Hello and bell to him Al Jazerra America i am Morgan Radford live in new york city. An appeal from president obama to russia pred hav vladimir put, his plea has fallen on deaf ears, putin said its merely to secure safety. Setting the stage for potential conflicts. Since russia has veto power any security action appears unlikely. The u. S. Is calling on u. N. To send observers to ukraine while nato is set to hold an emergency meeting in brussels on monday. President obama called putin and spoke for 90 minutes about a political solution, but so far russia is not budging. Jennifer glasse is in the crimean capital where the Russian Forces are. Reporter the crimean president asked for help and hes getting it. Here it crimea, at least, its welcome news to many. Jubilation in the crimean capital the russians are coming. As moscow endorsed the use of force, ethnic russians too being to streets like her sport being the russian flag. Translator they are our protectors, there will be no military
Militarily with decisions that properly belong to the ukrainian people. And that is the principle that john kerry is going to be speaking to during his visit. Ill be making additional calls today to some of our key foreign partners, and i suspect ill be doing that all week and through the weekend. But as i indicated yesterday, the course of history is for people to want to be free to make their own decisions about their futures, and the international community, i think, is unified in believing that it is not the role of an outside force, where there has been no evidence of serious violence, where there has been no rationale under International Law to intervene in people trying to determine their own yesterday and the day before, as i indicated sunday in my comments that we would prefer to find an appropriate diplomatic solution to this, and i think everybody is better served through that. But we also made it clear our determination to stand up for the integrity and sovereignty of this
Cafe. Armed men taking him. Our Nick Schifrin who is on the ground there, indicating that he was forced into a car by what he described as a prorussian mob, and then taken away. He does not exactly know where he has been taken or whether that group of prorussian supporters, or that prorussian mob is the language he used is basically being escorted out of the country. We want to go to the Deputy Director of the american inns put in ukraine. He is live for us in washington, d. C. As you listen to what is going on in crimea, the thing that strikes me the most is that russian president Vladimir Putin has been telling everybody that his troops are there to protect the russian sector of crimea from proukrainian mobs. But it appears to be the other way around . I wouldnt put it proukrainian mobs. One of the things that has bedevilled this entire discussion since the crisis began in november, is there a profound division among people in crimea. East in the east and south of ukraine who voted m
World leaders. Venezuela protests and the red carpet is out for the Academy Award. Today ukraine mobilized its military after russia took over the Southern Region of crimea. The country is on the brink of disaster warns the acting president. Russian troops have surrounded a base, and the ukrainian Prime Minister called it a declaration of war. The head of the ukraine navy has been fired for treesons after swearing alegion to an autonomous crimea. Support in the south seems to be unanimous. Laurence lee has this report from sevastapol. This appears to be the one place that Ukraine Forces in crimea are putting up resistance behind the walls, the Ukrainian Special forces base. The ukrainian flag is up and they refuse to give in. ProRussian Forces appear relaxed. All as if to say they are here to stop anyone harming civilians. A priest turned up. He was blessing soldiers. Whether it end peacefully, i ask, no, they planned this for 20 years. Elsewhere theres no sign of Ukrainian Forces at a