Crimea Controlling News Today

Tough, he knows america well, he knows when were serious and i think the fact that there is a very strong reaction in the american government lavrov knows and hopefully he will tell putin, we have to deescalate. i think its a very tense situation and we have to keep the pressure on and i think in europe, germany is the key, france and britain following with germany, taking a stronger lead i think is really very important. >> tense indeed, bill richardson, glad to have you on the program. next on...

The front gate and who sort of shouted back, being called a o provocate provocateaur. a tense situation, and for many on a personal level as they try to keep in touch with their loved ones inside these military installations but cant get through. we saw the red cross try to get into the navy headquarters with medicine, with food, with water and they were stopped, anderson. >> and then the newly installed pro russian prime minister of crimea told cnn today that the descriptions on the ground in c...

>> ambassador richardson, youve done a lot of negotiating, obviously. as you look at this situation, do you feel that theres a planned strategic aprooich proas there an impression of an ad hoc nature on the decision making by putin? >> i think, jill, because putin is so unpredictable, because the russians are so all over the place on their intentions, it has to almost be ad hoc. one of the bad sides of today is the u.n. envoy literally being expelled, pushed out of crimea, if a solution is going...

Russia and together with our friends and allies in an effort to provide a way for this entire situation to find the road to deescalation. >> there is breaking news tonight. were learning exactly how the russian invasion came together. just pieces of information starting to form a clearer picture, whether there was a lot of advanced planning or whether the plan was launched really on the fly by russia, implications for u.s. intelligence agencies which are being slammed in some quarters for being ...

But this is also very much a shrine, a memorial to those who died here. more than 80 people died here, a little bit more than a week and a half ago. i want to show you just one of many shrines all throughout this square, five people died right here on this spot and they are memorialized here. you can see their photographs pasted here, their names, some of the personal information. people have placed rosaries. and if youre wondering what these are, these are actually shields, riot police shields ...

Mr. putin, tear down this wall. >> meanwhile russias foreign minister continued to post putins message from yesterday. >> translator: self-defense forces created by the crimeian residents as the military of the black sea fleet, they are on their own bases. >> never mind the fact that only days ago, russians foreign ministry admitted troops were in crimea. and secretary of state john kerry met with ravlov a and the foreign minister in the hopes he could get them both to the table. russia refused....

The people of crimea controlling the situation themselves. is there truth to that? >> i have to say its not a situation of chaos or disorder. in fact, outside of those areas around the military bases, its amazing how normal life appear to be. people are going out, restaurants, bars, life really does appear to be normal, except around these military installations. we were at another navy installation by the sea not far from here, and there were russians right across the street from the main gate ...