accountability. my name is tortuous and i have the honor of serving as chair of the board of directors of the united states institute of peace. for those of you who may be joining us for the first time , us it was established by the u.s. congress in 1984. as a nonpartisan public institution. dedicated to preventing mitigating and helping resolve violent conflicts abroad. to lead our discussion today we are very pleased to have with us chuck todd, director of nbc news. and bill taylor, vice president, director of the europe and russia center here at the us institute of peace. their topic is a difficult and sobering one. how to address and expose mass atrocities committed in the midst of our armed conflict. and how to understand the strelationship between realistic reportingand accountability . throughout its history, us id has been deeply engaged in the examination of how to prevent and respond to mass atrocities. the institute served as cochair of the 2009 genocide invention
Also, coming up in this hour, still suffering after two fatal airlines hasysian announced that it will cut 600 jobs. You would not take euros to quit school, would you . We will meet them as they decide to drop out in order to kickstart their career. Lets get started. You craniums and russians are practically when people, so says russian president vladimir putin, who has described the assault is reminiscent of the ngradee siege o leni in world war ii. Ofy have accused kiev invading the country. They say that 1000 troops have indeed crossed the border. The secretarygeneral is now saying that this is a direct violation of ukraines sovereignty. In one of the biggest towns in eastern ukraine, thousands of locals took the streets calling for russian soldiers to stay away. Ukraine,rds, glory to a common message at the peace rallies here. Gathered,of people condemning what they call a russian invasion of their country. If there was no support for separatist from of vladimir putin, they would
We begin our broadcast in the horn of africa, where kenya has launched retaliatory airstrikes against somalia. Brian the kenyan government is saying that the countrys war planes have described two alshabaab have destroyed two alshabaab camps in response to the attack on the Kenyan University last week. Anchor this as the nation is still reeling from the attack that saw islamists belonging to alshabaab going on at killing streak, singling out christian students before gunning them down. Brian we will be going live to our correspondent in kenya for the latest, where Security Forces have vowed to track down those responsible for the killings. Reporter families are waiting and hoping. They want to know for certain if their loved ones are among the victims. E bodies is not good. It is very bad. Some of them are decomposing at a very high rate. It is not a very good sight. Reporter anger is growing among the residents of garissa. The alshabaab militants killed 148 people when they attacked t
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Win a war against russia. But it can impose on Vladimir Putins aggression and slow russias advances. It has a chance to remain on its feet when all is said and done, if it cannot impose a greater cost on puritans in aggression and slow russias advances. The administration along with the vast majority of our european allies has resisted providing such assistance. To be sure there are risks involved, but there are also risks and allowing cute and to continue aggression in putin to continue aggression and ukraine. If russias aggression on the west reaches the frontiers of our nato allies, the dangers to europe increased tremendously the dangers to the Nato Alliance increased tremendously. In december, congress unanimously passed the ukraine freedoms were act. This legislation authorized the provision of lethal defensive aid. I was out to lead efforts to pass this legislation and happy that obama signed it. I have been disappointed that the administration has not used tools provided. It is