Thats the discussions that secretary kerry had with foreign minister lavrov as well as make of the other players in this can yield a concrete result. I know hes going to be working very hard over the next several days to see what possibilities are there. Well ask Senate Foreign relations chairman senator bob menendez for his reaction to putins snipes. Is this a real crack in assads armor. The syrian dictator tells russian state tv he will give up his chemical weapons after long denying they even existed. Plus inside assads opposition, the commander of the syrian rebel forces explains why they feel abandoned by the u. S. Russian diplomacy. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in geneva where john kerry is about to open talks with his russian counterpart and trying to find out whether russia is really serious about getting rid of syrias chemical weapons. Also how do you square that with Vladimir Putins extraordinary oped in New York Times denouncing the president s threat to use force against th
Who captured the dramatic story live inside the crisis. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Tensions on both sides of this crisis only worsening this hour. Members of the media now the latest targets of the growing backlash. This is dramatic Surveillance Video of a bulgarian journalist in crimea being wrestled to the ground and assaulted by unidentified masked men who put a gun to his head. At least two ukrainian channels have now also been shut down. Here are some more latebreaking developments. The Russian Foreign minister sergei lavra warning the planned sanctions could inevitably boomerang on the United States. Cnn is there exclusively as gunmen block observers from entering crimea, and russians storm a Ukrainian Military base in crimea. Smashing the gates with a truck. Were covering this increasingly volatile situation as only cnn can. We begin with our chief National Security correspondent. Were more than a week into the crisis, and i think you can say were at a diploma
Sovereign nation. Not ukraine. Georgia back in 2008. Is president obamas response that different from george w. Bushs at that point p. Also politics, argue about an issue long enough and sooner or later someone brings up the nazis. Hillary clinton comparing putin to adolf hitler. Did he go too far . Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. The word lead, for days now every time that red phone rang the russians have seemingly been checking their caller i. D. And saying its the americans again, let it go to voice mail. Literally, lots of unreturned phone calls between u. S. And russian dips. That changed a short time ago with the highest level diplomatic talks weve witnessed since the crisis began. Secretary of state john kerry meeting with his counterpart Sergey Lavrov this afternoon. From the way kerry later described it the main weapon the u. S. Is using against the russians is shame. Russias violation of ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity as actually united the world in
Many of their family members stage add protest today in the streets of beijing, demanding more answers from the malaysian government. Other families in ma lalaysia voiced concerns right to the transportation minister. He will not give false hope and will continue the search as long as there are love ones to be found. Bring in our panelist here in new york, tim taylor, operations specialist. Tim on the end, a cnn aviation analyst and former boeing 77 captain and justin green, an aviation attorney and former military pilot. From phoenix, cnn aviation analyst and retired pilot jim tillman. Lets talk about these items and the search area. One thing that really impressed me was the fact that two of the search items, or two of the objects found today were three minutes apart by air, and that gives you a sense of scope of how large this area is. Is that what were going to be seeing . These search areas picked up in a radius so large and significant that youre going to be, have to figure out w
370. A threeweek search using fuzzy satellite pictures, fishing nets and everything in between finds no answers, leading to new questions. How involved is the u. S. . Do Intelligence Services know more than theyre saying . Are these images the best the world can do . The chair of the Senate Intelligence panel, Dianne Feinste feinstein, joins was her take on the plane and the u. S. russian staredown over ukraine. Then im not sure whether i could be at home. Suppose nothing is ever found. What next for aviation and for the families of those aboard the missing jet . Our experts look at the what ifs. Plus the rain and the wind and the weather is basically working against us. Two small towns grapple with disaster and devastating loss. Governor jay ins lease joins us for an update in washington. This is state of the union. Im Candy Crowley in washington. The search for the missing jet has ended for today. Theyve found some objects but they cant be verified or discounted as being from the mis