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Who knows. Reporter he is 101 years old, has a 93yearold girlfriend and does play golf anymore because it makes him angry but he is not sitting around but he wants to make a difference in congress. A confrontation in crimea. Ukraine i dont know troops marching unarmed into a line of russian soldiers outside of an air base in a city of balbek, the russians fired warning shots into the air and told them to back off. The brief but tense standoff was diffused without blood shed and good morning and women come to Al Jazeera America and im stephanie sy and Vladimir Putin is speaking live in moss could and calling it an unconstitutional coup and a seizure of power and john kerry arrived in ukraine and in a show of support he will meet with the new government and its part of a u. S. Plan to increase diplomatic pressure on moscow. Russia risks being shut out by the g 8 industrial summit and they are not backing off and russia says troops were sent there at the request of ousted president Viktor
Prime minister says he wont be pressured into a peace plan with the palestinians. We begin tonight in ukraine where there are new developments in that countrys stand oif with russia. Thousands of troops pouring into the southern crimea region according to crimea officials who say they have been given a deadline by the russians to lay down their arms or face a fullscale attack. Also the crisis is the focus of an ur Urgent National security meeting at the white house. That meeting has now broken up. The administration, president obama had been scrambling to react to this active aggression by Vladimir Putin and russia. Late friday evening the president appeared at this podium behind me, and said there would be costs if russia were to invite crimea or any other part of ukraine. That was ignored. And now the administration talking about sanctions. No one is talking about any sort of military response at this point. Today the president had a photo opwith the israeli prime minister, benjamin
We report from a town at the center of antigovernment protests in venzuela reporter the National Guard has been called out to keep control in many neighborhoods but many hearsay they just show up when its too late, once the damage has been done. Russian president , Vladimir Putin says his country reserves the right to the protect citizens in ukraine. He told journists in moscow that the former ukrainian president was ousted from pour in an unconstitutional coup. He said troops had been invited in and were not russian soldiers but self defense forces. Those same forces have been involved in this tense standoff with ukrainian troops at an air base in crimea. Warning shots were fired as the careeni ukrainians asked for access to their planes. Standing by for us live in crimea. Lawrence, pretty tenselooking standoff there. Tell us more about it reporter well, yes, it was. In many ways, it was the exact opposite of what people have feared might happen overnight because these reports of the
Sevens in the forecast for the upcoming days. We have a step down today. And the sunshine cooler along the lake but chile to the north. We are still expecting this weather to come through. Not a war today but it will be sunny for much of it. It is 46 at midway. For the in bartlett. 45 in joliet. Some light composite shows polite showers that we saw mainly to the south are starting to exit portions of northwest indiana. Sunrise today is just after 6 00 a. M. We will be in between systems for much of the day. 40 degrees by 5 00 p. M. Typical high is 60 degrees. Slightly cooler than normal. Only 52 degrees today. 64 tomorrow. But partly cloudy on Easter Sunday high of 71. We have worked out there to tell you about including some filming along grand ave. From green to carpenter. Shut down for much of the morning. Resurfacing work out of harlem that goes from 63 to the stevenson. One of a handful of projects taking off for the weekend. More details in just a bit. A 12 year old boy was shot