Ukraine. Crimea voting to secede from the country and join russia. This morning the world refusing to recognize the landslide vote. Whats next for the people of ukraine, and will russia fight to create an addition to its country . We are live with what youve missed overnight. Good morning and welcome to early start. Im rosa flores. And im john berman. It is monday, march 17th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. First to the breaking, new developments in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. This weekend the mystery, it deepened, as malaysian officials finally admitted this jet with 239 people on board was flying for many hours after its crew last spoke with air traffic controllers. And they believe it was turned deliberately off course. The search area has expanded again deep into kazakhstan and south into the southern indian ocean. Authorities are now looking into every passenger on the plane and the flight crew, a 53yearold captain and his 27yearold 1st officer. This weekend, both of the
Well, good friday evening to you from our headquarters here in new york. Day 78 of the Trump Administration saw both praise and condemnation in the wake the president s decision to send 59 Cruise Missiles into syria. Arguably the biggest consequence from a geopolitical standpoint. The strain on the already lets call it complicated relationship between washington and moscow. A putin spokesman kaeld called this a, quote, significant blow to relations with the u. S. And here in new york, that was on public display today at the united nations. We strongly condemn the illegitimate actions by the u. S. The consequences of this for regional and International Stability could be extremely serious. It could be that russia is knowingly allowing chemical weapons to remain in syria. It could be that russia has been incompetent ten in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons. Or it could be that the assad regime is playing the russians for fools. The United States took a very measured step last ni
From a geopolitical standpoint. The strain on the already lets call it complicated relationship between washington and moscow. A putin spokesman called this a, quote, significant blow to relations with the u. S. And here in new york, that was on public display today at the united nations. We strongly condemn the illegitimate actions by the u. S. The consequences of this for regional and International Stability could be extremely serious. It could be that russia is knowingly allowing chemical weapons to remain in syria. It could be that russia has been incompetent ten in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons. Or it could be that the assad regime is playing the russians for fools. The United States took a very measured step last night. We are prepared to do more. But we hope that will not be necessary. The Trump Administration is signaling a new round of sanctions on syria is forthcoming. There are also reports tonight the pentagon is working to determine whether russia, as you may
As Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim unveiled his first budget after a gap of 26 years, one could not help but notice the long list of measures targeted towards the business sector.