The un meantime, sounds the alarm on how these weapons are being distributed and exactly where theyre ending up and what it calls quote, a state of tremendous devastation. Also in the program, no more advertising meet. One dutch city wants to bind it to fight Climate Change while at the very same time abandoning other green initiatives and re embracing burning coal with it is a pleasure to have you with us with this ours program from moscow. This is international. We do start now with the latest and major developments in the ukranian war. Russia at Defense Ministry search, it has now regrouped. Russian troops, which were stationed near the northern part of the front lines. Theyve now been sent to the dawn, yet screeching, which has recently been targeted and intense shelling by Ukrainian Forces. Now this is in the, in order to achieve the stated goals of the special military operation to liberate don bass. A decision was made to regroup the Russian Troops station in the balak lie. And
The percentage might look small, but the amount of money i think is robust enough for allowing us to have a great future. The u. S. Senate prepares for a hearing today on the use of force in syria while the u. N. Endorses a military response. Very good morning to you. Microsoft is buying Nokia Smartphone business for 7. 2 billion. The deal which includes licenses of nokias patents. This is microsofts second biggest acquisition behind the purchase of skype. Microsoft will use some of its near 70 billion in overseas cash to pay for the deal. Nokia was an early supporter of Microsofts Windows phone software for its lumia smartphones. The ceo steve balmer says the Company Started discussing a deal before the noble World Congress in february. Microsoft will bring on several nokia executives including the ceo who joins the company. Hes seen as a possible candidate to replace balmer when he steps down in the next year. The nokia chairman takes over as interim ceo. As far as the stocks are con
Ukrainian forces and prorussian separatists and Russian Troops as well. Secretary of state john kerry was meeting with ukrainian officials about possible u. S. Defensive weapons aid. The secretary also backed the ukrainian Prime Minister claim that russia is directly supporting with tanks and troops. I would ask mr. Prime minister is it true that as the kremlin just said today there are no russians on the ground . It seems to me the only country who strongly denied clear military russian boots on the ground is Russian Federation and president putin. If they need, i can give them bring glasses. A flurry of diplomatic activity. Leaders of france and germany trying to hammer out a peace deal. They met with petro poroshenko. Vice President Biden will be part of the push. He is in brucesselsbrussels. Lets go to Erin Mclaughlin live in moscow with the latest. Reporter good morning, john. The aim of the talks expected in moscow later today and that is clear. That is to deescalate this ongoing
Prepare. In North Carolina theyve been putting up sand barriers. Virginias governor has already declared a state of emergency in that state. Moments ago the National Weather service issued its latest forecast model for this potentially powerful storm. Lets get to meteorologist chad myers. Whats the latest . Were up to 125 now. 125 miles an hour. It was at 120. Air force reconnaissance has been going through the plane, flying through the eye. A flight i wouldnt want to be on. Some people get excited about flying on that thing, but 125 Miles Per Hour with all that turbulence doesnt sound like a fun ride to me. It will turn into a category three. 110 Miles Per Hour. Look at the time. Its here and here. 500, 600 miles. Thats sunday morning. This is still a long way from getting anywhere important. Heres monday morning, tuesday morning. Center of the cone. Highly most concentrated probability but the cone is wide, from West Virginia to halfway to bermuda. Lets talk about our computer models
Court starting to take shape with a News Conference in which the president pushed back against what he called republican obstructionism. Our justice correspondent pamela brown has the very latest for us from washington. Well, good morning, christine and miguel. This is the first time president obama took questions following Justice Scalias death and he took a tough stance saying the constitution is clear, both he and the senate have the responsibility of filling the Supreme Court vacancy. He says he expects republicans to consider any nominee he puts forward no matter what, that they have a job to do until theyre voted out and he made the point that whoever he chooses will be so indisputably qualified that the republicans will look bad if they refuse to even consider that person. Somebody who has an outstanding legal mind, somebody who cares deeply about our democracy and rule of law. Theres not going to be any particular position on a particular issue that determines whether or not i