we'll take you to the netherlands that has tolerated use for 40 years. >> it hasn't brought the country down. what's the fuss about? next on pbs news hour weekend. made possible by louis b and louise coleman, judy and josh westton, wall family in memory of mira. irene shorts, corporate rat funding by mutual of america designing custom xized group retirement products. that's why we you're retirement company. additional support provided by and by the public broadcasting. and from contributions from viewers like you. thank you. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. a chese satellite identified another large object floating object in the indian ocean. shins are heading to the area to determine whether the 70 foot part is coming from the malaysian airline line their disappeared with 239 on board. the discovery is 75 miles from the area ships have been hunting based on another satellite image made public nearly 72 hours ago. nothing has turned up in that area so far. the search has been hampered by strong currents andough seas. we'll have more on malaysian airlines flight 370 after the new

and to the hague and to the netherlands.so pleased that i've had a chance already to meet some wonderful students. i want to thank the mayor and the curator for their hospitality as well. i'm proud to be here with some of the dutch masters who i studied in school and to see just the extraordinary traditions of this great country. i would be remiss if i did not mention that i'm proud of both of our teams at the olympics, so in addition to painting, you really know how to speed skate. as the prime minister said, we just had an excellent opportunity to experience the museum and to see those documents, including the treaty of friendship that john adams negotiated more than 200 years ago. this was a reminder of the historic ties between our countries. and this is, of all the press conferences i've done, this is easily the most impressive backdrop i've had to a press conference. of course, we're here for the third nuclear securities summit. and i want to thank his majesty, king alexander, as well as the people of the netherlands f

this is my first visit to amsterdam and- the hague in the netherlands.ad a chanceed i already to meet some wonderful students. i would like to thank the mayor and the curator for their hospitality as well. with some to be here of the dutch masters who i studied in school and to see just the extraordinary traditions of this great country. i would be remiss if i did not mention that i am proud of both of our teams at the olympics, so in addition to painting, you really know how to speed skate. as the prime minister said, we just had an excellent opportunity to experience the museum and to see those documents, including the treaty of friendship that john adams negotiated more than 200 years ago, as a reminder of the historic ties between our countries. this is, of all the press coverage as i've done, this is easily the most impressive backdrop i have had to a press conference. for thee, we are here third nuclear security summit. i want to thank his majesty will allow alexander and the people of the netherlands for all the preparations that go into bringing

nevertheless, the netherlands experienced an explosion in the production and consumption of art. the first mass art market in history arose because for the first time, ordinary people bought paintings, etchings, drawings. artists produced in large quantity for that market. the society was defining itself in the images it produced. the simplicity of these domestic scenes is often deceptive. this still life with trout by willem claesz heda, while reassuring the dutch of the plenty in their lives, also warns them of the remorseless passage of time. jan steen's painting the world upside-down was intended to amuse, but it also cautions against the dangers of excess. here drink and sexual license cause a household to slide into complete domestic disorder. jan vermeer's woman weighing pearls stands before a painting of the last judgment, warning that wealth must not distract us from our ultimate fate. the dutch genre paintings are not just innocent images of everyday life, but of the moral crises of everyday life. like other works of the baroque period, they convey a message. [speaking

they are meeting at the nuclear security summit in the netherlands. ♪ we continue to follow breakings at this hour, just before 10:00 a.m. eastern time malaysia prime minister addressing reporters, telling them sad news that the missing malaysia flight 370 went down in the south indian ocean and randall parentin pinkston has been following this for days and what do we know? >> 16 days from kuala lumpur to beijing and the british version of ntsb brought the prime minister to microphones to tell families of passengers aboard the flight the news they dreaded. >> it is there for with deep sadness and regret that i must inform you that according to this new data life image 370 ended in the southern indian ocean. >> reporter: the new data that the prime minister refers to comes from the united kingdom's accident investigation branch, that agency using satellite information for that part of the world over the indian ocean came up with an unique algorithm, a new calculation never before used and came to the conclusion that the plane had definitely turned away from beijing and headed southwes

. ♪ >>> the final day of that nuclear security summit just ending in the netherlands president obamas working to reassure and rally european allies to take a tough line against russia during his european trip. the president right now is on the stage getting ready to speak, we will bring you his address shortly, but first we want to go to randall pinkston in washington. and russia now suspend from the g-8 summit and the white house issuing a statement. what did it say? >> it came from the ukraine and us. it's a joint statement. it condemns russia, and vladimir putin. the joint statement says that the u.s. and ukraine emphasize they will not recognize russia's illegal attempt to annex crimea. crimea it says is an integral part of ukraine. the united states will continue to help ukraine affirm his sovereignty and territorial integrity. russia inzipses that his actions were intended to protect ethnic russians. but the u.s. and her european allies say russia's actions are a blatant violation of international law. the u.s. also reaffirmed ukraine's commitment to impose controls on nuclear

netherlands is one of the most densely populated places in the world. about 60% of the population lives bhoa sea level. -- below sea level. space has always been scarce. so more than ten years ago a group of architects and engineers began brainstorming the way to use the water that surrounds them. this. >> this was a very big challenge at all. i was curious how we could do this. >> marlise romer is the architect who designed a community of float floating structures. start at 450,000 and go up to 780,000. pouring a concrete block at the base of each structure to lower the home's center of gravity. since a tugboat would ultimately transport the homes to their place. >> they go one at one time through the lock. this is the last tiny little bit when they go to the side and the lock is seven peters wide. and the widest house is six meter 50. >> once the individual homes made it through the canal lock, construction crews connected some of them in groups to increase their stability in the water. now they're loosely anchored in shallow water to a pair of poles

. >> just a few minutes ago president obama landed in the netherlands and in a touch newspaper interview the president tried to explain the difference between his ideology and president putin's ideology like this. united states does not view europe as a battle ground between east and west nor do we see the situation in the ukraine as a zero sum game. that's the kind of thing that should have ended with the cold war. the ukrainian people do not have to choose between east and west. few hours ago one of the last places in crimea that was under ukrainian control was taken over by russian troops. those troops used gren yadz and guns to take over a marine base in crimea. they then raised a russian flag on the base and it is the latest provocative move made by putin as world leaders gathered in europe without him. >> we are now one week from the obamacare enrollment deadline of march 31st. and with millions still uninsured democrats are looking to go through the offense. they will take to ocean media to do so. they will tweet out graphics as well as sharing stories of success. this comes as a

after a flight from washington and sergei fedorov is also in the netherlands for the talks and moscowexed crimea after a referendum which backed joining russia and russia troops are surrounding the last marine bases in crimea and russia is taking over military control of the peninsula base by base. in kiev thousands gathered for a rally calling for ukraine unity and it's supported by much of the westin colluding the u.s. and europe. and there is growing fear other parts of ukraine will break away after russia's annexation of crimea, two pro-russian groups fought in ukraine and russian speaking east and happened during a rally in support of former president viktor yanukovich and they are worried about the allies of ukraine and there are fears the break away region might want to join the russian federation too because they are mostly ethnic russian and the top commander in europe is warning about the build up of troops on ukraine's eastern border. >> if russia is worried about a country moving towards the west, a way to solve that is an eric ncoursian and frozen conflict and not thinkin

and president obama got off the plane this morning and netherlands time and met with the prime ministere, prime minister root and went to the rembrant museum in amsterdam and in front of the most famous painting where they said they are united in imposing a cost on russia. the president then went on to a bilateral meeting with the chinese leader p ishing and tal about other things also and the president meeting with 52 heads of state in the hague. but after perhaps the marquis event as far as europe and the united states and the crisis in ukraine are concerned, the president hosting a meeting of the g 7, note the g 7, not the g 8, russia for all intents and purposes kicked out of g 8 and this meeting with the powers of the world to try to figure out a way to come up with a unified, coherent and cohesive response to what has gone on here. >> reporter: thank you very much, coming up, on al jazeera, troops ordered out of crimea and new questions about the crimea economy that are being raised and debate underway and talking about the future of the internet. ♪ ♪ chicago's blue line commuter

leaders later today and we'll work with the netherlands and our european partners as we go forward. >> president obama called for this emergency meeting on the situation in ukraine last week because g-7 countries were already scheduled to participate in an international nuclear summit in the hague. russia is participating in those nuclear talks, and today russian foreign minister lavrov held high level meetings with the new governor. >> we conveyed to him the steps we see need to be taken by the parliament to establish a normal pan-national dialogue that takes into accounts specific parts of ukraine and accounts for all the interest of all its inhabitants. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry also met lavrov. it was their first meeting since wash imposed financial sanctions on dozens of members of putin inner circle. and 20,000 russian troops have overrun crimea since the fall of the government in kiev last month. now n.a.t.o. observers in you vain have witnessed a very sizable force of russian troops gathering on the shared border, drawing fierce that president putin is seeking

spirit, which doesn't translate exactly into english, but let me say that my first visit to the netherlands has been truly hozelic. you know, i convened the first nuclear security summit in washington four years ago, because i believe we need a serious and sustained global effort to deal with one of the greatest threats to international security, and that's the specter of nuclear terrorism. we made further progress in our second summit in seoul, and under your prime minister's stewardship, we built on that progress here. in keeping with the spirit of these summits, this was not about vague commitments, it was about taking tangible and concrete steps to secure more of the world's nuclear material so it never falls into the hands of there'ses terrorists, and that's what we've done. so that those supplies can be eliminated. in a major commitment, japan announced that it will work with the united states to eliminate hundreds of kilograms of weapons usable nuclear material from one of their experimental reactors. that's enough for dozens of nuclear weapons. dozens of other nations have agreed to

this one right now, again, is happening in the netherlands. the next one is planned for 2016 and that will be back in washington. today both belgium and italy announced that they had completed what they called significant removal of highly enriched uranium and plutonium from within their borders. that's the thing that gets announced at these summits and agreed to. thanks to this priority of the president, these meetings and all these summits and the work that's happened in between them in order to make sure that these countries don't have nuclear material lying around where anybody can get to it, thanks to this work and this priority, in just the last five years, the number of states that have nuclear weapons material that could fuel a terrorist bomb has shrunk by more than a third. it shrunk from 38 countries to 25 countries. so that work, that priority of the president's, that was the initial reason that president obama was in the netherlands today standing in front of that giant magnificent rembrandt giving a press conference alongside the

she seemed to be in the first chinese presents even though the netherlands since the two countries established diplomatic relations in nineteen seventy two the chinese president's travel and it was a spy a toliet. they were welcomed by dutch kinnock whitlam alexandre and clean next either. in a meeting soon after their ride to the chinese president spoke highly of china and other land relations. he said he helps to visit what helps strengthen the intro trust promote practical cooperation and deepened our friend chad statistics show that neverland has been china's second biggest eu trading partner for eleven years china has been a neverland second biggest trading partner for full years that the teen said he helps those countries can strengthen cultural and people to people exchanges something he said will be greatly helped by discrepancies visits the dutch team leader and former queen bee of tricks later hosted a welcoming state banquets for pregnancy and hiv first lady. this day in the science season keane is expected to meet parliamentary leaders and prime minister mark rudd top on the day. s

those comments coming at a nuclear security summit in the netherlands, randle pinkston in washington now. randle, what else did the president have to say today? >> reporter: the president joined america's allies in condemning russia's take over of crimea saying it's a play hasn't violation of international law that will not be recognized the president continues to take issue with an argument put forth by his republican presidential candidate in the last campaign in that i said russia is our biggest foe. >> russia is a problem. they don't pose the number one national security threat to the united states. i continued to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in manhattan. >> reporter: to that end end the president says that he continues to focus along with the allies at the nuclear summit, which by the way included russia, on reducing the prevalence of nuclear arms throughout the world. president obama also said that the u.s. and her european allies will continue to rely on economic and diplomatic pressure on russia. and he

. >> the the netherlands is a densely populated country.he dutch are known for making good use of their space. ahead - find out how they are putting homes on water. [ ♪ music ] >> before the break we brought you a story about the housing wars under way in san francisco, and the fight between the have, and the have notes. in the netherlands the dutch have a housing crisis of their own, caused by having not enough land. as "america tonight"'s lori jane gliha discovered sometimes the best solutions come from thinking outside of the box. >> this is the heaviest item, made of stone. >> from the basement of her home, this woman explains that her house was built around her bath tub. >> there is the water there. >> yes, i see people swimming or with a canoe here. >> all it takes is a peek out of the bathroom window to understand why the weightie fixture makes her house tilt a little to one side. her house floats on water. >> sometimes it shakes. sometimes it shakes not like this, but do this, because it can move no further. sometimes it can be funn

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this one in the netherlands, they've gotten deliverables out of here. the biggest one today is japan. the united states will take the highly enriched uranian that japan stockpiled and take control of that and slowly dispose of that. everything is about -- the question is going to be at the g-7 in particular will merkel be able to keep the european members together on this. as we discussed a bunch here, the european economy and russian economy are so inter20twines an there's evidence going too harshly too quick with russia. americans concerned about the troop movements on the border. >> i want to ask you facing down russia this way brings us back all way back to 1979 and 1980 when jimmy carter was going against the soviet union marching to afghanistan and had grain embargo and cancelled american participation in the 1980 olympics. i sat down with jimmy carter and when i asked does president obama call you for advice? he said no, the phone doesn't ring. we showed a little bit of that earlier. what is this relationship where this president, other president

our own chuck todd is traveling with the president and he joins me from the netherlands. chuck, it's now the g7, no longer the g8. obviously the crisis if ukraine is at the top of the list of things that will be discussed in the hague. >> absolutely, back to the future, if you will. it's already been a busy first day, and this is probably going to be the most consequential day and that is this g7 meeting. it's on the sidelines. it's a meeting the president called for. it's the old original g7 before they invited russia in after the fall of the soviet union. and the entire discussion is going to see if the united states and the europeans can get on the same page when it comes to what type of punishment will there be economically for russia, particularly if it keeps moving in on ukraine, if it goes beyond what it's done with crimea, and that's been sort of the central challenge here for the europeans. the european economy is very much intertwined with the russian economy. there's been a lot more hesitance at doing some of these sanctions that the united states is saying the

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. >> president obama wrapped up the nuclear summit in the netherlands but that meeting was overshadowed by the crisis in ukraine. president obama is concerned that russia will move deeper in the country, and russia could face more sanctions if the stand-off escalates. mike viqueira reports from the haig. >> reporter: the president came to the netherlands for this two-day summit with the goal of unifying allies against russian moves in ukraine. he leaves with a promise and a vow to punish russia if it goes further, but no answers were forcing it out of crimea. a day after joining other leaders in a vow to impose heavy sanctions on russia if it escalates the crisis. president obama held out hope that russian troops will not invade. >> we oppose what appears to be an effort of intimidation. i don't think it's a done deal. >> reporter: but russia is in control of crimea, and mr. obama appeared pessimistic about the end of the takeover. >> i think it would be dishonest to suggest there is a simple solution to resolving what is already taken place in crimea. >> reporter: a new poll suggests t

the president has now taken the stage with the prime minister of the netherlands. the two men are addressing the congregated press there. let's listen to what they are saying. >> i am proud to present our summit communique to you today. building of the progress remains early in washington and seoul. this communique sets the bar even higher. we have taken major steps towards meeting all three main objectives of the nss process. i will say a few words about each. the first objective is to reduce the amount of dangerous nuclear material in the world. the less dangerous nuclear material there is and the better the nuclear security, the smaller the chance that terrorists will be able to get hold of it. it's that simple. i'm pleased that the 53 countries and four international organizations here have confirmed their commitment to continue reducing stocks of dangerous nuclear material, uranium and plutonium. a number of countries have announced the intention to hand over the highly dangerous to the u.s. as xhar chair of the summit, i naturally welcome these announcements.

earlier today in the netherlands, he issued a warning to russia. moving farther into ukraine would have serious consequences he said. >> the president came to the netherlands for this two day summit on security with the goal for the ukraine, he moves with a vow to punish russia if it goes further. a day after joining other leaders and about to impose heavy sanks on russia if it escalates the crisis, president obama held out hope that the russian troops amassed on ukraine's border will not invade. >> we oppose what appears to be an effort of intimidation, and i don't think it's a done deal. >> mr. obama appeared pessimistic about an end to the takeover. >> i think it would be dishonest to suggest that there's a simple solution to resolving what has already taken place in crimea. >> reporter: a new poll suggests that the public is wary of american involvement. when asked if we should do something about ukraine, 61% said no. mr. obama is facing political blow back at home. in the 2012 campaign, mitt romney called russia america's number one foe. a cla

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president obama spoke of the tragedy from the netherlands. i would ask all americans to send their thoughts and prayers to washington state and the community of oso and the families and friends of those who continue to be missing. we hope for the best. but, we recognize this is a tough situation. >> my heart is shattered into a million pieces. >> ray smith has been searching for her daughter. >> my 16-year-old daughter. my adult son and his two young sons were down there digging with their hands trying to find her. her family isn't alone. frustration with the pace of rescue efforts literally have many taking the matter into their own hands. professional crews say some areas are simply too dangerous to explore by foot. they are hoping high tech sonar equipment leads them to a miracle in the mud. adam may al jazeera. >> as the search effort continues our questions, why wasn't there warning of a risk of a major slide in snohomish county? the risk was known for many years. you have been warning about this in this particular area since the 1990s?

mike viqueira is in the netherlands.aine crisis affect the on going nuclear talks? >> it's going to dominate these talks. they've been long scheduled. this is the third international meeting, the first in 2009 in washington. a lot of progress has been made. the president has said it time and time again, europe is not an east-west battleground. this is not the cold war, ukraine is not a zero sum game yet we hear ecos of the cold war, and the nuclear security summit tries to deal with and now the crisis in ukraine threatens to roll back all that's been accomplished so far. >> with russia and the united states at odds over ukraine, efforts to rid the world of leftover nuclear stockpiles could in in danger. >> it's a very troubling situation. we still have deep interests, national interests in working with russia to make sure nuclear material is secure and accounted for. >> there are warning signs. cooperation is broken down at the working level because of the ukraine crisis. the 20 year program that has guided efforts to se

. >> the president came to the netherlands to a 2-day summit on nuclear unity with a goal to bringing allies together on russia, leaving with a promise to punish russia if it goes furthers, but nothing to force it out of crimea. >> a day after joining other leaders, about to impose sanctions on russia if it escalates. president obama hopes that troops on the border of ukraine will not invade. >> we oppose what appears to be an effort in intimidation. >> russia is in control of crimea and president obama was pessimistic about an end to the take obvious. >> it would be dishonest to suggest there's a simply solution to resolving what has taken place in crimea. >> a poll suggests the public is wary. asked if there's a responsibility to do something, 61% said no, 32% responding yes. president obama is facing political blow back at home. in the 2012 campaign mitt romney called russia america's number one foe, a claim dismissed by obama. it was evidence that he had misread vladimir putin. asked to respond, president obama doubled down. >> russia's actions are are problem. they don't pose the

tomorrow the president continues here in the netherlands. you're right he met with china shi gen pang. he goes on to the eu meeting in brussels. can they come together the united states and europe in a front to deter that further aggression, del. >> mike viqueria, thank you very much. now despite warnings from world leaders at the hague, all out of ukrainian bases. jennifer glasse, this order to withdraw is it essentially ukraine surrendering to russia? >> you know, we don't think it is ukraine surrendering to russia. ukraine has been steadfast that crimea remains part of ukraine. the troops here whose live were in danger and whose families are harassed. to get those sailors and their families out of crimea an into the peninsula. aa lot of those sailors were living on bases or boats that they have been thrown out of or in naval housing here. some of the families that i have spoken to are concerned. we have diplomatic movement for the first time, moscow talking to kiev, russian foreign minister sergey lavrov in the hague right now, we don't k

the final day of that nuclear security summit just ending in the netherlands. president obama speaking a short time ago, saying he is concerned about any further invasion by russia into ukraine. randall pinkston is in washington. and randall what was the president's message today? >> well, obviously in addition to talking about the progress that the u.s. and its partners have made in reducing nuclear weapons and trying to get some nations to give up their nuclear arms, this entire summit has been overlaid by the crisis in ukraine, and crimea. and the question of what will putin do next at the news conference at the conclusion of the summit, president obama was asked whether the u.s. can guarantee that ukraine, the baltic states and moldova will not be victims of putin's aggression. >> there's no expectation that they will be dislodged by force, and so what we can bring to bear are the legal arguments, the diplomatic arguments, the political pressure, the economic sanctions that are already in place to try to make sure that there is a cost to that process, but i

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he's currently in the netherlands. he will visit belgium, france and germany in hope of signing a series of trade details. and airbus jets will be placed by the chinese government. >>> as sanctions ratchet up in russia, how worried should businesses trading there be? in recent years, russia has been seen as an increasingly exciting place to trade. the impact could hurt european businesses far more than russian ones. banks will have to comply with u.s. sanctions. we'll have more throughout the day here on "bbc world news". in london, the market down 21 points. the dax and cac are all down. why? disappointing manufacturing figures from china. that's relayed worries about 2014 being a year where demand may start falling from the world's second biggest economy. we had better than expected french economic figures and german ones. but they weren't enough to lift market spirits at a busy week if terms of economic data. asia markets different altogether. back to you, geeta. stay with us here. the 70s anniversary of the great e

mike viqueira is in the netherlands. president obama is trying to rally allies, what came out of the day's activities. >> you are right, the president is here for a nuclear security summit, the third in the last five years, a lot of important issues to discuss. this gathering of 53 world leaders turned into a session dominated by ukraine, no question about it. at the last minute the president called a meeting. you spoke of them, used to be known as the g8. they have frozen out russia. the goal in coming here, and over the cores of today, tomorrow and the next day, is to create a unified front with allies, not only to punish russia for what already happened, but detearing russia from heading into east and southern ukraine, areas occupied by ethnic russians. the president wants a broader range of sanctions on energy, all down the line, and promised to do that with the executive orders. at this hour, it appears some effort is bearing fruit. there's a joint statement by the g7 coming after the last-minute meeting. they are a

the president of the united states just moments ago addressing reporters at the hague in -- the netherlands. i want to show you the numbers on wall street. as the president began to speak, there were triple digit gains. right now those numbers have fallen. meanwhile russia racing to bring crimea under the kremlin umbrella. nike spicer has more. ♪ >> reporter: they are rocking in russian. nothing new here in the russian speaking majority here. but they are now ruling russian style too. people here are registering to get russian pass ports. the happiness and high expectations are hard to miss. but concerns do linger. >> translator: they say the pensions will double. but that's only true if the prices stay the same. i don't know what we'll do if both the pensions and prices go up, but i think it should all work out. >> reporter: to administration crimea along russian lines the kremlin is seconding in top ministers from the different ministries. and in a highly symbolic move, clocks on march 30th, will advance by two hours to moscow time. this young couple as just found out they are going to be

. >> president obama and other world leaders are wrapping up the summit in the netherlands and overshadowed by the crisis in ukraine. they are concerned that russia is moving deeper into the country and could be facing more sanctions if the standoff escalates. mike, overto you. >> well, tony, the president came here and trying to unify theal lies. he leaves on the promise to impose sanctions if russia makes further moves into but no answers on what to do to force russia out of crimea. a day after joining other a leaders in a vow to impose sanctions on russia, president obama held out hope that russian troops now on the ukraine border will not invade. >> we impose what appears to be efforts of intimidation. >> russia is ll in control of crimea. >> i think it would be dishonest to suggest there's a simple solution to resolving what has already taken place in crimea. >> the public is weary of the american involvement. mr. obama is facing a political blowback at home. in the 2012 campaign, mitt romney called russia the number one foe and dismissed by mr. obama and the republicans citing it as m

he joins us from the netherlands. good morning. >> reporter: good morning from here in the netherlands. before that declaration was announced, we heard from the foreign minister of russia who dismissed the statement saying the g-8 was basically an informal club, that no membership cards were required. this was an emergency meeting called by president obama, bringing together the g-7 leaders, basically europe, canada and japan, where they came out and through a statement made an announcement that russia would basically be kicked out of the g-8 until it changes course, given its annexation of crimea. vladimir putin who is supposed to be hosting the next summit of the g-8, to take place in sochi, host of the 2014 winter olympic games this june, has been told that's been canceled. instead the g-7 will be separately in brussels this june without russia. the hague declaration also threatens russia with what they call sectoral sanctions, they would sanction the lucrative arms, banking and energy sectors if russia goes furthe

three secret service agents were september home from the first leg of the president's trip in the netherlands. knowns news white house correspondent peter alexander joins us live from brussels. peter, good morning. we understand an agent was actually found drunk outside of his hotel room. >> yeah, betty, that's exactly right. u.s. secret service sources confirm to nbc news that one secret service agent was found drunk and actually passed out inside their hotel outside their own room, the very same hotel the president would be staying in in amsterdam. they were found by hotel staff early sunday morning about 24 hours before the president arrived there for a high stakes series of meetings, international diplomacy. those three agents have been sent home for what's been described as disciplinary reasons. president obama today will be visiting a historic world war i battle ground at flanders field cemetery, and he will also be giving us a speech about european union and security as the u.s., once again, reassures its european allies that it stands by their side in this recent showdown with russia.

he's currently in the netherlands. he will also visit belgium, france and germany.he will meet with european leaders in the hope of signing a serious of trade deals. as sanctions ratchet up in russia, we ask how businesses are trading. in recent years, russia has been seen as an increasingly exciting place to trade. suddenly things are changing and quickly. the impact could hurt european businesses far more. >> maryam, thanks very much. just to bring you these pictures which have just come in to us. of the first moving pictures that have been released i believe of -- well, we're trying to find he's pictures. they do have the pictures found by the australians. they have named objects they have found in one part of the search area. the chinese have also found or seen a couple of objects. they will locate them and retrieve them. back with us in a couple of minutes. stay with us. do you know what happens when you eat activia everyday? ♪ ♪ activia helps regulate your digestive system. because when your tummy smiles, you smile too! activia. feeling good starts from the in

that coughed three acts their job of these three on administrative leave. >> the netherlands, i thought they would have gotten themselves into other trouble but i guess not. thanks so much. great to see you, peter. political fallout from the standoff with russia. reaching a potential presidential hopeful. former secretary of state hillary clinton is to blame for how things are going there and the impact this could have on her chances of winning the white house. >>> unbelievable video captioned as a train flies off the track at one of the busiest airports. >>> breaking news right here on "the real story" a fire burning out of control in texas. now video capturing the desperate effort to save a construction worker literally slipping his way to safety with seconds to spare. an exclusive interview coming up. >> he was inside there. do they frickin' see him? >> unbelievable. >> oh, my god. oh, god,o, god. oh, my god. before larry instantly transferred money from his bank of america savings account to his merrill edge retirement account. before he opened his first hot chocolate stand calling

peter alexander joins us live from the netherlands. moscow basically just shrugged off its purge from the g-8. >> reporter: that's right, even before the hague declaration as it's called was made by the g-7 leaders, we lettered from russian's foreign minister lavrov who basically referred to the g-8 as an informal club, saying there were no membership cards for entry. so here was an emergency meeting that took place late yesterday. the president bringing together basically europe, canada and japan where they came out and made an announcement basically saying russia had been kicked out of the g-8 until in its language it changes course. putin who was supposed to be hosting the sochi summit has been told that has been canceled. instead the g-7 will meet separate the lthely in brussels. there were also sanctions threatened if russia goes further into ukraine. the desire was to bring russia into these western type clubs, but now according to the former ambassador, that ear ra is over. >> all right, peter, thank you. >>> oscar pistorius is

meanwhile dutch diplomatic sources disclose that the netherlands had received notice that putin will not attend the event. brash has not given an explanation but pretends absence but the confrontation between russia and western leaders of the crisis in ukraine is the most likely reason is to be the first time the president of russia will not be taking part in the summit. hk was a neo con explains what putin is trying to do and what happens next we can come up with an address by a long ride the finance. his most was annexed in crimea has a very sweet. should i went onto the podium and will come to a delegation from tiny and it will make us and we got to meet again enthusiastic standing ovation. his fifteen minute speech. he went on to the detail sometime yes history. calling it as an integral part of russia. and that it was well from his country. he requested well made cars to stop legal procedures to keep the system to cram your blogs. observers say the process we'll probably be completed by the end of this week. what do our best announced that the us and european countries have scan

as russian troops make themselves at home in crimea, president obama arrived in the netherlands for a long scheduled meeting about nuclear security, now overshadowed by the crisis in ukraine. >> europe and america are united in our support of the ukrainian government and the ukrainian people. we're united in imposing a cost on russia for its actions so far. >> reporter: in an emergency meeting, the president will try to convince leaders of the g-7 nations to increase the pressure against russian president vladimir putin. >> he's a bully and bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. >> reporter: obama already imposed sanctions on russian officials. now some lawmakers say it is time for widespread economic penalties, maybe even military assistance for ukraine. >> it may come to small arms. i'm not ruling that out. keep it on the table. >> maybe medical supplies, radio equipment, things that they can use to protect themselves. defensive posture weapons systems. >> reporter: putin is building its troops up along ukraine's eastern border a

from the netherlands and the chinese president. afterwards, he'll attend a nuclear security summit before going to a g-7 leaders meeting on the situation in ukraine. >>> first lady michelle obama had becauusy day in china today beginning the day at an education forum with chinese professors and students. later she headed to the great wall. the first daughters and her mother joined her for lunch at a former school near the wall. during this trip, the first lady has been vocal about the chinese government's need to allow free speech among its people. >> but when it comes to expressing yourself freely and worshipping as you choose and having open access to information, we believe those universal rights, they are universal rights. >> chinese state-run media did not air the first lady's remarks about free speech, but her comments were widely praised on social media. china routinely filters out information deemed offensive by the government and blocks many social media sites. >>> we've been watching some fast-moving developments this wee

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as russian troops make their home in crimea, president obama arrives in the netherlands. >> what we've seen the president do in recent weeks and this week is bring the world together in support of ukraine. >> reporter: in an emergency meeting the president will try to convince nations of the g7 nation to stand up to vladimir putin. >> he's a bully. >> reporter: obama has already imposed sanctions on russian officials. now some lawmakers say it's time for widespread economic penalties, maybe military assistance. >> it may come to small arms. >> maybe medical supplies. radio equipment, things that they can use to protect themselves. defensive posture weapon systems. >> reporter: putin is building his troops up along ukraine's eastern border and ukrainian leaders worry he could be preparing to move in. >> the situation becoming more explosive than it used to be a week ago. >> reporter: with this trip president obama hopes to de-escalate tensions and find a diplomatic solution. >> president obama heads to belgium later this week with a meeting with nato leaders. back to you, veronica. >> d