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Get some international observers in there, and you would not have the violence. es escalating the violence sends a pretext for putin to end send in the troops. >> and in addition to that, senator john mccain says that we should battle the separatists. >> we should at least for god sakes give them light weapons to defend themselves, and so far, not only has this administration not done that, but they wont share the intelligence with the ukrainian government. i can tell you with my conversations o...

This doesnt happen by accident, are effectively buzzing the u.s. warship that is in the black sea right now. thats a major, major provocation. >> its a major provocation. its a major shift. this is really how things seem to happen during the cold war and its routine and theres an agreed upon pattern of behavior. for 20 years, this has not happened at all. of course, the most important thing that is going on, as you said, the tension is about the fact that there are these armed thugs, groups that...

Russian-speaking citizens there be threatened, and of course, if the ukrainians make good on their threat to use force to try and remove these militants from these various cities, then that could serve as a pretext for russian military intervention, christine. >> it feels to me, diana, like weve been talking for some time now and theres been talking about this crisis, but now the talking is happening with bullets, and theres actual violence happening. were in a new phase, it almost feels like he...

Crucial question. >> they have to clear out squares and use tear gas. >> is this a done deal? >> here is what theyre worried about. this is russia. 40,000 russian troops. if the ukrainian government clears the activists out, what if there are a lot of deaths? the russian arm why will have the perfect pretext to go in. thats the game theyre playing. they have got to get control over their country. there is very little people from the outside can do if the government cannot get control of ten offi...

People believe that russia is stirring that up as a possible pretext for either invading or for standing there, to keep this very hard warning to the kiev authorities while they go through their presidential election which is due for may and to try to influence what happens on the ground there. but its clearly getting really dangerous as they start really sort of messing around with close military calls, that is going to be something that becomes increasingly hard to control. >> do you sense eve...

Russian interests are threatened, he will use ever power in his means to protect them. this is a pretext for a full russian invasion of eastern ukraine as we have been talking about for the last month or so. >> which means that putin has calculated i vladimir putin can go take part of the ukraine and whatever retribution is coming from president obama, america -- merckle, i can handle any of it. >> we saw this week, the iranian ambassador, someone that was involved in the hostage crisis seizing ...

Troops stationed near the ukraine border. acording to nato, those troops are ready for combat. russias top prosecutor says he sees no reason to extradite the ousted ukrainian president yanukovych to kiev. ukrainian authorities are telling pro-russian protesters they wont be prosecuted. if they leeave the buildings theyre occupying in some of those cities. whats the next move for the united states, the next move for the obama administration? joining us now is congressman adam schiff of california...

We want to push back against russian propaganda. meanwhile, inside eastern ukraine the standoff between pro-russia separatists and authorities continues. activists are demanding referendums on autonomy, even joining up with russia. this is widely seen as a probable pretext for russia to move in, this activity any way. talks do continue. the threatened use of force by ukraine has not materialized, so that is a continuing situation. finally, the gas wars continue. russia threatening this week to c...

Does not support the use of force to break up this ongoing siege that is taking place at the regional government building. now, we got to set the scene a little bit and to connect the dots about why the presence of russian troops and what is happening inside ukraine is so important. several days ago separatists, pro-russian separatists, took over a government building and since then theyve set up layers of barricades and have essentially besieged that building. now, the government here said that...

Russia. >> yes. its the peoples republic of donesk, one of the big groups that want to give people power and want freedom for us. >> here in the self declared peoples republic of donesk, the overnight officials, they dont want us filming inside barricades. citing safety. russia, save us from slavery. and this one saying, doesnt want fascism. all around us, a sense making permanent their presence. this woman carrying out a number of documents from inside the building. in the offices up there, one...