the armed forces and that the others are backed by ultra nash lists and fascists. he asked the question to the west saying, do you not remember what this is. he said that the u.s. was illegally sponsoring a coup if they provided money to the government in kiev. also this meeting between john kerry and president putin has been put on hold. it would have been the highest level talks since the only occupation began. president yanukovych also saying the elections on the 25th of may in ukraine would be illegal. here in six days time we have a referendum coming up. apparently that s illegal too say the west, but it s going to happen anyway. thank you so much for that.
clear what we call him at this point, has actually tried to flee the country, tried to go to russia, for some reason didn t make it and is in the eastern part of the country. this from the speaker of the par limb. we don t have any further information on that. as you mentioned parliament voted today to oust president yanukovych and by law supposedly at this point the speaker of the parliament will remain the acting president until those early elections which are calling for on the 25th of may, but yanukovych said earlier today and probably still sticks by this, i would imagine, that he is not resigning and as far as we know he still considers himself the president of the country. however, the interior ministry and the security services are both now run by opposition people, so those two very key power centers are with the opposition. yanukovych fled the capital kiev this morning and rumors started to fly around first thing that he might have fled the country. the large security detail
totalitarian regime and a dictatorship. and all orders come from president assad. translator: in 2003 after the american invasion of iraq a toppling of the syrian regime, they had an agreement with al qaeda so keep the road open to iraq so militants started coming from all over the world to syria under the eyes of the syrian secret police who are directly responsible for the killing of thousands of iraqis and coalition forces. he trained and provided shelter and built safe havens for al qaeda to hide in. he is the second high-profile sooun official to break within the regime in a week. ivan, did he say why he defected exactly? he said that it was the litany he gave a litany of all the atrocities and massacres that have been committed and he says he had tried to convince the syrian government to change its approach to the syrian people and when he saw there was no hope of a softer approach, that he decided to end his relationship with the regime that he worked with, h
again and could be dangerous. and there was more. around the 24th, 25th of may, just before he disappeared he discovered a marijuana field up near his house. he came and told you about that? oh, yeah. big debate on whether he should go to the police and tell them about it. it was apparently a large field, and it just really made him nervous. was he afraid if he found out they knew they would harm him? yeah. russell s father and stepmother tell a similar story. they were growing it down near where we had a spring, which was way down the hill. and it was a danger to even go down there. they had it booby-trapped. booby-trapped? oh, yes. did russell know about these places? oh, absolutely. russell was going to go ahead and let the truth be known. instead, on thursday, may 27th, 1982, russell jordan, having attended the first three classes of his school day, simply disappeared. two weeks before the end of his sophomore year. it was as if he had ceased to exist.
ever to come back over here and have anything to do with sean viehweg. it was about then that russell s troubles seemed to compound. it was late may. hitchhiking home from school, sally says, russell took a ride from a man who came on to him, sexually. russell told sally he pulled a pocket knife, fought off the attacker and jumped from the moving car. sally remembers worrying that the man might go after russell again and could be dangerous. and there was more. around the 24th, 25th of may, just before he disappeared he discovered a marijuana field up near his house. he came and told you about that? oh, yeah. big debate on whether he should go to the police and tell them about it. it was apparently a large field, and it just really made him nervous. was he afraid if he found out they knew they would harm him? yeah. russell s father and stepmother tell a similar story. they were growing it down near where we had a spring, which was way down the hill. and it was a dange