:00:08. > :00:11.Ukraine's Prime Minister says his country is on the brink of disaster
:00:12. > :00:14.and he accuses Russia of declaring war. Ukranian and Russian soldiers
:00:15. > :00:19.now face each other in the Crimea region, with the West condemning
:00:20. > :00:21.Moscow's decision to send troops in. The sovereignty and editorial
:00:22. > :00:28.integrity of Ukraine has been violated and this cannot be the way
:00:29. > :00:31.to conduct international affairs. China vows to track down those
:00:32. > :00:34.responsible for an attack at a railway station, which left 29
:00:35. > :00:40.people dead and more than 100 wounded.
:00:41. > :00:41.And Man City secure the first silverware of the season after
:00:42. > :01:06.beating Sunderland at Wembley. Good evening. Ukraine's Prime
:01:07. > :01:09.Minister has accused Russia of declaring war and says Moscow's
:01:10. > :01:15.decision to deploy troops across the border means his country is on the
:01:16. > :01:18.brink of disaster. Russian and Ukrainian soldiers now face each
:01:19. > :01:21.other at a number of army bases in the Crimea region, after the Russian
:01:22. > :01:26.Parliament's decision to send in the military. In response, Ukraine has
:01:27. > :01:30.placed its armed forces on full combat readiness and called up
:01:31. > :01:41.reservists. From Sevastapol, here's Daniel Sandford.
:01:42. > :01:46.Russian troops patrolling directly outside one of Ukraine's vital
:01:47. > :01:51.military bases in Crimea. While the new Ukrainian government called for
:01:52. > :01:55.a full military mobilisation, Russian soldiers already controlled
:01:56. > :02:02.most of Crimea without a shot having been fired. And some in the village
:02:03. > :02:06.nearby came out to welcome them. TRANSLATION: Our heroes. We are our
:02:07. > :02:13.lives to them and I'm ready to do anything for them. -- they are our
:02:14. > :02:17.heroes. Behind the walls, vital military equipment which the
:02:18. > :02:22.Ukrainian stare not use for fear of provoking a stronger reaction from
:02:23. > :02:26.Moscow. These Ukrainian soldiers are now effectively trapped in their own
:02:27. > :02:30.base on their own territory. A short while ago, their colonel came out to
:02:31. > :02:37.ask the Russians to pull back a bit, but so far they have not moved. As
:02:38. > :02:40.his troops in Crimea stood helplessly in their virtual
:02:41. > :02:45.prisons, the Ukrainian Prime Minister in Kiev warned his country
:02:46. > :02:53.was on the brink of disaster. It is not the threat. This is actually the
:02:54. > :03:02.declaration of war to my country. And we urge President Putin to pull
:03:03. > :03:06.back his military. In the far north of Crimea, where it joins the rest
:03:07. > :03:13.of Ukraine, soldiers could be seen in the distance digging defensive
:03:14. > :03:17.positions. Even the headquarters of Ukraine's Navy in Sebastopol was
:03:18. > :03:21.under siege. This time from pro-Russian activists. We saw how
:03:22. > :03:26.sailors were turned away from work as machine gunners watched
:03:27. > :03:30.helplessly from the rooftops. The man in charge of Ukraine's armed
:03:31. > :03:35.forces until two days ago called on politicians to solve the crisis. I
:03:36. > :03:44.am very sorry that Ukrainian soldiers and sailors are hostages of
:03:45. > :03:48.this situation now. It is very sad. Then some Russian troops turned up
:03:49. > :03:51.and vandalised the electricity substation right outside the
:03:52. > :03:55.Ukrainian headquarters. This evening, as more Russian ships
:03:56. > :04:04.sailed into the harbour, the head of the Ukrainian Navy switched sides.
:04:05. > :04:07.The crisis in Ukraine is one of the most serious confrontations between
:04:08. > :04:11.Russia and the West in recent years - a clash of old Cold War rivalries.
:04:12. > :04:14.Today, the US Secretary of State John Kerry warned that Russia could
:04:15. > :04:18.be expelled from the G8, while the head of NATO says Moscow's actions
:04:19. > :04:28.are threatening peace in Europe. Here's our diplomatic correspondent
:04:29. > :04:31.Bridget Kendall. This isn't just about Crimea any
:04:32. > :04:43.more. It is about Ukraine as a whole. The pro-Russian crowd cheers
:04:44. > :04:49.here as Ukrainian government supporters are literally thrown out
:04:50. > :04:53.of the building. One of several rallies in mainly Russian speaking
:04:54. > :04:59.cities in eastern Ukraine, where Ukraine's flag was replaced by the
:05:00. > :05:05.Russian flag on City Hall. One activist from Moscow even filmed
:05:06. > :05:09.himself doing it. And, as with Crimea, the government in Kiev is
:05:10. > :05:14.trapped. If it doesn't respond, these eastern cities might slip out
:05:15. > :05:22.of its control. But any move that provokes a confrontation could give
:05:23. > :05:27.Russia an excuse to invade. Just across-the-board, Russian forces are
:05:28. > :05:31.poised and ready for action. -- across the border. Essentially, it
:05:32. > :05:34.is a massive training exercise but Russia has turned military
:05:35. > :05:43.manoeuvres into an invasion before when it sent troops into Georgia in
:05:44. > :05:48.2008. There is a sense of crisis in Russia, too, today. President Putin
:05:49. > :05:53.now has the right to send troops into Ukraine, says the newsreader, a
:05:54. > :05:57.senior Kremlin editor. He adds that the Russian president warned
:05:58. > :06:01.President Obama that if there is any threat to Russian interests, he
:06:02. > :06:05.wouldn't hesitate to go in. In Washington, it has been called a
:06:06. > :06:10.brazen act of aggression. It feels suddenly as though the world is on
:06:11. > :06:15.the brink of an East -West confrontation reminiscent of the
:06:16. > :06:19.Cold War. Russia needs to think very carefully about the choice it is
:06:20. > :06:25.making, and there are these macro bands, asset freezes, isolation with
:06:26. > :06:28.respect to trade, American businesses may also well want to
:06:29. > :06:33.start thinking twice about whether they want to do business with a
:06:34. > :06:38.country that behaves like this. We have to recognise the sovereign tree
:06:39. > :06:43.and integrity of the Ukraine and it has been violated and this cannot be
:06:44. > :06:47.the way to conduct international affairs. -- sovereignty. In Kiev,
:06:48. > :06:53.crowds are again filling Independence Square, no longer
:06:54. > :06:56.celebrating victory but appealing for outside support. But if
:06:57. > :07:01.President Putin is determined to act, it is hard to see how the West
:07:02. > :07:05.can stop him. The dangers of this conflict continue to grow.
:07:06. > :07:12.And Daniel Sandford is in Sevastopol in Crimea. As this crisis deepens,
:07:13. > :07:18.is it fair to say Ukraine has already lost Crimea? Yes, whereas
:07:19. > :07:24.stand here it does look as if Crimea is lost. -- where I stand. Ukraine
:07:25. > :07:27.has lost control of its air bases here and its military bases, and as
:07:28. > :07:34.a pro-Russian government in power, so the only way the Ukraine could
:07:35. > :07:37.get Crimea back would be through negotiation with President Putin and
:07:38. > :07:41.it looks as though the price would be a referendum on whether Crimea
:07:42. > :07:44.should break away from Ukraine, and then there is the problem of eastern
:07:45. > :07:47.Ukraine, because although it is possible there could be political
:07:48. > :07:54.discussions and a good solution could be found to avoid bloodshed,
:07:55. > :07:58.if the Crimea scenario continues to play itself out in eastern Ukraine,
:07:59. > :08:02.this could open up a long board of confrontation between East and West
:08:03. > :08:08.Ukraine, and then the chances of a real shooting war will become quite
:08:09. > :08:11.high. Thank you. The Chinese authorities have blamed
:08:12. > :08:14.separatists for a mass stabbing at a railway station in which at least 29
:08:15. > :08:18.people died and 130 others were wounded. A group of around ten
:08:19. > :08:22.attackers rushed at passengers in the south- western city of Kunming
:08:23. > :08:28.yesterday. From there, here's Damian Grammaticas.
:08:29. > :08:32.Armed police on guard today, ringing Kunming's train station. Incredibly,
:08:33. > :08:38.travellers were already flooding back in, less than 24 hours after
:08:39. > :08:44.the murderous rampage here. Ten or more attackers, clad in black and
:08:45. > :08:47.masked, ran amok. The attackers drew their knives. They began slashing at
:08:48. > :08:51.people and then chased them. The crowd scattered everywhere. In the
:08:52. > :09:03.space of just 12 minutes, around 150 people were killed and injured here.
:09:04. > :09:10.I saw one man and one woman clearly. A policeman walked up to
:09:11. > :09:16.them. He had no weapon. He shouted, put your nice town. Who are you?
:09:17. > :09:21.They set up on him. They ran out from there. They had nice 50, 60
:09:22. > :09:26.centimetres long. People were shouting, we had never harmed you.
:09:27. > :09:32.Why are you killing us? They didn't care, they killed everyone. -- they
:09:33. > :09:35.had knives. Adults and children. Chinese authorities say this was
:09:36. > :09:38.done by terrorist elements from Xinjiang, in China's far west. One
:09:39. > :09:44.student says one of the attackers ran towards her, stabbing wildly.
:09:45. > :09:48.She was in the ticket queue when it happened. Xinjiang lies thousands of
:09:49. > :09:51.miles away on China's border with Pakistan and Afghanistan. Many of
:09:52. > :09:55.its Muslim Uighurs resent what they see as heavy-handed Chinese control.
:09:56. > :10:00.Violence here has been getting worse. Dozens died last year. And
:10:01. > :10:03.now it may be seeping into other parts of China. Last October, China
:10:04. > :10:08.said this incident in Beijing's Tiananmen Square was an Uighur
:10:09. > :10:12.terror attack. A car ploughed into a crowd, then burst into flames. Two
:10:13. > :10:16.tourists and three people in the vehicle died. But this latest
:10:17. > :10:19.rampage was far more bloody, and what will worry China's authorities
:10:20. > :10:31.is that, despite the vast funds they are now spending on internal
:10:32. > :10:33.security, the violence is spreading. The former Northern Ireland
:10:34. > :10:36.Secretary Peter Hain says pursuing British soldiers involved in the
:10:37. > :10:40.Bloody Sunday killings is a "waste" of police time. 14 civilians died in
:10:41. > :10:50.Londonderry in 1972 after soldiers opened fire during a civil rights
:10:51. > :10:52.march. Mr Hain's comments follow the disclosure that a number of
:10:53. > :10:55.Republican terror suspects have been sent letters which in effect give
:10:56. > :11:01.them immunity from prosecution, as part of the Northern Ireland peace
:11:02. > :11:04.process. In just a few hours' time, Hollywood
:11:05. > :11:09.will begin hosting its biggest party of the year for the Oscars. American
:11:10. > :11:11.Hustle and the British film Gravity lead this year's nominations, as our
:11:12. > :11:20.entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba reports from Los Angeles.
:11:21. > :11:28.For months, it's been a relentless run of red carpets, all building up
:11:29. > :11:34.to the biggest event of the more. Leading the battalion of Brits
:11:35. > :11:40.hoping to storm the stage this year is Steve McQueen. I'm really
:11:41. > :11:45.nervous, but it will be a celebration. It is one occasion
:11:46. > :11:54.where you have to force yourself to enjoy it. Its main competition comes
:11:55. > :12:01.from two films. American Hustle and Gravity. The latter was made in
:12:02. > :12:14.Britain. Whoever ends up winning or losing this will still be seen as a
:12:15. > :12:20.very strong year for British film. Some nominees like Cate Blanchett,
:12:21. > :12:28.up for best actress, are considered almost certain to win. I'm just
:12:29. > :12:35.excited. It is a lovely position to be in, which ever way the penny
:12:36. > :12:43.falls. Others, like the team behind Philomena, may have a Mormon -- a
:12:44. > :12:50.more nerve wracking evening. But here is some advice: don't do great
:12:51. > :12:55.long lists of bank queues. Thank them later, write them a nice note
:12:56. > :13:02.afterwards and say thank you. In a way, that is more appreciated. Try
:13:03. > :13:09.to be sex linked and don't cry. -- succinct. For many, winning an Oscar
:13:10. > :13:17.will be the highlight of their career. Holding back the tears may
:13:18. > :13:26.be one piece of advice they will not be able to follow.
:13:27. > :13:29.Now, let's get the sport. The first major piece of silverware
:13:30. > :13:35.of the football season has been won by Manchester City after beating
:13:36. > :13:40.Sunderland 3-1 at Wembley. It is the first for the manager who joined the
:13:41. > :13:45.club in June. Natalie, a disappointing day for
:13:46. > :13:49.Sunderland. Was it just too big a task for them against this
:13:50. > :13:56.Manchester City side? History will recall this is a 3-1 win for
:13:57. > :13:59.Manchester City but that score does not do credit to how well Sunderland
:14:00. > :14:02.played. For a while it looked like they
:14:03. > :14:07.might have their day, but ultimately to moments of sheer brilliance from
:14:08. > :14:16.two expensive individuals proved to be all the difference. It's been a
:14:17. > :14:18.long time since Wembley heard the Black Cats sing, but they were far
:14:19. > :14:27.from here just to make up the numbers. City fans were already
:14:28. > :14:36.previewing celebrations as orderly overwhelming favourites can. After
:14:37. > :14:40.nine minutes, city were stunned into silence. Sunderland were going to
:14:41. > :14:48.savour this moment. They were well-organised and
:14:49. > :14:57.defiant, and what almost in again, but this time unsuccessfully. But if
:14:58. > :15:04.ever they needed a reminder of the quality Manchester City possess,
:15:05. > :15:10.this goal showed them. And while Sunderland's defence was still
:15:11. > :15:13.reeling, they were floored again. Sunderland did not stop fighting,
:15:14. > :15:19.but right at the end, all hopes were crushed. Manuel Pellegrini was
:15:20. > :15:29.tasked with winning five trophies when he took over last summer. Just
:15:30. > :15:36.for Mac to go, then. -- just four. So Sunderland's 41 year wait for a
:15:37. > :15:39.trophy continues. They are battling relegation in a league. On this
:15:40. > :15:45.showing though, fans have plenty of reasons to be optimistic.
:15:46. > :15:57.In the Premier League Tottenham have a lead in their game. Aston Bill are
:15:58. > :16:03.happy at four goals past Norwich. Just a couple of seconds left in all
:16:04. > :16:08.three games. England's cricketers are playing in Antigua. They won the
:16:09. > :16:13.toss and chose to bowl. The West Indies gave a relatively
:16:14. > :16:19.poor batting performance. Stephen Parry took three wickets on his
:16:20. > :16:26.Dubuque. England need 160 to win but have lost two wickets already and
:16:27. > :16:30.are 55 42. Rumour Conroy has a two shot lead as
:16:31. > :16:35.he prepares to tee off in half an hour's time in the final round in
:16:36. > :16:40.Florida. He shot a third round of 69 to lead the field going to the final
:16:41. > :16:49.day. If he wins in Florida it will be his first PGA Tour title since
:16:50. > :16:52.2012. Ronnie O'Sullivan is playing in the final.
:16:53. > :17:03.He is seven frames to one ahead with the evening session still to come.
:17:04. > :17:04.There is more throughout the evening on