Are the most important part of the show. Tell me what is on your mind by tweeting me or hit me up at facebook. Western nations threaten to slap russia with new sanctions today that after the ukrainian president said Russian Forces have entered ukraine. European leaders met on saturday to discuss more moves on russia. The ukrainians said two russian tank columns shelled a border post today and then crossed into southeastern ukraine. Nato claims a thousand troops have moved into the battle zone to help separatist rebels seize a northern town. Moscow denies its troops are fighting inside ukraine. But the rebel leadership claims 3,000 volunteers have pored into its ranks since the fighting began in may. The new offensive sames to create a rebelheld corridor between the russian border and the crimean peninsula, which russia annexed in march youll remember. If successful the rebels will cut off the sea and open up another supply line to rebel strong holds in the north in donetsk and luhansk. The rebels say their next move will be to take a port city, 20 miles to the west. Though Ukrainian Government troops there are gearing up for a siege while diplomats gathered in new york to debate th escalating crisis. For more, lets go to ian who joins us by phone from massachusetts. Ian everything about this looks like invasion. Everything about it looks like war, and yet nobody is using ukrainians. Yeah, its in no ones interest to use those terms. Rerussian government is trying to maintain plausible terms so they dont get hit with tougher sanctions. The americans are trying their damnist to show sanction policy havent failed. And the europeans dont want to put more sanctions on. Everyone doesnt want to say this is an invasion, but it doesnt pass the giggle test anymore. Here we are, the russians and ukrainians are at war, and all sides have badly miscalculated ukrainians. Were still in warm weather in cold weather russia has proved in the past its ability to turn off natural gas supplies, and there are things going on in the world where the west needs russias continued involvement in iran and syria. Where does this go . Well, the first thing you say is the europeans are the ones that get hurt from a market perspective. Italy is already back in session. The european rebound has been very anemic. There is a lot of energy and banking that gets done, and tougher sanctions will hurt that. I think the eu as a whole now slips back in to recession because of what is happening between russia and ukraine. In terms of iran, one place the russians have played a very significant role, we have seen the russian government show greater willingness in providing the iranians with some senttives that might look like leverage or easy sanctions breaking behavior if a deal doesnt get cut. I think now the deterioration makes it less likely that we get a comprehensive nuclear settlement. Lets talk about ukraine. You said nobody has misjudged this like the ukrainians. Ukraine matters much more to russian than it does to the west. And but for those Gas Pipelines that go through ukraine, they are not part of nato, it is not part of the eu, so tell me how this all plays out and why ukraine has misjudged this. All of the efforts that the americans and europeans put against russia has not done much for ukraine. There has been no direct military support. Its not like the United States or france is providing weapons for the kurds. No one is prepared to provide lots of weapons to ukraine to fight the russians. The ukrainian president decided he was going to make his efforts to really remove the russiansupported separatists to engage in lieu lu hands k, and he clearly believed he was going to get more western support. The russian government has now called ukraines bluff. They have sent contaitanks and troops across, and the ukrainians are going to lose very badly, and the ukrainian president is going to lose a lot of republican from its people. This is a horrible situation for ukraine. Is there some danger that those other countries keep warning, that russia has greater expansionist tendencies, and they may realize if nobody does anything when they move into ukraine, nobody will do anything when it moves elsewhere. I think you are going to see effectively the creation of bases. They wont be permanent bases, because that will break an agreement. And de facto agreement. I think the response of the United States are very different from what you have seen in ukraine. I even think that would be true if you saw lets say russian minorities in latvia or stonia, starting to demonstrate. I think you would see a response with district boots on the occur. All right. Well talk to you more when you are in town. For more on the situation in ukraine. We do to a member of the Canadian Parliament who is of ukrai ukrainian decent. She is also the author of sale of the century, russias wild ride from communism to capitalism. She is wellinformedthon and joins us from toronto. You heard ian, he said poroshenko and the ukrainians misjudged what would happen if they took on the russians in the east of the country. And while nobody else is calling this a war, it looks like that is what is goes on in eastern ukraine. It is a war. It is a russian invasion. The estonian president called it that, and he is absolutely right. I met ian in ukraine when i was a journalist, but i think hes overlooking two things though in this assessment of poroshenko. The first is the domestic pressures he faced. He is the democratically elected president of ukraine, and he is the president of a country, and represents a constituency which was absolutely determined to fight the russianbacked separatists. And i think if we step back and imagine this was happening in our own country, we can understand that national impulse. Ukrainians knew absolutely this was not a civil war or a domestic uprising, this was russianbacked separatists, lead and armed by russians, and they felt quite rightly that it was their duty as a country and people to push these people out. I think that is an absolutely understandable and reasonable judgment. Poroshenko was absolutely aware that that was the case. So i think in terms of the domestic responsibility that he had, we have to take that into account. And in terms of if poroshenko misjudged the questions because now they are pushing back, i think we have no guarantee that had the Ukrainian Resistance been less successful, the russians would have quietly gone home. I think ukraine and the rest of the world would be in a much more dangerous position. We saw what happened in crimea, and what happened was an annexation of that territory into russia. Had the ukrainians not resisted these russianbacked insurgents, i think you would have a whole swath of eastern and southern ukraine in much more uproar. Where does this end . Well, i think we dont know yet, because a lot depends on the behavior of three different actors. A lot depends on what happens in russia, what the ukrainians do, and what the west does. I think what is very clear right now is that putin is absolutely has absolutely hostile intentions towards ukraine; that his goal and i think this has been the goal since the success of the democratic revolution in february, his goal is the dismembership of ukraine, and he is not going to stop pushing until he meets a force he cannot resist, or until he succeeds in doing this. He sent out on the website, a very worrying statement, in which he refers to the insurgents of novasea, which is the word harking back to the times of katherine the great but really invented in modern times by putin for what is eastern and southern ukraine. Thats very worrisome. You mentioned the president of estonia mentioning putins intention. These are all nato members, so while they have very valid fears of russias expansionist tendencies, they know the minute a foot crosses into their border, that their toe air ships will be launched. In that is a nato covenant. Ukraine isnt in that position. Ukraine matters less to the west. It matters more to russia. This this may be the problem. Well, its absolutely a problem for ukraine. I would, though, aly say the reason were seeing such strong support from the Baltics States and poland, is they understand we are seeing a very gross violation of international law. We are seeing for the First Time Since the Second World War in europe, the invasion of one european country by another, and with crimea, the annexation of the territory of one european country. That is a devastating precedent for all of europe. Ukraine in particular gave up its nuclear weapons, and in exchange a memorandum was signed in budapest by russia, by Great Britain, by france, by the United States, guaranteeing ukrai ukraines territorial integrity. And i think thats why were seeing russias other neighbors being very, very anxious. And rightfully so. Thank you so much. Crista will be back with me tonight on consider this, im filling in for antonio mora. Coming up im taking a closer look at the Islamic State group in syria and iraq. Ill show you how dangerously efficient they are. Plus the supermarket workers who took on their top bosses of their company have won. Now available, the new al jazeea america mobile news app. Get our exclusive in depth, reporting when you want it. A global perspective wherever you are. The major headlines in context. Mashable says. Youll never miss the latest news they will continue looking for survivors. The potential for Energy Production is huge. No noise, no clutter, just real reporting. The new Al Jazeera America mobile app, available for your apple and android mobile device. Download it now today another sign of just how vicious the conflict in syria and iraq has become. In a video posted on line these men are reportedly syrian soldiers taken prisoner by fighters from the socalled Islamic State. The Insurgent Group seized an air base, then marched these prisoners that they captured out into the desert in their underwear before shooting them in a mass execution. This is just the latest grizzly footage the group has posted on line. On august 19th the Group Released an execution video of a american journalist. Today president obama told reporters that he is working to forge a broader International Strategy to defeat the group, but its not clear how that strategy will apply to the groups fighters inside syria. Men, mronny, and munitions have fuelled the Islamic State unprecedented expansion in syria and iraq. But the longerterm goal of creating an actual state are grounded in something more mundane but no less essential than fire power. Patricia sabga explains. Reporter tens of thousands of fighters. An estimated 2 billion war chest. Plundered stateoftheart, u. S. Made military hardware. But beneath that lies the key to the Islamic State groups staying power, a simple but highly effective top down bureaucracy. There is a corset of functions that the Islamic State seeks to put in place as soon as it overruns a district. Reporter capitalizing on wartorn syria, and disenfranchised groups in iraq, the Islamic State group capitalized on the groups it captures. It also worked to maintain and electricity. This institutional infrastructure. Not only enables the Islamic State group to govern its territory, it prevents a daunting challenge to its enemies. By making the Group Stronger than any individual groups. It is estimated 1 million a day in locally generated funds leave it poised to fight another day. If isis is able to continue to raise the amount of money it has right now, it will be able to lie low and probably come back later like it has in the last three months. Jazeera. Coming up, the Islamic State cash flow could deal a serious blow, but it wont be easy to do. The group has never actually relied on foreign donors instead it derives most of its money locally. The fact places it beyond the reach of International Banking laws that are designed to thwart crossborder areas. My guest sees parallels with the Islamic State and the taliban when it seized power in the 1990s. Good to see you. I cant determine whether Islamic States success is due to the abilities and proficiency in selfsufficiency, in the vacuum they seem to operate, or this law less vast part of iraq. What is it . Are they really good or just operating in places that are really bad . Well, you are asking the right question. I think obviously its some of both, but principally, for example when the taliban came into afghanistan, they wanted power at the national level, but they didnt care nearly as much about state administration and governing in the provinces. Thats something they learned to do in the last decade. So its by no means clear that by coming into a power vacuum by coming in somewhere where its very difficult to govern that a group like this is going to fill that vacuum with political power, with state administration, as opposed to brute force. So this is not a forgone conclusion. It is somewhat surprising this is how they are behaving. Under the taliban, they said the heard had a big chest of money, that was sort of the state treasury. I ask on the other side, they are very sophisticated, they collect tolls, they want to capture dams to control electricity. I mean they seem to have figured this out a little bit more. I think thats exactly right. They have a pretty robust strategy for things like tax collection, and for you know, projecting their power through dams through service provision, even which is a sort of winning the home front strategy. But i also think an important part of the key here is what they are doing with the judicial system. Its not just a matter of having a monopoly on the use of force when it comes to fighting other heavily armed groups, but its also that ability to regulate the daytoday life. One of the most powerful things for example, that people have said about life under the taliban in the 90s, was you could leave your wallet on a wall for three days, and it would still be there, because everyone was so afraid of what would happen to you if you took it. You know, when you look at the outside influences, one of the things we worry about with i. S. Is because they can generate money, whether its through kidnappings or ransoms or whatever they do, so the traditional extorting that we think of, that sort of takes their ability away to intervene and stop. So when we put pressure on saudi arabia and other countries that have been behind this, they can also do less about i. S. Than they can about other groups. Thats exactly right. An organization that is making reportedly 3 million a day. They are not going to be easy to stop under any circumstances. But here we have even through our own actions and proxies, there is not a lot of space to be able to actually cut off that flow, and maybe even in the way that markets have responded. No, oil prices have not actually dropped over the years. So, you know, our financial tools to deal with this are unfortunately slim. Anyone will know because of post 2011, you have to disclose what money is for. These guys are not using the Banking Systems that were using to get money. Even though they have so many western subscribers. Do we have any financial tools . Certainly we have some. I dont want to imply that there is no foreign money coming in that can be controlled. But you have a globally supported group that is also trying to act like a proper nation state, but then gets a lot of its money through these strange thuggish, mo feeialike tactics. Its a complicated issue. Thank you for bringing us information on it. Well billion dollars battles exist between ceos in a world that feels completely foreign to most americans. So why is one ceo invoking sympathy and cheers from those who work for him . [ cheers ] arthur lovingly known as art y t, has been re ireinstated. He received a warm welcome from employees and customers who have fired. All i can say its great to be back together again. [ cheers and applause ] many of Market Baskets employees boycotted and protested the 71 stores when arty t was ousted by his cousin. The reason, he was revered for being good to the employees. He covered the medical bills of one sick employee. One loyal supporter is an Office Manager in a massachusetts location, in store number 10. She has been there for 30 years. She considers him a member of her family, even remembering him visiting her late husband while he was sick at massachusetts general hospital. She has been seen out there protesting for arthurs return. Mary jane thank you for being with us. When we had you on a few weeks ago, you were really upset. And now you are grinning from ear to ear. I am. I am so happy right now. Tell me when you heard about this what did you and your colleagues talk about . News . Yeah. I was home last night. We had some friends over, hanging out. I was watching the news, and i started seeing the good news coming in, and got so excited i could barely sleep last night. We live in a country where all we hear from employees is how their employers are unfair to them. I never remember people sitting in and protesting and not going to work so the boss could be reinstated. About . Its about having this one man, our leader, boss, and friend, he has done a lot for a lot of people. Not just myself and my family. He takes care of all of us. He knows us by name when he comes in the store. You have a particular specific reference to him when your late husband was sick and in the hospital. I do. John was in mass general, very sick with cancer, and arthur showed up one day, held his hand, took me aside, consoled me, cried with me, minutes. You had some you stayed in your office, but there were some who protested, but there were customers who used to shop at Market Basket. They went to other stores and they would come and pin their receipts on Market Baskets stores to show Market Basket what was happening