Resolve the conflict or is this just the beginning of a protracted crisis . Then, massacre in Santa Barbara. Why did chris die . Chris died because of craven, responsible politicians and the nra. They talk about gun rights. What about chriss rights to live . When will this insanity stop . Santa barbara is grieving after a 22yearold man killed six college students, just after he posted a misogynistic video online bowing to take his revenge on women. The massacre prompted an unprecedented reaction online with tens of thousands of Women Joining together to tell their stories of sexual violence, harassment, and intimidation. Yesallwomen had gone viral. We will speak with rebecca men, author of explain things to me. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A california man has killed seven people including himself after posting a video to youtube saying he was seeking retribution against all women for rejecting his sexual advances. Elliot rodgers stabbed three people to death at his apartment friday before driving to her Sorority House at the university of california Santa Barbara where he killed two women outside. He drove through town continuing to fire on pedestrians before dying of what authorities call a selfinflicted gunshot wound. The day before the attack, he posted a chilling video saying girlsned to attack you for what he called the crime of not being attracted to him. The day bridge abuse and, im going to enter the hottest Sorority House of ucsd. And i will slaughter every single spoiled him a stuck up blonde slut i see inside there. Rodgers misogynist comments sparked a viral response on twitter with well over one million tweets. Among those skilled in the massacre was 20yearold Christopher Martinez whose father has reignited the call for gun control. Why did chris die . Chris died because of craven, are responsible politicians and the nra. They talk about gun rights, what about chriss right to live . Stop . Ill this insanity say,will enough people stop this madness, we dont have to live like this . Too many have died. Nothould say to ourselves, one more. A top military official in nigeria has said officials have located the nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by boko haram, but will not risk going in with force to attempt a rescue. Air Marshal Alex Badeh reportedly made the remarks during a demonstration in the capital. Military specialists have been participating in the search. Over the weekend, nigeria was rocked by further violence including an attack by gunmen in the northeast that killed 20 people at a market. The news comes amidst reports u. S. Special operations troops are creating elite commando units in four african countries as part of a secretive counterterrorism program. The New York Times reports the obama ministration launched the Program Last Year to train homegrown african counterterrorism teams in libya, niger, and molly. Told theon official times the pentagon is spending nearly 70 million to train and equip units in niger and maurita nia. On wednesday, obama is expected to give a speech at west point outlining a new foreignpolicy direction that focuses more on training local forces. President obama made a surprise trip to afghanistan over memorial day weekend. Speaking to troops at bagram air base, obama discussed plans to keep some u. S. Troops in afghanistan beyond the 2014 pullout eight. And once afghanistan has sworn in its new president , im hopeful we will sign a bilateral Security Agreement that lets us move forward. And with that Security Agreement, assuming it is signed, we can plan for limited military presence in afghanistan beyond 2014. Because after all of the sacrifices we have made, we want to preserve the gains that you have helped to win. Afghan president karzai has so far refused to sign a deal to keep u. S. Troops, but both candidates on the ballot in next months runoff in afghanistan have expressed support for the deal. The Obama Administration has blown the cover of its own top cia official in afghanistan. The officials name was included on a list emailed to reporters that was later included in a press pool report circulated to more than 6000 people. The white house bramhall to issue a list without the officials name and news outlets have agreed to withhold it over security fears. The administration faces pressure over its failure to release other secret information, including a Senate Report on the cias torture program. Mcclatchy has obtained a letter from two Top Senate Committee obama ino wrote to january seeking help in declassifying information about the torture program. Senators Dianne Feinstein and carl levin blamed the cias secrecy for stalling the prosecutions of 9 11 suspects and interfering with efforts to publicly shine a light on the misguided cia program. The cia has indicated it could take months to review the report. A human agency says the world has reached a new milestone on carbon dioxide, which is thriving Climate Change. The World Meteorological organization warned that in april, monthly concentrations of co2 in the atmosphere topped 400 parts per million throughout the northern hemisphere. Arraudarygeneral michel j called for urgent action to cut emissions saying time is running out. Next week, president obama is expected to announce a new regulation to cut Carbon Pollution from coalfired power plants. The warning from the u. N. Came just days after house lawmakers passed an amendment to a Major Military spending bill which bars the pentagon from using funds to address Climate Change and its potential impact on national security. In western colorado, rescuers have been searching for three men missing after a four milelong mudslide which followed days of drenching rain. In arizona, and alaska, crews have been battling massive wildfires which have forced residents to evacuate their homes. In thailand, the military junta has took power in a to that says it has received the endorsement of thinking and will remain in power indefinitely. The military dissolved the senate and arrested a former Education Minister who emerged from hiding to criticize thecoup. Military exercises have been canceled and suspended 3. 5 aboutn in military aid, one third of total u. S. Assistance. Egypt has declared a National Today in an apparent bid to boost voter turnout in the second and final day of the president ial election. Former army chief an apparent bd to boost voter turnout in the second and final day of the president ial election. Former army chief ill cc is expected widely to when widely expected to win after leading the ouster of democratically elected president morsi last year. In europe, extreme rightwing ground have gained new and elections for the european parliament. And france, the front party won the eu election while britain saw victory by the u. K. Independence party, which wants to withdraw from that European Union. Across europe, party skeptical of the eu on both sides of the spectrum urged to more than double the representation. In greece, Opposition LeaderAlexis Tsipras announced a victory by the leftwing, antibailout cerise a party. Historical day for our people. They made a clear and brave verdict that despite the unprecedted propaganda of fear, they condemned the government and the policies of the bailout. For the first time in history, it raised the left the first place and with a significant difference. At least 30 prorussian rebels have reportedly died in fierce fighting at the airport in the eastern ukrainian city of donetsk. The Ukrainian Government bombarded the airport with air strikes and paratroopers after rebels seized it on monday. The fighting began just hours after the proeuropean billionaire candy tycoon petro for single one the first sidential election poroshenko won the first president ial election in ukraine. In turkey, a court has ordered the arrest of four former Israeli Military commanders for the killings of turkish activists on board a gazabound aid flotilla in 2010. Israeli commandos stormed the aid ship in international waters, killing nine activists, including one u. S. Citizen. On friday, a turkish man injured the raid reportedly died this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with aaron mate. Dozens of prorussian rebels have died in the fighting in ukraine and were going to go electionsk about the on sunday. The newly elected president Petro Poroshenko said he was ready to negotiate with russian president Vladimir Putin, but ruled out any talks with prorussian rebels in eastern ukraine. Theyre just a killer. Theyre just a terrorist. If you expect i will find out the support of these people, no way. No chance. And no civilized country of the a negotiationhave with the terrorist. We are a civilized country. We will fight for the trust of the people of donetsk. We will propose the amnesty for disarmed can accept and are not directly involved in the crimes not only in the killing of the people, and we will defend and clean and bring the peace including the fighting against terror. This is one of the main function of the state, to defend the people. Then saturday, ahead of ukrainian election, russian president Vladimir Putin said russia would accept the outcome of the vote. We will unconditionally respect the choice of the ukrainian people. We will work with the authorities that are being formed based on this election. To talk more about ukraine, were joined by jack matlock, served as u. S. Ambassador to moscow from 1987 to 1991. Welcome to [captioning made possible by democracy now ] democracy now talk about the significance of these elections and the man who one, ambassador matlock, the billionaire chocolate manufacturer. Extremelyns are important. The fact that so many people came out and most of the country, and that fact the decision was a clearcut one. In the past, ukrainian elections have been very closely balanced with a very slight majority taking all the power. Stilluntry is obviously very divided and it is most unfortunate that those on the extreme east, particularly in donetsk, did not have a chance to vote. Mr. President elect poroshenko, is probably the best of the candidates in a position to begin to reify the country and to negotiate with the russians. I think he has to do two things before he can address the deeper problems that ukraine has. One thing he has to unify the country in the sense that the russian speaking population of the east feel that they are part of the same country on a and at the same time, he has to satisfy russia that his government is not going to be the rapidly antirussian and security challenge for them. I do think that he should be well positioned atop them. He has business interests in russia. Of course, he has been in the government of the party that dominated in the east so that it would seem he is the best of the current leaders to lead them into or out of some of their current problems. Lets hear more from president elect Petro Poroshenko. After winning sundays election, he said russias involvement is crucial to resolving the crisis. Russia is our biggest neighbor. And because of the fact that theyre stopping the war and bringing the peace to ukraine and bringing stability on the eastern part of ukraine, that would be impossible without dissipation of russian anticipation of russian representatives. Most importantly, the meeting of russian leadership will certainly take place in the first half of june. Ambassador matlock, what are the grievances of the rebels in the east and what can poroshenko due to address them . Grievances of the russian speaking people in the east, i dont know about the rebels, i think theyre a bunch of hoodlums, and are simply seeking power for the sake of it and to loot and so on. Whole, ieople as a want to feel they can be loyal, firstclass ukrainians and still live in the russian language cultural world. Russian is their first language. S comingl the government from the west have tried to force upon them ukrainian as a language, nonexclusive language, but one that has precedence over the others. This is a highly emotional issue. I think one of the big mistakes that the government made just after the overthrow of conoco bridge, there was a vote to make ukraine the only official language. That was reversed by the acting president , but still it sent through the russian speaking eastern regions. There are other issues as well. The economies are quite. Ifferent the economy in the east is much more dependent upon russia for markets and much more vulnerable to russian manipulation. Basically, i think what the people in the east one, most of whom do feel they are loyal ukrainians, most of them dont want to be in the Russian Federation but they do want respect. I think the new government must lead them to a sense of nationality, a sense of National Unity him and not based entirely on language but that includes russian and ukrainian as well. Were also joined by tom ,nyder in vienna, austria author of bloodlands europe between hitler and stalin. Headlined,piece is ukraine the edge of democracy. Us. K you for joining can you talk about who poroshenko is, his history . Poroshenko is a good example of where ukrainian politics stand now. What we saw in the early part of this year was a revolution which was essentially from the left, a revolution against not third tier and regime are done with basic rights to which was clipped aquatic and embody the main complaint that ukrainians east and west, north and south have, which is corruption. That revolution was essentially stopped halfway. It was stopped halfway as a result of the russian intervention and russian invasion and annexation of crimea. What you have now is a kind of compromise between new elites an old elites. Poroshenko is in the middle. He is not new. He is not new. He has served in important functioning government in the course of the last decade. At the same time, he was on the maidan. He is somewhere in between. He has made an awful lot of money and yet he is someone who has stood by the people who were trying to change things for the better. With regard to your previous question, it is interesting to note poroshenko, like the other nature president ial candidates for that matter, is a native speaker of russian. He is from near the southeast. Like most ukrainian politicians, hes perfectly capable of using one that would or the other depending upon the circumstances one in which or the other depending upon the circumstances. Is used in the east and the west as well as by president putin, professor snyder . Look, the important thing about the election is that people went en masse to vote. I think people who voted for poroshenko, he was the best of the available alternative. Poroshenko is not someone who is regarded as some kind of hotheaded patriot from the west and not considered as a radical. He seems like pretty much everybody for what he is, a centrist. The crucial thing about poroshenko is that he was the only candidate who had the necessary to get elected in the first round. Yet backing from all over the country, even in the southeast he had backing from all over the country, even in the southeast. He also had a reputation which crossed the divide betweenm proaidan and antimaidan. Putin he is spoken toputin in the past and theres no particular reason to think people will speak in the future. At the moment, what he represents above all is the outcome of a very successful president ial election in which more than 50 of the people cannot to vote. Frankly, it was the voting itself more than poroshenko which was the crucial thing to most ukrainians. The voting itself is more of a success. Now ukrainians and you and me will have to wait to see this man turns out to be the oligarch that he is been in the past or the person who cares about the rule of law as he is promised. Professor snyder, we hear a lot about nationalism. Are there social and economic concerns, those that underpin the revolution at the get go to mccann those concerns help unite west and east . That is a great question. For the last several months we have been basically experiencing ukraine within a kind of alternative reality in which the only issues were cultural ones. The cultural issues, in my opinion, are not that important. The main issue in ukrainian politics and this is true of the people who are dissatisfied in kiev as well as the southeast and donetsk corruption and of rule of law. Bsence there is a russian nationalist fringe in the southeast and those people numerically do not amount to much. As we just saw on the president ial election, the two nationalist candidates came in dead last. They pulled around 1 . They were beaten by everybody else, but also beaten by the jewish candidate. Forort for the far right the ukrainian nationalism in ukraine is close to zero, much lower than in pretty much any other european country. That is not the real issue. That is a distraction. That would be good to get out of our minds and relies the basic issue is how to install the rule of law in ukraine. That is the thing poroshenko will be tested on an yanukovych before him failed on. This is the issue which can go across from kiev to the southeast. If the government can persuade the people it is about bureaucracy and making the law work for them, then i think we might have a place to start. Matlock, i want to get your response to russian president putin, aside from saying he would support the election in ukraine, said friday moscows biggest concern over the crisis in ukraine was that the former soviet republic would join nato. He said, tomorrow ukraine may join nato while the day after tomorrow parts of the u. S. Antimissile system could be deployed there. He was speaking to an investment forum. Talk about nato and putin in his concerns. I think that is and has been main concern. I think that is why he took crimea. One of the problems when we started expanding nato in the way we did, it is if we