and importantly, too, crimean leaders have nationalized state facilities, including some crucial and very, very valuable oil and gas reserves in the black sea that are ukrainian, but crimea says not anymore, and we re going to hand them over to gazprom, the russian energy giant. you re talking billions and billions of dollars of reserves there. so, that s going to be a real sticking point going forward. you know, you mentioned the moving of troops, the ukrainian military, of course, no match for the russian military, but they are making some partial mobilizations. they re worried about those 8,500 russian troops on the eastern ukrainian border and whether they want to have a little bit more of ukraine than just crimea. john? all right, michael holmes in simferopol in crimea this morning. the situation between russia, ukraine, the united states, the european union showing no sign of thawing this morning. our thanks to michael for that report. all right, at the oscar pistorius trial
gregg: day 12 of the oscar pistorius murder trial in south africa today, the focus was on the crime scene photographer and some 900 different photographs taken inside the home after shot and killed his girlfriend. former prosecutor and lis wiehl, fox news analyst. grim photographs, bloodied photographs are not presented in front of a jury because the prejudicial value outweighs. but no jury here. just a judge. i m not surprised, but it is not that important. we know who had done it. what the defense is trying to say through cross-examination is the crime scene was bungled. it doesn t matter in this case. gregg: is that your last refuge? contamination, sloppy police work. the o.j. simpson defense frame. and who done it, that is crucially important.
trial. defense attorneys are cross-examining a crime scene photographer. trying to claim police tainted new evidence. did oscar pistorius really kill his girlfriend accidentally? and recreational pot supposed to be for consenting adults but doctors report children are the ones getting hooked. we are back. jenna: we are back. sandra smith joining bill hemmer. five my people signed up under obamacare. they are not releasing key details on those enrollees. we will ask steve more about that. 12 days and counting. the obama-putin relationship now at its raking point. big developments out of russia. stay tuned. top of the hour. then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like,
headed to the scene by the way. we ll go to him as soon as he gets there. meantime olympic star oscar pistorius in a south african courtroom today in day 12 of his murder trial. known as the blade runner he was accused of murdering his girlfriend reeva steinkamp on valentine s day last year. his attorneys claim he shot her because he thought she was an intruder a crime scene photographer facing tough cross-examination today. the defense attorney asking why it appears items were moved like the cricket bat the story is used to bash down the locked bathroom door through which he shot reeva steinkamp? our fox news producer paul tillssy was in the courtroom today with a latest court. reporter: tense scene. third time since trial began an image of the dead reeva steinkamp was flashed on eight screens across the room. this time it was a photo thumbnail only. steenkamps ashen face is almost unrecognizable.
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