in the 1990's, crimean tartars began to return to the region. all this family had to start with was a ramshackle hut overgrown with weeds. >> we built a greenhouse and planted a garden here. we grow radishes and onions in it. >> he earns a bit of extra money on the side as a driver using his own car. mustafa is a heavy equipment operator or machinist, as it was called in soviet times. backing crimea, he cannot find regular work, so the family lives off what they can gro. the tartars have put of greenhouses like this all over crimea. it looks like it will be a good harvest this year, but if russia ends up taking back over crimea, many are not as optimistic about their prospects. >> as i see it, that's aggression and attack by russia. that's not right. >> they gather in their living room to all of developments as best they can. mustafa's mother is 77 years old . she makes coffee and the traditional turkish way. the tartar settles in crimea over the centuries and originally spoke a turkic language. soviet dictator josef stalin accused all non-russi

the crimean first of the minister has recently announced s will bean tartar evicted from some of their land, which he claimed is needed for infrastructure projects. the body of a crimean was discovered sunday. yet last been seen on march 3. his body reportedly shows signs of torture. russian troops are reportedly storming apartment buildings, housing ukraine in troops, border guards, veterans, and their families, threatening them and demanding their immediate departure. in addition, we are sinners the concerned about activist, civil society leaders, media restrictions, and journalists in crimea. accordingly, the united states supports the rapid employment of international observers and all parts of ukraine and we believe it is instructive that the government of ukraine has repeatedly welcomed the deployment and the russian federation has not. today in vienna again, russia was alone country to block an osce monitoring mission. there russia was dramatically outnumbered. it was the lone dissenting voice out of 57 countries. 56, it seems, had a different view. russian officials say they un

with the soviet russian authorities since well, since the 1780's have done everything in their power to oppress and repress the crimean tartarringing on the rights of the language and culture. for putin to say that these two languages will have equal status with russian i guess absurd. >> does he have any point in saying that russians have been suffering? he used that word suffering. >> sack of potatoes. >> under the crimean leadership. >> there's no substance to this, as well. the new leadership was in power for a couple of days and at which point the russian troops essentially seized control over crimea. they had no time to do anything bad. if you look at the record of ukraine over the last 23 years, vis a vis crimea, it's been a policy of neglect. crimea has been for all practical purposes an independent state. >> president putin called the interim government in kiev illegitimate. let's listen to what he had to say about those leaders. >> it is also clear that there's no legal and executive power in ukraine. many of the government bodies are reserved by i am posters. they do not control anything in ukraine and themselves