president putin takes another step to bring crimea into the russian federation. ♪ hello i'm sammy and you are watching al jazeera live from doha and ahead relatives of chinese passengers aboard flight 370 threaten to go on hunger strike 11 days after the jet vanishes, more talks on iran's nuclear program and meaningful progress. plus. a big breakthrough in the

big bang theory and the understandings of the origin of the universe and i'm in cambridge massachusetts with the details. ♪ moscow is forging ahead with efforts to bring the region of crimea to russia and president putin signed the draft treaty to include them in the region after they broke away from ukraine. the latest from moscow let's talk to fred wear and where does signing the treaty leave crimea's status? >> well, this is one of those days when history just seems to go into overdrive and by the end of the daylight here crimea will be part of the russian federation. putin will speak to the joint houses of parliament in a couple of hours and he will introduce this draft treaty to them and

apparently they will go to the kremlin and in the presence of the representatives of the crimea republic which is now in moscows eyes an independent state and free to choose its own partners, it's own direction, will sign this treaty together with its partner sovereign state the russian federation and it will be a marriage. crimea will become part of the russian federation as an atonomuos part of the constitution and there will be a fireworks display and that will be done. >> reporter: all of this, fred, just i guess drawing everyone's attention to how little effect all the western pressure is having on putin. >> well, indeed, the western pressure may be speeding him up. there is a sense that, i mean certainly among the russian elite here that this chaos in

ukraine in the past month or so has created the historic opportunity for russia to complete that unfinished business with crimea bring it back in and turn using that pressure, that objectless son if you will, turn to the new government in kiev and say if you don't want something like this to happen to the other eastern regions of ukraine better talk to us. it's real hard ball. and it's happening at lightning speed. >> reporter: it is indeed and thanks so much, fred wear there. barn by phillips is monitoring reactions in crimea. >> reporter: here in crimea many people are waiting to hear what vladimir putin has to say. within the majority russian community people will be hoping for the most part that crimea can be incorporated sooner

rather than later into the russian federation after its formal declaration of independence from ukraine on monday. there is also apprehension within the minority communities and the muslim tatas and also the ukraine community that is also here. there is one crucial, unresolved issue and that is the military presence that ukraine retains in the crimea peninsula, all those bases and the naval into lashl and coast guard installations we have been talking about in resent week where ukraine personnel are holding out under siege and the kiev government told them to stay here, they are surrounded by russian soldiers in many cases, how will can that uneasy truce standoff continue we don't know yet. >> reporter: 11 days since the flight 370 vanished and families are threatening to go on hunger strike until they know more about the fate of their loved

ones and the chinese ambassador says he is confident that it's no way connected to the chinese nationals on board. >> there was a thorough investigation of passengers on board and china has not found any evidence that jeopardize the airlines mh 370 to rule out chinese passengers suspected being involved in terrorist or jeopardizing activities. >> reporter: there is reaction in hong kong. >> the extension of the search area now to include the so-called northern route from southeast asia to central asia identified as being a possible course of the missing jet showing increased commitment of the chinese in this search operation and increasing sense of frustration. it has to be said it's almost inconceivable that the jet could have made some kind of landing a week and a half later, nobody

knowing about it, but having said that the route that it took went over chinese border areas are some of the more inhospitable parts of the planet in the far northwest and it's the kind of place that possibly a jet could be lost for a week and a half and the president has spoken to his malaysia counterpart saying china expects all information in the future to be timely and accurate and as all of the countries involved in this search now look at the vast task and challenge of extending this search into the indian ocean and getting timely information that directs the assets to the right kinds of places is important. >> reporter: thailand lifted a state of emergency in and around bangkok, the 60-day rule was introduced to help contain antigovernment demonstrations in the run up to general elections, but since then several protests

camps have been closed down and dana reports. >> reporter: at this time of year there should be more tourists in bangkok but political violence in weeks led countries to have travel warnings and businesses hope it will change now the government lifted the emergency law. but this decision has more to do with improving thailand's image with consumers and investors and the crisis between proand antigovernment supporters is not over. >> i think people will feel comfortable to come back again and again. but the problem is the prices is not so the problem. we still have problem. >> reporter: the very fact that the caretaker prime minister is in a police academy outside bangkok is an indication that not all is well in thailand and her office is surrounded by protesters and her administration says security has

improved and the law was meant to end these sort of antilaw protests but it failed and the court ruled the prime minister could not use force to disburse demonstrators. opposition supporters are in a park in central bangkok and hoping the person facing corruption charges will be forced out of office by the courts but the ruling party does not see that as a threat >> she has to stop working, that is the prime minister and senior, that is the prime minister will become acting prime minister so that means the government is still on, the government doesn't dissolve with the prime minister being indicted. >> reporter: the ruling party and supporters say the only way forward is through the ballot box and demonstrated in the north but threatened to mobilize in bangkok and this could mean civil unrest. >> reporter: not that it's effecting the economy thailand has a functioning government and at the moment the caretaker cabinet lost a lot of powers and

cannot spend money without court rulings and projects have been put on hold. every so often there is a grenade attack or somebody plants a bomb outside of a courthouse and means little in a country where camps are armed, without a roadmap to get out of the political impasse people feel the real battle lies ahead, bangkok. >> reporter: 15 people have been killed by suicide bomber riding a rick shaw and it happened in the faryab province and dozens of people have been wounded. negotiators from iran and six world powerers are meeting in talks over the nuclear program. so where are we at with those nuclear talks? six world powers and iran agreed last north which saw they spend higher grade uranium enrichment

and relief and they have a more comprehensive settlement and iran scale back the nuclear program. the deadline is july for that. but the latest round of talks will not be easy and iran are watching closely and say they don't agree to closing any nuclear site or stopping enrichment and tim friend is in vienna watching the talks. it seems what everybody has in common in the talks is the belief that this one is going to be really hard. >> they said at the beginning of the week he expected these to be the toughest round of talks so far. and that's because they are starting to get down to the kind of details that are really going to count in their attempt to achieve a lasting settlement. as you were saying they achieved this six-month interim agreement which was hailed as a great success but now they have to build on that.

and they will be very complex and tough negotiations. the iranian foreign minister will be meeting catherine ashton who is the european union's chief foreign envoy but after two days of talks the technical experts will carry on with these discussions. they could go on for another year because they are so complex. and, of course, no one believes that iran can unlearn how to enri enrich uranium but the hope is that the activities can be restricted to such an extent that if there was any suggestion that it was trying to build a nuclear weapon that that could be spotted very early on in the process. >> reporter: now, tim, how much unity will there be among world powers given everything that is going on with ukraine right now,

that is a question, isn't it? >> absolutely right. of course, what happens in the world because these discussions in the world powers impinges immediately on how progress goes here. there is no suggestion yet that crimea will cause disruption to these talks. but if the iranians sense that perhaps there were splits among the people they were negotiating with for instance over crimea and russia and the united states then it might decide it can play the long game and perhaps hold out for more concessions, that is the risk and no suggestion it's happening at the moment. we shouldn't forget as well it wasn't so long ago that people were talking about the threat of israeli action against iran over the issue and it may have been words to galvanize western opinion and if the talks fail it

may reemerge and how important the discussions are. >> reporter: tim friend from vienna. more ahead including riot police deployed in venezuela as they try to contain violence there, plus so much oil but so much poverty. how can more people from nigeria enjoy the benefits of the natural wealth. ♪ illegal immigration. >> al jazeera america presents... a breakthrough television event borderland a first hand view at the crisis on the border. >> how can i not be affected by it? >> strangers, with different points of view take a closer look at the ongoing conflict alex, a liberal artist from new york and randy, a conservative vet from illinois... >> are you telling me that it's ok to just let them all run into the united states? >> you don't have a right to make judgements about it... >> they re-trace the steps of myra, a woman desparately trying

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♪ welcome back, let's recap the headlines here on al jazeera now, moscow is taking another

step to observe crimea and bring it to the federation after crimea voted to break away from ukraine. families of passengers missing on malaysia flight 370 are threatening a hunger strike until they know the fate of loved ones and it has been 11 days since the plane vanish and search and rescue are continuing to hunt for the missing airliner. negotiators from iran and six world powers are meeting in vienna for talks on iran's nuclear program. events in crimea are making poland and, and it's sandwiched to the east and to the north and rory reports where the u.s. vice president is expected to meet poland's leaders. ♪ at a charity concert in warsaw, the orchestra is playing to

raise money for poland's crisis. ♪ poland's and the new ukrainian government are singing the same tune, russia cannot again be allowed to dominate eastern europe. >> translator: we hope that the efforts of the international community will lead to the peaceful solution of the conflict in ukraine but we need to be read for the darkest of scenarios in ukraine part of which is now taking place and treat the annexation as one of the scenarios. evidence of a time when poland was under soviet control is not hard to find here. this is a controversial monument for polish people and buried here are the remains of 21,000 of the soviet troops who died liberating poland of the nazis at the end of the second world war but not leaving poland until

1993 and there are very few polish who would ever want to see russians return and 72% of the polls think the current situation is a threat to security and discussed on street corners and these people are too young to remember it but know their history. >> translator: the situation in ukraine develops and western security structures influenced there has an influence on how we see nato and should they fail we should feel threatened. >> reporter: the arrived in poland of 12, f 16 jets and personnel provided some assurance and warsaw depends on new western partners for protection. >> poland is doing its best to make sure they can trust those organizations and therefore getting the opinion and nato to

take a very tough stance on what is happening in the ukraine on what russian policy is and trying to make sure that mr. putin will be made to suffer because of what he is doing. ♪ most polls will tell you a russian invasion is incredibly unlikely. even so when your historic foe is looking so dangerous it's no time to be playing solo. and rory with al jazeera warsaw, poland. >> reporter: they sent more than a thousand security officers into part of the opposition and protesters have been fighting with government forces for over a month and at least 29 people have been killed and we report from the capitol. >> reporter: the streets and the plazas of caracus stronghold awoke and dressed in olive green and taken over by venezuela's

national guard. this is a combination of two consecutive days of running battles from antigovernment protesters and security forces after the president announced he would implement a new plan to in his words liberate the area. what you see here are police and national guards under their new orders and that is to go on the offensive, to prevent protesters in this opposition stronghold from building barricades and roadblocks as they have for a month now. by dawn monday they cleared the area displaying bombs and materials they say were confiscated from protesters. >> translator: equipment from the central government to restore traffic condition, traffic did not move here through several days and public transportation is now working. >> reporter: as they swept up the rest of the tires and

residents welcomed what will be the return of calm. >> translator: the problem is not protesting which the constitution allows and people like students go out and demonstrate violently. >> reporter: but students say the national guard checked her bag for weapons is angry. >> translator: i understand that there are a few who burn tires and engage in violence but we need dialog and now i feel intimated to go out and protest. >> reporter: calling for regime change and pro digitably outraged by the government show of force. >> proves the regime and military and totalitary and has been turned to state to state policy. >> reporter: but there are differences within the opposition and as these residents held up signs asking the national guard to respect peaceful demonstrators for a fleeting moment at least and

supporters of the government seemed open to reconciliation. i'm with al jazeera, caracus. >> reporter: the electrical court declared salvador as the new president elect and the former rebel commander won by 0.1 percent and they asked the court to null the results because of voter fraud and it rejected the demand and he will take office on june the first. kenya police arrested two men they say had explosives and suspected ties to the group al-shabab and they are held in a place targeted by the group and they want kenya troops to leave and the past attacks including the west gate shopping mall attack which killed 67 people. there have been violent protests in the capitol of guinea and people are angry about on going power cuts and roads blocked by

demonstrators and police and they have no power at all despite government promises to provide 16 hours of electricity a day. neighborhoods have also been without water for three months now. a national conference to discuss nigeria's future opened in the capital and understand hundreds are attending representing the religious and ethnic groups and it's the second biggest economy after south africa and the most populus country in africa with 170 million people and nigeria is the top oil producer and provides 80% of the government's income and it recently has been included in the freshly formed mint group of emerging giants and mexico, indonesia and turkey are other members and we report. >> reporter: they have been asking it for years and got what

they want, at a conference bringing together hundreds of representatives as ethnic and religious groups and heart of the talks is distribution of wealth and revenues from the oil which is concentrated in the south. >> it's an opportunity to restructure the generation along the lines of division where they own and control the resources and pay appropriate taxes. >> reporter: there has been growing discontent in africa's most populus nation and one of the world east largest exporters of oil and the fighters calling themselves is on the rise and blood shed has been claiming hundreds of lives and on saturday it was high lighted increasing unemployment and more than a dozen killed. at the conference they will tackle this as well as constitutional reforms, one thing the president says should

not be up for discussion is nigeria's unity. >> no room of ethnic and no room for selfless conservation that defeat national progress. and we are only for the national interests. >> reporter: opponents from the muslim dominated north and feel neglected from the government say the conference is pointless. >> completely useless and useless with some time and useless and effort. it is being used to take advantage by the current president. >> reporter: it comes ahead of general elections next year but jonathan assisted he has no hidden agenda. >> reporter: they will still need to be approved to turn into binding laws but the question is there any room for consensus and i'm with al jazeera. >> reporter: three al jazeera english journalists held in a prison for 18 days and mohamed

and peter greste has links with a terrorist organization and spreading false news and al jazeera rejects all charges against the staff and continues to demand their release and the next court appearance is on the 24th of march. and peter greste and brother andrew has returned and spent four weeks in cairo supporting peter and he said it's hard to leave with his brother in jail. >> i was astounded by strength he is showing and it's extremely tough, conditions there, but i guess he is -- had to prepare himself mentally to get through it and he is in a mental state where he doesn't really know when it's going to end so like he said to me he is not out until they are out so trying to get their hopes up prematurely

is something that they understand they can't afford to do. >> reporter: and sherry from al jazeera arabic channel is in custody and the crime court extended detention for another 45 days and he already has been held for more than six months now. now scientists in the u.s. say they made a landmark discovery which could prove the so called big bang theory. you see 14 billion years ago according to the theory a single violent event took place when particles burst into existence and back space on what is called the inflation theory which explains how the universe expanded so quickly. then ripples and mass grew into the large scale structure known as the universe and albert einstein predicted the waves in his theory of relativity and

scientists believe they located the final remnants as christine reports. >> reporter: if the universe started with a big bang it was quickly followed by a rapid expansion known as inflation and there wasn't anything to back it up until now. >> in the expansion the theory tells us the universe is stretched out from a sub atomic volume micro scopic and it gets smoother. >> reporter: and they used a telescope based at the south pole to measure light waves emanating from the birth of the cosmos and discovered a pattern, one that supports the theory of inflation as well as the existence of gravity waves, as predicted by albert einstein in

his theory of relativity. >> reporter: greatest discov y discoveries in the history of science and do not say it lightly. >> reporter: what happened in the one trillion of a one trillion of a one trillion second after the big bang and the theory does not work without inflation so with this discovery there is talk of a nobel prize for the harvard smithsonian team. the theory of inflation shows that science has the power to explain our existence. >> extrapolations like that work and result of predictions that can be tested and this is the predictions that actually work and i think it really does give us a lot more confidence in the power of rational thought. >> reporter: other scientists will check and recheck their findings but many are already calling this an extraordinary breakthrough in the study of our

universe. kristen with al jazeera in cambridge, massachusetts. >> reporter: if you want to keep up to date with the developments and stories on al jazeera head to al jazeera.com and you can see our front page with the lead story there, the situation in crimea. ♪ >> vladimir putin defiant in the face of sanctions. we'll look at what it might take to counter russia in the ukraine crisis. l deadline be dammed. a big chunk of america would rather be fined than sign up with obamacare. >> 20 somethings living at home, i'll tell you not just why it's but for mum and dad, but bad for the economy. i'm ali velshi, and this is "real money".