vice president joe biden went over details with petro poroshenko in kiev. they say the rebels carried out attacks of the port of the industrial industry of maruapol. it is estimated between 400 and 500 russians have died in the fighting. victoria nuland says a cease-fire is needed with a complete withdrawal of the weapons from the frontline. >>> a police demonstration in the city of ferguson has turned violent. two police officers have been shot. protesters gathered outside the police department following the resignation of the embattled chief. >> we saw the muzzle fire from the gun. >> police say the two officers are conscious and being treated at a hospital. the police chief had agreed to resign after a federal report alleged widespread racial bias in his department. >> the city of ferguson and police chief jackson agreed to resign from the city. the chief's resignation is effective march 19th 2015. >> unrest started last summer and a white police officer shot an unarmed teenager michael brown. the justice department decided last week that the officer wou

lawmakers also approved an appeal by president petro poroshenko asking the u.n.send peace keysers to eastern ukraine, calling the bills a diversion. >>> meanwhile, there have been frosts in an eastern ukrainian town demonstrators took to the streets after a military vehicle struck and killed an eight-year-old given. he mes are running high in this government-held town which was under separatist control for three months last year. >>> it's been a year since russia an ex-s the ukrainian territory of crimea. the region's ethnic community was caught up in the ensuing political crisis and claimed that they have suffered human rights abuses. rory challands we want to the city to see if life has changed for creme vinnie tatars. >> reporter: he has slept in his bed since last september. his bag hangs where he left it. his cloth where they were hung on the day men in black uniforms abducted the 18-year-old and his cousin. now his father is left happen roping and dreaming and wondering if he is in any way to blame. >> during one the interrogations of at abduction, the inve

decision on the new aid to ukrainian president petro poroshenko in a telephone call on wednesday. the united states says pro-russian separatists attacked the transport hub of debaltseve and the industrial city of mariupol in eastern ukraine in a breach of the cease-fire accord agreed in february. meanwhile, assistant secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs victoria newland said her country estimates between 400 and 500 russians have died in the cliblth. nuland was giving testimony on ukraine at a senate foreign relations equipment hearing on tuesday. she stressed that what is needed is a complete cease-fire and a full pullback of all weapons from the area. >>> iraqi forces are close to making their biest gain yet in their fight against islamic state militants. troops have entered tikrit and say they have captured wide areas of the northern part of the city. iraqi forces have been conducting a huge operation to retake the saddam hussein's birthplace, which has been controlled by the militants since june of last year. soldiers launched an offensive north of the city on

an appeal by president petro poroshenko asking the u.n.cekeepers to eastern ukraine has also been approved. >>> back to frankfurt now. showed some of these pictures earlier in the broadcast. this is an anti capital civil protest in the heart of germany's financial system in frank ford. well, you can see the police have come in there fires burning and the reports we had a little bit earlier were of the police saying one officer was injured and at least two cars were set on fire. this is because the e.c.b. the european sent program bank is opening its new headquarters there, big billion dollars sky scraper and this movement has taken exception to that. there was a slight concession from the e.c.b. said there would be 20 guests taking part of the ceremony today which was appropriate for the time of economic crisis but they have come out to work against the protest these frankfurt. keeping a a close eye on that for you, more other it later. >>> the pakistan the former lawyer for a doctor who helped the u.s. find osama bin laden has been killed

petro poroshenko accuse them of violating the cease-fire last night alone.ho, if anyone, can knock off the undefeated kentucky wildcats. wisconsin has the best shot according to vegas. they are only a 5.5 favorite against them. they are a 6.5 favorite against duke. they are going for their second undefeated season since bobby knight left in 2006. sxsw. it is a conference in austin texas. it is more buzz than anything this year. but there is a highly anticipated keynote by google chairman eric schmidt. alex, our technology reporter is there for us. alex: yes, i am. cory: talking to all of the start of geeks. alex: yes, i am glad to be here. cory: how is the barbecue? they are trying to glom onto the music and the micro brews -- alex: i took a pedi-cab to teh barbecue across the street. there are a lot of microbrews, a lot of margaritas. cory: we had margaritas on the set this morning to get ready for your appearance. it is tough to be a reporter that is so spread out. you are trying to figure out what is bubbling up while you're there. it is not like investor

petro poroshenko accuses rebels of violating the truce saying forces were attacked a dozen times lastight alone. on a different note, who can knock off the wildcats? according to the oddsmakers in vegas, wisconsin has the best shot. the wildcats would only be a 5.5 favorite compared to do. kentucky is going for the first undefeated season since indiana pulled it off in 1976. it is the annual interactive festival with the top minds of technology in austin, texas. this year, the social media app is getting a lot of attention and so are protests over the highly anticipated robot by google. our technology reporter is there covering it for us. going to the food trucks with the startup geeks. >> i may texas gal, so i'm glad to be here. cory: how is the barbecue? >> great. cory: they are trying to glom onto the microbrews, music and have acute -- barbecue. >> there are a lot of craft brews a lot of mexican, a lot of margaritas. it has been a good time here for the tech companies. cory: we were having margaritas on the set to get ready for your appearance this morning. the task of being a rep

delivered its first shipment of military vehicles ten humvees to petro poroshenko. poroshenko is cleaning house getting rid of corrupt individuals. police walked in on a cabinet meeting and cuffed the ministers. a regional governor was also fired for allegedly taking bribes. >>> in neighbor belarus today it is freedom day ironic in a country known as area's last dictatorship. rory challands reports that living if a dangerous neighborhood has weakened the opposition. elections in november. >> reporter: the young the idealistic the discontented and the hopeful belarus's government is not much different than it was in the 21 years of power, it's just shrunk. elections loom once more only a thousand or so attended this freedom day rally. >> there are not dozens of thousands of people attending. but knowing people are afraid of participating in protest actions, many people are working because time is removed. i think it's quite successful demonstration today. >> alexi pay be happy with the turnout but with one of the worst currencies, you would expect the opposition to b

he's also serving on the advisory council to the president petro poroshenko is the issues that are ongoingr joining me. >> thank you for having me on your show. >> i know you knew boris mentsov personally. you talked to him, in fact, days before his death. what did he share with you? >> we discussed ukraine because he was prepareing his report on ukraine, but then when i showed up at the lunch, he asked why i was without bodyguards. he told me remember like after he knew the story when putin promised to hang by different parts of my body he said never, ever go anywhere without bodyguards. >> wow. >> here he was walking into the center of moss kou. at night. without any bodyguards without any protection. it's sad. it's tragic. it's also true if you look carefully, he's one of many that have died in this kind of circumstances. the list is getting longer and longer. >> he was talking to you, jokingly talking about your shast safety the threat against you. was he afraid of being targeted? >> i think he was aware of the issues. i was asking whether he was worried to go back to moscow. he wasn't

barack obama, angela merkel, petro poroshenko all agreed there is no military solution to the conflict in eastern ukraine, that there must be a political settlement. the problem is vladimir putin does not agree. he believes in and has for the past year been pursuing a military solution. we saw this in crimea, arming the separatists, the invasion by russian forces in eastern ukraine which even included the last several days after the minsk two cease-fire. and it suggests that the russian's goal is not a settlement but that the goal is, in fact, instability, to create difficulties for the government in kiev. so far the russians appear to conclude the hybrid warfare they've carried out has benefits and gains that exceed the cost. the west has responded with economic sanctions, they've had an economic impact that they have not yet achieved their political goal which is to bring about a change in russia's course towards ukraine. the u.s. has a commitment to ukraine under the 1994 budapest memorandum on security assurances. that was a big part of the piece in getting ukraine to give up the w

petro poroshenko says it was because of russian troops.housands of people here it is a day of mourning for one of the leaders of the opposition killed right on the eve of one of the country's biggest demonstrations in recent memory. >> let's get to a major story that broke over the weekend. the murder of the russian opposition, boris nemtsov. tens of thousands marched on sunday in memory. the biggest support of the opposition and years. moscow police estimated the number of marchers at 21,000. ryan chilcote was in moscow for the march and joins us on the phone from ukraine. this was an opportunity to measure the strength of the opposition in russia. we just had a discussion with the former ambassador and he is saying this opposition movement is growing. what was your sense on the ground? >> that may be wishful thinking. that's what a lot of people who support the opposition, the idea of ending the russian president's rule would think. there were 21,000 protesters police say. protesters say there were 50,000. let's say they were in the midd

speaking along petro poroshenko further sanctions against russia are on the table.l: what happens if it will not be implemented? right now, we would not talk about possible actions we will take your if five relations are happening, we will decide about more sanctions against russia. our main goal is how we can find a political solution that finds the implementation of the minsk agreement. manus: iran could raise oil output by one million barrels per day. iran is working toward an end of march deadline to end the decade-long dispute over the nuclear program. anna: the biggest drone market remains military but civil drones are catching up fast. caroline koning reports. -- caroline connan reports. caroline: a picture of agriculture in france. ♪ this drone is flying over 15 hecters. the unmanned aircraft takes hundreds of pictures. it will be analyzed. >> this is the sensor with 4 lenses and the data is on the memory card before it is transferred. caroline: a french company has the farmer to save money. with just 2 drone flights a year. the farmer equipped with a gps ca

ukrainian president petro poroshenko is firing the governor of the eastern region.he governor is a billionaire who was fighting to stop the government from seizing one of his businesses. singapore's government is extending viewing hours for those morurning the nation's first prime minister. he died at the age of 91. his body will i and state until his funeral on sunday -- lie in state until his funeral on sunday. we will talk about talent wars between wall street and silicon valley. then, is sotheby's and economic indicator? then we will talk to celebrity fitness entrepreneur tracy anderson. tom: we need to move to france. a very difficult story. hans tackles -- hans nichols has traveled to the south of france. great sadness this morning and great mystery. what have you learned in the last six hours? hans: i have learned just how difficult a recovery operation here would be. you see behind me these outs -- alps. they think the crash happened at about 1500-1700 meters. the snow starts about 2000 meters. in between me and their the mountain rises and you cannot land a

petro poroshenko, the leader of ukraine, says boris nemtsov was about to release evidence of russiankraine. the russian president has sent his condolences, but for tens of thousands of people, it is a day of mourning for one of the leaders of the opposition killed on the eve of one of the country's biggest demonstrations in recent memory. ryan chilcote, bloomberg, moscow. guy: mr. chilcote has now traveled from moscow to eastern ukraine where he joins us now from on the phone. let's take you back to moscow. let's talk about this demonstration. was it a demonstration of opposition? was it a demonstration of remembrance? can you give us a sense of what it was like to be there? how big was it? ryan: is a very good question. it was the biggest demo in three years. the police say there were 20,000 people there. the protesters say they were about 50,000. that's a good number. there were a lot of people that wouldn't normally show up at a demonstration like this. i think a lot of the people were there simply to pay their respects. when people say maybe this will galvanize the opposition, wh

are mere attitudes about president petro poroshenko is handling the crisis in the east. overall, you have a divided response. the white space in between that's the people who don't know or it dendz or didn't -- depends or didn't give an answer. overall, they are divided about poroshenko's handling. here you see 46% in the north approving. the south leaning toward the negative. the east very clearly to the negative, 61%. while in the don youbass rebel-held areas, you have 89% disapproving. by the way, the ukraine-held areas were generally pretty much the same as the east as a whole. all that data is broken out in the questionnaire. now we move to the questions where we ask people to rate scenarios, where we give them options. we're not just asking, what is your preference? but, how would you feel if that happened? and to answer this we give them a scale from zero to 10, where zero means completely unacceptable. 10 means very acceptable. and five means just tolerable. and by asking questions in this way, you can see whether there is some -- where the potential common groun