder time explaining themselves to the people why it is that the people should not partake in running the government, despite the fact that the authorities themselves seem incapable of providing them with constant growth in their standard of living. the social contract between the people and authorities was just that. you ensure us constand growth in our standard of living, and we do not meddle in running the country. >> you

and it was meant to create an image of a russia that will not be pushed around, a russia that has had it with the u.s. making the rules, a russia that is appealing to other countries which have been on the receiving end of american lectures or american pressure or american bombing. to stay -- we're not going to take it anymore. >> you challenged him. >> i did challenge him. >> on a couple of things he had to say. what did you say to him? >> well, you know, i challenged him on two bases. the first is, as american, and i told him that i rejected his description of the united states as the cause of all problems in the world. and i just basically in a nice way i guess with a kind of smile said i reject what you're saying. and he kind of backed off a little bit. said he wasn't seeking confrontation and then went on to seek confrontation. >> and i guess the manifestation that have in some ways is what we've been seeing over the past 24 hours with russian aircraft being flown over europe and no one really knows what's going on. >> well, the real problem with the russian system is when you sa

that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of russia's debt. s & p still says it could force it to lower the rating in the next 18 months, as with we have reported many times on the show russia's economy was in trouble before the crisis in ukraine erupted and western sanctions against russian defense, finance and energy firms have made a bad situation worse. but western moves to isolate russia economically have spurred moscow to accelerate its deal-making with bay jinx. patricia explains how moscow has moved near to china's orbit. >> reporter: pictures of a pivot gaining pace. earlier this month, russia and china struck more than three dozens energy, trade and finance agreements the latest evidence that moscow's eastern end run around western sanctions is on the fast track. >> the ukraine crisis has certainly started to lay the groundwork for a more robust russia, china, relationship. especially in the energy arena. >> reporter: in may, some two months after the west initiate the economic sanctions against moscow, russia and china reached a lan

>> within russia. >> within russia? the russian government is the government that was appointed by the legally elected president and approved by legally elected parliament. that is the procedure in russia. so we are a presidential republic. not exactly the same way organized as the united states. but significantly with more accent on the parts of a president been for example in average west european countries that are largely parliamentary. so in russia, the president has the power to appoint. the prime minister goes to the parliament seeks approval. thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you for your patience. and for your questions. [applause] >> on behalf of everyone, mr. ambassador, i thank you for what was on many levels informative. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> we have more life campaign 2014 campaign coverage on our companions that network c-span. here's a look at some of the ads running in the state. >> mary burke lied about her jobs plan. turns out it was plagiarized and now sh

and russia. first russia. swedish navy looking for the submarine. we have f-16 scrambling to deal with a russian spy plane. we have all the other provocations that vladimir putin has done, especially the ongoing problems and the fighting that never ceased in eastern ukraine. what does russia want. >> that's the question. everywhere is figuring out what vladimir putin is doing. when it comes to the move, russia denies ties trying to do anything. yest is claiming it attacked an intelligence agency. you get the feeling that it's trying to test n.a.t.o., you think about estonia, the eastern edge. it's 95% russian speaking, which when you think about what is happening in ukraine. you imagine people in the baltics being worried. putin has never forgiven n.a.t.o. for something like libya. n.a.t.o. told rushby -- told that they had no plans. it's in russia's history to push back on n.a.t.o. it's a sphere of influence. it's whether they can seat the divide. if you get estonia angry enough, the president will say we are upped threat. you have to do something,

you are concerned about russia. we are affirmatively saying the new cool is to take care of your family. back to you guys. >> thank you very much. hans joining us from the paris auto show. can we talk about markets? >> i'm going to do some bank of england. we will talk about the foreign exchange impact. basically saying, the downward pressure on inflation as a wages of sterling -- might arise. she is in the camp of not calling for a rate hike. this is her first public statement. another person saying the u.k. not ready for a rate hike. the u.k. almost robust enough to return to normal. is the constitutional debate about scotland going to distract investors? >> bond investors, what are they telling us? since 2011. spanish bonds, italian bonds, u.s. bonds. if investors think interest rates are rising, wisely bond of market doing so well? >> different signals we are getting from central banks. the u.s.. compared to what the markets are telling us. more broadly, looking at the equities story. the s&p down 1.3%. the dow

but is energy hungry, something russia can offer. trade between the two nations is worth $89 billion last year and could reach $100 billion in 2014. but neil, an emerging markets economist, says russia's economy is in trouble. >> on the one hand you have the fallout from the crisis in ukraine, the financial sanctions, the global capital markets, you have at the same time oil prices in the past nth or so, russia most exports. >> the e.u.'s loss might be china's gain. looking eastward will help revive its economic for turns, they're hoping. >> it's not uncommon to hear governments say their country has a refugee or migrant problem. in france, hundreds are waiting hoping to cross the english channel. in australia, it often dominates headlines as it does here in the united states. this next story, though, is a little different. a migrant border camp where new arrivals aren't the problem, they're actually the solution. ♪ >> they're a long way from home and they've all left families behind. from central america, haiti and increasingly fr

comes from russia. if we move a bit further afield, 37% of germany's gas, 29% of italy's gas, and 16% of the gas in france comes from russian energy companies. as for norway, spain, and the uk, they don't get any russian gas, but they could be affected the global prices should drop on news of this deal. laura westbrook has the details. >> reporter: this was the moment the european union had spent months bargaining for. ukraine and russia signing a gas deal just in time for winter. >> this is an important step for our shared energy security in the european continent. there is now no reason for people in europe to stay cold this winter. >> reporter: gas had stopped flowing into ukraine this summer after kiev refused to pay an increased price imposed by moscow. talks had stalled because moscow wanted assurances from the eu that it would pick up any unpaid ukrainian bills. a new compromised gas price has now been agreed until march next year. in return, ukraine will pay back billions of dollars it owes to r

>> within russia. >> within russia. >> yes. >> within russia? the russian government is the government that was appointed y legally elected president. and approved by legally elected parliament. that's the procedure in russia. we are a presidential republic. not exactly the same way organized as the united states but significantly more with more accent on the parts of the president than for example in average western european countries that are largely parliamentary. so in russia, the president has the power to appoint. the prime minister. the prime minister goes to the parliament and seeks approval by the parliament. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i thank you for your patience and your questions. thank you. [applause] on behalf of everyone i thank you for what was on many levels uniquely informative. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2014] >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the institute of peace. i'm very glad to have y

europe needs russia. i suspect we're going to have some dpifkt challenges and that we will see sanctions being faced off against this coming winter and i think gas will be used as a tool in that exercise. it's happened, we need rush a ya. i agree with him that issues like isis will the most -- issues that need to be dealt with right now. >> you were saying you used to be an investors 234 russia. what needs to happen for you to get interested back in russia? >> hopefully russia will change. hopef hopefully it will start respecting tin tegty of ukraine's boarders. hopefully a solution can be found for the ukrainian situation. then we can get back on track. >>> we want to quickly apologize to our asian viewers who missed the end of geoff's interview with the russian prime minister. also want to say thank you very much to declan for joining us. let's have a quick look at european markets, what they're doing before we go to break. we're in the red across the board today. the ftse 100 is the laggard, down about

. >> belarus is the transport place for russia. it builds up coffers in kazakhstan and the officials are keeping quiet. >> traffic is still backed up at the polish and belarusian border. and belarus is buying more than ever before. norway, for example, is now selling four times as much damage to belarus than it did before the embargo. the police erase our pictures of the fish being packaged and sold here in the factory. there is no official record of these additional agricultural imports. the belarusian economy is planned by the state, which does not provide relevant statistics. >> we don't have official figures that show what is entering the country to bring confections. -- break the sanctions. we don't know how much the belarusian government is earning. >> it is no secret that producers are sidestepping the sanctions. store shelves in belarus are life -- are lined with milk from poland along with other eu products. they have been repackaged, but i have been easily identified. no one wants to get how long russia will play along. >

the other one is that many companies in russia maintain a low-performance level. if we compare the manpower productivity in russia and other developed countries, we are lagging behind. >> reporter: in other words, russian firms should probably have smaller work forces than they do, and the unemployment numbers themselves could be misleading as a large chunk of the economy is off the books. but if russia's economy continues to deteriorate, employers, and unemployment figures might be forced to get real. rory challands, al jazeera, moscow. >>> now rescuers are widening their search for stranded trekkers in nepal. at least 29 people were killed and dozens of trekkers are missing. we have more. >> reporter: the recovery operation of those missing from tuesday's snow storm has halted after rescuers have had to focus their attention on rescuing and evacuating around 40 trekkers who tried to pass just right behind me. the trekkers who were evacuated, the ones that we met, said that they had absolutely no idea that the path further down was completely blocked. the army of

russia is like a tub full of dough. you push it all down to the bottom, make a dent in it, you p pull it out, and right in front of your eyes, once again is a tub full of dough. thank you. [applause] o >> every weekend, book tv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2. keep watching for more television for serious readers. >> up next, karen dawisha, author of "putin's kleptocracy." she talks about vladimir putin ice rise -- putin's rise to power in russia. professor dawisha spoke about her book at the woodrow wilson center in washington d.c. >> welcome. we are, indeed, in for a treat today, and if you haven't got enough discussion on putin, i think we're going to hopefully satisfy your curiosity today. it is our great pleasure to have karen dawisha here to talk about "putin's can kleptocracy," and you should add that the books are on sale as well. karen is professor of political science and director of the center for russian and post-soviet studies at miami university in ohio. she is a former wilso

the russia-you grain gas stand -- russia-ukraine gas standoff is over for now. russia returns to natural gas exports to ukraine. russian rebels stepped up attacks on kiev. more details from moscow. henry, at least we got a little bit of an agreement on this gas issue. >> yes, that's right. it has taken many weeks to reach it, but a major breakthrough. it looks as though this deal will stick until the end of march and it averts the threat of a supply disruption to europe. certainly a very important deal reached last night. >> in your mind, which side has made the most concessions here? agreed toussia has lower the amount of money which it is going to get in terms of payment of ukrainian debt. only around $3 billion when it has been asking for $5 billion. there has been a concession on the russian side. on the other hand, the price being set for the gas for future deliveries is close to what russia had been asking. the european union ultimately is acting as a guarantor, so you can say that it was a difficult deal for all sides to swallow. in the end, they did reac

it is not only russia. a downturn of the economy and the south of europe because youimpact are essentially an export driven economy. the only explanation in your relations with europe, i wouldt accurate. argue there are others that are more dependent on russian products that pay a higher price. you have close links with russia. thousands of russian companies that are exporting together with russian companies. i am pretty sure the impact is rather limited. overall a more difficult economic situation. don't blame that on this essentiallyat has political roots. the most important nation in europe has decided to take its responsibility. >> coming back to china we have gone off a little bit talking about russian matters. do you think the chinese premier is coming to germany from a weakening bargaining position because of domestic matters? it is clear the chinese economy is slowing down. is he coming to germany, taking part in this from a weakening bargaining position. is that to the benefits of the likes of germ