where all this comes amid surfacing reports of troops from the west of ukraine moving towards the south eastern regions and in particular crimea the peninsula which is holding a referendum on whether to stay part of ukraine soon remains on high alert and artie's policy now takes a look at exactly who is guarding the boards. every headline the same message the russians are in crimea russia invades crimea russian forces tighten their grip on the black sea peninsula western media seems determined to convince the of us russian soldiers are on the streets of crimea so we decided to take a look for ourselves who is patrolling the region these are the people we met a minute we are on our own land we protect our own land you need is furious he blames mind on protesters for creating instability in the region that must now be addressed. guys clean your own mess and your own cities clean the mess in your own townships where you live you have no business in crimea this is the headquarters of the volunteers of the self-defense squads around the clock leonid dispatches patrols to protect the peninsul

that ukrainians are living in terror, and he denied that he put the russian army into crimea, south ukraine. they are local self-defense forces, putin said. some of the troops fired warning shots today near ukrainian forces. president obama said that russia is not fooling anyone, and he does not respect ukrainian democracy. >> and mr. putin can throw a lot of words out there, but the facts on the ground indicate that right now, he is not abiding by that principle. >> reporter: secretary of state kerry was on the square in kiev where hundreds died in demonstrations trying to take down the pro russian prest. kerry denied that ukraine is plagued by the terror that russia says. >> rush ha is working hard to create a pretext for being able to advance further. >> the u.s. plan is to pressure putin not to. >> can we affect the outcome here? >> the former ambassador said that economic sanctions could stop putin. >> he is sensitive to that and he should be, because it could have a real effect on the economy. >> reporter: and in the congress are ready to freeze the assets of russia if there is no pul

with ongoing defiance in the south of ukraine again the self-imposed in the capital defense forces in crimea are being continually by soldiers swearing allegiance to the region rather. energy hungry industry without gas threatening to bury an economy already on the brink. also was. facing execution of coming out as gay its application for asylum in america rejected his supporters say he's a victim of politics. and hundreds. of fracking in the u.k. saying the drilling technique will pollute neighborhoods. with the world's top headlines live from moscow this is international with me. thank you for joining us today the east and south of ukraine seeing persistent protests against the posts in the capital of people have been a rallying on a nearly daily basis and there are growing calls for the regions to fight for more autonomy a short while ago i spoke to peter all of that's in eastern ukraine. what we're seeing right now and done yet sq is there are a group of riot police outside of the local government headquarters that barricading the entrances to those headquarters and this is after

>> if you read our program, the special message to the east and south ukraine. the first message is security. the second message is the defending of all their rights including language rights, minority rights, everything. >> the deal prevented a division of forces among politician who is wanted closer ties with europe, an end of corruption and furious with the annexation of crimea. however, there will be another prime minister, yulia tymoshenko. >> she was officially nominated on assault and she, too, is promising a cleaner more responsive politics, but also to stand up to russia. >> if the people will trust me with the presidency i will never let any aggressor take our land without a fight. my aim is to demand cessation of the occupation of crimea. i do not accept an evidence. crimea is part of ukraine. and we will have it back. >> the mayor and pledge to give more power to ukraine's regions. >> poroshenko said he hopes tymoshenko will join forces with him in a vote that is less than two months away with how they can keep the country together. >> a dozen other

in the south ukraine, the parliament voting to to become part of russia.s symbolic, and later today, the u.s. introducing sanctions against russia and talks end up without resolution. >>> the house committee hearing testimony about the crisis in ukraine, and it's going to vote today on an aid package from washington. >>> and president obama will be hosting a town hall meeting for the latino community for the affordable care act. the deadline is march 31st. one in four hispanics are not enrolled. >>> doctors are reported that a california baby born with a virus causing aids may have been cured by early treatment. as erica explains, this is the second time it has happened. >> this time last year, we learned doctors in mississippi essentially cured a baby infected by hiv by giving the newborn high doses of aids medication. that child is now three years old and hiv three. that same case inspired doctors in california to treat another infant the same way, and now we're learning that the treatment may have cured this baby girl too. one month after the news broke

and south ukraine as well. and as the short russian supporters in crimea it is also not true because the problem is the lack of information as it has never been abroad maybe 25 or 30% of the pension who are over 60. they could be manipulated first of all by the russian media. because of the lack of information. but i took to my friends in crimea, and they do not want to have that russian troops. talking about crimea, people are interested in getting the profits. they want to get profits and when they see what happens in crimea nobody will go there. 70% of the population believe because of the profits. some statistics to understand the situation it's not very good, so just 30% of ukrainians are below the poverty line. that's why the population is really poor. the average pension is like up to $300 per month. then a lot of young people like [inaudible] the second is the opposition experiencing international and it is also not good because we felt like we share the same position and transparency at least in some a

ukraine enjoining russia. so everywhere in the east and the south of ukraine should be aware that. most people, vast majority are strongly in favor of maintaining territorial integrity of ukraine. why some people do come to the separatist camps, so to speak? many of them are being brainwashed and subjected to russian propaganda which has been carried for years i russian tv stations and also by ukraine central station. and also by many local channels. many of them are senior citizens who have their nest osha for soviet times so they've been trying to think of situation in terms of some kind of time machine that would probably transport them 20, 30, 40 years into the soviet past which is not possible but that's another important element in segment of that kind of camp that i've been talking the. there's a constant manipulation with the language issue, which you are well aware, and, of course, most of the calls are coming from moscow. but for one, i am russian speaking ukrainian from odessa. i never felt any persecution but i've never felt any kind of fear of this new government in ki

strategic cricket eritrea is set to be more to keep the russian invasion is due to the east and south ukraine in scorching protest the recap. the misfits the headquarters of the city and through the russian flag from its roof and it came just now was up to kiev. both teams managed to fly to right in front of the donetsk sixteen more widely read has since been taking place in the east ukraine into the city . i am the owner can use on him more. you can do it the eye. each step. it all deep. be you. foreign correspondents gathered outside the police institute in cairo as the second day of the trial of a group of journalists working for international broadcaster of the sierra got underway coming from bebop era muhammad all shiny and peter increased among twenty defendants being tried on charges of belonging to and aiding a organization in their coverage of the muslim brotherhood of the twenty only it were thought to be present in court with the rest being tried in and cynthia. andrew greased and a brother of australian journalist peter rees said he hopes of that evidence would start being heard a

that reporting from the south of ukraine in crimea she says now stay with us as r.t. continues to examine the turmoil in the country. the easiest place for billionaires and dictators to launder money why because it's the only country in the world you can have an honest more precious lot of americans create over seas and then those sixty's create anonymous corporations in america so they launder their money in america general electric they made billions of dollars of revenues they paid less than twenty million dollars in taxes last year because of massive fraud because america is the easiest place to commit mass. put on your. face is your. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. so to recap up breaking news this hour russia's upper house of parliament has voted unanimously to allow the deployment of military forces in ukraine until the situation there stabilizes let's listen to this statement that was made. that's why the of having considered the appeal of the president of the russian federation and in the interests of the safety of the lives of citiz

if so, putin will almost certainly send 100,000 troops into south and east ukraine. he is only in crimea now. that's the cuban missile crisis, only worse. then the next step let's don't even talk about it. the problem at the moment in terms of negotiating is the white house says the government in kiev, which overthrew the elected president on february 22nd, i believe, is a legitimate government. the russians say it's not le nit mat and they're not going to talk to them. so bringing the foreign minnesotaster of this government to the white house isn't moving forward. >> three steps from war, how do you climb down from that? we had seven days in okay. this is march. who blinks? >> nobody blinks. what you do is you ask yourself is russia right about anything in this crisis? even this much. does russia have any legitimate national interest? even on its border. if the answer is no, you have to go to war. technically if you call putin hitler. then the lesson is war. if, however, you say, okay, we see it, russia is worried about this. that's where you start talking. putin w

the position of andinian official elites, the role of the russian government in the eastern and south ukraine. i will be sure to [indiscernible] odessa and the republic of crimea. [indiscernible] about 40% people, or of the population of ukraine. around 7 million are russian, 30% of the population of this region. in other words, southeastern 82% of approximately russianss are [indiscernible] the rest of the russian population range the populations range across different regions to 72%. sevastopol and other regions, ethnic russians account for part of the general population. 36% of the population. in crimea, about 60% of the population. everywhere ukrainians and russians are combined. 95% of the total populations. the exception in crimea where crimea tartars are an ethnic minority. easternarly in the region of ukraine. the communist party of ukraine has a level of support for significantly declined elections in 2007. the 2012 elections, the support for the party ranged to 52% to 57%, depending on the region. around 65% in one region. the russian nationalist party has traditionally been margina

throughout the south and east of the ukraine while. the assertion that the united states and other western countries have interfered in the political process is in the ukraine causing russia to respond likewise to restore stability in the constitution order are valid i don't think that the escalation at this point of removing the russian ambassador to the united states and what is an extremely crucial moment. is likely the vote may go through but whether putin would actually sign such a declaration and make it into effect seems unlikely to me. and also the threats from some quarters calling for ukraine to or build nuclear weapons we just had a report on just a huge like explanation about what's going on there and they say it's a leverage against russia what reaction can we expect from the west ok i again this is. things that are being said and repeated on the internet in an extremely emotional and somewhat hysterical vein the fact in particular that this was said bice for. party members a party that is now part of the regime. whose lea

influence but you know it's ukraine and russia have go back a long time together and of course as i already mentioned as we all know a lot of those areas in the east in the south of ukraine really. should probably be part of russia or independent russian speaking states and not part of the ukraine and i think the first future stability as i say maybe some sort of a partition of ukraine into i'm not sure why that's such a horrible idea to everybody but. you know in the want term i think that may be a good settlement. well time will certainly tell in this situation ivan eland u.s. defense analyst thank you very much thank you stay with us as our to continue to look at the turmoil of the ukraine after a short break. a . little lights around. you but. you. pay for the young girls cam all for the future harder. you know between two and three hundred million guns united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from. the causes that is the law or you know i mean this teaches them a lot of rote sponsibility and since the gun debate through the eyes of children if we can't do it for our children move for our future what the country will say you. w

referendum although the region's state as well the majority of the population in that east and south of ukraine that is a safe bet that the seasons and was taken by the country's new authorities on the legal and his my report book one of sixteen seasons but was never recognized here. this is the golden eagles swansong dan coats. ukraine's in the police force. after weeks of deadly clashes in the capital kiev on the orders of the ministry of internal affairs to protect government buildings from riot is. and then it's on you more. ukraine's new authorities would equate to disband thousand strong anti riot units two little pieces would need to come to the meal in western ukraine and beg for forgiveness biomedical counted came pelting them with optics the country's anti needed to remain distant place in his internet page that the bad guys finished the new muster the political will from the conference. there are many among us to sacrifice the health and lies to protect citizens. after twenty two years of service the gesture was so like garbage. it's painful the two new nieces spent two decades and t

ukraine. also we know that in the port city of odessa in the south of ukraine at least two thousand people are now protesting against their sleeves to listen while they are among the dumont says the new goblin as well be complete if reform of the judicial system as well as something new with a tomato that today that's not the so called rights act to the ipod line nationalists for all the protests in kiev to be bad the situation now in height of the biggest in the study craig is a calm but some forty eight hours that go with playdough witness to a huge disturbance at the central square when a pro western activists clashed with the so called euro my gun activists who were the sort of controlling the local administration that i'd tell you more about that in my report. just when the self proclaimed his and he thought they had control of the country. thousands took to the streets of some of the largest cities including kite go on saturday and living to be governed by the new authorities in the capital. like i want my kids to live in peace but will i do need a ukrainian and russian. yes the least li

wall and the end of diplomatic relations between russia and ukraine in the same press conference he had also reached out to ukrainians in the south and east of the country the russian speaking regions saying that the ukraine protects all its citizens regardless of the night which they speak or what to say perfected gutsy and that there's no need to see reviewed this new government said in the kitties any kind of threat to russian speakers there was a sensible them it is like in a different areas all of the country because it very much varies from one region to the next. just how people are feeling right now of course the areas that people are watching it the most of these russian speaking regions in the east and south of the country up until today. they seem to be confined to crimea which is in exceptional cases an autonomous republic with the dogs proportion of its population you are a city russian now even in the east and south of ukraine another them anyway consider themselves to the ukrainians to speak russian and that simple in distinction to make and that's seems that suggested that they were not to rising up to infuriate g

ukraine? there was another theory we need to watch out for which is he goes across the south of ukraine all the way across. by cutting off ukraine by any access to the black sea. that may be one of his lands he is thinking seriously about. >> if he does that and goes through georgia even -- you said no american boots on the ground but if he does all of that and keeps going, could there come a time where there has to be an american led, nato force there? or is that off the table? say -- i would have to say because they are not members of nato, i think it would be very questionable. somenk it would have to be kind of consideration but i doubt the europeans would agree to it. in the case of the baltic countries, they are now members of nato article five. it would be hard for me to believe that there would not be a nato response to an out right invasion. wouldn'tn't believe we have some kind of military response. it makes me believe that he probably wouldn't do it directly. he is trying to undermine these countries. >> you have been skeptical of the economic sanctions but the world bank says it wil

have a referendum over the region's taters while the majority of the population in east and south of ukraine say that decisions and laws taken by the country's new authorities are illegal and here's my report about one of such decisions that was never recognized here this is the golden eagles swan song the bear ukraine's elite police force after weeks of deadly clashes in the capital kiev on the orders of the ministry of internal affairs to protect government buildings from rioters the bankers are no more. ukraine's new or through she's with quick to disband three thousand strong and to right unit. officers were made to publicly kneel in western ukraine and beg for forgiveness while local shouted shame counting them with objects. the country's acting interior minister posted on his internet page that the barrackers a finished for her for political more for it's hard for us there are many among us who sacrificed their health and lives to protect citizens after twenty two years of service they just threw a sound like garbage it's painful. little denise of spent two decades in the ukrainian pol

all my don protests and push other than the destruction of the ukraine as a state is the political and identity wakening of the east and south and because of that these these two national and identity pitted against each other east and west the ukraine will never be a unitary state again let me go to chris off in berlin and one of the things that i'm always worried about is that we have we've seen these election cycles go around in around ukraine and never resolves anything. exactly and i would like to offer a kind of benchmark from you to my colleagues here in cross talk today they say unless you know the european union or nato or wherever interferes in ukraine right now as the master should come up with a sure fired model how to overcome corruption and go back to good governance or go to good governance not back please in ukraine unless they succeed people in ukraine especially in the south in these they would turn to putin they would turn to russia because that guy reined his only guy in for sure and that is very much we still have to live up to in europe ok gentlemen we've run out of time many thanks many thanks to my gu

have a referendum over the region's taters while the majority of the population in east and south of ukraine say that decisions and laws taken by the country's new authorities are. illegal. well earlier i spoke to on the city keyes the organizer of a rally in the city didn't it proper tough skin eastern ukraine and he explained what drew people to the streets in the first place and why they want protection from russian. people who come together they. never take the way he. claims the power or cultural differences in this country generally imply that we leave. at least. so governments or at least some protection and this is. the police all around the country they get them they kill them and the police now is just. has just lost its moral and the only way for us to win protection and we have gathered today. all around the eastern ukraine number of. these groups and these liberals can go to the election but first we need the ordinary store if we need to have the or there is why within. us we're joining me live now is political commentator an example. in london. ukraine's interim authorities the

referendum on the fate of the whole region of dumbass which is the east of ukraine also we know that in the port city of odessa in the south of ukraine at least two thousand people are now protesting against jeeves's rule as well they are among the demands is the new governor as well the complete reform of the judicial system as well as something new or they have demanded today that now these so-called a right sect the hardline nationalist core of the protest in kiev to be banned the situation now in hiding of the biggest city in the used to be great is calm but some forty eight hours ago we played witness to a huge disturbance at the central square when a pro russian activist clashed with the so-called during my down activists who were sort of consoling the local administration and i tell you more about that in my report just when the self-proclaimed leaders in kiev thought they had control of the country. tells instructor the streets of some of the largest cities including her on saturday and the willing to be governed by the new with origins in the capital. i want my kids to live in peace with all our other labor both u

the system from here the spreading across the south east of ukraine the protests of the thousands that is against the far right nationalist taking up alot of syndicate and as we seldom use diplomatic sword planting but as with the united states is deadly clashes in caracas and beyond. see washington accused of shooting the trouble. and it was a true christian creed patrols the streets of london. maybe it was held to aggressive islam the kitchen the local community has paid its actually something religious base stories and the lake this is the week the bomb on the international. he can wander of ukraine's naval forces has pledged his allegiance to the crimean people. it follows reports that ukrainian troops stationed in the peninsula but either quitting would jointly court defense groups on less effectively putting the authorities in crimea the tantric buddies were freshman has more. on sunday the challenge of ukraine's naval force pledged his allegiance to cry means people swearing to strictly comply with the orders to the supreme command to all the economists region. mr berry's ok was

support for ukraine's new authorities is fading fast in the south and east with funnel zones of troops in crimea pledging allegiance to local authorities and cities in the industrial east calling the kiev government illegitimate. some of ukraine's richest oligarchs agree be a revolutions rewards and all given over to economic powerhouse regions with key you keen to stamp out the rebellious sentiment sweeping across the southeast. under good intentions bad consequences western humanitarian convoy.

ukraine and joining russia. everywhere in the east and south of ukraine, you should be aware of that, most people, the vast majority are strongly in favor of maintaining territorial integrity of ukraine. why some people do come to the separatist camps? many of them are being brainwashed and subjected to russian propaganda, which has been carried for years by russian tv stations, ukrainian stations and also many local channels. many of them are senior citizens who have nostalgia for soviet times, so they are thinking of a time machine that would transport them 20, 30, 40 years ago, into the soviet past. that is another important element, segment of that kind of camp that i have been talking about. there is a constant manipulation of the language issue, of which you are well aware, and most of the calls are coming from kremlin moscow. i am russian-speaking ukrainian from odessa. i never felt persecution. i never felt any kind of fear of this new government in kiev. i never felt any kind of scare of these so-called radicals coming to odessa to forbid me to use the russian language and talking to my friends and family.

whatsoever market here in moscow please address the issue of the russian speakers in east and south ukraine now after this these events with crimea today are you worried. extremely much so as with over the last three or four weeks today we saw huge protests of russian ethnics russian speakers all those in the east and south ukraine who draw their cultural identity and their political orientation towards russia they are demonstrating. for referendums calling for referendums that would allow them to repeat what the crimea has just done to escape this insane putsch regime that has occupied kiev and raising the russian flag over government buildings in order to counter this this puts regime has installed a number of all of darks as. the rulers of fife domes over the east ukraine to repress these protests and ensure this new order's dominion over east and south ukraine and along with that is the assumption that they will use out of their own pockets higher thought paramilitaries in order to keep the people down and if this revolution was supposed to be about corruption and restoring human dignit

was a protest against a self imposed government in kiev how the non stop to the east and the south of ukraine and this is the city of finance our crowds have been waving russian flags picketing in front of administration buildings has been banned but peaceful protests swept across other parts of the city so called self same squads representatives from the funnest party and other activists set up camps on the main square. among the things that they are demanding is that referendum on the region's status. he also won russian to be the second official language international monetary fund says it's ready to support cranes new government would allow the country's political crisis cost of economically but the ins european handball we use the countries on the path to stability. eu taxpayers are not so convinced and some are not happy about taking on another struggling economy which isn't even part of the block policy or has the story. ours was an immediate video. was to drink. financial resources to the country it's pretty obvious previous responses are coming from because they don't. the high commi

jeneesa saying there are indications that rush that is preparing military intervention in east and south ukraine. is there a move to give the benefit of the doubt. >> that would clearly trigger the next phase of sanctions. it would trigger, i imagine, ultimately a massive economic and trade war between the russia and the european union. look, what i think there is a resolve to do at this moment in time, nik, is for the eu to begin assessing, reassessing its whole relationship with moscow in terms of the energy that europe gets. it gets one-third of its gas or so in russia. in terms of the economic and trade links with russia. in terms of reassessing whether or not moscow is still a strategic partner that brussells and the rest of the eu can rely on. and if they follow through on some of the thinking that i'm hearing about at the moment, if they can maintain the momentum, then what we are seeing today is the start of a seismic shift in the relationship between the eu and russia. we have been here before in 2008 when there was that brief war between russia and georgia. then there was something ide

there are special messages for the east and south ukraine. first message is security.econd message is the real defending of all of their rights, including language rights, reledgeous rights, minority rights, everything. >> the. >> they want closer ties with europe and who are furious about the annexation of crimea. however, there will be another candidate from that camp, the former prime minister julia shevchenko. she was nominated for her party and is promising a cleaner more responsive politics but her typical firebrand style to stand up to russia. >> if the people will trust me with the presidency, i will never let them take our land without a fight. my aim is to demand a cessation of occupying crimea. i do not accept any of the evidence that crimea has lost ukraine. i must tell you i will never accept that. crimea is ukraine, and we will have it back and free from aggression. >> poroscheko says he hopes tioschenko may george foisz with him. the mistakes are more than choosing president and they determine if and how the country can stay together. >>> nick speicer re

in the south of ukraine, the crimean parliament voting in a symbolic gesture to become part of russia europe international talks wrapping up once again without resolution. the white house orders sanctioned of those disrepping the democratic progress in ukraine today. the president hosting a townhall meeting hoping to raise enrollment numbers within the latino community or the affordable care act. one in four hispanics are uninsured and eligible. >>> the united nations says family farming is see to fighting world hunger. at a global forum this week in budapest, farmers are using creative techniques to fight food shortages. >> reporter: this farm the plan she planted two weeks ago is growing well. he is going to start harvesting in a week. he plants vegetables, strawberries, and food for his animals in troughs, trays, and pipes, using only water and nutrients. it's an ancient farming that is becoming popular here. >> we don't have to buy the vegetables. we don't use chemicals, so we know we are growing nutritious vegetables pesticide free, and we are able to get them [ inaudible ] >> re

russia has invaded the south of ukraine.n over the military installations there, it has taken over many of the government institutions, it's taken over a missile defense shield system location there today. it, in essence, runs it. you don't see it on the streets, but it is a fact. and it would appear, at least for the moment, after this meeting tonight, that the united states and europe can't do anything about it, at least for now. so where did all of this begin? it began in 1994. ukraine was a nuclear nation after breakup of the soviet union. then three parties got together to sign an agreement. they were russia, the united states, and great britain. and think all said, in essence, we're not going to try to gain any advantage by working for or against ukraine. we're going to respect their territorial sovereignty, and we're not going to enter into any agreement that would give you leverage over the others, which is where this began. because the russians entered into an agreement with the ukrainians, under the previous admini

have a referendum over the region's taters while the majority of the population in east and south of ukraine say that decisions and laws taken by the country's new authorities are illegal. it looks like that is not only people on the street to a waving russian flags in ukraine according to reports ukraine's navy flagship the get it. is refusing to follow waters from kiev and has hoisted the russian naval flag but this comes after the naval commander resigned two days ago the vessel is now on its way back to the black sea after taking part in nato drills. so what is are drawing people out in protest and why are they inviting a foreign force to get involved if you put that to the organizer of the rally in the city of knepper pitofsky that's in eastern ukraine and people who come together they. never take their way. claiming the. cultural differences in this country generally imply that we need protection and this is. the police all around the country it is them they killed them and the police now is just. has just lost its money and the only way for us is to claim protection and we have gather

the agreement they signed creates an autonomous muslim region in the south. ukraine drew new international support today. the u.n. general assembly condemned the referendum in crimea that led to its annexation by russia. and the international monetary fund pledged $18 billion in loans to ukraine over the next two years. in kiev, acting prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk presented parliament with financial reforms that he said are hard but necessary. >> ukrainian government won't allow bankruptcy of the country. that's why we came to the parliament with this package of very unpopular, very difficult and very tough reforms. that should have been conducted not yesterday or the day before yesterday but 20 years ago. and we're offering this package to the parliament of ukraine. >> woodruff: back in this country, the house and senate easily passed legislation giving aid to ukraine and imposing sanctions on russia. the two bills differ somewhat and will have to be reconciled. the house also voted today for another temporary medicare another temporary medicare fix. without it,

resistance to rule from kiev is spreading across the south east of ukraine with protests from a dozencities against the far right nationalists taking up power after the coup. and in this week's other news diplomatic swordplay between venezuela and the united states as deadly clashes in caracas and beyond see washington accused of fueling the trouble. a controversial christian group patrols the streets of london claiming it wants a counter aggressive islamification as one local leader branded them vigilantes. but a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. international starting with our breaking news this hour for more top military and security officials have decided to side with crimea's authorities earlier the commander of ukraine's naval forces rejected the interim government in kiev instead choosing to serve the autonomous region refresher who is following these developments joins us live right now maria thanks thanks for joining us now if you could just just tell us what exactly do these developments mean for crimea and of

this is a truly historic day resistance to the world and yet is spreading across the south east of ukraine would attest a dozen cities against the far right nationalist not power. after that too. and in this week's other news my ex or play between venezuela and the united states of deadly clashes in caracas and the honesty washington accused of killing trouble and a controversial christian group that also streets of london claiming it was a counter aggressive islamic education as one local leader brendan and vigilante the eye. back at the concept of day's top stories and the latest developments is the weekly art international. starting with our breaking news this hour for more top military and security officials. i have decided to side with creamy as authorities earlier the commander of ukraine's naval forces rejected the interim government in kiev. instead choosing to serve the economist region we'll start with colonies of elements joins us live right now maria thinks that thanks for joining us now. if you can just get tells what exactly do these developments mean for crimea and of course

crimea is a happy day went back and masha only one week now for the russian speaking population in ukraine south. before crimea was signed sealed and delivered to russia president putin leased out at ukraine's new leadership russia strives to be on good terms with its neighbor but putin made it clear that the far right radicals calling the shots in the interim government are not the sort of people moscow wants to talk to the president also hit out at the u.s. and europe for supporting the are people saying their actions have crossed the line . who carried out the coup in ukraine you nazis nationalists and the anti semites and they still define the country's political agenda it's clear that there is no legitimate executive power in ukraine right now there is no one to negotiate with washington's that further sanctions on moscow over crimea this week the u.s. says it's supposed to punish those who threaten ukraine's integrity however it appears some of those targeted have nothing to do with ukraine but instead all belong to the president's judo club get added to go he's a businessman who back at n

referendum on joining russia ukraine and the west sees russia of using plate and propaganda to justify troop deployments in the former soviet country and a stocking and rice in south eastern ukraine. tensions have been riding high as russian forces take undercooked and cranny of recapturing the korean coast of western edge of the black sea peninsula and military airfield. according to the team defence ministry spokesman said reports estimate that around thirty thousand russian troops are now in crimea ukraine military has remained resilient and unflinching blind cleans capital thousands rallied for national unity in independence square the starting point of mass protests resulted in the deaths of nearly one hundred protesters and the overthrow of president viktor yanukovich promotion cry knew he did say he still has led a sale in use and fair poll in which some forty volunteers was sworn in as members of the new crime unit special forces units. silva told the new recruits that they are responsible for ensuring port in the run up to a referendum scheduled for months sixteenth in which i mean residents will be lost if they want to join the russian federation. just t

and over in kiev ukraine's prime minister a sunni yet syntax as his country would be prepared to fight and russian forces across the border into south eastern ukraine. speaking in interview with pbs news hour it's an accent is the duty of every ukrainian citizen to protect their country the support from you. what we ve been crazy and we refrain from use of force in order to prevent the launch in order to cope with the entire world. that is for military construction regime complaint. the ukrainian territory. who has made a real impression. i may decline to relations between the west in a rush over the annexation of the crimean peninsula. western officials say they're now focus on moving forward economic sanctions against moscow brandon trying to persuade russian president vladimir putin to get back crimea. and turning to the united states where rescue crews are still searching for victims of a massive mudslide in the state of washington. rescue workers were able to recover two more bodies on tuesday with signs and eight were killed in the landslide that devastated a small town near oh so washington. that brings the likely death toll

east in the east and south of ukraine who voted mr. yanukovych into office, and now seen him run out of town by a mob essentially, are ukrainian citizens. >> in terms of what we are seeing right now in the port, how would you describe it? >> we're just getting the initial reports of this abduction, and it sounds like these were not people with the russian military, but local crimean citizens who clearly are pro-russian, feel they are being backed up by russia, and consider the un envoy as a hostile presence in what they regard as their territory. and what could be the treatment in a place like la eve, for example, by someone who was presented of being of russian interest? >> why so much violence associated with really what boils down to a difference of opinion as to what the country should be? >> that's a very good question, and i think that's the question that should have been asked more insist actually going back to october when yanukovych did not sign the trade agreement with the european union, which kicked off the protest in the f