National studios in moscow and hello to wherever you may be. Watching, im fear, ella is about what this hours top stories from around the world, but to have you with us. Russia air defense units repelled multiple attacks on crimea overnight with the russian peninsulas. Aerospace violated by ukrainian drones from different sides r t z or shot off, gives us more. It is very difficult at this stage to suit facts from say here, say as to whats going on as to whats happened in crimea. Now again, the most basic understanding that we have here right now is that the, what could be a ukrainian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle breach the russian as space. And so Russian Defense systems are well worked as they were supposed to. Now again, others, for example, other sources. They say that this could be not a ukrainian drone, but rather ukrainian missile, or you crania, and shell aimed at the peninsula. But again, so far, what has been confirmed that whatever it was, it didnt deal any damage. It didnt cause
[applause] its wonderful to be back so i thought i would give you some of the major ideas that are in the book. Recently essentially see your eyes glaze over then we go to q a so i am in the fifth week to you physically the same talk so i am pretty tired of it. [laughter] blige just thought i would move past that to have the of bit more of a conversation. I think this is an engaged groupon we have had some really good discussions not only the technical detail but the geopolitical mitscher so to me that is the interesting part i will try to throw out enough to talk about but not so much i go into the question and answer time. I started to write september 2009. Rights after i was ambushed in afghanistan is this is one of the classic scenario is. Most live in mountain valleys of the little villages nobody really lives high on the mountains they live on the valley floor and usually there is only one road. By 4 00 in the afternoon everyone knows exactly where. Kid you hear me okay . And the
Jazeera journalists have now been jailed in egypt for 300 days, plus. Brazilians are divided on who should be the next president but not here in this town where almost everyone say they will be voting for the opposition candidate and we came to find out why. Good to have you. Kurdish fighters in kobani took control of a strategic area in the west of the town on syrias border with turkey. These are live pictures of kobani. The advance of Kurdish Forces follows four u. S. Air strikes since wednesday against isil targets and despite the strikes kurdish fighters are calling for more reenforcement and hearing the rebel groups are sending a joint force of about 1500 fsa fighters and these exclusive pictures we obtained by al jazeera show the extent of the devastation within the town. Now the recaptured area by Kurdish Forces gives them control over a large stretch of open land and help for future air drops and weapons dont fall in the wrong hands and as we report now near the turkey syria bo
That the United States was faced with. They took all that territory by force and then paid for it later. So why not tell them to pay for the crimea area, any area they seize . Its a nuclear power. Trying to prevent them from doing something is very difficult. Sanctions is a way of doing things, but i dont think its terribly effective. Why not tell them to pay for all this territory while things are Still Available internationally to try to solve a crisis. Any comment . What im not doing the first round is taking the questions over there. Thanks. Im from the transatlantic academy, at least until next week. I wanted to take up ambassador ischingers point about the european elections being a Healthy Development what worries me from what i heard this morning, is we can have these elections and carry on as usual. I dont think we can because that is not how democracy works. If we do that then it will make a mockery of democracy. Actually, this is the first time because the elections have cre
World. Theyve been able to sketch out and have interesting conversations over the last decade about what they have learned and how they worked well together, what they didnt like about the post 9 11 world, about the global war on terror, about the bush years, but theyre having trouble defining kind of the new agenda, their new Foreign Policy framework, the new strategy for everything thats coming at them in the world. Im going to be issuing a report next week. We dubbed this the era of compounding complexity. It doesnt roll off the tongue, but i think this is an environment that is so incredibly complex, that i think europe and the United States are just really struggling to cope with the number of challenges that are coming at them. Just to cite a few, we have not just the emerging rising powers, but we have all of the arrival of the variety of nonstate actors, individuals, corporations that are now playing a huge role in crafting National Security agendas, how we use state craft, how