Please join me in thanking Charles Duelfer for his presentation today. [applause] [inaudible conversations] taking you now to new york city where the u. N. Security council is about to meet discuss and possibly vote on a resolution to set guidelines for removing chemical weapons from syria. It was announced yesterday that five the councils permanent members including the u. S. And russia had come to an agreement on a resolution and its now going to be brought before the other members of the Security Council for consideration. Reuters has a story on a resolution saying the major Sticking Point up to this point was russias opposition to enforce compliance with the threat of sanctions or military force. The article goes on to say the draft resolution makes the measure for removing weapons legally binding but provides no automatic enforcement of syria fails to comply. Instead the Security Council would have to draft a second resolution and we will take a look now inside the room. The Secur
Building behind a chocolate manufacturer. Also ahead chinese ships searching new area for the indian ocean looking for the missing malaysian plane. And cuba opening up to the outside world opening up a new law making it easier for foreigners to invest. But first within the last half an hour or so, another car bomb at an Army Checkpoint close to the syrian border. The army has now closed all roads to the checkpoint. We can get the very latest by talking to our correspondent who joins us live from beirut. Bring us uptodate. Reporter three lebanese officials have been killed. This is the firs fourth suicidebombing in the last three months, and the army has been on high alert, and despite all the measures the army had taken to circumvent this through personnel, the suicidebombing did take place and three people have been killed. Breaking news from lebanon. Now lets go to afghanistan are the taliban has attacked the election headquarters just a week before the president ial vote. Security f
Church after a courts decision in the philippines allows Sex Education in schools and free contraception. And ill have all of your sport later in the program, including teens getting up for a final push in the semifinal qualification. The action from london and germany still ahead. So natos secretary general is warning russia of grave consequences over the crisis in ukraine. Russias illegal aggression against ukraine is the greatest challenge to europes security in a generation. And i urge russia to step back and not escalate the situation in eastern ukraine. While on the ground ukraine is crackingdown on prorussian sentiment across the east of the country as it tries to avoid another similar crisis to that in crimea. Three cities in the east have seen protests and government buildings have been seized. Activists are already calling for greater independence. More now with kim. [ gunfire ] reporter adding fuel to the fire, prorussia protesters clash with Ukrainian Government forces in t
Today is the deadline to sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care act, but people saying theyve already had problems. Many heading to healthcare. Gov was greeted with error messages but now its up and running. The white said its routine maintenance that happens every night. That was not unusual. But the down period lasted far longer than it usually does and on a crucial day. It was down at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time and there are a few social media course that the government is directing people to sign up for healthcare. Folks were contacted after the site was back up and running so they could sign up but its crucial hours before the typical workday started that folks were not able to sign up. I get the feeling that republicans wasted no time ramping up their attacks on obamacare. Reporter this is an ongoing fight that has been going on. Obamacare is expected to be a Crucial Point of whether they like the obama administration. The democrats, or whether theyll vote for republicans a
Year . Plus meeting america. Kevin tibbles travels to the small town in iowa that hosted cold war leader nikki ta khrushchev. Why are there new fears of a cold war in that same place today . From nbc news in washington, meet the president with david gregory, substituting today, chuck todd. As you can see, its been a busy week. Its going to be a busy week. But were going to start with ukraine. In the last 24 hours, a new flurry of diplomatic activity to the find a solution to the showdown over ukraine. John kerry turned his plane around to meet this russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in paris today. President obama just returned last night from a trip overseas where he was trying to get europeans to take a stronger tact against vladimir putin. Our people and our homeland face no direct threat trt invasion of crimea. Our own borders are not threatened by russias annexation. But that kind of casual indifference would ignore the lessons that are written in the cemeteries of this continent.