so far i think there would have. been more on that. because it would have. been. told that three key and no more american but. i do work have a who're. because by one thousand and fourteen you could really say that for those arabs who are engaged in identity politics what they aspired to was a better deal for the arabs within the ot of them. this brand of politics is known as arab ism and arab were really thinking in terms of imitating the austria-hungary empire with a kind of arab turkish dual monarchy and the ottoman empire but were very concerned not to exit the audubon umbrella for fear that where the arabs edited make a bid for independence they would be immediately at risk of european. the ottomans suffered a major defeat in nineteen i dance

a little here priests serbia and montenegro in the first balkan war. to be in territory but the defeat did initially ease the relationship between the arabs of the ottoman empire and the young turks governments. able to focus. on the. well. i suppose. i would do it. when we. went to faff. how it was at the what the rethought. for for the i mean what are you. i the thought of.

the first world war started at the end of july nineteenth fourteen. britain france and russia the central scholars of germany austria-hungary and bulgaria. shortly after the autumn and opted to supports germany. the pillar of concrete. and homework. but a funny. little sit when i came. home and that was set for most of them by about an f one how to see idea or not thought of it with many thought of cherie. our little did the. national heart of.

political. who are the starlet i look at remove. my knee i mean. to be a highly. mean mean by. political thought that i thought were legit. i must be really really really brilliant or so you're going to dog the luckily my mother took. me in the circular buffer the libyan government also will put. a ruse doleman head the head of says he cannot afford it and we had death well. one of the robber had there that you know let me up and and methadone look low ball

get it to read woman who wore it get albert and then he goes forward with theft moved back to holland we had death. in february one thousand nine hundred fifteen frustrated by the stagnating war in europe the british open to an eastern front against the ottomans on the dardanelles straits they imagined the ottoman army as weak and easier to defeat as the way of taking on germany and ending the war. russia however was more concerned about its use of ottoman water which so the russians asked britain and france to find in agreement to guarantee their own share of the spoils after the war. the russians were keen to seize more as cultural capital as a sort of restoration of orthodox christianity after the five centuries of all of the rule and so with the outbreak of the first world war on the eve of the commit

police station. the russians wanted to secure their allies commitment to granting istanbul and the straits to the russian empire and this becomes an exchange of documents known as the constantinople agreement concluded between march and april one nine hundred fifteen. britain france and russia entered into the constantinople agreement which granted the russians certain ottoman territories and waterways. however this agreement peeved the way for another secret deal as london and paris started to plot exactly what they wanted from a region that's was gaining strategic significance in the coming age of oil. you could really see the britain and to the war without any clear territorial ambitions in their territory they could not at the stage of the constantinople

agreement identify one place that they wish to add to their empire but they reserve the right to do so as soon as they worked out what their priorities were and so in a sense the constantinople agreement really is the first of the wartime partition agreements that will begin to shape the way in which the arab provinces will be carved up primarily between britain and france since russia's interest lay mostly in turkish territories so very british fashion the british created a committee called the debunks and committee and its remit was to look in. the sort of the options for britain so that when the time for negotiations with the french came up the british would be well prepared know what they wanted and this is actually something that the british did throughout the war and right to the end of the war. so in april one thousand nine hundred fifteen the british set up a committee headed by the diplomats morris' the bunsen to define their interests in

the ottoman territories it's made certain assumptions about what its ally france would expect from any potential deal. i mean a few who. are there to feel it could walk and if it is you you really do there and leave front live on the ground a sort of in the front seat going to be a call on it right now but i am i will certainly be in the most i look at your mom and the daughter if you have a month with you probably have your mom what have your month britain's interests are most likely to be in completing its imperium in the persian gulf by securing the territories of the province the bus route baghdad linked as they were to persian oil fields and island in the shot that are up. nicely completing dominion that stretched right around the earth coastline of the persian gulf which it would take since an eight hundred twenty s. . good morning gentlemen are doing so to get on some twenty to set up.

and it's youngest. and most carefree. oxides who was kitchener's military assistant kitchener was the secretary of state for war and he delegated the job of sitting on the committee sykes mark sykes had been born into a wealthy family in yorkshire in the north of england in eight hundred seventy nine . he studied at cambridge university and was elected as a conservative member of parliament. in one thousand enough. he like to give the impression of being an expert on the middle east based on his travels in the region but he was not quite the authority as it was sometimes assumed. he presented the bunsen committee with his vision of a new near east region as riches and this will be our use had come up himself

with a different plan which was something completely different a much more old fashioned that was to create a quarter of across the middle east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains on the iranian from an activist that shares a front britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the bunch i wish the older wiser heads said you know that why work your. way into line one nine hundred fifteen the debunks in committee recommended dividing the ottoman empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. but when sykes

was sent to the middle east and india he began to revert to his original idea of a british cordon from the mediterranean to iraq. so so mark from your knowledge of the air out of the question. where would you say that a legion slot. between us and the french i mean. practically all arabs approach . not exactly anti french but frightened of financial exploitation and they are frightened of french colonial methods. but there are many christians in syria in the limited particular how do they feel that christians are as afraid at the bottom of their hearts as the muslims and only in syria that feeling sarah is prevalent everywhere because they know what the french do that feeling pretty well runs all through. there is the french nationalist party which is sentimental still harking back to the crusades. so science returned and as the

currents of the started to come together he was called into downing street at the end of the year on the sixteenth of december one nine hundred fifty and then. he must of gone with a map as well because he got into them the meeting with the cabinet the prime minister and his chief ministers sitting around the cabinet table in downing street i believe they fear an arab caliphate. as an independent state the common language the arabs of tunis algeria and morocco course they control entirely the french nationalists believe that if the allies when they want syria and palestine and north mesopotamia likes appeared to be someone who is very knowledgeable and in fact in that cabinet meeting that he went to in december one nine hundred fifty in . it or that the result of the cabinet meeting was that one of the cabinet

ministers he was there believe that he could speak arabic and turkish but in fact he could speak neither language so he he dotted his speech with arabic phrases that sort of thing to give himself the appearance of being an expert when in fact he was more of a gifted amateur what do you think we should do some are. i think to counteract the french war aims. we require diplomacy. do you think diplomacy will achieve with the fridge i don't want to make any suggestions except on very general lines. that i feel we ought to settle with france as soon as possible and get a definite understanding about syria what sort of arrangement would you like to have with the french what would you say to them i would like to see for ourselves. south of haifa apart from the active of tourist. if you have it is just to be very . good and the who. you're forgot to

bark lisa. i mean there were funny. men and with. guns and no. idea of how old men would love to mop up a. few months of the chemical it's most important that we should have a bout of english controlled country between the sharif of mecca and the french in syria what would you do the french i should like to draw a line. in even asia. to the last caretaker cook and this must all be settled before we can take military action against the turks in syria. we must find out what the french actually in system upon having they demolish syria they can both be merely

a military purposes we must make terms with problems. which means we must make terms. about. right to. britain has identified the territories of the ottoman empire its wanted in order to protect its interests in the suez canal and the area provinces. but this clan was dependent on britain and france winning the war which at the start of one thousand and fifteen was almost at a standstill on the western front in europe. the allies decided to open an eastern front against the ottomans. the ill fated gillet police campaign ran between april nineteenth fifteen and january one thousand nine hundred sixty. when it's finally field the allies including australians and new

zealanders suffered a major setback. this monument commemorates the ottoman victory in which around eighty thousand allied troops were killed. this defeat and killing and liter includes mystically timeo caused the british to enter into more secret dealings over the middle east. coming up how the british conspired with should be first thing of mcconnell to strike back at the ottomans through an arab revolt. of the british with all the sharif of mecca as the partners that were essential in the propaganda war with the ottomans to demonstrate that the muslim world was better off on the allied side that fight with the ottomans let me explain why we must have and sikes. negotiate face to face to get what they both want from the middle east well if we cannot have

palestinian my government was suddenly not allow britain to control my government would take the same view french polish time would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to feel. and so. now we can draw on. the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's

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hundred sixty metres both britain and france were exercised by how they might divide up the ailing autumn an empire between them so the allies ultimately win the first world war. but when they suffered a serious defeat at belittling britain looked at alternative ways of attacking the ottomans and undermining their support for germany. but now the autocrats on the victory might be able to provoke uprisings in. india and egyptian muslim populations that so far they've not been able to effect it's at that point the briton begins to really consider. how we might turn the tables on the ottomans and force them to fight in their own territory against an internal uprising so to address the challenge they turned to that sharif of mecca who had already made overtures to the british about concluding an alliance to secure their position now

all of a sudden the british with all the sharif of mecca the partners that were essential . in the propaganda war with the ottomans to demonstrate that the muslim world was better off on the allied side than fighting with the ottoman. in nineteen or eight the ottomans had appointed should east christin been highly as the way the governor of his does the area towards the red sea. he was from the hashemite in a city in mecca of which he was the emir. his son's face on and up the representatives and ottoman parliament but is with the ship with istanbul had deteriorated in recent years but that i felt was going to show you didn't seem out of either me. and no. live a few feet istanbul so i moved to many of sami decided to have a free will to have the thought of going home at night and not. have the fear. yeah

i mean you know the home of the q.b. you're there on the pier got a committee gave me phil show you. your i mean. i love you they're all difficult. to jazz it know who or what do you think i should offer you. a home you know and i saw more of a jazz. and then the. federalists out of me that there were as many. really. as many yakkers. do more of the it was many a problem yeah i guess we should what occurred was that all about how they have their water in there and how to lead the spirit and then her does are referred to as many if it will be. her.

at the ottoman ruler of great. her syria jamal pasha executed a group of arabs in damascus and beirut in one nine hundred fifteen and nineteen sixteen they were accused of being separatists and of supporting the british and french this hard determination of the arab nationalists to separate from ottoman rule and to create an independent arab states hussein didn't have any modern ideas of nationalism but he wanted more autonomy under the ottoman. empire but it's only gradually that he was drawn into what became an arab national movement a full scale revolt against the ottomans and this wasn't an easy decision for the sharif maker to make because the ottomans were fellow muslims.

and he was siding with an infidel. against fellow sunni muslims. there had been conversations between the british and the hash more it's before the war but in july one thousand nine hundred fifteen sharif christine wrote to the british high commissioner in cairo sir henry mcmahon. he offered his support to get the ottomans in return for british support for an independent kingdom that would include the provinces in the arab peninsula and be ruled by the hashemites. of seven either a. third of the. muscle over here that did but there was a lot of could be about him how about you see a fella. there would at least as it ought to be cleaned. to clean it off and

the blood would run through the whole upper limit as a seal mccoll with an associated there would at the labia tell me that it was a. key is that there were a lot to be absolutely. ill most earth early that. what a source of his ability to team a lot of cloth and most but the man bit adia what the limits of all the other of the saudi you were like are scary for a. month and the correspondence continued and mcmahon wrote to sharif resting on the twenty fourth of october one thousand nine hundred fifteen he said that britain would not guarantee support for an independent arab kingdom with all the provinces demanded by the hashemites nevertheless the hashemites went ahead with their revolt against the ottomans in july one nine hundred sixteen. but many still consider mcmahon's letter controversial today because of the air. as the

british wanted to exclude from any future arab kingdom. and that you. should see it it does only. good to keep the. middle feeling busy it looks like will it wouldn't when it ended residency in britain. while barack and a sunni walk off is going to be demolished homes. and you call on her to be wrapped up in that. doesn't mean it is likely then getting money in d.c. became a few uneasy in districts very moment it clear and the fear doesn't or hasn't you can believe this was an evil mccarran care a lot of it will conduct and most of it like that was careful not to promise

anything the contravened preexisting treaty arrangements they wish to exclude territories to the west of homes damascus and aleppo and certain areas around the gulf of alexandretta and so this year and that britain was already an occupation of the province a bus ride much of the province of baghdad at this time and so britain was very keen to declare its interest and retaining some degree of control over those territories for the mutual benefit of the arabs of the british gathers boundaries that britain would be willing to accept the hash like claim to arab kingdom with british support hussein thought that the british promised to include palestine in his kingdom. and the british later denied that their promised team palestine they denied outright but. all the average is

is that they have probably seen palestine double if that one had. with only one hundred mcmahon let's show you for saying i don't mind that level. of all the thing these miles and so we. filmed the. men in the world living this way or that i'd either feel that. yeah you can leave out also they're going to require a libyan number of. significantly in the three months that the british promised parts of greater syria to sharif distain they told the french that any agreement relating to the borders of an arab kingdom would not be finalized without their consent. they knew how strong the french interest in syria was. on the first of october nine hundred fifteen the

french ambassador to britain paul campbell wrote to his prime minister. to tell him that london had requested a french representative to draw the borders of an arab kingdom with syria. in this document the french ambassador suggested hans want george peacoat would manage the general consulate in beirut for over a year and knew the syrian issue better than anyone else. aloft also just because diplomat sit down diplomat here diplomat kamel is a. hundred years in the game circular debate events. his all clear good also. offered some bare loss some of the stuff i mean the data. dawn was just there. in the diplomatic. song the kid also plays a call and yet as yet it is something that's kind. of the diplomat less

suited to get so depressed the bus stop bus. pulls good. evening. i'll. let you. resume assume your own eyes you were going to place your feet in the dorm the french representative pico you had his first meeting with the british in london on the twenty third of november one thousand nine hundred fifteen. is delightful to see you again i mean you know everybody you know they started their negotiations about their respective shares of the ottoman empire once the war was over. british come along with an array of people from all the different ministries that take an interest the war ministry the foreign office the colonial office. they all sitting on one side of the table and peter was on the other side of the table have us we would define for

the first valerie's your government just as we must of course have the whole of syria and palestinian know all of it of course down to the egyptian border but because you must remember is there are other claims in this area. sort of paths perhaps the best to him and you could form a kind of enclave but certainly nowhere today. despite the numerical advantage p.k. just sits there with his arms crossed and says i'm not interested in you or your plan it doesn't we we call possibly accept something along the lines that you're talking about moving further east we must have the learn and not of this line and across here including most a motion. the tar not of the video yet the whole area around twenty years ago the belayer took most of included the baghdad ambassador district or you should just think they should be separated now is impossible to consider the situation of

twenty years ago affecting the situation now so mr picco if you have palestine and syria and half iraq in mosul will you be satisfied i think i can persuade my government then we have reached an impasse. the uncompromising positions of both sides at that first meeting because the british army intelligence officer in cairo to write it is obviously hopeless to attempt to arrive at any reasonable agreement with the french so long as pico is their representative. course they reek of it. all says mean of son to settle commuter policy really since he is a key basque offered some to hustle populist shows are really good top few know it all that drove on the macside he had left. a place on.

the nikkei is deserving of it of what did they lable this one that bend the big. news like your face because typically also on the bendy bit do get it idea of the twelve so mark at the twelve were larkham also potentially thirty two are in this you know thirteen caster that is he talking existed part it's about that mono kid arm around him all these ethics has gone their bellies into our nano. this off at least we drilled the paedos holding. so mark your government has been adopting extreme positions over a territory which you must recognize france has special placed but in the meetings i attended no one seemed to give a centimeter and yet the considerations i feel the censure decisions have to be made so that we both know where we stand when turkey is conquered as inevitably it

will be. because i feel sure that within these walls we can find a way through the issues and my government has given me the power to make the necessary decisions i too have been given the freedom by my government to make the necessary decisions and you must realize that we have very definite needs in the territory which some of my countrymen consider to be french by rights ever since the crusades do you remember who won the crusades yes but today the arabs have said i didn't although these talks were secret the russians had already made their demands what we must do now that we have agreed the russians can have the northern areas of turkey including the straits is to discuss the southern and eastern areas so that the interests of both great nations can be established for the decades that will follow the end of the war or the start then with the provinces of syria that center

on damascus and the level. of their own in a month for the. month of it are nearly syria could draw. a desert should they have. brought the command to food for and see one or other authority you couldn't before for the sequel no foster home where you know roofs above him for war and female health or how is it was an adult with money you had. a ball. of no food. so you see it's indispensable for the arabs have been in syria to have some direct access to the mediterranean somewhere along the syrian lebanon and the way to total french control that would be impossible but that would mean french positions would be split into between the north and a self of syria that simply cannot be allowed to happen the political and military

a bit strange would be impossible in such a divided territory. i'm not convinced but. it is nevertheless trying to meet that object. and my dividing line is here. from. a bit of funny you should be. but the. point i. know from stuff you have the hots a could have made. but you know. a. little funny you and it's also a miniature should be sent out. if it was your. configured if it was. funny . enough. well a while mandala respect although enough oberstar to be bad for you both i mean it

will not be possible to persuade my colleagues to accept a line is found not says that that would exclude coats of all regions like the whole run from a sphere by sea but for france to control territory that far south make it very difficult for our plans for a railway line from the coast to baghdad i must insist on this point so mark. and co cook. we could not possibly let you have cook for my own travels in the air i know that this province contains the only elements of the population which will make it possible for the caller migration of iraq my idea sykes this is hardly in a spirit of conciliation let me explain why we must have the territory we requested in northern misfitting. but only on playing mock signs just people don't believe i suppose this president but he seemed almost something he esteemed kosik though do continue it when he put the dog. because the continually double up and i must feel

shivers and then it don't come so awesome that at that instant so as to apply he still he can go his own let alone do mulla descriptive full is a little problem to the point that you have thrown the ball you cannot destroy this well if we cannot have palestina my government was suddenly not allowed britain to control my government would take the same view french press time would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows. and so. now we can draw him out. so when sikes left the cabinet meeting. on sixteenth of december nine hundred fifteen to go and meet pico he had

a problem because he had to reconcile two conflicting sets of demands the set of demands that pico was making for syria and lebanon and the other set of demands that sheriff of st had already made and which the british had already effectively accepted for both covering the same territory so he in pico came up with a map that made a distinction between two types of land in the middle east land that britain and france would absolutely control which was colored blue for france and red for britain and a hinterland the in a region which was called area a an area b. where the arabs would have. some war ptolemy but in which each of the big powers the great powers would have the right to advise or influence with the further complication that the territory of what was to become palestine was

designated for an international zone where basically russia britain and france are able to agree who could lay greater claim to the holy lands just to further that decision down the road by painting it all brown. in january one nine hundred sixteen the french and british agree to ignore the borders of any future arab kingdom. their new borders were enshrined in the deal we now know as the psychs pekoe agreements. sikes to his line from acre to could cook so the south of anatolia eastern turkey the syrian coast and be roots were put under direct french control. basra and baghdad were put under direct british control. and damascus were

put under french protection and were called area a. the rest of mr potato and the south of greater syria were put under british protection and called area b. . palestine including jerusalem was designated as an international zone in brown. all those like speaker was never implemented it formed the basis of future negotiations and the post autumn in middle east resembled the areas of influence it created so the map has different colors different letters but ultimately what really matters is the line in the sand that runs from the coast to the persian from their state in this yes. the national. fates x. people. while they're not quite as mean. don't

really need to know the arab men. that called for most of the. mining is. done. shall be from the who let it. be funny in a funny way the british felt that the system that the arabs so viewed as a betrayal. was in keeping with the terms of what they've agreed with that guides because they were still considering the territories if there is an informal british infection floyds as kingdoms to be ruled by arabs and there was even one mention of the sharif of mecca and the sites because to route things out but ultimately for the arabs sites fico was double dealing and it seemed to be giving territory that had just been conceded to the hashemites by the same man

correspondence to the french. here in st petersburg and the russian foreign ministry the secret sikes pekoe agreements between britain and france was approved by russia. that deal was finalized in correspondence dated the sixteenth of may nineteenth sixteen influencing diffused church of millions of people in the middle east. over a hundred years ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw

a map in the second episode we explore the lasting effects of this agreement that there is a regional set to six because it's at those borders were drawn without consulting the people who have to live with the. psychs pekoe lines in the sand on jersey. hello again and welcome back well we are watching still some very stormy weather here across much of the law and into the gulf there the clouds right there that was the storm that was responsible for the deadly flooding in iraq now that is going to continue to bring very heavy rain across portions of iran as well as down here across the gulf so over the next few days is what we are looking at heavy rain across parts of iran that's going to be pushing into pakistan as well as afghanistan and then down here across the gulf into the u.a.e. and maybe even muska higher elevations there could be seeing some localized

flooding as we take that into tuesday while things improve clouds really go over here towards india and we are looking at some much dry conditions maybe some clouds pushing into the area over here from the mediterranean with aleppo seeing about seventeen degrees and rain in the forecast where here is a system we are talking about pushing its way over here towards the u.a.e. but behind the system we are looking at the northerly winds and keeping things a little bit cooler so for riad we are going to seeing clouds in your forecast at twenty two and as we go towards tuesday more clouds there at twenty one over here towards doha we do expect to see a temperature of twenty four degrees and then for cape town we are going to be seeing unfortunately deteriorating weather over the next four days for your forecast with cape town at twenty one degrees and more rain coming into play at eighteen. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of the lives. of the story's

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now i'm fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead chaos and arrests at the us mexico border as people try to force their way into the united states. in the grip of a health crisis the battle in papua new guinea against an epidemic. and still a no go the biggest game in south american cup football is postponed again. thank you for joining as an act of aggression that's how ukraine is describing an incident with russia in the black sea both countries are taking the issue to the u.n. an emergency security council meeting is scheduled in the coming hours the latest tension was spawned by a naval confrontation in the kurdish straight off disk the. speeded region of crimea russia annexed crimea from ukraine in twenty fourteen the strait is needed

to supply the ukrainian industrial city of mariupol on sunday three ukrainian boats entered the strait that's when russia used an oil tanker to stop vessels are moving through the sea of the russian maybe rammed one of the ukrainian tugboat opened fire and then impounded the ukrainian vessels several ukrainian sailors what wounded in the incident and more than twenty taken captive chalons has more from moscow. well even during the height of fighting in eastern ukraine and the annexation of crimea in two thousand and fourteen the ukrainian government was wary of imposing martial law box in announcements from petro poroshenko the ukrainian president on sunday evening it looks as if we might soon get just that we can listen now to what he had to say about the possibility of martial law this time. martial law is introduced in order to strengthen ukraine's defense capabilities i

meet increasing aggression and according to international law duty called act of aggression by the russian federation martial law does not mean our refusal to resolve the issue of liberating ukrainian territory by political and diplomatic means we have intentions to keep at hearing to all international obligations including the minsk agreement so what would this mean in practical as well. the one thing that the ukrainian president has said is that this does not mean an immediate mobilization in ukraine botts he does think that this will be the cause for calling up a primary reserve pool to be trained the martial law if it's an x. it would last for sixty days initially and that it wouldn't affects according to petro poroshenko the situation in donbass east of ukraine if martial law is an act it says the president will not conduct offensive operations now the trigger for

this has been the recent flare up of tensions in the sea at which is a pocket of water to the north east of the black sea you have ukraine which is the northern coast of the as of c. you have russia which is the eastern coast and crimea which is the western coast to the south there is the current straits which russia very recently has built a bridge over linking the russian mainland with crimea now basically that gives the russians a way of choking off access to the ass of sea which they have just done by placing a tanker underneath the bridge now the russians say the ukrainian naval vessels have trespass into russian territorial waters and therefore that was the trigger for them to open fire on ukrainian warships the ukrainians say that six of

their personnel were injured three of their vessels are now in russian hands and a situation which had been brewing and getting more and more tense for months now has flared up into open hostilities. and recent months russia has increased its military presence in the sea of of the bridge it blocks using a tanker was opened in may it connects crimea and russia in the meantime russia has been inspecting all vessels going to or from ukrainian ports this is a spidey two thousand and three treaty which guarantees free navigation for vessels from both countries have been tensions in the region since late twenty thirty nine after the overthrow of ukraine's pro russia president victoria nick of each week some violent protests followed moscow denounced the events as an illegitimate coup and in late february separatists backed by russia sees the crimean peninsula since then sporadic fighting between ukrainian forces and for russian fighters has killed

more than thirteen thousand people well let's get the latest now and speak to journalist months or mirror live on the line from kiev thank you month so for being with us we're now hearing that russia has reopened the kurdish trade near crimea to shipping what are you hearing about that and do you think this could help ease the tension. apparently russia by declaring that it opens. movement of civil civilian ships it doesn't want to look like an aggressor it wants to look like someone who can ease up the tensions but. the overall situation. is that apparently russia is extremely paranoid about the safety of crimea because geographically crimea is more of an island and it's very vulnerable. and secondly it is paranoid about

the safety of the cranium bridge that was unveiled by president vladimir putin in may and. it's the only when printing is only linked to mainland russia and of course this is the lifeline of crimea and. even the fact that a ukrainian ship is spotted near the bridge and it makes expat makes moscow moscow paranoid right monsoor the ukrainian president petro poroshenko wants to declare martial law in ukraine what does that mean in the ukrainian context martial law and why would president poroshenko want to declare it over an incident in the black sea. president bush into said that this morning the. ukrainian parliament will photo on the

martial law and then he will have to approve it. in ukraine it means that. there will be a restriction of movement there will be a crew few. most importantly all the all the public events such as the rallies. elections and referendums will be suspended. the presidential campaign was just or late march twenty ninth you may be the presidential election may be postponed this will play into portions of hands because currently his approval ratings are well below twenty percent and he is trailing behind he says she's opponents so the martial more than the military situation in the country will help will help boost his public

image as this. father figure in in military uniform ok thank you very much for bringing us the latest there from kiev journalist months or mirror of our lives at center of the world news in the armed group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for killing a religious leader and at least ten of his followers in somalia the attack happened early monday morning in the central city of god caio people say gunmen opened fire on the cleric and his followers after a car bomb exploded outside his religious sent him a new gander the says continues for victims believed to be trapped in a capsized boat on lake victoria and they said he wanted bodies have been retrieved but that number is expected to rise more than a hundred people have thought to have been on board the pleasure boat when it overturned uganda's president yoweri most seventy has vowed to punish those responsible. mexico has promised to step up security at border crossings after

hundreds of asylum seekers tried to cross into the united states. mexican police say the group violently and illegally rushed the border on sunday u.s. border agents responded by firing tear gas mexico says it will deport the asylum seekers involved in the attempted crossing thousands of central americans have made their way through mexico hoping to cross into the united states rossley in jordan has more from washington. after about six hours on sunday the u.s. customs and border patrol opened the international crossing at sana c throw in california that's the major crossing in california between that state and baja california in northern mexico the border had been closed because about five hundred migrants from central america apparently tried to breach part of the fence between mexico and the united states and at that point borders patrol officers started

firing tear gas at the crowd to push them away from the border it's not clear whether the mexican government is going to launch a protest with washington over the firing of the tear gas into mexican territory but officials from the interior ministry did say late on sunday that the people responsible for trying to breach the wall would be deported to their home countries there are some eighty five two hundred people from central america currently in northern mexico right now trying to reach the united states in order to ask for asylum most of them say that they are fleeing violence and they fear for the safety of themselves and of their relatives which is why they've trucked across mexico and are hoping that they can file an asylum application with the u.s. officials as guaranteed under international law meantime the u.s. and mexico are still in a standoff as it were about the process of these people getting the chance to apply for asylum the president donald trump of the u.s.

doesn't want any of these people to come on to u.s. soil in order to file their applications he wants them to stay in mexico until they have actually had their process their applications processed mexico for its part says that it is not entered into any such agreement with the united states because that would contravene international law mexico also says that it's having a very difficult time providing food shelter and. emergency health care for the migrants especially at a time when the government itself is about to go into a new presidency on december first this is a situation that even though the borders have now been reopened does not mean that the conflict between the u.s. and mexico over the so.