a great extent yes not totally i mean from the foreign office point of view the statement that the foreign secretary hunters put out this morning says as follows look although we didn't agree with the charges we are grateful to the u.a.e. government for resolving the issue speedily and he says it's fantastic news the family of matthew had his of said six months of nightmare finally over and say we're elated is an understatement although daniela to who is not you had his wife said in my heart i know that he isn't a spy and that's the lingering possibility of after effects of all of this he's been pardoned as opposed to being cleared so i think to the strict letter of the law he will remain a convicted man albeit pardoned by the ruler of the u.s. and although he will be home i expect within a matter of twenty four forty eight hours there is the possibility that that the whole this whole episode might create problems for him down the line as he tries to

continue his research in other countries all right paul brennan thank you. also about fighters in somalia are saying they're responsible for killing a cleric and nineteen other people they died in an early morning car bomb explosion and gun attack at a religious center in the city of cairo. plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including chaos and arrests at the us mexico border as people try to force their way into the united states. devising a new formula for brazil's foreign policy how the right wing government new alliances in sport and plan to united take a big step towards winning the title in north america is leading football. but first an emergency meeting of the u.n.

security council has been hastily scheduled that's as ukraine's president accuses russia off an act of aggression during a confrontation between the russian and ukrainian navy the latest clash was in the current strait that's near the disputed region of crimea and a ukrainian navy tug was rammed several sailors. and more than twenty taken prisoners russia has impounded three tugs for entering its territorial waters without permission that's despite a treaty which guarantees freedom of navigation or the russian navy also use the tanker to block traffic through the strait it was placed under a recently opened bridge connecting crimea and russia and ships use the curch straight to supply the ukrainian industrial city of mariupol it's near that's the region where russian backed forces have been fighting the ukrainian army for the past four years since russia annexed crimea. an emergency as we're saying an

emergency un security council meeting is scheduled just a few hours time to discuss this incident and ukraine's president plans to ask his parliament to take action this time to martial law is introduced in order to strengthen ukraine's defense capabilities amid 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 we're in chalons following the story joining us from moscow so now that russia has reopened that current straits rory is that likely to ease tensions i think that probably lessens the potential for an increase in military contacts between these two navies but i don't think that it's obviously takes all

the sting out of this episode we had a significant flare up on sunday perhaps the most significant military activity between russia and ukraine since the days of two thousand and fourteen when russia annexed the crimean peninsula and in two thousand and fifteen which saw some of the fiercest fighting in eastern ukraine. since then it's been largely. the ten spirits much calmer situation between the russian the ukrainian military is that all blew up yesterday with these numerous instance censored around the straits ukraine is now on full military alert essentially and it is also calling on russia su release the military personnel that it has along with three

ukrainian naval vessels those have all been impounded and the ukraine is pushing this the united nations and trying to make sure that it has as much international support as a compulsory muster over this and what is russia's reaction to ukraine being on full military alert and also the president of calling for the imposition possibly off martial law. yes so this martial law or suggestion is being much talked about in russia of course we have recently heard from. of the russian foreign minister who speaking just a few minutes ago i can give you a rough outline of what he was saying he was saying we haven't seen the whole picture yet this was a premeditated provocation from the ukraine martial law in ukraine means that could be a delay in the presidential elections which is shuttle for the end of march in ukraine interesting things are happening there lavrov says it won't be boring to watch how

the leadership of the ukrainian government is trying to get itself out of the negative way that is viewed by the population so the way that this whole thing is being portrayed in russia is that this is essentially a planned provocation that is being exploited by the ukrainian government to get itself out of a political hold the power petro poroshenko is unpopular he's facing reelection at the early part of next year martial law could well mean that those elections are actually postponed for a little while so that's the view from russia of course there are many people who points back towards russia itself and say look why don't we put in these poll numbers are not particularly healthy at the moment so this could equally well have been a you know an engineer situation from moscow so this is one of those kind of pot calling the kettle black situations and the russians are also saying that this could be a way for ukraine stronger than gonna more support for international sanctions

against russia all right thank you let's not get the view from kiev and speak two months or a mirror of oliver who is a journalist based there where hearing that moscow is urging kiev to take urgent measures toward security of the russian embassy in ukraine how much anger is there surrounding this incident. there is a lot of anger and the protesters began to get their a near the russian embassy is building if last night and first they brought small peeper ships that symbolize force the production fulfill their vessels to the strait of courage but then there were reports of. a fire forms thrown at the embassy and them this year has been barely functional seems twenty fourteen when when russia annexed crimea and backed separatists in the south

eastern ukraine but some some reports that the war some people at the end was she who responded to the and we noise and to the fire with what just. switching the lights on in the embassy president petro poroshenko saying that he wants to declare martial law throughout the country put that into context what would it mean in the ukrainian context and why would the president want to declare it over this incident. she plans to address the. ukrainian parliament and. work and declare. the state of martial law some critics in ukraine do say this could be a means for president. bush. or even the.

leadings because currently government is increasingly ocular and the president has some cool ratings less than ten percent and although all say that he is more likely to. reelection in the morning twenty nineteen so according to some critics your. martial law could be a means for him to which you spoke to present himself to ukraine as this father if you are dressed in military uniform repel also russian aggression all right months or eleven we thank you for speaking to us mexico has promised to step up security at border crossings after hundreds of asylum seekers try to cross into the united states. mexican

police say the group violently and illegally crossed the border on sunday u.s. border agents responded by firing tear gas mexico says it will deport those involved in the attempted crossing thousands of central americans have made their way through mexico hoping to seek asylum in the united states they want fresco is a former deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration at the u.s. department of justice he blames the trumpet ministration for the chaos at america's southern border. i think this was a terrible. terrible completely self-inflicted and avoidable tragedy the strategy of the trump administration has been to say nobody can cross along that mild mexican border because they will not be allowed to get asylum they have to go through the ports of entry and then they'd be prioritised the order of a jury who only allows eighty people in per day when they know there are five thousand people waiting but they did give people

a place that they could apply in an orderly fashion in mexico they didn't allow people to come in and kind of a i don't believe me a that main or along the border the fourth all of the traffic the friends and grow and now we're seeing the chaos right with the then the growth where legitimate travel of breivik is being affected by one of them oh and lets the united states work with mexico to establish a legitimate processing center for refugees to make their claim in an orderly prize here or gives much more priority. at the port of entry to more people across that you're going to keep seeing these events occur or sending thousands of doctors home to cuba is one of the major foreign policy changes an ounce to brazil before he's sworn in as president on january the first gyre ball so narrow has already begun ringing the changes the sandeman reports from the capital brasilia. the cuban doctors who worked at this primary health center on

the outskirts of brasilia a gun ban has begun with cloning with eight thousand doctors who work in poor and remote areas throughout brazil after president elect j. bush nottle described them as slaves of a communist regime commonly bashed punishment that our community was used to having cuban doctors now we don't know if anyone is going to replace them on anything the confrontation with cuba is just the first step of a major shake up ahead in brazilian for. foreign policy. the president elect's promise to follow donald trump's footsteps by relocating brazil's embassy in israel to jerusalem has outraged muslim nations in such ways they're trying to emulate. narratives that. in terms of the us the main difference is the fact that. we don't have the same power of the us. indeed brazil sells at least five billion

dollars of beef to egypt to the middle east and gulf nations producers fear they could retaliate if the move goes ahead. has added fuel to the fire by saying palestine isn't a country and therefore shouldn't have an embassy here breaking with longstanding support for a two state solution to the palestinian israeli conflict but. brazil has always behaved as an intermediate or a not a participant in the conflict we hope it remains that way for brazil circ for its longstanding prestigious as a nation that respects international law oh the ball so noddle who's been nicknamed the tropical donald trump is shifting from multilateralism to a strong alignment with washington this is brazil's foreign ministry its new boss will be a mid-level diplomat with no experience as embassador but was main characteristic is his staunch support for the us president and like and president drum the new

foreign minister. of climate change which he in fact described as marxist dogma. also not only not be going as far as donald trump who has withdrawn from the paris agreement but north and south america's two largest countries looks set to join forces to push a conservative foreign policy agenda throughout the globe sea and human al-jazeera . in a few moments we'll have the weather with everton but still ahead right here on the al-jazeera news hour in the grip of a health crisis the battle in papa new guinea against an epidemic of tb. do you. feel like i don't get this. and sports the formula one driver who didn't experience the ideal finish to the season.

from don't ski sunsets if it's pruning savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. met some really nasty weather across central parts of the mediterranean recently and more heavy downpours and very strong winds to come as we go on through the next couple days these pictures taken out of southern italy actually where the heavy rain caused massive sinkhole a car was swallowed up in the process but the worst of the weather is now making its way further east was wild by any grease seen the worst of the heavy downpours as we go through the next couple of days with some fun then large hail and again destructive winds all swirling a way around nice well three areas of low pressure three deceased areas just making their way across central parts of europe then pushing a little further north was into the colder air in the process long line of snow on the leading edge of the system heavy rain that's coming in behind us we go on

through the next twenty four hours or so monday into choose that you see that just strengthens lengthens its way out moves further research was shot was by still continues to rattle in more heavy downpours across c.h.b. assoc other side of the i forgot because we go on through the next couple of days about whedon's day those showers some of them still wintry continual southeastern parts of europe and up towards the northwest turning wet and windy across ireland and the u.k. . the weather sponsored by cats own enemies. no one would ever know how many heroes died here in the colony. the chandelier as a whole like this broken the sort of looking is. that god go away staring down of what humanity had done to itself but the vision it will not be surprising vision but it was surprising that that could happen in baby. war

hotels a brand new series coming tsunami al-jazeera. procession . hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news turkish police are investigating

the murder of. one hundred kilometers from istanbul the remains of the saudi journalist have not been found he was killed in october in the saudi consulate the british student jailed for life in prison for spying in the united arab emirates. matthew had just received the presidential pardon those part of national day celebration. the russian navy has reopened a shipping channel in the black sea where ukrainian sailors were shot and taken prisoner the u.n. security council has called an emergency meeting over what ukraine is calling an act of aggression off the coast of crimea let's speak to dimitri babich is a political analyst. a moscow based news agency and that is where he is joining us from thanks for speaking to us so when the ukrainian president calls this an act of aggression how serious do you think this is and does it have the potential to

escalates. well both sides are using some very belligerent rhetoric especially the military people who by definition should not be trusted but obviously russia is on the losing side in this conflict it was because russia is not interested in any noise around great me russia strategy is to keep the situation quiet and to wait until the world cost them said self to crimea be in russian again you know it has been russian for two hundred years then there was a period of twenty four years when it was on the independent ukraine and russia is not interested in the media frenzy around this about now the new iraq said that it has seized the ukraine when it's off the coast off crimea and why would it have opened fire on them and why would it have wounded several sailors if it wasn't interested in the noise. well the problem

is the defacto russia controls crimea russia considers crimea its territory and crimea controls the straits which are connecting the new terrain in with the story of the black sea with the hours of c. a smaller kind of league right near the south in the regions of russia so when the ukrainian ships approached the straits without warning without saying that they were on their way to the ukrainian base in the isle of c. . near the russian border guards interpret that breach of border as a bridge of national territory the problem is that ukraine doesn't see crania as russian territory so it's a question of kind of a legal dispute. until now the ukrainian navy respected a defacto situation that dropshots control crimea and you should be kind of on

time when you want to cross the straits but just. really well the sea it sounds are there are certainly throwing a water isn't and both countries have the right to use them even though we know that russia controls both sides of the strait right now and let me ask you what you think will happen at the u.n. security council meeting that scheduled for a couple of hours' time. well obviously most likely the united states and the european union will be on the side of ukraine in this dispute there is little doubt about that but i think the main challenge is not in new york the main challenge is in ukraine because obviously president poroshenko is blunder in introducing martial law because of this situation i think he will face a lot of protests in his country because martial law is the only way. to avoid the

next presidential elections scheduled for march two thousand and eight you know which he has almost zero chance of winning his ratings are very low so a lot of ukrainian phoenicians would suspect him of using this situation in order to introduce martial law and cancel the elections so i think this is the main intrigue now dimitri babich we thank you for speaking to us from moscow in uganda human rights activists want an independent inquiry into one of the country's worst mass killings two years ago security forces stormed a royal palace in the region and they opened fire they said they were searching for separatist royal guards accused of attacking police posts more than one hundred people including women and children were killed at the time some bodies still haven't been returned to their families and this part of a government investigation police arrested one hundred sixty seven people and charge them with murder treason and terrorism no soldiers were arrested and there is concern about

a possible government cover up the commander of the operation has since been promoted to head off ugandan army and speak to the echo was a uganda researcher for the africa division of human rights watch he's joining us on skype from kampala so as we're saying as part of the ugandan government's investigation into the killings police at the time did arrest more than one hundred people one hundred sixty seven people who were then charged with treason and terrorism but you say that's not enough. yes. because one of the. reasons they say that is because jane there's a series of events that took place there are clear examples of. bio security. officials about army and police that that took place you know at least one hundred people that died on the seventh of two thousand and sixteen and.

they have been little to no up. gets no commitment by the government i began investigating those deaths that took place. and it's my duty something to make matters not bear or. it's difficult to say the government has that investigations can take place because civilians but well rested on the on the twenty seven. and. i mean our process but it's. responding to that by saying all right apologies we seem to have lost our connection with our guests we will try and get him back a little later in the news hour now let's move on and tell you about an epidemic of tuberculosis and papua new guinea which is getting worse doctors and nurses have only been able to reach

a fraction of patients who need treatment andrew thomas reports from the capital port moresby. tuberculosis improper new guinea isn't just an issue it's an epidemic more than one in two hundred fifty people are known to have to kill a disease the real proportion is believed to be much higher. cari dusty fell ill two years ago but living in a remote area accessible only by boat it was five months before she was diagnosed after she was she had trouble after taking the pills she was prescribed listen i faithfully took my medications however my body wasn't reacting well to waters i started to experience some kind of allergic reaction and side effects dusty is perseverance but in rural papua new guinea that's unusual to treat tuberculosis patients need to take an elaborate and unpleasant cocktail of drugs regularly for months a lack of clinics and transport to those clinics makes getting those medicines to

people or people to the medicines hard when the base chance a missed appointment when did don't come on bare review dates i dread stan. i go out into the villages and i meet them and i asked them why you'll you're not kamin health workers reach only a fraction of those infected and when people let their treatments lapse the disease has a resurgence and becomes more tolerant to drugs once it's more into what's called multi-drug resistant tuberculosis the disease is much harder and more expensive to treat hoff of all patients die organizations like doctors without borders are trying to help but there's not enough central coordination the frustration that many have here is that happen you're going to as government is no three is that it has a big problem and that it's getting worse and yet despite having the money the government hasn't been spending it in the right way and hasn't made tackling tuberculosis enough of

a political priority earlier this month papua new guinea hosted the asia pacific economic cooperation summit for world leaders to discuss economic growth but critics questioned whether a country in the grip of a health crisis should be spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a conference government except it must do better whilst things like funding for medicines has been quite a quite a large number it's the. is the execution of the health services at the front in that is suffering and our government technicians are coming as treasurer has tried to emphasise that some of the funding streams in a budgetary process are essential for delivery of those services you can't sacrifice some of those. when you're rushing financing view around here have ever been to their country's capital but it is a in port moresby that the political impetus is needed to stop what's already an epidemic from becoming a health emergency after thomas algis there are more speak up when you get. a sport

that's been enjoyed for thousands of years on the korean peninsula has just received a joint unesco listing serum or korean traditional wrestling is the first cultural activities shared between north and south korea to get the award reports from an dong in south korea sit him or korean traditional wrestling is a fading sport in south korea until some twenty years ago it was the nation's most popular televised sport. champions were awarded golden ox trophies and a ticket to nationwide stardom but this year's largest student tournament had to be pushed back by a day just a week before the event as a sports national association could not secure a live broadcast lot with the country's public broadcaster for the finale despite dwindling interest at home unesco has put shoot him on the intangible cultural

heritage list based on its two thousand year history and how the sport lives on to this day north and south korea submitted separate beds to have the sport recognised but following a year of unprecedented harmonious relations unesco pushed for them to be combined there is hope among the sports athletes that suit him could play a part in bringing the two sides even closer she. is a context board so if we compete with north korean athletes skin to skin i think it will help get the two koreas talking even more the main rule of saddam is simple if any part of your opponent's body above the knee touches the ground you when you start by holding on to your opponent's had a fabric belt and band in as goes listing may help rebuild sit in his popularity the sport has been dying out in recent years or they'll need two professional teams or maiming many teams lost their funding when sponsors pulled out after the one

thousand nine hundred seven financial crisis. an estimated two to three thousand students below the age of eighteen are preparing to become south korea's next generation seed and wrestlers still the traditional folk sport is losing its place in the hearts of the younger audience at home. olympics if the two koreas get to jointly host the summer olympics on twenty thirty two and we can try to include saddam as a demonstration sport at the games we are working on making that happen north and south korea may have been divided for the last six decades but inside the sand they speak the same language of saddam. al-jazeera and south korea members of parliament in britain have seized facebook documents as part of an inquiry into a political consulting firm they're looking into accusations that cambridge analytical got information from millions of users facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg zone correspondence is said to be included larry magid the c.e.o.

of connect safely dot org he says the u.s. and the e.u. have a common interest in facebook following privacy rules. i think the government says and certainly the u.k. and the european commission the united states have an interest in making sure that facebook is first of all a subscriber you its own privacy policy second of all to subscribe to the european general data privacy rules and just generally treating customers are you there is a privacy properly this is an extraordinary case because you have this lawsuit that happening in my neighborhood in california where this company which is actually a company whose purpose was to show you pictures of people in bikinis women i presume in bikinis they're not even in business anymore they're under but they were involved in a lawsuit with facebook and have these documents now if the documents are what where is being alleged it could show that facebook is violating privacy and it's extracting information from users but of course the mere fact that these are

allegations of i mean if true so first of all if parliament can get their hold hands on the documents you'll get a better view as to what this company alleges and at that point i suspect facebook will respond because they'll be some very serious allegations out there about it the world's oceans are immense covering seventy percent of our planet they give us half of the oxygen we breathe absorb a third of the carbon dioxide we pump out and provide livelihoods for more than three billion people while the world wildlife fund estimates ocean assets are worth at least twenty four trillion dollars and with the annual value of goods and services generated from oceans at around three to six trillion dollars analysts for costs that annual value will double by twenty thirty all that goes some way to explaining why more than four thousand delegates are meeting in nairobi right now looking at how to harness the oceans resources and grow what's described as the blue economy that's where katherine sawyer is joining us from where that conference

is taking place so how important then is this conference catherine. quite important daryn as you mentioned i mean millions billions of people depend on these water resources pool their livelihood fishing transport and things like that in africa alone ninety percent of trade important exports is carried out by sea so the delegates who are here are to come up with a free and want sort of a framework on how this a blue economy can be harnessed how it can be sustainable and how this water resources that are so important how they can be and speaking about this joining us to speak about this is tomas to run that with the un agency for human settlement thank you very much i guess my question is that this conference is that going to go on for three days what do you expect what do you hope to it will.