dimitri simes, today was the one of the most passionate speeches we heard vladimir putin give. what do you think his main message was to his own people and to the west? >> well, i think his message to his own people is mother russia arrived. it cannot be pushed around anymore, it cannot be ignored. russia is a great power and has to be treated with respect or else. the second message to the west was twofold. first, as far as crimea is concerned, it's all over but the music. it is a part of russia, and this is the way it is going to be. however, russia does not plan to invade ukraine, and russia may be even under some circumstances a part of a constructive solution for ukraine, a constructive solution with mr. putin having his own agenda. >> woodruff: what you take away from what mr. putin said? >> i agree with part of what dimitri said. two weeks ago, we heard he had no plans to annex crimea, and if you read it very, very closely, he says, of course, russia reserves the right to protect russian citizens, so there are enough russians living in ukraine and elsewhere in the former

. >> brown: dimitri simes, and angela stent, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: now, we take you to a place that garnered headlines around the world three years ago, but has hardly been seen since, because it's so dangerous. newshour science correspondent miles o'brien is our guide. >> reporter: three years after the meltdowns, the road to fukushima is still a gauntlet of roadblocks and strict security checks. and inside the exclusion zone, it remains a post apocalyptic landscape of abandoned towns, frozen in time. we were on our way to one of the most hazardous places on earth, the fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant. the tokyo electric power company, tepco granted the newshour permission for a rare tour inside the plant where three nuclear reactors melted down after the great earthquake and subsequent tsunami on march 11th, 2011. in the isolated an radioactively protected emergency response center, we met the man in the hottest seat of all here, superintendent akira ono. he runs an unprecedented demissioning pro-- decommissioning project that will not be done fo

she is interviewed by dimitri simes from the center of national interest. this is an hour. >> host: it is my privilege to talk today with professor angela stent director of the center for russian eurasian and eastern european studies at georgetown university. he wrote an important book, "the limits of partnership" talking about the u.s. russian relationship and my first question is why do we need partnership with russia? you know this is not an overly provocative question because there are a lot of people in the u.s. government and you are part of the u.s. government who seem to think that russia is not that important to the extent that it is important is not prepared to be very help will. do we need heart worship with rush and if so why? >> guest: we certainly do need partnership with russia and russia's still -- i mean the united states and russia are the two remaining nuclear superpowers are between us we cannot resolve a number of the world's major problems if we don't work together and we are seeing that in terms of syria, in terms of iran, in terms ev

then at 1 1u 05, we conclude with "after words" and guest host dimitri simes who interviews angela tent on her book, "the limits of partnership." book booktv in prime time all this week on c-span2. >> next, a discussion about transportation policy. officials with the federal railroad and federal transit administrations discuss the president's 2015 budget request as well as other issues including railroad safety. the discussion was part of a recent daylong legislative conference of the american public transportation association held in washington d.c. it runs a little over an hour. >> welcome to the last session of the day. my name is diana mendez, and i'm the vice chair of the legislative committee. i know you've all had an uplifting and invigorating day, and we're going to continue that with our session this afternoonh we are really delighted to host for you a discussion with the ta key modal administrators from the u.s. department of transportation. today's session will coverfo important program updates and initiatives will be discussed along with a discussion of the v administration'