online. ♪ welcome to al jazerra america, i am dale walters and these reports stories we are following for you. >> russias actions are a problem. they don't pose the number one national security threat to the united states. >> president obama speaking can candidly with russia. crews in washington state scramble to go find survivors after the devastating mudslide covers a massive area and, grief turning to anger, families of the passengers on flight 370

stages demonstrations and demanding answers. ♪ ♪ president obama and some european allies making it crystal clear that they have a problem with russia's incursion in to crimea now concern billion dollar russia trying to take over more territory inside are you crane. those comments coming at a nuclear security summit in the netherlands, randle pinkston in washington right now. randle, what else did the president have to say today? >> reporter: the president joined america's allies in condemning russia's take over of crimea saying it's a play hasn't violation of international law that will not be recognized the president continues to take issue with an argument put forth by his republican presidential candidate in the last campaign in that i said russia is our

biggest foe. >> russia is a problem. they don't pose the number one national security threat to the united states. i continued to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in manhattan. >> reporter: to that end end the president says that he continues to focus along with the allies at the nuclear summit, which by the way included russia, on reducing the prevalence of nuclear arms throughout the world. president obama also said that the u.s. and her european allies will continue to rely on economic and diplomatic pressure on russia. and he did denied that russia's land grab is an indication of diminished u.s. influence on. that points he received strong agreement from the prime minister mark ruta. >> there is no gio polight come conflict which can be solved without the united states. and therefore i am applause the

fact that president obama's administration is active in every arena. you rain, iran, syria the middle east peace process and so many other parts of the world. >> that was netherlands prime minister mark rutte. the president obama says the world is a messy place but that the u.s. has consistently been able to get coalitions with international community around a core set of principles. del. >> and candle, on that note the president indicate that go if nothing else, they seemed to be to be keying keeping the eye on the prize saying had there been nukes right now in you crying, the crisis there would have been much worse. >> reporter: indeed it would very much the president also complemented ukraine on its continued compliance with the agreement that removed nuclear weapons from ukraine. in exchange for guarantee of sovereignty for the nation of ukraine. >> and randall, also what is the latest knew concerning what is the g7 because russia has been

suspended from the g8 and that scheduled meeting in sochi? >> reporter: well, the g7, the u.s. and six major industrialized partners have agreed to meet but in brussels in june, which would have been about the same time that they would have been meeting in sochi in russia. they did, however, also leave the door open for putin to return to the fold if, in fact, he pulls back the troops and crimea and allows for there to be a legitimate election of -- within all of ukraine on the issue of annexation and any other diplomatic issues. but until that happens, putin is out. >> randle pinkston for us live in washington. randle thank you very much. in the meantime the crisis in ukraine continues. phil is in career he have now with the latest situation there. how is kiev responding to the comments from the president today? >> reporter: well, a lot in what the president said today in the

hague that kiev would like very much. there are a couple of things that they make take exception with you hwith you but for the t it was a speech that will be welcome in kiev. the president of the united states saying he acknowledges that there are agent he vock tours sent my boo is moscow to stir up [inaudible] stability. that will be something that key every will be taking to. the instability is the ethnic russian is his being orchestrated by russia to provide a remembering text so they could come in like crimea. they also will take hartley to talk of stronger sanctions. wanting the team to see the u.s. run russia. they know boots won't be on the ground. nobody expect them to interfere military but they want the u.s.

to do everything that they can to send the strong message to russia a lot of president says will be welcomed. >> dramatic developments taking place inside ukraine today. the defense minister dismissed. >> yeah, that's right, the acting defense minister, the gentlemen who oversaw the military confrontation confrontn moscow has been dismidsted. why has he been dismissed because he delayed the h evacuation of military personnel. a lot of people said he should have acted quicker. but also dismissed because he wait today give the orderer for his soldiers to fire in self-defense. a lot of people say their soldiers were take then to

custody and ill-treated by russians because of that delay in that order. so he is gone, a new guy has come in indeed a change in the command structure within the ukrainian military just as this crisis is kind of ramping up in terms of seeing those russian troops on the border and concerns that kiev has that this situation is not calming down following crimea, but indeed that there could be more to come. del. >> phil ittner for us live in kiev. phil, thank you very much. the affordable care act or obama care facing yet another challenge. >> i issue now whether private businesses can site religious objections and refuse to cover contraceptions, libby break this down for us. >> reporter: well, del there are a couple of companies namely hobby lobby whic which is a crat company and a specialty furniture company they say even though they are a private for-profit company they don't

want to cover contraception of their employees. specifically we are talking about i.u.d. and the so-called morning after bill. the lawyer for the obama administration pointed out they are contraceptions not abortion measures but these companies say that they believe they are abort i have and go against their philosophical and religious beliefs. so these companies wants to have religious protections just like a person would have. well, the president of connie stowing a spoke today after the argument on the supreme court steps and here is what anthony hahn had to say. >> we didn't choose this fight. we would have been lap toy provide good jobs. we hope that we can seek a glorified god even as they go about making a living. >> reporter: on the other side of the argument the obama administration says it's not up to anum ployer to pick and

choose what sort of he ha sort e their employees get. a lot of women's groupings and religious groups were protesting. one of the leaders i've women's group, planned parents hood talked about why she thinks this case should be won by the obama administration. >> what is at stake at this case is whether millions of women and their right to prevent i have care, including birth control is trumped by a handful of ceos, women have the right to make their own decision about his their health care and, their birth control, and it's not their boss' decision. >> reporter: at the heart of this, del, is the religious freedom respiration act. the question is if it applies to private companies and not just people. >> libby, you were present for today's hearing, what did the justices themselves have to say? and the plaintiffs? >> reporter: the oral arguments divided quickly along typical party lines. the three women justices more liberal. two and then justice ginsburg is also on the more liberal ring of

the court were quick to push against the plaintiff to his push against these companies, with questions along the lines like this. justice society apply your said it starts with contraception but could these companies denying things like bloods transfusions or vaccinations for religious reasons, she had concerns there. the question justices to watch justin kennedy and just pryor gave room to change this is law a little bit. to narrowing slightly how it's dealt with and giving the companies some road for religious freedoms the chief justice, justice roberts gave up the idea if what if we don't expand it all corpses but smaller corporations that are closely held could they argue that we have a religion could they merit the same respect as a person.

>> libby casey outside on a snowy day in washington, at this very much. meanwhile the president is asking all americans to sends their thoughts and prayers to washington state following the massive mudslide on saturday and the ongoing search for any new survivors. >> i just spoke to the governor who swiftly declared a state of emergency. i signed that emergency declaration to make sure he has all the resources that he needs. my administration is in contact with them on an ongoing basis. fema and the army corp. of engineers have also been on site to offer their assistance and expertise. i would just and all americans to send their thoughts and prayers to washington state and the community there and the families and friends of those who continue to be missing. we hope for the best but we recognize this is a tough situation. >> there is new information to suggest that the mudslide was predicted 15 years ago. the seattle times reporting that

scientists studying the hill found potential for catastrophic failure. there is about 50 miles north. seattle. the death toll now 14, officials fearing the number could grow. allen is in the nearby community of arlington where a news briefing was held a moment ago. alan, what is the latest from officials on the ground? >> reporter: the very late zest there was no lock, no joy overnight. they did have search crews out in the areas of the slide zone looking for i any survive, he didn't find any signs of life. didn't discover any new fatalities either. what has happened here is that we now have a federal emergency declaration, it's a little short of a full-blown disaster declaration, but will free up resources, and money from fema. they'll have emergency managers and plan nurse to help out. we also understand that there will be a special 70 member fema search and rescue team that will be on scene the nationa nationad

is called out as well. there is question as to whether this is still search and rescue or just recovery. they are saying i can call it whatever up, but the intensity of their efforts the urgency will stay the same. >> what are they saying about that seattle times report that this slide may have been predicted as far back as 15 years ago? >> reporter: actually, del, this area, this specific area where this slide hit has been studied. talked about and worked on for decades. back in to the '50s and '60s. so this is no surprise at all to the people who have studied the geology of the area that this thing cut loose, what emergency managers are saying today is that they had no immediate warnings that this was an issue. there was nothing telling them that this was going to be a problem immediately. certainly they have all known that this area class slid in the past and that there was a

potential for slides, but they are still saying there was just nothing productive in the area that was telling them that this thing was going to hit. especially the way it did. again, they have a little of more than 170 reports of people missing. not people missing but reports of people missing. they azumah lost reports will duplicate and won't be the number of fatalities that we finally come up with but they are trying to sort through all the different aren't they don't know exactly how many people you would call unbelieving the for. very fluid and very strange situation, a very tense situation for the people in these small towns up here in western washington. >> alan reporting live from arlington, washington, alan, thank you very much. and that rain not being good news. mean while, families of the passengers on board missing malaysia airlines flight 370 taking to the streets today in beijing, their outrage coming a day after malaysia officials concluded that the boeing triple seven crashed in to the ocean.

>> reporter: taking their anger to the streets these relatives of passengers of mh370 seo visuals deliberately concealed information, wasted resources and delayed any possible rescue operations. >> translator: can the government understand, can they understand how we feel? if they could understand our feelings then it wouldn't have come to this. does the malaysian government understand us? they dare criticize us, but look at what they have done. >> translator: if the 154 of our relatives have lost their lives, then malaysia airlines the government of malaysia and the military are really the executers. >> reporter: two weeks they waited for news and they feel that the ma layer laye malaysian them very little respect. they were everyone more upset about the manner they were told to consider their loved ones gone. some received text messages in english from an unknown number. many told to garth never a conference room and made to watch the malaysian prime minister's announcement together.

still others said they only found out through the media. chaos broke out soon after the announcement, with relatives aiming their rain where they could. others needed medical attention due to the strain. >> translator: i want to tell the journalist the information they just sent it's just not true. >> reporter: the chinese government is also not satisfied with the recent announc announc. >> we are paying great attention this and have asked malaysia to provide all the information and evidence that led to this conclusion. the chinese search effort is continuing and we hope that malaysia and other countries will also continue their search. >> reporter: as conclusive asthma lacia might say it's findings now are, these protesters won't be silenced until there is what they see as more concrete proof. such as debris. only then, they say, will they accept what happened.

burr they won't nest unless they get the answers to why. margo or teague, a al jazerra, beijing. coming up on al jazerra, a fashion photographer now training his lens on those who find themselves living on the streets.

at first a photographer in new york city was just taking pictures of the rich and famous now an tonight brooks is use his familiar rahs to focus on those who have nothing. at part of our al jazerra america series homeless in america, brooks explains what drove him to do so. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: i love fashion week. love it because it's an opportunity to do something different, to do -- to remind he of what i do for a living. eyes are really important to me. whether they are vibrant on fire eyes that you see sometimes on the runway. or these dead eyes that you see on the streets. it's a massive

contrast between the sort of the finances on display and seeing the real, the genuine life on the street here. that's what interests me as a photographer. you come out of the lincoln center after fashion week and you pass someone had yo huddleda doorway against the cold. i clearly remember the first photograph that i took that got me in to the whole thing it's a moment not far from fifth avenue and he was in a world of his own and it was a slap of realization for me. would you minds if i got a paragraph of you? >> would you mind. >> no, no, no. >> with you and the cart? >> would you mind? it's an odd universe to work in this environment. and then to shoot on the streets where there is abject poverty. no hope for tomorrow. but here it's all -- it's all about tomorrow. it's all about tomorrow's fashions and what is new, what's trending. i love street photography.

i just think it's so important. but you couldn't make a living out of it. it's one of those things that you see something every day, you don't notice it, it loses its impact. it's important to make people look at it. how are you doing? >> all right. >> cold? >> i moved to new york seven years ago and it was obvious what was happening on the streets, but it's increased alarmingly, it's a growing problem. most move shots are in color. color adds a here and now element to it. we could all be there, we are all a few steps away from being in that position. and but these people face a real grim reality day in and day out. and you know, you've got to admire their -- their strength really to carry on. we'll see you. diane nylon is president of the her hear us it's a charity trying to help homeless children and families. she joins us from chicago. i want our audience to know that you sold everything and then

took to the roads and streets to document just how homeless people live. i want to show them a piece of your documentary. >> i don't know if we are losing our house. and i am like why. and she said i can't explain it to you right now. i can explain it to you when you get more grown up. and it's kind of heartbreaking because we lived there a long time. and it's kind of hard. nobody there. >> yeah. >> it's kind of scary. >> diane, what struck me about this young man was that he's not the typical face that we see when we talk about homeless in america. is there an invisible homeless population out there? >> well, del, i will just tell you and your viewers that there is a huge invisible homeless population in this country. and it's, you know, it's one far beyond what is seen on the streets of new york city. it's in are you virtually every community across the country where we have families and youth

and individuals who are unseen, uncounted and unserved. >> diane, why is it so invisible? and i suspect that after the economic collapse of 2007, 2008. a lot of people found themselves being homeless didn't want anybody to know that they were homeless. >> well, homelessness carries a certain shame from the get go, by then families, especially are worried about the authorities taking their kids way. being turned way from school. all kind of things that just really cause it to be invisible. >> as we look at your documentary, what is the one thing, you told everything, you told your house, you wanted to take to the roads to document this. what's the one image that stand out in your mind the most? >> well, i think these kids, you know, they point when i interview them they have great hope that they have a future. they were all in school and happy to be in school. they were looking to forward to

a future and i don't want to be the one to say that maybe that future is not going to be as rose y as they are hoping fox, i think that's the sad reality in this country that has such an income divide that you have kids that don't have a chance. >> in your words what is the state of homelessness in america right now in. >> right now the state of homelessness is literally millions of people who have no place to stay. and they come in a lot of different ways. they stay in motels, they bounce around, they are living in storage sheds and vehicles. they are doubled up with others. and there is a few in shelters. but it's really a very low priority for congress. and our government all across the board. >> i invite everybody who has not seen your documentary to watch your documentary. and get involved. diane nigh land joining us from chicago, thank you very much. and thank you for what you do. >> thank you, del. i appreciate that. well, still ahead on al jazerra america, it may be spring di but it doesn't feel le

it. we'll be back with a rather chilly and snow owe forecast in just a moment.

welcome back to al jazerra america. i am del walters in new york. here are your headlines at this mower. the final day of the nuclear security summit wrapping up in the netherlands, the president joining world leaders from more than 50 countries at the haige discussing ways to prevents nuclear terrorism. a speech a short while ago the president discussing taking a tough stance against russia. words of come for the from the president as crews don't look for survivors in washington state. promising to make sure that first responders have the resources that they need, sending condolences of the families of those who died. the death toll right now standing on the 14. another challenge for the owe al jazerra fordable care act the private business heads to the supreme court this time the confrontation is over the issue you of religious groups and contraception. ♪ ♪

>> meteorologist: well, a very potent winter storm is on the way towards the east coast. right now we have the wayne coming down towards the southern tear stalled out frontal boundary bringing showers to southern florida right around key west where the temperatures will take a dive tonight. memphis at 30. atlanta down to 27 degrees, normally in time of year mid to upper 40s. freeze warnings in effect all across the out east furthers irrelevant towards the north it's all about the snow right now out there along i-95. washington, d.c. boards baltimore, across portions of north carolina, the coastal areas you are look at a bit of rain later on tonight. that's going to turnover to snow. some of the snow even working its way in to central penn and it's going to continue to climb up the east coast. now, from washington, d.c. in to new york city around the philadelphia area as well, generally speaking we are only seeing one to three-inches of snow. but the snow, the storm that is is going to rapidly intensify as

it tracks across the atlantic and makes it's bay way in to wan catch the center of pressures these lines, equal lines of pressure and that really indicates that the the winds will be strong across portions of the coast here around nantucket the winds currently but specs later on tonight that they may intensify to up to 60 miles per hour. right around nantucket we are looking at anywhere from 12 to 18-inches of snow across portions of the postal canada we could see up to a foot and a half of snow. perhaps their worst storm in about 10 years. so it's going to be a very tricky night out along i-95 across portions of main luckily across the mid atlanta tin one to three-inches of know. do you, to you, del. >> thank you very much, jelelah. finally researches in europe. studyinstudying used computer as

to mimic pha*el dance moves. women more attractive to the avatars with good moves, the once that didn't dance well failed. thanks for watching, i am del walters in new york. "101 east" is next. >> dadu, southern pakistan, just a few months ago.