lives of ukrainians and russians. we demand russia to establish effective control of ukrainian -russian border under the control of the osce, which would exclude legal supplies a military achievements, and shipments to ukraine. to release all hostages. women open to all diplomatic initiatives and have participated in every negotiation. the president of ukraine, over his peace plan, which russia deliberately undermined. while demonstrating the full readiness for peace negotiations with russia during the meeting in minutes, the president made it clear that sovereignty and territorial integrity and ukraine as well as the european aspirations of ukrainian people are not negotiable. in view of the open russian military aggression, ukraine reserves its right to act in accordance with article 51 of the u.n. charter, which empowers every you and never state -- u.n. member states with the in herent right of self-defense. we call upon the international community to provide effective assistance to ukraine to resist russian aggre

the russian side, these are not russian troops. now when there are pictures of nato which can be considered as somewhat conclusive evidence, officials hope that this will bring a closer international community. >> the un's secretary-general has called reports of fighting to the south. >> the situation in the south of ukraine is very volatile. this small town just off the border, the security council finally confirmed that the city was lost to the russian troops. on one hand, there is a direct road. on the other hand, there is the second largest city. therefore, the situation by the russian troops is very dangerous. >> let's get the story from moscow. our correspondent standing by for us. nato says it has satellite images, the ukrainians say they have video on the ground. how is moscow refuting all of this? >> if they will or would, it's quite easy to predict what they say. they have been denying the whole day, the weeks that they have anything to do with what is going on in the east of the ukraine. there are nine russian soldiers i

soldiers kill you put out this video claiming it's a russian. zone but while journalists were grappling with the new developments and struggling with the pronunciation of the town that was supposedly being invaded this is no bus got u.s. and nato officials pushed ahead with accusing russia of deploying more than one thousand troops and heavy artillery into ukraine last week ukraine called russia's delivery of humanitarian aid into eastern ukraine an invasion this week it accused moscow of quote unquote a full scale invasion the western media that is generally not putting much distinction between rebels and washer quickly picked up that side of the story that is despite the fact that this thursday the ois sea which is now monitoring the russian border with ukraine said they saw no evidence of russian troops and tanks crossing. said it could not independently verify the reports of the russian invasion but a un security council meeting was called upon where its western members push to hold russia responsible russia stop this conflict at least two t

troops russian military russian equipment being there on the ground well america has said there are more than twenty thousand russian soldiers amassed on the border with tanks artillery and so on heavy equipment. but it i do know the american intelligence community what enough to say whether or not they feel it's in their interest to release photographs at the moment they i think of taking the judgment that it's not an american interest to release any photographs otherwise they would have done. just yes president kennedy or loose photographs say with cuba mr brown i mean even you mentioned the cuban crisis but i think in the cuban crisis americans did provide satellite images i think there was concrete evidence on the table that you know that actually forced the russians into to back out. of cuba but i. danny the same in a some of the same was presented in ukraine we wouldn't spend but so far it's all just baseless speculation and it's totally unsubstantiated well you're right i guess what i said in cuba photographs were produced they went satellites we didn't have satellites in tho

between russia and ukraine and a russian attempt to create a land bridge between the russian borderand crimea, which will allow them to supply crimea more effectively in the future. >> brown: do you use the word invasion, incursion? >> there's a game played in washington where u.s. officials are trying hard not to use the word invasion so you have the state department spokesman saying it's an incursion. the reason for that is u.s. officials, as president obama said today, said they're trying to avoid any perception there's oust military response in the offing so they're downplaying what's happened, but privately people are worried what we're seeing is a dramatic escalation. >> brown: andrei tegoncof, what do you call it? >> i would call it an escalation as andrew weiss described the second front opening and this is something that's been going on quite some time. we have seen the russia assistance before and this is not news. what's new is the ukrainian side is beginning to lose on the front and the russian president has not gotten what he expected to get and germany is pressuring ki

these russian journalists, russian and ukraine journalists i should say, saw a few dozen russian armoredrs and to ring the ukraine. are you confirming that? i guess i wanted to get your take, now when we hear these reports, what is this? in your estimation, what is the probability we would have a full-scale invasion of eastern ukraine? if any sort of invasion could happen, and i do believe we should work on any such developments, our country will defend us. now it is about de-escalation. now it is about settlement. now it's about sorting out issues like the issue with humanitarian assistance. now it's about putin's humanitarian assistance within the frame of ukrainian legislation. under their responsibility of the red cross. there are a number of critical issues we have been working on. there is a possibility now for -- four foreign ministers germany, france, russia, and us into meet over the weekend order to talk through these present issues. meet with going to those foreign ministers, including the russian foreign minister, this weekend? of the one of the ideas german foreign minister.

army so here they had ten russian actual ten actual russian soldiers and they were able to parade them and to put them on television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making for a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own the evidence does not look which will convince him that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have unconvincing evidence if people want to believe it and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like a gift from heaven in that respect in the meantime kiev says the war it's waging in the east has claimed the lives of over seven hundred troops and wandered over to a half thousand but the government is accused of underreporting and clear for suggest the number is more like fourteen thousand casualties. some of the fiercest fighting in eastern ukraine has been in the town of ill advised in the deniece region the craning army has been encircled there by anti-government forces and soldiers claim they've suffered serious losses because he didn't send an area foresman and another rep

the claims of a russian invasion nato released a series of satellite images apparently showing russian troops inside ukraine russia's defense ministry says they are too vague in commenting on them is pointless the first image apparently shows a russian artillery convoy moving through ukraine's territory other images allegedly indicate activity in russia adjacent to the ukrainian border something nato says is part of the stabilizing strategy don't you mcadams executive director at the rome paul institute for peace and prosperity says the pictures credibility is highly questionable but i think these were released by the same they were taken by the same company that the u.s. had used to release. information about m.h. seventeen the elysian air flight the existence of bones by the rebels in ukraine and so i think it has very dubious credibility as a private firm i don't think it shows anything i don't think what most people in the west understand is that everyone on both sides with the exception of some ukrainians having american weapons but everyone is using russian weapons their line of

a russian military invasion has taken place. >>> pro russian rebels say russian soldiers are fighting with them. while on leave from the military and though the officially. >>> a member of a film crew is shot dead accidentally recording a real life robbery in nebraska for a reality tv show. >>> tourism in a conflict zone. israeli and palestinian businesses have been hit hard by the violence there. >>> also in the program, shocking numbers from australia's national carrier. aaron? >> we're talking about these guys, qantas. we were expecting bad numbers but weren't expecting the airline to lose $2.6 billion in the last year. it's the worst performance in the 94 year history. we're going to look at what's gone wrong with australia's flying kangaroo. >>> midday here in london, 2:00 p.m. kiev. a russian invasion has taken place in uk. the president has cancelled the meeting in turkey because of the escalation in his country. a region well outside the area where post of the fighting has so far taken place has fallen. pro russian rebels say russian fighters are fighting with them voluntarily

and the russian press. that end has shed some light on the behind the scenes diplomatic wrangling over ukraine and an interview with national media while they were putin revealed that he and his agreeing counterpart have reached an agreement on how to peacefully resolve the conflict and he also said there needs to be substantial talks on the status of the region and made it clear he thinks family or his violin can give is responsible for the ongoing conflict in the country's east the russian president added that winter is coming and hardship will only increase if the fighting doesn't stop a human rights watch has again called on key for information on russian photojournalist understand there's been missing in ukraine since the start of august cave insists it has no information about andries whereabouts but watchdogs deputy director for europe and central asia says the rights of media workers are being violated in ukraine by both militia groups and the army adding that the authorities have a track record of

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered on peter lavelle the idea of russian russians as long obsessed western minds and politics and that obsession has to date been remarkably dark and even menacing is this because the west projects its own negative self on to others. cross-talk perceptions of russia and russians i'm joined by my guest neil clark in london he is a journalist broadcaster and specialist in eastern european affairs in berlin we have nicholai petro he is a professor of political science at the university of rhode island and in moscow we crossed of lattimer goldstein he is an associate professor of slavic studies at brown university right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime i want and i very much encourage it to go i if i go to you first in berlin you spent some time in ukraine on a fulbright i understand where it is russian were attitudes about russia come from in the west because obviously you know you could just open up a newspaper or magazine go to a website or a television in the west and well russia has to say the

russians have a bit of luxury for sure they do. we're very happy here with a very healthy market share so we typically have over thirty percent to live on the tree but you did you want to be respected they were the very best whatever but this is the best most days. i know you still said to be a week old with more boy clothes on side than ever before. lobo rabbit and one million visitors expected still well it's enough to drive the market. it's not just the governments who are tracking your every move it seems a sports way giants also have the potential to keep tabs on consumers for example the best selling additives jersey of the german national football team two million have been sold already thanks to the size success at the world cup but some fans are getting more than they bargained for let's take a closer look at the other one to drug customers knowingly taking with them now this device is a radio frequency identification chip which is used to transfer data automatically through electromagnetic fields they're usually useful lo

but a russian soldier who chooses to fight in ukraine on his summer break is still a russian soldier yet still according to the russian government the soldiers were never there they were never in crimea either until russia and now it's the those soldiers who were never there had annexed crimea. there shortly after the u.s. envoy spoke her russian counterpart the triage work and fired investor churkin said with the support of washington kiev has continued shelling civilian quarters and tens of thousands of people are sitting in basements without food electricity or medicine during a meeting russia called on the u.s. to stop interfering in the international affairs of sovereign states and to rein in its own personal geo political ambitions and i. know most would think everyone knows that it's just that there are russian volunteers and indeed some parts of the queen no one is hiding that was before but i would like to see similar transparency shown by other countries for example maybe our american colleagues can tell us about what to the tens of american advisors who are in the building

rise this as russian led. these are supportive elements to an insurgency that is largely native. what do you think they have being sent in for? >> well, i wouldn't say that insurgency is largely native. i think had russia intervenes early on, there would be no insurgency. it is clear that it was fearful of what was happening in kiev, and they didn't trust the new government, but you can see things settling down. before russia starts meddling, but yes, some reenforcements have arrived now from russia. it's well documented that some troops have been sent to ukraine today putin's own con sell admitted that 100 of them had died already on august 13th. so there is a very strong element of russian released troops. but surely, it's still falls short of what one might call all out war. it is really i think the most strategic aid to reenforce the insurgency, instead of capturing large parts of ukraine. they might increase the hold of the territory, that the insurgents currently have, but i think the aim remains not ukr

it is a bout a number of russian citizens, mainly russian who have links to russian special forces, who lead the terrorists. who not about the people represent donetsk. it's about propaganda machine. population into believing that splitting is with ukraine would mean a cleaned late -- clean slate in life. building up criminal gangs, and seduce others. the intimidate those who refuse to obey. they have everything. they have the most modern fire guns. now they can rely on sophisticated systems that can shoot down international airplanes. you can imagine, there is probably still the possibility of the kalashnikov on the market. how can you teach the terrorists ? forces areed increasingly more involved in fighting. ofhad a number of cases shelling our troops. intruding in ukrainian airspace, using all kinds of systems. it is a [indiscernible] kind of situation. and at unfair cost. because we find for truth and we arecy, because anished, because we have clear idea what we need in ukraine. we need and we have clear commitment here. united, democratic, and european ukraine. [indiscernible] not

soldiers q put out this video claiming it's a russian. but while journalists were grappling with the new developments and struggling with the pronunciation of the town that was supposedly being invaded this is no bus got u.s. and nato officials pushed ahead with accusing russia of deploying more than one thousand troops and heavy artillery into ukraine the media quickly picked up on the statement of the rebel leader saying that there are indeed russian soldiers fighting with the rebels but that they are either veterans or on vacation the part about veterans and vacation is often dismissed in the media last week ukraine called russia's delivery of humanitarian aid into eastern ukraine an invasion this week accuse moscow of quote unquote a full scale invasion the western media that is generally not putting much distinction between rebels and washer quickly picked up that side of the story that is despite the fact that this thursday the ois see which is now monitoring the russian border with ukraine said they saw no evidence of russian troop

but a russian soldier who chooses to fight in ukraine on his summer break is still a russian soldier yet still according to the russian government the soldiers were never there. in the years no one is hiding the fact that they are russian volunteers if you don't rein we would like to see similar transparency shown by other countries maybe our american colleagues can tell us what dozens of very advisors are doing in the ukraine security council or how many so-called mercenaries from their so-called military enterprises and thousands of kilometers away from their laying on the city where did the ukrainian security forces get the cutting edge american weapons and russia's defense ministry says by releasing satellite pictures apparently showing russian troops inside ukraine nato would only taint its international reputation the ministry says commenting on the pictures is absolutely pointless let's show you some of the images that nato has presented as absolute proof. the pictures apparently show russian self-propelled artillery units moving in a convoy through ukraine's territory other i

. >> russian forces have entered ukraine. >> ukraine's president said russian soldiers are helping separatists. moscow denies it. a russian convoy is spotted on the border, and nato believes that 1,000 russian troops are already fighting inside of ukraine. and also on the ground, 43 u.n. peace keepers are abducted in the golan fights as syrian forces take on armed fighters, and the real number of people with ebola may be four times greater than we know. the latest warning front the world health organization. hello, ukraine's president, petro poroshenko, said that russian troops have invaded the country, and that's an allegation that russia flatly denies. but theut backs up poroshenko with a military officer saying that 1,000ruption troops are known to be operating inside of ukraine. poroshenko said that they have been operating in the east. that's all been confirmed by this man, alexander, he is the -- you will see that he is the leader of the donetsk independent republic. up to 4,000 russian citizens have been fighting alongside of the russians in eastern ukraine and many of those fighters ar

can anything be done to stop the russian troops and russian president vladimir putin?e are live after the break. >>> welcome back to "early start," everyone. nato meeting in an emergency session this morning. it's prompted by new evidence of the military advance in ukraine. they are blaming moscow for the hostilities between the government and the pro-russian separatists. karl penhaul is live in london for us. nato coming forward with new satellite images. >> reporter: absolutely, john. the nato members are meeting right now, talking with representatives right now. we are expecting a statement in under 45 minutes now. they are poring over the new satellite images showing more than 1,000 russian combat troops inside ukraine. of course added to that in the last few days, separatist leaders said up to 4,000 russian troops on vacation have volunteered to help the separatists. this adds to the ukrainian government calling it a full-scale invasion. nato and other western leaders are referring to more of an incursion by the russians. what can nato do? ukraine is not a member

army so here they had ten russian actual gena actually. soldiers and they were able to grade them and to live on television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making for a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own the evidence does not look which will convince me that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have un convincing evidence if people want to believe and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like a good trim had been in that respect meanwhile the self-proclaimed authorities in donetsk say they have allowed ukraine's army to take their wounded and dead are often encircled there in eastern ukraine these are the pictures from the outskirts of the tunnel fellow vice corps you can see troops carrying out the evacuation several brigades from ukraine's national guard have been trapped in the area for a week and have suffered severe losses in the counter offensive by local militia earlier as a plug in here put call for the material corridor to b

army so here they had ten russians actual ten actual russian soldiers and they were able to parade them and put them on television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making for a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own people so they're funded by these paratroopers but the ukrainian government is claiming as indeed are the americans that there are thousands of russian soldiers fighting in eastern ukraine i'm just wondering why we're only hearing about these particular ten will indeed and can i just also say that i just read an article in the british media by a british journalist who went to one of the towns that has recently been captured by the rebels laws that all the russian army and instead he didn't find a russian army there he found the rebels so the evidence and does not look at all convincing that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have un convincing evidence people want to believe it and it serves a particular agenda then that evidence can still be used and these ten russian soldiers unfortuna

a russian military invasion has taken place. >>> pro russian rebels say russian soldiers are fightingthem. while on leave from the military and though the officially. >>> a member of a film crew is shot dead accidentally recording a real life robbery in nebraska for a reality tv show. >>> tourism in a conflict zone. israeli and palestinian businesses have been hit hard by the v

the russian ambassador to the u.k. has been called to talk about this has been taken extremely seriously over no proof governments have jumped on the bandwagon of foreign governments over no proof just something off twitter it's bit of a worry that the people have jumped so quickly on to this again they know something that obviously isn't apparent on the russian side. no i think what they are desperate for is the story of created putin as the new hope that russia is about to invade and take over ukraine they've built a story so much the rue it at the four suggestion that something might be handy the ruling jumped and we've already heard bomb are using the word invasion we've heard david cameron as you say making very hard statements of the british british government and it's very strange as you say lead away for any prove or not for real and this is a zone which could hardly not be under surveillance by the ways than i would suspect there are drawn surveillance a aircraft satellites operating constantly observing it as

army so here they had ten russian actual to an actual russian soldiers and they were able to grade them and to them on television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making for a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own the evidence does not look which will convince him that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have unconvincing evidence if people want to believe it and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like a gift from heaven in that respect. well the developments to report ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from a village in lugansk regions through communities been the focal point of intense fighting lately and see graphically in these pictures witnesses say large numbers of ukrainian armored vehicles and tanks were left there many of them destroyed in all that has now been four months since kiev launched its military crackdown in the east since then it's officially admitted to the deaths of almost eight hundred government troops more than two and a half thousand having been in

the american submarine was detected by a russian northern fleet in the barents sea near the russian border according to the commands of the russian navy they've pushed the vessel out of that area and the vessel had left after about half an hour contact now the submarine itself is reportedly all five virginia class it's a nuclear powered it's capable of carrying two swell tomahawk missiles as meanwhile the reconnaissance mission against russia continues both underwater and above ground as well in the sky just about a month ago a american spy plane was detected near the russian border the crew of the american spy plane reportedly headed to sweden in order to avoid confrontation with the russian fighter jets and they american the swedish authorities tried to keep. it for about a month but the swedish media wanted none of that so they had made a huge deal out of the story the u.s. embassy in sweden had to eventually admit that this fact had taken place and they apologized to this with his government for illegally crossing the border with sweden. at least five palestinians have been killed in g

a russian convoy is on its way to ukraine. an vehicle is part of international humanitarian effort, not a military mission. what is the story? >> we have 280 trucks from moscow to the city of the house in the southeast of ukraine that has been without electricity and water for 10 days. 10,000 kilometer journey. theyou've got the issue of russian-ukrainian border. the aid convoy is supposed to be a part of an international military and aid effort that will be run by -- international humanitarian aid effort that -- there arey still some practical details that need to be worked out. concern in the european union, in the united ev that and in ki russia is using this convoy or what this condo does was a gets ato ukraine as a compress -- pretext. moscow says this is all about helping people. market positive or a serious market negative. of all that,st ukrainian parliament is voting on whether to allow russian gas to continue to be transited across ukraine. are we really talking about a situation where we could see the taps turned of

the cost of the russian future, the well being of the russian people.e cost to russian development. he will not accept defeat, not in this case and he didn't accept defeat before. >> he will not accept defeat. meanwhile, how is his tough stance being met at home? i remember his approval ratings hit record highs after the annexation of crimea. >> it's still quite high. those who are desperate to seek putin's approval ratings to drop point out the august rating was two percentage points below july. we are still talking 80. it's still pretty high. people do approve his policies. there is a countless number of loyalists who would repeat and confirm anything that is the kremlin line. now, at this point and time, we are talking repeating and reiterating there is no russian military presence in ukraine, no matter what nato or others say. >> with the war of worlds we are seeing, is a cease-fire, at this stage, even realistic? >> well, one of the options that is considered, mostly by outside observers, certainly not by the kremlin or at least we don't know about

>> the russian audience and also russian speaking outside. people in eastern ukraine follow what putin says closely. we've seen this use of sort of nazi language from the start of the conflict. that's one of the ways the kremlin has been trying to frame this historically and emotionally. this is a battle of fasism, continuation of world war ii and so forth. >> is there support for putin among ordinary russians? >> i always hate the phrase ordinary russians. the statistics show support is in the 80s. >> 80%? >> yeah, 80%. something we should bear in mind people are also quite frightened. at the same time as war is happening, there's new legislation to punish anyone for various forms of depp cescent. love and fear go together in russia. >> what signs are people seeing that they may be involved in a war on their doorstep many. >> it goes down to statistics. most russians don't think they're at war. most russians don't support russia going to war. they think maybe we should be somehow supporting diplomatically separatists. that's what statistics

these are some of the ten russian paratroopers kiev forces have captured in a direct russian incursion in the east of the country. the the latest word from moscow that the troops crossed the border by mistake. at the weekend, the separatists paraded captured ukrainian government troops through the streets of donetsk, their main strong hold. hardly overture. moscow continues to deny it. u.s. national security advisor tweeted repeated russian incursions into ukraine unacceptable, dangerous, inflammatory. they represent significant escalation. >> before he left, the ukrainian president announced the resolution of the parliament. >> translator: i made the decision about the early termination of the parliament. elections will take place. the decision was made due to the ukrainian constitution. >> the president's rationalal to rid the parliament of predecessor's influence. on the ground in the east ukrainian government forces have been pushing separatists back adding to pressures on them and the kremlin and entrenching diplomatic decisions that seem far apart. >> well let's get an update on

army so here they had ten russian actual ten actual russian soldiers and they were able to grade them and to them on television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making for a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own the evidence does not look which will convince you that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have unconvincing evidence if people want to believe it and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like to give trim heaven in that respect. according to latest reports from eastern ukraine anti-government forces are close to gaining control over the airports in the nets and lugansk regions fighting continues in both locations on a fire has reportedly broken out in the main building of donetsk airport in lugansk opposition fighters claim to have destroyed several military vehicles and fortifications in their effort to seize their strategic location and they say about several soldiers have been killed in a shoot out kiev officials say almost eight hundred government troops have died sin

the russians say the help can't wait.ee what happens when the russian convoy gets to the border. to the russians wait for the european union to get their act together? these are questions that everybody will be asking. >> interior minister poland, however, says this is clearly a pretext to invade ukraine. poland has been a very outspoken russian andhe ukrainian convoy don't start shooting at each other on day one. the polls have artie decided that this is over. -- thisa de-escalation is not a de-escalation but an escalation. >> stocks are rising across the world, yes? >> stoxx wrote -- rose a tad this news. the russian stock market this morning has opened a tad. though the ruble fell. it was headed to being down investors are- scratching their heads. i've been watching russell for 25 years and i am scratching my head. when i first announcement that russia intends to send his convoy, this is a statement he came from russia itself before anybody else has spoken on the matter, i said well, on the one hand it feels like now w

but a russian soldier who chooses to fight in ukraine on his summer break is still a russian soldier yet still according to the russian government the soldiers were never there they were never in crimea either until russia announced that those soldiers who were never there had annexed crimea shortly after the u.s. envoy spoke her russian counterpart the tali churkin fired back you may use no one is hiding the fact that they are russian volunteers is going to rain we would like to see a similar transparency but you told by other countries maybe our american colleagues can tell us what doesn't is there guys are doing in israel yes ukraine security council are supposed to agree or how many so-called mercenaries from their so-called military enterprises that would lead you to new york and sounds of kilometers away when they're laying on that but it's pretty word of the ukrainian security forces give the code a huge american weapons during the emergency security council meeting ambassador churkin presented statement that called for an unconditional cease fire in ukraine but some members i

the part of you know good old majority russian or russian wheelin is. from the west which is good in the west i want to stress that russians well all the students all these pupils and i but they think like weak studies and they want to learn from the west something which is way to go with a dome alone from the west or so for being a lecturing things like lead that is wonderful you know say american traditions you know which are which which are not being projected to show there is a tradition of you know i ben franklin would say that in the first duty of a citizen you still questions one's authority you know like the row with the right about civil disobedience and full story great russian representative of the best of russia because i had my it's a role but what we see recently is you know it's not that type of america we see america lecture in bullying and i think about irrationality you know that they want to learn something new and they want to. so the free to communicate with the best in the rest of the culture not not were the rules not of condescen

>> translator: russian forces have entered ukraine. >> ukraine's president says russian soldiers are helping separatists. moscow denied it. and an russian convoy is spotted on the border. nato believes that a thousand russian troops are already fighting inside ukraine. ♪ >>> you are watching al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. i'm dorli rainey. also coming up. syrian forces take on armed fighters. >>> russia [ inaudible ] is sworn in as turkey's new president. >>> and banking on the future. india's prime minister launches a new plan that will help millions of poor people in the country. ♪ >>> hello. ukraine's president says russian troops have invaded the country. that's an allegation russia flatly denies. but the u.s. and nato appear to back up poroshenko, saying that more than a thousand russian troops were known to be operating inside ukraine. poroshenko says that russian troops have been deployed in the east of the country as well as another area. and that has all been confirmed by this man, the self declared heard of the donetsk independent republic. and the prorush r

the second is more traditional russian behavior. and that is the re-creation of a band of states on the periphery of russia that lean toward moscow economically, politically, and for security. he does not want to re-create the soviet union and be this possible for the economic basket cases on the periphery. but he does want to re-create this buffer, if you will, the part of russian history for a long time. and frankly, i think he sees ukraine as a launchpad of that. kiev is where the russian empire was founded over a thousand years ago. i think he does see it as a made-up state. and i think that he will never rest easy as long as he thinks that ukraine might slide west. and away from russia and not a part of that buffer of states. >> let's get to policy. what should the united states do? we will hear tomorrow from the assistant secretary of state of europe, who is been at the center of this. i appreciate what president obama has tried to do and he has worked very hard on this, sanctions on russia to drive up the cost. he did not hav

detained actual russian servicemen. the ukrainian government wanted to milk the incident for political purposes they're trying to argue and have been trying to argue for a long time that they're not really fighting the people of the eastern ukraine but that they're fighting the russian army so here they had ten russian actual ten actual alleged soldiers and they were able to parade them and to put them on television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making for a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own the evidence does not look which was convincing that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have unconvincing evidence if people want to believe it and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like a gift from heaven in that respect. well the ukrainian government has been waging its campaign in the east for four months nike have says over seven hundred soldiers have been killed in the crackdown on local militia there with over tw

see here is proof of a russian putin led invasion of ukraine and they also have to ask this if the russians were going to invade ukraine would they just send in some armored personnel carriers lightly armored vehicles this is the twenty first century in modern times you don't wage a war by rolling in twenty three tanks warfare in modern times as waged with drones and fighter helicopters there were an actual russian military invasion of ukraine we would know about it and there would be no debate about it would be absolutely insane to russia do that would be absolutely in changeful for a russian armored vehicles to go in day in day like advertising what would work knowing that everybody's got cameras everybody can take photographs and knowing the political situation regarding this conflict it would be absolutely sure sidelobe russia to do that the role seventeen more ukrainian troops across the border into russia fighting in the east it's the latest incident and far from the biggest two weeks ago more than four hundred ukrainian soldiers illegally crossed the border into russia seeking sanctu

sanctions that will target the russian economy and the peculiar. of the economy we're going to focus on the energy companies the businesses the internationals that will be affected later on in the show and talking about multinationals we are going to talk about roughly asked yes tim kirby he invested in that company this week that's where the rule landed and i'm more interest than ever to find out what's going to happen because of course our company has been in the limelight this week but first we start of the show going to talk about you chris because this particular edgy company was once the richest most powerful oil company in russia but that changed the company's downfall it began in two thousand and three when the c.e.o. of the company called of course he was arrested on full charges what then happened was the assets of the company frozen him because of the escalating tax debts it meant the shares of the company was sold off to other russian oil companies and it was it was bankrupt as a consequence now just this week the hague ruled that you c

number one-- stronger sanctions against the russian government and the russian economy. and this will mean very severe financial sanctions, the kind of sanctions that will really drive up the cost to president putin for what he has done. second, the ukrainian government is asking for sophisticated arms transfertransfers from europe ae united states, and intelligence support so they can fight back and control their own territory. i think president obama's been very clear, and rightly so, the united states is not going to go to war with russia over ukraine, but certainly we have an interest in helping the ukrainians to defend themselves and defend their territory, and, third, continued economic support, and here the europeans should take the lead, led by germany, because the ukrainian economy, as you know, is faltering and it needs a dramatic infusion of western capital. >> sreenivasan: is there any reason to believe these sanctions will work? we've imposed some sanctions on russia and so have the europeans. it just seems they've escalated now into a sanctions war. >> it's

such sanctions and some kirby joins me later he's going to be talking about they are but first the russian government has imposed a one year restriction on the import of agricultural products from the countries imposing sanctions so beef pork poultry fish cheese milk vegetables and fruit imports from australia canada the e.u. u.s. and norway all off the menu but the drinks menu is still ok our goal is not affected me there is baby fruit now in twenty thirteen russia imported six point seven billion dollars worth of meat products in toto so talk about a money hit so to discuss this issue the new bite back measures i'm now joined by alexi a sokoloff head of the learning center who trades dot com alexei these measures are designed to hit back the question is how ha's of a going to hit back and she didn't hit back. on the part of these murderers you. are not going to hit back. just trying to. they're on the other cultures circuit or i am. on economy in. the. long term goal and to keep the european union the law is gone cold. all the contras who provided i got a cultural. products for a russian

many russian crews have been deported from ukraine but this is the first time a u.s. citizen is being kicked in previous cases journalists were expelled assumes officials learned they were from russia last month u.k. reporter graham phillips who was working in eastern ukraine was arrested and then you can develop the country. building fires to keep them. as the ukrainian crisis unfolds the mainstream media across the atlantic seem to be focusing on just one person the russian president going to come next takes a look at where the american media is really interested. president obama said he does not believe this growing tension with russia could be the beginning of a new cold war no. no cold war one could only wish journalists thought the same or at least those who are making covers of magazines because some of them hark back to cold war as if they were made back in the day no matter how complicated an issue you can be almost certain that the media are going to boil it down to personalities well with ukraine it's one personality the russian president what does he do wh

if that's the case that would suggest a land link between the russian border and crimea, that the russians annexed several months ago. also watching closely events in brussel. that's where the ukrainian president is, petro poroshenko, scheduled to make a speech in about 30 minutes. the e representatives are there, discussing the crisis here in ukraine and discussing potentially more sanctions. it's not clear if they'll announce more sanctions against moscow today, but clearly, they're talking about it, increasingly you're hearing more western leaders, more representatives of the eu suggesting that more sanctions are necessary to push back the rebels and back down moscow and vladimir putin. so we'll see what happens in the coming hours in brussels. natalie? >> all right, reza sayah, thank you. >>> in 30 minutes we'll take you live to moscow, our matthew chance is there with russian reaction to the events on russia the eastern border and remarks from vladimir putin. >>> other stories we're following this hour. to miners trapped in northern nicaragua are out. the nation's first lady thanked c

if russians are attacked, the russians can say, you know what? we have to go in, have to protect our own people. if not, they can continue to supply the aid to the rebels, which are facing a lot of resistance right now, by the way. >> thank you so much for monitoring that for us. i hope you will continue to do that. dina gozovski. great stuff. we're lucky to have her among or team. >> we certainly are. we're also very lucky to have courtney reagan here today as well. your approval numbers are through the roof, from what i understand. welcome it's been a slow week. there's another reason, a little bit crazy today. >> we have some options expirations, and we're going into a summer weekend. how much do they feel they might need. do we want to be short or pare back gains, so i watched that last hour, because you'll see some big decisions being made there. we're seeing financial selling off, and bank of america trade lower form moving lower, before, of course continuing to move higher. and oil stocks moving higher on that. bad week for many things, bu

one pro-russian rebel commander in eastern ukraine saying there are russian forces fighting with the ukrainian rebels. on a voluntary basis, using their leave time to essentially volunteer and fight and in some instances die for the rebel cause in eastern ukraine. a certain amount of plausible deniability. just how plausible is under question. at the moment, the kremlin denying that. the united states saying there will be more consequences for this continued russian support of that insurgency in eastern ukraine. stopping short, president obama indicating exactly what would be done. there have been sanctions implemented in the past. they do not appear to have direct impact on russian policy except to increase support of the rebels in ukraine. christine? >> the vacation invasion is plausible deniability. they have to take a vacation, then borrow the military equipment at the same time. it defies real logic. >> reporter: absolutely. i don't think anybody seriously believes that. for the kremlin, it's an increasingly thinly veiled attempt to disguise it. they have been exposed. at least