Pro-Russian gunmen occupy Crimea

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Less than a week after protests forced out the government in the capital Kiev, pro-Russian gunmen have taken over government buildings in the Crimean capital Simferopol and raised the Russian flag. Crimea's Russian bloc are not listening to a word their new leaders in Kiev have to say. And that has prompted a series of warnings to Moscow not to take any military action. Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from Simferopol, Ukraine.