Where a severe drought is likely to lead to a bad harvest and higher coffee prices all over the world. Russia officially absorbed crimea after approvals from both houses of parliament, president Vladimir Putin signed into law the treaty making crimea part of the federation. Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to join russia in a referendum sunday, putting pen to paper, putin congratulated them. The eu leaders have not backed down, maintaining crimea is still part of ukraine and signed an Association Agreement with kiev in brussels earlier on friday. In the ukrainian capitol, u. N. Secretary general ban kimoon is Holding Meetings with acting president , saying ukraine and russia needs to engage in direct talks to resolve the cries. We go to brussels in a moment. First, peter sharp joins us from moscow. Its official that in russia at least, crimea is part of the federation. Whats next for the region . It just took five days, unbelievable, really, that the people of crimea who now celebrate bei
You got to stop this, okay . Im running out of time. Nebraska winning his first oscar after more than 80 feature films. We begin with break news tonight. Tom brokaws cancer diagnosis. The former nbc news anchor has multiple myeloma that affects the blood cells in bone marrow. Doctors are very encouraged with the progress hes making. Joining me now our own dr. Sanjay gupta and Debra Norville and tom brokaws former colleague at nbc news, an honorary member of the board of multiple myeloma. Welcome to all of you. Let me start with you if i may, sanjay gupta. To get a grasp of what this is. What is multiple myeloma . Well, its a type of cancer of cells within the bone marrow. The bone marrows the area of the body thats responsible for producing all sorts of different cells. Your red blood cells, white blood cells. This is a type of white blood cell that just starts growing essentially out of control. And as a result, its a type of cancer that also crowds out the other cells so people dont
Venezuelas military to back self declared leader of one why dell is calling on them to abandon the government and set the country free. Plus a look behind the walls of an institution in russia thats preparing Young Offenders for a life in the military. Are brian thomas thanks so much for being with us the Catholic Church is facing another storm of sexual abuse allegations this time in the southern indian state of cattle up. The cases follow a familiar pattern allegations of abuse and then cover ups by top clergymen one of the most shocking cases a bishop accused of raping anon thirteen times over the course of two years now the nun in that case says she was told to remain silent but as the Church Leaders close ranks one of her fellow sisters is encouraging victims to speak out or india correspondent song your family car has more. Its Early Morning in. The church has always been a powerful institution but in recent months its foundations have been shaken by six scandals loss of timber a
A warehouse before spreading rapidly through the citys old town. Hello im terry Martin Thanks for joining us pope francis has opened an unprecedented summit on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church with bishops from around the world francis opened the four day meeting by insisting that the church must listen to Abuse Victims and survivors have voiced concerns that the popes efforts to raise awareness dont go far enough some it comes after an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests accusing them of molesting young boys and raping not lets listen now to more of what pope francis had to say. Holy people of god are looking at us and do not expect from us simple and predictable condemnations but concrete and effective measures. And joining us now is our religious Affairs Correspondent martine got martine pope francis has gathered cardinals from around the world there in rome to talk about the scourge of sexual abuse in the church how significant is this for the church and especially
A child he tells us about his quest for justice. Plus under the gun the verdict is expected today in the trial of several former employees of german arms manufacturer a heckler and koch choose to believe the leak exporting assault rifles to mexico. And against the club that helped make him a star leroy sunday turns a Champions League match around as Manchester City defeat. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us a devastating fire has killed at least seventy people in the capital of bangladesh dhaka more than fifty people are injured there many were critical burns the fire started in a warehouse thought to contain Flammable Materials and then it spread. Quickly to other buildings. Explosions and blazing fire lit up dock us old city as the fire raced through five buildings in the district. Some of the buildings caught in the blaze stored chemicals one housed a plastics warehouse filled with flammable material those courts in the inferno described how the fire started. If thats wh