Sachin Tendulkar is one of the greatest batsmen of all time, no doubt about it! But do you know he even got the top spot in Wisden’s list this year?In a nutshell, Russia's involvement in the Ukraine war stems from a complex interplay of historical, geostrategic, political, and economic factors. From Crimea's disputed status to
[ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap. welcome back to our coverage of the crisis in ukraine. her name is liz wall, she s an american who works in the russian today america s washington bureau. she accused her employer of glossing over the actions of vladimir putin in crimea and she quit on the air. i cannot be part of a network funded by the russian government that whitewashes the actions of putin. i m proud to be an american and believe in disseminating the truth and that is why after this newscast, i m resigning. liz wahl joins us now, in her first interview since quitting r.t. america.
russians are so all over the place on their intentions, it has to almost be ad hoc. one of the bad sides of today is the u.n. envoy literally being expelled, pushed out of crimea, if a solution is going to involve human rights monitors and observers, that s not a good sign and it sort of throws away the argument that the russian military there is self-defense forces. they re serious military people, and somebody must have told them to go hard on that u.n. enjoy. i don t think it was high officials like putin, but that s not a good sign. so it has to be ad hoc. i think the goals have to be clear, deescalate the conflict. get ukraine and russia to talk to each other. find ways to put some monitors
former secretary of state hillary clinton compares vladamir putin s actions to hitler s in the run-up to world war ii in comments at a private fund-raiser yesterday in long beach, california. hillary clinton said putin is using the same type of justification for invading neighboring counties. listen. today putin basically said in a long press conference is that a, you know, all i want to do is protect the rights of the minorities, namely russian speakers, and he s been on a campaign to get everybody who has any russian connection in crimea, he s given them all russian passports. now if this sounds familiar, this is what hitler did back in the 30s. ucla today, clinton clarified and said she s not necessarily making a comparison between the two. but putin s claims of protecting russians are reminiscent of hitler s actions
amount of detail as to what was in those reports, those assessments coming through last week. i have been told by officials that those reports included multiple tools that putin had at his disposal, including taking troops out of crimea and deploying them inside sovereign territory and using some of these militias, some of these unofficial, ununiformed groups. some of them taking on those anti-russian demonstrators earlier. groups of thugs. but let me give you a public statement that just came from the director of national intelligence, shawn turner a spokesman there, pushing back saying on february 26, for example, the intelligence community warned that crimea was a flashpoint for russian/ukraine