Planet in our solar system shrinking even further . Hello. The parliament in crimea has declared independence from ukraine following sundays referendum. The defacto Prime Minister is traveling to formally request that it does become part of russia. They have announced all ukrainian property is to be nationalized so ukrainian law is no longer valid in the region. It has approved partial mobilization of its troops. Lets get the very latest from my colleague ben brown with all the very latest developments. Reporter yes. Hello and welcome from the crimean par lament in simferopol. To formally ask the Russian Federation to annex crimea to absorb crimea into the Russian Federation. I spoke to one deputy a short time ago who said he expected that process to take about a month. Within that time he said crimea would officially adopt the russian raoubl as its currency and would switch to the moscow time zone as well. All of that follows the resounding victory for the russian speaking majority he
Of the head of the Roman Catholic church. We begin in syria where 94 women and children belonging to assad mine tear alawites are being held hostage by rebels and there is footage of the prisoners they are holding them for prisoner swat and erica wood has more. Taken by sunni rebels last august from village in the northeast. The region is a stronghold of president assad alawites, a branch of islam. They are ready to free the 94 women and children in exchange for release of prisoners being held by governor forces and made demands over which prisoners should be freed and should be mainly coastal regions and at least half of them must be women and children. And prisoner swap last week saw the release of 14 Greek Orthodox nuns from the alqaeda linked front. In this video one of the kidnapped women accuses assad of allowing release of members of another religion but for getting his own but these women are clearly under control of captors. They shouted at the government for dropping barrels
Im authorising sanctions on russian officials. Its been a mockery of democracy. Well base our response on whether russia chooses to escalate or deescalate. We call on the russian leaders not to annex crimea. Its been 10 days of confusing information. The uss kidd is leaving. One of the most beloved orchestra conductors in the world sits down with al jazeera. Astro fizz fists say they have proof that the universe expanded seconds after the big bang. Proving the bang of the big bang. Im david shuster, sitting in for antonio mora. We begin with the crisis in ukraine. President obama and leaders in europe announced limited sanctions against russian and ukrainian officials, following the take over of the strategic crimean peninsula. It came after a monday vote in crimeas vote that called on russia to annex crimea. Russian media claimed 97 of crimea crimeans voted for independence. At the white houses president obama explained who was sanctioned and why. Individuals who provide Material Supp
Real weight behind them also, the missing Malaysian Airline flight could it really undetected. An inside look at the navy seals, and the orchestra conductor bringing people together torn apart by war. Hello, im david shuster, welcome to consider this, and here is more of what is ahead. Im authorising sanctions on. Democracy. Well base our response on whether russia chooses to escalate or deescalate. We call on the russian leaders not to annex crimea. Its been 10 days of confusing information. The uss kidd is leaving. One of the most beloved orchestra conductors in the world sits down with al jazeera. Astro fizz fists say they have proof that the universe bang. Bang. Im david shuster, sitting in for antonio mora. We begin with the crisis in ukraine. President obama and leaders in europe announced limited sanctions against russian and ukrainian officials, following the take over of the strategic crimean peninsula. It came after a monday vote in crimeas vote that called on russia to annex
States. This is the pulse. We are live from bloombergs european headquarters. Guy johnson is on assignment. We will continue our series and took part in it. Let us start with the missing airplane. Sources say that just cap flying. We are joined with the latest. New questionss about whether foul play was involved. Absolutely. Will we know is that the missing jet was going west with its it off flying after it dropped of the controllers aircrafts creams. They send radar and it balances. They know where it is. You can still track and play by sending a radar added. It is more difficult to track it that way. Foul play, another way of reading that would be hijacking, you is Officials Say that they think that this could have been a criminal act and no one is talking about that this may have been an explosion. Were are not hearing that anymore. Looking at the evidence, they now say the plane went west over malaysia and was supposed to go northeast in beijing. It went west over malaysia and it k