crimea from ukraine. i spoke with the ukrainian president, petro poroshenko, about that this week. mr. president, welcome. great to see you here in new york city. thank you. there is a lot of debate over vladmir putin. how are we to understand what you believe his motives are? today is a very right time to ask me this question. exactly today, this is five years ago on the 20th of february, we had two very dramatic events in east ukrainian history. first, there was a lunch yan for the illegal annexation to the crimea. putin gives an illegal order to attack ukraine. second, we have a tragic event on the central square of ukraine where pro-putin forces opened fire against the peaceful
president-elect pence if it was okay he could talk about sanctions with the russians. i mean, the more they talk about flynn, the less clear it is exactly what happened here and why. i m sure a lot of the people the vice president is meeting overseas is wondering if you were kept out of the loop, are we supposed to buy into what you are telling us here. a little break in the news. russia s ambassador to the united nations has died in new york. in a statement, russian foreign ministry the government says with great sadness informs us on the 20th of february a day before his 65th birthday russia s ambassador died suddenly. the outstanding russian diplomat died while he was in his current working role. that a statement from the russian government about the death of russia s ambassador to the united nations. more on that story as it comes into us. we ll be back after a quick break.
donald trump should come to the uk for this visit and that s also gathered 110,000 signatures. now, to get above the threshold of 100,000 means that the government will actually have to debate this in parliament. we now know that there s a date for that. the 20th of february is when government ministers are set to discuss this. but in the meantime as you point out there s another survey out that shows something completely different. ugov, the polling company, has come out with a survey of british voters and it says that 49% of the people that they surveyed said that they would like to see donald trump s state visit go ahead. 36% said they re against it. but as you can see there in the numbers, there s a large majority or minority of people, max, who are undecided as well. it s interesting. nina, thank you very much indeed. rosemary, the demonstrations don t necessarily reflect public opinion but then we can t trust the polls we ve learned either. so we re trying to make what sense
it was base d on a lie. the promise made by barack obama that it will lower millions of people love it. hold on. who never had insurance now have insurance, 20 million who have insurance who say it works. i ll get to that, too. there s 350 million people in america. if you carve out 20 million, there are a lot of people that have been hurt. the promise was we would drop premiums by $2,500. all of that was a lie. america was mad when nancy pelosi stood up and said you have to pass this bill to find out what is in it. if you re going to redo health care, which we are, you want to have a great american hearings, go to town halls you re going to have hearings that will go on for a year or two? what we re going to do is repeal obamacare. without a replacement plan ready to go? at an effective date in the future. what does that mean? hopefully by the 20th of
all this stuff will coalesce very quickly as calendar moves along. on the 20th of february in south carolina republicanshold their primary. a week after that democrats hold primary on 27th. we ll see whether or not it matters and a game between sanders and clinton on that point. bottom line, we re on 6th of january, where will we be at end of february for both candidates? seven 1/2 weeks of good stuff. nine 1/2 minutes past the hour. martha: stay tuned. meantime north korea s claim of conducting a hydrogen bomb test has sparked strong condemnation from the international community. the policy chief of the european union saying such a test ordered by north korea s leader would represent a threat to the peace and security of the entire region. nato s secretary-general calling this a clear breach of u.n. security council resolutions which they have done three times before this and nobody really batted an eyelash.