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it's good to go after the officials and the shoulders of the european union and the united states, to show them that there is more on the table that they can also bargain with and push russia hopefully away. that's the determination. >> george benitez, a good start as nadia suggests? >> i disagree. i think the sanctions are feeble, too little and too late. the u.s. should have put sanctions on russia right after their forces in crimea, and not wait until after the referendum. >> coming in small, doesn't that leave you the option of ratcheting up the pressure as time goes on. >> no, because even if you come in strong, you can still ratchet it up. none of these sanctions, the amounts are too small. the individuals are limited, and they are not the powerful ones. they're not the decision makers. we're showing indecision and a timid attitudes to what he has done. >> is there any reason to believe that what happened in georgia six years ago now that vladimir putin would back down from international criticism in ukraine and crimea? >> i think it all depends on how far the sanctions are goin

out that maybe there would be a new east west conflict developing between russia and the european union united states. people hoping not but who knows what would develop in the end. the dax was able to curtail its losses indeed go out of the week with a positive and because of the good economic data from the united states the next week will be interesting as well. ukraine one factor but also the ecb it could lower interest rates but after price data from the eurozone this week people don't really think it has a basis for that. one is going on in frankfurt. he's on the market numbers now starting with the dax which we heard was up by more than per cent. ninety six nine to the finish. euro stocks to feel something's wrong date thirty one forty nine is how it ended up over in new york the dow jones industrial average also in positive territory at the moment sixteen three six nine in the euro trading up against the dollar. the world bank as frozen sixty six million euros going to uganda. in response to the country's new anti gay bill. a spokesman said the bank was reviewing how the laws will affect its e

united states, france, england were meddling. you say they were creating a situation that would get worse. i remember i was here. how do you judge what the european union the united states, in a situation in the ukraine -- are you ready to say something similar? have they behaved in a way they shouldn't? >> i don't want to draw any parallels between syria and ukraine. secondly, yes, we definitely saw some imposed mediation and some people who are trying to determine for ukraine what they wanted. you remember the footage when this acre of the parliament from one of the baltic countries was speaking at the opposition rally. the foreign minister of germany was actually marching in the demonstration with the opposition. are going to have a referendum on the independence of scotland so can we expect baltic politicians marching there among those who are pitching for independence, speaking at rallies at edinburgh? some of those things, were quite graphic. they were completely had nothing to do with the idea of no interference in the general affairs of sovereign countries. they emphasize sovereignty but they behaved as if ukraine was a province of the european

a feeling that russia understands the messages that have been sent to russia by the european union and united states, and i think mr. putin's response, his speech was a clear response to that as well. and if i may add also-- >> ambassador to the u.n. thank you, indeed. i'm jumping in again, i've been doing that a lot today. thank you for joining us live from new york. >>> toyota has reached a $1.2 billion settlement with the u.s. government after being accused of caring more about savings than safety. the four-year investigation prompting a series of recalled vehicles that totaled 10 billion. >> reporter: for years the compancompany admitted it had cd up problems, and refused to recall that led to accidents and deaths. the company will pay a record fine. >> toyota's conduct was shameful, showing a blatant disregard for systems and laws designed for the safety of consumers. it would protect its brand ahead of its own customers. this constitutes a reprehensible abuse of the public trust. >> reporter: it claimed at one point the issue was caused by floor mats. it ordered a massive recall of vehicles ma

today from german chancellor angela merkel, obviously germany is a leading member of the european union. the united states and european union have been pretty well allied on these issues especially in the last few days. so in one sense, it's not strange to hear a european leader saying, hey, back off, do not invade eastern ukraine. on the other hand, to hear this from angela merkel, herself, who's been a little softly softly when it comes to putin in history, did that strike you as remarkably strong words from her? >> it does. and you picked up on that because this is a change in tone from merkel. up until now, merkel was saying she was the good cop. and kerry and certainly obama were more the bad cops. although we noted that president obama was more often saying, hey, there's an off ramp, we want to let him get off and get out of this box. and kerry was a little bit tougher. there was a little dissidence there. carrots and sticks, perhaps. merkel is onboard. germany relies so heavily on natural gas that comes on a pipeline ironically from ukraine through russia. today kerry told the senate and the house

russia exports $160 billion worth of gas and crude oil to the european union and the united states. we have no idea what the sanctions will actually look like. it seems like the european union foreign ministers don't either. the ruble is one to watch out for. >> i think it is. european leaders care about sfxs, energy costs, and fluctuations. the ruble is at record lows. any company that has significant revenue coming from that region, they will get a smaller and smaller slice of that when they converted it to their domestic currency and that will hurt european companies. thank you so much. jonathan ferro with the market impact of the crimea referendum. >> it has been more than a week since the disappearance of the flighta airlines disap 370. we are looking at a significantly bigger search area. >> it is increasing the search in the search area and in leeds and angles that investigators are following. let's look at the size, the sheer scale, of what they are having to contend with. has extent -- kazakhstan in the north. all the way down to indonesia. 28 million square miles. that is m

that,k we have all seen from the perspective of the european union, united states, allies like canadaand japan, and friends and partners around the world, there is a strong belief that russia's action is violating international law. president putin seems to have a different set of lawyers, maybe a different set of interpretations. but i do not think that is fooling anybody. i think everybody recognizes that, although russia has legitimate interests in what happens in a neighboring state, that does not give them the a means ofe force as exerting influence inside of that state. we have said that if, in fact, there is any evidence out there that russian speakers, russian natives, russian nationals are in any way being threatened, there are ways of dealing with that through international mechanisms. and we are prepared to make sure that the rights of all ukrainians are upheld. in fact, in conversations we have had with the government in they have been more than willing to work with the international community and with russia to provide such assurances. we are still seeing soldiers out of

the european union and united states say it is illegal. this is legal. forfeit our loading in crimea. our soldiers say that approximately 82 people want to join crimea to russia. remember the referendum in kosovo. therefore the international community. lacks it was about the crimean referendum. >> this is approximately 300,000 here. all crimean population. they say that approximately 37 of them want to join crimea to russia. >> what about the reports that we're getting that say we have the lego rarities -- irregularities. people that are against the referendum are forced to cast this at home. are you going to investigate the report? >> yes. we have the very big information with this. any regularity? >> what is going to happen next? tomorrow or the day after tomorrow the russian parliament road for new law about crimea. that is why i think approximately one or two weeks a legal situation in crimea by russian law. i a enjoy not in the studio former member of the united nations international law commission. is west says this referendum illegal. what is your

that would only further endeepen the consequences of the actions the european union would have to take along with the united states on sanctioning sectors of the russian economy, not only individuals, but sectors of that economy. while it may create some pain for the european union, the calculus has to be what is the consequences of not acting that way. of course, russia will also face consequences from those sanctions and any retaliation as well. even if they retaliate in oil sales, it means a diminished income to russia. i believe that president putin only understands strength. unless there is a resolute strength of the european union and the united states, then he will continue to march forward. >> senator melendez who will not be traveling to russia any time soon, thank you for joining the program. >> thank you. >> from one official here, europe has to get onboard with sanctions even if it's going to hurt them economically. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program, it is cheap and it is easy to shoot up with heroin. it is also lethal. the number of heroin addicts in america

we're making it clear there are consequences for the actions >> the united states and european unionreferendum is illegal. >> general motors offered a recall for a variety of safety defects. gm under investigation for its fail your to recall cars with faulty ignition switches. the cars recalled today include suvs listed here on the screen. side air bags could fail to deploy. also two vans whose panels do not meet standards and cadillac xts. gm will notify you if your year is being recalled >> new trouble for tesla. the state of ohio now considering a ban on the direct sale of automobiles, saying it under cuts traditional dealerships but tesla says direct sales keep prices affordable. the dow rose 181 points. s and p up 17. and parent company of sears says it will spin off land's end unit as a separate company. sears has been in declieb since it bought k mart. >> a gaming conference takes over downtown san francisco this week. one exhibit is bringing out the kid in everywhere. >> rows of young people trance fixed on machines with names like pac man and donkey kong. >> these are things

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crimea to russia, and then you will have these threats that have been put forward by the european union and united stateso impose economic sanctions in terms of freezing bank accounts and travel bans on officials del. >> dana thank you very much. jennifer glasse is in the region that will decide on sunday to beak away from ukraine. you heard the secretary of state. your reaction. >> del, no matter what secretary kerry says here, the officials have made it very clear, they plan to have this referendum on sunday. they have the new crimea prime minister appointed just a few weeks ago, talking about what is going to happen after the referendum. they believe it is already complete. crimea has a majority ethnic russian population. the russian flags are flying over many state buildings here. people in the streets are flying the russian flags. and there are posters around the city calling on people to come home. many people here believe this is going to correct a mistake made 60 years ago when crimea was given to ukraine. and all of secretary kerry's talk about annexation, the crimean officials think that that h

but the european union, the united states and great britain mutts sacrifice something in order to areserve peace and quiet throughout the world. they must sacrifice something in order to preserve stability in the world. i would tell them that these are just energy resources. and their people will accept, if their governments protect ukraine . i would say that the world must not let ukraine be the first country where people actually die for the cause of a eurnd europ unitedeurope not for their own territory not for their own country. they gave their lives for europe because they believe and they now believe in the credit values proclaimed by europe. and if ukraine is left now without any help during these hard times, that will be very cruel to those who already spilled their blood in this revolution. believing in the true values and the true standards of peace and quiet reigning throughout the world. >> you're talking about the people who died here in kiev? >> yes. you know the revolution started the moment yanukovych actually stopped the process of signing the agreement with the europ

how do you judge what the european union, united states -- are you ready to say something similar?did they behave in a way they should not? >> i don't want to draw any parallels between syria and ukraine. we definitely saw some imposed mediation, and some people who were trying to determine for ukraine what they wanted. you remember the footage, when the speaker of the parliament from one of the baltic countries was speaking. the foreign minister of germany was actually marching in the demonstration with the opposition. now we're going to have a referendum on the independence of scotland. can we expect baltic politicians marching there among those who are pitching for independence? let's see if this is going to happen. some of those things were quite graphic and in our view completely had nothing to do with the idea of no interference. they emphasize sovereignty but they behave as though ukraine was a province of the european union. that is at least impolite towards our ukrainian friends. then maybe more importantly, there was an effort to determine for ukraine what they need to do

as we have today, the european union and united states,, the guarantors -- they are ready to provide assistance and financial systems. your first question -- we have had no clear answer for my statement. 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 peo

. >> from the perspective of the european union, the united states, allies like canada and japan, andllies in friends and partners around the world will is a strong belief that russia's action is violating international law. >> reporter: president obama saying again according to the agreement that was signed just last week del, scheduled for uranian elections, according to the agreement, scheduled for may 25th, the president calling for free elections allowing the uranian people to speak. >> since the violent outburst where there were police firing on the demonstrators there, there has not been a single loss of life. saying that instead russia is trying to invoke action. take a listen to what vladimir putin had to say earlier today. >> translator: if we make this decision that would be solely to protect uranian citizens. we will be behind the people not in front of them, but behind, let them just try to shoot at women and children. i would want to look into the eyes of those who would order that in ukrain. >> so mike, you hear the russian president saying those troops are on the groun

both the european union and the united states imposed sanctions on russian officials but they have mocked those. vice president joe biden arrived in poland to meet about this tense situation. president obama has even said he will fly to europe next week if necessary but we're still waiting for response from the white house about this formal annexation. putin did say that russia want nos further division and he would not seek to annex additional parts of ukraine. we'll have to see what comes from the meetings. and what is the internationalnality response here. >> exactly where it will turn. thank you, chase. >> new video in this morning that you need to see especially if you are a caltrain commuter. look at this close call at this station. half a second there. after a group of commuters cross over the tracks one of them almost getting hit by a train. bob redell is live at the station where the incident was caught on camera. you see the man running across, no estimate how close this train was. >> reporter: good morning. caltrain releasing drawing attention to show commuters how stupid and d

. >> if anyone didn't think they would care or drive i wedge between the european union and the united states, they clearly miscalculated. >> reporter: to the president's credit, the sanctions that he put out impacted the russian economy and he's not been able to bring the european allies to get them to come up with tougher european union sanctions. and republicans like rudy guiliani said the european alhighs are nervous that the u.s. would not be there in part because of the redline in syria. here's ruddy guiliani. >> we should not give up the military option. we suppose he would attack a nato country. but this president said you couldn't cross the redline in syria and did nothing about it 12 times. >> the red lune is on the nato question. president obama made it chlor if there is an attack on poland, the u.s. would go in with allies and help them out. but ukraine is not part of nato. you have 30,000 russian troops on the eastern border of ukraine, this crisis expanding and getting worse. a lot of people here in europe are very, very nervous about the security situation. the president is try

european union union regulations after all? there is not a lot of difference between human beings in europe or the united states. >> really, the ropean union has moved beyond the u.s.. they are out in front of the u.s.. the states in the u.s. are basically catching up. we have the eu in california taking the lead. this presents a test for the american chemical industry. it is an easy test. we have listed three chemicals everyone has known for 20 years are hazardous. can they innovate to get these hazards out of the products of that they can compete globally and innovate, and stay ahead of the curve, and not just continue to lobby them spend millions of dollars blocking regulation. >> where can people learn about where these products are? is there a website? >> a website for these priority products. the safer consumer-products. you can go find them there. goodguide.com. >> i want to thank you very much. my thanks, joining us all. coming up, in san francisco, marijuana, the industry where jobs are booming. businesses are looking for qualified candidates. some even have gotten together to hold a job fair. we have details next. ♪ >

finally the european union the united states composing these kinds of targeted sanctions but for different reasons ukraine but that maybe i'll open the door to a tougher approach from russia make clear that russia has not been a so called partner in peace even in syria or rather an underwriter of mass murder and should be treated. i was kenneth ross executive director of human rights watch to stay with us because coming up the mystery of malaysian airlines flight three seventy from kuala lumpur. ten days after the boeing jumbo jet carrying two hundred thirty nine people disappeared from radar screens. relatives of the passengers are demanding information across the entrance and on toppling the story of how our universe began. scientists say they found what they called the cosmic missing link. all the time or stay with us. you do. some might want to watch all the images. programs the whole package. dw on the future. the media center dw to the eye. they are. i know none of the state would need to get some eats and peanut sauce the sauce. i love that. what a piece. next time you hear. the eig

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as you know, christianne, does the west, the nato allies, the european union, the united states, do they kind of credibility with putin that if we were to take such action there would be a response? because presumably, he's saying to himself, you know what? they can cancel the g-8 summit in june, what's so much more important to putin is having control over at least the crimea area of the ukraine. >> unfortunately, under international law, the russians don't have that right, it is a violation of international law and everybody knows it. we have been talking since monday when all of this started with all of the officials and interlo interlockutores who tried to make this deal to try to resolve the crisis what happened last weekend and they told us it is this 1994 law that spells it out in black and white enshrined by the united nations, the effort torl integrity must be respected. russia signed it along with the united states. and i know you've been discussing this a lot over the last 24 to 48 hours, and this is because the -- in return, they were guaranteed these protections. at the same

brussels, with the presidents of the european union, talking about what can be done beyond what has already been done, and playing up the unity so far between the united statesnd its european partners. sanctions are already in place against the oligarchs, those close to president putin, talk about more -- sanctions if russia were to try to take over more of ukraine. >> if anyone in the russian leadership thought the world wouldn't care about their actions in ukraine, or that they could drive a wedge between the european union and the united states, they clearly miscalculated. >> russia standings alone, says president obama. the eu is united, nato is united, the g-7 is united in threatening sanctions. at this moment the president set to meet with the nato president to try to reassure many nervous nato allies. the president also taking time to admonish some of the nate toe partners for shortchanging their contribution to nato. also a lot of stress on the energy sector, what energy sanctions against russia could do to european economies. the president trying to reassure europeans and trying to persuade them tody -- to diversify and make more themselves. >> and

days now. >> amy, does he have a point when speaking about the european public and seeing a tougher united states, a tougher european union or is that wishful thinking with the regards that the economic structure of europe and russia co-joined? >> well, depending on the energy in russia is a problem. well, the baltic states and poland have probably much greater cause for anxiety over mr. putin's aggressive moves because they were, the baltic states were part of the soviet union and poland was occupied by the soviets. so their views are a little different than germany, for example. >> to that point, is it not a problem that every time when you hear putin speak you always hear the former kgb colonel, the former member of the old soviet regime and it is hard to differentiate him from the past russian history? >> putin famously said one of the greatest regrets was the disillusion of the soviet union. he takes a very patriotic view of russia. i don't know if you can attribute putin's dislike of the west and his nationalistic tendencies for the fact he worked in the kbg. they particularly intelligence officers had a sophisticat

they have called on the european union and the united states to recognize crimea's right to decide itsel sanford reports. >> reporter: wild scenes in simferopol last night as people who have longed to rejoin russia for almost a quarter century took a huge steps towards their dream. >> we come back to russia. we happy. we all happy. >> reporter: the people here in the center of simferopol have got what they wanted. but how it came back b is going to have a lasting impact on international relations. the referendum produced an overwhelming vote in favor of leaving ukraine and joining russia. although the russian president vladimir putin consists it was consistent with international law, it remains hugely controversial. it was organized in less than a fortnight, while russian troops were already in effective military control of crimea. and it's not recognized by the fledgling government. if they choose to join crimea onto russia they will get sanctions from the european union. the fallout could escalate over the weeks ahead. with pro-russian protesters in mainland ukraine agitating for the

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times, but throughout this process, we've been able to deepen the ties between the european union and the united statesyour leadership, as well as your friendship, and most importantly, for the purposes of the countries we represent here today, your dedication to the transatlantic relationship, so thank you very much. >> thank you for your statement, president obama. >> and there you just heard from president obama, kicking off the press conference over there in brussels. and i want to go to nbc's andrea mitchell, who joins me on set. interesting point before we heard from the president there talking about economic priorities, but that was that poking putin in regards to what happened in the ukraine by sort of dismissing him as a regional power, he still does have a lot of power with countries like syria, countries like iran. that could come back to haunt the u.s. >> the iran negotiations particularly, because that is something the administration hopes will be the real legacy of their foreign policy. syria, arguably, russia has not been cooperating, they've been rearming, but yes, we need russia in a l

but out there this process, we have been able to deepen the ties between the european union and the united states. we have been able to advance the cause of security and human dignity around the world. i'm great for your leadership and friendship, and for the purposes of our countries that we represent here today, your dedication to the transatlantic relationship. so thank you very much. >> thank you for your statement, president obama. now it is time for two questions. >> it is now 9:58 eastern standard time. you are listening to the president speaking live from brussels belgium. they are going to take questions from reporters, each reporter being allowed to ask two questions. let's listen in. >> reporter: -- for the presidents, first on russia and ukraine, given that the u.s. has less to lose from economic sanctions against russia, would it be appropriate to [ inaudible ] support for european allies for example in the realm of energy. second you mentioned the trans-atlantic trade and partnership, a lot of citizens have concerns, their fear that standards for environment protection or consumer p

process we t this have been able to deepen the ties between the european union and the united states. we have been able to advance the cause of security and human dignity around the world. i'm personally grateful to both of you for your leadership as well as your friendship, and most importantly for the purposes of our countries that we represent here today, your dedication to the transatlantic relationship. thank you very much. >> thank you for your statement, president obama. now it is time for and most importantly for the purposes of our countries that we represent here today, your dedication to the transatlantic relationship. thank you very much. >> thank you for your statement, president obama. now it is time for two questions. thank you for your understanding. please state your name before ddressing your question. >> christian, german press agency, d.p.a. good afternoon. i have one question for the president obama, barosso. first on russia and ukraine. given that the u.s. has less to lose from economic sanctions gainst russia, would it be visit support for european allies. for e

i think we have all seen that from the perspective of the european union, the united states, allies like canada and japan, and allies and friends and partners around the world, there is a strong belief that russia's action is violating international law. president putin seems to have a different set of lawyers making a different set of interpretations, but i don't think that is fooling anybody and i think everybody recognizes that although russia has legitimate interests in what happens in a neighboring state, that does not give it the right to use force as a means of exerting influence in that state. we have said if there is any evidence out there that russian speakers or russian natives or russian nationals are in any way being threatened, their ways of dealing with that -- there are ways of dealing with that through international mechanisms. we are prepared to make sure the rights of all ukrainians are upheld. in fact, with the conversations with the government we have had in kiev, they are more than willing to work with your national community and russia to provide such assurances. t

and so it's going to acquire a real symmetry between the european union and the united states. can we agree that there should be no -- there should be a boycott of the g-8 summit in sochi, that russia should be expelled, but more importantly, can we agree on base economic sanctions? i worry about that, larry. you saw today and your program noted it. some europeans are with president obama but the german government is not. and the german government is the most important of the european governments. so job one is really to get a united alliance around these steps to drive up the economic cost to putin. >> but, general, if i may come back to you, what former undersecretary nick burns is saying is there has to be a price when putin starts this adventurous-type policies. you're saying we should let it go? is that what your point was? >> no. i know secretary burns has given this a lot of thought. clearly we need to oppose violation of international law. so there should be a principled political stance by our government that says, this is wrong. and if we have the economic power, euro

the wall so that the reason it exists is that it has become the matriarch while the united states the european union carrying out actions decided by the government and the name of the so called international community and international community which is cool as the activity of the united states and its states. so in a note in my opinion a true is now an on off the american empire has been for a long time ago as you must decide they want who surrounded me. just russia so i think some people will try to include ukraine yes and no consequences begging for the european continent as a whole. when it would be a disastrous decision to be the only trophy and commenced it was also the result is a man in eastern ukraine decided to go to two hundred rejections so with the help most were from the ukraine and that would create a new cold war and a hero. jason once again. it's not in the interests of the united states the european union and i would be interested to see what the rules that say about that. the boys in the interests of low pressure so it's a crazy driver and it's open to meet the doctor broke into

really since the end of the soviet union seen ukraine as the frontier of the two expansion be the stabilization began at the behest of the united states the european union and nato the united nations russian ambassador made an appeal from victory and called it's still officially ukraine's president to put in to get involved. i appeal to the president of russia lead in the region. do you say armed forces of the russian federation to establish the rule of law peace or stability and to protect the people of ukraine you don't know where each march and won. most often fourteen despite this the west continues to push for interpretive dance. otherwise it is a violation of international law and a violation. the integrity of the independent nation of ukraine with the media forming opinion the crisis has largely turned into a propaganda war and independent journalists continue to report that there is no evidence of violence against russian or pro russian communities have the impression that ms power is that they using the information from us tv that he got turned upside down by the western media boston never said it wanted a war with ukraine where that is g

ukraine, the european union and the united states denounced the latest developments as violation of ukrainiannd international law. e.u. announced travel and financial sanctions on 21 russian and ukrainian officials. president obama followed suite, ordering a freeze of u.s. assets of seven russian or allied officials, expanding a march 6 order targetting pro-russian ukrainian politicianses. sergey aksyanov is among them and deputy premier dmitry rogozin, the latter moging the move in a tweet asking "comraid obama, what will you do with those with neither accounts or property abroad or didn't you think of that." >> others mocked the sanctions as a pinprick, doing little to deter russia's intervention. vladimir putin officially recognised crimea's independence declaration this evening. but russians are not impervious to sanctions. the russian ruble looked at the dollar, russia analysis forecast a recession, if the west enacted wider sanctions. they will not work without a united front on both sides of the atlantic. economic powerhouse germany depends on russia for 40% of its natural gas supplies

secretary of state john kerry and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov are scheduled to meet them the fourteenth of march and monday with international standoff in crimea european union and the united states has rejected the cranny a referendum as illegitimate new new. mr leach a sixty five year old czech catholic priests has been awarded the twenty fourteen in templeton prize for his efforts to affirm and the spiritual dimensions of life. leach who worked underground to promote democracy and morality in communist czechoslovakia use the advanced to criticize blood in your country and erection orthodox church over the situation in ukraine. on this one this time of year and i'm just going to mow grass and even as you can be no one is that the occupation and i don't miss the weekend for a kgb agent. also does all the action. it's the hidden dreams. this also happened to you. who knew him we are. decided i'm going to criticize to russian orthodox church which he can constitute an axis of former kgb man who rose to power in the late nineteen nineties some more. and yes these the leaves. what is the creepy side. it is. since nineteen eighty nine copycat pursued his mission a dialogue wit

both the european union and the united states imposed sanctions on russia and its officials connected with the move to annex crimea. vice president biden flew to europe to meet with nato allies about this very tense situation, you see members of russian parliament there shaking hands as they leave the room, putin had also told the people that the west had cheated russia, the west crossed the line on ukraine and interesting to note president obama used similar language yesterday in his speech saying that russia has crossed a line on ukraine. we just saw russian president putin wrap up there so of course we'll bring you much more on what he had to say in the next half hour. >> amazing to see those live pictures. thank you so much. >> 5:02, new this morning firefighters battle add one-alarm fire early this morning at an old u.s. navy building minutes from the vallejo yacht club. firefighters arrived after midnight finding five homeless people inside. seven others had taken off before crews arrived no. injuries reported and the cause is under investigation. >> police are looking for a sus

said that in fact european economy is much more linked to russia, and russia to the european union than the united states. and russias are much more looking to europe also because they are traveling more here and so on. that's precisely why one measure in europe that may appear not so ambitious as an american one has at least the same effect, because our trade with russia is comparable with what the united states has with japan, for instance. so we are preparing the necessary measures in a determined way, of course consulting with our american partners and friends. what is important as i just said is that we make sure that an acceptable action will bare very serious consequences. and so far this has been a message that has been passed clearly to the russian leadership. and once again, the problem is not a competition between the united states and europe about sake shuns -- >> you are listening right now to the president of the european union. before he spoke you heard from the president of the european council, all of them speaking with president obama from brussels, belgium. mike viqueira has been trave

from the pertive of the european union, the united states, allies like canada and japan, and friendsnd partners around the word, there is a strong belief that russia esa action is violating international law. i think everyone recognizes that although russia has legitimate interests, in what happens in neighboring state that does not give it the right to use force as a means of exerting influence inside of that state. >> it is a given it will go to ukraine or may that be difficult. >> yeah, we think john kerry may have misspoken in his speech. he said it has already been appropriated. as far as we have been cold, they still have to go through congress to get this billion dollars loan guarantee. there is a lot of support there in congress, for helping ukraine, less support, though, for having an enormous show down with russia on trade, on serving no support or very little support i would imagine for any kind of military intervention. mrs. a sense that look, there isn't much point in the u.s. having some huge trade war with russia, when the trade council so little between the u.s. and r

wish list with regard to national security that she would put to the united --tes and the european union you would put to the united states and the european union? >> on our ability to provide water and electricity to crimea, i want to be very clear that crimea is a part of ukraine. we will do everything in order to deliver food, water, electricity to our people. this is our territory. they are our citizens. on the european side, we expect that on the 21st, the ukraine is to sign a political part of the association agreement. this is the vest reply and answer. for what answer -- contribution the eu could make. -- this would still essentially support the ukrainian economy. the vest way to reform the country is to stick to the agreement and execute everything in the deal. what -- western, undertakewe need to and acted boldly, wisely, and strongly. tools that are acceptable to tackle this crisis. country.is a powerful unity and canrong and will, i believe, do everything to preserve ukraine and ukrainian independence. ukrainebe happy in case could handle this crisis. again, i want to be open and frank. and donot as powerful n

to make some progress and start getting the architecture of this deal between the european yun union and the united states, at the same time, politically, the white house knows it can't be pushing this trade agenda too hard because it will divide the democratic party in an important midterm election. it is complicated. the white house is hoping to convince skeptical europeans to do this deal with the united states, particularly at a time it's clear relationships with russia isn't going to be good. the european economy, intertwined with russia. the united states making a case, hey, you need to intertwine more with the united states. >> chuck todd, thank you very much. a lot to cover and wide ranging subjects. >>> coming up, one senate candidate's pretty surprising warning to d.c. politicians. warning to d.c. politicians. >> across america, people are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes... ...with non-insulin victoza. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar, but it didn't get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza. he said victoza works differently than pills, and comes in a pen. an