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CNNW CNNI Simulcast February 8, 2015

Is wrapping up at the munich conference. Fighting in the ukraine was at the forefront of the conference. German chancellor Angela Merkel told participants that peace talks should at this point despite a clear lack of progress. Merkel will hold a Conference Call with french president fran swois hollande and russian president Vladimir Putin. Fred pleitgen and erin is in moscow. How is kiev taking this news that expectations are still so very low . Reporter well i dont think anybody in kiev expected anything different. There are some big gaps obviously between the ukrainians and the russians however, it seems the western negotiating partners are not all on the same page either, natalie. One of the good things thats come out over the past 2 1 2 days of diplomacy, merkel and hollande speaking to the ukranians, at least people who are a conflict are going to enter into the conversations. There will be a call with poor row schenk poroshenko putin, merkel and hollande. The fighting has been going on over the entire weekend. One of the big issues that the western negotiating partners have is that there are some in the United States that says now is the time to give arms socalled defensive arms to the Ukrainian Military however, especially the europeans dont think thats a good idea at all. Angela merkel touched on that yesterday. Lets listen in to what she has to say about that. Translator i understand your viewpoint and also the discussion thats going on but the progress that ukraine needs cant be done with weapons. I have great doubts about the validity of that at this point. Reporter the reason she says she has great doubts about the validity of that point that if the west introduces weapons into the conflict she feels that will up the ante possibly russia will introduce their own air force and things will deteriorate further than they have until now. Youre absolutely right, the ukrainians absolutely frustrated. Their military seems to be on the defensive. They say the rush hans are fueling the conflict and they dont feel theyre getting the amount of support they need from the United States and the west natalie. What do they think that the west doesnt seem to be allied or what the response should be with the United States Congress Talking about arming and Angela Merkel saying thats not the way to go and kiev sits there waiting to see what should be done . Reporter they sit there at the same time the situation on the battlefield appears to keep deteriorating by the hour if you will. Theyre frustrated with the situation. On the other hand they know that even if military equipment were pledged, its far from certain how long it would take to get to the battlefield. The russians this is what the west has said have put some fairly sophisticated equipment on the line. Its unclear how much difference it would make. However, by and large they want support from western countries in kiev. They want moral support, they want financial support, of course they want military support as well. They are saying this is a fight for their sovereignty and its something the americans keep saying again and again. Joe biden was very tough on the russian leadership. He says he wants to see actions. We have to keep pushing for a peace agreement. There have been agreements in the past. He blames russia for having breached those, for introducing more fighters. The russians flatly deny this. He say, yes, there are people coming over from russia. These are people who are volunteers and not controlled by the kremlin. The reality seems to paint a very different picture. Its a very difficult, a very complicated picture both on the grouped and in the arena of diplomacy. The government in kiev is very much frustrated with the situation and what they perceive to be a lack of international support. You saw that yesterday with the speech that Pedro Poroshenko came out and showed the passports in munich saying this is all the proof that you need that russians are fighting there. On the ground things are a little bit more difficult than that. They are saying yes, russians are coming over to fight. From the time pleitgen there. Thank you for that perspective. Erin mclaughlin in russia. Reporter russian reaction to these diplomatic remarks have been positive. They characterize the talks thus far as having been constructive. Details about the plan thats currently on the table have not been made publicly. Yesterday we heard from Francois Hollande who says on the table is a demillitarization zone 50 to 70 kilometers wide. Its aimed at implementing the minstk agreement which was signed in september which has collapsed in the face of the swelling violence that weve seen in Eastern Ukraine with western countries as well as ukraine accusing russia of sending in military personnel as well as equipment something that russia has repeatedly denied. The question now becomes if these negotiations are centered around a months old agreement, what has changed . The answer is very much uncertain. Even the european leaders who are spearheading this initiative has acknowledged that whether or not these diplomatic talks will be able to work is, in fact, uncertain. Natalie. So it begs the question whatever happened to sanctions, erin . Reporter yeah well russia has been very critical of the sanction that is have been implemented so far. We heard yesterday from russian president Vladimir Putin who said they were not effective though in his words he said they did cause a certain damage. Western sanctions combined with Falling Oil Prices have had a negative impact on the prussian economy although president putin shows no signs of reverseing course on ukraine. Moscow continues to deny direct involvement in the conflict. President putins popularity is still sky high. Recent polls show that 70 think that the government should continue its policies despite sanctions. Next week in brussels were expecting eu officials to consider adding more names to the list of people currently facing sanctions as a result of this crisis. From here it seems very unlikely to have any sort of impact on the ground there in ukraine. Natalie. Thats very very unfortunate because the fighting goes on. There have been more deaths in the past 24 hours. Coming up here isis under fire by weekend airstrikes. Well have more on the coalition of airstrikes and well look at the front line of the isis fight. Its one story one u. S. Network probably cant wait to disappear. 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Theyre known as peshmerga and theyre digging in here after isis recently surged north with a major offensive to try and take the city of kirkuk. The isis flag is just there. You can see how close the fighters are. Theyve taken back most of the territory. They tell us mostly every night they test their defenses and the fighters believe in the next few days there will be another push forward. Reporter these peshmerga are outside their official lands. Theyre all what stands between isis and another iraqi city this one being rich in oil. The commander tells them isis attacks in thinking fog and sets oil wells on fire to hide their advance. When conditions cleared, he said his men and Coalition Airstrikes killed hundreds of isis fighters. The bodies of some lie nearby haste stilly covered with earth. The threat is not only at the edges of kirkuk. These Kurdish Security forces control the inner strip. Isis has shown they can hit the city. Last week they detonated a car bomb outside police headquarters. No one but the three attackers was killed, but their ability to strike backs up what Security Forces here suspects isis already has people inside the city. The captain tells us hes sure theyve entered the city pretending to be refugees. Theyve been losing ground to the peshmerga but the new offensive and the proximity of that new flag near a little city show theyve not lost any confidence. We have this from baghdad. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy restaurant in the citys southeast killing 30 people injuring dozens more. Another suicide bomber struck at a market in a city center killing six people. Just hours after the attack iraqs nightly curfew which was aimed to limit violence was completely removed. Its been in place since 2003. Australias Prime Minister is attempting to fight for his job. Tony abbott has called a special Party Meeting pushing the vote forward by one day. That gives his challengers less time to round up support for a motion to force him out. Ive decided that the best thing we can do is deal with the spill motion as quickly as possible and put it behind us. Accordingly, ive asked the whip to convene a Party Meeting at 9 00 on monday morning to deal with this matter. If a vote goes through, nominations will open for the position of Prime Minister and deputy leader of the liberal party. Nigerian officials are postponing next saturdays president ial elections due to security concerns. The new date is september for march 28th. The delay comes in the wake of increasing attacks by the Terror Group Boko Haram against troops and civilians in the weeks leading up to the election. The opposition says this is a major step back and is urging nigerians to refrain from violence over the delay. Between 10 and 15 people were kidnapped friday at a mine in mexico. It happened in the southwestern state of guerro. They describe this as a Community Issue and says the mexican army is handling it. Theres no word on the kidnap perfects motive and the names of the victims have not been released. A discovery in the same state, guerrero dozens of bodies including children found in an abandoned cream mae ma tore yum in acapulco. Reporter the bodies were found on the outskirts of acapulco. There were 60 bodies inside belonging to women, men and children. Some of the bodies of undetermined age were perfectly embalmed and ready for cremation. Officials say nibs called police after noticing a foul smell coming from the cree ma tore yum. The building had been abandoned for a year according to nearby residents. Police first found the pile of 40 bodies in a cremation room. A second pile was located in an adjacent cremation room. Acapulco is located in guerrero state. Back in september 43 students from a Rural Teachers College disappeared in a city located in the same state. Right now theres no indication the cream ma tore yum is related. Translator after four months of investigation, mexican officials concluded in late january the students were abducted executed burned in a landfill and the remains tossed in a nearby river. The remains of only one student have been identified but their parents say they dont believe the authoritys version of the story and have continued to protest because they say they want the truth. A group of parents and sympathizers marched on a highway connecting mexico city and acapulco saturday blocking traffic for hours. Even though theres no connection to the disappearance of the students its fueling questions. Authorities have yet to identify most of them. Rafael ramos, cnn. A pacific storm is pounding the western u. S. And more snow heading into the east. Well give you the latest right after this. Nbc network news anchor Brian Williams is temporarily taking himself off the air amid the growing controversy over accuracy in his reports. The u. S. News anchor will step aside from nbc nightly news for the next several days. Nbc has struggled to respond to the scandal. Williams apologized last week for claiming he was aboard a helicopter in iraq in 2003 that was struck by a rocket propelled grenade. He was actually on a different helicopter. Well Authorities Say they do not believe right now paparazzi contributed to a deadly crash involving former olympian bruce jenner. One person died. Several others were injured in saturdays four car wreck in southern california. Adriana weingold has the story. Reporter a gruesome and tragic scene on pch. Olympian and reality star bruce jenner rear ended the white lexus. It appears bruce jenner was involved in the rear end of a vehicle, however, he was the third car in a multiple rear end collision. Sheriffs deputies say theres no indication the paparazzi following jenner had anything to do with it. He was going northbound on pch. The first car, a prius, stopped suddenly causing the second car a white lexus, to also slam on the brakes. Deputies say skid marks on the ground indicate again ner also tried to stop but ended up hitting the white lexus. The car then spun into southbound lanes smashing the drivers side to bits. Bruce jenner was in the third car which is an escalade with a trailer behind it towing a sand rail. When it struck the lexus the lexus went into oncoming traffic which struck the southbound h2 hummer and the driver of the white lexus was pronounced dead at the scene. Seven other people including an infant and two small children in the hummer had minor injuries and were taken to the santa monica hospital. Everyone else including jenner were okay. A deputy said bruce jenner voluntarily took a field sobriety test and was questioned before going home. A volcano eruption in guatemala has stopped all the air travel. It erupted saturday spewing ash 5500 meters into the air. Government disaster officials raised the nations alert level to orange meaning a stat of danger. No evacuation orders are in effect at the moment. The volcano is 96 kilometers from guatemalas city. Derek van dam is watching the weather in the United States. My goodness, that is quite an eruption in guatemala. Very active volcano. That layered the town just southwest of the town with a couple of millimeters of fresh volcanic ash. This is fresh inches of rainfall over the west coast of the u. S. Very active. Look at the rainfall totals exceeding 10 inches across venado california. That is in northern california. We have rainfall in excess of 10 inches across many other locations as well leading to some of these scenes coming out of california. This is across the greater ferndale region. You can see the flooding impacting at culture and local community. Folks are banning together to sand bag the regions helping to protect the property. Quite a sight coming out of that region. With rainfall totals like that you can imagine that was pretty widespread. You can see on the radar how widespread this was. San francisco was very dry this january but we sure made up for it quickly across this month so far. Only a few days into february and rain was not the only problem. It was wind. Look at these wind gusts. This particular reading, 134 Miles Per Hour even though this is in a Higher Elevation of california still equivalent to a strong category 4 or weak category 4 hurricane. Were talking about gusts near hurricane strength for us. Impressive stuff even around the San Francisco International Area which by the way had some power outages. 99 of the city is actually back on with power. More wind to come and another storm system enters the west coast. Now focus on the east coast of the United States where the ban of snowfall will impact upstate new

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