In asia. A warm welcome to those in the United States. I am guy johnson. This is the pulse. Get to our top story. We talked about the crisis and the ukraine. It is on the top of the president s agenda. We have it all covered. Hans nichols is on the ground there. The moves. Oring Ryan Chilcote is gauging recession risks and manus cranny at how sanctions affect u. S. Business interest rates. Lets go to Ryan Chilcote on the ground. What is on the ground . Aboutncerned are they sanctions and what is Vladimir Putin doing today . But start there. We have an introduction of the they to crimea after consolidated and take over the last pocket of resistance from the ukrainians. Andave the Russian Troops russia says that they are not want to send the men. Dispatched president a foreign minister to the hague. He is holding a meeting in moscow and the topic on the agenda is sports. It is clear that the russian president is turning in here to the pressure and the ukraine and doing his best to presen