The west of trauma tentative line under the ukraine crafts as improbable as that boy obama backed by his western allies has agreed to hold off on any more economic sanctions against moscow that is provided for us it is not an ex anymore territory in Eastern Ukraine of a new position was laid out at an International Summit on Nuclear Security in the hay president barack obama takes the baton for Nuclear Security. The us coast. The next summit on the issue. I didnt think reading and have overshadowed the meeting in the hammock on its final day. Obama again warned russia against taking more ukrainian lands he said moscow was now internationally isolated russia is. The regional power. That is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. Not a strength not a word. Moscow was signaled a desire to maintain ties with the west. Russias foreign minister says hes not concerned by the countrys exclusion from the g eight use your words. It was club has lived its usefulness as some steaks and will c
The softer of the ukraine cried and could be a real what happens in crimea in the country separate as occupied buildings and declare the new republic while they are calling for a referendum to join russia ukraines interim president at church in office as bush is trying to create another crimea and is preparing an invasion it comes as the United States ambassador to the osce said that moscow was co ordinating what is happening right now in Eastern Ukraine which tens of thousands of troops just across the border the protesters who stormed and barricaded the Regional Government building and onions to the region has now ended on a message peoples republic. Yet theyve raised the russian flying in. If the protesters have their way onions will join russia and on that flight will be here tuesday the insider busy setting the date for a referendum to separate from ukraine itll hold. And settled on male evans. Then break out in cheers for them and some of them say his easter ukraines last fall ho
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Jessica matthews is here. She is president of the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, a Global Think Tank headquartered in washington. The Obama Administration Foreign Policy is in the spotlight right now. Some have criticized as checklist and disengaged. Feckless and is engaged. Typically, criticism of our Foreign Policy has been directed at the failure to use military force. I wouldquestion that have is, why is it so everyone is so eager to use military force . Who are reason, many proponents of what i consider to be a disastrous decision to go iraq havent really learned the lesson of the last decade. Why . I dont know. But my job as commander in chief is to look at what it is that will advance our security interest over the long term to keep our military in reserve for where we absolutely need it. I am pleased to have Jessica Matthews back at this table. Welcome. Thank you. And i confess, she is a great friend and i ad
The largest election the world has ever seen, you spend the hour with indian novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy. She is just out the new book called, capitalism a ghost story. After the opening up of the economy, we are in a situation where 100 of indias wealthiest people, their combined wealth is 25 of the gdp, whereas war that 80 of its population is less than less than one dollar a day. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A standoff continues in ukraine where prorussian separatist have seized government buildings in eastern areas. Demonstrators have barricaded themselves and and readied fuel bombs. The government in kiev has warned of sending in troops to restore order. Testifying before senate panel in washington, secretary of state john kerry accused russia of direct involvement. Everything we have seen in the last 48 hours, russian provocateurs and agents operating in eastern ukraine, tells us they
Petro poroshenko has been effectively named president. A eunt ukraine but the country remains far from united. Dave luce is in donetske, dana cmple there seems to be a bit of a disconnect. How can ploangs be promising when theres an oan going issue at the airport in donetske . Clearly mr. Poroshenko, talking at a new conference today, going on and on and wanting to end the violence and having plans to end the violence, beefing up the military, but in the same breath, he says he is not going to negotiate with terrorists. Armed in Eastern Ukraine, it seems to set the stage for avery long drawnout conflict here. If theres any doubt a war is being fought in Eastern Ukraine, that quickly veape evaporated t. Ukrainians brought out the heavy dpuns. Gawns. Fought back with their own heavy weapons. In kyiv there was an angry response from ukraines new president elect, billionaire Petro Poroshenko. He launched his own verbal assault on armed separatists comparing them to somali pirates. Just lik