pals for the big federal case, and then your old neo nazi pals you just ratted out won the case. and that happened to guy. when the order was robbing banks and robbing armored cars to raise money for the neo nazi movement, they gave some of that money to groups like the arian nations, they also gave some of that money to a group called the white patriot party. the guy who founded the white patriot party got flipped by the fbi, and in exchange for a more lenient sentence for himself, he testified against everybody else in that indictment. he explained how he had been given $200,000 in stolen money from the guy who founded the order. and he testified about what he knew about other white supremacist groups getting money from the order as well. and when the case collapsed and all these guys were acquitted, here's this guy, who had testified against everybody else in the neo nazi movement in open court. he had founded the white patriots party in carolina, he had founded the california nights of the ku klux klan. but after that trial and after him turning state's evidence and ratting o

>> well, he is incredibly violent, and scary, and former clansman and neo-nazi, and we tangled with glenn miller in a serious way back in the 1980s. we sued the original group the carolina group of the ku klux klan and he then later broke the consent agreement that we reached with him. he went on the lam and became a fugitive after the feds discovered that he was amassing wep papons stolen from the miliy and he was planning to assassinate the founder of the poverty law center morris dees. >> the fbi is involved and it is being investigated as a hate i crime. and the president addressed it this morning at the prayer visit. >> this morning our prayers are with the people in overland park, and we are still learning the details, but this much we know. a gunman opened up fire at two jewish facilities, a community center and a retirement home. innocent people were killed. their families were devastated, and this violence has struck at the heart of the jewish community in kansas city. two of the victims a grandfather and his teenaged son attended the united methodist church of the resurrection w

and then the sikh killing in minneapolis, where the guy that did the killing was a hardcore neo-naziuy. these people are frustrated. political individuals in our country are frustrating them today, and they're obsessed against jews. they think jews are taking control of our government. they see obama as a pawn of the jews. what's ironic is miller here, trying to go after jews, killed two methodists and a catholic. >> senseless in any case. >> thank you so much for your time. >> you're more than welcome. thank you. >>> coming up, the republican s freedom summit in new hampshire. we're playing sound from donald trump. that, plus a conversation with one of the most well connected gop king operatives out there, steve schmidt is ahead. our advanced treatment helps keep highlights and lowlights shiny and luminous. cc cream, find it in every box of nice 'n easy. the most natural shade of you. in every box of niit says here that a woman's sex drive. increases at the age of 80. helps reduce the risk of heart disease. it seems that 80 is the new 18. grannies, bless your heart, you are bringing

we've seen the situation where the guy was a member of a neo nazi group that shot up a jewish group ins angeles. and we saw the guard killed at the holy cross center by a guy that was ha miller type. ch and then the killing in minneapolis, where the guy that did the killing was a hardcore neo nazi guy. these people are frustrated. political indivisions in our country are frustrating them today, and they're obsessed against jews. they think jews are taking krei control of our government. they see obama as a pawn of the jews. what's ironic is miller here, trying to go after jews, killed two methodists and a catholic. >> senseless in any case. >> thank you so much for your time. >> you're more than welcome. thank you. >> coming up, the republicans freedom summit in new hampshire. we're playing sfround donald trump. ch that, plus a conversation with one of the most well connected gop king operatives out there, steve schmidt is ahead. he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee s

recently received from slovyansk members of this subject dance unit claim they were attacked by neo nazi radicals they strip missed open fire killing one person and we've spoken on the phone with an activist from sloviansk told us that the atmosphere in the city is very tense. this morning i didn't manage to get to work because traffic is paralyzed as this city is sealed else military how the cultures are flying overhead here spreading panic among the people there are some shots early in the morning it sounded like. fireworks but no fireworks take place at nine am on the t.v. they have urged people to stay indoors because the security operation was launched . in while earlier pictures show a barricade built by protesters on a main road into the city that was set on fire as they try to hold back special forces and these are the pictures of armored vehicles converging on slow basket helicopter was also seen flying a bobsleigh bound and is thought to be carrying weapons journalist graham phillips is a slow balance where he says citizens are bracing themselves for a larger scale violence. in

it is run by another all-time neo-nazi. he is the guy who writes the ary an alternative that miller published. >> i want to ask about the nevada rancher who is declaring victory after hundreds of armed supporters backed his standoff with the federal government, the bureau of land management began seizing his cattle this month, saying he owed more than one lane dollars in fees for grazing his cattle on federally controlled land. bundy refused to comply, saying he doesn't recognize the federal government and hundreds of people from right-wing antigovernment, and pro-gun groups, flocked to his side. this past weekend, they shut down interstate 15, leading to a standoff that ended with the government backing down and releasing the seized cattle. cliven bundy appeared on fox news on monday. >> do you think they really have taken it over? i don't think so. they might have taken over clark county sheriff, but they never took over week, the people, the sovereign people of this nation. we are standing and we are going to stand until

he's a german spy, something to that effect, he's a pediatric surgeon, attacked by neo-nazis, he couldan attacked by ukrainian nazis. this is all there. i tell you, i was there in 1968, a teenager in moscow, and i don't recall the level of propaganda reaching this amount of frenzy and brazenness and hysteria. for example, no used, you know, a term for forced sexual intercourse to describe u.s. policy, putin did on march 18th. >> obviously, every country uses propaganda. the united states government uses propaganda. what's the difference between what our government does or has done historically and what putin's government is do? is it working, do you think? >> the basic difference is the u.s. government, i remember i used to do a show in russia for the voice of america, you know that the voice of america is not allowed to broadcast in the united states? because it was considered by congress too dangerous and it was licensed only to do it outside. well, flip it around. there are no television channels from where russians take 95% of its news, no television channels that are either not di

he says uttering neo-nazi slurs to people, and then shooting them.s hurt, everyone involved, is it all in the same part of the community center, rabbi? >> no, no, no. two at the jewish community center, and then he traveled about a mile to a jewish retirement home, village shalom, the third individual shot and killed. two different shooting scenes a mile apart. he then took off, and was arrested about a mile away, parking lot of an elementary school. all in overland park. >> i am getting this information, as you're telling me here. yeah. so, there were teenagers at this community center when this happened? >> correct. an audition for a play going on at the time. i know at least one of the deceased is a teenage male. >> and this is the eve of passover. >> yes, tomorrow night's passover. >> we'll continue to follow that breaking news coming out of the kansas city area. >>> coming up on cnn, a congressman back from a trip to ukraine, he says u.s. and international community needs to do a whole lot more. how can you just stand there? what do you mean? yo

he's an incredibly violent, scary, former klansman and neo-nazi. >> victims include dr. william lewis corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, an eagle scout. police just oitded terry lamano. described as a loving mother and wife. cross shot and killed a woman outside of a retirement community a few blocks away. i'm joined by nbc's justice correspondent pete williams. what new information did we learn from the news conference that just closed? >> both the state and federal authorities will pursue charges here. the state has already filed charges of premeditated first degree murder and now we know the federal government will file charges of its own. everybody is calling these hate crimes of something of a misnomer. they charge him under federal civil rights law and people tend to think of hate crimes as the shepherd bird act which was recently passed by congress. but there are longstanding civil rights laws that provide the death penalty if death results from someone who tries to interfere with people either carrying out federally protected rights and going to church would

he was much more of a neo-nazi than a clansman.something called "the turner diaries," a racist war novel, also the blueprint of the oklahoma city bombing, which left 168 people killed. you know, he's quite, quite an antisemimite and it's just an incredibly horrible thing. >> not just antiseminite, racist, as well, and a neo-nazi. when i heard about it yesterday, the first thing i remember is in 2009 when another white supremacist went to the holocaust memorial museum in washington, d.c. and ended up shooting an african-american security guard there. you remember that. the question is, how prevalent are these kinds of incidents? >> well, they are -- they are all too common, i'm afraid. it's difficult to know how many white supremacists are out there. miller posted on a site called vanguard news network that has thousands and thousands of disenchanted people who participate. there's another site called "storm front," which has over a quarter million registered users, people in an echo chamber of hate. this is a magnet for white supre

heart of london's jewish community and the clothes sold in this recently opened shop a favorite of neo nazis. thought it was banned outright in germany in two thousand and four because its logo looked too much like the symbols worn by the nazi s.s. the company's rebranded but that hasn't shaken off the association with the far right two years ago the label opened a shop in germany called brevik and was accused of naming it after a far right mass murderer anders behring breivik the arrival of this london store was welcomed on the white power website stormfront users wrote derogatory comments about jewish people in the same thread. they are fascist outlets who are kissing our outfit in riding clothes for the fascists in germany and elsewhere in europe they're part of a violent racist movement that is out to divide people. do you case chief rabbi lives away from the new store there's a mosque near by locals a concern that rightwing supporters will visit the shop and inflame tensions within this community so they're calling for the store to be boycotted. why should some is not fashionable right

group which was at the forefront of february's bloody coup in kiev its members are frank about the neo nazi ideology right sector leaders and know from making controversial statements including calls to join forces with chechen terrorists to launch attacks here on russia and also threats to blow up gas pipelines use for transfer to europe and it's threats like these that led people in the first place to take action that's what r.t.d. has been finding out. we're now in solid would cease to be the den that's correctional ministration hand what has become recently the santos and to hear the protests this is where those who did not make a noise the country's new authorities gathered and this is from where they fled the creation of the nets people's independent republic this republic has its own forces aimed at protecting that there must men that we can see here and that they mostly formed from simple volunteers but there are also police and army defectors among them must. descend model land from the freshest army that's going to kill us this is also what happened in the original capital all of

most recently a fatal event as you know at the holocaust museum, along to neo-nazi killed a security guard there. there are plots that came up, these were the fatal ones over the last 20 years. we have seen repetition rare. this is certainly the one that has produced the most bloodshed. this guy has a long record as a militant and a dangerous white supremicist. according to the law center, starting in the 1980s, he was the founder and grand founder of the caroliner knights, founded the white patriot party, convicted to create the southland. he game a fugitive, served three years in federal prison, ran for congress in 2006 and the senate in 2010 from his rural missouri home. >> he had seven votes. >> he was an important figure in the movement. >> he was, and arguably his - his allegiance to the movement could go back to the childhood. he was in the nazi group and was kicked out of the army where he did two stints due to hate activities. he's been involved in the hate movement for some kind, and in a battle with communists in greens bro north carolina, that ended up leaving five dead.

he says uttering neo-nazi slurs to people and then shooting them. is everyone that was hurt, is it all in the same part of the community center, rabbi? >> no, no, no. two at the jewish community center and traveled about a mile to the jewish retirement home where the third individual was shot and then killed. two different shooting scenes about a mile apart. >> gotcha. >> he took off and arrested a mile away and parking lot of an elementary school. all in overland park. >> okay. i'm -- again, just getting this information as you're telling me here. so there were tarchs at this community center when this happened. >> correct. there was an audition for a play going on at the time and i know at least one of the deceased is a teenage male. >> and this is the eve of passover? >> yes. tomorrow night's passover. >> yeah. what -- you know, it's just very strange that this would happen, and obviously, i don't know if it's -- if the passover holiday has anything to do with it but for someone running through the center and back to the retirement home or to the

group which is gaining momentum cheering the unrest in ukraine well it's it's notorious for its neo nazi ideology and its violent actions. we demand immediate resignation of the minister of internal affairs our cinemark of i will hang the interior minister of like a dog. the jesus who is going to go up. there i don't know. god. i was. going to prove you know what was in there being. liberated but as you can clearly see that these are aggressive and dangerous people would soaking about and to remind you the right sex scene is the driving force in the violence which led to the toppling of the old administration in kiev are calm and on the story and at oxford university believes that ukraine's interim government is using the right sector hardliners to regain control of ukraine's restive. government in kiev and setting up a national guard precisely in order to incorporate the paramilitary fighters of the right sector into something that would look more like a state organization and given the failure of the local police in the south and east of ukraine to. the new regime if they really do nee

transmitting russian state controlled channels, some of which have portrayed it as a channel run by neo-nazis>>> an outspoken journalist has been murdered and according to reports, she i am politic indicated a local policeman just before she died on april 6th, two men entered the home of rubalita, just south of manila. she was a reporter with the tabloid newspaper, remate and a host of a talk show. >> journalists are englishing the murder to her work. she often focused on corruption within the kavite police department. her final words included the name after policeman which her publisher said she had an argument. the philippines is ranked the second deadliest place in the world behind only iraq. the asia specialist bob dietz said until the perpetrateo of her murder and those of other journalists are brought to continue. >> appear journalit in venzuela has been reportedly kidnapped in the capitol. the chief correspondent for global vision. her father says she was taken by masked gunmen on april 6th outside her home. he has appealed to the kidnappers to release his daughter. pinto's global visi

you heard that heil hitler, the neo-nazi slogan that he uttered. to add up from the evidence that you hear from witnesses, from what we've seen, but again investigators are now at the point where they've listened to those statements, they've looked at the evidence and they are now looking at this case as a hate crime. >> george, thanks very much, george howell on the scene in overland park, kansas. later this hour i'll be talking to george avalon. he wrote an important article about this guy, the hate and the fact that hitler is being mentioned in the heartland of the country right now. we'll have that interview coming you. also the standoff with pro-russian militants escalating in ukraine. what happened with today's government ultimate um. >>> later this bluefin unmanned sub will search the ocean floor for flight 370. i'm j-a-n-e and i have copd. i'm d-a-v-e and i have copd. i'm k-a-t-e and i have copd, but i don't want my breathing problems to get in the way my volunteering. that's why i asked my doctor about b-r-e-o. once-daily breo ellipta help

their main fear is that this publication will encourage neo-nazis and other right-wing extremists. >> translator: i'm afraid that young people who are not interested in the nazis will read this book, and think that it's not a bad idea. >> reporter: jewish organizations are fighting the institute's project fiercely. munich's jewish comment president. she narrowly ess caped being sent to a concentration camp during the war. she's strongly against the publication of "mein kampf" in any form. she says it will reopen the scars of holocaust survivors. >> translator: "mein kampf" is the ideological foundation for the holocaust. we should sink it in a very deep ocean so that it can never be seen again. officials in the state government say they have strived to balance the interests of holocaust survivors and academics. >> translator: from the point of view of academic freedom, we need to recognize the right to publish the book from a historical and critical stance. but the most important thing is to take account of the feelings of holocaust survivors. >> reporter: the protests increased the p

sound broke a truce announced in the city during easter claimed their attackers were members of the neo nazi a right sect a group policy and now reports. we know in the town of advanced eastern ukraine where on sunday morning five people were killed when members of the right sector attacked a checkpoint exactly like this one as a result just about every road in the town that now has a blog post like this with tires guarded by armed men. the situation is stable and quiet there are almost no newspapers in the town which means that most people here actually don't really know what's happening there also at least two tanks like this one that have been taken by these activists as one told me today the tanks tomorrow don bus. posters like this are dotted around the town knew there was kill ukrainians obviously everyone here extremely angry with what they say is an illegal government in kiev the new mayor of the town has called on the russian president to protect the population because of those things might seem peaceful there certainly is an undercurrent of anxiety and tension. there is a curfew in

look, he is one of the most frightening neo-nazi characters out there. for almost all of his life, and he is about 73 now, since a very early teenhood, he has been a committed and extremely hard line first klansman and then neo-nazi. he, in fact, was involved and ultimately went to prison, in part, for a plot to assassinate the founder of the southern poverty law center, where i work, morris dees. his klans group, another group he founded, the white patriot party. these were groups in the 1980s in north carolina which were really paramilitary in orientation. it turned out they were secretly getting training from on duty marines at fort bragg. they were also acquiring stolen weapons from that fort, so very scary group, and in particular, this man is a frightening character. >> yeah. indeed. and someone who ran for office, ran for north carolina governor in 1984 as well as state senate in 1986. during those runs for office, was his history sort of brought out, or was he such a minor figure in those campaigns that he really wasn't taken notice of? >> no. in

. >> in germany, accused neo-nazi terrorist beate zschape's case is being very closely watched in germany and has shocked the public. let's get a closer look. >> day 100 of the trial began like all the others before it -- with the chief defendant turning her back to the cameras and a practiced act of defiance. she's the only surviving corps member of the national socialist underground or nsu. the group allegedly killed nine min with immigrant backgrounds and carried out at least one bombing in an ethnically mixed cologne neighborhood. beate zschape was the third member accused of actively joining the killing spree. that's what prosecutors are trying to prove. the trial opened last may to a fiasco. media interest was so big that several turkish outlets missed out on the initial placement of seats in the courtroom, and victims' families complained that the trial was not giving their concerns enough attention. since then, it has progressed steadily. 256 witnesses have been called so far. prosecutors plan on calling some 600 people to the stand in total. perhaps more. this trial will not be f

beyond the traditional views of those people who believe that racism is just about the klan and the neo-nazis and that we need to understand that we call participate in racism in one way or another, and there is a new dominant racism out there in which people don't use their ideas of the past, but new ideas, new jargon, new language to defend be the contemporary racial order to. >> host: can you give an example? >> guest: i'm not a racist, but, and after the but people go crazy and say things that they probably believe strongly, but they -- i'm not a racist is like a buffer and allows them to go wild on racial matters because that becomes an excuse. a salvation, yeah? because you can go back to the disclaimer. didn't i tell you that i'm not a racist? didn't i tell you some of my friends are black? therefore, i can say all kinds of anti-black things. i also articulated new frames that have emerged in the post-civil rights era, something i call abstract liberalism, yeah? so if i want to oppose all the policies we have enacted to alleviate racial inequality, primitive action, bossing and the lik

nato then they will break away that's what's going to happen they could be civil war with strong neo nazi elements in the government in kiev it could get very very nasty and so the board is in the court of carrots in the court of william hague in the court of the e.u. they've got a compromise now they try to they succeeded never had neil neil he did they want to compromise with vladimir putin after all that spill said recently really i'm not saying i'm going to bring with you i doubt they will compromise. on what's going on if i do something simple and i you know if they if they're actually interested yeah go ahead you know i've got a candidate land a job and struck to join hands and they're not interested they're not interested in the political landscape of ukraine they're interested in the resources these are bankers that have made their decisions and they made the decisions a long time before we began to realize it there's a lot of infrastructure that's been installed across kazakhstan there's a lot of infrastructure that's been installed across ukraine it's providing the most valuable

which has gained momentum jury in the unrest an upheaval in ukraine has become notorious for its neo nazi ideology and for its violent actions. we demand immediate resignation of the minister of internal affairs our cinemark of i will hang the interior minister of like a dog. the jesus who want to go up but. i don't know. god. i. don't know you well i want to bring. you this yeah. it was pretty apparent from what we've just seen of these are quite dangerous people we're talking about and to remind you the right sector is seen as a driving force in the violence which led to the toppling of the old administration in kiev paul coalmines an historian at oxford university believes ukraine's interim government is using the right sector hardliners we getting control of ukraine's restive east. the new government in kiev and setting up a national guard precisely in order to incorporate the paramilitary fighters of the right sector into something that would look more like a state organization and people with the failure of the local police in the south and east of ukraine to. the new regime they re

approval rating and 78% of the people feel that the violence in eastern ukraine is the cause of neo nazist and nothing to do with the kremlin. >> peter sharp from moscow. it's highly unlikely any debris from the missing malaysia plane will be found on the surface and it has been missing since march 8 with 237 on board and they are leading an international search operation focused in the indian othen northwest of perth. >> essentially what we are looking to do is conduct as thorough and under sea search as is humanly possible. if necessary of the entire probable impact zone, which, as you know is roughly 700 kilometers by kilometers. we owe it to the families on board, we owe it to the wider traveling public to do everything we reasonably can to get to the bottom of this mystery. >> increasing violence in the largest city has residents seeking safety in armored vehicles and it's in an attempt to counter the raising number of bomb attacks and we report. >> reporter: making a vehicle bomb and bullet proof is not easy. this jeep was first stripped to the frame and mechanics will insert thick

cross has a violent past and is connected to a number of neo-nazi groups. abc's tahman bradley has the overnight details. >> reporter: this morning three people are dead after shootings at two different jewish sites near kansas city. police say it could be a hate crime. the suspect, seen here, is 73-year-old frazier glenn cross. the southern poverty law center which tracks hate groups says cross is an alias used by frazier glenn miller, who is a white supremacist and a former grand dragon of the ku klux klan. overnight, a vigil to remember the victims. ♪ >> reporter: the terror began around 1:00 sunday afternoon on the eve of passover at overland park. a teen talent competition set to begin when police say the shooting started. dr. william lewis corporan and his teenage grandson reat griffin underwood were killed according to a family statement. >> it was really scary. i mean, people are calling their loved ones, and i called my mom, and she started crying, and then i started crying. >> reporter: from there the shooter reportedly continued several blocks to

anime by any ukrainian leaders that are dependent on our us support to disassociate themselves from neo nazis and from extremists now when i brush them bastards here that i check in with the dressing his ukrainian counterpart back in the security council he added. he mentioned to him that outweigh the diet when buildings were seized in kyiv died in the likud is called a display of democracy. ah but while when we see the same thing happening in eastern ukraine. it is not legal in this theme park that matter due to a white genius use of terrorism the use of her eyes us government for months up until the twenty first if every piece of gear to terrorize going for some agencies those who undermine the movie shaun of the people were protesting against the authorities is that they had been on the interest for some reason stated ideals people were freed of all responsibility. there were not the look on all of the criminal acts they committed over several months the best ambassador to the urge to western colleagues within the security council to pick up the car and home heating use within whatever inf

buildings to the internet this afternoon as the east texas town to get four people they call the rise of neo nazis in kiev on tees with an optional pool. the tilt the nets known as the dutch capital of the region the group of protesters who claimed they did not recognize the country's new authorities and the repeats to consider them as legal and how all the countries on couponing the regional government failed to gain recruits the russian flag on top of it asking for their rights so that it needs to be implemented and tested federal system to be introduced in ukraine. these last and strategically very important secret invasion was the first to call it friday yet. it asked for a referendum to decide the future to be held in the pedigree to the ict obamas are so similar picture a group of protesters made a week into the national security won't raise the dead house recommended that the minister asked him to release toxins were detained dead by police to go to kiev before that i had to be at the scene looks nice. he ruled over the eastern and central bank has solved and the regions with these events a

protesters are reportedly shot down in eastern ukraine by unknown gunmen the killings follows a neo naziright sector group forming a special squadron to stand to the region. rushing to conclusions a picture supposedly to prove russian military presence in eastern ukraine is revealed as wrong by the photographer who took it now washington's back battling over its q. what's the former deadly rival palestinian factions fatah and hamas deal a reconciliation deal prompting israel to cancel planned peace talks. eleven am in the russian capital watching r.t. international with josh and we begin with breaking news broadcaster in eastern ukraine say two of their people were killed by unknown gunmen near the city of slovyansk which is one of the main hotspots of the end of unrest reporter graham phillips is in the region and joins us now live from more. ram what's known about the shooting to tell us more. is that we've got a very hard situation with as we've reported all drawn to you located fifty kilometers from the city of slavyansk you basically have passed. the national guard allegations of th

protesters are simply locals were fed up and you don't want to le in a country ruled by oligarchs and neo nazis claims that russian agents are stirring up unrest on the ground are absurd. worries to hearing things like that but it's nonsense. the only new people with russian passports we are the journalists and just to remind you not a single russian official has come here to speak in front of the crowds austin is the demonic make it stop waging war against its own people and another that comes to emergency session of the un security council's been cold the course of mormon. as it unfolds. make this out to me to cope with the current tensions in ukrainian gas relations between kiev and moscow office of the statements me crazy. europe could be in the short of some michael gas supplies will pick that up all that much will become human. ultimately no proof it was peaceful and just at the demonstration turned violent in the capital dozens of people reportedly injured in clashes. thousands took to the streets of robot hundred high housing costs unpleasant consequences of it from the stagnant economy

protesters are simply vocalists were fed up and you don't want to live in a country when oligarchs and neo nazisclaims that russian agents are stirring up unrest on the ground search. we use to hearing things like that it's nonsense. the only new people with russian passports we are the journalists and just to remind him not a single russian official has come here to speak in front of the crowd. an oxford based expert in what mr muddle month but we did and he believes south eastern ukraine might already be full of extremists whose help the new governor will need if it wants to maintain control you go to kim's house to the center national de option is to incorporate the because of the right sucked into something more like a state organization and even the radio all local police in the south east of ukraine too. so they'll talk to the new regime. they really do need of the top of which activists the new regime can control the school hall trying to coax a smile sometime it hasn't sent it to whom the radical right wing militias and kept sending them some work. what if the successful hugo chÁvez cred

offensive is underway in ukraine's eastern city of slovyansk where police an extremist from the neo nazi right sector group are cracking down on anti-government activists one person has reportedly been killed in each side and scores injured meanwhile the wave of popular unrest against the coup appointed leadership in kiev has now hit ten cities well these are the pictures with been getting from slovyansk barricades built by protesters at the scenes entrance was set on fire as they try to hold back a special forces and these are the pictures of armored vehicles converging on slavyansk. a helicopter was also seen flying about right there you can see it and thought to be carrying weapons. now let's cross live to our correspondent for national who's following the developments in the region for us maria good to see you with us again so what is the latest. well the thing is that we're now receiving conflicting reports from the town of stavans here in donetsk region just kilometers away from where we are now and it is not easy to vary by all the information we receive from the ground but what i

simply locals who are fed up and you don't want to live in a country ruled by all the corks and neo nazis claims that russian agents are stirring up on rest on the ground are absurd we're used to hearing things like that but it's nonsense the only new people with russian passports here are the journalists and just to remind you not a single russian official has come here to speak in front of the crowds. at moscow's call the session to use the army against the protesters criminal russia called an emergency session of the un security council which is taking place right you know you're about to see live pictures from new york moscow believes that the possibility to avoid a civil war in ukraine also depends on western nations that we're closely following developments i will bring you more as we get it. meanwhile a victory on a covert insists that he's still the legitimate president of ukraine issued a statement condemning kiev for the recent bloodshed. with the blood that's been spilt today ukraine has entered into a civil war gives order to use force against the civilians in the say the east

sure that any any ukrainian leaders that are dependent on us support disassociate themselves from neo nazis and from extremists now when russian ambassador vitaly churkin was addressing his ukrainian counterpart in the security council he mentioned to him that when buildings were seized in key. it was called a display of democracy but while when we see the same thing happening in eastern ukraine it is not labeled in the same positive manner. why didn't you accuse those suits a reason to terrorize ukrainian government to look twenty first of february this year. law enforcement agencies. to police who shot at people who were protesting against it of celebrities but they haven't been called terrorists for some reason i mean those people who were freed of responsibility they were not sold culpable of the criminal acts they committed over several months and the russian ambassador did urge his western colleagues within the security council to pick up the phone and call key in news what emperor ever influence they have to convince the appointed government not to take military action ambassador chu

russia says that the western powers are supporting neo-nazis in kiev. it is pretty inflammatory. >> and where do we think the european foreign ministers are going to go with this today? >> one of the things that european foreign ministers need to prove before they put into place any further sanctions is that there is this link between russia and the pro-russian forces in eastern europe. they don't have that proof. that is one thing that needs to be established. is, there isng still quite a lot of opposition against putting further sanctions into place. i am just going to tell you about a report that came out this morning. deutsche is going to meet with the head of russian railways. lobby tovon trying to get the contract to build a railroad between moscow and kaza n. this could be worth as much as 20 billion euros. there is a lot of german business. >> we have been hearing from siemens and various other companies. thank you very much indeed. david tweed joining us from berlin. global finance chiefs are trying to ignite growth in their economies. exactly

be very much so segregated especially at the new cemetery in germany you probably think all some neo nazi group wants to have their own cemetery with those meddling turkish immigrants but no it isn't all lisbon graveyard according to time magazine a four hundred square meter chunk of lutheran burial plot has been set aside for homosexual women by a group of elderly lesbians called the sophia association let's take a big deep breath and. about this why in our modern age do we need to divide corpses by their former sexual preference if a futile for a street person and a homosexual person happened on the same day at the same graveyard will the universe explode or something also are l.g.b. to groups fighting for acceptance and equality soul why are you advocating post-mortem segregation yet the saffir association i guess has the right to do this but is an idea that is an amazing combination of stupid pointless and hypocritical all same time let's leave dumb segregation for the mortal world please but that's just my opinion. i'm very curious. now if. this is a media lead us so we leave that ma

and this was a neo-nazi organization? >> [inaudible] >> in paris? i didn't read "the new york times" page to page its gone missing from the press. okay. there are hard facts and details from the columbia e-mail address tomorrow or you are in trouble. okay. >> [inaudible] the french-canadian has been very negative. >> absolutely. i don't want to get hung up, but it is a probable place. this is the attempt to very well in the soviet interior but it tries to ban him on the hate crimes, but that of course is aa dared to make a very difficult thing that added to the enormous popularity. popularity. so it is a very tricky thing to do. i don't think that you can make a trip disappear by criminalizing it. maybe you can't make it disappear altogether but what you have to do is educate people. i know that sounds very high-minded, but you know, partly this kind of exercise i've been involved in, you're not directed at those who are just really stuck in the page read. you are appealing to the broad middle census to educate them. we are not under the resource in

and 78% are convinced that the violence in eastern ukraine is a result of neo-nazis and extremists andionalists, so you really have the backing there for mr. putin. as far as sanctions go, the people are not being effected by the sanctions. that could all change, and his approval rating could change if they got him in the pocket. but this is a population that has been fed on a steady diet of information, sometimes disinformation by russian state television, they are firmly behind the president. >> peter thanks very much indeed for that. peter sharpe many moscow. >>> now russian opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner has been convicted of liable. he described a member of the ruling party as a drug addict on twitter. he was fined more than $8,000. he has been under house arrest on the last two months and is banned from using social media. >>> more to come here on the al jazeera news hour . . . ♪ >> what happened a few months later devastated this man's family. plus . . . >> we're investigating allegations that energy companies are encouraging local law enforcement to use terror

the irony is the government has been accused of being full of neo-nazis. >> as you know, there's some issue now about the providence of that anti-semitic activity, whether it was actually carried out by russian illegal formations or others. but it certainly is part of, in some respects, increasing zenno phobic tenancies, and that, in the last couple of years has grown, so it makes it suspicious that maybe the russian authorities were behind this. >> and president vladimir putin, in this long tv conversation took this clearly staged call from n.s.a. leaker edward snowden. >> does russia intercept store or analyse in any way the communications of millions of individuals? and do you believe that simply increasing the effectiveness of intelligence or law enforcement investigations can justify a place in societies, rather than subjects under surveillance? >> vladimir putin jokingly responded to edward snowden as one former agent to another, that russia's intelligence efforts are not as massive as america, and they are strictly regulated by law. in the world of messages going back and forth