would be he was going to put it in front of the ukrainian parliament to basically get their ratification for it that hasn't happened yet but yes the ukrainian president would like martial law imposed the fecht of lee this would have . the you know that the impact of it would be to suspend normal political life it gives. extra powers to the leadership it means that elections cannot be held while martial law is emplace it means that there can't be any political rallies there are controls over the media and that sort of thing so basically gives the governments under military context more control over the country in russia of course they're pointing to this is one of the reasons why the whole affair kicked off in the first first place saying that if martial law is imposed then there can be no elections in ukraine while that's happening and of course as i said earlier

elections a shuttle for march of next year so they're saying basically this is a way for petro poroshenko to cling on to power say that that doesn't necessarily mean that russian aggression didn't take place but that's the way the russians are framing this at the moment all right thank you. well meanwhile there have been protests outside russia's embassy in kiev against those russian actions in the black sea it comes as the european union has released the three ukrainian ships seized and condemned what it called russian use of force tensions rose in the region five years ago after the overthrow of ukraine's pro russian president viktor yanukovych weeks of violent protests followed the kremlin denounced the overthrow as an illegitimate coup and separatists backed by russia sees the crimean peninsula and february of twenty fourteen since then sporadic fighting between ukrainian forces and pro russian fighters has killed at least thirteen thousand people dimitri babich is a political analyst rasiah that's

a moscow based news agency he says the situation might prove problematic for the kremlin in the long run. russia is on the losing side in this conflict a bit was because russia is not interested in any noise around granier russia strategy is to keep the situation quiet and to wait until the world customs itself 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 when the ukrainian ships approach to the straits without warning without seeing that they were on their way to their ukrainian base in the hours of c. obviously or the russian border guards interpreted the breach of border as a bridge of national territory the problem is that ukraine doesn't see crame year as russian territory so it's a question of kind of a legal dispute. until now the ukrainian navy respected their

defacto situation that drash its control crame yet and you should be kind of on time when you want to cross the street the ukrainian military ships crossed it many times and there was not a big problem a second attack has taken place in somalia the latest was in the capital mogadishu that's killed eight people fighters are claiming responsibility for the first attack which killed twenty people at a religious center in the city of galle. twenty more had on the al-jazeera news hour including the u.s. president donald trump tells mexico to deport asylum seekers as more chaos unfolds at the border fighting to keep their land white farmers take the south african government to court. and sport atlanta united take a big step towards winning the title of north america's leading football the.

but first the supreme court in the mall deeds. canceled the jail sentence of former president mohamed nasheed he was given a thirteen year jail term in two thousand and fifteen and a trial that drew international condemnation and essayed was released from prison the following here and has been living in exile in sri lanka for the last two years he was the country's first ever democratically elected president serving between two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve but speak to it today that mohammad who's a journalist for the maldives independence that's an online news website is joining us via skype from the mall devean capital mali thanks for speaking to us was this expected at all it was expected as the supreme court has over timing its own decisions regarding the jailing of several political leaders in the country following the decision. to little position coalition in september this

year and you know gratian of the new president and what sort of reaction has there been. as he came out of the courthouse today after the verdict was declared he was greeted by hundreds of jubilant supporters who were cheering him or not as he. told reporters outside the courthouse that his political career is by far all. as a political ambitions have not been much of a secret since the conviction do we know what he will do next. at the moment we. don't know for sure because he also has not been clear as to what his. decision ultimately is going to be but for. from the speeches that he has given essentially he has pledged that he will continue his boat to go work and to ensure

the continuity of the current government so that it can deliver on several important pledges including a very important pledge to reform the judiciary that just set him set him free. how much opposition do you think will he face doing that i think there is opposition from within the coalition even right now as the coalition has some radical elements that are supportive of some of the leaders of the judiciary now and it is definitely going to be a difficult task as this is the. man we talk about to do it is the one of the branches of the government and has a lot of power in terms of what the security forces can be ordered to do or can be not ordered to do as a generic mohammed we thank you for speaking to us on al-jazeera with the updates from the maltese the british academic jailed for life for spying in the united arab

emirates has been released you had just received a presidential pardon as part of the u.a.e. is national day celebrations his arrest while researching the u.a.e. security strategy threatened relations with britain in response to the letter from a family of mr hedges and of course doing clemency and in consideration of the historical relationship and close ties between the united arab emirates and they are that kingdom his highness has decided to include mr matthew wages among the seven hundred eighty five presidents released. britain's foreign secretary welcomed had just released but said his conviction shouldn't have happened in the first place. the truth is that we should never got to hear and we are deeply perplexed as to how it happened but we also want to recognize that the crown prince of united arab emirates crown prince mohammed bin and the foreign minister abdullah

bin so you'd have been working very very hard to try and resolve the situation they do recognize the importance of the strategic relationship between the u.k. and the u.a.e. they have reflected on that importance in the decision that they have made today. has the latest from london. this outcome has all the hallmarks of a hard negotiated diplomatic compromise over this the news of matthew hedges pardon came in an early morning news conference in the u.a.e. and during that news conference some clips were played the journalists attending were not allowed to record those clips so they're not available to be played out again but in those couple of very short clips the official giving the news conference said that they showed that matthew hedges had admitted to being an m a six operative now had to say there was no context to those clips they were very

very short clips on toll so there is dispute over whether or not matthew edges did actually properly confess to being my six but the that the clips allow the u.a.e. to stick to the line that as far as they're concerned he was a spy nevertheless through the clemency of the u.a.e. ruler he is going to be pardoned as part of the december second day pardons that are issued it's an elegant outcome i think it will satisfy most parties certainly the british foreign secretary jeremy hunt to said it's fantastic news and he looks forward to seeing matthew edges matthew edges wife daniella to hardass as this brings an end to six months of a nightmare although she says as well in her heart of hearts she she believes that he is not a spy and the expectation is now that matthew hedges will be back in the u.k. within a matter of twenty four forty eight hours because it's a pardon as opposed to a finding of not guilty on appeal there is a supposed the possibility that he might have problems further down the line as he

tries to conduct his research elsewhere but in the immediate concern that the family and the foreign office and indeed the u.a.e. will be glad to draw a line under this this unfortunate diplomatic episode of donald trump has told mexico in a tweet to send home thousands of central american asylum seekers seeking seeker and sell touring excuse. near the u.s. border his comments come hours after u.s. guards fired tear gas to stop hundreds of asylum seekers crossing the border. mexican police say those migrants face deportation for violently and illegally rushing the border mexico says it will increase security donald trump has vowed to keep thousands of migrants who have walked from central america escaping poverty and crime. joining us from washington d.c. what are you hearing about the situation at the border right now. so what we're

seeing are reports that it has returned to at least a temporary sense of normalcy the port of entry is back open after authorities on the u.s. side had closed for about four hours yesterday mexican authorities say that there were about five hundred asylum seekers involved in this skirmish with police on both sides of the border the day started as a peaceful march with members of the caravan protesting the long waits to begin their asylum process in the u.s. and also protesting against the condition in the shelter of their stay and which is open to the air they say they have little to eat and no place to sleep but quickly it devolved into chaos when a few of the silent seekers began throwing rocks at authorities according to reports and that is when the u.s. border agents responded by firing tear gas including and crowds full of women and

children and we saw those images of families running from the violence u.s. president donald trump responded this morning with a tweet same message go should move the flag waving migrants many of whom are stone cold criminals back to their countries do it by plane do it by bus do it any way you want but they are not coming into the usa we will close the border permanently if need be congress funded the wall now the u.s. has already taken rather drastic measures that are historic in nature by sending more than five thousand active duty military personnel to the border that's on top of a beefed up presence of border agents and again they did close that port of entry which is the busiest port of entry in the u.s. for about half a day yesterday with a pretty dramatic economic cost to the region as well look there are no discussions could be going on right now. for the u.s. to look at options of handling the situation of the border. well there have been

reports that the situation has been the topic of heated debates between president trump and his cabinet and that there are some negotiations according to the washington post going on between the trump administration and the administration of the incoming mexican president who will be sworn into office this upcoming saturday and according to those reports mexico is considering allowing those asylum seekers from central america to wait for their cases while staying in mexico there's a long backlog in the u.s. immigration court system to hear an asylum case that could count in two years of how long these families have to wait for a final answer another option is as trump said in his tweet is to pressure congress to fund the proposed border wall between the u.s. and mexico congress has a deadline december seventh to issue a new budget bill and trump could potentially partially shut down the government if

funding for his border wall does not is not included in the final option which is the least likely that trump has indicated he would consider is allowing those asylum seekers into the u.s. to wait for their cases to play out then but trump has said that that amounts to what he calls a catch and release processing those asylum seekers than allowing them into the public losing track of them in many cases and it in essence allow them to stay in the u.s. undocumented he has said that he would not consider that option you know many people say that when trump puts these tweets he's speaking to a particular base and that is his u.s. base in america but what do americans think of all of this when you were mentioning the video that we saw at the border off some families being tear gas. that's right and you know the rhetoric was really heated from trump regarding this caravan prior to the mid-term u.s.

elections which was a freak few weeks passed and after the elections had already passed there was very little discussion politically about what to do with these asylum seekers this incident at the border happened at the end of a holiday weekend so i think many americans are just waking up this monday to see those images they were there was a lot of outrage a few months ago when the trump administration had had separated families their children from the parents at the border and it remains to be seen how they'll react to this latest provocation castro thank you for that update from washington leon frescoes a former deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration of the u.s. department of justice he blames the trump of ministration for the chaos at america's southern border. i think this was a parable parable completely self-inflicted and avoidable tragedy the strategy of the drug administration have been to say nobody can cross along the two thousand

mile u.s. border because they will not be allowed to get to find them they have to go through the ports of entry and then they be prioritised report of a dream the only allow eighty people in per day when they know there are five thousand for waiting so they did give people a place that they could apply in an orderly fashion in mexico they didn't allow people to come in that kind of a. manner along the border they forgot all of this traffic the same to grow and now we're seeing the chaos start with the venue where legitimate trade travel and product is being affected by what is a nonsensical policy left in i think works of mexico's fabulous legitimate processing center for refugees to make their claim in an orderly fashion or give much more priority to people picking up by law as the ports of entry for more people to process that you're going to keep seeing these events occur. well it's time for the weather with our return and news of winter storms in the u.s.

have written yeah that's right daryn we had some very heavy snow just around the great lakes and that's basically cold air down across the great plains take a little satellite page so you can see where we're talking about this huge swathe of cloud had just arrived in the midwest that's been making its way further north woods and east was basically cold air also talking in then across the plains down towards thirty seven areas temperatures struggling to get anywhere near freezing in many cases blizzard warnings and now in the process of being pushed away those i think starting to improve slowly but surely see our area cloud here continue to make its way up towards new england north of the border into that eastern side of kind of the long trial of cloud right down into the panhandle and even into the southeast is going to see a fair bit of cold air so a line to struggling to get to around eleven celsius some of the temperatures that d.c. and also for new york that wintry mix continues to drive its way further north which

and east was still a fair bit of snow on that on the northern flank clear skies do come back in behind still quite chilly as you can see in this is similar picture really as we go through choose day and on into wednesday still some bits and pieces of snow upstate new york up towards new england eastern parts of canada clear crisp weather coming in behind single figures for many i just noticed some snow to the northwest efforts and thank you all still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour a beloved korean sport makes it on a coveted lists. in the grip of a health crisis the battle in punit guinea against an epidemic. do you. feel like you get. in sport the formula one driver who didn't say experience the ideal sinister this season.

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hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour turkish police are focusing in on to that was one hundred kilometers outside istanbul is part of the investigation into the murder of jon. the remains of the saudi journalist haven't been found since he was killed inside the saudi consulate in turkey last month. ukraine's president has signed a decree detailing his plans to implement martial law for sixty days it follows a naval clash between ukrainian and russian forces in the black sea on sunday nato and the u.n. security council are planning emergency meetings over the incidents a british academic is on his way home from the united arab emirates ofter being

released from life in prison for spying matthew had just received a presidential pardon the british government is relieved he is free but ministers remain per plex as to why he was arrested in the first place. a court in south africa has adjourned a hearing on a legal challenge by an activist group it wants to prevent the constitution from being changed the case centers around a long standing debate off land ownership the afrikaner rights group after forum opposes parliament's expropriating allowance of black farmers without compensating the landowners white people own most of south africa's territory and the ruling a.n.c. party wants to forcibly purchase land to make ownership more equal well the africa forum group has mounted a court challenge against a review committees finding that supports the redistribution of property that miller has more from cape town where that hearing was taking place. minority rights

group after forum is taking parliament to court of following the recommendation by a review committee within parliament that said that the constitution should be changed to allow full land expropriation without compensation after former say that because procedure wasn't followed all submissions were not taking into consideration and this entire process should be reviewed and taken back to the committee if that doesn't happen this recommendation then goes to parliament will then consider the fact recommendation and ultimately it would lead to a full being drafted which would allow for the constitution to be changed after a forum is concerned ultimately around the changes to the constitution saying that this isn't necessary in terms of the government's land reform programme parliament on the other hand is saying that groups like africa forum are just trying to for straight the process of land reform specifically land explode creation without

compensation if africa forum if the score for today is successful we could see the process of changing the constitution take a step back and that review committee reconsider its approach and of course this would then mean the process of land expropriation or the process of changing the constitution would take longer than expected. oscar winning movie director byrne are there bertolucci who has died at the age of seventy seven he was battling cancer he was know mostly for his work on films such as the last emperor bertolucci gains a name for himself for using explicit scenes and some of his films the controversial last tango in paris was banned in several countries in the one nine hundred seventy s. but was later nominated for an academy award. a tuberculosis epidemic in papa new guinea is getting worse poor infrastructure is only adding to the problem so far health workers have only been able to get

a fraction of those affected and to thomas reports in 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. carry 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 it 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 the lack of clinics and transport to those clinics makes getting those medicines to people or

people to the medicines hard when they're based appointment when did on bare review dates i dread stan. i go out into the villages and i meet them and i ask them why you are not mean 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 hall of all patients die organizations like doctors without borders are trying to help but there's not enough essential coordination the frustration that many have here is that papua new guinea's 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 typing tuberculosis enough of

a political priority earlier this month papua new guinea hosted the asia pacific economic cooperation summit of 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 the government except it must do better whilst things like funding for medicines has been quite a quite a large number it's the. it's the execution of the health services at the front in that is suffering and our government to gleason's of 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 al jazeera more speak up when you get. firefighters

in northeast australia say dozens of wildfires burning out of control are the worst they've ever seen high temperatures and changing winds are few. more than forty fires in queensland homeowners are being warned they'll have to move if the fires can't speak. and firefighters in northern california have finally managed to contain the state's most deadly wildfire it's burned for sixteen days killing at least eighty five people and raised huge areas of land including the town of paradise more than two hundred people are still missing we can rain help fire crews as they try to fully extinguish the blaze while the world's oceans are immense covering seventy percent of our planet they give us half the oxygen we breathe absorb a third of the carbon dioxide we pump out and provide livelihoods for more than three billion people and the world wildlife fund estimates ocean assets are worth

at least twenty four trillion dollars with the annual value of goods and services generated from oceans at around three to six trillion dollars and analysts forecast the 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 ocean's resources and grow what's described as the blue economy heffron soy has more from nairobi. this is quite an important conference it's a friend's and you can just see by the number of people who four thousand delegates several heads of states have spoken and raised about you know decades of destruction of ecosystems in the water resources as well. using fool fishing destroying coral reefs fishing in

areas breeding grounds for fish. fishing that cost governments millions in terms of revenues and also. you know destruction of the environment mongul forests for example to all these concerns have been raised then the end of the three days of this conference the delegates are going to come up with a for a while to sort of see how this. can be done and how potentially. economy can be harnessed so that billions of people who depend on this water for their livelihood can eventually benefit in southern new zealand one hundred forty five whales have died from being stranded on a remote beach discovered the pilot whales on stewart island seventy five were already dead the others were put to sleep because of their poor health. well sending thousands of doctors home to cuba is one of the major foreign policy

changes announced in brazil before his inauguration as president on january the first your boss and arrow has already begun ringing the changes will see a new man reports from the capital brasilia. the cuban doctors who worked at this primary health center on the outskirts of brasilia gone than has begun recalling more than eight thousand doctors who work and poor and remote areas throughout brazil after president elect nottle described them as slaves of a communist regime. our community was used to having cuban doctors now we don't know if anyone is going to replace them on. the confrontation with cuba it's just the first step of a major shake up ahead in brazilian 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 they

strut to use in the narratives that donald trump in terms of the u.s. the main difference is the fact that brazil is not u.s. we don't have the same power of the u.s. . indeed brazil sells at least five billion dollars of beef to egypt to the middle east and gulf nations produces fear they could retaliate if the move goes ahead also not it 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 i. presume has always behaved as an intermediate or a not a participant in the conflict we hope it remains that way for brazil sic for its long standing prestigious as a nation that respects international law oh the bull so noddle who's been nicknamed the tropical donald. 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 whose main characteristic is historic support for the us president and like also not all and president trump the new foreign minister questions existence of climate change which he in fact describes 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 she and human al-jazeera . thousands of people marched in spain to mark the un xah international day for the eleven elimination of violence against women many of the demonstrators were angry about a court decision to downgrade rape charges against two men catherine stansell has

more. the streets of the spanish capital filled with thousands of women making themselves heard they're calling for gender equality justice for victims of sexual assault and for an end to violence and abuse. it was one of several demonstrations held in other european countries the need for a cultural shift and to encourage more women to speak out against abuse is what drove many here to attend most of my friends there is no secret that relations saves their boyfriends control them so much and they can not go with their friends and go outside or go to a party without them men and women have to work together to make these more the save button and go for travel for everything the march was particularly poignant for women here after a controversial decision by spanish judges on friday choose.