unravelling. and amy kellogg has more from london. reporter: at least john kerry and russian counterpart are having regular conversations on the phone and various western leaders are speaking to vladimar putin, but what is troubling to many people it is hard to know who is controlling what. as we saw in the airport armed men took it over. ukraine s new security chief declared it an occupation and enivation and said the troops were russian here and a military airport in ukraine and crima. they are local protection units and russia foreign minister claims that the russia military presence is at normal level that exist dow to the presence of the black sea is fleet. and then the desupposed ukranian
resources in crima, president obama says russia s takeover of crimea is not a done deal. the president made the comment while speaking at the international income nuclear security. it s up to russia to show itself to be willing to abide by international rules. and international norms. and itself it chooses to do so there can be a better outcome. president obama also says russia will face more financial punishment if it moves further into ukraine. russian officials also have said that they have tens of thousands of soldiers in several areas just across ukraine s eastern border. and ukrainian troops have been withdrawing from crimea. video shows some of them piling into buses and leaving a base that russian forces have overtaken. meantime, the russian president,
did not surrender they will come in with a storm. this as russia tries to justify their military take over of crima. russian foreign minister said we are talking about the protection of our russian citizenship and the right to live and nothing more. protect from what? people are asking, it is not clear. the ferry terminal was taken over. sparking fears that moscow will use that route to put more troops in the ukraine. russia troops surrounded a marine unit and demanding they hand over stock piles. they have not complied with the russian demands. the russians told them they were there to protect against mauraiders.
centuries. it started in 1893 when crima set up a base on the black sea the premier made it part of the soviet. ukraine gained independent and russia regained to the hold by devoiding the black sea fleet with ukraine and in return moscow got a lease on the naval base there. it is a long and complicated history there. fascinating to see the former president holding a press conference. first time he showed up. and in benghazi, senators calling for a now round of testimony to get answers about the terror attack. will they get it and will we finally learn what happened. and secret files from the clinon white house about to be secret no more.
crimea s russian backed leader called the air ukraine government nazi bandits. a standing owe the crimean people will vote on a measure on march 16th. so in eight days, essentially a formality to make official what lawmakers already declared. president obama and other western leaders across the eu say that vote would be completely illegal, and a violation of ukrainian s constitution, not to mention international law. russia s parliament is working to change its own law so it can take over crima, because the russian constitution bans this type of power grab. it s important to note here that president putin said on tuesday he does not expect crimea to become part of russia. he said there was no way russia would try to make that happen. of course, we now know that s