great warships. the chinese love to use navys as vessels, chinese fishermen could lay claim to a rock that japan could try to intercept. you could have tit for tat that could erupt. asian countries like to strike poses but it could escalate into something where neither side could pull back and you can have what s been forecast short, sharp war. and you can imagine some crisis and then neither side, the chinese nor the japanese, can back down because they can t appear weak to their publics. absolutely. if you look at opinion polls in japan, you get polls of 90% and very similar figures in japan. remember, this is the second and third biggest economies in the world. one of the underlying risks is you get people talking about
states domination of the western hemisphere. then you have the east china seas which is the area between china and japan, basically. yes. to me this is the most dangerous because it involves two very big, rich countries, the second and third largest economies in the world. and countries with huge defense budgets. we saw one version of what could happen. a ship captain takes his boat into these waters. play out for us what you think could happen. the east china sea is a more acute problem for the united states because frankly speaking, the united states will probably not go to the war to defend the philippines. it s a poor country but not a serious one like japan is. japan is a serious ally for the united states and upholding japanese nationalism could be as much of a challenge for the united states in the future as chinese nationalism. don t think of navys as just
emoti emotion, when you have this level of nationalism on both sides and you have both sides testing each other, you can have a mistake or miscalculation that can spiral to places you can t predict. that s the real danger. one encouraging note this week was that there was a naval conference that took place during the last week where the navys, including china, of the regi region. that s the kind of thing we need to do to avoid a mistake or accident that can take place in situations like this. all sides need to try to reduce tensions, which is why some of the conduct of the chinese was so troubling last fall when they announced this air zone unilaterally, but it raises tension, doesn t lower it and can result in negative
rescue training and missions free-throw li frequently. what kind of challenges are there when you ve got a ferry upside down, passenger in some of the passenger ways and also air possibiliti pockets and col that must be very difficult for dive teams. indeed, and every one of these search and rescue operations is unique and there are unique challenges. it is very difficult, but again, this is something that our navys practice on a routine basis? so the u.s. navy is ready and standing by to assist our partners in the republic of korea navy and coast guard when they re ready to have our assistance. lieutenant arlo abe braham sman. find out what it s like to be on the ocean floor. how is the deep sea terrain affecting the search for flight
committed on other operations right now that they don t want to terminate. i don t know what those are. there are a few. these are very expensive machines in the millions. really? whose is this anyway? i think it s the navy s? navy s. it s the navy s. mary schiavo, thank you very much. david soucie. i appreciate the perspective. kate. we have breaking news out of ukraine this morning, a fire breaking out at a ukrainian police station overtaken by pro-russian separatists. the deadline for them to lay down their arms and leave has long passed. now, it s a waiting game, it appears, to see if ukraine s acting president will make the next move as fears with civil war are growing. and the u.s. is warning russia to stay out. we have barbara starr at the pentagon but let s begin this hour with cnn international correspondent nick paton walsh in the ukraine. nick, what s the latest?