at a news conference with the ukrainian prime minister, steinmeyer condemned russia's actions on the peninsula. >> things on the ground are not consistent with international law and created danger of new division within europe. for all we have seen in the past decades, that is something we cannot commit. we cannot allow the return of bloodshed. >> on friday, moscow agreed to allow a six-month monitoring mission in ukraine under the auspices of the osce. the first advance team arrived on saturday. eventually, up to 400 monitors will be taking part. they will have access to key is in eastern ukraine, but moscow will not let them into crimea, which it now says belongs to the russian federation. in the eastern ukrainian city of done yes, several thousand protesters demanded to split from ukraine and join russia, an issue that no doubt came up in meetings with local political leaders. the international community has made a bid to stop the crisis on europe's doorstep and preserve ukrainian unity. >> new developments in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. chinese authorities now sa

i think foreign minister steinmeyer has had some interesting ideas. he has talked about the fact that, you know, while the atlantic alliance may resonate for people of our generation, we have to think about how german youth -- snowden is much more popular among german youth i would submit than president obama today. i mean obama was a rock star in 2008. if there is a rock star in germany today, it is edward snowden. and that is a serious state of affairs, ladies and gentlemen. and it needs addressing. stein meyer has proposed a kind after cybersecurity summit or conference or dialogue and i think more than ttip or these far off ideas we need something in the nearer term that really addresses these issues. because young people in europe need reminding of what, of what the transatlantic -- the most successful at liance in human history. what it has achieved, what it means and why it's important in light of what president putin has done today. has done of late. there needs to be finally, i think, some real focus on just helping ukraine out right now. the

i think foreign minister steinmeyer has had some interesting ideas. he has talked about the fact that, you know, while the atlantic alliance may resonate for people of our generation, we have to think about how german youth -- snowden is much more popular among german youth i would submit than president obama today. i mean obama was a rock star in 2008. if there is a rock star in germany today, it is edward snowden. and that is a serious state of affairs, ladies and gentlemen. and it needs addressing. stein meyer has proposed a kind after cybersecurity summit or conference or dialogue and i think more than ttip or these far off ideas we need something in the nearer term that really addresses these issues. because young people in europe need reminding of what, of what the transatlantic -- the most successful at liance in human history. what it has achieved, what it means and why it's important in light of what president putin has done today. has done of late. there needs to be finally, i think, some real focus on just helping ukraine out right now. the

fact that the agreement which the europeans relayed by mrs asked the minister of foreign affairs steinmeyer. the polish minister in the name of europe that agreement which was also excepted by president down to code which we aimed at a but not signed yet there was no time for it anymore but this agreement bit was aimed for a government new government of national unity in visual to the the eastern part in the new code which party would be reproducing to that if we made it couldn't even take plays it lasted a few hours and then the american the coup took over so. how do you think the german foreign minister been thinking it been feeling at the time and a basically they continue to feel that and that was just what around everyone to believe that that and fortunately now it's. very interesting for about newspaper and top officer for east german intelligence service mr thank you very much indeed. you know while an unprecedented war was has been intensifying by the day with western politicians and the media using strong language when it comes to russia's role in the ukrainian crisis this is not t

we have this from frank walter steinmeyer, the german foreign minister.n in crimea, whoever pours more oil on the fire now is consciously aiming for further escalation. what russia does in crimea must be keeping with sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. so the question here is, should the president lead this discussion or should angela merkel lead this discussion, considering the relationship between president obama and putin versus the relationship between putin and merkel. >> exactly. we've had a lot of people on this morning talking about the fact that the u.s. does not see this as a cold war but they believe putin does, and that he has putin is really working to show that he is strong, to show his strength. the question is, what is the u.s. going to be able to do about this. we are going to obviously continue to follow this throughout the morning. thank you so much for spending your morning with us. don't go away. >> be sure to keep it right here. we continue with our breaking news coverage in the "cnn newsroom." we hand it over to debora