We offer expertise and tailored solutions for Small Businesses and major corporations. We do for you . And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america reporting from washington. Prorussian protesters celebrate the storming of a local parliament in croom era crimera. Taskednside one facility with making sure that the Nuclear Weapons are destroyed. The oscar goes to which foreign film will go home with the golden statue . Competition is fierce and diverse. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Five days after disappearing in ukraine, the ousted president Viktor Yanukovych has resurfaced in russia. In a statement relayed by russian state television, he declared that he was still the head of state. He plans to hold a press conference tomorrow. In key avenue, a new president and Prime Minister has been sworn in. Mera, pro russian gunmen have stormed the building. The crisis intensified today russia ass transiting they celebrated the storming of the local parliament by men with guns. The buildings was barricaded and it is an illustration of how little control the new ukrainian the peninsula. In the heavily armed men took over the parliament at about 4 00 this morning. Witnesses say they were carrying rifles and rocket propelled grenades. They fought their way in and through out the police who had been guarding the building. The mood had widespread support. This woman told me that like many here, she feels russian, not ukrainian. She wants to defend this historic land from people she calls fascists. With blood with russian soldiers and we cannot betray them. We will never give up. The appearance of what seems russian personnel carriers heightened the tension further. They were probably just moving bases. Seen inresident last public on friday before he fled is now in russia. Today he was accused of stealing tens of billions of pounds from the states coffers. Startingw government work, the Prime Minister begged other countries not to get involved in the crisis. No boots on the ground. Defensen department of the Ukrainian Department of Homeland Security is capable of doing their job. We believe that we will definitely find a political solution. Along the border, russia is conducting massive military exercises with tanks and fighter jets. I urge russia not to take any action that could escalate tension will to create misunderstanding. Escalate tension or create misunderstanding. No one is sure how far Vladimir Putin will go to destabilize the new ukraine. For more, i can speak now to the president of the Eurasia Group and joins us from new york. Will russia go to defend its interests in ukraine . Would it innovate . Well they will not lose it. They have a military base there, they have no intention of letting it go. They have a peninsula with the majority of russians and the vast majority of russian speakers who intend to be part of a russialeaning ukraine. The question is, can they compass at purely by waiting them out because the west, show as much interest or as much money as will be needed to keep the ukrainians in check or does cute and selecting has to put more pressure in the nearterm. He is hedging. That is why we see the unwillingness to recognize the new government and the continued willingness to accept janik over its, also the military operations over the last 24 hours. Clearly, there is a possibility for the russians to intervene directly were they invited to do element. Local how would the west respond . We would complain very sharply. I think the west has made a mistake, frankly by putting together what sounds like a redline on Ukrainian Territorial integrity. It is not that we dont support the integrity and we do, but we are not likely to stand up for it. We have this issue with georgia before. The president who is very much prowestern, wonderful english speaker, a strong georgian nationalist and was wooed by the americans and gave the russians effectively in his clues to do what they really wanted to do which was to go in and slap them around. The United States and nato will not get into a war with russia over crimea. The fact is that the russians consider this to be there territory. They are not going to let it go. If we want a compromise position where there is influence by russia and by the eu, we can probably get that but if were willing to support a government that is overwhelmingly oriented towards europe and does not include the former supporters of gimmick ovitz, the russians are likely to escalate this to the point where they can outcome that is more amenable to their own national security. Ceded from the west of the ukraine, would this be the end of the world . We say assad needs to leave but russia has Everything Possible to keep him in. Three years in, 150,000 syrians dead, assad is still there. I see no way that the u. S. And europeans are willing to put enough cash, enough muscle in place to challenge that. Russians know it. It is purely a question of how long it goes. If crimea ends up seceding which is a bad outcome for the ukrainian because it probably leads to sanctions and it breaks up the ability of the imf to support. The ukrainians are the ones will get hurt, not the western europeans. Europeans could have actually offered a deal that janik ovitz couldve accepted. Janik ovitz actually wanted a deal that wasnt just being ukraine into the customs union, he actually wanted to 20 European Custom Union as well but the european focused much more on their own backyard like greece and spain and they drove too hard a bargain for the ukrainians under massive pressure. Thank you very much for joining us. World, the the captain of the coast at concordia cruiseship has returned to the vessel. The visit was part of a Court Ordered inspection of the ship which still lies in the shallows off the italian island. A court in the u. S. Has charged a british man with hacking into the Computer System of americas central bank. Thes accused of posting names, phone numbers, and email addresses of Federal Reserve officials on a website that he controlled. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison. At least 30 people have been killed in bombings around the iraqi capital of baghdad. In the worst incident, 25 people were killed in one blast at a secondhand motorbike market. Today, the u. S. State department came out with its annual report on human rights. The u. S. Isnt perfect. Series of outlined a abuses in other nations ranging from the actions by assad regime in syria to the treatment of gay people in russia. Actinge, i spoke to the assistant secretary of state for human rights and democracy. According to this report, where in the world are human rights most under threat . Once we dont do a number ranking a but we certainly identified a number of countries where quite simply the human rights situation is absolutely deplorable. Noted, wery kerry have in north korea a system, a deplorable system in which every aspect of citizens lives are controlled and the government simply has no tolerance for the basic Human Dignity of its people. Also in syria, the world witnessed with horror the chemical attack last summer in which over 1000 civilians lost their lives. This has been accompanied by policies of starvation, of conventional weapons against civilians among and basically brutal means of attacks on women and children as a means of sustaining the regimes dominance. By highlighting the situation , what are you hoping to achieve . John kerry said this is not just a highminded exercise. Is important to bear in mind the purpose of these reports which are now in her 35th year. They were crated by mandate in which the state department would assess an objective standard, in this case the ever so declaration of human rights. Assess countries with which the u. S. Has no diplomatic relations, we also assessed against the same standards our closest partners. What did your report tell you which could have overshadowed the unrest in ukraine and russias response . I dont know if i would put it in terms of foreshadowing but the report which covers actions of the previous government documents a number of concerns with respect for the oppression of freedom of association, freedom of expression with journalists specifically targeted. The popular manifestation of discontent, the demand for Government Accountability that was made on square and continued into 2014 with the events we have seen. Is any country in the world improving its human rights record . We did see among many concerns and develop in some positive signs. With respect in yemen, a country that has been wracked by we saw a National Dialogue and was 30 of the participants were women. In mali, after a 60 month transition, we saw a democratically elected civilian government take charge in the arrest of the leaders. Many challenges remain there and with all of the countries i mentioned, but i do think these are hopeful signs of progress. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. The government agreed to dispose of all of its chemical weapons by the fifth of february. So far, only 13 have been taken out of the country. It . Happens to they will eventually be destroyed. Among them is a port in britain. It is from there that our science editor fouled this report. Plant and disposal machinery that will help to destroy the chemical weapons. Displays handles all kinds of hazardous stuff, but there should be barrels from damascus containing key ingredients for the worlds most dangerous nerve agents. The control room will monitor the process. They will be treated like any industrial waste. They are not weapons, their components for weapons and they will be fed into a giant incinerator and burned at 1150 degrees celsius. Materials, we except a lot of materials from chemicals, pharmaceutical sectors, agrochemical sectors and petrochemical sectors. This is what the scientists are here for. First enteredls industrial products. You have to mix in with something off to get a chemical weapon. Seery was meant to have shipped all of its chemicals out by now. The whole program is way behind schedule. Footage just released shows the extraordinary tension on board a norwegian ship as it approaches the steering coast. This is the first we have seen of the nerveracking task of collecting chemicals from the war zone. This is something that has never been tried before. So far, there have only been four small deliveries. Chemicalsus port, the are meant to be sent as far field as germany and finland as well as britain. Speciallyerican ship equipped to handle the most dangerous materials. Only when syria releases all of the stockpiles. We cannot afford any further delays. But we have to see immediately if a pick up in the tempo, we have to see regular systematic predictable movement of the chemicals. This is what were looking for. Why chemical weapons matter. The nerve agents arent visible but potentially deadly. In syria against civilians caused international outrage. So, the technology to destroy them is ready, everyone is poised. Yet again, serious faces massive pressure to allow its chemicals to reach places like this. Disposing of the stockpiles. You are watching bbc world as america, still to come governor vetoed a bill which would have allowed businesses to cite religious beliefs when refusing service to gay people. Minister wasime not in attendance today to hear charges of negligence for allegedly mishandling a government subsidy program. There was plenty of drama. Chained and were there were posters. Until now, they have kept a low profile. This redshirt group said it had antigovernment protesters moved around bangkok with impunity. They believe that he has been treated unfairly by his commission. People have started to notice that his government is from the Democratic Party and the investigation is slow. The investigation goes quickly. We want the Anticorruption Commission to answer this. The army has no established checkpoints all over bangkok to try to reduce the likelihood of clashes and any case, the commissions supporters are far from the nearest antigovernment camp. The numbers have not been that big but this had been an important first the parents for the progovernment redshirt since the crisis began and you blockading the national Anticorruption Commission. This was a largely symbolic show by the local redshirts. The Prime Minister had never intended to come in person. Not stop them from enjoying the moment. After months of watching occupations and blockades by the other side, they are demonstrating that you can play at that game. Last night, arizonas governor vetoed a controversial bill which had drawn national attention. The measure said that businesses would sincerely held religious beliefs could refuse to serve gay people. Weekly, a firestorm erupted in which politicians and economic interests weighed in. We have this report from phoenix. Call for more religious freedom shouted down by cries of discrimination. Codeill they want the passed through the senate and reese to the governors desk. That is when the chorus of opposition hit a high note. Shops and restaurants that had refused to serve people say doing so is against their religious beliefs. Most believe a law legalizing discrimination would be bad for business. The Business People are against it because it will hurt business. It is also morally wrong, to elude someone on that basis. To exclude someone on that basis. It is not about everyone having their point of view overriding everybody elses or that it gives you exclusive video. Those backing the bill claim discrimination is not the intent. This bill does one simple thing, it allows people to have their Constitutional Rights under the First Amendment to freely exercise their religion not just in the synagogue but in the church, but seven days a week and in their personal lives and business. What happens if that clashes with another persons beliefs and position . That is always what we have to wrestle with in our society is whether two things can coexist in the same space. At the state capitol, the pressure mounted on a governor who has made controversial decisions before to veto the bill. Those organizing next year super bowl here called for a detailed. Companies including apple who are bringing a new factory in 2000 jobs to the state. For business first governor, the pressure was overwhelming. Could result in unintended and negative consequences. After weighing all of the arguments i have vetoed senate bill 1062. Opponents on the decision as a victory for gay rights. The governor did the right thing. I still see a lot of criticism out there that the governor waited too long, criticisms that the legislature should have never brought this in the first place. That happened and now we need to move forward. Since the Supreme Court backed a quality for samesex couples last year, the has been a real momentum for gay marriage across america. Of course, that has sparked a conservative backlash. It pits religious freedom against personal freedom and against nondiscrimination and it seems that nondiscrimination has one here in arizona with this vetoed by the governor. A law seen as bad for business in arizona. Three days time, the red carpet will be rolled out in los angeles and the stars will be arriving at the oscars. Many categories have an obvious favorite. When it comes to best form in which film, there is no clear front runner. The movie from belgium is the only foreign film with an american theme. The married couple with relationship unraveling after the death of their daughter. The cavity has nominated cambodia for the first time this year with a film, the missing picture, a documentary which documents how the khmer rouge affected the director, his family, and others. Italy is in the foreignlanguage film race with a great booty which follows a journalist who inhabits high society. Because he is disappointed by andworld that surrounds him this opens a crisis. The movie is about the answers that he tries to find. The mere fact that they have been nominated is a huge public windfall. Some the worlds bigger fan markets are resistance to movies with subtitles. Are resistant to movies with subtitles. Saidestinian filmmaker that some of them had been meeting the press. He is hoping to capitalize on the attention his oscar nomination has brought him. This will help. This will help in the u. S. And also the world. It is the second time the director has been nominated. This is a love story set in the west bank and it tells of a Young Palestinian who, with his comrades, gets involved in the shooting of an israeli shoulder. I think it is tough for israelis to watch but im also encouraged by the israeli crew members that we had working, they thought this was a very powerful story that needs to be told. Also in the running for a areign language film is danish film which chronicles what happened in a tight knit community when a teacher is falsely accused of child molestation and everyone turns against him. A new open Voting System is making difficult to predict the winner in the form nine which film category and pushed many. Of course, if you get the foreignlanguage film right, you could win the oscar ballot. That brings the broadcast to a close. You can and can you watching bbc news for constant updates. Check your local listings. To reach me and most of the team, just go to twitter. Thank you for wanting and do tune in tomorrow. Make sense of International News at bbc. Com news. Funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newmans own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for over 30 years. And union bank. 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