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Wreath for australias unknown soldier as he begins a short secondment to the countrys military. Also in the program, alice is here with all the business. Youre looking at greece first of all . Thats right. Weve heard from Yanis Varoufakis the greece finance minister, saying his government will honor all of their obligations and his own words, reform greece deeply. And of course the head of the International Monetary fund says shes happy to hear it. Hello to you. It is midday in london. 7 00 a. M. In washington. And 2 00 in yemen. For 12 nights the coalition of gulf states led by saudi arabia backed by the u. S. Have been targeting the Houthi Rebels who ousted yemens president. Well, that leaves thousands of people desperately short of food water, and medical splice. The u. N. Estimates, 500 have been killed. And as katarina mow reports, the is situation is getting worse. Reporter its a desperate situation for those who cant escape yemen. In the city of aden people risk their lives jour
To make an evil in moscow, a mafia state is not true. This romance in the 1990s. Maybe it was great for poland, i dont know. But when he was forced from office, as he was 75 of russians lived in poverty. They think things were sent to moscow. But they were sent back to the bank of new york. So this romance of the 1990s ruled by a week mafia its all putin. Think about the real problems in the world. To be clear the russia that we have today to meet the current regime as it is today is a result of our failed policy of engagement. Have we isolated and humiliated russia from 1991 . No. They received the soviet un seed. They were transferred from ukraine under the budapest memorandum. From the beginning, u. S. President s have sought to build up international status. Clinton and bush invited them to join the council of europe although it is not a council of micro sea. During that same period while we are engaging russia and inviting them to our institutions and creating russia, what was rus
The people here do not read ukrainian newspapers. Newspapers. Perhaps they do, but russian they dont. They dont know whats happening in russia. This is funny, i was there two years ago to receive the honorary man of the year in ukraine. There you go, man of the year in ukraine. Let me bring stephen in. Did you notice he just got checkmated . I understand this fixation on putin. I really do. Personally i dont care much about putin. I wish i was going to live long enough to see how his story ends in 20 years and evaluate his role as a leader of russia. I think its going to be a big debate, the pluses and minuses. I dont know how its going to come out but that would be an interesting did eight to have here today. Lets look at the elephant the room we havent mentioned. All this embrace thing of russia in the 1990s, all this wonderful things we did for them , but one we also expanding nato toward their borders . And you say so what. I find out where you live and i park all my military equip
That we can speak our only much and you will get translation our english, but that colleagues here do not get any translation, or do you . No. But you should get translation into ingush so signal if there is a problem. Im also going to ask colleagues and our guests to be as brief and concise as possible and to allow for maximum number of questions. We will have one question, one i will ask time, and everybody to be very, very concise. Listen toll, we will the men from the dsnd group. Greenwald formr. Being with us today. Can i begin with where you finish, the source, Edward Snowden . In my report, i am going to be talking about whistleblower protection. Yesterday we saw the Congressional Committee that by mike rogers, and they rejected snowden asion of mr. A whistleblower. What is your view of that . By rejecting that definition, they are seeing him as a felon. Simple question, what is your view of that . Secondly, on the federal court gment, which he welcomed, which you welcomed, agai