Secretary of state john kerry. Within the past fewer hours, ukraines interim Prime Minister says he is still willing to speak to russia in an effort to avoid future conflict. The region of crimea appears to be out of the governments control. Some areas taken over by russian and prorussian forces. The Ukrainian Border guards say there are more troops in the region than had been previously thought. The Prime Minister is insisting they withdraw before any dialogue can take place. Our russian neighbors who should be our partners have to withdraw troops, stick to bilateral agreements. Russia should state careukraine russia are ready to build a new relationship. Tell us about the buildup of troops. As you were mentioning, Border Guards in ukraine are reporting there are 30,000 Russian Troops in crimea. Previously the figure given by the interim government much was 60,000. It is a big jump. Adding to the pressure, adding to the standoff between ukraine and russia, russias gas produc producer,
Challenges du hi. Keeping stoned people from behind the wheel. And 81 and young talents on the biggest stage of the art world. And we begin tonight with the very latest in the tense tug of war over crimea and ukraine. There have been talks of sanctions and days of diplomacy trying to convince trowz pull back russia to pull down. Almost twice the last count from ukraines government. Today moscow warned washington that sanctions would back fire and hit the United States like a boomerang. There is another standoff in the military base of sevastopol. Jennifer glasse is live there, in crimea. Jennifer. John, that happened earlier this evening. We saw armed men go into a base in sevastopol, they negotiated with the Service People inside. We are seeing this kind of pressure all across the crimean peninsula. This comes a little left weve got a referendum in about nine days time and the people of crimea will decide whether to with russia or stay with ukraine. That makes people nervous. Vladimir
The crisis in ukraine gets more complicated by the day as diplomats make another effort to find a solution. Secretary of state john kerry spoke with Russian Foreign minister sergei lavrov, but he warned against any hasty move. And were just now hearing reports out of crimea that a military base is under siege by Russian Forces. Jennifer glass is in sim erpol. What can you tell us about this situation . Reporter were getting conflicting reports from this air force base. Not far about five miles from where i am i in the center of te city. We understand that the gates have been broken in. There is a source inside that its by Russian Forces as negotiations are going on. Outside of the gate were told by ice witnesses that there are just armed men not in uniform. This has been the confusion, tony, here over the last week or so. Youve got men in uniform, unmarkemenin unmarked uniform, n forces, and we have seen mostly cossacks not as well equipped as the Russian Forces, and theyre taking stan
For the white house. All agree that people should not be using marijuana and driving. Reporter a new roll for police in colorado trying to spot motorists driving under the influence of pot. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy. Ukraine is in the middle of a tug of war between russia and western allies but a symbolic vote is threatening to redale a diplomatic resolution and in crimea they voted to reunite with russia. Next week voters there will decide whether to do so in a referendum and russia says it will support the peoples decision. The sus slapped a visa ban on officials and president obama followed with an order laying ground work for sanctions and eu suspended visa talks with moscow and threatened to impose travel bands and freeze assets and cancel a summit with russia. For the second time in a week president obama and putin spoken the phone and mr. Obama urging there putin to hold direct talks with ukraine and we have coverage on the situation in ukra
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