the question about occupation of eastern ukraine. the central government does not have capacity to keep power in eastern ukraine without settlement of part of eastern ukrainian elite. in the current situation, in the ukrainian regions, the pattern is integration. the new government [indiscernible] the second pattern is transition. the settlement with the formal elite [indiscernible] between the governor and the cabinet. failed state and failed region. [indiscernible] no settlement, no negotiation between kiev and crimea. it is the way to civil war. it is the topic of my future academic paper on a solution for ukraine. establishing a new ukrainian constitution and resolution between east and west ukraine. each part of ukraine, 50% of elections include government. the democratic but formal part of the region. you need government in ukraine if you want to keep the eastern region in ukraine. >> we have about one more minute. >> my colleagues have done a good job answering questions, so i will give it to you cory. >> let me say thank you v

the crisis in ukraine. lavrov said his country has no interest in invading eastern ukraine. this despite a large buildup of russian troops near the border between the two countries. nato secretary-general said the alliance is worried about russia's attentions and called the troop buildup a concrete threat to ukraine. >>> it is now three weeks since malaysia airlines flight 370 went missing, and today the hunt for the 777 tripled 700 miles from where the serb was going on. one of the aircraft found three brightly colored objects in the new search area. >>> wrapping up his week-long trip in europe and saudi arabia this morning, president obama bestowed a human rights award on a woman who promotes stopping violence in that country. the president reportedly did not raise the issue of human rights or women's rights in saudi arabia during his conversations with saudi king abdullah. >>> at the stroke of midnight, gay marriage became legal in england and wales, and gave couples across that country to tie the knot. last july parliament passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage w

the communicators at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. a look now at the crisis in ukraine at the annual conservative political action conference on saturday, former under secretary of state paula dobry and ski -- halle dobr ianski moderated a panel. this is 25 minutes. >> good afternoon everyone. we are going to spend some time focusing on the crisis in ukraine. i want to take a minute and just give you a little bit of context to what is happening. let's go back to last year. in november of last year, then president yanukovych turned down the opportunity to become associated with the european union. that association would have resulted in economic reforms and political change in ukraine. ukraine is in dire economic straits. make a reals could difference in its way forward. as a result of his unwillingness to sign association, massive protests took out on the streets in kiev and throughout ukraine. people were protesting and put their lives on the line, once because they wanted to become associated with the west, with the european union, and secondly , they were also protes

widening the resistance tens of thousands in ukraine's eastern regions on the southern crimean peninsulaprotest against the nationalists who hijacked power in kiev in a coup. also approves a potential troop deployment in ukraine and if indeed there's a threat to russian nationals there it's offer a plea for help from the predominantly russian populated region of crimea. kind of this week's news on r.t. international diplomatic swordplay between venezuela and the united states. as deadly clashes in caracas and beyond the washington accused of fueling the trouble . and a clear christian group patrols streets in london claiming to find aggressive islamification of local community leaders fear it's just stoking religious tension . thank you for joining us here in aussie international we've got the top stories of the week and today. i live in moscow. there has been a uprising when it comes to where people in the east and the south have been rallying against a power grab in the capital a maria for an option and now reporting from an area that's refusing to yield to the will of the self-appoint

verses western ukraine but i think that has been blurred over 20 years even in the '90s traveling to the eastern ukraine i would give a sense of national identity. not as deep in the west but the essence that they would see themselves solving most of the problems as ukrainians. that is important to bear in mind. . . those all over crimea as well. but the question is going to be, how too ukrainians look at this? my guess is that support for drawing closer to the european union, which by some polls in the fall was anywhere from 51% 58%. in eastern ukraine where they're likely uncomfortable with what happened in kiev, how the government left and how that crimea is a bigger shock and may have the unintended consequence, perhaps of helping the country unite. and the last point, they have to be very careful how they handle nato. i think i hear what mike is saying and i guess i would just disagree. my guess is that over the next ten years you're not going to see ukraine seriously consider joining nato, and i say this as somebody in 2008 who testified to congress that ukraine was ready. they checked all

the soviet union took the army out of eastern europe and dissolved the pact and we moved nato to central and eastern europe to the former soviet republics and tried toably in ukraine and georgia, he is saying get out of our face and space and that's why the whole kremlin got up and cheered and applaud and wept. >> he is at 85% approval because he shut down any voices of opposition in the media. they call themselves a democracy but it is not. it is a rubber stamp legislature. if that is the kind of country you aspire to, pat, we can set rules at the top and have no opposition. this is a selective reading of history but i am not unsympathetic. with nato after the collapse of the soviet union we pushed into countries he regarded within his area of province and perhaps we did overly provoke him but the notion that the u.s. is trying to encroach upon him and that this is a recreation of the cold war, what he is yearning for, he uses the word bipolarity when there were two super powers when he was the big man on campus. that's what he wants to be the center of attraction. i think the president -- president obama when he calls russia a regional power, he demeans him. i t

the crisis in ukraine. first and foremost in crimea and the eastern regions of the country. obviously this is the precedent that they are setting to justify their military incursion into crimea but their mentioning of the eastern regions of the country, that would seem to be setting the stage for perhaps their next move militarily. are you concerned about that? >> yes, of course. i'm deeply concerned by that because, you know, these things start in one way and then there are unintended consequences. there's a shootout in one city and suddenly you have an action/reaction process that can create new kinds of movements into eastern ukraine and i want to emphasize a point that anderson made that i think is really important for people to understand. the eastern part of ukraine is not all russian and russian-speaking. in fact, it's really divided. the cities tend to be more ethnic russians but the countryside tends to be more ukrainian. this is not going to be some neatly way to divide this country. it will be very messy if, god forbid, there is more conflict and greater military

europe, to create fear, particularly in poland, in the baltic states and what remains of ukraine so that he can hold out the option of moving into eastern ukraine when the opportunities arise. we call that at the army war college, push and pause, that you make a military move and then you pull back and pause and wait for the-- for everything to cool down and then you push again. and georgia, crimea, and now the eastern ukraine are perfect examples of this theory put to practice. lou: you said don't take the military option off the table. >> right. lou: what military option is available that would in any way dislodge russian troops from crimea, nothing short of boots on the ground would do so, a massive invasion, of course, i would think. tell us what you think. >> first of all, the crimea is gone. there are no millions options for crimea. what we have to look at is ukraine. and we have to get there first. putting fighter planes in estonia won't do the job. it's time to conduct ground exercises, and buttress fortress in europe and maybe even at the invitation of the ukrainian government, move u.s. forces into the ukraine to do military e

the city of. eastern ukraine and the people who've come together today in your patrols. never take their way is that. claiming the power or cultural differences in this country generally imply that we and the protection and that's this have been 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 you claim protection and we have gathered today all around the eastern ukraine number numerous meetings with these groups and these liberals can go to their actions but first we we need to have the ordinary store if we have the election we need to have the or there is the one. and while crimean authorities were asking moscow for help they had if ukraine far right group right sector reached out to notorious chechen terrorist doc all model of him and his militants to step up their jihad against russia. out of control of the church an islamist movements bent on carving out a sharia caliphate has not only considers russia's osama bin laden he's also classified as the most wanted terrorist by america mado

all around the eastern ukraine remember . these groups and these are mr liberals can go to the election but first we need to have the ordinary store before the election we need to have the or there is. well the crimean authorities were asking moscow for help the leader of ukraine's far right group the right sector reached out to the chechen terrorists model of they urged him to support ukraine and step up the fight against russia doku umarov is the islamist leader of the chechen extremist movement and an internationally wanted terrorist russia's equivalent of a sama bin laden he's responsible for deadly attacks across russia that have taken the lives of dozens of civilians including bombings on the moscow metro and at domodedovo international airport who has also encouraged the separatist movement in chechnya by declaring it an islamic state he is currently wanted in russia and in russia on charges of kidnapping murder and treason. russia's foreign ministry responded to the appeal to the chechen militant by pointing out that m

the crying it's it's about the ukraine. and we just have to wait and see what would happen what will happen in the rest of the ukraine there's been a great deal of disturbances in the eastern ukraine but in the crimea itself i think essentially it's an accomplished fact the crimea is not a bearing decisions from kiev it would require force by like here to bring the crimea to heel and russian intervention there would prevent that and would stabilize the situation. if you can national live here in moscow stay with us for more on the current crisis in ukraine we continue after a short break. here on three bureaus you don't know if you don't carry chorused you're no response to really. everyone in my life that i care about their goal but when that happened i came askin well. i was sad national champion in track and field and also i was able to go and qualify for the olympic games. you know nine hundred eighty eight i started to experiment with other drugs i had lost all the financial means that i. was really on the street. black market can't. break can't drink. we'll call it on the road side to the car skidded at breakneck speed and fell into a ditch and i was thrown out of th

saturday eventually up to four hundred monitors will be taking cars that have access to key at the eastern ukraine the most and what led him to the crimea which it now says belongs to the russian federation. in the eastern ukrainian city of donetsk several thousand progress and demonstrators demanded a referendum on the future like crimea they want to speak from ukraine and join russia. she did not adopt came up and start my eyes meetings with local political leaders. i'm not a step in the international community's speed to stop the crisis on europe's doorstep and present ukrainian unity. the other new developments in the search for malaysia airlines flight three seven the chinese authorities now say they have picked up satellite images of what could possibly be debris from the missing going seven seven seven. the old vic's were reported to be floating in what is the southern search an area of the remote parts of the southern indian ocean chinese ships have been dispatched to the area to join the international search this is the unidentified object a tiny sensor lights posted in the indian ocean i

russian troops along the eastern border and the russian foreign ministry saying that will be alarming words, obtaining the right to keep the ethnic rush russians in the eastern ukraine and kiev is not in trouble. kiev is accusing moscow of planting the russians there and bussing them in to start troubles like this and a pretext to go into eastern ukraine and things are terribly tense and as mike mentioned the russian troops last night going into a gas depot, a pumping station in ukraine proper and continue to hold that property and saying they are protecting it because it is a pump station into crimea and ukraine is saying it is a provocation. >> jennifer glass joining live. thank you for being with us. >> now going live to phil that is following the developments from kiev. phil, we just heard jennifer say that the tensions are rising and kiev is accusing the russians of planting the russians in the east to cause trouble and putin is saying it is within the bounds and complying with the international law and how the people where you are in kiev reacting to all of this? >> well, morgan, the people are deeply concerned about the incidents and the referendum. it is int

the world. there is not one military involvement in eastern ukraine. >> john terrett joining us live from the united nations. thank you. >> thank you. >> one of the ethnic groups caught in the middle of the struggle of the eastern ukraine is the tatars. their horrible experience at the hands of the soviet bring fears. return from ex-pile this sunday at 10:00 a.m. >>> calls for bashar al-assad to step down. i'm morgan radford, and you're watching al jazeera america. >> three years ago today the up rising against president bashar al-assad began. the violence has uprooted 9 million people and the fighting does not seem to be letting up. assad forces made a huge strategic victory capturing the town nort of yabroud just northf damascus. it was the last rebel-held area near the capitol. since the war began, many have registered as refugees in neighboring countries. these are just the numbers of those who have officially registered and there could be far more. lebanon has the highest amount of syrian refugees at 1 million. many syrians are worried they will never be able to go back home. >> a syrian refuge

ukraine. >>> for more about the situation on the ground in easternkraine, we're joined via skype by james jones, who is in harkarv reporting for front line. the ukrainians call it harkreve. this is the second largest city,yi city,y yanukovych ran for support. >> here it is tense, as a way of showing solidarity and their own desire to perhaps gain independence and joan russia, they had it kind of unofficial and actually illegal referendum on the square today. it seemed like about 10,000 people came and they were chanting russia, putin save us, you know slacking off s and so then they had this big vote, which frankly is meaningless, has for consequences, but is just to show a strength, and then just outside, about 30 meters from where i'm sitting now, they are currently trying to storm the government building. and it's very hard to tell what proportion of the population here support what they're doing, but certainly this minority is incredibly vocal. >> so this is a city where neighbor is fighting neighbor on this particular issue? >> that's right. i m

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 there in kiev they've ordered the mobilization of the country's forces in response to moscow's possible deployment of forces there in ukraine is it likely that they will actually send the military to the eastern and indeed the southern part of the country do you think that could actually happened. i don't really think so i think that ever since they seized power in key i think they were getting desperate by the day because they suddenly realized that they're not getting that money which they hope to get at once having lost the money coming from russia and this desperation showed in the fact that they repeated all those warnings about the russian invasion the russian aggression and so on and so on and now we see them desperate to nuff to take al

to punish president clinton and -- president routine and to keep him from going further into the eastern ukraine. if they want to discourage him from doing that -- president putin. and to keep her from going further into the eastern ukraine. >> ryan, we will leave it there. ryan chilcote joining us from brussels. >> donath and ferro is here to look at the market reaction. pharaoh is here to look at the market reaction. ferro is here to look at the market reaction. arepean equity markets actually higher today. investors are starting to talk about this, that these sanctions are going to be targeted, they're going to be isolated and the potential for fallout right now is not as broad as was feared at the beginning of this. everyone is talking about one thing. is down about 40% year to date. let me tell you about one of the biggest fallers. company called nova tech -- thetek. has come under sanctions. >> let's talk more about that area what do we know about this guy? >> he is very close to vladimir routine -- routine -- vladimir putin. putin are steeped in russian culture. this is hitting at the hea

the crimea reportedly rejecting. and switching allegiance joining up with local groups. meanwhile resistance is spreading tens of thousands in ukraine's eastern regions on the crimean peninsula protesting against the nationalists who hijacked power in kiev. and moscow approves a potential troop deployment in ukraine if indeed that's a threat or russian nationals it's after a plea for help from the predominantly russian populated region of crimea. and this week's news on the international diplomatic swordplay between venezuela and the united states deadly clashes in caracas and beyond c. washington accused of fueling the fire. of a controversial christian group patrol streets in london claiming to fend off aggressive islamification local community leaders fear it's only stoking religious tensions. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we've got the top stories of the week today. live in moscow and we've got some breaking news for you this hour from the crimean peninsula there are reports that ukrainian servicemen stationed in the area and now siding with crimean authorities let's talk to maria who's standing by live in the region's

and demonstrating and calling on russia to help the height of the c t known as the capital of the eastern ukraine and not just the two ne area had strong russian protesters managed to find a leak and said the government using that was captured by so called chrome i got to my straight a's for almost a week and raise the russian flag and that was accompanied by clashes in shootings and the hearing that ted least one hundred people were injured and the snow by surprise and in another sixty open as thousands again up on the streets the shots in pro russian slogans and being here in the political authorities that have complained that they would not abate kiev and they have been today. today i too had a 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

certainly putin has won the first round and may win the second round if he goes to the eastern ukraine. and, because the ukraine is more important to him than is to us and i think we're not, we really do not, we find it very hard to reverse some of the trends that, that i mentioned. but if this game persists you can't just let the other guy play the game. we wily nilly have to restart playing the old game of power politics again. >> thank you so much, joe. roger. >> thank you very much, heather. i must say nirvana for european analysts had been pretty high on my list of oxymorons before you suggested that. it might actually exist in reality. so i'm grateful to you for that. i'm not sure i can add a whole lot after those two brilliant exogesiss from gideon and joe. but this is a very important trip to he europe, much more important than it would have been a couple months back. brussels is not, brussels is a rather anodine dateline. it is not zare sarajevo, it is not paris or berlin. but think the moment has come despite the dateline for some powerful symbolism. i think the body language

this is true not just in the center of ukraine in the western ukraine but also in the eastern ukrainee most interesting thing that has happened in this crisis in the last 24 hours was coming to power of an oligarchic, they showed by coming to powered that they are working with the authorities in kiev against the wishes of the kremlin. the position of the richest man in the ukraine, the largest financial supporter demonstrates the oligarchs in the east are supporting the government in kiev. melissa: thanks for coming done. coming up market still soaring as investors take a breather and ukraine. we are up 221 points on the dow. how long can this new optimism last? who is making money today? this guy has been exploding cows for fun and in setting out rage among farmers. millions of dollars in the process. at the end of the day, all the cows, come on. up. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions

ukraine by our correspondent. we focused on the situation in crimea, but what about eastern ukraine where you are? tensions running high and people are concerned about what the future holds. >> that's right. it is very tense here. people are just anticipate what will be the next move of russia. what's quite troubling is certain polarization is taking place in ukraine. people are not listening to each other. they're only taking information from one kind of source so that's a bit of a dangerous trend right now. most people just want to get on with their lives and end all this uncertainty which has been going on in the past four months in ukraine. >> we've got the german foreign minister and the question is what can western diplomats, political leaders, monsters need to help ease the tensions? >> well, i think his visit today is definitely important. it will encourage people that the outside world hasn't forgotten but i'm a bit skeptical about these international monitors because in some ways, the situation is based on its own dynamics. many people here are wondering why this didn't happen earlier. >>

estimates, about 30,000 russian troops are near the eastern ukraine border. >> oscar pitorius may take trial resumes. 21 witnesses over 15 days, perhaps the most dramatic moment, a police cell phone expert read alout text messages, when one said he scared her at times. >> a partial ping sent by the plane may help investigators to determine when it finally stopped flying. now live, what are analysts saying what we can learn from the final partial ping sent from the plane? >>. >> this is another piece of crucial information that adds to the zig saw puzzle in the investigation. what we understand is, you will recall we talked about the handshakes or pings as we like to call them. connecting the aircraft with a satellite. now, that lead us to this kind of pathway, we believe mh 370 took toward the indian ocean. it has been reported that there was one final handshake at the 8:11 a.m., way, way into the morning after the flight was reported missing. in fact, an hour after the flight was reported missing this partially handshake didn't make full contact. the "wall street journal" reported the

verses western ukraine but i think that has been blurred over 20 years even in the '90s traveling to the eastern ukraine i would give a sense of national identity. not as deep in the west but the essence that they would see themselves solving most of the problems as ukrainians. that is important to bear in mind. . . those all over crimea as well. but the question is going to be, how too ukrainians look at this? my guess is that support for drawing closer to the european union, which by some polls in the fall was anywhere from 51%

nick childs, "bbc world news". >>> now to the eastern ukraine. russian flag where the flags keep changing between the russian flag and the ukrainian flag. it's on government buildings in another flashpoint city. where is it? it's in eastern ukraine. and there's the flag which is currently on the top of the government building. and donetsk has become an important symbol of the pressure there is between ethnic russians and ukrainians about who is in control and who will control this part of ukraine. the bbc's james reynolds is there. >> this is the main government headquarters in donetsk. and this building has been the center of protests and counterprotests in recent days. pro-russian demonstrators came here and they swept their way in. they even raised the russian flag. but they have now been kicked out. the building has been retaken by ukraine's authorities. as you can tell by this line of riot police standing and guarding the building. the line is reasonably thinly spaced at the moment. but it is two offices deep. there aren't any pro-russian dem

took over the city hall in a place in the heart of eastern ukraine. and that's the big question, does it stop at crimea's borders or does it go further? if it does go across to eastern ukraine, my goodness, that's a completely different issue and raises the stakes even more, as if they weren't high enough already. >> many thanks, nbc's bill neely, we appreciate it. of course, whenever some scary global event happens, people sell stocks. that's exactly what happened today. bob pisani has that story from the new york stock exchange. good evening, robert. >> it was ugly. but at one point, the dow down 250 points but he only ended down 153 points. the russian stock market down 12%. but other emerging market countries like poland were weak as well. there was the usual flight to safety trades. dollar was up, treasuries were up. gold and gold stocks were up. gold at a four-month high. wheat and corn were up. the ukraine's a big exporter of grain. and traders were playing agricultural commodities. sugar, wheat, cattle and corn did five times normal volume and

people of the eastern ukraine since. he events of one thousand nine hundred ninety two have become rather cynical of politics they were known particularly for their apathy towards the political spectrum their hardworking pragmatic and yes often cynical people but what we have seen across the east and south of the ukraine in the last few weeks is a quite unique phenomenon in the politics of the ukraine and in the former soviet union where you see hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets and flying russian flags not only as a sign of thankfulness for the support of the russian federation but also as an expression of their own cultural linguistic and historical identity and they have very good reason to believe that that identity is under threat from extremists that have been put into high positions within the this push regime this western backed putsch regime that has seized power in kiev and when you have this regime in a situation where the economy of the country is falling apart and the country is politicall

i hope that he would also go to the crimea and eastern ukraine. we call on the secretary-general to use his good offices to their fullest extent to de-escalate the current situation. this is not 1968 or 1956. the era in which one country can suppress democratization in a neighboring state or military intervention on the basis of transparently trumped up pretext is over. we stand ready to work with ukraine, russia and all our international partners to support a stable and prosperous ukraine. we urge them to uphold their obligations under international law, to act in a way that promotes stability rather than to destabilize the region through the promotion of new frozen conflicts, to support democratic processes, not to subvert or repress them. >> thank you. lithuania strongly condemns the clear violation iv russian russian federation of the territorial ukraine. the military actions we are witnessing on the crimean soil defy the fundamental principles of international law, the helsinki final act, the budapest memorandum, the cooperation between russia

. >> vehicles smashed the ukraine's last remaining base in crimea yesterday, on the eastern ukraine city of donetsk today. >> they had a. >> voted on a referendum to join russia. >> this will top the agenda in a summit that begins tomorrow in the hague. >> chief white house correspondent major garrett joins us. major. >> jeff, russia's military menacing of eastern ukraine will dominate this summit and already prompted a sideline meetg of the g-7, that is the top economies on what to do next. >> the united states and europe knows russia pose as significant and unnerving threat to what remains of free ukraine. >> they also know existing economic sanctions and the threat of war have done nothing to force russia to reassess its crimean land grab. >> president obama's strategy of the diplomatically isolating russia and more economic costs. >> european nations are reluctant to impose tougher economic challenges. >> and also asking china to. >> china is neutral but, jeff, the white house would like to see much more. >> major garrett, thank you. >> one person is dead and 16 hurt after a tour bus

the clammy and i were forcibly rejecting he is a new authority. switching allegiance joining up with local defence projects meanwhile resistance is breathtaking tens of thousands of ukraine's eastern regions of the crimean peninsula protest against the non smith hundred tons not indicate. also does approve the potential troop deployment in ukraine and as a threat to russian nationals that. sadly the help from the pre dawn in the russian populated region of twenty. i was in this week's news to the muncie soul mate between venezuela and the united states as the country's income is and the audience emotions and he's defeated trouble. the so called clash of christian group patrols the streets in london claiming to be a tough aggressive as the medication just that. the call. i sneeze and the week's top stories here watching oc international with me the charging us. ukrainian troops stationed in crimea i report to the meeting that i've been signing with local authorities. they are refusing to comply with orders coming from key at murrayfield chinese and the opponent is capitalists in toronto little for us the ukrainian ministry station here in the crimea and invited some of them gave up

people in the eastern ukraine indian city of dom ext stormed buildings sunday, pushing for a referendum to join russia as well. while putin continues to say the vote complies with international law, russian lawmakers have suggested annexing crimea is just a matter of time. >>> stock futures point to gains when wall street opens its doors here in just about an hour or so. >> jill wagner of cbs money watch.com joins with us the big issue driving the markets today. jill? >> reporter: good morning, michelle and frank. all eyes on the crisis in ukraine. we'll see how the markets react as crimea vote to -- u.s. and other western nations are now likely to oppose sanctions against moscow. investors are also waiting to see what happens when the federal reserve meets this week. >>> there's a very important recall to tell everyone about this morning. honda is recalling almost 900,000 odyssey mini vans because of a problem that could lead lead to a fire. it affects model years 2005 through 2010. honda said the fuel pump cover could crack, causing a fuel leak and possibly a fire. no fires or injurie

the political military story in the ukraine. our team of diplomatic experts standing by to explain the rather confusing situation union the ground, especially in crimea and eastern ukraine. president obama rolled out his big tax and spend budget today. it's precisely what the economy doesn't need. former senator jim demint is going to join us and talk about the budget and give us his response to the new piece in this left leaning politico article that asks if mr. demint is the most hated man in washington. of course he isn't. don't forget, free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. we need a little bit in the ukraine. i'm kudlow and i'll be right back. in a world that's changing faster than ever, we believe outshining the competition tomorrow quires challenging your business inside and out today. at cognizant, we help forward-looking companies run better and run different - to give your customers every reason to keep looking for you. so if you're ready to see opportunities and see them through, we say: let's get to work. because the future belongs to those who challenge the present. >>> secretary of state john kerry promised $1 billion in sanctions t

table about the build up, the continued build up, escalating build up of russian forces along the eastern ukraine border. the latest of u.s. intelligence, the pentagon now saying that they believe the russians have up to 40,000 troops deployed along the border. what they're saying this is not just the usual springtime exercise. the troops aren't moving. they're virtually poised on this border, and they have very well established supply lines back into the center of russia. so there is great concern there by the u.s. president in that conversation with putin. and it's interesting to note that a few hours ago on saturday sergei lavrov went out of his way to basically reassure the west that russia had no intention of crossing into ukraine, crossing into ukraine borders. >> peter, stay there. this phone call was now contact between sergei lavrov and john kerry. any idea where that's going? >> no details at the moment. we know that perhaps the foreign ministers should met again. remember they met at the hague. it looks like they're trying to sort out a date when they can sit around the table. presiden

in the men's across eastern ukraine and didn't get as well not this metaphor shows all the cds that i'd teach his coverage is attacked and called on tennyson correspondence out of the keeping track of the vents for you. i am i the interview. you can dance the end. the deal. she was you can use that degree. to access keys off you can do the eye. and it's not only cry me a bit exciting if you can then send the rest of the benefits of the region cost and balance on sunday on whether to break away from it to the government doesn't recognize the referendum but a spokesman for the independence me and told us that to the groundswell of support is now becoming increasingly hard to fall right into the tool mature people. local dentists at the school had a deep into tonight's the delegates that the elected but it's a referendum to take immediate action that i've seen already the strength of the declaration of independence ice color is working on. and it's almost done when presented at the end of the month also try to shove and it uses community there. if you trade unions that says they are just w

we begin this evening with a look at the crisis in ukraine and we start with senator john mccain. >> in eastern ukraine as we're seeing today, there's still a bastian of pro-russian people, and that's understandable, but even the young people in eastern ukraine don't want to be part of russia, and that's what it was all about, and i saw them then, later -- not while i was there, but later -- have a number of them killed and wounded and arrested by yanukovich and his desperation to keep roll and that obviously didn't work. we now know that yanukovich asked putin to send troops into camp. that is would have been interesting. >> charlie: some say yanukovich is an embarrassment to putin. >> i think so, but he's the only horsy he had to ride and it's pretty obvious he's taking care of mr. yanukovich just like he's taking care of mr. snowden. >> charlie: we talk to three men with experience in russia, michael mcfaul, former ambassador nicholas burns, and stephen hadley, former national security advisor for president bush. >> let's have no illusions about how president obama thinks about president put

all crime where the fun the celebrations and the mood yet in crimea is that the things that people in eastern ukraine had just come from the eastern ukrainian city of nantes and the both of my new pin is one of uncertainty and fear said the people there are increasingly afraid that they're being targeted and disappointed. i wish he didn't hit that they seek is making me feel increasingly unsafe. people have been arriving here in crimea from eastern ukraine and those who haven't already come also keep thinking about doing said. i've been speaking to the bin he said they feeding the sticky tape includes its crackdown on increases up to st in the east of the country and in fact they feel secure and get to crimea. gt one from logan's but was forced to flee this in trouble after oppression is there. people go nuts were prosecuted for their political stance people were jailed because they didn't agree with the coup in kiev. no law was being told there were just taken from their oldest dd many were forced to go underground. hello million usual stuff i used to be a senior prosecutor in the trough. i couldn't

. >> ahead of the vote forces are on high alert, but with eastern ukraine. ssia is considering requests to intervene as clashes intensified. jennifer glasse has the latest. >> we heard inflammatory remarks from moscow saying they had had requests to protect the ethnic russians in eastern ukraine, and again today clashes pro-russian demonstrators went into the intelligence building, breaking in, took down the ukrainian flag and put up the russian flag. those are the acts we saw here a few weeks ago before this became a pro-russian area before the referendum tomorrow. and i think people are very, very worried that russia has their eyes now on eastern ukraine. the russian foreign ministry saying it has the right to protect ethnic russians in eastern ukraine. if it needs to it has troops on the border of ukraine, and worryingly it says this kind of unrest shows that kiev is not in control. bella cos words from moscow and an aggressive action by russian military on the eve of the referendum. >> earlier aspoke with timothy schneider. a professor at yale university

they intend to try to take the eastern have of ukraine? they have obviously said they're going to try the next crimea. even though that would be unconstitutional under ukrainian law. even though there are -- there are places in the russian federation who would dearly love to leave the russian federation. >> rose: when you say references to a red line, do you believe that vladimir putin thinks barack obama is weak and would not respond? >> no. i don't -- well, i really don't believe that. if president putin was privy to what went on in taking down osama bin laden i don't think how he could think that he was weak. but i worry that he might feel that he's inconsistent. that we take a position here one day and the next day we do something else. i mean we were going to bomb syria and then the very next day, no, we're going to send it to the congress for resolution. all i'm saying is, i support the idea of moving prudently, moving carefully. there's a lot at stake. and i just don't think we can let the rhetoric get out in front of reality. >> ros

now, they are in russian hands. >> what about the demonstrations in eastern ukraine, how concerned in the ukrainian government that russia may try to seize more of that country. >> any demonstrations like that do concern kiev. moscow has sent more troops to the eastern border, as much as 20,000 to the border with ukraine, and the foreign ministry says it retains the right to defend ethnic russians. russia will not innovate movement or unrest. so quickly, you have to remember that this time last week we were on the eve of the referendum, and in russia's eyes, this is russian territory, the international community not recognising it, russia moving quickly, and the speed has kiev concerned, especially if they see unrest or pro-russian sentiment in ukraine's east. >> jennifer glasse live from crimea. >> ukraine's capital - leaders are nervous. there's word that ukrainian basses are in russia's hands. >> russian troops rolled in, smashing through the gates in armoured vehicles. the confrontation at the airbase, where gunshots were fired is the kind of incident that has not only ukraine, bu

are onn energy reports the ground there in eastern ukraine,ain -- eastern tell us what impact it will prominent ukrainian national politician who is part of the government. most will attack pipelines if goes into the eastern ukraine. about 50% of all these pass through ukraine. it is an essential energy corridor that cannot be replaced. that is our bloomberg energy markets reporter in that region. the political to science professor. thank you for your patience. is ons what the latest the vote basically to secede from russia. is this being as legitimate -- seen as legitimate? >> it is not seen by the international committee as legitimate. wouldare two major areas see it as legitimate -- militant. the own people think it as legitimate as the crimean and russian government. they're on their own. >> what are the implications here then? me there areo they must alle sit down and compromise. we have heard just now the possibility of the gas line the attacked by ukrainians that goes through north of crimea. there are measures that can be against russia. russia knows this. areas supplies to th

this is the border with eastern ukraine. according to one senior american military official, it's like the russian troops are on a hair trigger. quoting nbc news tonight, crimea is accessible only by air or sea, u.s. officials speculate they may seize a slice of eastern ukraine by military force in order to provide a land bridge directly from russia to crimea richard engel tweeted these pictures today, refusing to allow ukrainian troops to supply their own military base in eastern ukraine. this is a picture of the militia milling around outside and blocking access to a ukrainian base. this is not in crimea, this is not where russia has supposedly taken over. this is a new place, this is eastern ukraine. this is the part of the country that vladimir putin said he has zero interest in and he's not planning on taking. president obama says this is not going to be an american shooting war against russia over the issue of ukraine. president obama also said that what russia is doing is unacceptable, secretary of state john kerry has

the russian empire. so ultimately, what we do here along with our european allies has consequences as it mavs forward for the ukraine, has consequences for other easternopean countries, some of which are part of nato, some are not. and also beyond the ukraine, and eastern europe is the message that we send globally. the chinese are watching and saying, let's see what the west does. ultimately we've got territory in the south china sea. >> senator menendez -- i hate to interrupt but we are running out of time and i want to ask you specifically about the message we're sending. your committee overwhelmingly pass ad bill this week on wednesday that would impose new sanctions on russia as well as give aid to ukraine but it wasn't passed among other reasons because there is a dispute with the house and with some senate republicans about reforms to the imf and whether or not the irs regulations of tax-exempt organizations involving political activities should be delayed. i don't want to get into the details of that. the real question is really in the middle of an international crisis, the congress is going to get involved in all this inside politics? >> chri

happens in on what the eastern half of the ukraine.ther cities which were unknown to most traders and investors are now very much the focal point. stayed outssia has of those cities, do we not see anything more than visa bans and asset freezes? >> it depends what we mean by actually staying out. i certainly don't expect russia to send in the cavalry, but there is a number of ways in destabilize can ukraine. it is exactly their overriding aim. they want to ensure that the ukraine is -- >> will it unify the rest of ukraine against russia? even if it annexes crimea and wishes into eastern cities like netsk? >> it is certainly unify the western response. that has been lost. it is absolutely determined to ensure that it reasserts its .nfluence over eastern ukraine >> nicholas, what is the likely endgame here? what is your best guess? >> i think the endgame here unfortunately is that we are not going to get a stable political in thenomic situation ukraine, which is going to make it very difficult for the kind toreforms that ukraine needs und

ukraine. >> jennifer glasse there in crimea. we'll have an in dipth look at the region later in the show at 6:30 eastern tone. while, ukraine's capitol of kiev some of the activists who hemmed bring the new government for power are now mobilizing for war. our nick schifrin is live in independence square where this crisis began several months ago. nick, what are you seeing there tonight? >> reporter: jonathan, it is really interesting. there is a sense that this government might not be up to the task and so we have been talking to lots of the activist who his did help launch what they call a revolution, did help clear this square of all of the police who were trying to clear it of activists being including one group of afghan veterans who people whose war end 20 year old ago, they are ukrainian and fought again president yanukovych in the last round and saying they will fight russia in this round. they were supposed to have a press conference tonight, that's been delayed until tomorrow. they say that they are going to fight russia if they need to. another group, the right ex-sex tour, also says the same thing.

ukraine. more russian troop movements on the other side of the border with eastern ukraine in russia. eastern ukraine has been the scene of more violence, with pro russian attacks on government facilities there and ukraine is moving more troops there and calling up some 20,000 recruits to a newly formed national guard. all of this is raising questions of whether the united states military could possibly get involved in the conflict. we put that to center durbin who has been here this weekend on a fact-finding tour. here is what he had to say. >> i can tell you that ukraine people and leaders have not asked for the american military nor has any offer been made. what we have to do is find ways other than military to put pressure on putin so he doesn't move forward into easter ukraine. official results are expected tomorrow and russia has to respond. vladimir putin adds he thanks by the legality of the vote and the united states and the west have to respond. secretary of state john kerry says the united states will not accept the results, sanctions and other diplomatic measures are threat