Search planes are back in the air over the coast of australia. Plus. Spit it out. Poison in the ground. The legacy of an automotive plant and the poisons in the ground. Bracketbusters and march madness. Tonight, russia is calling crimea its own. President putin signed a law making that official earlier today. But ukraines leaders say they will never accept it. They accuse moscow of trying to destroy their country. In crimea, Russian Forces are removing all trace of ukrainian are authority. Jennifer glasse, how is ukraine coping with this changing of the guard . Richelle, things have moved here at a blistering pace. This time last week, there hadnt even been a upping refer. In the last 24 hours we have seen Russian Forces consolidating their power here and for the past 24 hours its been a very, very tense time for the ukrainian navy. With little fanfare, they raised a flag over a ship that was as of yesterday ukrainian. She is sitting alongside russian ships in a new berth at sebastopol
The future years defense programs or Defense Budget for fiscal year 2016 . Thanks. For the u. S. . Yeah, for the u. S. , yeah. You want to do it or so im sure it will. I dont, i dont know how. Im not, im not a u. S. Defense expert. I know that there are certainly people in the pentagon and at the various regional that are thinking about russia, that havent been thinking about russia for a while. So im sure that will translate into force structure and where in planning and so forth. It is far to early to tell, you know. There are certainly no numbers anywhere yet so. Is the mic on . My name is leo. Vice president of George Washington university and also a ukrainianamerican. I want to first of all compliment the panel. This is really very impressive and formidable panel and especially professor dubovyk. He should run for Political Office given passionately he spoke about the situation in ukraine. Question for each of the panelists. Yes or no answer. What is your educated guess about russ
We have managed to do it, not without difficult at times, but it has been a challenge, but i am largely met that challenge. We have produced a series of papers that are available at the project website. If anybody is interested, i took can tell you more. We have papers in the works, and all will have presentations here in washington. One of them is on afghanistan post 2014. One is on intervention and conflict a solution best conflict resolution. One is on intervention and conflict resolution. That is going to be a very difficult one to write, we will see. There is also one forthcoming on the arctic. So we are happy to have this to share with you, and without further ado, i will turn it over to to introduce our speakers today. Thanks. Thank you. First, i would like to welcome our colleague Timofei Bordachev who is here from moscow. He is the director for the center for comprehensive european and National Studies at a school of economics in moscow, a National Research university. At the
In a few moments, examining the political implications of the current israelipalestinian conflict. Then a look at russian relations. And groverh nader norquist discuss how Political Parties can Work Together. With congress returning monday, here is a message to congress from one of this years cspan student cam competition winners. Water, it makes up 75 of our bodies. Take water away and humanity would perish within a week. Water is the most vital substance to a human body yet it is because of us humans that nearly 50 of all lakes, bays, and estuaries are unsuitable for use due to pollution. The u. S. , we have learned to take water for granted. Faucets, bottled water, and flushed toilets reinforce the same idea. Water is an unlimited resource. Thestep outside and diminishing condition tells a different story. Marineollution kills life, destroys ecosystems, and disrupts an already fragile food chain. Animals are not the only ones that suffer the negative effects of water pollution. Cong
Individuals without a warrant and it led to the enactment of title iii, the Supreme Court ruled that for an intelligence surveillance, it had to be individualized. Third point, smith is different from this case from a lot of reasons. It is not just the government is acquiring certain types of information. Its not that the government is acquiring information about millions of individuals and not just one, but it is also that it acquiring information definitely and not made clear a few years after smith that when the government scales up a surveillance operation, the constitutional balance is different and needs to be addressed differently. Judge, you were exactly right. That the court is to assess the expectations of privacy of this program and not just what the Supreme Court decided. A quick related point. The minimization procedures would be constitutionally superfluous. If smith governed this case, they could collect the records without any of those protections in place and they coul