leland vitter streaming live with the latest. leland? >> reporter: and at this hour, that unrest in odessa continues and it's really important to look at it in the larger scale, odessa is it 500 miles, now spreading south and west after it started into this very key pro city. those pro russian separatist went to the -- who had been involved in friday's violence. they got it. there is a new police chief in town that is now trying to calm the situation, but now we hear there is a pro ukrainian crowd. ukrainians haven't been able to do much about it. we saw yesterday the video of those armored personnel carriers -- today they moved out. they appeared to be outdunned and outmaneuvered by the pro russian separatist. just to give you an idea of how the numbers are shaping up hire. they have managed to take back just three buildings that the separatist have taken over. on the other side, the pro russian accept it is attacks have taken over 20 additional buildings than the one they had. and the numbers on the microview really tell the story. obv

lee land visit -- leland vitter is live in ukraine. >> the latest acts of violence now really provesent's policy of containment has not worked in order to try to get handle on this separatist movement. want to show you a map. the latest clashes that ended up with dozens of people dead in a fire happened in the town of odessa, on the black sea there. a long away, also a key ukrainian port city the. that the government relies on heavily large-scale clashes in the street there today. on friday, running street battles between the pro-ukrainian group and the pro-russian separatist group that happened just a couple ours after the ukrainian military launched a major assault on the separatist stronghold. they were able to move armored personnel carriers in and take over a couple of checkpoints but fizzled by evening. the question going forward is what is russia going to do. they came out swinging diplomatically. what do they do with 40,000 troops on the ukrainian border, just waiting the order to invade. >> let's bring in michael sing, managing director of washington institute. special assis

and for more on what he is expected to see and do and meet, leland vitter, streaming live now from amman, jordan, with the latest on the pontiff's trip. leland? >> reporter: hi, eric. even on the first day here in jordan, the pontiff keeping a very busy schedule, bringing that message of peace here to a region that really has anything but right now going on. the pontiff arrived at the international airport in amman, greeted to a rock star welcome, crowds lined as he made his way to the king's palace, where he had a private meeting with the king there. and then held a large, open-air mass not only for jordanian christians, but also iraqi refugees, syrian refugees, palestinians were there, and that's where he made those remarks about the need to end the syrian civil war and also thanked the jordanians for bringing in so many syrian refugees. it had been a real strain on the government here. the other message that the pope is bringing is one of religious freedom. remember here in jordan, at least, 90-plus percent of the population is muslim. there is a christian minority here, and he talked