Left Kiev News Today

From kiev. and businesses that wont serve gay people. a bill allowed just that in the u.s. but will the governor sign it. and ted nugent apologizes or does he for using a racism term to describe president barack obama. the only thing is there is a bust, youll hear the rockers explanation. all right. one day after citing a landmark peace deal, ukraines president has left the capital city of kiev. and the parliament has unanimously voted him out of office. but in a television interview earli...

Dramatic moments. youre in the "cnn newsroom." were glad to have you with us. welcome to saturday. im christi paul. >> im victor blackwell. the saturday air moves through my lungs much easier than the monday air. were going to get to arizona which everybody is talking about. also to ole miss. but we have to start with the fast-moving developments in ukraine. >> youre looking at pictures here were going to pull up. there they are of ukraines chapter kiev. protesters are still at the citys indepen...

Effectively been negotiated the, they still dont trust the president viktor yanukovych. the people are saying theyre going to say here until theyre pretty sure this agreement, this compromise, will be followed to the word. and some will say theyll stay here longer until president viktor yanukovych is removed from office. >> phil black, keep us posted. meantime, president obama is watching every move. president obama spoke to vladimir putin about the situation. that is before the president left...

Stopped for now but protesters are still taking action, toppling statues of vladimir lenin. kiev has been the center of violence for days now. phil black is there live now. phil, what is the latest? what more is the president saying and where is he exactly? >> reporter: sure, fredricka. lets start with breaking news first. this concerns the former prime minister of this country, yulia tymoshenko. theyre saying she has been released. this is significant. shes the former prime minister of the coun...

Protesters yanked down statues of lenin who, of course, led the russian revolution. and they accused president yanukovych of wanting too close of ties with russia. we like in alise labbot. alise, the ukrainian president, we know, has left kiev. hes reportedly saying he will not resign. hes digging in. what does all of this mean at this point? >> reporter: well, he may be digging in, christi, but its really unclear whether he can maintain his grip on power, because you see in the last couple of d...