CNN news 2014-03-21 加文本

cnn news 2014-03-21

CARL AZUZ, cnn ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to cnn STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz reporting from the cnn Center as March marches on. We`re glad you`re taking ten minutes out of your Tuesday to watch our show. First up, the Middle East where there`s been fighting for decades between Palestinians and Israelis. President Obama like other U.S. and international leaders is trying to encourage peace talks between the two sides. But they are not going well. And violence between Israelis and Palestinians flared up this month. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was at the White House yesterday. Two weeks after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited. The two Middle Easters leaders disagree so deeply over issues like land borders and security issues that the U.S. is having trouble just getting them to talk to each other. The Obama administration set an April deadline for the two sides to agree on the path toward peace. That will likely be extended through the end of the year.

The U.S. and European Union have issued sanctions or penalties against Russian officials, but they only directly affect the handful of people. The sanctions will prevent about 32 Russians from traveling to certain countries and getting access to some investments they have in those countries. This is all about Crimea. It`s a region of Ukraine were more than 96 percent of voters elected to split off from Ukraine and become part of Russia? The U.S. and European Union called Sunday`s vote illegal, and said they wouldn`t recognize it. Russia supports the vote and says it`s protected by international law, allowing a region to govern itself, because Russia also supports troupes who`ve been in Crimea since Ukraine ousted its former president last month, the U.S. and other nations want to penalize Russia.