for more on the ground, two reports from british partners itn. the first from crimea. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the priest approached with a cross. the russian troops that arrived overnight, they were lined up on the hill where ukrainian forces normally train. come here, he cried, so they came forward hoping for blessing. what an extraordinary sight. an orthodox priest blessing the troops. it's happening just in a field outside. it's not as it seems, the priest is praying for peace, for russian troops to stand down, not to occupy his village. >> we, the wives and mothers, who protect our sons and fathers serving in the military, we pray for our ukrainian soldiers during military service. if they are peacekeepers why did they come armed. >> reporter: they were heavily armed to take up position around the ukrainian marine base. what looked like russian special forces, no insignia but carrying weapons with silencers start at the gate. the ukrainian flag still flew. the ukrainian marines presumably trapped inside. to local people it was bewildering. >> russia

he is there with an itn journalist, one of our affiliates, a british network. so currently in this cafe, armed men, not letting them leave. the itn journalist, he is tweeting in real-time, saying that they are not hurt. they remain unharmed. they are being held against their will. we understand that mr. serry, who is from the netherlands, had been speaking to a naval commander a little bit earlier. the u.n. has come out and said that he has not been kidnapped, but certainly according to these tweets from this itn journalist with mr. serry, they are being held against their will in a cafe, not very far from where we are. ashleigh. >> well, i don't know what the definition of kidnapping is over there, but i will tell you, the definition under u.s. law of kidnapping is being blocked from moving. in fact, o.j. simpson was convicted of something similar in a hotel room. so if they are not able to leave that cafe, are there threats going outside? are there demands being made from these armed men? what exactly do we know as the reason why they can't leave? >> reporter

eastern portion of ukraine bordering russia, where there is a large russian-speaking population, as itn'sohn irvine reports, pro-russian demonstrators were already out in support today. >> reporter: as russians in crimea said good-bye to ukraine in writing, their pro-russian brethren here in donesk showed their desire to follow suit by attacking symbols of eye cranian authorities. empowered by the presence of the russian army just over the nearby border, besieged the office of the public prosecutor. ukrainian riot police were soon overwhelmed. the officers may have been dressed for a fight, but they wouldn't. this is a difficult situation for these ukrainian police officers. to some extent, they have to tolerate these protests because they are fully aware that the kremlin is watching developments here very closely. . eventually this little piece of ukrainian rule was overwhelmed by russia's influence. they have a taste for it now and another target, the headquarters of the ukrainian security services. the building appeared to be well defended, but again, these were riot police reduced to

has been chronicled by our international partner, itn. a woman named joanne miln who was deaf from birth is shown hearing sounds for the first time thanks to cochlear implants. >> could you hear those words? >> yes, yes. >> because she longed to hear music, her best friend made her a play list of great music she needed to hear right away. starting with john lennon's "imagine." there is also some mccartney, bruce, prince, elo, fleetwood mac, steely dan. now she has time to make up for lost time. he is now making her a mix of christmas music because to date she has never heard a christmas song. >>> when we come back, those who are making a difference in a real time of need. >>> our making a difference report tonight comes from washington state, the scene of so much tragedy this past week, but like so much of the bad that we have to witness, like so many of the awful events we have to cover and the stories we must tell, great people have come forward, and they have performed great deeds. their stories tonight from nbc's joe fryer. >> peas, c

nbc's partner itn jays mace was there. >> he and his female assistant were very frightened, asked us to stay and keep filming while they phoned frantically to new york and kiev, local officials trying to get rescued. >> reporter: last week, serry was blocked from getting to crimea in time to see the russian troops getting today, only hours after finally getting there, he was forced out, his mission not accomplished. >> my car was blocked, and i -- and somebody, who did not identify himself, was telling me that he had orders to bring me immediately to the airport. >> reporter: serry did get out safely, but the incident added more pressure on crisis meetings in paris. >> we saw what happened today with special envoy serry just how important it is to ensure the safety of those monitors. >> reporter: here in paris, secretary kerry is trying to rally the allies to be tougher against vladimir putin, but first they have to figure out what is putin up, just what is his end game. kerry tried to get answers today from putin's foreign minister, sergei lavrov, but lavrov refused to meet with ukr

she is on itn use. and speaking of ex gays korea is also making headway and another free trade pacts this one with the if not a fourth round of free trade talks between korea and vietnam kicks off on wednesday in coaching the city. the two sides are expected to hold discussions on various areas including products services and investment. the talks are scheduled to run through this friday. negotiations for the bilateral fta were launched in september two thousand while vietnam is korea's second largest trading partner among aussie and nations. the vice foreign ministers of korea and japan will meet for talks in seoul on wednesday on security and bilateral issues for the first time in the months are also he says no one is holding out much hope for godiva. and its towering heights between south korea and japan japanese vice foreign minister pak shakira arriving so late tuesday for talks with the south korean counterpart to appeal wednesday's talks will be the first vice minister level meeting between the t

so decide itn news. the stories making headlines on the global front of the discovery of more possible debris from the missing elation airliner the latest report on the rising number of executions in the world to collide for poly at the new center all its star with the new developments in the search for the wreckage from malaysia airlines flight from seventy what's the latest in the investigation. well time satellite images have found three hundred footy on jason the southern indian ocean near the remote area where international contingent of aircraft and ships had been searching for pieces of the boeing triple seven according to the geo informatics and space technology to build an agency beyond tax rate from two to fifteen meters in size. there are scattered over an area located about twenty seven hundred km southwest of australia. if confirmed it would be the largest potential debris field yet spotted by satellites supporting earlier french images of the possible crash site. the director of agency told

you see on itn news. could a resolution to a nationwide doctor strike in the making. just hours after prime minister chung one proposed talks on ending the dispute by march twenty of the medical community said wednesday evening that they were open to the idea the green medical association upset over government reforms says the measures will eventually lead to private a station of the medical sector and the staged a one day strike on monday and plans a six day strike beginning on march twenty fourth. that second walkout stance to be larger than the first day of rest and staff at seoul national university hospital in austin medical center announced they would be participating the core from the asian development bank's out a significant jump in inequality across a show with south korea income disparity ranking fifth among twenty eight two nations over the last two decades. for more on the widening gap between the rich and four we bring in dr a fortune on professor of graduate school of international studies at the well women's university great for you to be joining us to

itn news. and following a series of security breaches by financial institutions in the country that government has unveiled a set of preventive measures include tougher punitive actions to the improvement in the data management system but are nine and young tells us whether this will be enough to keep our identity said from the latter half of this year. financial institutions will only be able to ask for customers visited base station numbers and e michelle applications age after that people will not be asked to provide their registration numbers but instead he asked if they find their identity to others seek the means. the registration numbers have been at the center of the recent series of high level presto information security breaches and took the years is a key part of the package unveiled by the government on monday to fight mike spent weeks of personal data. financial institutions will also not be allowed to keep collecting information for more than five years after the final transaction

but my point is that there is a lack of inter inter great in integration, itn aggressive pack of people. middle america who hates hollywood and some conservative groups that hate progressive ideas, big hollywood. i am sure that someone of them are happy to hear they don't practice what they preach when it comes to integration, when it comes to being inclusive. they can see some results from some movies and they will do what they see makes money, but they don't understand how to integrate properly. and that's okay. i mean, they are people who are -- but it's also an infrastructure, the black agent represents the black guys and he's segregated from -- you know, it's a very lily white executive field. and although they may be progressive, you know, hollywood itself, if you live there you are the black only one, they live in a very segregated environment. we have to push the people that tell the stor stories to help make america better not are it beingk play what we can do. >> more with russell simmons on "talk to aljazeera" in a minute. the most important money stories of the day might eff

itn news. a christian missionary from australia who had been detained in north korea for around two weeks is a free man today. the north's official korean central news agency says to retain the least seventy five year old son to work in consideration of his age and because they say he apologized for violating north korean moms are left free trip to north korea last month and was arrested after officials found christian pamphlets in the korean language in his luggage. his tally to write the beijing airport monday morning was picked up by the australian embassy without making any comments. and that's here in the south president happen hence as prohibition of the unified korea will go beyond overcoming division will aim to trading in future for the peninsula north east asia and the word present i've made the comments and the asian leadership conference in seoul on monday where she also added that there would be no fear of war a war nuclear threats in a unified korea. the rather freedom and peace f

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this, itn cases like is the prosecution working with the victim's family who want to seek justice and on the same page. this is very unusual. to get his voice heard, he had to hire an outside lawyer. that lawyer presented an argument to the judge he should be allowed to say to the jury, i oppose the death sentence for this man who killed my son. the judge recently said, in fact , you cannot do that. the judge gave reasons that relied on another case out of oklahoma. butn talk more about that, what is interesting about colorado's law is in 1990 today voted 80% of voters to amend the constitution to let victims like bob say their piece in court in a victim's statement. they to find victims as any natural person against whom a crime has been perpetrated or attempted or if the person is dead, their lawful are presented of like while. -- their lawful representative like bob. the victim can inform the district attorney and the court .n writing here you have a judge saying in fact he is not good to be allowed to testify. it is very unusual. comparing to other laws around the country, in new

i love itn they turn from pop stars for generations and do a young person's son. >> i'd like to hearim do the falsetto in "staying alive." >> of course you would. >>> dylan is outside for a check on the rest of the country's forecast. >> not bad out here. i love this. i am tired of snow. i think that sums up how everyone is feeling. we're tired of the cold too. we'll still see more of that. out in california finally getting a break in southern california. we are looking for temperatures in the upper midwest to feel like about 20 to 40 below zero. enough with the cold already. >>> and we're seeing mostly cloudy skies and a chance at least of seeing some sprinkles or some light showers. seeing some of that in the santa cruz mountains and a few sprinkles around san jose. mostly cloudy skies to start the morning and then some clearing towards the late afternoon and evening. but you can see another relatively weak system coming in that will bring at least the chance of some light rain at times, especially around the hilltops. we'll see highs in the low 60s around san jose, upper 50s close

we have embedded the social network so that all the photos and videos they get into the network are itned into videos and inputs into the first of its kind. does that make dollar signs? >> when it comes to valuations, people see it differently and the values that you can bring to companies like facebook and other giants in the market depend on how you can increase the row you. that is how we think. the services can increase the quality of every type of media that arty streams on a social network and video site. i think that this sets a high bar that is achievable. >> in terms of where this is asng in our profession journalists, we spend a lot of time as editors. will your software do the job for us? >> i do not think that is the case. thean start taking over the loan consumer movie. editing millions and millions of movies that are not being edited. and itnot doing anything is a sad state. we are changing that. >> the ceo and the founder. thank you for joining us. it is good to know that we are not out of a job yet. >> all right. i do so much for the very latest from tel aviv. let's go bac

itn though fun fact, when started in 1937, it was fragrances for women and men in all four men.cial got 48 million views. some of the people watching it were obviously women and not just men. when they were starting with the marketing campaign, women became aware of it and even one woman has a facebook page, old spice for women. she says it smells good and she was looking for a deodorant and not in ansi per sprint, at a recent price that smelled good. they have it. she said it is a simple appeal. we do not have exact numbers on old spice but we know they are expanding the brand to hair products beyond deodorant and soap. is selling even though overall the beauty products division has been struggling somewhat. that makes them about 1/5 of the business. it does not explicitly reach out to women with this but it does discourage them from spending their money and buying the product either. class is there a risk here? to try to cater a little bit to women? >> there are potential risks we have seen in past products. one harvard business school professor calls it gender contamination.

. -- is itn a second fair that we would say bill eichmann is the only one using these aggressive lobbyingtics -- is it fair to say is the only one using these aggressive lobbying tactics? >> these activists are very tough. they have made their success by being very tough and very tenacious and using the media to make an attack to get a lot of publicity. you are not hearing a lot from other shareholders. i did see one of the happy shareholders at ebay who has been in the stock for five years saying, look, we made a lot of money and where were you? if i were a big shareholder -- i wish i bought into that stock five years ago. at that kind of increase, it is pretty remarkable. i would be very happy and would be looking for ways to keep that going forward. >> you brought up the example of herbalife and bill ackman. right now herbalife stock has done great cents bill ac -- has bill made hisce short position. what if they uncover evidence of a pyramid scheme? all those shareholders who feel good about the fact that the stock is doing well will not feel so good under those circumstances. then ho

. -- and itn old evolved philosophies about the world and struggle for men's minds.this is not the kind of thing. this is much more practical. i think what has been read was very interesting because, if there is anything that makes confused reading, it is the history of ukraine and russia. the first state of russia called bruce -- called russ had its capital in kiev in the 10th century and they were driven up into the forest by the mongrels of asia who did not like treaties and went after them. since then the mother has been a different relationship with then any other part of russia or the soviet union. so i would say this is new. i think some of the things that our -- i learned a lot about putin in- what he said in the last few days. person, a different very different person from gorbachev or from khrushchev. outlook ofthe someone who was kgb and who saw the soviet union collapsed. venoma person full of because he thought that that oflapse was taken advantage by the west, especially by the united states. to humiliate russia. of course, to take advantage of russia.

the exchanges are financially solid and stable and do not go into a debt spiral where only the sick itn up and the healthy think is too expensive. we will have the individual mandate. i do not see a suspension of that. host: another headline that broke last night. health insurance regulator gary cohen set to resign. he testified on capitol hill about the rollout of healthcare.gov. health insurance regulator was accused by congressional republicans of misleading them before the start of the insurance website. director iwn as the center for consumer information and insurance oversight. the website, the exchange -- it is more like an e-commerce site like amazon. it needs to be run like that. you need a ceo type figure who can get up every morning and focus on what is best for the customer, how to get more organize in, how to and regulate the product being sold. that person needs to be in charge. successful again, as exchanges at the state level, they cap typically been run by someone who is a former insurance executive or someone who has got experience running a previous exchange. that is

so what is the air force doing to address a specialized itn cyber acquisition needs? what are the service's long-term plans to make sure that the air force is an imposition to rapidly assess needs and it feels systems to meet the lynyrd requirements? >> i will begin with a philosophical comment. i agree that we have to focus on more rapidly delivering ability to the field. we did this during the urgency of a wartime environment, and i do not want to see us to leave return to the ways of the past where all of our programs take a very deliberative and long-term to get going. we have pockets within the department of defense. these pockets have to compete for those scarce resources along with everything else, but i am personally interested in working on this issue and trying to get our s&p levels as a subset of that back up to where i think is more a couple. >> i think you know the important issue given the time frame that some of this now requires, by the time yet gone to a certain place is obsolete. does not serve us in the country i don't know if you want to comment. >

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