Bangladesh, but at what cost . Hello, everyone. A top nato commander has issued a stark warning saying Russian Forces on ukraines eastern border are both sizable and ready for action. Russian forces are strengthening their hold on the crimea peninsula. ProRussian Forces stormed an airbase. Earlier shots were fired as Armored Vehicles moved in. Russian military has also seized ukraines only submarine along with the flagship of the naval fleet at the port near sevastopol was abandoned. Nick spicer is in sevastopol joining us live. Whats happening to all these Ukrainian Forces forced off their own bases, up to 189 of them now . Reporter theyre faced with a difficult choice. The russians are telling them they can either join the russian army or leave the country. Its difficult. Some of them are deciding to join the russian army. They have strong feelings about their russian heritage, their russian speakers. Russia has a long history in this country, in this part of the world before annexing the crimean peninsula. However, others are thinking they should go to ukraine, and that is what duty instructs them to do. We met up with one officer whose mind was never in doubt. This major spoke with al jazeera before russians took over his base. The soldiers were Still Holding out. Leave Ukrainian Army and become a russian citizen and get a job with better pay in the Russian Armed forces. He has never lived in mainland ukraine. His parents and family live here in nearby sevastopol. He has relatives buried here, but theres something stronger than that. Translator as for me, i will definitely leave and fw to mainland ukraine, but despite all the endless offers, i will not accept russian citizenship or pledge allegiance to russia. Reporter the Ukrainian DefenseMinistry Says the soldiers leaving heroes, not deserters, patriots that severaled a nation well. Its promising them Financial Support and housing, but many soldiers leaving to the mainland say the government should have given them clear orders in good time. Torn between his officers dignity and his disappointment, hes going to pack up more than his uniform in the coming days, a whole life, memories, joys and disappointments will be coming for a trip to a destination he does not know yet. But he agrees with something else. He says this flag flew over the base during the threeweek standoff with the russians. The officers decided to cut it up and share the pieces in hopes to fly it someday over their base once again. For now, he needs to get his paperwork off the base filled now with russian soldiers. After that a long road with the major, and theres simply no other one to take. Well be back in a moment. I want to mention a little bit of breaking news on a different topic. The Prime Minister has himself confirmed that turkey has shot down a syrian plane. This plane is apparently going into turkish air space. This is from the rutgers news agency here. Theyre saying a syrian plane violated our air space. Our f16s took off and hit the plane. Were going to have more on that from or correspondent in istanbul. The Prime Minister confirmed they shot down a syrian plane into their air space. Back to nick spicer who brought that report on all the people relocated. What is happening as far as, i guess, can we call it integration or changes with this new government and the relationship with russia . What else is happening . Reporter the kremlin is taking no time in taking over the administration of crimea saying that it will be sending in officials from various ministries to russia fie, if you will, the crimean peninsula. That will mean the people from the industry of the interior running the police force and the ministry of defense running the ar army. Beyond that, the introduction of the introduction of rubel the only currency that runs in parallel to the ukrainian grivna until then. People are offered passports as well. Ive spoken to people lining up in quite large numbers to get russian passports. There are a lot of questions as well. What will the Exchange Rate be . You can imagine if its not the right rate, a lot of people might lose significant savings. Theres a concern about inflation. Will things be more expensive when crimea is integrated into the russian market . Lets remember that the ruble has been dropping as a consequence of the intervention in crimea, which makes foreign goods more costly in russia and now in crimea presumably. A lot of hope overall. I talked to people what benefits they will expect. A lot of questions marks as well. We understand that the ruble introduction may begin on monday, so thats when people will start to get an idea of what their new lives will be like. Thank you. Back to the dments made by nato by the military chief for europe who says a sizable Russian Force is massing along ukraines eastern border. This was general Philip Breedlove who said the full stand to the Ukrainian Border to the east is very, very sizable and very, very ready. Theyre concerned about a threat to muldova. Theyre a breakaway region that might want to joan the russian federation. The population is ethnic russia. When you see it on paper like that, it is a its fair enough to think along those lines. What have the russians said about any other areas in the region and what their interests are . Reporter russias Defense Ministry have been unambiguous in their response to these reports by this nato senior general. Theyre saying that Russias Armed forces are not carrying out any unannounced military activity that could threaten the security and stability of neighboring states. You cant get it clearer than that. The Deputy Foreign minister antonov, he says they have no plans to concentrate near the border. They respect the limits allowed in the size of the forces on those borders. Basically this is a message thats been repeated throughout the week. It was president putin who announced the membership of crimea to the Russia Federation on tuesday. He said quite openly that russia had no expectations, did not in any interest to expand its hold on the ukraine. This message was taken up by e the russias defense minister. We spoke to chuck hagel in washington 48 hours later. He said, look, there have been exercises being carried out on the boarder and in the air. We have jet fighters and bombers on a deployment on thursday and friday of last week. There are also naval exercises in the black sea. He says there are only exercises, and theres no intention of russia crossing into the ukraine. That very much was the message that has come from the kremlin in the last few hours. Thank you to that. Thats peter sharp live for us with that update from moscow. That breaks news out of turkey to do with syria, though. The turkish Prime Minister has confirmed the armed forces, the Turkish Armed forces shot down a syrian jet after it strayed into turkish air space. There were reporting it was bombing rebels trying to seize control of a border post in northwestern syria. More on that when we get it and talk to our correspondent and the latest on the developing news out of the conflict in syria. At least four people have been killed in an attack on a church in kenya. Masked gunmen opened fire during a service. 21 other people were injured, and theres no immediate claim of responsibility. Kenyas interior Ministry Says the gunmen escaped despite police being 100 meters away. Katherine, what more can you tell us . Reporter well, police are saying that they blocked all exits from the air of who could be behind this. No one has claimed responsibility. Police are telling people not to speculate and to wait for the investigation to be completed. This has to be said. This cant this attack happened after Police Arrested two men with a vehicle stashed full of large quantities of pipebombs and explosives that were large enough to bring down a 20story building. It has been intensified since those explosions of whats covered by police. Were told that the trucks that are being brought in have extreme security helping. So its very concerning, but even in all the stages people can walk into a church and then vani vanish. No indication, katherine, on responsibility . There are certainly other places in africa where there are the usual suspects. Does anyone jump out in kenya here . Reporter no one in kenya has claimed responsibility, but the coast is one of the regions thats being carefully watched by security agencies. Normally dwrups and leaders are ral callizing them and asking them to join al shabaab has acted in part of the country including the coast. We should be quick to jump to the conclusion that its connected to al shabaab. There are a lot of disgruntled groups in the coast as well. Groups that feel marginalized. So theres possibilities. Terrorism is one that is there throughout. Thank you. Still ahead this news hour, algerias ailing 77yearold president says its standing for reelection. Well find out why not everyone is happy about that. The man that helped to bring down Hosni Mubarak is in court. We look ahead in sports to ar uably the biggest game when real madrid hosts barcelona. We want to reiterate the breaking news out of turkey. The turkey primary confirms armed forces have shot down a syrian jet. Thats the jet coming down after it was shot in turkish air space. Reports suggests it was bombing rebels trying to seize control of a border post in the northwestern area. These are reports that came out about 20 minutes or so again and the then the confirmation as we say from the turkish Prime Minister himself and these pictures from the Turkish Television reporting to shoez it there. You see the explosion, that syrian jet coming down in turkish air space as it strayed there. More on that as soon as we get it with our team in turkey. One of the egypts most from meant activists mab released on jail after spending four months in jail. He was a youth leader in the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in 2011. He faces trial. Ahead of his appearance, activists released footage of what they say shows the mistreatment of young men and women in custody. We have more on that. This footage was filmed by selfstyled anticoup activists in egypt. It shows young women being taken into custody. Here teenage boys are led away by plain clothed officers. Theyre among 50 youngsters accused of taking part in antigovernment protests transferred from a juvenile Detention Center to torah prison in cairo. Their families try to invade to stop the transfer. Translator there were no more than 25 of us. We asked them not to transfer our children, but they responded with Water Cannons and buckshots, even though were all women. Reporter those still held in alexandria are aged between 12 and 15 is have been staging a Hunger Strike in protest of the transfers. Their families accuse prison authorities of beating the youngsters and restricting access to them. Translator the criminals got a long time, but we were allowed only two minutes and we had strict body searches. When i put food in front of my child he told me that he was not going to eat. Reporter human Rights Groups say many children are illegally being held alongside adults in egypt and are routinely mistreated, but some government supporters defend the justice system. Translator some children were arrested, and they confessed. This shows the Muslim Brotherhood strategy to use women and children to perpetrate illegal acts. The security establishment are only maintaining order without any violation of human rights. These heen yus acts by the brotherhood are strongly condemned as no illegal act could be tolerated, no matter who is behind such act, be it a woman or minor. Reporter the International Law says children should be detained as a last resort, and in todays egypt its far from a rare event. Good point to update you as well about one of three Al Jazeera English journalists. Hes been taken to hospital for a shoulder injury. Ma home med received little care for his shoerl that dislocated before his arrest in december. Hes been detained alongside two reporters. All three accused of having links with a terrorist organization and spreading false news. There is also a bell outhas been in custody for six months. Al jazeera continues to demand their immediate release. At least one person has been killed during fighting between pro and antisyrian fighters in the lebanese capital of beirut. It ended when the electric neez army was ordered into. Five days of silence in tripoli, which has left 24 dead. A tanker that escaped liebian waters has been steered to tripoli by u. S. Special forces. The Morning Glory left the port to break a naval blockade two weeks ago. That led to the dismissal of the Prime Minister by bar lament. Its been boarded by special forces off the coast of cyprus. In Afghanistan Security footage has she had light on a deadly attack at one of kabuls most secure hotels. Taliban gunmen passed through multiple security checks on thursday. They smuggled in weapons by hiding them inside shoes. They were patted down after passing through detectives and their shoes were not checked. A u. S. Senator visiting afghanistan is urging president barack obama to explain his plans. Kelly ayotte says the Afghan People need to be told. She did warn that American Forces would not stay on after the withdrawal if president karzai delays signing a security pact. Its time for us to be clear about what the United States of americas commitment will be as a followup to 2014 and beyond to the people of afghanistan. Now, that support is contingent on the president signing the bilateral security agreement. Now, australias Prime Minister says there are new and credible leads in the search for the missing malkin flight. They have detected debris in the southern indian ocean. Its not clear what those objects are, but the area they were seen is is the focus of the focus. France says it too has satellite images showing potential objects of interest floating within the search area about 25 kilometers southwest of perth. Over the last 24 hours, there have been three significant developments. New satellite imagery, new chinese satellite imagery does seem to suggest at least one large object down there consistent with the object that really satellite imagely discovered, which i told the Australian Parliament about last week. Yesterday one of our civilian search aircraft got visuals on a number of objects in a fairly small area in the overall australian search zone. It is a big search zone. This is remote. If you were to try and choose a worst spot for an aircraft to go missing, then you couldnt find it any worse of this. Theres nearly 250,000 kilometers away from perth, which is a fairly remote city. The weather conditions for australia, we get used to sunshine and occasional storms, but really its all relatively beni benign. Dont you move away towards the west and you head towards this region. I had to redraw all the maps and look at i tried to look for the islands. There is absolutely nothing here except the weather patterns. Its worth points out that the southern oceans are cloudy 80 of the time. Thats what theyre up against. They cant see the sea surface because of clouds, which is always onto want surface. We have the weather fronts racing around the southern oceans. Because antarctica is covered in ice, you have nothing but water. They keep on going. We have a Tropical Cyclone towards the north. That looks like it will gradually die away and become less of an issue in the coming day. The weather is very unsettled. Lots of symptomy weather to come, im afraid. Thank you for that, richard. Forgive me. Were looking at the breaking news again out of turkey to do with the syrian war plane being shot down. The turkish Prime Minister has confirmed this himself. His armed forces shot down a syrian jet after it strayed into turkish air space. These pictures say that cloud and smoke was the result of that plane being shot down on the line. A columnist with the newspaper today examines on the line from istanbul. We thank you for your time. Any more information you can give us thats been released. Reporter the information is very sparse. Nothing at the moment. It will be half an hour to go down its the beginning of a series of perhaps escalations in the beginning. We will see if theyre following. Explain for our fews how this can be. He is the tough speaker at the best of teams. You have it straying into turkey air space and this is the immediate raek. Reaction. How big can it be in the conflict . Reporter we have certainly the Upcoming Elections in turkey. Its interesting very tense circumstances because the Prime Minister is looking at the aftermath and the political scene is very tense. This is certainly case to come out of the elections because there are allegations of the option that their constitution does this. That is the point. The second point is two or three days ago the main opposition leaders issued a statement saying that the opposition is concerned that there are rumors that there will a military escalation with syria. You complied these could be linked with the coming elections that are going on aimed at perhaps doing this with the escalation. Certainly we will have to hear the o