seven pts place which is one point lower than last year it was the nicest country to discuss but if mr crean. you can find one in jails and a website thursday to calm my name is indelibly hancock stay with us you are in article five commitment to the security of our nato allies including a german aircraft joining nato patrols over the baltic sea. we nodded in our support for ukraine including the very important. imf program for this week to help ukraine stabilize and reform its economy. and as ukrainian forces moved to restore order in eastern ukraine. it is obvious to the world of these russian backed groups are not peaceful protesters. there we are militants. four received significant support from russia russian leadership must know that if it continues to de stabilize eastern ukraine. and disrupt this month's presidential election we will move quickly on additional steps. me on tuesday night dustin and i know. what if it is a key link in the ukraine ukraine on the basis of self determination and commentaries as the bridge they were still learning to use the twentieth of may it's a very cr

through the door with the google local cooking done it right and i just got in years past but if mr crean you can find more details at the buttocks a pristine dot com. my name's am in the kelantan which is daily can buy. thank you to try to up its wonderful treat to be back at the crisis media center. let me say at the top of how proud i am of our affiliation with the center but also how important it is that the center has developed a way that says a voice for authoritative information on engaging with all the crying and all ukrainians in multiple languages especially with this one is particularly important. i thought i could it's been a couple of weeks since i've been here all about this so i thought i could do is offer some quick opening remarks of a few issues on my mind on this afternoon and then take questions whatever direction would be most useful to everybody. let me start with a couple of quick remarks about the issues of the day i just know how truly disgusted i was up by the events yesterday internet's of the really brutal attacks the violent attacks on women and children and e

mr crean is heaven. ieee you know when i first read about that question. it was his report in the russian press my side and the quest awarding the question is relevant effectively i don't even really think they knew what that meant when they when they wrote the question to be honest on its interpretation on the ground. the man on the street. ahmed people were gathered. you know the people who are the most zealous about his cause to them is tantamount to essentially showing russia now it's true it is not ready to an ex this is not an exact parallel with the crimea scenario and on like randy out one key difference with this referendum is russia is not recognizing delete it in a sea of this referendum as we've seen putin has been trying to distance himself from the referendum but that said the people that we spoke to the people we report what they want absolutely nothing to do with this government in kiev it's not a question at tss it offering greater autonomy to offering the possibility for constitutional reform its offering them the ability to look to elect

country it's a disastrous policy and it will only solidify opposition to kiev and to the west throw mr crean the west has its hands all over the us they don't really care about the interest of the ukrainian people they care more about their geopolitical interests which are to isolate russia to try to weaken russia which is imagine every year as a strategic and economic rival to the west and to extend need to up to russia's borders and of course this is again is folly if they do not reign that brain back from this disastrous policy then the country is headed for a fool on civil war if it's not there already. reacting to events in eastern ukraine russian president vladimir putin called for an immediate halt to the military operation while foreign minister lavrov says it's in ukraine's interests to end the violence. here should do what it's calling on others to do start fulfilling the geneva agreements and follow the road map to won't be welcome in donbass if he carries on it was a military operation that's if poroshenko acts in the interests of ukrainians he will find a reliable partner in mos

sanctions if you crean's upcoming presidential election doesn't go ahead as planned earlier my colleague rory sushi he got an update from marty's peter oliver in berlin. and we heard from mr steinmeier who said that we shouldn't be looking for further sanctions we should be looking for cooperation with russia in order to find a solution to what's going on in ukraine that's been echoed by well the elder statesman of german politics former chancellor helmut schmidt the ninety five year old famed back in the day for his his chain smoking on t.v. he said that we should be not looking to persecute russia but looking to work with russia and allow russia to look after its own security interests without any pressure being put on there and peter called i wish you got quite a welcome in berlin this we didn't see. well yes there's a lot of anger here in berlin what we've seen of people opposing what they see as as nazi elements as extreme far right elements in those who've taken control of this but it's not just those people doing angela merkel if she takes the stage it's also the business leaders of germany you know the real see if it is here have been coming out and giving a serie