earlier this morning he met with polish prime minister dawned tusk the focus will center on ukraine and rauchresident is in warsaw to commemorate the 25th anniversaries of free elections in poland. mike viqueira is traveling with the president on his european tour, what's behind the request for the billion dollars security fund? >> reporter: you know, michael, it's fascinating. the president has taken three extended ove overseas trips andh time the issue you of ukraine and russia's aggression has dominated agenda, no mistake why president obama is here in warsaw poland on this occasion. you mentioned the 25th anniversary of the free elects led by the solidarity movement back in the '80s, there was no any mistake, president obama wheels down air force one the first thing he does is meets the polish president, go to a nearby airport hanger where f-16s, nato f-16s are there for patrol the skies over the new nato countries in eastern and central europe, including the baltic stakes, all anxious about russia's aggression on ukraine. firmly you were the thumb of moscow in the form of the old soviet

eye -- with the iraqi government and actually this is more or less russian line in the region where rauch global kind of conflict in the middle east between shias and sunnis tends to be more on the shia side. >> it's really good to get your analysis. many thanks. >>> protesters in canada have held a rally calling for the release of al jazerra producer mohamed fahmy, he's one of three al jazerra staff members jailed inky just a minute after being accused of helping the muslim brother hood. he holds both canadian and egyptian citizenship. they are also demanding release of an aid for the former president. >>> al jazerra continues to demands the release of our journalists the three were sentenced on monday and have now been in prison for 183 days days, peter greste and mohamed fahmy, ba there are mo happened he had was given seven years because he had a spent bullet that he picked up a protest. >>> the deadline looms over the latest ukrainian ceasefire. the creme inning says all asked ukraine's president to extend the ceasefire with eastern separatists beyond monday. but as paul brennan repo