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Woodruff ukraines parliament voted in a new government today and it immediately faced a challenge from the countrys crimea region. Prorussian gunmen seized official buildings there, as Russian Military jets patrolled along the border. It raised concerns at a nato meeting in brussels, where u. S. Defense secretary chuck hagel said hes keeping a close watch on russian actions. Lets keep the tensions down. Lets see no provocative actions by anyone, any military. These are difficult times, we all understand that, but this is a time for very cool, wise leadership. On the russian side, on everybodys side woodruff in washington, secretary of state john kerry said he spoke with russias foreign minister, who promised to respect ukraines sovereignty. Meanwhile, russian news accounts said ousted ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich is sheltering at a kremlin retreat near moscow. Theres word he plans a News Conference tomorrow. Well get more on the developing situation, right after the news summary. Bomb blasts shook baghdad and other parts of iraq today, killing at least 52 people. Most of the deaths came in a motorcycle bombing that struck a shiite market. Other attacks hit both shiite and sunni sections of the city. A wave of violence began last april, and has continued despite government pledges to restore security. In northeastern nigeria, islamist fighters struck again today, killing at least 33 people. Survivors said gunmen with boko haram staged an allnight attack on a town and several villages after soldiers ran away from military checkpoints. On tuesday, the militants murdered almost 60 students at a Government School in a neighboring state. Gay rights activists cheered today after Arizona Governor jan brewer vetoed a bill letting Businesses Refuse Service to gays on religious grounds. The republicans closely watched decision came last night. She rejected arguments by bill supporters who cited religious Rights Violations in other states. Senate bill 1062 does not address a specific concern related to religious liberty in arizona. I have not heard one example in arizona where a Business Owners religious liberty has been violated. The bill is broadly worded, and could result in unintended and negative consequences. Woodruff similar legislation is pending in at least six other states. Also today, a federal judge in louisville ordered kentucky officials to begin immediately recognizing samesex marriages from other states and countries. The netherlands is the latest country to suspend aid to uganda over a new antigay law there. It imposes sentences of up to life in prison for those who engage in homosexual relations. Norway and denmark have already halted millions of dollars in assistance in uganda. The u. S. Has warned it too, may cut aid. Democrats in the u. S. Senate fell short today in a bid to advance a 21 billion Veterans Benefits package. The measure would expand health care, education and job training. Republicans blocked the bill in part over its cost. They also wanted to add new sanctions on iran over its nuclear program. Food nutrition labels may be getting a new, easiertoread look. Calories and sugar content will stand out more, and serving sizes will be updated to bring them more in line with the portions people actually eat. First Lady Michelle obama rolled out the proposal today at the white house. Families deserve more and better information about the food they eat. And its important to note that no matter what the final version looks like, the new label will allow you to immediately spot the calorie count because it will be in large font and not buried in the fine print. Woodruff the food and Drug Administration will take comments on the proposal for 90 days. A final rule could take another year. Well look more closely at the proposed changes later in the program. U. S. Attorney general eric holder was taken to a Washington Hospital for a time today. An aide said he felt faint and had trouble breathing during a morning staff meeting. He was discharged after several hours and sent home. Holder is 63 years old. In economic news, the new chair of the Federal Reserve bank acknowledged a spate of weak reports could mean slower growth. Janet yellen told a Senate Committee that Consumer Spending and job growth have been lower than expected. But she said the severe winter could be the main cause. Part of that softness may reflect adverse weather conditions. But at this point its difficult to discern exactly how much. In the weeks and months ahead, my colleagues and i will be attempting to it signals that indicates whether the recovery is progressing in line with our earlier expectations. Woodruff wall street rallied after yellens testimony. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 74 points to close at 16,272. The nasdaq rose more than 26 points to close under 4,319. And the s p 500 finished the day with a record high, up nine points to close at 1,854. Still to come on the newshour. A new Prime Minister takes the helm of a divided ukraine, dire straits for Palestinian Refugees in syria, president obamas push to help young men of color strive for success, a makeover for nutrition labels on food packages, how american and British Intelligence agencies spied on webcams, plus, the oscarnominated documentary the act of killing. Ifill in ukraine, a crisis is unfolding in the Eastern Province of crimea. Lindsey hilsum of independent Television News reports from simferopol, the capital of the prorussian region. Police were on gourd outside the Regional Parliament this morning. The entrance barricaded by Old Furniture and pallets. The russian flag flying alongside the crimea on top. And inside the building, some 60 armed men. Nobody knows whats going on inside now. We are just saw the building being taken over. 30 fully armed guys rubin side. They kicked out the police. Then more buses came and about 30 more guys arrived. They had bags full of rpgs, sniper rifles, handguns, these guys were fully armed. The crowd was all in favor. They said they didnt know exactly who would occupy the building but they all wanted the same thing. A referendum on where the crimea should remain part of ukraine or as they all want, join russia. In key eve parliamentarians responded angrily, its a challenge to the new governments control. Anyone who tries to, and i stress anyone, to take over the government buildings in ukraines east, west, center, south and north is going to be treated as having committed a crime against the government of ukraine. So what are they going to do about it . The people occupying the Crimean Parliament are armed and outside including the police are sympathetic. So its hard to see how the authorities in kiev can force a siege. They will have to negotiate. And that gives not just to the militant russian crimean but to the only man they respect, president putin. This morning Russian Armoured vehicles headed towards president putin may be insurancing that every one remembers that the Russian Military has bases here. They turned around at the Ukrainian Police check point. A group of men were building a camp outside the headquarters of the riot police. They want to protect them from the new authorities. Two courses have become entwined. These men love russia and they see accused of murdering protestors if kiev as their heroes. A small group of pro russia pro protestors marched through the streets yelling their message that they dont accept the authority of kiev and its European Union backers. People milled around as deputies inside the occupied parliament waited in favor of the referendum on whether the crimea should join russia. Kiev would can claire the vote illegal but are not sure how theyre going stop it. Woodruff the state Department Released its annual human rights report today and concluded that last summers chemical weapons attack in syria which killed more than 1,400 people was the worst human rights violation of 2013. While there have been no new reports of chemical attacks, the civil war rages on and the humanitarian crisis continues to escalate. Tonight we take a closer look at those barely surviving amidst the conflict. Its a scene of utter desolation. Here in the yarmouk camp, thousands of Palestinian Refugees are caught in the crossfire of civil war, in a country that is not their own. translated by god, we are dying from hunger. We cant take this anymore. Woodruff yarmouk was first established in 1957, near the center of damascus. Once, 160,000 palestinians lived there. Now, 18,000 are left. Theyve been under siege by the syrian army since july, after some palestinian factions turned against the assad regime. Since then, the u. N. Says more than 100 residents have died of starvation and related illnesses. This week, aid workers negotiated their way into the camp and were met with a swarm of desperate people. U. N. Footage showed an elderly woman who came out to receive aid. The workers ask if she is palestinian or syrian. Im palestinian, she laments, Filippo Grandi is head of the u. Ns Palestinian Refugee agency. He visited yarmouk on tuesday, and said later the people looked like ghosts. These are people that have not been out of there, that have been trapped in a situation not only without food, medicines, clean water all the basics but also probably completely subjected to fear because there was fierce fighting, noisy fighting going all along. Woodruff and, as the fighting rages on, an ever growing number of syrians have been forced to leave their homes. Nearly seven million are displaced within their own country. Another 2. 5 million have sought refuge in surrounding states. Lebanon has the largest contingent, at more than 900,000. Jordan and turkey now host roughly 600,000 Syrian Refugees each. And more than 200,000 syrians are living in iraq. In washington today, senator tim kaine of virginia highlighted the humanitarian crisis, insisting that russia put pressure on assad. None of this is an accident. The assad regime is using forced starvation and forced sieges as a weapon to destroy the Syrian People. Woodruff for now, u. N. Staffers continue to work through negotiations with the syrian government, rebel and palestinian factions within the yarmouk camp with the aim of delivering more aid while it can still do some good. We turn now to two who have focused on the humanitarian crisis caused by the syrian civil war. Nancy lindborg is assistant administrator of the u. S. Agency for International Development in charge of conflict and humanitarian assistance. And Michael Gerson is a Washington Post columnist and former speech writer for president george w. Bush. We welcome you to the newshour. Nancy lindborg, we see these terrible pictures, almost impossible to believe. How did it get like this . You know, its been steadily et cetera ca lating particularly in the last year. Weve seen the number of people who have been displaced rise by three times in the last year. And the people who you saw are part of 12 cities that are literally beseiged, 250,000 people, many of whom havent received aid for months and months. And theyre eating cats and dogs. Woodruff and so is it as bad, we saw pictures in one place inside syria. Is it that bad in other refugee encampments sm. I think its hard to imagine the depth of difficulty people are facing inside syria right now. In aleppo they are dropping barrel bombs. Knees are bombs that are constructed from bolts and rebar and specifically designed to horrificly injure people so what we are seeing is the unfolding to the just of a humanitarian crisis but a serious human rights crisis where people are being systemically denied food and targeted. Woodruff so michael ger son, there is a gerson there is a crisis for those inside syria, terrible. You were at a syrian refugee camp in jordan. What did you see there . Well, i was with the Holocaust Museum examining issues over there. And we were at the Border Crossing seeing the people coming right acrosstheboard frere sirria. And it is exactly what you are strike. Their stories right on the border, very much either the beseiged areas of syria, the government surrounding areas, depopulating them, attacking them, using barrel bombs, using hunger as a tool. This is not a case where the news of the innocent bystanders or the byproduct of a civil war. This is a case where one side in that civil war is using aya tacks on civilians, mass atrocities as a tool of war, as a strategy of war. The testimony that we heard from person after person, from homes in aleppo, the suburbs of dom as cuss, 40 some areas right now in the estimates that are beseiged and where civilians are being attacked. Tell us some of the stories that you heard. Well, you know, i was surrounded at the camp by a bunch of people who were very anxious to tell their stories. But there was one man that hung back and talked about how he had been a protestor. And had his house targeted by a tank, a regime tank. Lost a fouryearold daughter, a sixyearold son, a 15yearold son lost a leg. And all he said, i asked, you know, i was in tears when he was telling this, all he said at the end was i just wanted someone to know this was a case where part of the problem is, is a failure of sympathy. I talked with a lot of the great aid groups over there that are not getting much donor money right now, for the syrian crisis. One told me that they had raised in three months for the philippines, where it had taken three years to raise in the syrian conflict. People are not very engaged in this. Nancy lindborg, how much is getting in and who is sending it in, where is it coming from. Remind us where this money is coming from. The United States is the single largest donor. We have given about 1. 7 billion of humanitarian assistance since the crisis began. And were working with u. N. Agencies, international ngos, local syrian groups. The courage of the humanitarian workers who every day are risking their lives to deliver assistance is really remarkable. Just one of our partners has lost 42 of its Staff Members since the conflict began. So the aid is coming in through all different ways, reaching people throughout the country. But its difficult to escalate the assistance as fast as the needs are rising. So i was going to say, theres aid going in. But a lot of people are to the getting aid. The United States alone is feeding 2 Million People a day. We sport the World Food Program or the largest donor. They fed last month more than 4 million. But the needs are so much greater. Its as if the entire state of new jersey needs food and medical assistance every day. What else, what needs to happen. Who needs to step up here, Michael Gerson, i want to ask you too. Who needs to step up and what needs to be done. I want to confirm, on the humanitarian side t is extraordinary. What the u. S. Government is doing. What the jordanian government is doing. They have taken in 600,000 people in a country that has poor Water Resources and you know, is not a very wealthy country themselves. The problem is there may be 500,000 mobile refugees right on the other side of the border in southern syria that could overwhelm a country like jordan. The difficulty is how do you change the situation on the ground within syria. And i think the administration is now reexamining some of its methods to try to do that. The question you mean effect the conflict itself. Affect the security situation thats producing this problem in the longterm. But a lot of the humanitarian organizations are now begin toing to plan for five years, ten years out this is to the going to be solved in any short amount of time. How do you see it, what needs to happen in the short run and the longer run. Well, immediately, we have the opportunity of the Un Security Council resolution that was passed on saturday. Its the first times theres been a unanimous agreement among the members of the Security Council that the barrel bombing must stop. There must be full, unfettered humanitarian access, that if this is no