but in one nine hundred fifty four stalin successor nikita khrushchev gave crimea to ukraine as a gift but when the soviet union collapsed crimea was suddenly in a separate country. sixty years later russian president vladimir putin saw himself as the man to take back that gift on march eighteenth twenty fourteen he welcomed crimea's leaders to moscow there the two sides signed an agreement making crimea part of russia again. for must go a cause for celebration for the ukrainian government and the international community and illegal act. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world thousands of cuts a line independence supporters marched in central madrid on saturday they were protesting the ongoing trial of twelve separatist leaders who faced years and for isn't for their role in organizing a failed independence bid from spain in twenty seventeen twelve are on trial of the country's supreme court. venezuelan opposition leader one has embarked on a new stage of his campaign to oust president nicolas maduro was beginning a tour of the country grip

but in one nine hundred fifty four stalin successor nikita khrushchev gave crimea to ukraine as a gift but when the soviet union collapsed crimea was suddenly in a separate country. sixty years later russian president vladimir putin saw himself as the man to take back that gift on march eighteenth twenty fourteen he welcomed crimea's leaders to moscow that the two sides signed an agreement making crimea part of russia are again for must go because the senate gratian for the ukrainian government and the international community an illegal act. five years to the day since the referendum which paved the way for russia's takeover of crimea and the authorities here won't let you forget about it the celebrations are everywhere but this is a referendum which the west and even many of russia's closest allies still refuse to recognize. to the kremlin this anniversary is about more than crimea and its two and a half million inhabitants crimea has become a symbol of russia's place in the world its standoff with the west and present. soccer now and time to take a look at the bonus league a result s

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but in one nine hundred fifty four stalin successor nikita khrushchev gave crimea to ukraine as a gift but when the soviet union collapsed crimea was suddenly in a separate country. sixty years later russian president vladimir putin saw himself as the man to take back that gift on march eighteenth twenty fourteen he welcomed crimea's leaders to moscow there the two sides signed an agreement making crimea part of russia are again. so must go because the senate ration for the ukrainian government and the international community an illegal act. all right sports now and in formula one mercedes driver voluntary botha's has won the season opening australian grand prix in melbourne. over took his team mates there was hamilton at the first corner and he led then for the rest of that race ended up finishing twenty one seconds ahead of emerson who is the defending world champion while red bulls max a stop and was third for both of us it was the fourth grand prix when of his career i don't know what to say yeah thought was really get. it was there for me my best race ever. i don't know what happe

even with nikita khrushchev, a very surprise nikita khrushchev. this is why i think it is a wonderful choice to have the white house christmas ornament feature the helicopter because i think ike would have loved that. he may have been the first man to reach the ripe old age of 70 while in the white house. that is true. he saw himself as the future, --ting edge person to stay to encourage it technological breakthrough. i am going to wrap it up and go into some q&a. before i do that i want to make sure that you know ike has plenty of warts, and there are questions we should raise about eisenhower and his presidency. i'll just name three topics maybe we think return to a little bit in the q&a. hhs.ar lots of ooo and aa >> [laughter] william: indeed. oo, ahh. i'll just do this real quick so we can have a further discussion with questions. the first question i have is why nixon? now, there's a political answer to why eisenhower chose nixon to be his running mate. actually he didn't. the governor of new york and the two time failed candidate chose richa

a crimea was gifted to ukraine by soviet leader nikita khrushchev in one thousand nine hundred fifty four when ukraine became independent in one nine hundred ninety one russian president boris yeltsin agreed it could remain in ukraine the region has always been of political and strategic importance to both moscow and kiev it lies on a peninsula between the black sea and the sea of as of and has a russian speaking majority but many crimean support closer ties with the rest of europe crimean crisis was sparked when ukraine's then president viktor yushchenko which turned down a trade deal with the e.u. and accepted a bailout from moscow three months of street protests followed leading to janak overtures overthrown russia refused to recognize the new government in kiev and within days seize control of the peninsula of crimea referendum considered illegal by the west was held in crimea where a majority voted to join russia fighting between ukrainian forces and russian backed separatists began in eastern ukraine and although peace accords were signed in for every twenty fifteen tensions ha

a crimea was gifted to ukraine by soviet leader nikita khrushchev in one thousand nine hundred fifty four when ukraine became independent in one nine hundred ninety one russian president boris yeltsin agreed it could remain in ukraine the region has always been of political and strategic importance to both moscow and kiev it lies on a peninsula between the black sea and the sea of as of and has a russian speaking majority but many crimean support closer ties with the rest of europe crimean crisis was sparked when ukraine's then president viktor yushchenko which turned down a trade deal with the e.u. and accepted a bailout from moscow and three months of street protests followed leading to janak overtures overthrown russia refused to recognize the new government in kiev and within days seize control of the peninsula of crimea referendum considered illegal by the west was held in crimea where a majority voted to join russia fighting between ukrainian forces and russian backed separatists began in eastern ukraine and although peace accords were signed in for every twenty fifteen tension

i am a vietnam veteran and how many people remember nikita khrushchev, the predecessor of vladimir putinent kennedy was president. in the united nations, at the podium he said the soviet union what very the united states from ury the very -- would b united states from within, we will tear each other apart. we need to get together as americans and united we stand and divided we shall fall. wake up. this is doing us so much destruction to our country, this is putting into operation what he predicted, 50 years ago in this country, our own country stated that. host: how would you propose we become more united? caller: stop perpetuating allegations, allegations are not an automatic crime. people take allegations as though they are facts. situations but allegation is not a fact. allegation is a thought. of a potential crime or a potential violation. we take allegations though they are facts. we have talking heads on both sides who make millions of dollars a year to stir it up. we need to stop this. we are playing to the hands of our enemies. we are destroying egypt are. -- we are destroying ea

he invited nikita crush hove to come to the united states and they had a rip roaring good time. at least khrushchev did, traveling the united states. that was the thing, resort to diplomacy first to avoid war. mind you, eisenhower was no dove on defense system. build -- ge sums to built up our defense base hit. . in the eisenhower years, the united states spent on average 10% of its g.d.p. on defense in the 1950's. today we're at about 3.3%. obviously the size of the economy is very different baugh huge sum on investing in defense. the man who did so much to alert us to the dangerous of the military industrial complex did a lot to build that completion. the u.s. nuclear arsenal soared from just over a few hundred weapons to over 20,000 war heads. the b-5 bombers, the atlas and titan intercontinental ballistic missiles. all these came online in eisenhower's term and he delighted in the details. he pored over the plans. he was deeply engaged in pushing these developments forward. the purpose of these weapons was to deter the communists, to keep the peace. this was the beginning of the formation of th