This weekend, the white house is urging russia to stop trying to destabilize ukraine. This comes as more than a dozen gunmen seized a Police Station in the small eastern town of slobiansk. Its demonstrators have occupied a government building in donesk for nearly a week. Meanwhile negotiations are happening at another occupied building. Ukraines acting president has called an emergency meeting with the National Security council today and the United StatesVice President will travel to kiev later this month. Kim vanell has the latest. This is the Police Station, usually a place for local officers, now in the hands of prorussian activists. More than a dozen gunmen, many with professionalgrade weapons go in and out of the building. Its unclear how many more may be waiting inside. Outside the building, local supporters gathers. Hundreds chanting the records referendum. They say they want the people to vote on autonomy from kiev. Many believe the interim government is i will legitimate and not listening to the people in the east. Our people want to live quietly and peacefully without the junta who seized power in kiev. We dont want to be their slaves. We want to be with russia. They took the building in the early hours of saturday morning. This video shot from across the road shows them preparing to enter through a window wi. Within hours they had fortified their positions. Just seen a truckload of reinforcements arrive. Right now, as you can see, they are pulling out large tires to reinforce their barricades. People are arriving all the time bringing supplies, food, handing them over to the people who are now very much in control of the police building. Just moments after being told to film them so they could show support, they turned on us, attempting to take our camera gear. Riot police are reportedly being seen from donesk. By midafternoon, they had not arrived. Authorities in kiev have a difficult task on their hands with continued cause for a referendum and unrest in the east spreading fast. Kim zonell. Al jazeera. I spoke to amy knight about whether she thinks russia is trying to take over these eastern cities or disrupt ukraines new government. Its difficult to know what russia really wants, and i think we have to be careful in making predictions because we dont know the decisionmaking process is going on right now. Its pretty up really for to prevent ukraine from forming a country more aligned from the west to russia. Means a division of ukraine than that, that might had been. And moscows longterm plan. A Large Population of russian speakers. Many are worried about ukraines new government. Ahead of the president ial e les. The Syrian Opposition forces are blaming each other for a deadly gas attack. The video you are about to see is pretty graphic. Reports say two people were killed yesterday and more than 100 hurt. 125 miles north of damascus. Syria agreed to give up chemical weapons last year after hundreds died in another chemical weapons attack back in august. The United States blamed the government. Syria has denied responsibility. The victims. Rebels. A bus carrying election officials, a 5week long general e infections. They have been calling for a boycott on the vote. Later tonight we will take a le deeper look at indias general election. The worlds biggest. Tune at 8 00 p. M. Eastern and 5 pacific for that report. A gunman is on the loose in kansas city randomly targeting highway driveways. At least 12 of 13 shootings since march 8th are connected to the same shooter. Three drivers have been hit but none of the injuries were lifethreatening. Police have stepped up highway pallet trolls. The f. B. I. Has joined the investigation. The cias interrogation tactics are coming under fire. A leaked report says the extreme methods used by the Bush Administration after 911 may be illegal. Richelle carey has more. The late Senate Intelligence committees report paints a picture of extreme torture methods used during the burg administration. It offers new insight into the cias use of enhanced interrogation techniques. The findings say the harsh methods might have been illegal even under the definition of torture that was set by the department of justice at the time. The te techniques included he sleep deprivation, confinednament in a cramped box and slam something detainees into walls. Dianne feinstein hinted at what the report contained last week. It stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation. It chronicles a stain on our history that must never be allowed to happen again. The washingtonbased maclachy news published them the 6,000 page report. The first, it did not assist the agency in acquiring intelligence. It goes on to say the agency misinformed the public, the Bush Administration and concongress about the necessity of their tactics and says the cia employed techniques on detainees that were not authorized while wrongfully detaining others. Overall, the findings conclude the agencys actions were more extensive than what it originally reported. Feinstein said the senate believes the number of prisoners affected is far greater than the cia first acknowledge did. Richelle carey reporting there. A for theup on a story we have been covering. A small church in the town of well. Texas is sparking more controversy. It extras an extreme version of christianity many consider a cult. People in that town confront church members. Heidi jo castro joins us from wells, texas. What sparked the outrage in that town . Jonathan, this church of wells has bought up so many businesses and homes in the Small Community of less than 1,000 people that the city and the residents of wells say that they feel like their town is being taken over. For example, this gas station and Grocery Store right behind me, thats owned by the church of wells. Its one of the first businesses they bought since landing in this community in 2011. Since then, they have bought houses. They have bought businesses, and they are a fundamentalist Christian Group that believes in modeling their lives after the apostles in jesus christs time in the bible. According to their message, unless you live and act like they do, you are condemned to hell. Thats a message that this group shares through open air preaching where they go to areas with big crowds and preach in loud and aggressive voices. And last saturday, they were doing just that at a Community Parade here in wells when some children heard they were going to hell. According to the father of a 4yearold, he says his daughter has been traumatized since. Her and several other children that are unmentioned are traumatized from it. They are having nightmares. They are not wanting to, you know, go out and play any more, and we are pretty much doing this today to show, you know, our town is not going to take it. We are going to stand up for our children. We are going to stand up f up fr our elderly and everybody in our town. We are not going to take this. Last saturday during that parade, there was a violent scuffle in which several members of the town, severalmen attacked two of the church of wells members. They ended up being treated for minor injuries at the hospital. Jonathan. Heidi, two questions for you. First off, what is it the people in town actually want from this church . And how is the church reacting to all of this . Is it going out of its way, it seems, possibly, to try to make nig nice with its neighbors . For your first question, jonathan, the town simply wants this church to leave, to get out of town, and thats why they called the protest. Today, it ended up being much more paetsches but it was a confrontation between those two sides, the church of wells and the residents wells. As far as the churchs message, i spoke with leaders earlier today. They said they feel god led them to this town and they will stay until the population is converted or until god sends them a message to leave. We believe god sent us here to wells to reach, you know, this community of people and the surrounding communities of people with the message of the gospel, and what makes us peculiar from other professing christians is that we dont believe that the claims of the gospel, itself, are plainly understood by the common public of even professing christianity reporter to add another twist to this story that we have been covering now for months, there is a woman by the name of katherine groves, a 27yearold woman who left her home in arkansas last year, disappeared and eventually wound up here in well. As a member of the church of wells. Her family has been searching with her, wanting her to reunite with them. We saw her at todays protest. She looked well. I asked her how she was doing. She looks at me with a blank stair and then she said that katherine is dead. Jonathan . Okay. Certainly odd developments there in rural east texas. Heidi jo castrow, thank you. Still ahead, the attorney general announces changes to racial proceed tiling rules. Find out why civil Rights Groups thinks they are not. A routine owners teen offe sentenced to spend an entire life in prison. Why some think the punishment does not fit the crime. The department of justice may soon change how its agencies are allowed to use racial profiling. But those changes are not likely to end some of the current profiling groups opposed by civil Rights Groups. Revisions would expand profiling to include race, gender, sexual orientation, but the new guidelines would not change how it uses nationality to map neighborhoods, recruit informants or look for foreign spies. New rules would apply to the dea, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and explosives. Lets try to clear this up wi withfaiza patel. Thank you for being in. What is the takeaway from these new rules that are being discussed within the f. B. I. . Well, the takeaway is that its not enough. Basically, back in 200 these, the Bush Administration adopted these guidelines for the department of justis, which as you said prohibit the use of race among other categories in Law Enforcement activities. But those guidelines were insufficient because they did not include certain important categories like religion and national origin. And you also have this giant loophole. When the Bush Administration put forward these guidelines, they gave two justifications. The first was that profiling on the basis of race constituted invidious discrimination. Must one ask the question as to if its invidious on race, surely it is on religion or national origin. Until now, the f. B. I. Could profile someone based upon religion, sexual orientation, gender . Yes. Well, under the guidelines. Under the guidelines under the guidelines. They could still racially profile people based on the criteria of a National Security investigation . Or on the border. Those are the two places where the guidelines have loopholes. Its interesting because the justification for the guidelines was not just that they constituted discrimination but, also, that they were ineffective. Racial profiling, as a tactic, has been shown in study after study to be ineffective. One might ask the question if its an ineffective tactic, why do we want to save it for our most important investigations, those involving National Security. Is it truly ineffective, though . A lot of people will say that seems to not make sense, especially when you are targeting certain populations, certain groups that there is in some quarters argument did favoring profiling specific groups of people . I think all of the studies that have been done and there were a number of studies done on racial profiling particularly in the 1990s have shown that when Police Officers use race as a criteria, they are not actually getting the people they want to get. In new york, around the stop and frisk controversy, for example but thats a far different beast. Racially profiling within local police departmentstion, than it is within the f. B. I. And targeting suspected terrorists . No . Why . Thats the argument some make. If you are having had a dragnet picking up young americ africanamerican people . Than picking up muslim men . I think its equivalent. I think if race doesnt work the reason race doesnt work in Law Enforcement is that instead of doing police work and actually looking for signs of suspicious criminal behavior, policemen are falling back on stereotypes and taking the easy way out. The same applies for when you are looking for terrorism. Its very easy to say that guy that looks kind of foreign and is reciting a prayer under his breath, he must be a potential terrorist. What i have wondered in reality is that happening . Because i thought it was not supposed to be the sole factor within a federal investigation to pursue someone based upon their religion, based upon their race, there had to be other things in there to also make it worth their time. Thats right. Thats normally the standard thats used in law he knew forcement. But the other thing can be something very, very small. So in the stop and frisk category, for example, one of the main things that was used along with race was furtherive movemen movements. So, it becomes very subjective and very open to the Law Enforcement officials interpretation of what that could be. Also things the f. B. I. Will be allowing is to map ethnic populations which is bothering civil Rights Groups . Correct. What does that mean when you are talking about mappingethnic populations within cities . Basically, for example, within new york, what they will do is they will map out where the muslim communities are in new york, you know, certain other ethnicities have also been mapped. There are documents in lath la they will go out covertly and say, in bay ridge brooklyn, there is a large Arab Community and seven mosques and eight restaurants and two bookstores where people go and thats the one where al jazeera is playing. Thats something that is going to be happening . Thats something that. We havent seen the guidelines . Right . We have only seen news reports about these guidelines that are about to be issued. So according to what we have heard, that will still be allowed. Interesting developments there. We appreciate your time today . Thank you, jonathan. Other news now, four score and seven years ago, we have all heard that before, so began one of historys most famous speeches. Abraham lincolnths gettysburg address. Ken burns is paying tribute to the that and says why lincolns message still resonates today. This is the deck collaration of independence 2. 0, doubling down on the flawed hypocracy in some ways of Thomas Jeffersons original declaration which said we hold these truths to be self evidence yet he owned more than 100 human beings. Abraham lincoln is coming back from the civil war kicking the can down the road has created and said at the site of the greatest battle ever fought on american soil we have a new birth of freedom. The first sentence he talks about the past. The second, the present and the rest, he is pulling us, willing us. He is begging us to enter a future and its the operating system, the 2. 0 that we operate under now. And you can watch our full interview with ken burns on talk to al jazeera at 30 eastern, 4 30 pacific. The nsa is denying that it knew about a critical security bug before it went public. Bloomberg news reports the agency was aware of the socalled heartbeat bug for two years and that it exploited that glitch to gather intelligence. Bloomberg says the agency employs more than a thousand experts of similar bills to steal passwords and sensitive information. The nsas response. The report is wrong. Lung cancer takes 160,000 lives every year and often it is nots detected until it is too late. A Government Panel is hoping to change that. Lisa stark has more from washington. President bush, president clinton, members of the. Sentyearold gabriella is getting a c getting a cat scan now recommended for people at high risk of lung cancer. She started smoking before the harmful effects were known. 50 years later, i regret very much that i did. This is armanis third ct scan. An earlier one showed miniscule spots on her lungs. If this scan shows they have grown, that would be alarming, possibly lung cancer. I tell you i am scared to death. Are you scared to death . Always before. We are all familiar with mammograms to look for breast cancer, col on auscopinionies to alone for colon cancer. Doctors hope they become as routine for those at high risk. Armanis doctor says up until now when lung cancer has been caught, it is usually too late. Patients dont develop symptoms until the cancer has spread outside of the chest and thats when its more advanced and is not curable. Because of that, only about 15 of people diagnosed with lung cancer survive more than five years. With this test, doctors hope to find the cancer when its small enough for treatment. Studies show the scans could routes deaths by 20 . Thats why a key panel recommended an annual scan for high risk smokers and former smokers between the ages of 55 and 74 who have smoked the equivalent of a pack a day for 30 years. This is a game changer. It will increase the number of people that can be rid of their disease in time. Despite the success rate, some critics argue it can lead to false position and unnecessary privileges but an emotional Laurie Ambrose who has been battling for years to get the scans approved said any risks are more than offset by the lives saved. Its not every day you can feel like you have made a difference in peoples lives. This is a big one. Its a real big one. Its good. All very good. Its also very good for gabriella, armani i said, just to everybody, whom i see, go and check. Go and check. Its so important. Armani will be back next year. The scans are now a part of her yearly health checkups. Lease a attacker, al jazeera, washington. A bill moving to the floor wouldege restrictions on guns. The law would allow people to carry weapons without a permit when a state of emergency is declared. Responsos say it will help maintain order after a hurricane or blackout. Floridas house of representatives overwhelmingl