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9:00 a.m. out west. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." lets go to the ukraine. the prime minister says ukraine is, quote, on the brink disaster. he calls the russian military bases a declaration of war and blames president vladimir putin for bringing the nation to those point. the president expressing deep concerns over russias violation ukrainian sovereignty and the international law. putin defended what he called russias rights to protect its tests. today on "meet the press," secr...

Samantha morton originally cast in the movie and they shot the whole movie and spike jones decided it wasnt working and he brought in scarlet johanssen. she really brings that character to life, so to speak. and joaquin phoenix is fantastic too, very subtle work, very understated. but the whole movie is it takes a fairly comic premise. and it takes it in some very thoughtful and touching directions. i think asks some interesting questions about the nature of love. >> okay. well, its been a great...

A slave," one of several powerful films that made at least one top ten list this year and probe more. there are so many great movies. christopher orr calls 2013 no less than a tremendous year for film. christopher joins meese now to discuss his top five frustrates and more. welcome. >> thank you for having me. its a pleasure to be here. >> im glad to you. its always fun to talk about means. what is it do you think that made 2013 such a great year for film. >> there were a lot of good movies. it ...

0 still going to slow things down for travelers. >> thank you so much from the weather channel. alex is, appreciate it. developing story of the russian ship stranded in sea ice off of antarctica there since christmas eve. a first attempt by a chinese ice breaker had to turn back. joining me now martin fletcher from london. any progress being made there? >> well, very little. its midnight local time in the east in antarctica. that chinese ice breaker you mentioned which got to the within six na...

Thats from the movie "love actually." we are asking a very important question this morning. is it a christmas classic? with some movies, its ovs. miracle on 34th street. >> christmas story. >> a christmas story. people are up in arms about this. one critic, christopher orr, at the atlantic, had this to say about the movie. >> i think "love actually" is not mere ly not a love movie bu an anti-love movie, first and last scenes of a variety of scenes without the middle part where people actually fa...

0 international space stations cooling system that need to be made. if everything goes well, they will have a primo look at santas flight. >> no doubt the the two flight engineers scheduled to do the space walk will have the best seat in the house for santas flight as they finish up the work they started on saturday. >> youre welcome. thank you. good job. >> today astronauts will venture back out of the orbiting international space station. their mission, to replace a pump needed to cool the ves...

0 hello, everyone. high noon here in the east. 9:00 a.m. out west. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." to politics. new today, we are less than 24 hours away from a major obama care deadline. tomorrow is the last chance for people to sign up for health insurance to take effect on january 1st. the deadline approaches at the same time the obama administration announced people whose insurance plans were canceled this year will temporarily be exempted from the laws of individual mandates. both sid...