viktor yanukovich on the run. is this showing they can't take the progress for granted and it is not necessarily a win. >> yeah, that is absolutely true, morgan. the new government in kiev has a lot of challenges. the east is looking to russia for industrial reasons and for culture reasons. so too crimea for culture reasons and the black sea fleet, russia has a military interest here. the black fleet an hour from here and 15,000 forces there on their bases and russia wants to protect its interesting, interest in the military and the ethnic russians here. it is a very, very complicated time for a brand new government in kiev and balancing all of this. things are moving quickly. a brand new prime minister and parliament and new elections and referendums on crimea coming up. >> in fact, jennifer, things are moving so quickly, we are turning to phil with updates, phil, what are you hearing there on the ground? >> here in moscow, we are hearing, they are saying what they are trying to do, trying to avoid in crimea is a

the new bit to come out of this he read a letter from the former president viktor yanukovich that was russian's man in ukraine in which viktor yanukovich asked for the russian forces to come to the aid of ukraine. take a listen to the long standing russian ambassador to the u.n. reading the letter. >> the country is in outright terror and driven by the west and people are persecuted on political and language grounds and i appeal to president of russia putin to use the russian federation to protect the people of ukraine. >> so the reading of the letter is new, and that is very interesting, but the russian position, tony, has not changed, the russians they are coming to aid of the people in the ukraine, particularly in crimea because they are seeing the opposing of viktor yanukovich, the removing of him from power as a coup by the european union and the united states. >> well, harsh words in response a to russia's justification for moving the forces into the ukraine, what did the u.s. ambassador have to say. >> yes, she's the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and saying what are you kidding m

actually, russia pressured viktor yanukovich into moving away from the eu deal. they are able to exert a lot of pressures in a number of ways. the threat of the energy cutoff, and all the trade that goes between ukraine and russia. >> in fact, i want to show the audience a graph that we have prepared for that. this shows the wait way that is situation is unfolding. the russian empire and the russian trade and $844 billion, half involves the amount of oil that russia exports. now to breaking that down with the european union, if you look at the european union you are seeing the uk, france, italy, germany, all defend, especially germany on russia as a trading partner. then we factor in china, we see that in the bottom half of the graph and that is showing how much money china exports and inports regarding russia. look at ukraine $39 billion and factor in the exports from russian oil to the united states, and japan, ukraine is responsible for more of the russian economy than the united states and japan are singularly and the united states receiving $27 billion in ru

we might say that is crazy, he's more popular than viktor yanukovich.ut putin thinks about the worse case scenarios and overestimates the strength and the unity of the opponents. for example, he thinks that the united states incity sgated the rev news in 2004 and 2005. he tends to over estimate the opponents and this is what we have to take into account. any way to judge russian's approval f of putin or not? >> we have the public opinion polls, but the problem the independent polls are hard to come by. there's no doubt he's enjoying a great deal of popularity and whether the people regard him as high as the polls we don't know. the problem o is that the russians have seen no alternative to him. during the elections he disqualifies anyone that could challenge him. and there is a regime of no viable alternatives. thank you for the insight. we appreciate it. >> it is my pleasure. >> the putin fortune, estimated in the tens of billion of dollars and we are following the money as the special report on putin continues. >> welcome back to our special. we are t

remember, that is exactly the same deal that viktor yanukovich walked away in november kicking off thetests that led to his down fall. on the one hand the eu is trying to send a warning sign to russia, not to do anything more. on the other side it's trying to bounce and strengthen what is a very weak, fragile country and doing that by signing this agreement with it and it's also providing what we call economic macro financial assistance, loans essentially, and trying to make sure ukraine has the strength for what is coming. >> reporter: rory joining us from brussels. nine people have been killed in an attack carried out by the taliban in a hotel in the capitol and four gunmen opened fire in central cabbel despite high security and afghan officials say the gunmen were able to sneak in weapons hidden in their socks and four foreigners from canada, india, new zeeland and pakistan are among those killed and jane ferguson has the latest from kabul. >> they made their way to the restaurant of the serena hotel after 9:00 on thursday night and opened fire on diners killing nine people includin

third that ukraine's ousted leader viktor yanukovich is the legal president of ukraine and that its letter to russian president but the most potent requesting military intervention justified russian military presence in crimea. he showed the letter j j henry and orkut which led to rush in late february after three months of protests against his rule the latin church and read out during the un security council meeting openly requests putin to use his armed forces to restore peace and stability the third emergency security council meeting in four days came amid fears that the kremlin might carry out war land grabs in for a work in eastern ukraine. i the union and more. you can. what was it. i do. chewed on continuing to pursue its core move military. the military nor can we truly did something good on him he still believed to be stopped two new store for the city is. and for the sake of them the security of everyone including newcastle united states. i. the eu. i . ultra orthodox pretext to receive them. though. hundreds of thousands of repeats these timed out on the streets to hold a mass r

not recognize ukraine's interim government common sense to them over the ukrainian president viktor yanukovich routine said moscow still no call was to use many people in ukraine but would not condone it out in the fuel cap for his comments came just as us next tuesday john kerry arrived in kiev for talks with ukraine's new leaders. the us has offered them a financial and technical assistance we did a short break now but coming up on the brink of the conduct of the show is astride the kissing gate two in south africa sole business peacefully cent stamps. ew fruit. it is. a sustainable protections for her. nineteen is designed to preserve our doorsteps the stats. only two years to extend extend protections for our candidates. police and projects. tsk. welcome back key kill to see old friends and bought was a mistake or mutter is day two of the sensational trial in and takes topless can still race in south africa. defence lawyers were given good neighbor whose version of events appears to contradict his own. the stories she's back in court for the second day in his trial for killing his complain

by vitali klitschko one of the leaders of the protest movement that said ukraine's president viktor yanukovich late last month. meanwhile tend to think like me are escalated with demonstrators holding rallies for and against joining the russian federation and the illegal referendum on the question is scheduled for march sixteen in london when it may the british foreign secretary said the referendum was happening to read to kill asleep quickly and further intervention by more staff would not be well off he added that russian intervention in crimea has turned people in the rest of ukraine was against russia the ukrainian border patrol plane came under fire while flying over the weekend and about one thousand meters here the administrative border with the fortune arctic white crimea. no one was hurt when gunmen opened fire on the un armed aircraft the diamond light aircraft was flying three crew on an observation mission in a video shot from ukrainian plane and later distributed by the border guard service press off as white flashes which appear to be shocked to be seen being directed at the plan

days are fully appropriate and that legitimate mr sharkey said that ukraine is ousted leader viktor yanukovich sent a letter previously t allow president biden airport and requesting that he used the russian military to restore law and order in ukraine ambassador check and says that despite the fact a chemical that was forcefully ousted from power. moscow believes that he remains the legitimate president of ukraine at this moment now the russian envoy held up a photocopy i've yet to prove its letter guide to all security council members and even a red parts of what was written. she a machine you begin to clean the teeth that is including received the following winter coat as a few korean victory on a cool bridge. i am quilting has legitimately elected president of ukraine high stakes of his hands on minds on what is unlawful seizure of power in tafe to lead ukraine to the brink of civil war. countries in heels the life that you do in the race critically in the st east. when beckoned us under the influence of western countries that are open on terror and violence. angels pitcher for the line wa

he led the fight against the ousted resident viktor yanukovich. yanukovich. viktor the election is set for the end of may. i asked him in this not so >> time in ukraine, what he thinks russia is up to? he think that russians will move into other parts of the country? >> the russians want to take more of ukraine, i am more than sure. took this oldn russian city. crimea is russia, part of russia. and other cities also. that is their main goal, to take all of ukraine. talked to -- they understand the russian army is much stronger. but we stay and defend our country. >> i asked, of course, vitali klitschko, if he becomes president how will he rebuild relations with russia? obviously important because russia is extremely important and a large neighbor for ukraine. he said, i think i can make that work. back to you. >> thank you, ryan. we hope to have the full interview coming up on "bottom line." you are looking at live pictures from crimea. you are looking at a celebration in the region, voting over the weekend to join russia and annexing thely region. the ukraine

by supporting viktor yanukovich and reviled across the country, even his own former supporters are denouncing him. by inproviding the crimea area he totally shattered what he was building up in terms of the international respect and status and when it comes to ukraine, i agree, russian's military position is strong and worrying, but in the country as a whole, his actions have persuaded people on the fence about russia, putin is not a friend. this tends to unite you. >> you used to be on our side of the table and now a legislator, and you are on the side of the making making the decisions on the sanctions that could be imposed upon on russia and what sanctions can be effective considering the amounted of natural gas that europe and ukraine uses and comes from russia to the west. >> i'm in opposition and not government. we are supporting the actions that the canadian government is taking toward the ukraine and russia. i think it is wrong to think that the world and the west has no leverage over russia. russia is now very integrated into the global economy and in particular russian elites really

ousted president viktor yanukovich on charges including abuse of power taking the next in the us to stop visa restrictions on russian officials and that obama has signed an executive or that enabling cats. owen all are. thanks then when the sun shone in our strengths faster my ticket events in ukraine this as a hotspot widespread international fallout than either increased tensions between russia and the west regional authorities in crimea takes it to decide that the payments and is now part of the russian federation. the yet to see a crime and staff off crying and saying that that comes into effect from the current name is on the crimean me to contemplate in the three unanimously control for what a referendum on the decision a sceptic and found that decision simply as new now due to the house on that march the sixteenth of may the new ukrainian president has said that in the frontcourt for the year calling me in comments to be yourself. the model said just a name to pawn is looking at a request by ukrainian osiris these frontier as you read in a test for the air mass that ousted ukraini

its name refers to riots lines used by the government of the house to ukrainian president viktor yanukovich the statement accused nato of trying to occupy ukraine. it matters had been tracking the tensions in ukraine. sen recognizance planes to monitor the skies over neighboring countries poland and romania. i need a spokesperson said the side that has had not affected the organization's ability to carry out its duties and i the malaysian government says is trying to identify the flight path taken by missing malaysia airlines plane. it's now analyzing signals the plane sent to a satellite air traffic controllers in malaysia lost contact with the beijing bound plane over the south china sea about fifty minutes after takeoff on my g eight two hundred and thirty nine people were onboard malaysian government officials say at hijacking is a possibility. he believed the planes communication systems were deliberately turned off before contact was lost. signals from the jets were received by the satellites six times in more than seven and a half hours. officials say the final signal indicates the p

ukraine and russian speaking east and happened during a rally in support of former president viktor yanukovich they are worried about the allies of ukraine and there are fears the break away region might want to join the russian federation too because they are mostly ethnic russian and the top commander in europe is warning about the build up of troops on ukraine's eastern border. >> if russia is worried about a country moving towards the west, a way to solve that is an eric ncoursian and frozen conflict and not thinking about bringing it to nato because it might mean conflict with russia. >> reporter: we are live at the hague in the netherlands where the summit is getting underway, simon, i imagine when it comes to the meeting with u.s. officials and the russian counterparts it's going to but crane which is going to be on the top of their talking points. >> yes, i think the crisis in ukraine is threatening to hijack the nuclear security summit planned for the last two years, the third summit in sequence of four and the brain child of president obama and of course the world stocks have enriche

the activist off with a move that triggered the hero in the overthrow of president viktor yanukovich was killed to the interior ministry by offices of the so called special unit. when was the one chosen. we can't keep silent when the ministry of interior is acting against the revolution. this is why the demand that the acting minister mohsen of a cough resigned immediately. it is still in use them as well. we also demand that the commander of the so called special forces on all those guilty of such schools but there should be arrested notice the pool when the breeze. the dead man had told his supporters he paid for is life and that the police were not to kill him. i want to do the symptoms this moment if there are on three dozen special offices. i believe they could've taken a lie and then explained to him while he was arrested and was criminal group e was supposed to be a member of on the site it looks as if they went in the wrestler then shot him in the offices of a storm since the suspicions that tesco was born for hooliganism and an attack on local prosecutor the acting interior

this music exercises are to be held close to the compound of the future to the ex president viktor yanukovich eureka is you came from western ukraine to participate in the mud on protests full months ago. he says he's ready to join the national debt as soon as possible. he has valuable needed to service expands it to end in moscow with his new cause and i'm ready to go into ousted in a train assumes office to take up bombs inside of the people of ukraine is close to you towards the cocoa be no war books of my wife and daughter are in russia. this was the glue think i haven't seen them fall off the a a privileged few. some however are not happy with the new fall somewhat pathetic to be on the pianist control of this are uncomfortable to serve alongside troops in photogenic of a chiseled is join them i don't mean you've done them and bulldoze the national guard already fits the two thousand people in a twenty thousand fighters will be enlisted in the next two weeks. the first training is supposed to stop. today he says they are putting into the new deal the least to people who don't eat a dozen

when the former president viktor yanukovich back in november turned away from signing up to them. we've got the interim prime minister a sunni doubts in your heading for was awesome to dc on wednesday we'll sit down at with the president barack obama and then on thursday he's going to be addressing the un security council about the situation in crimea where tensions are intensifying by the pro russian prime minister has just announced that the people in the area will be given the choice to keep the ukrainian passport or take on a russian passport should be peninsula be annexed. however a local newspaper called the kyiv post is now reporting that the ballots the questions on the ballot set for the referendum in march to sixteen are rather skewed people will be given the choice of if you want to join russia immediately or declare independence and joined russia later so quick and singing on that front we got more pro russian rallies of course in the east of the country in donetsk and this is ukrainian defence was sort of shows off some of its capabilities recently released footage sh

first decisions by the parliament in kiev wasas to issue an arrest warrant for ousted president viktor yanukovich he's wanted for mass murder following t death o doz f ai vernment ptesters another to por the n government was to d a emergency plan for the economy. the european union's foreign policy chief catherine ashton visited cuba and promised financial aid but only if ukraine introduces a significant reforms. meanwhile russian which openly supports victory on a cold which cast doubt on the legality of recent events in ukraine. so going strictly speaking there is no one to talk to their places the government doesn't exist in ukraine itself the divisions between pro european and pro russian forces became increasingly apparent. especially in the crimea region home to russia's black sea fleet progress and demonstrators clashed with supporters of the new administration in kiev. the question to care for almost sixty percent of the population in crimea. and there were fears the province could break away. on wednesday russia announced a major military maneuver along its border with ukraine russia's d

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 two weeks ago it still was a small time crime mean politician whose tiny crew russian political policy was barely able to win four percent of the votes in the last regional election he was a muslim and businessmen them at the cost and became a gold lame. it soon and is now the prime minister and his regional parliaments his critics say it's clear that he's simply a puppet in school by mosque and tt's what has become a russian takeover of the black sea peninsula. the real test of how much support he has to come this sunday in crimea is scheduled to hold a referendum on its future campaigning is al

ex minister an ally of ex president viktor yanukovich flight to italy agreed to increase can come to the cites meeting the substantial amount of money and cold in his apartment. ukraine accident in his eye center back and instead shocked and to think that if these scientists and inventors pocket money he got home. this team the team the energy minister and as deep as the candidate eligible in two thousand wild card and typically carries inner circle. you can eat buffet included another ship to sell its chief executive of state energy company announced it guys you can occur in a sprite investigation into corruption cos the korean struggling economy nearly four billion us dollars. bbb to rule and came down with pneumonia after being born bias assyrian section. this indeed is new has improved enough to be introduced to the dressing room a trooper. the baby girl was born in march their teeth after its eighteen year old mother went into labor at the zoo but was unable to deliver on her own she was treated for pneumonia and also suffered a collapsed lung which doctors re inflated. two keep

theaters within the confines eight belles freeze bank accounts linked to future salute president viktor yanukovich. so sorry suspect him of money going to eat. the markets now where our correspondent in frankfurt in the box says that one issue dominated the day the situation in and around ukraine dominated this week one could say it overshadowed the cars to losses at the latest since the middle of the week for the dax from any shares because of people could not rule out that maybe there would be a new east west conflict developing between russia and the european union united states. people hoping not but who knows what would develop in the end. the dax was able to curtail its losses indeed go out of the week with a positive and because of the good economic data from the united states the next week will be interesting as well. ukraine one factor but also the ecb it could lower interest rates but after price data from the eurozone this week people don't really think it has a basis for that. one is going on in frankfurt. he's on the market numbers now starting with the dax which we heard was up by mo

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russia about four hundred demonstrators were able to invest is the support it's about to present viktor yanukovich. it's a rare media in russia report the government of crimea has brought forward a referendum on the region's future people there will vote on the march sixteen. first deputy prime minister ross tom came in and aaliyah says the referendum will ask if they want to split from ukraine and if they want to join the russian federation and i am. by the afghan soldiers were killed on thursday apparently by accident from a nato airstrike the alliance quickly offered condolences to the victims' families but it looks likely to further complicate the relationship between present hamad karzai and us led international forces in the afghan defence authorities said the five soldiers died in an airstrike at three thirty pm local time in the east to unload our province each other soldiers were wounded. i may go spokesperson did not clarify what type of aircraft was being used. most international combat troops are slated to leave afghanistan by the end of this year but frequent insurgent attacks are rai

was installing electrical will by producing a written request from ousted ukrainian president viktor yanukovich costing russian president whether their pigeons to send all its faults. most of his business is going to deny that this is completely virgin on the russian off and given a certain situation in ukraine this threat and the threat to our compatriots russian citizens. and the black sea fleet. we're talking about defending our citizens our compatriots on defending the most important human rights. the right to life the us ambassador to the un shops are so many of the assertions made this afternoon by the russian federation are without basis in reality. as i said our last session. russia's actions speak much louder than its words. what is happening today is not a human rights protection mission and it is not a conceptual intervention. what is happening today is a dangerous military intervention in ukraine. it is an act of aggression. it must stop. here in geneva the second general and the minutemen with russia's foreign minister said a lover they talked about the importance of the escalating

she spent more than two years in jail and is an opponent of ousted president viktor yanukovich one of her rivals meet the pro western politician kelly to tinkle. whoever becomes ukraine's new leader will face into reality. any hope of getting crimea back is fading. russian map makers are already modifying their country's borders. russian troops are firmly in control of the republic and ukrainian troops are continuing their withdrawal. bring it on each table. south korean officials have returned the remains of chinese soldiers killed during the korean war. it's the first direct repatatio since the nineteen fifty three armistice agreement the ceremony descended on the remains of four hundred and thirty seven fallen soldiers was held at each of the international airport chinese military officials received the conference and loaded them onto a transport plane. socrates preston pocket and offered the director returned last june during her visit to china. on the repatriation of remains will be a while so reflecting on the path to south korea and china with the family both countries' mutual

demonstrators called for the local kiev appoint a governor who has only made one of those president viktor yanukovich returned to office and the one mentioned to take control of donetsk. just as it did in cranium. in other news polls just closed and friends in municipal elections that are seen as the first major test of present cause while will and his socialist government since it came to power two years ago. opinion polls indicate slumping support for the socialists while present loans personal approval ratings have been at record lows. and what the mainstream conservative opposition embroiled in scandals analysts expect the far right anti immigrant and anti eu national front led by marine le pen will pick up many votes of runoff second round of voting will be held next sunday. an oil tanker intercepted by the us navy off libya has been returned to the capital tripoli the morning glory was captured by us navy seals almost a week ago. any legally loaded with more than two hundred thousand barrels of crude into rebel held port the aussies abroad the scripts the ship's crew had been detained and are b

european union offered fifteen begin dollars in aid to kiev matching no contest to what president viktor yanukovich accepted from moscow to turn his back on in the new association. as you the premise that the new me under the sun that we can all but the research cooperation agreement with the u s state of california california government carrie brownstein of the deal with them when to stop states to tap into israel's technological success with water conservation. netanyahu who has dubbed israel and innovation nation elected california on tuesday walking to the previous day with president obama. the pac ten hours off than if we are content there were all of his government planned to seize the ship containing ingredients but it's good for the gaza strip. he argues that the nh dollars shipment was proof that iran cannot be trusted and respected diplomatic efforts with god it's stupid to arrive . i knew the routine. she and more. the it yet. it is futile. yes it wants to see if i didn't know the truth the few the top. that's the image and idea what to get into it deeper the dead thus we knew for grante

since russia's takeover of the economists region in march the worst violence since president viktor yanukovich was ousted from power. meanwhile washington has warned russia that the us and europe will take serious steps. he picked an ex's crimea which will hold a referendum sunday rejoining russia. iraq suffer a look at stories making headlines around the world. i'll see you back here tomorrow night oh and welcome to prime time sports on speed internet. now spring is just around the corner but speedskating is still in season. the short track world championships is open on friday in montreal and one hundred and twelve of the sport's best athletes will be and so held the lead once a year the competition is expected to be fierce for tibet last year's overall cat south korea's issue though and will have his hands full taking on one of short tracks most prolific winners picked the wrong war on guns though on a woman's side park city and two a d will headline a tough field that includes fellow south korean team each and sulky and italian rei muffin top. what will be competing in multiple bands throu

in russia else to ukrainian leader viktor yanukovich again declared that he remains the rightful president. he called on ukraine's armed forces not to take orders from the new government and promised to return to kiev said the promise may increase ukrainian worries that russia has its eyes on more than just frightening. i'll ask a lot about a corresponding right guy and who is standing by for us in the crimean capital of sindh terrible. i can't explain this declaration by the crimean parliament to us what exactly does this mean the regional government said that it means that said what is the referendum and five days says yes to the shack and anti independence which come into effect them very shiok to stress that this is just the legal framework because according to the ukraine institutions that can see she so here they say that has to be an independence days before joining russia that is a bit surprising because the regional government she hasn't really been very concerned with adhering to the ukrainian constitution so it could be that behind all this is maybe as signed from a rucksack tha

he is the first leader from the g seven nations to visit here since former president viktor yanukovich was ousted in a meeting with acting ukrainian prime minister often he gets in you he said that russia's actions will be felt far beyond borders the ukraine and even the european continent itself. the remarks came two days before an image of c g seven meeting to discuss the crisis in crimea a joint news conference gets a new contended that the kremlin backed invasion on to my seat and tied with the new kid a gnome prefer ration system. his remarks relate to an international treaty in force since nineteen seventy which aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and achieve disarmament ukraine abandoned its peak in the hostel in nineteen ninety four in exchange for territorial assurances from several countries including russia as you. thousands of people attended the protest in the dutch capital of amsterdam once at stake against racist remarks by a right wing mp do it told a crowd that he would make sure that with the moroccans in the netherlands in future get to milk this led to him

ukraine's exiled president viktor yanukovich has condemned the election scheduled for my sighing be unconstitutional instead he called on ukrainians to them on regional referendums on earth because within you crying former prime minister and presidential candidate yulia tymoshenko who responded angrily accusing any coverage of treason. just as the of the internet was down to college a statement it would just be fun and it is that this person could use democrats in the ukraine is now back to the comics will never fight again secret again. ukrainian people out there that actually calm and told him that the bees during the independence of ukraine the quota for your video and share them on the statements calling for a separate piece of food and shelter ukraine according to an illegal conflict is doing the independence of ukraine taken the action again secret he will answer in court and we be punished according to the law. we can get the very latest from ukraine were joined by our correspondence to the country forty eight pm a welcome video is just over a month away now for ukraine's presidential electio

into custody the confrontation was the deadliest since the stinky of loyal to ousted president viktor yanukovich killed dozens of protesters last month. to me simply kicked in the dance and i don't know which one exactly the beat him but i took one tool to show you how they resolve disputes here after hundreds of demonstrators chanting presents for russian president that america can start breaking camp and scored on pretending to be the two sides apart. this had in mind the most violent protests in donetsk so far after nearly thirty thousand russian troops before they enter ukraine's crimea bj two weeks ago. traversing demonstrators in eastern ukraine have seized government buildings and jason carr says it's to preserve the clean government the secretary of state john kerry and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov are scheduled to meet them the fourteenth of march and monday with international standoff in crimea european union and the united states has rejected the cranny a referendum as illegitimate new new. mr leach a sixty five year old czech catholic priests has been awarded the twenty fou

the very document that caused protests and the eventual ousting of ukrainian president viktor yanukovich who rejected closer trade and political ties with the eu instead of making it a bit towards moscow. european officials continued to small fountain gate and the political aisle on with ukraine. it's clear here s a relationship with russia has taken us our turn if i need to still disagree on the status of crying and being forced to rethink their economic interdependence for the last ten hundred am and cctv brussels. needs to be pro bush militia seized a ukrainian black sea fleet cold feet on the panel the ship's crew was in submitting to a group of about thirty man just off to the skin spa still post it to read me a bag of relative wealth of one the bishops that the captains who was in contact with the office does us no one was injured as authentic root of the nearby ship called the us the beach hats. he resisted being captured the man should have been warned in a convenient day for weeks is surrounded by the russian navy vessels are on the scale of the media reports that negotiations w

wasn't ruling adapt with it speaking for the first time since the removal of ukrainian president viktor yanukovich. putin said the west was backing in the legal governmental pm much of a parade in what motivates the behavior of our partners. they've supported an anti constitutional coup and an armed seizure of power where these people legitimate and tried to support them. you can do it he said the condition with no coat and said that moscow is still recognized an eco bits as the legitimate president of ukraine and he denied that russia had sent troops into crimea saying the soldiers there were local defense forces. the moment the unicef photo of the year cast light on the victims of serious civil war and tuesday the work of swedish photographer nick plus hamish poem captures the innocence and suffering of youngsters caught in the conflict the oilers will do my assignment. together with some other injured people and the boy was not a very long talk. talking to him or ma'am. come to ireland. their infamous wrong moment. very few journalists are able to gain access to syria in the war remains largely

defeated a dictatorship the earlier the ukrainian parliament voted to remove fugitive president viktor yanukovich from office lawmakers celebrated and sang the national anthem the next day to take a lie and parliamentary speaker of the country to tools took over as acting president the torso dish with it but you gotta put up with him no more skin reacted strongly to the developments with prime minister could meet the needs of distancing the kremlin from the new leadership in kiev so going to would be a strictly speaking is there's no one dare to talk seriously listen says government doesn't exist in this their pigs dallas about the legitimacy on a whole series of organs and howard are now functioning there was a litte but she summoned in it. it's a secret strategic interests at stake especially its naval base in the bus to come home to the black sea fleet. moscow is worried the ukrainian nationalists could curtail cranny as the economy aeduce moscow's influence on thursday the pro european opposition politicians are saying he gets to deal with the elected prime minister by a large majority of the

russia has cut off the ten billion dollars and eighteen for two thousand the former president viktor yanukovich a tidy three new teeth and for official at the height of the second webcast front yet then you're the one hundred thousand russian forces are stationed on the eastern borders of the crane near the scene of height keep entering a team down and you can use. and moving on to the latest round in the missing malaysian airliner in just the last few hours it's been a major development in the search for flight and its three seven zero. the us rail maritime safety authority said in a tweet in a writing class claimed new zealand air force has spotted unidentified objects in a new search area the sightings so need to be confirmed by ship but is not expected until tomorrow earlier friday officials said they had a bend in the previous are sown in the southern indian ocean in favor of a new search site more than eleven hundred climbers to the north east australian the malaysian government say the decision was based on further analysis of radar data that show that the plane was traveling faster than

they include some of britain's close aides ousting ukrainian president viktor yanukovich and crimean prime minister said the actual mosque here in union members voted ten ten sanctions on twenty one of russian and crimean officials we call on the russian leadership. not to take steps to the next time me and said to take steps to de escalate the crisis. eu leaders are warning of further sanctions if russian leader's move to annex crimea. we asked an expert on russia how much effect on western sanctions could have on the country. i feel like there is a former japanese diplomat with more than a decade of sixteen in moscow. he says annexation of crime and would be a way to honor russia's economy. is it luminous still using the billions this time the girls made fools of steel was still in the alum points in the process. on the flu so it was snow up to six point seven per cent of the oh so clearly even in the state of most of the nation. and as of the motto on that system of criminal who write me a little meat on those awful to say of this moment both in full to the finals. the new load of

two aides to bottom in division three ukrainian separatist leaders of the service of ukraine viktor yanukovich all the areas tones in all the rushing home sucked up an additional sanctions of inconsiderate use this moment is to travel to europe next week. european sanctions also include asset freezes and travel plans. twenty one in the vigils of toys and including a twenty and politicians ten russians including members of the doom of the federal council and three russian ministry come on those further economic sanctions also being considered. but old enough to change russian will say it won't matter in terms of how events the ball and crimea. i think the russians have factored this into their equation. it will or will her but it won't stop them but i think will be the next big question mark. this is indeed the russians escalate of pres obama has more sanctions in his back pocket as well. when charging be individuals some which are pictured here the us and eu are avoiding toasting the russian economy is on hold for now sparing economic pain especially for euro which has a more than four hundred

assault thousands of russian troops invaded the peninsula late last month after former president viktor yanukovich fled to russia. us secretary of state john kerry meanwhile has departed washington for urgent talks inky a u s officials have said all options are on the table and the european union has threatened russia with sanctioned much russian troops are returned to their barracks before march six moscow's united nations envoy said on march. third that ukraine's ousted leader victory on a cold which is the legal president of ukraine and that its letter to russian president but the most potent requesting military intervention justified russian military presence in crimea. he showed the letter j j henry and orkut which led to rush in late february after three months of protests against his ruleurity council meeting openly requests who tend to use his armed forces to restore peace and stability the third emergency security council meeting in four days came amid fears that the kremlin might carry out war lang grabs in for a work in eastern ukraine. i the news came on. and. the us is our. ew a georg

by vitali klitschko one of the leaders of the protest movement that said ukraine's president viktor yanukovich late last month. meanwhile tend to think like me are escalated with demonstrators holding rallies for and against joining the russian

won just two days ago many in the ukrainian capital were celebrating the downfall of president viktor yanukovich we hoped it might usher in a new era for the country's politics. they didn't bet on russia's intervention in crimea. so let's see now what the mood is like a panicky over the protests all began the ukrainian flag held high and independence plan. news of the crimean ominous decision is on everyone's lips. the session. it's not possible. some slack the lady vols won the leading uk and a visit but if you've been so awesome to happen. not to do when you listen categorical the speed of events has taken people by surprise. nicholas bishop walk unless i was in such a hari in poor communities that all thoughts that i wanted to give it to reside in proficiency to the russians want to make crimea. then he wanted the same thing but no full of stuff in ukraine in the west ukrainian. the same resistance is the only way the nipple dorothy would it be we will never give her a narrow way. i'm proud of the army there in the ukraine government in this critical analysts say the crimean parliament's move

here in the independent square, the seats of the uprising against viktor yanukovich, the results noteamed to the crowd. there is a crowd and playing of music. so a the results such as it is and not regarded as result here in kiev really is an of no relevance to the people here. they are convince thad the referendum is ill legitimate mat. >> thank you, paul. >> back to lebanon, 20 air strikes are hitting the out skirts. we are going straight to who is on the line from the lebanese capital for us, beirut, and set to tell us more about the air strikes. >> there are operations going on. we heard another air strike. we know at least 7 are dead. some of the air strikes are syrian nationals and hundreds are coming into the makeshift hospitals and some are fighters and some civilians and some deemed just in the area on the outskirts in the region that it is mountainous. they are saying that hundreds of armored are moving to lebanon. the lebanese army is beefing up the securities and allowed the wounded to come through and stopped the armed rebels. this is a difficult task. thech put out a st

other when dozens of people were killed by gunfire in the weeks before the ouster of president viktor yanukovichut in an intercepted phone call between estonia's foreign minister, urmas paet, and european union policy chief catheron ashton, paet says the sniper fire came from the opposition. >> evidence shows that people killed by snipers on both sides, policemen and people in the streets, they were the same snipers killing people from both sides. photos andowed me she can say there is the same and in -- and writing, bullets, and it is disturbing that the new coalition -- they do not want to investigate what exactly happened, so there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers it was not a victory and -- or the new coalition viktor yanukovych, but somebody from the new coalition. >> what about this issue? >> at the gate was a huge coalition in the street for several weeks. of course, there were a lot of ordinary people, one could call civilians, who were in favor of joining the eu, which viktor yanukovych refused to sign, but then there were professional demonstrators, pe

that the ukrainian military needs as it is rebuilding the damage that was done by president viktor yanukovich. >> now, also adding no intention or desire to be boots on the ground by the u.s. but language is coming on the very same day that a u.s. four star general with nato command in europe saying that they are deeply concerned and are monitoring a massing of russian troops along the ukrainian border and saying that the readiness and the scale and the size of the russian troops is so significant if they wanted to they could roll through this country all the way out of the western border and reconnect with a pro russian sliver of land where there is a russian territory and that is causing a great concern around the continent and back in the states, now the russians are saying they don't want to do that and they have no intentions to come to the mainland ukraine but tonight here in kiev they are monitoring the situation on the border and are beefing up the military and they have put their armed forces on high alert and right now, there is a sense within the government here that this is gettin

of people were killed by gunfire in the weeks before the ouster of russian backed president viktor yanukovich. but in an intercepted phone call between estonia's foreign minister and european union policy chief, paet said the sniper fire came from the opposition. chose the people who were killed by snipers from both sides among policeman and people from the streets, that they were the same snipers, killing people from both sides. photoso showed me some saying is a medical doctor, she can say it is the same type of bullets, same handwriting. it is disturbing the new coalition, that they don't want to investigate what exactly happened. there is stronger and stronger understanding behind sniper's, it was not -- it was somebody from the new coalition. >> in addition to aid, european leaders are also mulling new sanctions on russia. in news from afghanistan, a nato airstrike has killed five afghan soldiers in eastern logar province. nato says the bombing was a mistake. on theted nations panel civil war in syria says the regime of bashar al-assad is waging a campaign of siege warfare and starvation

capital of kiev to show support for the government that replaced ousted russian -backed president viktor yanukovich. john kerry pledged around $1 billion in u.s. aid and warned russia of sanctions if it doesn't withdraw from crimea. >> if russia does not choose to de-escalate, if it is not willing to work directly with the government of ukraine as we hope they will, then our partners will have absolutely no choice but to join us to continue to expand upon steps we have taken in recent days in order to isolate russia politically, diplomatically, and economically. >> in addition to the $1 billion, the european union is set offer $15 billion aid package today to ukraine. on tuesday, unarmed ukrainian forces held a standoff with russian counterparts after marching on a russian position in crimea, demanding their withdrawal. the ukrainians ultimately pulled back after several hours. in his first news conference is deploying his troops around crimea last week, putin claimed he would use force only as a last resort. >> what can be the reason to use the armed forces? this is the last resort. simply, the la

interpol said it was reviewing a request by ukrainian authorities to arrest ousted president viktor yanukovich. the red notice called for the former leader to be held on charges including abuse of power and murder. back in washington, the house foreign affairs committee held the first congressional hearing devoted solely to ukraine, with talk swirling in some quarter of capitol hill of a new cold war. republican michael mccaul of texas warned the state department's eric rubin that the administration's sanctions may not be enough to stop what he called a russian act of war. >> does this administration believe that the russian invasion of ukraine is an act of war? >> well congressman, we've said very clearly that we know what we have seen, which is military aggression intervention in the affairs of a sovereign country, a violation of legal commitments, a violation of international law, that is what we see that is what we're calling it. >> sreenivasan: and as the u.s. continues to discuss financial support for ukraine, the house voted today to provide loan guarantees to the new ukrainian governme

regaining of control, in the continued tug of war, is this is a significant turning point for the viktor yanukovich supporters? >> yes, he's not the super issue. we do see pro russian supporters making moves, not just heard, we hear the chants russia and russia and they are encouraged on what they are seeing with the people coming in and they are supported but also the russian military exercises in russia's west on ukraine's border and saying that shows that russia is behind them and they say the majority of the people, 60% of the people here soerassociated with russia and they are looking to kiev and are nervous and they believe that that new government are bandits and fascists and no power here and so we have seen the crimea prime minister take over the police and take over the arm and saying he's one of the dangers is that e. kiev is not recognizing him any more and that means a break down with the communications and making things morcompcate >> jennifer, they are looking to kiev nervously and looking like an antigovernment protesters in kiev had the upper hand. viktor yanovich onhe r. is ts shi