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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 york vermont, washington and into boston massachusetts. We have the potential of 30 to 45 centimeters of snowfall by tuesday afternoon. By the way, thats over a foot and a half of snowfall. Remember they got pounded with a blizzard about a week and a half ago. So just continuous snow. Very Winter Weather across the new england coast. Quite chilly up there now. It is. Thank you, derek. Still to come here we will take you live to jordan. Another country is showing solidarity with jordans fight against isis. Also ahead here, we will hear from a mentor to the American Woman isis captured and now claims is dead. Well find out why she says Kayla Mueller has spent her life in service of others. If it doesnt work fast. Youre on to the next thing. Clinically proven neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. It targets fine lines and wrinkles with the fastest retinol formula available. 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Jordans king promised the father of a pilot isis murdered he would get revenge. Nigerian officials are postponing next saturdays president ial elections in the country due to security concerns in the wake of increased terrorism attacks by boko haram. The new date for elections is march 28th. The opposition is urging nigerians to refrain from violence over the announcement of the delay. More bodies have been recovered from airasia flight seven bodies were found in the java sea on friday and saturday bringing the total number to 99. Its believed one of the bodies is the pilot. Today divers will try to raise the fuselage of the plane after several previous failed attempts. United arab emirates is rejoining the coalition fight against isis. It suspended its part in airstrikes over concern for its pilots. Atika shubert is live in amman, jordan now with where jordan stands with its stepped up campaigns. Atika. Reporter thats right. The campaign has stepped up and continues to be relentless as they hit targets, particularly around raqqa, the isis strong hold in syria, but also yesterday we know they hit targets as well in kobani and hasaqqa. That is continuing. In the meantime the development is that the United Arab Emirates have sent over a squadron of f16 fighters apparently to be based out of jordan. Thats quite a significant move. In december the uae actually suspended flying with the coalition roughly around the same time that that Jordanian Air pilot went down behind enemy lines. It seems that the uae is recommitted to the coalition and they will literally be flying side by side with jordanian jets. It really does support what jordan has been saying that it is the spearhead now in the war against isis and it is now being helped it seems, by the uae. So jordan has said they would get revenge. It appears from the video that were seeing that they are. Now that the uae is joining in does anyone know how long this campaign will be stepped up and what overall effect it might be having on isis . Reporter well its definitely putting more pressure and strain on isis. Weve seen them hit numerous targets, weapons depots tactical vehicles for example, but is it really hitting the command structure of isis . Is it having an effect on isiss ability to hold territory . It is having an effect, but as many times as you hit isis from the air, you really need boots on the ground to take territory, and thats where the Sticking Point is. Boots on the ground in iraq of course, means iraq forces in syria. There really isnt an option other than Syrian Rebels. We know from u. S. Officials that Syrian Rebels will receive training in neighboring countries, but we are still weeks if not months away before seeing any sort of Ground Campaign if that is even to happen. So that leaves us only with the air option right now, which jordan is stepping up. It will keep isis at bay, but will it ultimately defeat isis . Certainly not in the short term. Atika shubert live for us in amman. In the United States the parents of a female isis hostage are hoping their daughter is still alive. Theyre claiming a Jordanian Airstrike killed Kayla Mueller. Her life was dedicated to spreading social justice. Shes just 26 years old. Reporter the signs of anguish remain quiet but palpable in prescott arizona, an idyllic town oceans away from the savage ri of syria. 26yearold Kayla Mueller an isis hostage for more than a year. For those who know her in prescott even as a teenager she was a defender of social justice, ee especially those who cannot fight. She profoundly understood that peace will not come without justice and its useless to have peace without justice. Professor thompson teaches here in arizona. We spoke by telephone because shes on sabbatical in zimbabwe helping farmers. Kayla mueller thought she might follow her footsteps and work in africa. Its this conflict and syria and 4 million refugees that captured her heart. She posted this video in 2011. I am in solidarity with the syrian people. I reject the brutality and killing that the syrian authorities are committing against the syrian people. Reporter by the following year she would make her first trip to the syrian turkish border. Professor thompson said they spoke at length about social justice versus personal risk. She went beyond me her professor, to join in the suffering and, yes, she knew very profoundly the risks of that and that was her choice. Reporter a choice friends say her parents supported. This weekend they remain surrounded by spiritual counsel, family and friends as they have since her capture awaiting the truth about their daughter. Meantime the fbi is working around the clock to try to stop isis from recruiting teenagers and others in the United States. Our justice correspondent pamela brown spoke with the assistant director of the fbis Counter Terrorism division. We got a rare chance to sit down and talk with a man who was leading the fbis Counter Terrorism efforts, Michael Stein back. He shared disturbing insights how isis is reaching into American Homes to find their newest recruits and their next victims. Of all the weapons used by terrorists one of the most dangerous is social media. Theyre using it successfully to spot assess identify target folks outside of war zones. Theyre using it in europe and in the United States. When you say target folks, how young are we talking . Weve seen across the globe kids as young as 13 recruited by isil. 13 . 13. Are they actually in direct contact in some of these cases with isis militants who are overseas in syria that are reaching out to them directly . What weve seen is individuals in syria reaching directly into the United States starting in public chats on Different Social Media platforms and then moving to private chats where they continue to recruit, inspire, and then coerce individuals either to travel overseas or even worse, to conduct an attack here in the United States. Michael steinbach, the head of the fbis Counter Terrorism division says theyre using facebook to identify american victims. Is there intelligence to back it up . There is intelligence to indicate theyre using social media not only to spot and assess but select targets, targeting Law Enforcement, government officials. That threat led the fbi to issue a string of warnings urging Government Employees to scrub their social media. How do you get through the noise of someone who is mouthing off versus someone who is a legitimate threat . Thats the trick of Law Enforcement and the trick of the u. S. Intelligence community to work through that using data using strong analytical skills but its a fulltime job and a challenge. Something that steinbach said to me said theres a deliberate attempt to use people to recruit people with sophisticated and specific skills engineers and accountants to run the business end of their caliphate. She says in some cases parents have encouraged their children to join terrorist groups because theyre inspired by the message. New york city 5 million subway commuters may never look at the train system again after hearing what may be lingering beneath the streets. That story is ahead here. Also, pushing the limits of one of the biggest muscles in the human body. Ou feel like youre underwater . Try zyrtecd® to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms. So you can breathe easier all day. Zyrtecd®. Find it at the pharmacy counter. If you take the subway for whatever reason to get about the city, we dont have to tell you they arent the cleanest of places. Now scientists have well youre not going to like this. Theyve spent a year studying the subway in new york. They collected more than 15,000 types of microorganisms in new yorks subway and around half of them were unidentifiable. The report says grim dna samples turned up traces of anthrax, meningitis even the bubonic plague but not all was bad. In fact many microbes told what kind of food was nearby. Mozzerella cheese. Scientists found species associated with maritime life. New York City Health officials have expressed some concerns over the findings saying they might be misleading. Until then happy commuting. Californias Silicon Valley is famous for its big brain power, and some of those talented techs like big money too are having big hopes to join the billionaires club. That takes intense creativity. Some are trying to take a very different kind of work trip lsd. Cnns Laurie Siegel brings us the closer look in the part of her series sex, drugs and the Silicon Valley. Reporter part of success in Silicon Valley is dependent on flexing one of the biggest muscles you have, your brain. How well can you focus . Can you stay up all night and code . The other part of success is creativity the ability to think outside the box, to have the break through moment a moment that could turn your millions into billions. The billionaires i know almost without exception use these on a regular basis. Hes a entrepreneur and he wrote the book about optimizing your time. His lifestyle insights have developed a cultlike following. The creativity comes from drugs . The people i know who are trying to be very disruptive and look at the problems in the world that exist and ask completely new questions, so they might look at something thats existed for hundreds of years and see something completely different. I was actually at a Science Fiction convention with a bunch of friends and the grateful dead trucking came on the radio. My girlfriend and i had this revelation thats why people listen to the grateful dead on lsd. It was 1983 when he first tried psychedelics. Hes been using it for decades. He currently works as an engineer for cisco. How high is a premium on creativity in Silicon Valley . Everything we do is entirely creative. Everything requires creative solutions. Lsd kind of fits into that because you get the sort of magical break through. I would be at a grateful dead shohei on lsd during drums and then something about my work would just come to me. I had been working on a problem for over a month when all of this hard core debugging and i took lsd, i just realized wait the problem is in hardware not software. I come back to work and tell my manager i had an epiphany. He said oh, great show. Reporter theres actually scientific proof that lsd can do just that. One study funded by the u. S. Government in the 60s took a group of scientists and set them out to solve 48 different physics, math, architecture problems problems that the scientists had been unable to solve. Each scientist was guided through a psychedelic trip at the end 44 of 48 problems had found solutions. I moved here to work in the apple garage building apple 1s. That was 1976. Thats daniel kotke, one of apples first employees and before we knew steve jobs as the creator of one of the successful guys daniel knew him as the guy he would trip with. Lsd was one of the best things he ever did. Why was that . It expands your consciousness. It could have been mushrooms, it could have been peote. Conversely steve was never interested in smoking pot. That did not expand consciousness. Reporter today psych dell lick researchers are having a renaissance. They say there are more studies now than in decades. We dont know as much about the human brain and body as we think we do. We are absolutely medieval. Well look back in ten years and it will look like blood letting. Back to our top story now. The awe crane and how to solve it. John kerry is speaking at the munich conference at the close. Make no mistake, we are increasingly organizing and fighting back effectively and we must. The world cannot and will not cower in the face of this extremism, and the United States and our European Partners are helping to lead the fight to defeat it wherever it exists. This is clear in the frenchled fight against terrorists in the sahil, which we appreciate enormously. It is clear in the support that germany, france and almost all of our European Partners have shown for the fight against boko haram in nigeria and elsewhere and certainly it is clear in our share the mission to counter dash a group that directly threatens the peace and stability of every single country in the region and has overtly threatened to take their horrific mission to every corner of the world. Today the International Coalition that we have built has grown to more than 60 active members including dozens of allies and partners in europe all operating with a shared goal of disrupting, degrading, and destroying ultimately destroigs daisch. Since september our coalition has pursued a carefully comprehensive solution to weaken daisch weve launched 2,000 airstrikes, retaken 700 square kilometers 1 5 of the area they had controlled. We have deprived militants of gas and Oil Facilities they were using to get their revenue. Weve disrupted their command structure, undermined their propaganda taken out hauf of their leadership squeezed financing, dispersed personnel and forced them to think twice before they move in an open convoy. We are forcing them to change tactics, take the events in kobani. Daisch had captured more than 300 kurdish militants including large swathes of kobani itself, but thanks to diplomatic resources, together we drove daisch out. They expected a easy victory and the media was predicting an easy victory only months and weeks away. Instead after a costly battle in which they lost roughly 1,000 of their fighters they were forced to openly acknowledge defeat and as daisch retreats to syria, we will continue our fight and we will continue to put pressure on the assad regime because there is no place for a brutal dictator who is a magnet for terrorism and allows no terrorist safe haven. We cannot lose fight. This is an important part of my message here today. We cannot lose sight of the fact that this effort is only the beginning. We cant just work to put out the fires that daisch and other groups are igniting in the region and around the world, we have to actually prevent the ignition of those fires in the first place. That means the fight against violent extremists is not going to be decided on the battlefield, its going to be fought and won in classrooms in workplaces houses of worship, Community Sentences centers, urban street corners and halls of government. Countries need to adopt laws that crack down on terrorist recruitment. We have to address the intolerance intolerance, economic hopelessness and exclusion in some of our societies and we have to create alternatives to violent extremism in countries where it is prevalent, alternatives that are as credible as invisible and as empowering and broadly available as we can make them. If we dont take these steps, you can absolutely bet that at this conference or another one like it five years, ten years from now our successors will be on this same stage talking about this very same topic. The terror groups may have different acronyms by then and they may be targeting Different Countries by then but if we dont do what is required by now, i can guarantee you that the fundamental challenge of todays conflict will remain. So we have to remain deeply committed to this fight and those not yet committed need to commit to this fight. We need to be unrelenting. This will be the focus of the International Summit on countering violent extremism that president obama is hosting in washington in a week or two. I want to leave time for questions today obviously so ill just make one final point. I think we all need to reflect on the claim that some have made in recent years, even here this weekend, that the entire International System is somehow unraveling. My own view is very different. In the course of my travels i dont see it unraveling i see the very opposite. I see nations working together to negotiate new and far reaching trade packs which will contain about 70 of the gdp of the planet. I see us working together to bring an end to the ebola pandemic. I see work to seek a peaceful resolution to the threat posed by Irans Nuclear program and you just heard from foreign minister zarif. I see us working together to reach an ambitious Global Compact on Climate Change to curb the strife that taunts places like Central African republic republic colombia and the democratic republic of congo. Are the times challenging . Yes. Are they different . Yes. Of course. But i see countries around the world responding by reducing extreme poverty, by expanding access to primary education, by increasing life expectancies by fighting back against hiv and aids. Were on the cusp of the first generation to be free from aids children in history. And were improving Maternal Health care aiding child nutrition, growing the middle class. In country after country i dont think so many countries have enjoyed the prosperity they enjoy today or are reaching for it at any time in human history. And while ive detailed the very threat that violent extremism poses, please dont forget we have faced far more daunting threats on this planet before and we have prevailed. Statistics show that even with the increased acts of terror that we face today a smaller percentage of people today are dying violent deaths than at any point in modern history. One of the principle reasons were achieving this progress is very simple we have never been content, any of us here in this Atlantic Alliance to settle for the status quo. The trans atlantic nations, all of us are blessed to be the descendents of doers, people who overcame slavery, fascism, the holocaust, totalitarianism. We are utterly unafraid of great challenges and in fact is most effective when we are put to the test. So now it is our turn. The tests that we face today prepare us to prepare and plan and unite and to insist that our future will be uncompromised by the primitive and paranoid ideas by terrorists and thugs but instead will be built by the universal values of decency and civility and knowledge and reason and rule of law. That is what we stand for together and i am confident about the future. Thank you. [ applause ] mer Prime Minister and current minister of france monsieur monsieur fabious. All right. We were listening to u. S. Secretary of state john kerry speaking at the end of the Munich Security Conference there. Much on their plate as you heard from mr. Kerry, but he was sounding an optimistic note trying to encourage the world to believe that World Leaders are coming together to take on extremism and having a positive effect. This during a weekend of seeing stepped up airstrikes by jordan and the uae joining in to fight isis after they killed so brutally the jordanian pilot in that situation. However, the World Leaders are leaving the security conference without much head way on how to stop the violence in Eastern Ukraine. Well take a break. More of cnn live coverage right after this. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover erases 99 of your most stubb keup with one towelette. Can your makeup remover do that . [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover. Now with the xfinity tv go app, you can watch live tv anytime. Its never been easier with so Many Networks all in one place. Get live tv whenever you want. The xfinity tv go app. Now with live tv on the go. Enjoy over wifi or on Verizon Wireless 4g lte. Plus enjoy special savings when you purchase any new Verizon Wireless smartphone or tablet from comcast. Visit comcast. Com wireless to learn more. World leaders in munich work to end fighting in Eastern Ukraine as many ukrainians express doubt. Also ahead this hour these two u. S. Police officers are charge the with the brutal beating two years ago. Well tell you how their alleged attempt to cover it up was exposed. Also a highly acclaimed russian film is not receiving the same praise back at home. Welcome to our viewers in the u. S. And around the world. Im natalie allen. Now our top stories. The annual Munich Security Conference is ending today. We were just listening to u. S. Secretary of state john kerrys closing remarks. German chancellor angela merkle