probably some of the others include rich oligarchs, the duma and army generals. will it work? the former prime minister, when he talked to us -- and remember, he came from that inner circle. >> right. >> he knows these people well. he thinks it will. he thinks if the right people are targeted, people who have lined pockets in this kleptochracy, 20% will stand fast. 80% who have billions at stake will demand he step back from ukraine likely. he is positive about it. >> okay, dana, if putin isn't on that list, how is any of this going to affect him enough to really make a decision? >> it affects russia economically. billions lost in the falling market. businesses will have trouble getting credit and those with credit, like credit suisse, some of the russian money is being moved back to russia. some is going to asia, like singapore and hong cog. this week, 105 billion in u.s. treasury bond holdings were moved away from the fed. it was likely the shanelle government moving holdings offshore so they still have access to them. russia's economy is going to be bruised and battered. >>

. >> translator: members of the council, member of the states, duma representatives of the republic of crimea. there are among here citizens of russia, crimea.

now they look at the russian duma for the request to be part of the russian federation. we expect vladimir putin to speak in the duma tomorrow. he is going to speak about crimea. certainly the hope is that russia is going to recognize that independence. the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of independence and returning to the mother russia returning to the fold. people have been largely genuine land here -- jubilant here, we see the russian flag flying everywhere. they believe it really becomes a party of administering it all. when and how they move to russia, who takes over what, who's in charge of what. now they put the ukrainian law in place, that ukrainian law predates february 21st as they go in the transition period. >> jennifer glasse, thank you very much this morning. >>> now to the ongoing investigation into missing malaysia airlines 370. day 10 of that speashes and today -- disappearance, and the air traft controllers, al jazeera's lisa stark has more. >> as investigators in malaysia search the home of the captain and co-pielt, authorities now say an analysis o

let's have a look at the pictures we're getting in as members of the duma settle awaiting president putin to start speaking. there is speculation that he could sign a bill incorporating crimea into russia by the end of the day. it might still to be approved by the constitutional court before it comes into effect. you can see the assembled gathering waiting in moscow for president putin. let's speak to our correspondent also in moscow richard galpin. richard, what are we expecting here now? >> reporter: you know, geeta, it is very difficult to be absolutely certain. but certainly all indications are that there might be some kind of signing of this agreement. we know mr. putin has signed off on the draft treaty already. but we don't know the exact timing. but assuming it does take place during the assembly inside the kremlin, which is about to start now. as you say, it has to go to the constitutional court in st. petersburg. they have to look at it to make sure it does comply within the russian constitution. after that it needs to come back to the russian parliament to both houses, the uppe

the troops appeared long before the duma took the positions of today. this action has been prepared long before. it was a well-prepared action. that is why my feeling and position is that the provisions of the charter, the mechanisms and principles of the security council were violated severely. they destroyed -- without any consultations with anybody. they decided to protect -- it was a mistake in the statement of one of the colleagues. the decision was taken not to protect the at make russians but the russian speaking population. if you speak russian, you are to be protected by the russian federation. >> because the deputy harry secretary says this is the time of cool heads, calm, you were asked if the government might be -- put the clock one week -- have a conversation with the former president or still the president. you say viktor yanukovych is crazy and you do not talk with people like this. this is in contrast with what the deputy secretary said. >> no. it was one of the first recommendations stated by the american ambassador. she asked russian c

russia's lower house of parliament the duma and has overwhelmingly approved to treat you to the next crimea from ukraine the concern is that one of the on friday the opera house will hold the senate that can be seen domestication predecessor the tree tea already signed by russia's president that the mitre ten tensions between moscow and kiev has escalated since granny is referendum on joining russia ukraine use old is in the eastern region of ten after been consolidating their base handicap. some fifty km from the russian border. in crimea. it felt prayer russian troops have taken a victory ukrainian warships into the stock will according to ukrainian ap have been reports that stun grenades were used in shops were fired but no injuries have been reported you push their use is in charge the report the judges on friday hours after prime minister time ago and threatened to shut down access to the social media sites. one is buckling corruption scandal. two weeks ago the kids. lee facebook and youtube. after recordings claiming to reveal shady dealings in the center circle appeared online

early this morning the russian duma authorized the use of force in ukraine. this is as dangerous as it is destabilizing. we are deeply disturbed by reports this morning of russian military intervention into crimea. this intervention is without legal basis. indeed it violates russia's chit meant to protect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of ukraine. it is time for the russian intervention in ukraine to end. the russian military must stand down. the aspirations of the ukrainian people must be represented and political dialogue must be allowed to continue. we applaud the remarkable restraint and commitment to the dialogue that the you ukrainian government has demonstrated. we recognize and respect russia's historical ties to the ukraine. instead of engaging the government of the ukraine about its concerns of ethnic russians it ignored both and acted unilaterally and militarily. it is ironic the federation goes out of its way in this chamber to emphasize the sank tau tee of national borders and sovereignty, but russian actions in ukraine a

we'll know that votes in duma will be found. that's why russia is escalating the crisis now, and the world should understand, should realize, that ukraine, on its own, won't be able to solve this issue with russia on its own. absolutely not possible. >> well, it is not at all clear what the world can or will do to make russia pay for this power grab. but check out the price that you personal are paying. wall street, definitely spooked by what's going on by the prospects of what some are saying could be a new cold war or worse. blue chips sinking at the opening bell. and your 401(k) likely sinking right along with them. got much more on that in a moment. but first i want to get to my cnn colleagues in the region, matthew chance in kiev and phil black in moscow. phil, first off, talk about this newest development, this ultimatum. it certainly did ratchet things up. >> reporter: yeah, indeed that's right, ashleigh. what we understand from the ukrainian defense ministry, and this is the most significant of a number of ultimatums tha

any sort of compromise as weakness and he's not willing to compromise at all. >> you mentioned the duma, oligarchy, the generals. what's the fallout of the economic sanctions going to be, how is that going to hurt putin and russia economically? >> they're going to take action also against american and european firms in russia, but clearly russia is much more exposed and isolated, so it's going to cost them billions of dollars. already in the falling market, businesses will have trouble getting credit and those with credit are having american banks and banks like credit swiss restructure lending now including possible margin calls. some of the russian money is moving back to russia, some going to asia, singapore and hong kong. this week $105 billion in u.s. treasury bond holdings mysteriously moved away from the fed and it was likely the analysts in the know saying it was the russian government moving its u.s. treasury holdings offshore. the russian economy is going to get bruised and battered in this. >> reporting from london, take that thanks so much. voting is underway in serbia where

the russian parliament, the duma is going to vote on the 21st, friday. and as you mentioned, vladimir putin to speak to the duma at 3:00 local time. that's in less than five hours from now. also moving along, those sanctions that we heard announced yesterday by the european union and the united states. they are sinking in, although at least one target said he was proud to be on the list. he said that it showed his service to russia. now, of course, those sanctions are really phase one. they do take time to bite. there will be more sanctions as this escalates along. now, also, the new crimean leaders are dealing with the realities of being independent or joining the russian federation, if indeed it does head that way, all sorts of things -- their water, their electricity, their gas come from ukraine. they're going to have to sort out where they're going to get it from going forward. and one other interesting thing that slipped by a little bit, there are some vast oil and gas reserves out in the black sea that ukraine has leases on. now, crimea has basical

the latest list includes the russian president's chief of stuff the speaker of the duma businessmen on the bankruptcy a link to block listed individuals. the expanded sanctions deliver on obama is warning earlier this week to punish russia if it did not pull bought from its absorption of crimea. it was either a new executive order today that gives us the authority to impose sanctions not just on individuals but on key sectors of the russian economy. this is not our preferred outcome the sanctions would not only have a significant impact on the russian economy. but can also be disruptive to the global economy. in most schools the lower house of the russian parliament ignored such threats on thursday the fourteenth almost unanimously to approve the annexation of ukraine's breakaway province. isn't that the state duma voted four hundred and forty five to one to make rang me up a part of russia. we do to you i'm surprised the scrutiny of all what some pundits which day it was good to see more and more. it'll save the kind of dictatorial actual measures towards other countries to be trample

in the russian duma. within the administration of president putin as well as craig meehan officials within the caribbean. a rod and weekend the administration of the previous prime minister next year the crimean to vote in favor of joining russia with every action can we expect from kiev and elsewhere. well in kiev has already announced that it considers that the input regime in kiev. considers the government via the prime minister in the crimea to be illegitimate. um i think this is a little bit of casting stones because i think it's clear to everyone involved for that to the government in the crimea at this point. it has far more legitimacy at the very least. then the porch that has seized control in kiev. they have made clear that they will not accept the results of the referendum. they will not accept the crate me of being allowed to join russia that they did not accept the government in the crimea at all and that basically they don't except the people of the criteria are more similar examples affairs

the council of the state duma wu documents first. statement by the council of the stadium on behalf of the deputy so. he said this statement expressing concern over the latest developments in ukraine. is concerned over. the political crisis in ukraine. and the second that you're documented this is just in the adopted by the council of this city duma again on behalf of all the deputies of the state duma he's an appeal to the president of the russian federation and in this document to the deputies encourage the president but he needs to take measures . in order to help or to take measures. the because it's up to you to help stabilize the situation in crimea have it's see it and to use was more than all her resources a ship that is bailable to russia to protect the russian population of crimea from a lawless n'est and violence that's number one number two and then after the question we had yesterday plenary session i decided to set up a working group. including the deputies of the state duma in the pennant experts and the embers of the

it looks like to me, not the duma but maybe it is. a quick update on what's going on in ukraine right now. steve sedgwick joins from us kiev. good morning, steve. >> reporter: hey, steve, we're watching the same pakts you are, trying to work out what he's going to say next. i can tell you one thing he'll say. vladimir putin signed an executive order on executing the agreement between the russian federation and the republic of crimea, basically saying about this having an administration of the republic of crimea into the russian federation. the west hoped that it was going to halt with the independence of crimea. it looks like he wants the full ascendancy of the crimea into the russian federation. there had been a hope that when we had tepid sanctions from the white house and the eu yesterday, that was an olive branch to the russians saying, look, these are mild sanctions. you come to the table with something. clearly if that is the case, they'll get the succession into the russian federation. the republic -- no one else around the wor

thinking about the best way of getting our delegation here and we'll have a meeting with the state duma. and we will consider the crimea joining russia is one of its territory is most probably will have a joint session of this matter is critically under consideration. the ukrainian parliament has issued a formal request to the russian parliament to take them in and the russian state duma is due to meet on friday to discuss this the russian president vladimir putin will also need to sign off on. ok thanks paula that's artie's live from crimea. will continue our coverage of developments in ukraine next hour meanwhile there's some other headline news for you after this short break. funding social groups or organizations that are same thing as funding a revolution well of course if they're tossing molotov cocktails and not having a peaceful and and what i would say i intellectually dialogue you know using communications and paper and creating you know what i would say town halls and having discussions that is funding a revolution if you cite in violence and. basically the money's going to o

you didn't only have the decision by the state duma to grant vladimir putin the right to use russian forces inside of ukraine but you also of course had the duma requesting him to recall the ambassador from the u.s. so at this point in time of course this phone call is the main topic on russian media as well. and the kremlin did put out a statement as jim acosta just said. i want to read just a little bit of it. he said putin also stressed the presence of real dangers to the lives and the health of russians who are currently present on ukranian territory. putin stressed that in case of further spreading of the violence on the eastern regions of ukraine and crimea, russia reserves the right to defend its interests and the russian people -- the russian-speaking people who live there. so clearly they continue this narrative where they're saying they have the right to deploy their troops there. they've been granted the right to deploy their troops there. however they say they haven't done that yet. clearly of course the picture that we're seeing on the ground is a very different one. but

what happens is that in the russian parliament in the duma, the body that's proposing all these crazy bills, they kind of read the signals that are coming from the top and then go all out with it trying to show the kremlin that they are on its side, that they are local worker bees to go above and beyond to show their loyalty. you get crazy manifestations. they are trying to show vladimir putin that they are working with him but i wonder if he would approve of this. >> along these lines outside the duma secretary of state john kerry failed to get sergey lavrov and the ukrainian foreign minister to talk. are all these bad signs? >> you know, i mean, i don't know what you mean by bad signs. i don't think there's going to be a hot war here. even if there is, i don't know what the west can do to stop it. but this is all posturing on moscow's side to show that they're above talking to these people in kiev, that they don't government. this is a mishmash that is supposedly motivating russia's behavior here. we've heard they don't think it's a legitimate government in kiev. we hear that the in

post that declaration for putin and ahead of his address to the doom duma in two hours, steve, and what is perceived as light sanctions by investors from the west, what happens now? >> i think we switch over to what they call kremlinologyists, who pick up on every nuance and subtly. it seems to me, ross, we have a twin track now. we're watching what's going on in russia. one, of course, the affirmation of the did you ma from russia of the independence of the crimea which mr. putin, of course, has recognized. what does he do next? does he start the formal process or does he start diplomacy with the west from kiev regarding what happens in the broader picture here, as well? because as well as that very big slump to the west, so to speak, in recognizing the independent state of crimea, this business held up not just an olive branch, but an indication there could be some diplomacy. what he wants at the moment tends to be unacceptable to ukraine to the west, but having said that, it's the start of the process and it has been mentioned that he wants recognition of the referendum. he wants a n

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have to go shop around the world and get the world's tiny island nations to recognize, tomorrow the duma is voting whether it will accept an outright annexation and that is a much more aggressive step. >> wow. in terms of what is going to happen next, obviously the crimean referendum, there's the vote in the duma then crimean referendum this weekend. there's noise that russia is making, at least looking toward eastern ukraine has well. >> this is what i think you need to understand. so crimea, i hate to say it, is in a bad place right now. it would end up becoming part of russia or at least at its minimum state, it becomes a fake independent state that is really a russian state. maximum, it's part of russia. the question is, does putin stop there? does russia stop there? so if you look at a map, this is, obviously, crimea. this area along the russian border is sympathetic to russia, and we have another map that shows how this country voted in previous elections. and in previous elections, candidates that were favorable to russia were more -- no, that's not the map. the other map. one mor

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now, if the duma passes it and says yes, you can join the russian federation which everyone expects toe sanctions will hit at the russian economy and at individuals as well. and those individuals are friends of vladimir putin. it will be interesting to see how hard they bite, jim. >> and michael, the promise from the russian side to respond with their own sanctions. so preparing for an economic tit for tat could be costly for both sides. michael holmes joining us from sevastopol right where the celebrations are taking place. >>> now the fbi is investigating the disappearance of flight 370. we'll head to washington for a closer look at what investigators are focusing on right now. chelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn't get into business to spend time managing receipts, that's why we have ink. we like being in business because we like being creative, we like interacting w

we also heard legislators in the duma, russian parliament, saying they intend to speed up the processhat would basically allow russia to annex -- legally crimea. it will open next week after the referendum is due to be held in crimea. the russians definitely plan to move ahead with this and they would also like to speed up the process of basically handing out passports, ethnic russians inside ukraine, turning them into russian citizens. and of course, the parliament, the assembly in crimea, which is not recognized by kiev and the west, basically voting on crimean and dependence, as they call it. the russians are moving ahead militarily, not just on the ground. , the russianund forces continue to tighten their grip ahead of sunday's referendum. earlier today, russian forces took over a military hospital and a missile base. as charlotte hawking's now tells us. >> crimean defense official stand guard outside this military hospital. hours earlier, armed men reported to be russian troops and pro-russian militias marched into the building. it is now in their hands. the hospital's head said

the russian duma has not voted, has made made this official, and there's another unanswered question,hich is how quickly will vladimir putin, president putin and the russians follow through on their threat to move into eastern ukraine to protect russian speakers and ethnic russians there. and of course how quickly will the u.s. and the eu move to impose the sanctions they have threatened. today the white house said it could be a matter of days, but secretary kerry and foreign minister lavrov did have a big conversation this morning at this they talked about solving this diplomaticaly through constitutional changes to the ukraine constitution. it's a complicated set of issues, but it would have to do with granting more autonomy to some of these regions in eastern ukraine, where russian speakers are, if not a majority, if they are here, the ethnic russians are a sizable minority. i would say there are. i suppose there is a possibility, perhaps remove of resolving this diplomatically in some fashion. >> all right. newshour's chief foreign affairs margaret warner joining us. >> pleasure.

. >> we believe a decision to move , ratified russia officially within the duma, would be a backdoor annexation of crimea. it would be against international law. >> mr. laurent says the agreement remained. lavrov said the agreement remained, and if crimea wished to join, russia would not stand in its way. expect crimea to become independent or part of the russian federation? referendum, we have already said we will respect the choice of the makean people, and will clear our position once the outcome of the referendum is known. >> it is pretty clear these last-ditch talks have gotten nowhere. if crimea was to break away from crimea and join russia, the stage is set for new western sanctions against russia, and further deterioration in east-west relations. and immediately, a further worry. an explosion in eastern ukraine last night. russia has no plans to intervene, but the foreign ministry warned russia reserve the right to protect its compatriots, worrying hints of possible things to come. i spoke with the director of the kenan institute at the woodrow wilson center. when russia's fo

could help the crimean see in the situation we've been hearing from some of the deputies of the state duma who just came back from the republic here from the southeast of ukraine and they are saying that potentially russia could help financially economically provide also security energy and so on so once again we're now waiting for official statements from moscow in which way russia could assist the crimea which now of the foreign ministry in moscow has also been saying that it's very unproductive right now for the new authorities in kiev to aggravate the situation like that here in the crimea referring to these attacks during the night. russia is deeply concerned with the recent developments in crimea in the wash the first on demand sent from kiev made to the. ministry of the crimean in front of us who probably. key should last several people injured. thanks to him as well to actually save the some of the fan squads the time to seize the building last week this latest incident proves that certain political circles are eager to destabilize disconnection the crimea. we are . actually just f

of knowledge nice guy of the russian institute for democracy and cooperation former member of the duma as well. thank you for being with us. thanks as well to a city big ol' boys who teaches until the french political science institutes gospel thank you for being honest and also catherine field new zealand reporter who's covering the story of the falls and gets a bit we can always join the conversation and your time on facebook and twitter are hashed i have to for debate now in the same breath but a mere put in telling reporters that his state residents to politically will be ousted victory and a car which was probably through the pain is still ukraine's president putin also laying down a blueprint for ukraine's new leaders. in a deal with these people that they need to hold a referendum. and until a new constitution stick with a seasoned old ukrainian citizens. i can feel just like male parts of this precise yet. they are influencing. the basic principles of the functioning of their in country. sources who was with them. a change in the is most probably needed in ukraine. oxygen into

that might be a russian invasion but that would have it today particularly devoted to the russian duma seems to have taken everybody here in cuba by surprise. the armed forces though to say that they are on high and that to the defense minister tried to reassure ukrainians this evening that they have what it takes to counter the potential in russian intervention of other expats disputes that name name of the prime minister us in the us and europe said that said he hopes the dress is in custody and ukraine would not go any further than it has already done with it. if that it's not very many would mean wall and the end of diplomatic relations between russia and ukraine in the same press conference he had also reached out to ukrainians in the south and east of the country the russian speaking regions saying that the ukraine protects all its citizens regardless of the night which they speak or what to say perfected gutsy and that there's no need to see reviewed this new government said in the kitties any kind of threat to russian speakers there was a sensible them it is like in a different

the troops appeared long before the duma took the positions of today. this action has been prepared long before. it was a well-prepared action. that is why my feeling and position is that the provisions of the charter, the mechanisms and principles of the security council were violated severely. they destroyed -- without any consultations with anybody. they decided to protect -- it was a mistake in the statement of one of the colleagues. the decision was taken not to protect the at make russians but the russian speaking population. if you speak russian, you are to be protected by the russian federation. >> because the deputy harry secretary says this is the time of cool heads, calm, you were asked if the government might be -- put the clock one week -- have a conversation with the former president or still the president. you say viktor yanukovych is crazy and you do not talk with people like this. this is in contrast with what the deputy secretary said. >> no. it was one of the first recommendations stated by the american ambassador. she asked russian c

now if russia doesn't act in the duma, their congress, to go ahead and accept annexation, that's onehing. but if they move towards that goal, then i think ultimately, the sanctions need to be enforced, along with our european allies, because that will have the biggest bite. >> let me bring you in on this question of diplomacy, and also the question of resolve, senator corker. on friday, after six hours of talks between secretary of state kerry, and russian foreign minister lavrov ended without agreement, kerry talked about sanctions. and then he said this. >> we hope president putin will recognize that none of what we're saying is meant as a threat, it's not meant as a, you know, in a personal way. >> senator corker, not a threat. not meant in a personal way. the invasion of crimea started over two weeks ago. and you talk about resolve. but really there has been no action taken against the russians up to this point, and here you have secretary kerry saying that personal, not a threat. is the u.s. sending a message of resolve? or weakness? >> well, look, there's no question that i thi

the duma votes, the parliament, in the days ahead on that. mentioned, vladimir putin set to speak to the duma in less than four hours from now. sanctions announced yesterday by the european union and the u.s. are starting to sink in, although it was curious, yesterday at least one of the targets of those sanctions said he was proud to be on the list, said he saw it as pretty much a badge of his service to russia. those sanctions, of course, do take time to bite, and they are to be done in stages. the more this goes along, the more stages russia takes, the more sanctions will be put in place against individuals and assets and visas and the like. sanctions here, too, among the crimean leadership, the prime minister, the deputy prime minister, the speaker are all on that list. those leaders, of course, grappling with some realities now. their water, their gas, their electricity all comes from ukraine. and when you look at the map, crimea, of course, is a peninsula. the only way to connect with russia is via water at the moment. they're talking a

the latest list includes the russian president chief of staff, the speaker of the duma, businessman, and a bank. the expanded sections deliver on obama's warning earlier this week to punish russia if it did not fall back from its absorption of crimea. i signed an executive order today that gives us the authority to impose sanctions, not just on individuals but on key sectors of the russian economy. this is not our preferred outcome. these sanctions will not only have a significant impact on the russian economy, but they can also be disruptive to the global economy. >> and moscow times on the lower house of the russian parliament ignored such threats on thursday, voting almost unanimously to approve the annexation of ukraine's breakaway province. they voted 445-1 to make crimea a part of russia. i am surprised at the scrutiny of our western earners which they have been addicted to more and more. it is a kind of dictatorial measure towards other countries. they'd travel down the law to waste their stooges in power. >> russia responded to american and european sanctions with measures of

things moving forward very quickly here. >> we are looking live at the duma right now where presidentn of russia is expected to speak shortly. we are expecting that he's going to talk about the possible annexation of crimea, but some analysts i've heard jennifer are saying it would come at quite a cost for russia. can you talk about that? crimea depends on mainland ukraine for many basic utilities. >> that's right. all the utilities that come in through ukraine, through border post that is now an international border post. you've got ukrainian forces standing off with russian forces there. 90% of electricity comes through ukraine, 70% of the water. water's been a big concern. that comes through a canal system from ukraine. there was concern that ukraine would shut off those utilities. >> lets listen in to the russian president. >> good morning my dear colleagues, members of duma. the members of crimea who are among us today, the cities in south russia, people of crimea. [ applause ] >> thank you. my dear friends, today we gather rewarding question which is has life importance and hist

local authorities of moscow to start the necessary procedures the request has been approved by the duma but there's been no response yet from the russian president the crimean prime minister told r.t. that the decision to reunite with russia was driven by popular will. people out there who will see the queen will you hold out a number of the things she says but actually in various regions in crimea the members of our parliament hold regular meetings with the voters who frequently our system make the ultimate decision given the current situation in ukraine and since the situation in kiev has been spinning out of control either to seek full autonomy meaning the ability to adopt our own state laws or to oct first the session of the central government is run by radicals who the opposition actually fears that the so-called modern movement are rapidly generated from initially peaceful protests in early december into a radical structure involving militants from western ukraine who preach what is clearly nazi ideology government appointments are being made under the influence of the my down mov

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the individual announced today has specific desertions in the russian state government or the state duma. list, oneitem on that was individuals, there are other opportunities within that executive order to levy sanctions against other individuals who might have influence with russian governmental officials and russian policy. is one. we have the capacity and the authority to calibrate our response. in other words initiate further sanctions depending on what happens in the coming days and weeks with regards to ukraine and the actions russia the sides to take. as the president makes clear, we are still pressuring russia to pursue a diplomatic resolution to the situation in ukraine. that opportunity exists. should it fail to do that, should it take steps that further violate ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, we have the authority to impose further sanctions and do so more broadly. >> could that include president putin? >> the authority exists to apply sanctions to a variety of individuals and entities. we want to evaluate what the right step is as this situation evolves. we a

formerly annex crimea into the russian federation in an hour-long address to members of the russian duma in moss course, president putin was highly critical or the west and highly critical once again of the government which he called illegitimate in kiev. although he did say that olive branch to the west he has no more territorial aspirations for ukraine. and of course there had been a lot of fears that he would move on military to the east of this country. prime minister yatsenyuk has been talking about the need to move forward and give more autonomy to the regions. nato not in terms of membership in the near future. that would sooth some of the russian fears about nato being on the russian federation doorstep. steve sedgwick for for "nightly business report" in kiev. >>> microsoft stock jumped on reports that the company plans to unveil an ipad version of its popular office software. shares rose almost 4% today, closing in on $40. that's a level investors haven't seen since the year 2000 and the dot-com boom. as josh lipton reports, this first big move by microsoft's new ceo could be a

the referendum process in the store that had been all who knows what you think of that with the name duma on over to cheat steal a faculty of who we think of how the crimea reacting to the fact that the international community has already said that the results of this referendum was to be true the man that we've all known to provoke the people here see this is a provocation of western countries because one of the regional accent the toys that most people in crimea are willing to move some help or russia warranties to move away from ukraine. especially on to my camera. the mission was to open up and it just adds to the token i e not so proud to call gulp almighty god that css. nick would dig out the window to see property could be added in academia that's essential to bully it emits prime minister has presented a sweeping package of tax cuts and cuts to carry out the ambitious package of reforms during his first hundred days in office. and as boastful news conference mature ramsay said the measures would help boost in today's economic recovery any sell more than eighty mean that a good sta

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russia's the house of parliament the duma and has overwhelmingly approved to treat eat the next crimea ukraine began making films that one of. the on friday to opera house will hold the senate to its completion domestication predecessor the tree tea already signed by russia's president that the mitre ten. for tension between moscow and kiev has escalated since crime is referendum on joining russia ukrainian soldiers in the eastern region of the cafe consolidation at the east countries kept some fifty km from the russian border. in crimea itself pro russian troops have taken of the three ukrainian to say this couple. according to ukrainian maybe have been reports the stun grenades were used in shots were fired but no injuries have been reported. the series is in charge. the report outages on friday hours after prime minister to have one for the bishop time access to the social media sites. one is bustling corruption scandal. two weeks ago the kids at that ugly facebook and youtube. after recording exclaiming to reveal shady dealings in the center circle appeared online. up to the edge a

the troops appeared long before the duma took the positions of today. this action has been prepared long before. it was a well-prepared action. that is why my feeling and position is that the provisions of the charter, the mechanisms and principles of the security council were violated severely. they destroyed -- without any consultations with anybody. they decided to protect -- it was a mistake in the statement of one of the colleagues. the decision was taken not to protect the at make russians but the russian speaking population. if you speak russian, you are to be protected by the russian federation. >> because the deputy harry secretary says this is the time of cool heads, calm, you were asked if the government might be -- put the clock one week -- have a conversation with the former president or still the president. you say viktor yanukovych is crazy and you do not talk with people like this. this is in contrast with what the deputy secretary said. >> no. it was one of the first recommendations stated by the american ambassador. she asked russian c

crime in parliament has issued a formal request to the box upon him into taken in the russian state duma is scheduled to hold a session on friday to discuss this the russian president that he was one wants and needs to sign off on it that sent me a face to meet him in crimea where as another cousin's son to death. this is the base date of his life. that was our cue course on impulse here. in response to the referendum both united states is close to european union have imposed increase sanctions on russia including travel bans than the freezing of assets. as an obama signed an executive order which targets seven washington for i mean officials believe that contributed to implementing this referendum as an obama gets what he said earlier. to make clear to russia that further provocations four achieve nothing except to further isolate russia diminish its place in the world. now i believe they're still up and resolve the situation diplomatically to wear the dresses the interests of both russia and ukraine. that includes russia pulling its forces. in crimea back to their bases. supported the

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