despite madrid s warnings that it won t allow the region to become a breakaway republic. you re up to date thanks will. they don t pay any attention to borders we are spending on name migratory route is coming from with. for a long time many local residents saw the heads of migrating elephants in the making
hundred thousand per year if confirmed the deal would remove a key hurdle to efforts to form a new coalition government. and nearly a million people turned out in barcelona to protest against catalonia has pushed towards independence from spain the region s leader to declare autonomous. that just by tuesday despite madrid s warnings it will not allow the region to become a breakaway republic. while newspaper reports of alleged abuse torture and the killing of gay men have emerged in recent months in the russian region of chechnya according to those reports authorities detained more than one hundred gay men and urged their families to kill them to quote wipe clean their honor at least two have been killed by their relatives in a third died after being tortured these allegations have been made against the background of a very deeply conservative social agenda promoted by russian president vladimir putin in two thousand and thirteen russia passed
i don t think we can really fully understand how deeply shocked people are. so my question would be, what do they do about president putin? do they blame him for not protecting them? or do they rally around the flag and what does putin do? what does putin do in syria now? how does this change the fight against terror? i would go back to what president putin said when he was dealing with chechnya and the breakaway republic in russia and he has said things like this subsequently. i think and back in chechnya he said i m going to wipe them out in the outhouse. that is what he said about the terrorists. so conceivably he could double down and take much more action in sear kwa which changes the equation again. paul? it really would change the equation if they pivot towards
are going to agree to? if you were putin you wouldn t be that frightened of this level of sanctions. take a look at the economist cover, which illustrates the putin world view. we can put it up on the screen, the economist has illustrated the expansionism, look at the size of russia. in moldova, stuck between ukraine and romania, it was a soviet republic, they are sitting there they have one breakaway republic controlled by moscow inside their territory and they are looking at the west and brussels and berlin and saying we re next on the menu unless you step up. there s an assumption there s a train that keeps rolling forward. we re traveling through ukraine. you were in odessa and other parts and the whole history of ant anti-semitism is a highly charged issue because of the
even ultra sensitive sonar listening under water. it is clear this is a dangerous neighborhood. if you re wondering just how close sochi is to trouble, we will take a drive to the border with a breakaway republic and potential flashpoint. it is now 1:06 in the afternoon. let s get started. and here we are at the border and the gateway to the rest of the north caucuses, one of the most dangerous places on earth. and that took exactly 15 minutes. many security experts are convinced there will be more bombings. for these groups and individuals, a successful strike on the games themselves, that is the holy grail. reporter: for putin, whose reputation is built on order and control, that would be a disaster. he beefed up forces across the country. but security analysts are