towns like slaviansk, and tamron, we are seeing a deepening and the low-grade driven or the security office driven conflict where you are seeing the contract killings, and more lethal beatings, and people using baseball bats, and more abductions as well. this is becoming the new normal and it gives you the idea of how dangerous, and chaotic the situation is in eastern ukraine, and of course, nobody here believes that any sanctions are going to have any effect at all of the policies or the spiraling almost out of control in the eastern ukraine. back to you. >> thank you, jim maceda. today, the congress recalls from easter recess as both parties are to take on the debate of the minimum wage, and we will talk