taylor was arrested and locked up, but not for long. >> charles taylor makes a rather dramatic prisonak from a jail in massachusetts, along with several other inmates. all of those inmates are eventually captured. taylor is not, and regales in the afterwards that it was the cia who helped break him out of that prison, because he was destined to lead the rebellion to bring down samuel doe. >> there's all kinds of legend around it, but it seems he had a kind of underground network of people who helped him. he literally disappeared. nobody knew where he was. >> we'd heard all the rumors that he had been to the states and escaped from jail and was making his way back to liberia. >> narrator: four years after the jailbreak, taylor's forces began their assault, heading towards the firestone plantation. (loud gunfire) (chanting) >> narrator: "day one: tuesday, june 5, 1990. last evening, 8:00 p.m., reported rebels crossing river towards factory area." donald ensminger was the head of the firestone plantation when taylor's rebels stormed in and seized control. much of what we know about what

charles stratford al jazeera, eastern ukraine. >> joining us now from washington, d.c. is william taylor, a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine and currently the acting vice president of the united states institute of peace. welcome to the program sir. so president obama calling-- >> thank you. >> --president putin on the phone, asking him to agree to the peace deal. how will this have gone down with president putin. will he agree with it, do you think? >> president putin finds himself in a tight spot. his economy is under great pressure and that's starting to affect the people of russia, who are paying the price for mr. putin's adventure invading ukraine. mr. putin is starting to pay a political price. he's also, as your reporter said there are russian soldiers dieing in ukraine, and that's causing a problem for him as well. it might be that mr. putin is looking for a way out, and this phone call could have indicated from him, from mr. obama to mr. putin, that the pressure can only get worse if mr. putin does not take this last chance to move back. >> a white house statement warns that if russia does no