:00:00. > :00:11.This is BBC World News Today, with me, Philippa Thomas.
:00:12. > :00:15.Diplomatic efforts are underway in Paris - trying to find common ground
:00:16. > :00:18.over Ukraine. Russian and American foreign ministers come face to face
:00:19. > :00:22.on the crisis, but there's been no meeting of minds.
:00:23. > :00:26.On the ground, the struggle for control continues. First the Ukraine
:00:27. > :00:29.flag flies in Donetsk in the east, hours later marchers replace it with
:00:30. > :00:39.the Russian flag flying over government buildings. I'll will be
:00:40. > :00:44.live from Sevastopol where Russian forces are continuing to consolidate
:00:45. > :00:47.their grip here in the Crimea. Also coming up: Israel says it's
:00:48. > :00:50.seized a ship carrying advanced Iranian weapons to Gaza.
:00:51. > :00:51.And we'll meet the 13-year-old British boy who's carried out atomic
:00:52. > :01:09.fusion in his classroom. Hello and welcome.
:01:10. > :01:12.The first day of direct diplomatic talks about the Ukraine crisis is
:01:13. > :01:15.still underway in Paris, with no breakthrough yet in American and
:01:16. > :01:20.European efforts to persuade Russia to back down. There's a fragile calm
:01:21. > :01:23.in Ukrainian cities from Donetsk in the east, where rival groups have
:01:24. > :01:26.wrestled each others flags from the top of government buildings, to
:01:27. > :01:29.Sevastopol in Crimea in the south, where Russia has tightened its grip
:01:30. > :01:39.on key military facilities. NATO has reviewed a fool review of its
:01:40. > :01:45.cooperation with Russia. Russia has tightened its grip on key military
:01:46. > :01:53.facilities. There has been a nasty diplomatic incident. My colleague
:01:54. > :01:58.Ben Brown is there. Yes, it has been another difficult
:01:59. > :02:02.and tense day here in Crimea. Highlighted perhaps by a series
:02:03. > :02:07.incident in which the United Nations's special envoy who were
:02:08. > :02:12.sent here on a fact mind -- fact-finding mission, he was
:02:13. > :02:17.surrounded by armed men, armed pro-Russian supporters and
:02:18. > :02:25.protesters, and he took refuge in a coffee shop and he was seeking
:02:26. > :02:28.sanctuary there, really. He was pretty frightened and shaken up, and
:02:29. > :02:34.he ended up cutting short his mission year, getting on an
:02:35. > :02:38.aeroplane and leaving. The United Nations taking that very seriously
:02:39. > :02:41.and saying he was seriously threatened. Meanwhile Russian forces
:02:42. > :02:48.here in Crimea have been tightening their grip on Ukrainian military
:02:49. > :02:53.bases, they have taken over partial control today of two missile defence
:02:54. > :02:57.units in separate areas of Crimea. They are also continuing to tighten
:02:58. > :03:04.their naval blockade of Ukrainian naval vessels here. As my colleague
:03:05. > :03:08.Daniel Sandford no reports. The first sign that the Russians
:03:09. > :03:13.were tightening further their stranglehold on Ukraine's small
:03:14. > :03:18.navy. Russian troops taking up new positions overlooking a Ukrainian
:03:19. > :03:27.military dock. We climbed down to see what was happening and found,
:03:28. > :03:31.two of Ukraine's must fight -- sophisticated fighting ships,
:03:32. > :03:40.blockaded in the bay by Russian boats and overlooked by a Russians
:03:41. > :03:51.neighbour. -- sniper. On the dock we find this woman speaking to her
:03:52. > :03:55.husband. He was only metres away. The ship dear not come closer in
:03:56. > :04:02.case it is dolled by the Russians. -- stormed. When the commander of
:04:03. > :04:06.the Black Sea Fleet came to the ship and said he would storm it, of
:04:07. > :04:10.course it was frightening. War is a very frightening thing. On these
:04:11. > :04:15.heavily armed ships, the sailors have resorted to medieval methods to
:04:16. > :04:20.defending themselves. The Ukrainian soldiers have put
:04:21. > :04:24.mattresses over the railings, that is to stop the Russians throwing
:04:25. > :04:29.grappling irons and boarding the ship. Well almost the entire
:04:30. > :04:34.Ukrainian navy is stuck in the harbour, they have to watch Russian
:04:35. > :04:39.warships coming and going at will. What would have and if you try to
:04:40. > :04:44.leave the harbour? TRANSLATION: There could be a clash between the
:04:45. > :04:50.ships and navigation accident which can result in casualties. Then two
:04:51. > :04:55.men in black courts arrived. They remonstrated with the officers on
:04:56. > :04:58.the ship for our Ukrainian navy statement which had called the
:04:59. > :05:02.Russian president ally. The Ukrainian stood their ground and
:05:03. > :05:09.complained about the armed men surrounding them. -- president a
:05:10. > :05:14.liar. I am the only one who has a weapon said the senior officer. I
:05:15. > :05:22.have given up everything else. I just have the one pistol to protect
:05:23. > :05:28.my crew. This evening a small boat came up to replenish the ships. The
:05:29. > :05:33.Ukrainians are preparing for a long siege.
:05:34. > :05:38.So it is as you can stay still very tense here in Crimea. Yesterday we
:05:39. > :05:43.had that incident where Russian troops actually fired warning shots
:05:44. > :05:47.over the heads of unarmed Ukrainian soldiers at the Belbek a military
:05:48. > :05:53.airfield. We have not had any shots of any kind fired today. But still
:05:54. > :05:57.another dangerous day in Crimea. The stand-off between the Russian forces
:05:58. > :06:03.and Ukrainian forces continuing at bases around Crimea.
:06:04. > :06:07.We have come to the Ukrainian naval headquarters where there are
:06:08. > :06:11.volunteers from the self-styled Russian defence Force, besieging the
:06:12. > :06:17.space along with unidentified Russian soldiers as well. And they
:06:18. > :06:23.will not even let us go from here, the few yards to those gates, to try
:06:24. > :06:25.to talk to interview the Ukrainian naval staff who inside there.
:06:26. > :07:01.TRANSLATION: wives arrived to bring them food and
:07:02. > :07:05.fresh clothes. But the Russians laying siege to this base here
:07:06. > :07:14.refuse to let them deliver their suffice. A retired naval commander
:07:15. > :07:23.told me it is tense but peaceful. Only one week this is a peaceful
:07:24. > :07:30.coexistence. That is it. It is like a barrel with powder. Right now
:07:31. > :07:34.everyone can understand that war is not the case. War is not the choice
:07:35. > :07:37.of the people. No one doubts the very real dangers of the stand-off
:07:38. > :07:43.but it is also beginning to look like a stalemate that could last for
:07:44. > :07:47.quite some time. One footnote to that, interesting to
:07:48. > :07:51.hear today the Foreign Minister saying that Russia has no control
:07:52. > :07:58.whatsoever of these armed groups that are surrounding various
:07:59. > :08:01.Ukrainian bases here in Crimea. When you see those pictures that we were
:08:02. > :08:05.showing you there and that report of the forces who are outside the
:08:06. > :08:11.pro-Russian forces, clearly some of them are local volunteers as a style
:08:12. > :08:16.themselves, but there are also these uniformed troops who look very much
:08:17. > :08:20.like Russian armed troops, although they do not have the Russian army
:08:21. > :08:24.insignia on their uniforms. Then when you see their vehicles, they
:08:25. > :08:29.are definitely Russian army, because you can see they have Russian army
:08:30. > :08:33.number on them. There is not any doubt about that. The Ukrainian
:08:34. > :08:39.prime minister, the acting prime minister, he is 100% sure that these
:08:40. > :08:43.forces are under the control of Moscow. That shows I suppose how far
:08:44. > :08:49.as said, far apart the two sides are, the Russians and Ukrainians on
:08:50. > :08:53.this one issue of who is controlling these pro-Russian forces. Clearly it
:08:54. > :08:58.will be a difficult divide that the diplomats are trying to address, the
:08:59. > :09:02.US Secretary of State has been meeting Sergey Lavrov in Paris. We
:09:03. > :09:05.await the details of exactly what they have discussed and whether
:09:06. > :09:09.there has been any progress in those talks. That is all from here in the
:09:10. > :09:15.Crimea, and you back to the studio in London.
:09:16. > :09:21.Let's take a closer look at the European response to this crisis.
:09:22. > :09:24.Joining me from Brussels is Daniel Brossler. He's the correspondent for
:09:25. > :09:27.the centre left German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. Daniel, thank
:09:28. > :09:31.you for joining us on World News Today. I was going to ask you about
:09:32. > :09:36.the European response, but we do not have one as yet, and it is difficult
:09:37. > :09:41.for there to be a united European response, isn't there? It is
:09:42. > :09:45.difficult. But everyone understands the needs to be a response and I
:09:46. > :09:50.think there will be one. If tomorrow, at the summit, the leaders
:09:51. > :09:55.will not find a common position, Putin will laugh at that. This is
:09:56. > :09:59.impossible. I think there will be strong wording, there will be an aid
:10:00. > :10:07.package for Ukraine, and probably there will be sanctions as well. As
:10:08. > :10:11.the German Chancellor Merkel has the strongest position with President
:10:12. > :10:18.Putin, she has been cautious in the way she has spoken about his
:10:19. > :10:22.actions? That is how a way of doing politics. She is looking at the
:10:23. > :10:27.options, being careful. But if you asked her, she would say she was
:10:28. > :10:31.outspoken, she called Putin several times and she made it known to the
:10:32. > :10:36.public that she really criticised harshly during those telephone
:10:37. > :10:41.calls. I think she did not do before. So I think she is trying to
:10:42. > :10:45.send a message to Vladimir Putin. I do not think that she will reject
:10:46. > :10:52.sanctions as there is a need to have sanctions. Reminders, Daniel, how
:10:53. > :10:59.close the relationship is and when -- how much is at stake? The
:11:00. > :11:03.relationship is very important. First of all you have to see that
:11:04. > :11:10.economic play Germany and Russia are having really close ties, as far as
:11:11. > :11:16.energy is concerned, Germany pretty much depends on supplies from Russia
:11:17. > :11:21.to a great deal. So this is of course at stake. But on the other
:11:22. > :11:24.hand I think in Germany the federal government is clearly seeing that if
:11:25. > :11:29.there is no strong message noted Russia, then there is a red line
:11:30. > :11:32.that they have crossed, then it will be very difficult to deal with
:11:33. > :11:37.Russia in the future. So I think there is a strong understanding of
:11:38. > :11:43.this. And the Chancellor, coming from East Germany, knows very well
:11:44. > :11:47.who she is dealing with. She harbours no illusions whatsoever as
:11:48. > :11:51.far as Mr Putin is concerned. Do you think from her point of view it is
:11:52. > :11:56.important to keep the conversation going. She can treat him German and
:11:57. > :12:01.Russian face-to-face? She speaks Russian, he speaks German. I think
:12:02. > :12:08.there is no real trust between them. There is something like a working
:12:09. > :12:19.relationship. It is known that we tend to speak quite frankly, quite
:12:20. > :12:25.openly. Anglo-American will has criticised Vladimir Putin in
:12:26. > :12:30.public. -- Angela Merkel. Not really trust, but a working relationship.
:12:31. > :12:37.But if there is anybody know who is able to find a dialogue with Mr
:12:38. > :12:43.Putin, probably it would be Angela Merkel. Finally, could you give me a
:12:44. > :12:47.brief idea, can we say there is German public opinion flowing one
:12:48. > :12:55.way or the other, saying what the sentiment is? In Germany you always
:12:56. > :13:00.have a certain fear of war. If you would as Germans now, they would
:13:01. > :13:05.say, do everything to avoid anything that is coming close to war. So I
:13:06. > :13:10.think Germans would say, it is really bad what is happening in the
:13:11. > :13:16.Ukraine. But the priority should be to come to terms with Russia and to
:13:17. > :13:24.avoid any military conflict. Thank you very much for joining us.
:13:25. > :13:27.A South African boxer and friend of Oscar Pistorius has told his murder
:13:28. > :13:30.trial, that Pistorius once fired a shot under a table in a restaurant
:13:31. > :13:34.in Johannesburg, and then asked him to take the blame for it. The
:13:35. > :13:36.incident happened last January, just weeks before the Olympic and
:13:37. > :13:39.Paralympic athlete killed his girlfriend. He says he mistook her
:13:40. > :13:48.for an intruder. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding reports
:13:49. > :13:51.from Pretoria. For relatives guarding Oscar
:13:52. > :13:55.Pistorius on his way into court this morning. As the prosecution
:13:56. > :14:00.continues to build its case against him. Taking the stand, the first
:14:01. > :14:13.witness to agree to appear live on camera. Professional boxer. He
:14:14. > :14:18.describes an incident at her South African restaurant. This is the
:14:19. > :14:22.place today. The athlete fired a Fred's done under one of these
:14:23. > :14:29.tables, seemingly by accident. Then allegedly as the friend to take the
:14:30. > :14:35.blame. I remember Oscar clearly apologising, is everybody OK. He at
:14:36. > :14:42.pleased to Darren, to say it was you. I do not want any attention.
:14:43. > :14:46.This is a murder trial saw it may seem to discuss a separate minor
:14:47. > :14:51.incident and a restaurant. It gives the prosecution the unique
:14:52. > :15:00.opportunity to raise questions about Pistorius' character. The painted a
:15:01. > :15:09.picture of Oscar Pistorius being a bit of gun fiend. But it was not all
:15:10. > :15:15.bad for him today. His lawyer picked holes in the vital evidence of two
:15:16. > :15:19.neighbours. That cannot be. They said they had heard a woman scream
:15:20. > :15:25.before the gunshots on the night that Reeva Steenkamp died,
:15:26. > :15:30.contradicting his version of events. It is a man's life at stake. In all
:15:31. > :15:36.fairness let's say, let's look at other possibilities. Today's
:15:37. > :15:40.restaurant revelations may prove damaging to the story is, but his
:15:41. > :15:44.team has shown signs of the formidable research it has done to
:15:45. > :15:49.prove it he did not need to kill Reeva Steenkamp. In Cairo the trial
:15:50. > :15:52.has resumed of Al-Jazeera journalists accused of supporting
:15:53. > :15:54.the Muslim Brotherhood, the outlawed movement of ousted Egyptian
:15:55. > :15:57.president Mohamed Morsi. In all 20 people, including former
:15:58. > :16:04.BBC correspondent Peter Greste, are on trial, 12 of them in absentia.
:16:05. > :16:06.The trial is seen as a test of how far the current military-installed
:16:07. > :16:16.government will tolerate independent media. From the court Quentin
:16:17. > :16:21.Sommerville reports. Here we heard some of the first
:16:22. > :16:26.detailed allegations against the three journalists today. Up for
:16:27. > :16:32.questioning was the lead investigator in the case. He was
:16:33. > :16:36.asked a direct question about the bureau chief for Al Jazeera English
:16:37. > :16:41.here in Egypt's. He was asked if he is a member of the Muslim
:16:42. > :16:48.Brotherhood. The policeman responded that as long as he was supporting
:16:49. > :16:53.them then he was a member of the group. They all deny the terrorism
:16:54. > :16:58.charges. I spoke to Peter Greste at the end of the child -- trial. He
:16:59. > :17:02.said the men were doing well but they had been incarcerated for 66
:17:03. > :17:06.days. He says they are political prisoners, caught in a battle
:17:07. > :17:10.between the government of the jet and the government of Qatar that
:17:11. > :17:17.owns the Al Jazeera network. The trial still has some way to go.
:17:18. > :17:21.Peter Greste said to us that he hopes for more support from the
:17:22. > :17:25.Australian government. He thinks the Prime Minister there could do more
:17:26. > :17:29.to help the man. More witnesses will be called. At least four more are
:17:30. > :17:31.expected but they will not be heard from and to March 24 when the
:17:32. > :17:35.hearings resume. The Israeli military says it has
:17:36. > :17:38.seized a ship carrying rockets made in Syria that was heading towards
:17:39. > :17:41.Gaza. The cargo ship was intercepted in the Red Sea. Israel says it began
:17:42. > :17:50.tracking the missiles several months ago as they were flown from Damascus
:17:51. > :17:55.to Tehran. Yolande Knell reports. This footage shows Israeli marines
:17:56. > :18:02.inspecting a rocket in the hold of a ship. The Israeli military says it
:18:03. > :18:06.is a Syrian made surface to surface missile and that dozens were found
:18:07. > :18:11.on board a cargo ship that it intercepted in the red Sea. Israeli
:18:12. > :18:15.intelligence is understood to have tracked the shipment over months. It
:18:16. > :18:20.says the rockets were moved from Damascus airport to Teheran and then
:18:21. > :18:25.taken to a port in southern Iran. From there it is said they were
:18:26. > :18:31.placed on a civilian vessel which sales to Iraq. Finally the ship was
:18:32. > :18:35.intercepted by Israeli naval forces in international waters on its way
:18:36. > :18:39.to Sudan. Add a news conference journalists were told that the
:18:40. > :18:43.rockets were bound for militants in Gaza. If they had reached their
:18:44. > :18:48.destination it would have meant that millions of a stray leaves were at
:18:49. > :18:53.the mercy of the terrorists in Gaza. -- millions of Israelis. That
:18:54. > :18:56.is what we set out to stop. Israel blames Iran for supplying the
:18:57. > :19:01.weapons because these cement bags were found with them. The Prime
:19:02. > :19:10.Minister that is in the US pressing for tougher international action on
:19:11. > :19:12.Iran was quick to clandestine operation was organised by Iran.
:19:13. > :19:18.While Iran is conducting these plots and smiling to the international
:19:19. > :19:23.community it continues to perpetrate terrorism around the world. The
:19:24. > :19:28.government in Gaza denies any link to these rockets but Iran has not
:19:29. > :19:32.commented. The crew of the ship is being questioned.
:19:33. > :19:34.Now a look at some of the day's other news.
:19:35. > :19:37.Pope Francis has strongly defended the record of the Catholic Church on
:19:38. > :19:40.tackling the sexual abuse of children by priests. In a rare
:19:41. > :19:44.interview with an Italian newspaper the Pope said no-one had done more
:19:45. > :19:46.to root out paedophilia. Last month the United Nations strongly
:19:47. > :19:51.criticised the Vatican for failing to stamp out child abuse and for
:19:52. > :19:54.allowing systematic cover-ups. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
:19:55. > :19:59.Emirates and Bahrain have withdrawn their ambassadors to Qatar. It's in
:20:00. > :20:02.protest at what they've called its interference in their internal
:20:03. > :20:05.affairs. The three countries accuse Qatar of failing to implement a
:20:06. > :20:07.security deal signed last year stipulating non-interference in each
:20:08. > :20:13.other's affairs, including support to hostile media.
:20:14. > :20:16.A big parade in Venezuela's capital, Caracas, has marked the first
:20:17. > :20:20.anniversary of the death of the former president Hugo Chavez who led
:20:21. > :20:25.the country for 14 years. Thousands of troops and supporters took part.
:20:26. > :20:29.The commemoration comes at a time of high tension. Mr Chavez's successor
:20:30. > :20:33.Nicolas Maduro has faced a month of protests and demonstrators say they
:20:34. > :20:41.will be back on the streets during the day.
:20:42. > :20:44.Across the United States, in fact in 17 states so far, there've been
:20:45. > :20:49.efforts to decriminalise marijuana and now that campaign has come to
:20:50. > :20:53.the US capital. A bill passed by the council in Washington DC may mean it
:20:54. > :21:00.will no longer be a criminal offence to possess and smoke marijuana in
:21:01. > :21:04.the privacy of one's own home. Michael Collins works with the Drug
:21:05. > :21:12.Policy Alliance and joins me now from Washington. A favourite treat
:21:13. > :21:16.-- decriminalisation. Thank you for being with us. We should make it
:21:17. > :21:21.clear that this is not about being allowed to smoke marijuana in the
:21:22. > :21:25.streets of the US capital but do you think it is a significant step in
:21:26. > :21:32.decriminalisation terms? Yes, it is a huge step forward for the capital
:21:33. > :21:36.of the United States and a huge step forward towards ending what is a
:21:37. > :21:41.failure, the war on drugs. I think that the interesting thing about the
:21:42. > :21:45.Washington, DC initiative is that the arguments used to persuade the
:21:46. > :21:49.council members to vote in favour of decriminalisation were ones that
:21:50. > :21:54.involved racial justice because inside the nation's B majority of
:21:55. > :21:58.people who are arrested for crimes related to marijuana are people of
:21:59. > :22:03.colour and the council members voting in favour agreed that the law
:22:04. > :22:09.was unjust and racially -- unjust and racially biased. So it is not
:22:10. > :22:14.just a drugs or medical issue, it is seen as a civil rights issue as
:22:15. > :22:19.well. Absolutely. Other states such as Colorado and Washington that have
:22:20. > :22:23.legalised marijuana and taken steps towards decriminalisation have used
:22:24. > :22:27.different arguments that have been more persuasive. In Colorado and
:22:28. > :22:33.Washington there was a huge debate about using the money from taxation
:22:34. > :22:38.towards education but in Washington, DC the prevalent debate revolved
:22:39. > :22:43.around civil liberties and the fact that the laws in Washington, DC
:22:44. > :22:47.adversely affect minorities, people of colour and people of low income
:22:48. > :22:52.so they were seen as being in complete -- completely unjust. This
:22:53. > :22:57.could change police priorities? We hope so. We think it is a waste of
:22:58. > :23:02.time for police to be going after low-level drug users, marijuana
:23:03. > :23:05.users. The resources would be better spent on serious crimes and we are
:23:06. > :23:11.very pleased that the City Council agreed with us. Where next do you
:23:12. > :23:18.think such initiatives are likely to come up? We have covered Colorado
:23:19. > :23:22.where voters have legalised the sale of marijuana and where else in the
:23:23. > :23:25.United States is the issue coming to the fore? Perhaps in Washington, DC
:23:26. > :23:30.this year we will go a step further. The decision has not been
:23:31. > :23:34.made yet but perhaps we will see a referendum on full legalisation.
:23:35. > :23:41.There are initiatives being prepared this year for Oregon and Alaska. In
:23:42. > :23:50.2016 you will see a number of other states putting legalisation there.
:23:51. > :23:54.In Colorado the train has left the station. There is a lot of momentum
:23:55. > :23:59.around marijuana legalisation. People have crossed the Rubicon. A
:24:00. > :24:06.lot of other states are looking at marijuana legalisation as a way to
:24:07. > :24:09.increase their revenue for budgets and so we have no doubt that the we
:24:10. > :24:14.are going to see this movement spread elsewhere. We will watch this
:24:15. > :24:16.developing story. Thank you. A 13-year-old British boy has become
:24:17. > :24:19.the youngest person ever to successfully carry out atomic
:24:20. > :24:22.fusion. Today Jamie Edwards showed off his experiment for the first
:24:23. > :24:32.time and proved that it really worked. Our correspondent Danny
:24:33. > :24:37.Savage was there. A school classroom in Preston is not
:24:38. > :24:43.the first place you would expect to see a nuclear reactor but yes, this
:24:44. > :24:47.is a 13-year-old who has built one. Jamie Edwards today attempted to be
:24:48. > :24:52.the youngest fusion era in the world by smashing two hydrogen atoms
:24:53. > :24:57.together, making helium through nuclear fusion. I need to ask you
:24:58. > :25:00.all to leave... It is not without its risks so the room was cleared
:25:01. > :25:07.although we left the camera running and after a few minutes. I heard the
:25:08. > :25:13.geiger counter rapidly go up and I thought, what is that? Then I looked
:25:14. > :25:17.over and the neutron counter was write-up of the scale. I've realised
:25:18. > :25:22.we must have done it, that is neutrons, I cannot believe it. His
:25:23. > :25:27.mum watched on from outside, hoping that practical science did not turn
:25:28. > :25:30.into horrible histories. Relief that it is safe and he is all right and
:25:31. > :25:53.he has achieved what he wanted to achieve. I am really relieved at the
:25:54. > :25:55.moment. Radiation is measured with a geiger counter and a couple of
:25:56. > :25:58.Christmases ago Jamie spent all his Christmas money on buying a geiger
:25:59. > :26:00.counter. He has since gone on to develop this project to become the
:26:01. > :26:02.youngest fusion era in the world. The previous record was held by a
:26:03. > :26:06.14-year-old in America. Jamie turns 14 this weekend so he had to get it
:26:07. > :26:08.done today. For his next trick Jamie plans and mini hadron Collider.
:26:09. > :26:11.That makes the rest of us feel very inadequate!
:26:12. > :26:16.The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has held meetings with his
:26:17. > :26:21.Russian counterpart in Paris. The highest level diplomatic encounter
:26:22. > :26:25.since the Ukraine crisis escalated. The Russian Foreign Minister left
:26:26. > :26:28.the French following mirrors/ -- French Foreign Ministry today
:26:29. > :26:32.without having held a hoped-for meeting with his Ukrainian
:26:33. > :26:36.counterpart, hoped for by the Ukrainians anyway. The UN
:26:37. > :26:40.representative in the Crimea was forced to cut his mission short
:26:41. > :26:45.after being threatened by armed men as he left the naval headquarters in
:26:46. > :26:57.the regional capital. Thank you for being with us.
:26:58. > :27:07.Hallo. An area of high pressure is going to build in next week and
:27:08. > :27:08.bring some dry weather. Tomorrow there is more rain to come. There