and i had the opportunity to hear about in the conversation for poland and the cooperation with poland by the united states and support today is taking a special csignificane and this trial and channel that we are facing it is not a challenge for a month or a year, we are not in a strategic perspective and multiannual perspective and the american and polish are in 100% convergent. >> the president and i have great respect for you. (speaking in polish) >> i am here as an ally and you are among the best allies that america has mr. prime minister. ukraine, it's almost unbelievable set of events that brought us here. the president asked me to come to warsaw today to reaffirm the united states's solemn commitment, solemn nato commitment and consult with the leaders of ukraine. people of ukraine are showing courage and worked hard to show the aspirations, free of corruption and for ukraine connected to institutions and markets of europe and respectful of ukraine's deep culture and economic ties to the neighbors, unfortunately russian leaders responded with a brazen, brazen military occurrenc

[singing] ♪ there'll always be a poland and poland shall be free ♪ ♪ if poland means as much to you ♪nd means to me [music] there'll always be a poland? when jarry wrote the play, he would have scarcely have known that song or the sound of winston churchill's voice in world war ii. they are deliberate anachronisms added by this director. ubu roi has been popular with directors who enjoy adding their own mad touches to each production and who try to keep in the spirit of irreverence in ways which will mean the most to each new audience. since ubu, 20th-century writers have used similar techniques to emphasize modern chaos. in the plays of o'neill, ionesco, weiss and beckett, man has been depicted as ape, rhinoceros, asylum inmate and resident of a garbage can. expressionistic theater, as in ubu, has distorted and exaggerated to underscore the anarchy of the modern world and the absurdity of its human inhabitants. [music] this was a co-production of miami-dade community college and british broadcasting corporation, british open university. captioning performed by aegis rapidtext

is playing to raise money for poland's crisis. ♪ poland's and the new ukrainian government are singingne, russia cannot again be allowed to dominate eastern europe. >> translator: we hope that the efforts of the international community will lead to the peaceful solution of the conflict in ukraine but we need to be read for the darkest of scenarios in ukraine part of which is now taking place and treat the annexation as one of the scenarios. >>> evidence of a time when poland was under soviet control is not hard to find here. this is a controversial monument for polish people and buried here are the remains of 21,000 of the soviet troops who died liberating poland of the nazis at the end of the second world war but not leaving poland until 1993 and there are very few polish who would ever want to see russians return and 72% of the polls think the current situation is a threat to security and discussed on street corners and these people are too young to remember it but know their history. >> translator: the situation in ukraine develops and western security structures influenced there ha

zkreig of hed a blit poland and poland was carved up. that cost the line. that did launch world war ii in a formal fashion. and so as the western world began to mobilize for a world they hope to never see fought and weren't prepared for, the following spring, in april of 940, the nazis invaded norway. 1938, they invaded greece and norway. they had the strategy put in place and by april 13, they had gone through -- by april 13, 1940, and short two year period of tife, poland and norway and greece and yugoslavia sclaff yeah by april 136, 1940. this was a dramatic take over of real state and property and at some point hitler no longer had to put up the pretense because the war was declared after september 1, 1939. . these were changes that -- change this is a took place across europe. they were cultural clashes that came to a head in that part of the world. we think it can't happen again or won't happen again. we fought the cold war for 39 years, the berlin wall went down and marcy kaptur went over and chiseled a piece out with her own hand, i learned that ton

sent a couple of dozen f sins to poland.g to be very thirsty for reassurance after hearing the speech of president putin in russia where essentially says they're going to keep the crimea, recognize the referendum. he gave no promisees about what he may do with eastern ukraine. in his nervousness out there and the polish prime might bester, polish. the and meetings to follow with the estonian and vice president biden will speak again later tonight. >> >> what can you tell us about the european reaction to president putin's speech thus far? >> the reaction thus far has been they needed to walk a tightrope. they didn't want to push russia too hard but wanted to deliver a message if they don't give up the crimea and go any further to eastern ukraine, those sanctions will very quickly from the united states and european union get much tougher. putin spoke about the sanctions saying we will protect our interests or go backwards. are they trying to provoke an unrest in our country. he said they were aggressive and we will react. so

moving nato forces into poland for exercises.e're going to have to take a look, and we have to make sure that the 80,000 troops on the border stay where they are. we'll be able to tell if they cross it. if i was a general officer, i say that bestay in place, and stay in our positions and continue to leverage there, so to speak, should things not go our way. >> what would it take for the u.s. to get militarily involved in this? >> you know, it's a great question. nato would have to be involved. and the rest of europe would have to be threatened. perhaps belarus goes into poland. and we're talking about a tripping wire for a third world war. i don't see the united states getting involved for now. we keep in our pocket things in the future things that russia might want, but we don't want a conventional fight in ukraine, it would be devastating. >> what do you think of the threat in russia, expanding their power and expanding their military forces beyond where they are right now. >> the threat is there, and the question is what their

vice president biden and poland earlier today, warning russia saying the u.s.nd europe will impose further sangs on moscow for annexing eye mia. dana lewis has been following all of the developments where the british foreign minister spoke out. and dana, the american vice president using harsh language describing the events unfolding in moscow. >> i think western leaders especially vice president biden today clearly accusing president putin of torquing not only recent history but the events oen the ground in the crimea. just blowing a lot of smoke and mirrors and that it was nonsenses. the vice president was no nonsenses about annexing the crimea. he characterized what happened as a brazen military intervention by russia, unlike putin who said he was there to save the lives of ethnic russians. a land grab in his words. to reassure poland and nato countries on russia's borders that nato is there to protect them, and he starting quoting article five, that one for all, all for one, that if they are an attack on one is an attack on all, and that nato is there to st

vice president bidesen in poland warning russia the u.s. and europe will impose further sanctions on moscow because it has annexed crimea. into the vice president using harsh language to describe the unfolding events. >> really cutting to the chase on this, del. they took a look at president putin's speech in moscow and are calling his assertion that he send troops into crimea to save ethnic russians there from violence or death, putin used the word death as some kind of fiction. the vice president biden in poland seriously questioning the russian president's version of events. he characterized what happened as brazen military intervention by russia, a land grab. the world has seen through russians actions and flawed logic of president putin and he promised isolation of russia and more sanctions and sought to reassure poland and countries on russia's borders that nato will protect them. no president obama and i view article 5 as a solemn commitment not only for our time but all time we take it deadly serious and our commitment is unwavering

we went through something similar in poland. ukrainerisis in resonates very darkly in poland. media compares the annexation of karmiel with hitler's takeover of austria in 1938. not see germany -- nazi germany and russia attacked poland and the following year. >> i lived through that as a child and it started in a similar way. >> russian aggression need not be looked very to be damaging to pull in. >> i don't think there is any real danger of an invasion. putin, hadssia, applied pressure in a bid to destabilize poland politically or economically. nevertheless, the polish government has been making much lately of poland's nato membership. >> it is nato that above all needs to draw lessons from the crisis. seems the alliance summit into temper will be one of the most important in its history. >> in while, warsaw is lobbying ever harder for ukraine to be offered a chance of eu leadership. it wants to keep russia at a safe distance. in ukraine does look set to dominate in the summit of g-7 nations on to a in the hague. u.s. president barack obama is already there and the netherlan

thanks be to god and myself, within a week, i may be queen of poland. [music] you're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, madam. is it because we have company? pshit. i'm rather hungry. i think i'll bury my teeth in this bird, a chicken. i fancy. not bad at all. you wretch. what are our guests going to eat? there's plenty left for them. i shan't touch another thing. go look out of the window, ma ubu, and see if our guests have arrived. ah, here comes captain manure and his merry men. old ubu, what are you eating now? nothing, nothing, just a spot of veal. the veal. he's eaten my veal, the lout. the veal. help. help. by my green candle, i'll gouge your eyes out. [music] good day, gentlemen. we have been awaiting your arrival with impatience. good day, madam. but where is mr. ubu? here i am. here i am. by my green candle, pshit. i shouldn't have thought i'm so easy to miss. good day, mr. ubu. well, madam, and what succulent dishes have you prepared for us today? polish broth, spareribs of polish bison, veal, chicken and hound pie, parson's noses from the r

crisis. [ ♪ music ] >> poland and the new ukrainian government are singing the same tune.ussia cannot again be allowed to dominate eastern europe. >> translation: we hope that the efforts of the international community will lead to the peaceful solution of the conflict in ukraine. we'll need to be ready for the darkest of scenarios in ukraine, part of which is now taking place. we should treat the annexation of crimea as one of the scenarios. >> evidence of a time when poland was under soviet control is not hard to find here. this is a controversial monument for polish people. here are the remains of 21,000 of the soviet troops who died, liberating poland from the nazis at the end of the second world war, and there are few polish people that want them to return. >> 72% of polls think the situation in ukraine poses a threat to polish security. it's being discussed on street corners, and cafes and campuses. the students are too young to remember a communist poll and but they know the history. >> the situation in the ukraine, how it develops and how the west influences makes

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the united states and eu are responding and vice president biden is in poland and warning russia and saying that the u.s. and europe is imposing further sanctions on moscow and we have following all of the developments from london and the vice president using harsh language. >> it is in sharp contrast of the western reactions to the emotional speech by putin and the ties to crimea and how in a way they have been protecting ethnic russians, in fact the west is saying that putin is land grabbing and using a lot of smoke and mirrors to justify it and vice president biden called it unbelieve set of events and characterized as what is happening as brazen military intervention and land grab & seeing through the actions and the flawed actions and promised isolation of russia and more sanctions and reassuring poland and nato countries that nato is going to protect them. >> justifying a land grab, and including what was said today. but the world has seen through, has seen through the russian actions and rejected the flawed logic behind those actions. >> del, the vice president noting that the

they do not compete with you for the hotel space of poland. there are very few standard tourists who go to poland. cities? >> it is the exception. it should be visited but so should warsaw. so should gadansk. fascinating cities where the costs are a third lower than they would be in western europe and you see works of great art, fabulous architecture, some of which is recreated because the nazis leveled poland but a surprising destination. country. >> yes. >> for many, many decades. >> definitely. >> arthur and pauline frommer of the frommer guides, i am ali velshi, and you have been >> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top story. mending fences. with a key middle east ally, president obama spends the day in saudi arabia, and takes a call from the return president. >>> weather works against the mudslide recovery efforts. >> i think the report will stand the test of time. >> a di after one report clears chris christie, he said he knew nothing about bridge gate

america will not forget that poland rose to the moment. >> along with britain, poland, a member of theration's coalition of the the willing positions itself to take advantage of iraqi oil. a consortium of the polish companies signs with kbr to join in iraq's reconstruction. failed and failed spectacularly. they destabilize the region through military intervention, and destabilization in the middle east inevitably leads to higher oil prices. >> despite that instability, iraq's vast oil fields, which were one state-owned and controlled by saddam hussein are now largely open to western oil companies, and completely free from the sanctions that held back their full potential. iraq's easy oil is finally getting to market. iraq in 2012 produced more oil per day than it had at any point in the previous three decades. it's now on track to become the world's second largest oil exporter behind only saudi arabia. >> this idea that iraq mattered because it had oil was important, if not central to the decision to invade the country. >> anyone who controls the straits hormuz can control the structur

they do not compete with you for the hotel space of poland. there are very few standard tourists who go to poland. cities? >> it is the exception. it should be visited but so should warsaw. so should gadansk. fascinating cities where the costs are a third lower than they would be in western europe and you see works of great art, fabulous architecture, some of which is recreated because the nazis leveled poland but a surprising destination. country. >> yes. >> for many, many decades. >> definitely. >> arthur and pauline frommer of the frommer guides, i am ali velshi, and you have been >> scared as hell... >> as american troops prepare to leave afghanistan get a first hand look at what life is really like under the taliban. >> we're going to be taken to a place, where they're going to make plans for an attack. >> the only thing i know is, that they say they're not going to withdraw. >> then, immediately after, an america tonight special edition for more inside and analysis. >> why did you decide to go... >> it's extremly important for the wester

the united states army has been in poland and we have a perfect right to move in poland and we shouldhe ukraine military with anti-tanks and aircraft missiles and training teams to get their army up to snuff. these things show the united states recognizes its military and so does putin. >> will this president do any of this? or all of that? >> no. i don't see it. i talk today a friend of the pentagon and i said tell me your plans for events in central europe and he said bob, we have none. the essence of military presence is having a plan worked out with nato allies and that hasn't happened. >> is this all putin wants? this peninsula? >> no, no. we are only seeing the opening of this guy. he has been a russian imperilist of his life. >>> as you can see, senator john mccain is not happy about what the president is doing with ukraine and he is going to be here so stick around. the president delivered a budget a month late. more programs for poverty is what can called for but budget hawks say they don't work if you look at them. mike emanual live. how much of this is a political document?

they do not compete with you for the hotel space of poland. there are very few standard tourists who go to poland. cities? >> it is the exception. it should be visited but so should warsaw. so should gadansk. fascinating cities where the costs are a third lower than they would be in western europe and you see works of great art, fabulous architecture, some of which is recreated because the nazis leveled poland but a surprising destination. country. >> yes. >> for many, many decades. >> definitely. >> arthur and pauline frommer of the frommer guides, i am ali velshi, and you have been >> >> this is al jazeera america, i'm jonathan betz live in new york. growing forwards. the aggressive move russia is making into ukraine. >> humanitarian crisis. the daily problems families in syria face three years after the bloody civil war began. plus, chaos in the streets. a cry for change your, and a new threat they face. also the search to solve a mystery, the revelation

he doesn't all of ukraine, he wants -- if he grabs it all, he has a border to baltic states, with poland, and hungary, and slew o slovakia, and romania, all nato states, and increase russia's territory, bred basket of western ukraine. lou: let me ask you this, russia depends on its marketing of its oil, a third largest producer behind saudi arabia and united states in the world. if the president, as he said, is to isolate russia, that would be crippling to the economy, i'm i am asking you is that manage that would be tollable for putin -- tolerable for putin or en range a person who angla merkel questions whether he is sane or not. >> yeah, i would say that watch what happens tomorrow with kery in kiev. after obama said something relatively mild in reproof of putin last friday, putin whacked crimea hard. i would expect a a embarrassing insense tomorrow while kerry is in ukraine. in theory, if principal, total sanctions would hurt russia but lou, it is academic, it is not going to happen, europeans wils s wail and cry, and wring their hands, europe will do business with russia, and china

they do not compete with you for the hotel space of poland. there are very few standard tourists who go to poland. cities? >> it is the exception. it should be visited but so should warsaw. so should gadansk. fascinating cities where the costs are a third lower than they would be in western europe and you see works of great art, fabulous architecture, some of which is recreated because the nazis leveled poland but a surprising destination. country. >> yes. >> for many, many decades. >> definitely. >> arthur and pauline frommer of the frommer guides, i am ali velshi, and you have been >> >> to the voting booth in ukraine today - a divided crimean n peninsula decides whether to become part of russia. >> plus the criminal investigation into the missing malaysia airlines jet. >> three years sips the start of the civil war in syria, staggering numbers of the dead and displaced. >> plus an entire civilisation forced to abandon

he took credit for poland's entrance into nato.go, i was honored, as the chairman of the foreign relations committee, to lead the fight for poland's admission into nato. but that's not accurate. while then senator biden did support the expansion of nato, poland joined in 1999. biden did not serve as the senate foreign relations committee chairman until 2001. in fact, north carolina republican jesse helms was the chair in 1999. >>> and finally, st. patrick's day greeting from a senator that had a lot of people cratching their heads. john cornyn tweeted this picture, happy st. patrick's day, but as many quickly noticed, this is a british beer. as that union jack on the packaging would denote. twitter users assumed the worst, letting him have it. quote, is this a calculated insult or just a horrible gaffe. leaning to insult. a british beer, you know there's a history of tension there between brits and irish, right? are you kidding me, englishale? are you wearing orange, too? we contacted senator cornyn's office for information. we're

they do not compete with you for the hotel space of poland. there are very few standard tourists who go to poland. >> yet, crackow is 1 of the cities? >> it is the exception. it should be visited but so should warsaw. so should gadansk. fascinating cities where the costs are a third lower than they would be in western europe and you see works of great art, fabulous architecture, some of which is recreated because the nazis leveled poland but a surprising destination. >> and a lot of history in one country. >> yes. >> for many, many decades. >> definitely. >> arthur and pauline frommer of the frommer guides, i am ali velshi, and you have been watching "talk to al jazeera." ♪ maria sharapova >> this is al jazeera america, i'm jonathan betz in new york. this hour we go indepth. first a vote to return to russia, and the strong-armed tactics crimea residents and reporters are seeing from pro-russian forces. plus, three years aboard the suffering, and millions of syria living through it every day, and the violence turning children into orphans.

is suspending military exercises with russia and will step up training with poland's military. we have full coverage beginning with our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto here tw latest. jim? >> i think you could say today we saul the full yin and yang of the u.s. policy response to the crisis in crimea. on the other side, secretary of defense chuck hagel demonstrating the u.s. commitment to its nato allies with the deployment of some aircraft and the cancellation-of nato contacts with russia. on the diplomatic side, we saw the opening of a diplomatic path to solving the crisis, the so-called off ramp u.s. officials have mentioned before, still undefined, kerry said, but a start. >> reporter: u.s. and russian diplomats face to face for the first time since the start of the crisis in crimea. secretary of state john kerry said they are now negotiating a diplomatic path to ending it. >> we are committed to working with russia. together with our friends and allies in an effort to provide a way for this entire situation to find the road to deescalation. >> reporter: r

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with ukraine on everyone's mind, poland's president is paying a visit.our eastern border, the president says, should encourage us to make the right decisions to ensure our security. listening in the front row, american air force personnel, and there will be more to come. it's carefully calibrated symbolism because for many people in eastern europe, tensions in ukraine are a little close to home. the polish president is meeting polish air crews here. but over the next few days, 12 american f16s and 300 personnel are moving to this base, sending a message of solidarity to nato allies in eastern europe which lie close to ukraine and russia. >>> and, of course, a message to moscow. >> we're trying to reassure the regional partners we have in the nato alliance that the u.s. is here to stay, we appreciate the nato support we garner from around the world and we're here to train with polish air force to promote enter operability. >> reporter: there's concern about what's happening across the border in ukraine. >> yes, in general the entire region is concerned. >

. >> ifill: war games began in poland today, as u.s. and polish forces performed joint air and naval exercises. they were long-planned, but have now become part of the u.s. response to russia's seizing much of crimea, a ukrainian region where ethnic russians predominate. russian president vladimir putin suggested last week he could intervene elsewhere as well. >> ( translated ): if we see that lawlessness starting in eastern regions too, if people ask us for help we reserve the right to use all options at our disposal to protect those citizens. >> ifill: on friday's newshour, joint chiefs of staff chairman martin dempsey said such action would be dangerous. >> if russia is allowed to do this, which is to say move into a sovereign country under the guise of protecting ethnic russians in ukraine, it exposes eastern europe to some significant risk, because there are ethnic enclaves all over eastern europe and the balkans. >> ifill: indeed, much of eastern ukraine does have sizeable russian-speaking populations. and other nations in the reg

we could do training exercises in poland. offer military assistance in terms of equipment, training to the ukrainians themselves. >> rose: activation of military forces, in terms of having forces come and make their appearance there. >> on our part. >> rose: yes. >> i'm not aware of any detail. nato i'm sure will think about it. it's very important to nato. a lot of the nato members were part of the old soviet empire, warsaw pact, baltic states. they are very worried when they see putin absolutely ride rough shot over solemn commitments that he made. that the government of russia made like the budapest memorandum when russia, u.s., britain, guaranteed the borders of ukraine in return for them giving up nuclear weapons. putin is going right through it. people begin to wonder if his word good for anything. >> rose: that's the question. do you believe that president putin believes that president obama is weak and will pass through his red line there for he should be tested? >> no. i don't know whether he believes he should be te

it is on russia's borders in the baltic, it's at poland. so stop and think for a minute what we have now. we have moved. we, all of us have moved the old cold war divide which was in berlin, which we survived for 45 years, right to russia's borders. imagine what that means. and based on what your military people said in the previous segment, we are one step away for something much worse. and what this means to me is that american policy toward post-soviet russia has collapsed. we need a new policy. now, putin represents the opportunity for a new policy. but he demands two things. he demands that he be treated as an equal. that means that russia has a legitimate national security interest at least on its borders. and that nato expansion stop. once we say and do that, everybody will sit down and sort this out. >> professor cohen, right now this is going to be debated ad inf ininfinitum,right now he's standing up for his rights but damaging the relationship with the united states and to a certain extent with europe. so how does he realisticall

>> shepard, we've just learned the pentagon is sending six f-15 fighter jets to poland, also, an airafter relative silence from the pentagon and nato, hagel outlined the steps now being taken by the western military alliance. >> the defense department is pursuing members to support our allays, including stepping up joint training through our aviation department in poland. it's an area that i visited a few weeks ago. and augmenting our participation in nato's airport policing mission on the baltic peninsula. >> hagel also said nato's supreme allied commander, general phillip breedlove, is convening ministers of defense as a move of solidarity. and minutes ago, nato staid it would no longer need europe's help to protect the vessel that's being used to destroy syria's chemical weapons. the pentagon has suspended all military engagements with russia, including two upcoming exercises involving russia, norway, and canada. there is one good reason that some in the pentagon have been reluctant to take russia head-on over ukraine. for one, russia controls a very essential supply route into an

we did operations on the ground in poland last august. we need to ramp them up again and do more ground operations, more joint military exercises. we need to expand those exercises along that part of the world, working in conjunction with nato troops and the troops of the sovereign countries along that border that is now on the west side of the new iron curtain that putin essentially announced by his invasion into the crimea. we need to put whatever kind of advicery support the ukraine -- advisory support the ukrainians need right into ukraine so those people are trained, their people are ready to step up and defend themselves. if putin decides to move into the balance of ukraine, how could they do anything but defend themselves? i think they must and i'd like to see that they are ready. mr. speaker, i'm known as a fiscal conservative in this house. i supported the resolution that advanced $1 billion in loan guarantees to the ukrainians. i don't think that's enough. i think that we should be prepared in this congress to go down the line a

the same goes for the deployment of awax planes over romania and poland. these are part of a nato operation. but having said that, it's normal practice that individual allies can take immediate steps and then it's followed by a more broad nato mission. and i envisage further steps to reassure allies to strengthen deterrents and a collective defense in light of what we have seen. and then on ukraine, which is the second part of your question. we have intensive meetings in the ukraine commission. i have met the ukrainian prime minister. the ukrainian foreign minister. they have forwarded a number of requests. we are now looking into those requests, and i would expect foreign ministers to take decisions on enhanced partnerships, increased assistance to ukraine when foreign ministers meet on the first and second of april. i agree that we should step up our assistance to ukraine and i'm sure it will happen. >> thanks. i'm trying to collect questions. i see hands coming up. the gentleman here at the aisle. if people keep their hands up, i'm trying to keep track,

poland? light of everything is going on we have gateways, panama canal, shipping lanes, land, air, and sea. where do we -- and thank you sir, for bringing about alaska the bering strait. we don't all or purchase land. we borrow it from our children. so for generations to come, the unspoken heroes need to be recognized too. host: thank you, diane. guest: let me answer the question on: because poland is one of our era's great success stories. it lost its sovereignty for many years. it was divided before being under soviet rule by difference in players. we now have a situation where poland is not one of the most successful economies in europe -- it now has to be viewed much less of a central european state or an east european state and much more as one of the leaders of the european union because the poles themselves experience democratic change. as a journalist, i was able to cover that for "newsweek" and then the "wall street journal," and i have to say the poland people inspire me during that

the defense department is stepping up joint training in poland and the u.s.d additional patrol aircraft to nato's air policing mission on the baltics right now. anthony cordisman is currently at the center for strategic and international studies. explain to me these new moves, joint training he canner sizes in poland, policing flights over the baltics. what's going on? >> these are largely a deterrent. you want to make sure that russia knows that we are going to do something. that we will reinforce our allies, that our members of nato, the most exposed allies are poland and the baltic states. obviously, the baltic states, small forces on the very edge of russia are areas where you want to make it clear to russia that there are really trip wires, that it can't go too far. what you can't do is credibly move naval forces into the black sea area that would really make a difference there. there is risk of any kind of presence in the ukraine would be so great. we aren't going to take those chances. >> it sounds like not much more than flexing but flexing in places

first up, poland. poland had gone to nato earlier this week and said it had concerns. now, the u.s.ere will be what the pentagon says is an augmentation of beefing up of the us air force presence in poland. there is a small team there. they will add to it. they will extend it. it will stay there for a while now. this team allows us and 16 fighter jets in c-130 aircraft to move in and out of poland. it hopes with all of that, it is a bit of a beachhead if you will. next door to russia, it is a signal of support for poland. a country over history that has always had concerns about russia. then, second, the secretary talked about something called the baltic air police mission. let's leave that map up and explain to people what we are talking about. the baltic states, lithuania, astonia on russia's flight, they are small countries and do not have their own air forces. the u.s. through nato and other nato countries will now increase their effort to help defend those air spaces. they do it in a number of ways. sometimes it is done, indeed, by flying the aircraft over the baltic air space.

in poland, jill biden condemning russia's latest moves. condemning russia's latest moves. >> justifying what is nothing more than a land grab, including what was said today. but the world has seen through russia's action, and has rejected the logic, the flawed logic, behind those actions. >> biden promising the u.s. will respond with more sanctions aimed at russia. sanctionss effectively mocked in moscow. some of those targeted sitting on the front row as fodor putin delivered his speech. like you had a chance to talk to the point man on the sanctions. are they ready to dial things up? quick david cohen is the undersecretary in the treasury department, the guy responsible for this hit list. i asked him, does the u.s. have credibility? is that going to be a credible threat to the russians? here is how he responded. >> it is a powerful tool, a flexible tool, and one we think we have in other circumstances demonstrated we are quite capable of using. i know the russians understand that we have a very good track record, in terms of applying san

. >>> nato is about to begin reconvns flights over poland and romania to monitor the situation in ukraine. uyan is not in the alliance, but russia's incursion into crimea has troubled countries including nato members that were once dominated by the soviet union. all this as diplomatic relations going into deep freeze in the worst ndoff since the cold war. amy kellogg is in kiev with the latest. >> this is said to be the last functioning tv station in crimea that doesn't tow the russian line. the others have been shut. supporters rally around it. the militarization of the peninsula continues with another move on a ukrainian base. most of the occupying soldiers are believed to be russian, despite kremlin denials. some call them the green men. russia said they're protecting crimeaens against a, quote, fascist invasion. >> lawlessness and violence or other acts committed in crimea haven't been bourn out by the fact or any credible reporting. in fact, the only transgressions that have been documented have been ones by russian -- the russian military. >> amidst the hysteria and propaganda, it's

i do not agree with the notion that we should not have enlarged nato, and should not have brought polandand these others burk i do believe that we have to understand that when you get right up gaiagainst the rusn border in places like georgia and ukraine, you have to really think very carefully about those kinds of moves. >> well, it is a sobering assessment from both of you and that what is happening in crimea, a tie theny corner of ukraine has implications of the region and very much beyond. and thank you, stephen cohen who is nyu professor, and princeton emeritus and christopher hill. and now just a few days ago president obama announced the my keeper's initiative, and he wants to em ppower boys to beat the psyche isle of crime and broken homes. in a speech of thursday, he told the story of maurice owens, one of the young staffers who beat the odds. our don lemon talked to him about the obstacles that he had to overcome. >> many of my friends were drug dealers and growing up in the bronx, i lost 16 friends to gun violence and drugs and jail. it is just, it was a norm for everything th

ukraine is not a nato country, but other countries are worried -- the likes of poland and lithuania, for example. the white house calls the move by russia a threat to international peace, and it still says that there will be further sanctions. but again, nothing announced as a direct consequence. russia says there will be consequences to any further sanctions that might be announced by the united states. vladimir putin is not listening to any threats or warnings coming from the united states right now. >> one of the most wanted man in russia has died. the leader of the chechen rebels , and islamist militant group lambing responsibility for a series of deadly attacks in russia in recent years. so far there has been no explanation as to how he died. here is mark thompson. chechen rebelse and the self-styled emir of the he masterminded numerous deadly attacks in russia, including the devastating 2010 double suicide bombing of the moscow metro. dozens were killed in an attack he called retaliation for the killing of 2 chechen militant leaders by russian security forces. >> those were car

sent reconnaissance planes over poland and ukrainian to monitor the borders on wednesday. russian forces controlled the roads leading into crimea from ukraine, along with a fairy crossing. border controls says 100 military trucks and launchers were set in. secretary of state is set to meet foreign minister in london on friday. we will offer certain voices to foreign minister sergei lavrov, and to president putin, through him and to russia, with hopes - and i think the hopes of the world. we'll be able to find a way forward that diffuses this. >> the u.s. has limited options, pressuring russian leader, compared to european allies. europe has strong economic ties, and they go both ways. more than a quarter of europe's natural gas comes from russia. the european union acted cautiously but threatened the possibility of sanctions. for now the american strategy is to help the ukrainian government in ways symbolic and substantive, by pledging money in aid and talking tough about sanctions. besides loan guarantees and denunsiations is the u.s. ready to back the government and stre

first of all -- i understand there are places he can't do it, but poland -- >> poland was never part of the soviet union. it's part of the warsaw pact. first of all, he doesn't want all of the economic problems of those countries. ukraine is an economic basket case. so are some of the other states in the near abroad. so what he wants is political influence, he wants these countries to look to russia for guidance on what to do on the international environment, and he also wants to re-create or create some kind of an economic union, but he certainly doesn't want responsibility for internal problems that a lot of these countries have, especially their economic problems. >> so even though he said the worst thing that happened in the history of the 20th century was the collapse of the soviet union, you believe that if he thought he could re-create the soviet union, he would want to because of all the problems that would go with that, especially economic? >> he just wants those countries of the near abroad, most of all ukraine looking to russia and as part of an arrangement with russia, no

nato commitments and nato relations in poland, i think, are important.little skeptical of this idea that we should be rushing in with an equip-and-train program in ukraine. i don't think that will have any deterrent effect whatsoever on russia, and could actually have the opposite effect. i'm not sure that's particularly thought through. >> all right. let's talk about the idea of punishing putin, that if he gets crimea, that it comes at a real cost to him, potentially financially. obviously, the united states can only do -- only do some -- some -- have some impact economically. europe could have more. but take a listen to mike rogers, michigan republican, about his skepticism of economic sanctions. >> any instability in that region causes economic instability, and certainly will impact europe. if it impacts europe's economy, it will impact the united states' economy. >> so that seems to be the rock and the hard place that the western world is in, particularly europe, which is to punish russia and to punish putin financially, punishes themselves. >> i thi

sent reconnaissance planes over poland and romania. russian forces currently control the roads leading into crimea leadinfrom ukraine and militarys with rockets launchers were sent in wednesday. secretary of state john kerry will be sent to meet with russian foreign minister lav r rov. >> we'll meet with hopes, i think the hopes of the world, that we'll be able to find a way forward that diffuses this. >> the u.s. has limited options pressuring president vladimir putin compared to its european allies. europe has strong economic ties to russia and those ties go both ways more than a quarter of europe's natural gas comes from russia. so far the european union has acted cautiously but has threatened the possibility of sanctions. for now the american strategy is to help the new ukrainian government in ways both symbolic and substantive by pledging $1 billion in aid by also talking tough about sanctions which could include asset freezes and visa restrictions. >> reporter: besides loan guarantees and anunsations is the united states ready to

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