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Enhance their ability to defend themselves. our nic robertson has more from saudi arabia about it. hello there, nic. >> reporter: good morning, natalie. while the president said he's showing restranltd on ining res. one part of it that he appears to have chosen on the military front here, of course, knowing that he did yesterday announced increased sanctions on iran, on the state bank there. so on the one hand he's taking those sanctions measures, but this is a military measure, but very clearly being telegraphed as a defensive mention, that this is for missile defense systems, to support sa...

Of -- you can't be this behind the eight ball when dealing with russia at a moment like this. as ian was pointing out, this seems to be a shift. what a lot of people are looking for, at least from the democratic party as well, they want to see this followed up with more stringent sanctions measures. that's going to be in the realm of things that will hurt a lot of the russian power players, where they live, but start to get into questions of, can you do that without having any backlash effect in the united states with european allies. >> here are some poll numbers. regarding russia, president ...

The united states can do. even as the united states and other countries prepare to discuss these sanctions measures and other diplomatic pressure efforts, the president's own administration is talking about military options, making very clear that despite the push on diplomacy right now, there is, of course, still a military option for the united states to address the problem with north korea. but while there are military options, most military officials and foreign policy experts say that those options are not necessarily very good in particular because they could, in fact, result in many civ...

Allies are together, but there is certainly a different perspective from the europeans who rely so heavily on energy from moscow, and the americans. so the bottom line seems to be we'll take tougher sanctions steps, the ones that will really hurt, if and when vladimir putin takes the next move and goes beyond crimea. >> well, we have taken some sanctions measures. i think those are important. we need to send a very strong signal to putin, that he has violated international law and the international community is going to respond. here in congress, we need to pass legislation to support y ukrain...

Sanctions debate, randi, that may hold things up, is a plan, according to the resolution, a referral of libya, libya's authorities, to the international criminal court in the hague for investigation for potential prosecution of crimes against humanity. that is not something that happens often at u.n. will all of these sanctions measures make a difference, have some teeth? not quick enough, i believe to assist the people trying to overthrow gadhafi. randy? >> he's been sanctioned before, gadhafi, right, and didn't really do much. he's still in power. >> reporter: right. it wasn't until after 9/...