and now we're hearing from the ukrainian acting leader, we're hearing from sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister. moscow is insisting it isn't behind the unrest in eastern ukraine, but ukraine and the west don't believe them. a lot of new details this morning. sort through it for us. >> reporter: well, sergey lavrov has just been making various statements, accusing the west of hypocrisy in this, saying that russia does not want to destabilize ukraine, that it's not in its interests to see the situation there unravel further, and really, that the question should be handed over to the ukrainian people about how they want to devise their future. russia's saying that the west really needs to take responsibility for any calls to use force against their own people. now, russia considers the government in kiev to be illegitimate. they characterize them as neo-nazis and fascists, and that kind of language hasn't changed. but you know, what we've seen from russia over the last few weeks is a shift, really, from what they were saying, which was that they could intervene militarily, should

. >> on a visit to china, the russian foreign minister, sergei force talked about using to quell thenrest. >> you can be sending tanks it -- tanks against your own citizens while conducting negotiations. i maintain that the use of force in the southeast would most likely sabotage the chances of negotiations taking place in geneva. >> a strong warning ahead of the geneva meeting. russia, the ukraine, the united states and the european union will discuss the crisis in the former soviet republic. >> the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, will meet with the chinese president, ping, ahead of putin's visit to china in may. with more from beijing, we bring in shannon. as the russian foreign minister made any further comments on the situation in the ukraine today? >> the russian foreign minister did make some comments on the ukraine today. he said he was hopeful that the ukraine government would resolve the negotiations and all the problems relating to the legal demands and the protesters in the eastern ukraine. he called this a step in the right direction. so, comments from sergei lav

the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov said the big concern now is that all of this will add up to basically the provocation that the u.s. fears russia has been waiting for in

all these points made by sergei fedorov this morning at a news conference holding kiev responsible for state of the talks at the moment. don't forget we had on sunday night an attack which left 2-3 russian-speaking demonstrators killed at this check point and he sergei fedorov and foreign ministry say this is another example of kiev's failure to reign in its nationalist right wing armed supporters. he also said that it's time that the united states recognized the responsibility it had after it was involved in the formation of the government in kiev. but he did mention about pending sanctions which have been threatened by the white house and saying do not put those in effect yet and just have a look and see what is happening in this country before you go and do that. >> peter, thanks very much for that, peter sharp in moscow and peter was saying ukraine military said there was a shooting on sunday between the army and pro-russia activist and one person killed at a check point in the town south of dansk and two people detained and let's go to dansk and we know the vice president joe bide

officials released a statement saying sergei lavrov stressed the need for the the military to cease operations against the pro-russian separatists in the eastern part of the country. those groups have seized land and government buildings and they refuse to leave. meanwhile ukraine's prime minister says russian military aircraft crossed into and violated ukrainian airspace last night. russia has denied violating the airspace. >>> back in this country, the nra finds itself in a dogfight this year. it's being challenged by a new antigun lobby backed by billionaire michael bloomberg. but the nra and about 70,000 supporters meeting in indianapolis this weekend aren't flinching. executive director pierre says the organization faces a do or die challenge. >> we trust in our freedom, and

sergei lavrov claimed the fighters were unarmed civilians. sergei lavrov insisted that russia had no forces in ukraine and was not trying to manipulate benefit. >> officials released a series of pictures, including these, showing a special forces soldier, who seemed identical to this soldier in ukraine. >> the u.s. is monitor, according to jay carney, and threatened russia with more sanctions. david rhode joins us, an investigative reporter for roit jers and a 2-time pulitzer prize, who wrote about the unhappy relations between russia and ukraine. how the u.s. made the putin problem worse. i'll get to that in a minute. first the pictures - the white house believes these are russian special forces in ukraine. we know sergei lavrov denies it. he and vladimir putin denied there were special forces in crimea. they have since admitted it. is there doubt at this point that the forces are russian and they are trying to destabilize the situation in the east. >> i think there's no doubt that russia is trying to destabilize the relations in the east. t

secretary john kerry spoke by phone with sergei lavrov on tuesday. he urged moscow to tone down the harsh rhetoric and called on them to lay down their weapons and give back the government buildings they've seized. >> ukraine's interim president is urging a crackdown on the places he's gathered. authorities say the bodies showed signs of torture. meantime, nato is deploying part of its nato action resource to the baltic sea. russia has deployed tens of thousands of troops in cities along its border with ukraine. moscow says that's all part of a military exercise. >>> the u.s. is taking steps of its own to try to send a message to moscow, do your part to ease the tensions in ukraine. besides boosting u.s. forces in neighboring countries, vice president joe biden paid a visit to kiev. chief u.s. security correspondent jim schuter reports. >> reporter: mass gunmen still walk the streets in the east and occupy government buildings there. it's a situation the vice president demanded russia stop. >> we call on russia to stop supporting men hiding behind ma

. -- sergei. who benefits from the midst of the russian armed forces are allegedly going to take ukraine? who is actually trying to alienate from our brothers and partners? and can we invite everyone who wants to visit the border regions with ukraine? can we do that openly? >> it has been a matter of international politics for centuries. leaders n recall the after the revolution, you will see that by the contradictions, they really never even thought about a division between russia and ukraine. always fought between wintertory and one nation. now, it just happens that we live in different states and unfortunately, the weakening and separating to compose for one people. ut it is continuing. if you look at what happened to answer your question about who is doing that. [applause] >> there are millions of russians in ukraine. judging by what the chief they ent is doing and even called on killing these guys, russians in ukraine and shooting them with firearms so there have been lots of statements like

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and sergei lov sergei lavrov weo the groups, the deposing of victor yanokovych, proposing that the groups at the time, the people on the side of the protesters in independence square, he said they should be disarmed because part of the russian narrative has been there are armed groups in the western ukraine. and they are a threat to the russian speakers in the east. and un said that that has not been the case, but they hope that they will be able to bring about that convergence. convergence. >> the hope is that with the regional authorities in donetsk. any guarantee that the protesters will be able to accept this? >> that's the question really. it's so granular on the ground, with the protesters, but if you believe the american and the european and the ukrainian government version of events, which is that these people are essentially remote-controlled from moscow, instigated by offers from moscow, yeah, they would accept it if they're receiving orders from the kremlin, which the kremlin denies vehemently. but the kremlin says that they expect it, i would think. >> one of the protesters, t

but russia's foreign minister called the ukraine military operation in the east a bloody crime and sergeiov warned the government in kiev it will face what he calls justice for staging a war against its own people. and ukraine and russia have both sent more troops on the border between the two countries and we have more on the military build up in the area. >> reporter: it would deploy here a day after crimea voted to leave ukraine in mid march, the border guards set up base near an abandon farm and they are the first to face any russian troops that cross into ukraine. >> translator: i don't think anyone is going to come, but looking at the big picture, if that kind of situation comes about we will be the first to meet them. we are ready to fulfill all duties that stand before us. >> reporter: russia already has tens of thousands of troops stationed across the fields that separate the two countries. we are on ukraine eastern border and russia on this side and there is troop movements not far from here and ms moscow said th were military exercises but they are not taking chances and they a

today he spoke with sergei lavrov. what did kerry and lavrov talk about, mike?rst of all this situation is exactly what president obama and secretary kerry and other officials have been warning about for weeks, a pretext of provocate provocateurs, and the troops that president obama has talked about repeatedly massed on the ukrainian boarder, could come spilling over and it would be crimea all over again. jay carney said that these instigators were not local, there is evidence they had been paid, and jen reported on that call between john kerry and sergei lavrov, and here is how she described the conversation. >> he noted that ukrainian government leaders are en route to all of these cities to try to negotiate evacuation of government buildings and deescalation of public tensions. he called on russia to disavow the acts of provocateurs and called on all parties to refrain from agitation in ukraine. >> top officials from vladimir putin to the minister of defense to sergei lavrov have assured american officials that they have no intention of sending troops into uk

who is sergei olinikov. >> guest: is how i am personally became interested in writing the book. telling the story. this was a first time high frequency trading caught my eye really and anybody elses are. he was a high-frequency trading computer programmer at goldman sachs. in 2007, 2008, and he leaves goldman sack in 2009, and before he leaves he mails himself some of the computer code, some of which he has been working on, some of which he had not been working on. and goldman sachs sees this former employee -- he quit to go work for high-frequency trading firm, and goldman sachs panishinged and instantly, like in a matter of hours, days, called the fbi and the fbi instantly arrested sergei and a trial is held eventual eventually and he is sentenced to 17 years in jail for stealing gold magic sack's commuter code. his conviction was eventually reversed and he spend a year in jail. i had three questions. one was, we just come through this financial crisis, with goldman sachs had a lot to do with. the only person who ends up in jail is the person that goldman sachs wants puts in j

. >>> some tough talk from russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says moscow will defend its citizens from attack. >> the warning comes as u.s. troops are in poland. chief u.s. foreign correspondent jim sciutto has more. >> reporter: u.s. troops landing in eastern europe counter the threat from russia. these pair a troopers from the 173rd airborne are the first of 600 soldiers deployed for exercises in poland, latvia, lithuania, and estonia. all nato allies, all nervous about where russia could strike next. and it could be here, tens of thousands of russian troops conducting their conducting their ownwn exercise today just across the border from eastern ukraine. russia minister sergei lavrov appeared to lay the rhetorical groundwork for russia to invade saying russian citizens in the ukraine are under threat. >> i don't see any other way but to respond to protect russian law. >> his comments sparked buittal from washington. >> many claims are ludicrous and they're not based in fact of what is happening on the ground. >> reporter: on the ground the situation is becoming more violent. a

at a news conference after sergei lavrov said the differences were internal and the country needed to be left alone to deal with the situation. >> translator: interference into ukrainian internal affairs should be stopped. but what we see happening is that the west has taken the role of somebody deciding the fate of that country. meanwhile, the current authorities in ukraine do not show themselves as very independent. >> russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov there. medical teams dealing with ebola in west africa are trying to confirm whether it has spread to a new country, mali. nearly 90 people have died in neighboring guinea and at least six in liberia. there are more suspected cases in sierra leon and gambia. i have been joined by ibrahima. this deadly virus seems to be spreading. >> it has not been confirmed yet. but there are signs. fever is one of the signs. and the bleeding is the other sign. that hasn't been seen yet. they are still putting these people in isolation and under control of medical teams. but you're right. this is terrible news for people in that area. there are

and when the secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart sergei law fraud has met to discuss ways of the escalating to include crisis in paris after which the year's top diplomat to create a new breakthrough has been made. john kerry went on to say that washington considers russia's recent completion of the extinction of crimea illegal and illegitimate. in a friendly conversation was even a whoo carl has allowed our own. i made it clear that in the united states still has hers. the russian actions to be legal and legitimate russia's actions over the past several reasons listed and i was obviously the rule of law international community. we still believe on the wrong side of history but any real progress in ukraine. must include. a poll of the very large russian forces is currently single and supporters to die. i raised with the harvester our strong surge in the explosions. we believe these forces to create a climate of fear and intimidation. in ukraine and fresh ice buildup of troops along the qld border has been creating concerned. preheat an invasion or intimidation of the

who is sergey subeight? >> guest: sergey subeight is how i personally became interested in telling the story. this is the first time-frequency trading caught my eye rather than anybody else's. he was a high frequency trading computer programmer at goldman sachs in 2007, 2008 and he leaves goldman sachs in 2009 in before he leaves he mails himself some of the computer code some of which he had been working on some of which he had not been working on. goldman sachs sees this former employee, he had gone to work with a high frequency trading firm in goldman sachs patent. instantly in a matter of hours calls the fbi and the fbi instantly arrests sergey aleynikov and a trial is held eventually. he is sentenced to seven years in jail for stealing goldman sachs computer code. in the event it was reversed and he only spent a year in jail. what caught my eye was the three questions. one was we had just come through this financial crisis which goldman sachs had a lot to do with and the only person who ends up in jail

meanwhile russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has accused ukraine of crudely violating an accord reached in the last week after a shootout in eastern ukraine involving pro russian separatists the russian foreign ministry has blamed the ukrainian far right party property sector russian media showed pictures of a perfectly intact the business content to leave your cropping sector that was purportedly found at the scene you should go to meet her until cards envelopes and said this was evidence the group was behind the attack. twitter users have poked fun at the accusations posting pictures of various popular figures with the profits to their business card at least thirty six thousand runners taking part in the one hundred and eighteen boston marathon year after two homemade bombs were detonated just prior to the fishing line killing three people and injuring two hundred and sixty four. thousands of spectators lined the twenty six point two mile course in good when your teacher and participates over five thousand of whom were forced to abandon last year. kenya's read it you two won the women

russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said those two and current ukrainian all parties to use force to suppress protests in the country's eastern regions should be held accountable. well the deadly yet the deadline robert i even went for prior russian activists to leave the government and police buildings. off to hide in the east of the country. and so far there's been no sign of the promised crackdown by kiev. that was meant to stop all monday morning. instead activists have occupied the more buildings continue to fall from grace will totally unpleasant ties with russia. the country in control of official buildings in around ten towns and cities. russia protest is false police offices out of their headquarters in for the town hall monday and activists are still hope to find buildings. it is the gaps. many protests to say they don't believe the key of all parties to act violently towards them. in central high school barricades and tents have been set up by people calling for a referendum on the region's future the current crisis comes up to the annexation of crimea following a refer

is orchestrating the regime change in ukraine, calling it a "color revolution," that coming from sergey lavrov overnight. i want to go straight to frederik pleitgen, live in kiev this morning. what is the latest you can tell us on this situation? it is becoming increasingly confusing, complex, and finger-pointing between the united states, russia and ukraine somewhere in the middle. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, poppy. you're absolutely right, the situation is very murky. i remember, one of the things we can certainly say is that things have become more violent and there certainly is escalation, rather than de-escalation. we had that incident in the town of mariupol, where ukrainian forces say city hall was taken over by russian forces. however, we reached one of the russian separatists in that building, who says it's still being held by the pro-russian separatists. so, very unclear what's going on there. then, an attack on a military base where apparently several were wounded. there was an attack on a pro-russian checkpoint, apparently, as well, where there were also casualties and

he's echoing basically what sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister was saying on wednesday. he said russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the entire russian federation. so escalating words here, russia still referencing the fact that it's still prepared to use military force if it feels it is necessary, and don't forget, along that border, there are 40,000 russian troops deployed. >> and peter, now we have u.s. troops arriving for military exercises in poland, more on their way. they're heading to estonia, latvia and lithuania, yesterday dutch fighters scrambling and rushing two russian military aircraft out of its air space. what is being said about these developments involving the west? >> well, i think moscow and the kremlin is very, very well well aware that those nato and the united states have both said that military option is ending the escalating crisis in ukraine is not going to get to that stage. what we're seeing now is calibrated deployment of american forces, just to give a bit of reassurance to poland and to the other eastern european countries o

it was a term of art that really only entered in the public discloser when sergei was arrested. he was arrested as a high frequent e trading programmer. there must be something called a high frequency trading program. i needed someone to explain it to me. that led me to the subject. i called some investor friends and disiend what high frequency trading is. kind of sort of but the person who walks through our office and explains this world to us, it is more shocking than you know is brad. >> rose: that's what they said. >> yes. he was still at the royal bank of canada had taken upon himself to find out how the stock market worked. >> rose: because he thought it was not working fairly. >> because he himself was a trader of stock. he ran the stock market trading department at the world bank of canada. in 2008 when all the craziness is happening in the financial sector, he notices a change in the market. it's a very profound change that up to that point, when he went to go buy 100,000 shares of microsoft. it was scattered across 13 public exchanges in new jersey. he would look at hi

on wednesday sergei lavrov warned to moves to counter moves in eastern ukraine could trigger a russian military response. >> if we are attacked we'll respond. russian citizens attacked is an attack on the russian federation. >> forces on the border backed up the words with a series of military exercises including mobile rockets and air to air missile launches. 150 u.s. army paratroopers arrived in pole aned for -- poland, for the first of a series of deployments. we are joined by kiev by a senior associate editor with "the washington post." along with the latest threat to ukraine, russian foreign minister "my only love" says where the government of kiev is consouth-easterned: -- concerned: >> with vice president joe biden, and c.i.a. john brennan, a billion dollar loan, how much influence does the u.s. have in kiev, what does the kiev government want from washington? >> i think the u.s. has some influence. officials you mentioned have been here. president obama ruled out all military force. vladimir putin of russia, on the other hand annexed crimea, which is significant part of ukraine

sergei lavrov denied this emphatically. he said we have no agents troops or intelligence there. what the west doesn't understand is that the people of eastern ukraine, that is the russian-speaking people of eastern ukraine, pro-russian supporters, they've got their own grievances and they mount their own demonstration and protests without the involvement of russia. he went on to say that a really an united ukraine, a stable ukraine is really in russia's interest as long as all groups in the country are represented fully. and he had this message to the u.s. and the e.u. as this crisis worsened. >> we need a honest reaction from the west without double standards and without shifting blame to moscow. they didn't listen to the people in southern and eastern ukraine, now they're using military force to put down the protests. i think it's very dangerous and people who are planning to do so should be punished. >> in the last few minutes members of the foreign ministry office in moscow had been in touch with their counterparts in paris, and they're looking for france to use whatever mea

not so said sergey lavrov. we've got no agents in the area, no intelligence and no troops. this is of course not what kiev is saying. but lavrov was saying what the west doesn't understand is the people of eastern ukraine have got their own protests and being carried out by the people of eastern ukraine and not by people in moscow. lavrov went on to say it is in the interest of russia that ukraine remain stable. that only if all the people in the country, talking about the people in the east the russian speakers there are treated equally. and he had this message to the u.s. and to the eu: >> it should be recalled that violence in kiev's independence square which has resulted in dozens upon dozens of deaths was branded a democracy. while the peacefu peaceful protn the are southeast are considered terrorism. this is hypocrisy beyond any limits and i really hope we'll hear an honest and coherent reaction from our western partners. >> it's been a busy day for lavrov. he had talks with the french foreign minister in paris, calling on what they could to try and halt any military

sergei lavrov made it very, very clear and he always has and so has putin that they reserve the rightintervene in ukraine to protect the rights of the russian-speaking citizens there. quote, russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the russian federation. and he warned there was a pressi pressi pressing -- press dense for that. a previous attack lead almost immediately to a war with georgia. lavrov particularly firm and forthright in his comments about the meeting yesterday between the vice president joe biden and -- and the kiev interim government. he said that it's pretty clear now that in his words, the u.s. is now running the whole show. i think relations now between the u.s. and russia have hit a post cold war low, and they don't seem to be talking to each other. they just seem to be talking at each other. >> indeed, and with that in mind, what is the mood on moscow's streets? what are people saying about this? are they worried? >> i think they are pretty sang win actually, you just have to look at putin's ratings, 80% approval rating the last time they carried out a

sergei is now welcome to ask his question. after the bloodshed in february, land,led ukraine a damned and after he talked to the ukraine colleagues, he said he's not going to public his books at ukraine anymore and he would like his books to be translated into russia. so what is your question? >> mr. putin, for 23 years, ukraine has been opposing russia. that's what actually sort of the strategy. they even had a slogan that says ukraine is not russia. and the most horrible thing is that we have seen this come into bloom because the country is turning actual nationalists to even nazi with all sorts of military raids in the southeast, probably coming up. and the problem is that russia is not making its voice heard in the west. and it's also being blocked in ukraine as well. so my question is how can we get our point across? can we do at all? can we persuade the west to listen to us and to understand us? because i kept out as to whether -- because i have doubts as to whether we can do it. >> certainly. may i call you by your firs

it was a term that really only entered into discourse when sergei was arrested. he was described as a high-frequency programmer. it was never explained. i needed somebody to explain that to me. that led me to the subject, i called some investor friends and i said do you know what high-frequency trading is? they said, kind of, sort of. the people is explaining this to us. >> they said brad is the guy. he is trying to figure it out. >> yes, this young man. he was at the royal bank of canada. tohad taken upon himself find out how the stock market worked. that was the question. it was not working fairly. >> because he was a traitor of stocks, he ran the stock market all the008 when craziness is happening in the financial sector, he notices a change in the market. that upprofound change to that point when he went to buy 100,000 shares of microsoft and it was scattered across 13 public exchanges in new jersey, he would look at his screens and it would be 50,000 shares offered at $20. he could hit a button and get the shares. in 2008, the shares would vanish. it was as

in a phone call to sergey lavrov u.s. secretary of state kerry has urged moscow to quote stop skeletor re rhetoric and a little earlier sophie shevardnadze was here to tell me what was the foreign minister's response to that and more. these are fairly russian officials to interview because he's always very straight to point he doesn't give you those vague layered answers that most of the russian officials do obviously focus around ukraine and he made some really good points. what difference this is between my don and what's going on right now in a new frame because a lot of people watching t.v. in the west right now are thinking that you know what's the difference it looks the same. as ever he can't really put pressure on mr ukraine unless the other side starts to fulfill its problems isn't taking the steps that they promised to take during the geneva agreements we spoke about geneva agreements and he's out that one thing is to put this agreement on paper but the other thing is to actually start fulfilling the promise is

speaking in china sergei lavrov denied russia is stirring up the unrest in ukraine. >> translation: you can't send tanks against your people and at the same time hold talks i have said it before - the use of force will sabotage the talks planned in geneva later this week. they make up lies to justify the aggressive plans. they are spreading lines. the russian federation did not organise it all, i have never heard such. what it is is refuse one's own people the rites to protest opinion and protest against lawlessness. >> the latest from fred weir in moscow. russian officials strongly warned ukraine all along against using force on pro-russian protesters. what more are we hearing from moscow? >> well as you heard, they are absolutely denying any involvement in the revolts that are spreading across the eastern ukraine. like you heard lavrov say it's a load of nonassistance. very have also been, in another direction, saying that they really encourage signs, and there have been signs that kiev reached out to the eastern ukrainians and negotiate grievances, let them have a referendum on feder

russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said that's a sign kiev is not disarming political groups. >>s is useful to those hah want to put an end to this geneva accord. this shows kiev doesn't want to continue the extremists calling the shots. we're worried instead of accepting responsibility, kiev and backers who brought them to power, namely u.s. and european countries are trying to put the blame on russia. >> sergei lavrov clear message from the russian foreign might be administer minister. thanks for being with us here on "gmt." still to come on bbc world news, she's famous for her famous faces. she will talk to us about her career and celebrity subjects. good job! still running in the morning? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. two full servings of vegetables (dad) just feather it out. (son) ok. feather it out. (dad) all right. that's ok. (dad) put it in second, put it in second. (dad) slow it down. put the clutch in, break it, break it. (dad) just like i

small number of casualtyies and killed, in ukraine despite the fact that as early as february 6th, sergeyavrov announced that russia would be forced to intervene. they haven't done so in large force. they have not done so violently in point of fact. are you surprised at the rather calm and business-like, yeoman work they're doing in statecraft? >> i think both side really would like to deescalate this. i think the russians, for one set of reasons, that is, they feel they could increase their influence in eastern ukraine without moving troops there, by intimidation and by supporting pro-russian groups in eastern ukraine. i think the west does not want a big confrontation with the russians on a military basis and a lot of people in the west want this to settle down because many people, particularly in europe, have very close trading relationship with russia and if this thing really blew up it would adversely affect financial and energy and commercial ties. lou: i think we can call it what it is. it is an utter dependency on the part of europe on russia which in and of itself just about dete

sergey lavrov, the foreign minister, has said on many of thens that it is none west's business what russian troops do inside russian territory, but of course in a situation where crimea has just been annexed, where there is huge unrest in the east of ukraine, which many people -- in a situation where it have these deep divides, can be seen as a prerogative measure and putting huge pressure on the government in iev. >> more ethnic violence has had this central african republic. fighting between the christian militia and the minority muslim fighters. the first european troops have arrived there hours before the u.n. is set to vote, sending in some 12,000 more peacekeepers. the vote at the u.n. later today comes after forces from chad began withdrawing from central african republic. that was following reports some of chad's soldiers had killed dozens of unarmed civilians. divided where chaos rules. thecan union troops patrol capital. any piece here is fragile at best. forces are struggling to fill the gap after the withdrawal of 850 soldiers from the mission. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. sa

received assurances that russia will not invade and ukraine the statement says russian defense minister sergei showing the baby promise to his us counterpart truck a golden phone call russian troops have recently carried out major exercises to ukraine's border. choi to explain to go with your presence is due to concerns about possible violence in eastern ukraine. he said ukrainian authorities could use force to harm civilians readers of the us and the european union are urging present but the report him to hold what they called russian intervention in ukraine the white house spokesperson j carty said russia has not only failed to meet its commitments but as escalating the crisis. russian diplomats had agreed in geneva this month to help de escalate tensions in eastern ukraine carney also the administration will apply sanctions to seven more russian officials. seoul the seventeenth of april institutions and energy firms leaders in europe added fifteen names to their sanctions list those targeted will face travel bans and asset freezes. jody needed as sentenced to nearly seven hundred people dea

the running to show you are very close with sergey lavrov also that ukraine's interim government pushing further with its military operation in the spotlight the geneva peace accord. surfing countries gather in south america to look at whether it's time to break america's stranglehold on the internet in the wake of the mass surveillance scandals. scaring scotland into staying former u.k. prime minister gordon brown warns fellow scots from voting against breaking away from britain in the crucial upcoming referendum. you're watching r.t. international first this hour russia's foreign minister has exclusively told r.t. that he believes washington is deeply involved in the standoff between kiev and protesters in eastern ukraine just some of what sergei lavrov had to say in his interview sophie shevardnadze. no the joe biden visit to this government that there is to ration was the clue with the extra fees again well it's quite telling that they chose the moment of vice president of the united states visit to the unknowns the resumption of the ration because the launching of this would be rati

including sergey shevchenko, injured by shrapnel. we found him in hospital in mariupol today, he said he and his group had no firearms, they wanted to seize those in the base so the soldiers couldn't fight people like him who want an independent republic in eastern ukraine. >> ( translated ): we took molotov cocktails to the military base because they turned the lights off and we couldn't see anything. if we were going to take their weapons we needed to light our way. >> reporter: but molotov cocktails are not lights molotov cocktails are for exploding. >> ( translated ): if you want, you can kill a person with a toothpick or a fork. is that a good explanation? >> reporter: police were guarding his hospital room, he said he expected to be arrested when he recovered. anti government protestors remain in control of the municipal headquarters in mariupol. in donetsk tonight, those who support the government in kiev are rallying round their flag, showing that not everyone in the east wants independence or closer links with moscow. the ge

was that an important admission, and there is a lot of space, between what sergei was saying in geneva, and what putin was saying in this wide ranging news conference. it is important to mention that the geneva discussion did not talk about crimea. and putin and his prez conference, said that crimea was a case because they had a huge public support to join russia. putin said it in his prez conference, it believe it is much less. unlike crimea wants to go to join russian federation. there are certain armed groups on the russian flags. the fighting now in eastern ukraine, but all showing the majority of the people living there don't want to move to russia. i think very seriously for the influence, but on the other hand it is a very serious option for the west with, to offer those people something interactive, and can they do it or not, it is a question for the part of the conference. >> it is an interesting point to turn to you, because you heard what nikolai was saying about a large number of ethnic russians not wanting to join russia. does that create an opening for a way to live insid

vice president biden is supposed to meet with the acting president and prime minister yatsenyuk now sergei lavrov, russian foreign minister, sailed that he would like to see the u.s. pull its weight and i think one of the main issues here is that there is a discrepancy in understanding that agreement as far as kiev is concerned the agreement only concerns the buildings that have been seized here in the east and southeast of the ukraine. whereas moscow and anti--pro russian protesters say no, that agreement is for everyone, and they would like to see those who are barricading themselves in kiev to evacuate that public space. they also say that so far they have not received any kind of assurances from the government, only talk, and with the level of mistrust they're not going to leave this building any time soon. now the organization i has been meeting with leaders of several of these buildings, trying to show them that that agreement was dismissed as some of the protesters where we were not represented there, so who talked in our names even though just before that agreement they were lookin

secretary of state john kerry spoke with his russian counterpart, sergei lavrov, by phone. he warned of additional consequences if russia did not take steps to de-escalate the situation. erin mcpike has more on washington's response. >> reporter: we just learned that vice president biden will travel to kiev ukraine, april 22nd to meet with government leaders there as they try to move forward with their new government and have elections plans for may 25th. he also will be focused on the latest outbreak of violence in eastern ukraine. and talk to leaders there about how to deal with it. that comes on the heels of a statement from the white house from national security council spokesman laura lucas magnuson who says we call on president putin and his government to cease all efforts to destabilize ukraine and caution against further military intervention. we all know secretary of state john kerry will meet with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and members of the eu in geneva on thursday as they try to work ahead to a diplomatic solution. obviously with the latest outbreak