Peacekeeping Effort News Today

Recognizing to eastern ukrainian territories as independent, russian president vladimir putin ordered troops in the both areas, and where he framed as a peacekeeping effort of the region. russia has been backing separatists in this region for the past eight years. and it is unclear if the troop movement, if it actually happens, will trigger further sanctions by the white house. simon ostrowski was in ukraine for the 2014 invasion. as a special correspondent for the pbs news hour and he joins us ...

About it. >> congress gutierrezs parents migrated from puerto rico in the 1950s and he later lived there as well. i appreciate you coming on. i know that your mind and your heart is in puerto rico. whats your biggest concern right now for the people on that island? >> chris, i want to read something to you. i just got this half an hour ago from a high ranking federal official in puerto rico. he said, "we need to ensure the orderly distribution of fuel, supplies all across the island. the militar...

Regulations, simply werent followed. >> do you believe that this crosses the threshold of criminal activity? >> i dont know at this time it has reach that threshold. i think as the investigation goes on, as more information is revealed, i then think we can make a determination as to whether it reaches a threshold of criminal activity. >> we had had someone on our program this morning that i believe miguel marquez spoke with who said if these officers are not charged criminally, he fears what wil...

annan for this, and dont blame the man. it is kofi annans name who was on the six-point peace plan and they did not get to point one, and now he is off of the masthead. and so looking for the successor of the arab league, and it will be interesting to see if anybody steps in to want to take that over. they met together, annan and assad together with the security council to come together to meet with consequences to the assad regime to quell the violence, but nothing worked. annan may h...

President obama has called the ugandan president and the fbi is assisting in the investigation of three deadly bombings that rocked the african countrys capital city yesterday. at least 74 people are confirmed dead. more than 70 are wounded in the attacks which targeted two locations where crowds were simply watching the world cup final. this was the scene at one restaurant moments before it was hit. among the fatalities an american identified as nate henn. a week of national mourning begins in ...

Shabaab to target the country because of its support of the african union peacekeeping effort in somalia? >> you have to remember that in the two decades of conflict in som somalia there have been waves of refugees into uganda. there has always been a concern of ethnic somalis as well as the refugees. al shabaab would find it easy to disappear and other militant groups, al qaeda, using somali nationals. the kenyan foreign minister warned against attacks against east africa because he felt al sha...