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>> did you authorize it, sir? >> everybody knows exactly what happened, so what i do is i authorize my military. we have the greatest military in the world and they have done the job as usual and we have given them total authorization and frankly that's why they have been so successful lately. if you look at what's happened over the last eight weeks and compare that to really what's happened over the last eight years you will see there's a tremendous difference. >> sources tell cnn the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan general john nicholson signed off and that the white house was inform...

Welcome back to "the lead." let's turn to the world lead now. it could be a vicious and bloody showdown. iraqi troops could at any time enter mosul. the terrorist group has left a trail of death and destruction ever since the terror force loosened its grip on the city. as many as 5,000 terrorists are said to be holed up in and around mosul ready to fight to the death. let's go to nick peyton. he's in irbil, iraq. what are the conditions like on the ground right now? >> reporter: it is tough moving down that road from the east of mosul toward the city limits themselves. iraqi military loud toda...

>> all right, nick, the white house watching this keenly. and the obama administration condemning russian president vladimir putin's move to annex crimea, calling it a threat to international peace and security. in fact, they have dispatched vice president biden to the ream ton reassure nato allies. cnn's michelle dozen zin ski picks that up at the white house. >> reporter: white house has been extremely measured in its language, its response to russia, clearly, the administration doesn't need a war of words with russian president vladimir putin, even though russia has been exactly the opposit...

Day." we are going to bring you the latest on the search for flight 370 in a moment. first, want to talk about the rising tensions in crimea. pro-russian demonstrators storming ukraine's naval headquarters in sebastopol overnight. no reports of violent clashes at the facility, but now, it is flying the flags of russia and its navy. this comes after a gunman kill adieu cranian soldier at another base in crimea, leaving the government to authorize its troops to fire back in self-defense. and this all comes after a day after russian president putin signed a treaty make willing crimea part of ru...

Dramatic developments in ukraine now stormed a protest camp in kiev independent square. clashing with thousands of demonstrators. take a look at that. they have been there formonths. they're angri protesting against the government. those in the square are pledging they're not going anywhere. in syria, a new round of kidnappings and in-fighting between rebel groups. human rights activist and her husband and two colleagues were taken near an office in damascus. the captain toors are believed from an lake-effect-linked group battling the assad government. nick peyton following this. nick, this ...