and to illucidate for the world the facts on the ground. the solutions to this crisis is not difficult to envision. there is a way out. and that is through direct and immediate dialogue by russia with the government of ukraine the immediate pullback of russia s military forces, the restoration of ukraine s territorial integrity and the urgent deployment of human rights monitors, not through more threats and more distortions. tonight, the osce will deploy monitoring to the ukraine. these monitors can provide neutral and needed assessments for the situation on the ground. this is necessary in crimea and in key cities in ukraine. the united states calls upon russia to ensure that the access is not impeded. the leadership in russia may not be happy with the decision of yanukovych to leave ukraine and
they started, it was a relatively small u.n. peacekeeping mission of about 6,500 troops. the secretary general came to us yesterday afternoon and said i need more, i need about 5500 more police, military personnel, soldiers and human rights monitors and others who can document some of the atrocities in the event there is going to be accountability down the line, which we of course and others are pushing for. so it s very important that we be responsive to the secretary general as an international community. you have argued at times for intervention beyond diplomatic means, when you re talking about genocide or the possibility of heading in that direction. we ve heard president clinton say the greatest regret of his presidency was not getting involved in rwanda. knowing that, what kind of counsel do you give president obama and how does that shape your opinions, these two sort of disparate things that americans don t really want to get involved but this is a very big
saying, what they ve been saying is the direct opposite of what they ve been doing. the lies go back years, decades, of course. we want to focus on some of the ones we ve heard in the last few days. the new vice president of egypt this man, omar suleiman has for years been mubarak s closest henchman, running his intelligence service. his government has accepted many of the protestor s complaints, he says. while he was saying that, literally while his lips were moving and saying that on egyptian television and abc news, his secret police were still arresting opposition figures, thugs burst into the offices of human rights organizations, trashing the places, arresting a number of human rights monitors. and there s been absolutely no transparency about what the egyptian government is doing right now, other than a few awkward photo ops on egyptian controlled television. the egyptian government has denied any involvement in these kind of attacks by mobs on peaceful demonstrators and reporte
egyptian television and abc news, his secret police were still arresting opposition figures, thugs burst into the offices of human rights organizations, trashing the places, arresting a number of human rights monitors. and there s been absolutely no transparency about what the egyptian government is doing right now, other than a few awkward photo ops on egyptian controlled television. the egyptian government has denied any involvement in these kind of attacks by mobs on peaceful demonstrators and reporters, they have no idea how these things happened. but the egyptian military stood there and let it happen. i saw that with my own eyes, we all saw that. when they realized the protesters could not be beaten back by mobs and the reporters would continue working, the military suddenly stepped in. they suddenly were able to keep the mobs at bay. the egyptian government says the military didn t want to choose sides but the truth is, they did choose sides. they searched peaceful demonstrators
nic, we ve seen some horrifying images emerging today. one in particular i saw of what looked like a police van deliberately running people over in the street. what kind of activities are now going on against these protesters by pro-mubarak forces tonight from what you can gather? well, it s a continuation of what we saw very abruptly really in the early morning hours wednesday. you had the government send out police, members of the ruling party, and a lot of just, frankly, thugs who are all around the town trying to block people from entering tahrir square. they re going after human rights monitors, journalists. when i arrived at tahrir square this morning, kind of a standard entrance, one of the major bridges over the nile river, i was about to get in my taxi, and then i realized there