ambassador to the ukraine steven pifer, now a director and senior fellow at the brookings institution. welcome to the newshour, so tell us more about why these protests have been happening. they started what, a week ago sunday. >> ten days ago presidentian you can-- yannock very much said it would sus pen an agreement that would have brought to closer to the european union. we saw it a week ago yesterday, sunday, 100,000 people on the streets protesting that. the turnout yesterday was bolstered by the fact that there is huge outrage in the ukraine over the use of force on saturday morning. more blood was shed on ukraine on saturday and sunday than three weeks of the armed revolution and there was a visceral reaction on the parts of the ukrainians about that. >> woodruff: why do they feel so strongly with the deal falling part. >> europe is a lot of attraction for ukraines. poll shows more than 50% of the population would like to get closer to europe. it's because of the living standards but also because of rule of law. for a country where there is corruption, where politics, they woul