been some reaction from kiev to that visit by dimitri medvedev to crimea. ministry of foreign affairs, ds proceeprotocol that that, keepip the, doesn't believe that it is. it wouldn't be sending its prime minister there. and medvedev seems to underline that russia has no intention of giving crimea back to ukraine. the crisis in ukraine, crimea didn't really america much running in those talks. it was about russia putting forward its basic condition for a plan to federalize the country and ethnic portions away from kiev. united states making its minimum requirement the withdrawal of russian troops, the fact that crimea doesn't come up substantively anymore, is that it's a fait accompli, making sure russia doesn't go any further into ukraine. >> jonah hull for it in kiev. >>> climate change, the problem only getting worse. the group of scientists at the united nations, climate change will lead to widespread hunger and drought. >>> coming up. after a protest after the albuquerque police department turns violent. >>> looking for relief from the violence of the l

russian prime minister dimitri medvedev isn't until the next region of crimea. he is the first russian leader to travel there since mosque assignments inflation absorbing it into russian ten days ago and this comes a day after the u s ticket to state and the russian foreign minister held emergency talks on crime yet here in paris was a bit more about that as our international affairs editor on george he was following the talks yesterday there were four hours of talks at the end of the countries have narrowed the gap anymore what the weather the next steps no one would hope that it is still russian troop movements around ukraine whose old kids from the john kerry's comments last night that the us sees these treatments as traction as russian pressure on the diplomatic process. john kerry made some proposals as to how those troops might be redeployed he didn't give us any details on a second drug makers and proposals up with these ideas is not meant to be looked at in the next few days pointing us and russian presidents but it's clear that that was in a breakthroug

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russia's prime minister dimitri medvedev is in crimea.s ukraine's defense ministry said the buildup of russian troops on the eastern borders has begun to ease in recent days. well, he is the most senior russian politician to travel to the black sea since moscow seized it from ukraine. the bbc daniel sandford is in moscow. i asked what mr. medvedev has been saying. >> it will become a special zone no order to attract investments and a military will be set up in order to develop the region. clearly a sign that russia believes this is an unchangeable position that crimea is now formally part of the russian federation. they're prepared to invest time and money in the peninsula as part of trying to bring it into the russian federation as a whole. that of course directly against what the government in kiev says, which is they still believe crimea is part of ukraine. >> what about news on troop movements on the ukraine border? >> well, this was a very hot topic last night in the meeting between john kerry, u.s. secretary of state and sergei lavr

supposed to be an evacuation plan in place, and to add insult to injury, the russian president dimitri medvedevat's $11 billion, richelle. >> jennifer glasse, thank you so much. >>> president obama is expected to underscore russia's isolation over crimea as he meets with key allies last week, mike viqueria has more. >> it's a long scheduled series of summits. first in netherlands, next 53 nations will be representmany by their heads of state. then for president obama it's on to brussels, belgium. the crisis in crimea is going to dominate. he's going to have bilaterals with the chinese, japanese and other leaders. susan rice appeared in the warehouse pressroom. she was asked, russian troops, massed inside crimea border. susan rice says the united states is still watching that development very carefully. >> it is not clear what that signals. the russians have stated that they are intending military exercises, obviously given their past practice and the gap between what they have said and what they have done, we are watching it with skepticism. >> reporter: one head of state that is not coming, vl

in one moment the russians amassing troops in the border, pulling back a battalion and hear dimitry medvedev is crimea today. >> the encouraging sign is president putin requested this meeting yesterday but they got nothing out of it. the american officials say every day we're talking is a day they're not invading but the intimidation factor is huge. they can use it against ukraine, as a bargaining chip with the united states, and it intimidates a country like moldova, west of ukraine, but has a tiny russian area. the medvedev visit, just as john kerry said, this vaccines of crimea illegitimate, the depp my minister traveling with medvedev tweeted "crimea is ours and that's that ." >> ifill: and he was promising everything to them. >> exactly. a wealthy oligarch said putin will scramble to make crimea into hong kong to compare it to struggling ukraine. >> ifill: so elections coming up in may. does kiev have any counterstrategy to keep any of this at bay? >> that is the counterstrategy. there's not really a legitimate president of the government of ukraine because yanukovich, the russian presi

on monday, russia's prime minister dimitri me medvedev wan crimea. >> a fundamental decision has been taken to increase the pensions in crimea to the average russian level with the help of a special additional pavement. this has been agreed by me with the president of russia. >> it's the strongest signal yet that the peninsula is firmly russian now. kiev called the visit a crude violation but can do nothing about it. all of which is cause for concern among those who fought for the downfall of the yanukovych government and still look in wonder at the battlements and indians square. i don't know what to tell you about the future, it depends on the government. and the government has its own problems to deal with. the fact that crimea was taken away from us, it's not a success at all. are you concerned about your country's relationship with russia? russians are good people. it's such a shame that it's like this. it's more than a month since viktor yanukovych fled the country but many are still camped out in indian -- in indee square. reluctant to leave. this country faces elections, in a