the important thing is the russians are there. putin put the russians russians in crimea. the russian troops do. they spread? do they go to kiev to ukraine proper. when we talk about crimea it's a little knob yule of the peninsula of the southern coast of ukraine. as you see, it looks like part of the land mass is actually separated by water like the cape cod. it's the separate part. do they have gumption -- does putin have the gumption to go to kiev and keep them there. i wonder if the russian people are prepared for that. >> i don't think there's any doubt the russian people are prepared for that. for a long-term occupation of all of ukraine -- , by the way, russians and americans are alike in this. as we could not contemplate 13 years of conflict in afghanistan. they are not -- what they see is an affront. crimea as they put on the posters across the crimea russia and the crimea are one as far as they are concerned. ukraine is the minds of most russians. part of russian. i have no doubt whatsoever, they will try to restore -- to the presidency effectively and soon. >> i

-russian relations. the russians always say we criticize them for things we don't china or saudi arabia for. russia is a european country, they are a member of the counsel of europe, and signed on to conventions of agreements where they are supposed to adhere to the norms and china and saudi arabia haven't done that. it is true the u.s. has not been consistent for criticizing russia and not their neighbors and i go into this in the book because they are important partners for the united states at least in the war on terror. i think the obama administration has been pretty skilled at dealing with these issues. the reset, when it worked, and it hasn't in the last year or two, worked with russia on common interest like iran, missile defense and afghanistan and saying it was a two-track policy and separated from what what the was happening domestically in russia. this has changed in the last year, well the last couple years, since putin has thrown out other u.s. ngo's and we had the acts that banned the adop

many are ethnic russians, and they speak russian, and so they find comfort knowing that the russians are nearby. vladimir putin calling for a russian military exercise on ukraine borders. he calls it a very clear side to show that russia is here present and very, very close and influential on the region. >> jennifer class reporting to us live from the crimea peninsula. now let's head northwest to kiev where our nick schifrin is standing by. nick, what is being said by politicians trying to understand the situation in crimea? >> well, it's a huge sauterne ray. they're calling it no less than a russian occupation, what they're worried about so much here, what secretary of kerry is worried about and president obama worried about in washington is whether this government is up to this task. the government is 30 hours old. this government would have challenges no matter what was happening in the south political unity challenges, economic challenges, unmarked economic challenges. this country will default in three months. and then you add on top of all of that the security challenge, huge s

/russian relations.il a couple days ago, he was the united states ambassador in moscow, but now he's back at stanford university. i'm just guessing, ambassador, someone would have said to you the united states is no longer absolutely positively going to be attending the g-8 summit in russia in june in sochi, you would have thought there wat wa of the question. >> well, that was 48 hours ago, yes, when i was still a government official. obviously things have changed rapidly in crimea. as you just reported from the white house, of course i think it would be nearly impossible for any of the other g-8 members to attend a summit in sochi, which by the way i just saw the facility as i was in sochi just three or four days ago. this is a major event for russia. they've been planning this for many years. it would be a real blow to president putin if that summit didn't come off. >> you know, if you think about it, that they're even issuing -- not necessarily on the record but on background to reporters a threat li

forces from the russian bases. if that's the case, given that the russian agency said the russian forces are surrounding the military airport an hour away from here, you'd have a situation where the returnan forces are outside the perimeter of the civilian and military airports in crimea. i've been here for five hours this morning. nothing has changed and nothing is changing either. there were a load of rumours swirling around, some of the pro-russian civilians claiming that a pro-russian politician from moscow is flying in, and they were here to protect him. others suggested the interior ministry from kiev were flying in and they were here to keep him out. we haven't seen anyone flying in and out. there has been a couple of shift changes of the soldiers. they are just here. and i am starting to wonder whether they are here for a specific purpose, or whether this is the new normal now, and they are here for the same ostensible reason that they say they are outside the military region, which is to keep the out the f

energy delivery infrastructure and conversely ukrainian industry is very much dependent upon russian energy and russian investment so all of these nuances to that relationship are of course completely ignored solely for the purposes of making putin into the bad guy the russians into the big bad former soviet union and making it the responsibility of the west to swoop in on their you know the proverbial white horse and save the ukrainians not have you reflected on what's going on in your head steve go ahead please do. what eric says is completely true but then it poses a question everybody has known for decades that ukraine is at least two different countries one leaning toward the west poland in the way one toward russia it's been a ticking political time bomb for decades the question is who provoked this current political civil war in ukraine which may be the most fateful international development under way the blame has been placed in the west on ukrainian president young recruits and putin but the reality is this was triggered when the european union issued an ultimatum to the dem

russian relationships. why do we need partnership and this is not an overly provocative question because there are a lot of people in government and you are part of the u.s. government who seem to think that it's not that important in to the extent that it's important it is not prepared to be very helpful. do we need partnershpartnersh ip with russia and if so why? >> guest: we certainly do need partnership with russia and russia is still, i mean the united states and russia are the two remaining the rear superpowers in between us we cannot really resolve a number of the worlds major problems if we don't work together. we are seeing that now in terms of syria, in terms of iran, in terms of even issues like terrorism and counterterrorism so russia is not always an easy partner for the united states just as the united states is not an easy partner for russia but we have to work together. we are fated to work together and we have seen that this year when there were plenty of reasons why the relationship deteri

-russian relations.to your russians about saudi arabia and of course the russians will always say that the u.s. pursues double standards that we criticize russia for doing things we don't criticize china for saudi arabia. the russians have of course said that rush is a european country. they are a member of the council of europe. they have signed onto conventions into agreements where they are supposed to adhere to the atlantic norms which of course china hasn't done in saudi arabia hasn't done that it is true that i think the u.s. has in the past not been consistent in the way that it has criticize russia for some things that happened domestically and not criticize some of russia's neighbors. i go into this in the book azerbaijan because they are strategic partners for the united states released in the war on terror. i think the obama administration has been pretty skilled at dealing with these issues. the reset when it worked and it hasn't worked so well and the last year or two explicitly differentiat

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i'm pro russian groups. having classes as well as a protest here in the crimean capital city is running very high amongst those groups of crimea has been majority population of ethnic russians but also about a quarter of the population of the ukrainian and about twelve percent of ethnic talks up to their list of potential that for an exclusive mix of when. when these questions of bush also what the status of crimea will be up within ukraine and moves such as the interim president said russia not to also releasing its full sizzle pro russian forces whatever's happened today. it does not seem to seam to the us the government in kiev but the russians all the pro russian forces are abiding by those agreements. making the situation ever more sense to him and today that tom watson in the coaching from crimea. on the economists in the property of crimea is on the most intense that the docs seattle kitties and the rest of the crimean penny silat is the only ukrainian beach and then actually collections are in the ma

but clearly putting up a russian flag on -- taking the side of russian speakers in crimea. we don't know if these events are linked, but it does seem quite odd that the former ukrainian president who, let's face it, has been denounced all over the place, including here in russia, should sutdly be given airspace on russian television. >> thanks for that update. intriguing. as the polish foreign minister of course said there are now dangerous turns taking place, particularly in what's happened in crimea. more from ukraine later in this program. we go now to the somali capital where a suicide car bomb exploded killing 12 people and wounding others. al shabaab said it carried out the attack. it was outside security services building in mogadishi. we have a reading on the security situation which has seen an increase in attacks suddenly recently. >> reporter: yes, exactly. it has been coming back in the past few weeks. today a car loaded with explosives was driven to a cafe near the headquarters of the somali intelligence areas. they have attacked the area. and several people, i

to many crimean, the russians are a comfort. >> you see russian helicopters flying over, and ultimately does it make it more likely that crimea, this peninsula, could actually split from ukraine? >> well, we haven't been hearing words about secession yet, tony. there is a youtube video of an military airport about an hour from here. we have not heard talk of secession. they already have their own parliament and prime minister. i asked what more do they want? interestingly they said taxes. a lot of the tax gas to ukraine proper. they want to see better roads, schools, everything that we see elsewhere in the world, better autonomy. i haven't heard the word secession heard yet but they would like to be as close to russia as they always been. this has been a part of ukraine since 1954, and they really feel that russia is their closest ally. >> the crimeans worried about pocketbook issues. thank you. >>> in washington secretar secrf state john kerry urged all parties not to inflame the situation. >> we urge all parties, that includes the new interim technical government, rightists, oppositio

the only peoplwho can afford this kind of price are the so-called new russians. ( speaking russian ) translator: the overwhelming majority of new homeowners are the so-called new russians, people who are in the trade sector that's developing dynamically. hardwick: they would tend to be the entrepreneurs, people that are in the travel and tourism industry. some of them used to work for intourist, perhaps. they probably speak english, german, other european languages. and so they, along with, of course, the criminal element that's unfortunately all too common throughout the world, are probably going to be the few people that can afford to buy property. narrator: as long as the gorunovs still have their jobs, they can afford to maintain their apartment. but life has changed for their daughters' generation. their future is no longer guaranteed by the state. many of st. petersburg's industries were old and inefficient and haven'survived the transition to a free-market economy. hardwick: the pace of change in russia has just been so much slower than anybody could have imagined ten years ag

those are russian interests. the majority of the population in crimea is ethnic russian. they don't want radicals coming in from kiev. >> it was our initiative to stop the fire from spreading into crimea. that's why we don't want radicalism here. fascism here. we want peace here. >> crimea has always had close ties to russia. it was part of russia until 1954. the bonds remain strong. earlier this week they occupied parliament. the locals are demanding new check points to protect their families and their homes, they say. >> no one sponsors us. there is a self defense force. from surrounding villages. >> most crimeaens remain the men in camouflage whoever they are. >> part of basic agreements between the ukraine and rush over the black sea fleet. >> that's right, tony. the prime minister hear saying that the these are russian forces. we have no confirmation of that on the ground. these men . >> they number 15 shoes russian sailors. it is a major naval base. they want to protect their interests. we have seen russian armor personnel carriers in the last day or so. they are ju

was a political changes and if you are the ukrainian and gulf war pro russian with the russian flags there for ukraine works here and the tensions are reaching the boiling point. even though i knew several effects their own emotions of the crimean tatars have been siding with the ukrainian nationalist but they were never able to agree on the march i was opposing titles one of our own crimean tartar government as it was but the idea is too far fetched under way at this point however nationalism is far more important than logic of the majority here are expecting the local premier authorities to exercise the political will and not oh well a new ethnic offered in europe to break out. you go to school of reporting from the frame you. and in a bid to gain ground the local muslim tatar community has been holding rallies for the new leadership in the region however they group is a minority most of the area's populated by ethnic russians and over seventy percent of the people consider russian that native language meanwhile the future of ukraine's new government is up in the air as interim lea

is a new cold war i'm joined by my guest stephen cohen in new york he is a professor emeritus of russian studies at new york university and author of soviet fates in last alternatives that currently is out in paperback from columbia university press also in new york we have eric draitser he is a geo political analyst and founder of stop imperialism dot org and in london we cross to mark and he is a modern history lecturer at the university of oxford right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want stephen cohen if i go to you first in new york when you hear the term new cold war because it's part of your title of your most recent book what does it mean to you and what should it mean to our viewers what it means i. i don't know whether we're in a new cold war or a continuation of the old cold war and it doesn't really matter whether we call it a cold war or not but the conflicts the dangers the issues the confrontations that characterize the forty year cold war between the united states and russia and russia in the west are bach and in some ways it's

the russian ambassador to the u.n.red dismissive of questions of a russian invasion. >> is russia willing to militarily intervene in ukraine to achieve your political goals? >> really, even the question is aggravating. >> a senior administration official says the u.s. and its european allies would consider a boycott of the june g-8 summit in sochi if russian trooped occupy ukrainian territory. >> we'll talk about it on the panel in a minute. jennifer, thank you. >>> back here at home, former official lois lerner first revealed the scandal involving the irs's targeting of conservative groups, but when did the targeting itself start? mike emanuel is on the timeline. >> a focus of the investigations looking into the irs targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exempt stating are trying to figure out how it started. after the supreme court ruling of january 2010 up holding the rights of groups to contribute to races, president obama called on them to fix it in his address. >> they reversed a century of law that i belie

-russian relations. to your question about saudi arabia, let me say of course the russians always say the u.s. pursues double standards, that we criticize russia for doing things we don't criticize china for, saudi arabia. the russians have of course that russia is a european country. their member of the council of era. they signed up to agreements where they are supposed to adhere to these alien tick marks, which of course china hasn't done to my saudi arabia hasn't done. but the u.s. in the past has not been consistent in the way it is criticize for some things that happened domestically and not criticize some of russia's neighbors. i go into this in the book because there's strategic partners for the united states at least in the war on terror. the obama administration has been pretty scaled at dealing with these issues. the reset when it worked and how that works so well in the last year or two explicitly differentiated between working with russia on common interests like arms control, like her rant,

kobe bryant says what after watching some russians grinding a helicopter propeller. so we build a similar stage and invited thirty riders from across russia to put on a show for a. while the helicopter on show looked more like a prop from a movie set the ride is grinding it and pulling off moves on it were genuine as with a gasp from the crowd who also braved the freezing conditions to check out the show and what would extreme urban events like this one here be without a special guests i'm here with none other than extreme snowboarder. who is part of the russian snowboarding olympic team that's heading to sochi so is this the right way to prepare for the sochi games. yeah i just came back from a two month trip abroad yes got two days off so i came down here to say hi told my buddy that's right because some of them i haven't seen for ages but really i'm just relaxing now getting my strength back watching my mates show off their skills right now i feel like i've eaten something tasty and i'm calm and relaxed ahead of the games it's perhaps an unorthodox way of preparin

they have no reason to doubt that russians are arriving on russian aircraft. earlier today we heard from jay carney saying it would be grave mistake for russia to intervene and we also heard from secretary of state john kerry, who said he had talked to the foreign minister earlier today, he told me the foreign minister told him, that putin doesn't plan to intervene in the sovereignty. you can expect that what we'll hear from the president is something along those lines, but perhaps more of a outline here of what the united states hopes and expects the ultimate outcome of this very tense situation to be. a very dicey situation. melissa. >> given the facts that it's going to be a simply a statement and obviously it's fluid situation, does that sort of limit the thinking that perhaps u.s. will actually be more involved in the situation? the president is approaching. >>> good afternoon, everybody. over the last several days, the united states has been responding to events as they unfold in ukraine. this crisis, we have been very clear about one fundamental princip

to washington to let the russian officials and more importantly russian doctors access to. let them examine him and to have their own conclusions about what is reportedly a very severe heart condition with with mr yushchenko we spoke to his lawyer and he told us that he is being kept in a very poor conditions and he himself is reportedly suffering from a heart attack and practically no help no medical help is being given to me in the new jersey prison where he's been kept right now let's listen to what the lawyer had to say. go did appear sick to me his face was red hue visibly shortness of breath he would take pauses in our conversation compose himself he was having difficulty remembering the dates and the chronology of the different events that took place this week shortness of breath a burning sensation in the. just high blood pressure these symptoms are indicative of a soon to happen heart attack we also managed to speak to a mistake because wife and she told us that it wasn't the first time that i was suffering from health problems inside this prison let's listen to th

also the international the russian. along anticipated gold the first ever in the sport on the host nation's modern history. meanwhile the russian hockey squad prepares to take on norway and their first playoff game we talked to the man who led the red machine to unpick silver back in the ninety's we go live to sochi very shortly here on out.

ethnic russian population here. 90% of the people here are russian, russian speaking and share a russian culture and heritage. many look toward the east, many believe that they should be under the influence of russia. they certainly have been unhappy about what's been going on in kiev in the last three months and certainly in the last week or so, they believe that the people in kiev are terrorists or thugs or fascists, they say and they really believe that they don't want any part of in a that. >> we have been watching the images of these people in crimea hoisting the russian flag. based on the ground, is there any chance of a reconciliation between those factions in ukraine and the protestors that you covered in kiev? >> i think there's a lot of smoke. no one is talking secession right now. they are calling for a referendum on may 25, the same day kiev wants to hold the presidential election on broadening their autonomy here. i asked crimeans what that means. they have their own parliament and prime minister. they would like more of the tax revenues to stay here and not go to kiev, have

a largely russian speaking part of ukraine, which is home to a massive russian naval base. this is simferopol, the capital. they are saying nothing to reporters. but flights are still operating in and out of this civilian airport as normal. the situation is less clear at nearby sebaterpol. you can see some of the warplanes lined up by fighter jets belonging to ukraine's armed forces. this has been taken over by unidentified armed men. here's our nick childs with the latest. >>reporter: unsettling images for the new authorities in the ukrainian capital kiev and also for many more looking anxiously in the world. armed men on guard in crimea with its ethnic russian majority. in uniform without identifying markings. pro-russian, no doubt. but is there anything more to it than that? with word of similar developments, ukraine's new interior minister has spoken of a home invasion. outwardly it looks calm. the airport has been operating more or less normally. but whoever these men are they are making clear their unhappiness with the dramatic upheavals taking place elsewhere in the

-russian art and ship -- u.s.sian partnership or in case of limited partnership or competition between these countries? >> let's jump in right here. you get the last word from the florida. my name is martin. i am a student at american university. i was hoping you could talk to the article that mr. putin wrote in "the new york times" that at the end of 2013 regarding the syrian conflict. i was wondering if you could speak to the idea that he sees the west as sort of flouting the rules come especially the u.n., for its own convenience and the idea that clinton needs to speak directly to the american people needs than -- that putin to speak directly to the american people rather than through others. what's that ties nicely together to the first question. >> we have a separate op-ed page and news page. thing, you have to understand about on op-ed like ant, the kremlin hired american pr firm who told them it was a good idea to do this and he was happy to do it. i don't think he cares too much what american public appea

the russian ambassador to the u.n. spoke moments ago and he said many of the media reports are wrong and that there were wrong media reports at the beginning of the first world war. that's in the russian ambassador's words, so he's suggesting pushing back on this notion that there are russian troops on the move in crimea. however, we have from our own sources, some concerning reports that they are, in fact, russian forces on the move, and again, what we're seeing here at the pentagon, the chairman of the joint chiefs is here in the building. he's not over at the white house with the president who just spoke from the podium there at the white house. and there's no evidence of any military movements on the part of the u.s. or nato at this point in time. >> hi, jennifer. it's andrea tantaros. earlier, i was listening to you and you mentioned president obama hasn't addressed this issue since february 19th. when i look at the similarities between syria and this, oil comes to mind. if he could just get his hands on middle ea

so we're going to be hoping for a russian gold in the. but also the weather's taken a turn for the worse here in seoul and she had been beautiful sunshine cause havoc really up in rosa khutor and trust not be a pollyanna for some of the cross-country skiing events of the alpine events but this change of weather is actually had quite a severe consequences for the biathlon the mains must start was supposed to take place yesterday afternoon but it's been proposed and three times already and hopefully we're going to try and get it underway in around two hours time that's been postponed because of the fog and it's just very very cloudy out there the moments of the loud. complex rush of had a disappointing biathlon championship so far these olympics only one bronze medal so far for a country which really does excel that it was good he got on the chair in the men's individual but certainly they'll be hoping from the starts will sort of man and the women in action both today and obviously the relays coming on later to try and improve on that sall

-russian art and ship -- u.s.sian partnership or in case of limited partnership or competition between these countries? >> let's jump in right here. you get the last word from the florida. my name is martin. i am a student at american university. i was hoping you could talk to the article that mr. putin wrote in "the new york times" that at the end of 2013 regarding the syrian conflict. i was wondering if you could speak to the idea that he sees the west as sort of flouting the rules come especially the u.n., for its own convenience and the idea that clinton needs to speak directly to the american people needs than -- that putin to speak directly to the american people rather than through others. what's that ties nicely together to the first question. >> we have a separate op-ed page and news page. thing, you have to understand about on op-ed like ant, the kremlin hired american pr firm who told them it was a good idea to do this and he was happy to do it. i don't think he cares too much what american public appea

one-sided coverage from the russian side. what you need to have, we want you to help us bring the truth around the world what is going on. what do we expect from the security council and all communities? all, of all, first of moral support. to understand what is going on. want from them as political support. we want from them to do everything possible in terms of preventive diplomacy. still we have a chance to stop the negative developments and to through strongs voices from around the world. because we have observed this same scenario in many places. somebody comes from this side and into the vulnerable. >> again, thank you. if the security council does not give you the support also because russia is one of the permanent members with a bit of power, can you tell us what your government expects from the european union and the united situation, to the make the situation not escalate more? >> thank you. me, i am following the final stance of the security council. i know that we have the support , whene several days ago the pres

he wants to rebuild the russian empire.y he pressures the baltic stakes and meddling in mullkova and troops are in georgia and he views ukraine as the crown jewel of that. there's an old loin about russia with ukraine is an empire, without it, it's a country. it's a vital part of his scenario for russia's role in the world, and we have to be vigorous in our response, and i think we can be, but first we got to realize who we're dealing with. >> senator john mccain, thank you very much. good seeing you again. >> thank you. >> signed up for obamacare and now desperately wants out of obamacare. but now he can't get out of obamacare. >> this educator makes more than the president and let's just say taxpayers didn't know about it. now they're furious. >> this is ridiculous. this is nuts. my wife -- i give my wife everything. i do anything i can for my wife. i'm sleeping with her. who are you sleeping with? i ke prilosec otc each morni for my frequent heartburn. zero heartburn. becat wohoo! [ male announcer ] prilosec otc is the n

or because he has the charisma of the russian character. but of course it was an action on the short track as well where russia really have been exceeded all expectations but only won one medal or previously before the games it was way back in one thousand nine hundred two c.i.a.'s but with the import of big town who change allegiance to skate russia two years ago he really has in seoul a new confidence in this russian side of course picked up a gold medal in the one thousand meters and going to go out have picked up a silver as well and they have their head coach sebastian kroll really has been talking about how much confidence for don has given because of russia they were talented but were lacking at times money and also there quite a few more events to go in especially the five hundred meters which is big surround specialist events and also the five thousand meters relay which will take place later in the games which actually russia qualified first for also there was a cross-country skiing where russia picked up a silver medal in what's

ok one thing us why if you're not an ethnic russian or you're not a russian speaker. it's a pretty intimidating mood tonight you know one of the walking too much around the streets at least in the center of central pole essentially right now rusted phones the russian speakers up and dominate today are in control of the center of the city in control in the sense that you do not see any ukrainian from the street i've not seen any top cars on the streets which we saw thousands of them yesterday during those of skirmishes and from the parliament they've been practically invisible from the center of the city. we've had in their places to wrap it to a large contingent of russian speakers to writing from various parts of this province of crimea notably from the town of set but still pull the port town with the russian fleet is based they've been coming by bus is they've been coming in a bid coming with flags and they've all been converging descending on the us central square in front of the crimean parliament of parliament which added to my interviewers has been occupied by

division was political changes and it was the only when you and gulf war pro russian with the russian flags there for you playing wags here and the tensions are we seeing the boiling point. even though i knew several dislikes don't most of the crimean tatars have been siding with the ukrainian nationalists but they were never able to agree on the march i was opposing tonto's one of their own crimean tartar government as it was on the idea as too far fetched under way at this point however nationalism is far more important than logic of the majority here are expecting the local crimean authorities to exercise the political will and not oh well a new ethnic conflict in europe to break out. reporting from the great need. the media outlets are raising the specter of russian troops getting involved in the crimea linking it to the turmoil across ukraine but local officials deny the reports they explain is that the person now who are being seen there are nanda regular forces serving at the russian navy base which has been there many. months of turmoil have done nothing to prevent ukraine fro

a group of pro russian activists entered the local parliament and raised the russian flag on top of it the this part of the town is now blocked for traffic by the police but inside that perimeter a crowd of their supporters has gathered in front of the parliament as well also carrying the russian flags and we just spoke with some of the men mainly people are saying they are greatly concerned about what's been happening is passionately about more and more nationalists coming to power there and they're saying that will stand here to protect their national identity just to explain that the east of ukraine and the southeast of the country where we are now are heavily populated by ethnic russians now all of this is happening after wednesday's clashes between broad russian supporters and pro ukrainian was mainly a crimean taught tires and it started as a rally but then political tensions quickly grew into ethnic once. how long how far more into the drain here in the crimea nationalist slogans are being shouted alongside pro russian ones they share the same land but definitely not the same po

over the night a group of pro russian activists got inside the local pollen here and raise that russian flag on top of it and now scores of their supporters have gathered in front of the parliament as well and they're saying that they're gravely concerned about what's been happening in kiev especially about more and more nationalist coming to power there and they're saying they'll stand here to protect their national identity since just explain the east and southeast of ukraine where we are now are heavily populated by ethnic russians all of this is happening after clashes erupted between pro russian supporters and pro ukrainian ones who are mainly crimean tatars and that happened on wednesday and it started as a political rally but then the tensions quickly turned into ethnic was. a lie how far more into ukraine. here in the crimea national slogans are being shouted alongside pro russian ones they share the same land but definitely not the same political views i. was. you would wish that we all came out today to show that without our approval no decisions will be made we see the crimea

star blish the russians or the new russians maybe from abroad that were russian originally take us through that it was well this time of the last pics right the people watching that were russian this time they are russian and i've come away with medals for russia that was an amazing ones too there's a chap called vic wild a snowboarder he married a right and got a russian passport and then after that he decided that he would continue with the sport in russia and enjoy the fun. we came to russia because it could get a father going to states without right that's what he said but anyway he came away the two gold medals it also actually helped his wife because she's a russian snowboarder as well units of arsenal and she won a bronze so effectively his arrival helped them both this is what they said. i didn't have any good studying in the united states and that wasn't going to reach the goals that i want to. cross it was an opportunity to get the balls. to be able to do what i wanted to do to me he brought the new out because he is the way he is way more aggressive than i am he made me a little

there see themselves as russian. this goes way back when stalin was in power. he populated that area forcibly with russians so he could claim it was part of russia or soviet space. we have to remember, vladmir putin, the president of russia, former kbg guy, he lamented, liz, the downfall of soviet union and loss of ukraine and baltic regions there. is concerns if he could invade here he plight invade other parts of the old soviet union which are now independent like the baltics. liz we have waiting but we understand that the ambassador to the u.n. will be speaking momentarily. the president of the united states will trump him. we'll get everybody's comments to you. stunning developments in crimea, just in the southern part of ukraine where all kinds of military aircraft have been landing and they are russian. david: gerri willis will take you right to the president. stay with us. .. dozens of tax free zones across new york state. move here. expand here. or start a new business here... and pay no taxes for 10 years. w

but we have a very close relationship with our allies other than the russians, but the russians, fornstance, are cooperating nowhere nearly as much as the british did, the chinese did, the greeks did. so it's not near that level of cooperation, no. >> let's say there's a toothpaste -- a container of toothpaste and it has explosives in it. what kind of damage could that do to a plane? >> any type of concealed explosive could be extremely damaging, could be enough to bring a plane down. but again, any type of explosive on a plane is of great concern to us. >> so i guess the key question, are the athletes safe right now, the american spectator, the family members, the fans, all of the guests who are going to sochi in the next -- are they safe? >> i would say that they are reasonably safe, but i would not go myself. if i'm an athlete, that's one thing. but just as a spectator, i don't think it's worth the risk. odds are nothing is going to happen, but the odds are higher than any other olympics i believe that something could happen. and the olympic site itself probably is locked down pre

that's russian ukraine. we see what are believed to be russian troops dressed in civilian clothes surrounding military and commercial as well as government buildings in crimea right now. all of this escalating, forcing the president of the united states only within the past couple hours or so to go into the white house briefing room and issue a strong warning. jim sciutto's our chief national security correspondent. the president is clearly concerned right now and his aides are telling our white house correspondent jim acosta, that they may actually consider boycotting the g-8 summit in sochi, russia, in june. that's a huge deal. >> that's right. the president said there would be costs, he'd impose substantial costs and beginning to define what those costs are. they might not attend sochi. granted it's four months from now, but it's a marquee event for russia at the site of the olympics. if you can get some of your allies to join in, recently in the last hour, we had britain's ambassador to the u.n. also con

russian citizen how can i do that you can marry that russian girl friend of yours who happens to be a snowboarder so they did anyway so coming here he got a career and he got love korea and love i mean they were together before have to say that it wasn't an arranged marriage and from that respect kevin there was love there already but look at boston on the slopes too because she got a bronze medal brilliant victory and victory on. he didn't he fell out with a south korean federation skating tokyo with him would he fall over there i don't know if you are but i'm sure the pope had a step too on the phone is what i'm saying it must be some green are these in the south korean a little i want you to go let me give you a quick story first he fell out of the federation he had an injury to you which meant that we did not seem at the last olympics but russia said look if you need another country to represent here we are will give you all the funding and the expertise you need it was a bit of a gamble from russia's point but look at paid off your three gold medal cracky where next. well next

to ordinary russians across the country. well aside from all of the official sporting records there has been a few on official records as well even amusing ones now to start off with almost half of the planet turned in at some point to see these olympics with at least three billion viewers talking about fans they said a surprising sound record during one of victor speed skating races with their cheers reaching as not as one hundred ten decibels now another record has to do well let's hope with future fans thirty four babies were born in sochi on the day of the opening is ceremony the city's highest single day total of newborns and now the sochi games will also be remembered for the weather these were the warmest winter olympics in history those records and many others including some controversies made sorcery a star in social media as well now the sochi two thousand and fourteen winter olympics have now officially closed they provided countless on forgettable and inspiring sporting moments that will be remembered for a long

he is a russian convert who is part of the russian jamman. and there are several others. on january 19th there was a videotape on the dagestan web site up to mujahideen claiming to be from aunts onstar all soon a group. they identified themselves as suleiman and abdul rahman so one of those names suleiman corresponds with the antiterrorist committee's claim of a suleiman. [inaudible] so this means that he was not involved which means the ethnic russian mujahideen are still out there and may still be heard from. in fact the dagestan has been publishing all sorts of recent material encouraging russians to rise up and talking about the ethnic russian mujahideen. one of the key factors of the onstar all soon announce there were two elements and one has gotten a lot of press play. that's the videotape just mentioned. the day before there was a text announcement by the amir of this group and he threatened a chemical weapons attack and said an order was on the table of umar off if russian troops did and was dropped from the olympics. there would be attacks up to and including ch

law enforcement and i would say that russian law enforcement also feel the same. u.s. state department is warning american athletes to not wear united states gear outside the venue. you think that creates fear. i don't know i'm not responsible for the guidance that state department is issuing because had i been interested to do so i would have done it a little bit different but i think that american sportsman can feel safe in the olympics as anybody else is raja concerned that the president obama is not going the vice president does not go in the first lady is not going is that. they regard that as some sort of snub whoa olympics and when i invent where we invite those who are willing to come and we're going to have about sixty leaders of states member of the olympic movement we're going to have about eighty five countries participating in sending they do we gave so it's up for each and every country to decide who they want to send to these delegations to this event so we're pretty comfortable with the decisions that the united states take because it's for them to

russians aren't so when this one it is a russian who's coaching the favorites you may not have heard of the name. but she is the one that's training the canadians and the americans who are hotly tipped to take gold and silver and i fully appreciate the help that she's given them in achieving success. we've been very fortunate to you know work with some of you know the russian talent and ice dancing you know we take from marina's wave and we feel very fortunate to have learned the wonderful things we have that have come out of you know the great russian history of my stance. and there may models are of course the canadians a virtue moir but i shouldn't discount the russians but over. there competing again today and this competition incidentally will be wrapped up tomorrow but do look out for the they've got a good chance of getting on to the podium and as you mentioned before marina was just over half way now russia has got four gold medals that's one more than they got in vancouver and fingers crossed there could be more today are either race is heating up with we can see but for now

then got a russian passport and asked why did he come here what was the story just because he knows a well he know initially he wanted funding he couldn't get the funding he needed to do his training from america and russia gave him the option but they said look you have to be right you russian citizen how can i do that you can marry that russian girl friend of yours who happens to be a snowboarder so they did anyway so coming here he got a career and he got love drea and love i mean they were together before we have to say that it wasn't an arranged marriage and from that respect kevin it was love there already but look at blossom on the slopes too because she got a bronze medal brilliant victory and victory on. he didn't he fell out with a south korean federation skating photo with him would he fall over there i don't know do i but i'm sure the pope had a step too on the phone is what i'm saying you must be some green eyes in the south korean i mean well i'm going to go let me give you a quick story first he fell out of the federation he had an injury to you which meant that we di

a russian did someone and he used that to make some russian remarks to the crowd of thousands and he was booed and hissed very very embarrassing. so something of that nature could transpire also. and like all of my colleagues of course we hope that none of these threats and challenges that we have outlined here in our opening remarks will come to transpire, but i will be watching these games with a special-interest. and let me also -- i want to acknowledge sergei for the work that he has done and i'm sorry he's not able to be with us today. i also want to take the opportunity to thank the carnegie corporation of new york that supported the fellowship of sergei here and also the publication of the report. so let me now open up the floor to questions and comments. if i may i would like to turn over to an old friend here who has arrived in washington in of late summer of last year. that is the esteemed ambassador to georgia. >> for the others, please identify yourself briefly for us. >> thank you distinguished panel georgia holds a unique angle on russia generally. as the new government