and i was kind of like wondering what's really going on. inside. the hotel business each time andrea and i were on the roof when we came on the fire . i was in the lobby on equasym militia man with a sword try to attack the journalist. we filed our last report barricaded in a room. full of those of us asked on. the field to. the next morning we were forced to leave the indonesian military came to our town on two trucks and drove us to the airport. we were moved from one of the largest international stories at the time. we were devastated angry frustrated it was a horrible empty feeling for andrea to be denied the ability to cover the event that we all knew in abbottabad we feared for the lives of many and it was almost no

one left to tell the world. we were forced to cover the story from a far back into. the e.b.u. meanwhile find a way to get journalists back to dili as soon as a stray in peacekeepers arrived word got out that the european broadcasting your newbie you had charted and they managed to get approvals to land an aircraft in dili. once the airport had been secured because we knew viewers coming in we set up a table a pool side of the mandarin oriental so we just shut up put their names and their contact details and pay for them out of this one way trip to east timor. come to the mandarin oriental hotel poolside will be someone there to meet you the cost is that a few thousand u.s. dollars for this one way trip you're not coming back you get on that aircraft

you're getting off at the other end so it was not chips at all. or even you would i describe myself like i really would pay this much like ticket to hell one way ticket to hell and then just the last two days showed up with his friend. start a conversation friendly. he struck me as a very friendly warm hearted kind of person i want to be i want to be in that. ok sure that he wrote down this name and. sums your voice from somebody you know yeah they speak very fluent in bahasa so i had to blanda oh ok so from all of it and they were standard phones very friendly very. interactive

and from what i remember jack we just met there never met him before never knew him before and he just played. everyone click with sander he was that kind of man young smart. he and i were part of a small group of dutch journalist based in jakarta friends who she had stories and travel around the country so much from there was the financial times correspondent and also some likely asked me to become a war correspondent so quickly i need to understand more about the people who killed him. these are the remains of the battalion seven four five the compound where they were based but also where they started to have bloody retreat. people were very very much afraid of seven four five in the last. they knew that these soldiers. were pretty violent.

alone i didn't examine them on top of the the. i had to make. my do you know but i was missing. this was also not the only camp they had many more in this in this little town basically this town was dominated by seven four five. the people here were always reminded of the indonesian presence because of this this battalion. you can actually see seven four five seven. four. five. it's still here. they tried to remove it but it didn't really work. the out of america the back with a big you that if. you monitor back you that oh we're going don't go on with them seeing us with indonesia on goggle down i don't think i'm going to listen to it that way at any. yeah. i'm like you

have got on that i got a. phone. number for a new model and when they come by there be a moment of seeing you're in town america. col i've got arms other than that but when i got home i could look at our son i mean. indonesia and i can move. around like a. on the morning of september nineteenth one thousand nine hundred. seventy four five. and embark on the trail of murder. as they began. they headed. north towards the beach at.

the departure point of the battalion most of the soldiers left east timor back to indonesia right here. and the supply route for them so they kept their main supply little bay and they didn't want anyone to have any profit from those supply so they destroyed everything. and it was a group of italians one hundred twenty members who are not allowed to go on the boats but they had to go back to indonesia overland they had to bring back the vehicles so sixty trucks and thirty motorbikes. from here and one in fourteen destroy and kill everything you find on your way. to.

an italian members who hadn't set sail those charts which were turning to come for you to indonesia come down in lao to for the night. they left early on the morning of september twentieth the orange glow of everything that had satellite filling this guy. their route was now to the west following the coastal road along the northern shore of east timor towards. once there they came down for another night at one of their supply base. on the morning of september twenty first one thousand nine hundred nine.

for still leave but nervous and scared but what we would fight. for cites from the plane confirmed all worst fears destruction on a scale you could not even have imagined you ready dos also one of the hardest stories would have to cover. at the same time as we had set off on a journey to help the soldiers of battalion seven four five ready themselves for day a departure from lag on a journey of a very different intent. what was to become a very dark day began here with a day that would affect so many families not only in east timor. having set their base alight with a talian departed towards delhi and began a pattern of violence that would continue for the rest of the day but. it wasn't

long before the battalion met their first victims that morning. within ten minutes of leaving the base they came across two men on a motorcycle unfortunate enough to be on the same stretch of road at the same time it says two man were killed here by the indonesian military. twenty first. of succumb to the ember one thousand and one. and i know these two guys or two brothers their names were gus and. unbeknown to the battalion the actions were witnessed by seeing me up into a. moment and land at a stand for some to quit does make the person nuba the qualities drop but what is in their best of them to give it become another thing i think if you look. at their own battle isn't my in that them stand up won't dare. them

develop a bad news headline in my head that most don't want to come i had a bad think about him about that make them love me and i got in was in my business but then i'm sick and then bang my. dinner as a deal to put monday doesn't. matter dan not going to have a dope let me see the deal doesn't. that are not want their way out i think he let em be one man said about dope most of the way they said i have the as a parent they have it out on. the lot get out on eleven out on my stock eleven this is dog bare ass i don't have it on us at the moment and out of a bit of a lot of big solid warm complained in a field ghana was live. with that of the mouth and i won it. since then this. funny man. say yes

bitterly sad story was the first of many tragedies that occurred on september twenty first one thousand nine hundred ninety. s. i continue to retracing the battalion's journey i met more and more people who had witnessed their violence and was she had with me story after story of grief and sorrow. just outside about this man show me where his uncle was gunned down in the doorway of his own house now abandoned and overgrown. this family lost a daughter a young mother callously shot in both lax she bled to death in front of them on this spot holding in her arms her infant child. now a teenage girl will. retracing the steps of battalion seven four five was never going to be easy physically or

emotionally and i'm finding it disturbing in every way and i know there is more and more to come. and there's still some way to go before i have to deal with how the battalion affected me. i reach the center of back out and like the battalion my straight. everyone at flight the empty town the beautiful market building at a ready been destroyed years before. i now work how to reach the file until soldiers hiding in the mountains with battalion seven four five who's doing. in. saw as usual every day of this commandment is this sort of us from the yard is a set of procedures the same artist does a set in this three of us. of course evil but only a cell. that care. i mean your farmers that there may not i gather.

the president announced plays you know when. they. said oh you do. gotta get up that the oxy acetylene have. that it. but at one hundred eighty. so everyone did open up on the clinton going to go up each at our other into the month of what about what. despite the general's wishes some fellow deal soldiers could take it no longer. they hid in the land next to this bridge and it was here that the battalion met with the only resistance they were to face that day there was a shoot out of around two hours between the indonesian soldiers and the fall until the fight us none of the indonesian soldiers died but four members of fell until they got killed and then the indonesian battalion moved on and killed more people

on the other side. having survived to fell into ambush the battalion struck again just beyond the bridge a young man with his friends unaware of the danger return to his village to collect supplies. his own just in time told me what happened. more shocking than i ever imagined. and i began to bang on the mountain man and through the lobby. out that show that i'm wanting to eat nothing i'm a medic at the room. and a good deal. but how does she need to get the new ding an atkins data. in libya medica why would we need condi chalk to challenge chalk she like a. lot of how to do something and not

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countries ukraine and its allies are demanding the return of the ships well the crisis has been the subject of an emergency session of the united nations security council the meeting was called by both ukraine and russia u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley called moscow's actions arrogant and urged it to reduce tensions. we strongly support ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders extending to its territorial waters we express our deep concern over the incident which represent a dangerous escalation and violation of international law turkish police investigating the murder of saudi journalists have been searching two villas in the northwest of the country officers using dogs and the drone have scoured the properties in the yellow which is one hundred kilometers from istanbul ashaji is remains of still not being found almost two months after he was killed inside the saudi consulate. a british academic accused of spying in the united arab emirates

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when andrea and i boarded e.b.u. flight bound for east timor on september twenty first one thousand nine hundred nine to get a word sander to us all dylan and all the other journalists we weren't the only people heading for daily italian seven four five was approaching from the east and coming in the opposite direction from west timor or john swain of the sunday times with american photographer piet they were the top houses or shells of homes that were also debuted on the roadside streets very empty and security had completely fall apart delhi airport was when we came in at the same time as

aircraft that is training in peacekeeping forces the f one building was deserted and partially destroyed were no formalities no security checks. nor was there any transport not the traditional kind anyway. we managed to flag down a cattle truck and i can remember senator standing at the front of the of the tip with his head up above looking down the highway the australian peacekeepers that set up in one of the beach photo tells and in dili the ring didn't steal they'd made a headquarters in the main hotel which was called which was my hotel which is also on the beach we didn't want to get involved with the australian army we didn't want to be controlled in any particular way we wanted to. stay independent because we hadn't flown in with the australian forces we were prevented from entering into that so that i could hotel and instead walk down the beach from the problem about three hundred meters to where there was

a nunnery an abandoned notary. andrea and i also took shelter in the town from that day. this is the first time that f. returned in one thousand nine hundred nine and it's only partially familiar i've come back to independent east timor many times but i've avoided the nunnery for fourteen years i really very strongly remember how afraid we were when we were staying here we thought it would be a lot safer. before we actually went to the lead and we experience when we actually got here. it was very unpredictable very eerie you know the gunshots fires we just didn't know we had we had no idea where we had to look out for. we thought that the indonesians would have left but many of them were still here. but there was no time for fear we were all here to work and

that's what we did our story that day was right across the road from the convent where thousands were crammed together on the beach looking for safety going out to interview them i saw this huge collection of. humanity on the beach and went to talk to the refugees and found this young refugee family headed by sweet young man called i met a saw. who spoke some english and said well i'd like to use you as an interpreter but we need some transport so they are not there to. come near my cd i see them with so i'm only in india those who took on me some of those c.d.'s there are more. saudi in my problem i'm with what are. the more likely one by one or no we didn't want to go very far we didn't want to go anywhere unsafe particular here so our first day in delhi. florindo roger had been

driving journalists around dealey on the back of his small motorcycle all day as he dropped one of them off at the three small sunder was next in line. that other thing was that they said that their beloved is in the bad blood he said but they were so. ill indeed but that elite it without that is the only day personally that will have. the chorus everyone because there's a massive i want to. get a good in. that way get them oh they must have. that is a zero idea. i think set off earlier then florindo and sander john chip and nick lotto in such a ramesses car with some way ahead on the same stretch of road. they would be to first meet a battalion. that's just beyond the city limits reading about off

among us because. there was this noise of motorbikes arriving they came around the corner and there were about thirty or forty. men on motorbikes with long. long. the sort of a mop the. one of the first things that it was they attacked my driver i want some of them marked i'm up something in. the last. bus. one of them just took his rifle and bashed his eye out with the rifle but. i just saw it. coming down his face like a. snake ready just like a broken neck and just hanging down not on his cheek but if a book will do sweep through to those i was spoken to our dog or there was suspicion very suspicious of him because he was with two westerners i said love the army guarding it good to get my book. goes down. it's.

much too modern. we were ordered back into the vehicle and driver with his eye still hanging out. to drive the car down the hill. a mobile they had said. yeah mark good to spear my supper. when we give me some for a beer bottle of. the motorbikes stopped in front of us so we couldn't. get away we couldn't go any further. so it doesn't look good at those who have come on you know sell us up to come on down to let you know so. little medical out of out of the that they're marked out over loved ones they might better luck on tuesday that there are thumbs up of the

best buddies to do the way you do. i said to chip and to to ramos i said. we've got to get out or dad. lost a lot i haven't lost a lotus open. letter cup them up to the scummy. mother could. get well soon move those. to. go up monasteries with that though letting you do anything they can often is short which you can really do behind you just kept going as fast as we could we could and looking for company. say that it was a lot of luck. to you. what our society those things were. but. we couldn't when russia is gone you know just an idea where it was safe used to be and. you know he's he's an east timorese.

time he muttered brown eyes that he was safe was beyond bieber to westerners who took this terrible. episode of. john and chip it through didn't unsure of what had happened to and it can add to unsign chill. italian in the meantime continue on its bloody root of destruction. giving. then they and i find that this is the deepest they do or the other thing a model of this is that it says that that ad that what they are more thought it through i know more and it. will grow or a place to move up and since other. ballot model is on the thing to get out and. when i got a lot of americans who got it i did it they did it with the unit. i thought the

mark this more if it is. a given but that if it isn't living there is a. lot of truth. truth. and id or a good one for their own. that's about the knitting the most of it in a low that there was a. family of that there was a in of of him. as a. legit model but it was a. little something but you need. medical as they can but. he has got a lot of it with them but as i did all of them are at the rest area last. hello stuff he says with a look at him what did the little guy at the political atmosphere that obama got it out of a horse i will end up there there might be. a little to the dignity of. battered

bruised and bleeding in a rainbow made his way to the turismo tell everyone he could what had happened. we heard that sound it was missing so it was very confusing. my husband and ray was looking for him next door in the tourist motel while i was still working i had to keep working because i had deadlines and so it was all like really. messed up because we were also really worried about your own safety i mean not much was standing lots of for building still burning you could hear gunshots so it's very very times very eerie situation here. didn't feel learned very safe. that all night i spent here with my friends with colleagues trying to make phone

calls like really you know trying to get through to anyone who would have any news about and. the following morning all dylan was one of the first journalist to find her out of the convent. the reason god came up to me sort of talking he said i know where there's this step for a joke we take you. so there we have this long. thirty thirty minute walk out to the corner. and then off the left hand side of the road to a small gully water almost a driveway was sort of thought. why not a side. it was new it was a very unpleasant you know you get used to seeing bodies in repose if you like almost with a sense of sort of calm. but i didn't get that often i didn't get that sense. i got

a sense of reaching. you know. the only thing i could imagine with. his family his friends. fellow journalists. i could hear people crying in the corner. very real moment for everyone. could just as easily be. anybody else in the nunnery that way. as the part of it but. it's cool. that he wished.

something else. i'm glad that. you were woken up here by your friends and they burst into the room and then the first thing they said yes we found. and of course then you know and it went into a whirlwind of events. we cried together with the trends trying to grasp what had happened meanwhile painful gruesome things had to be done. and this body which had finally been recovered by those training peacekeepers needed to be identified. my husband andrei help for this task an experience that really traumatized him. john swain and chip high. spend the night within metres of sanders body without realizing had been assisted back to delhi by peacekeeping forces the question was. what happened to ramos and what happened to ana tatar. with the rising of the sun we heard that a dutch journalist had been killed or

a nearby my immediate reaction was that he'd been killed by the same group that attacked us it just made perfect sense this would only marry a photographer. agreed to take me back in his motorbike to. where the whole incident happened here i was going to try and find. ramos we got back to where the attack happened and the old battered old taxi was still there with his windows all bashed out. task flat from but it holds barred use arm. for food or water mark for. the malays hey listen i'm a mother and suddenly there's a rustling in the bushes and ramos is running out in his eyes to hang out with ok. we have to have three on a motorbike. and so he was and it'll bounce around him get

some study. we decided to take him to the district. and a military hospital is set up with. at that moment the commander the australian forces general cosgrove right i turn to my craft and said to general you know this is what happened. out of my drivers had his eye bashed up and he needs to urgent medical care. can you authorize it and some sort of way and he turned to his men and he said get this but all of us fight to dollywood. in a strain the essentials received emergency surgery and a sight in his remaining i will see. as for my interpreter and i clatter. because it was a devastating thing to happen and. not something or to a certain extent are not something to use a journalist i want to have to go through anyway. her

read obviously made inquiries about what happened to him and no one could give any real explanation. but later i learned that he had done being taken with a group of other prisoners and paraded. up the army base. being beaten up and that was the last anyone ever saw of him. i suspect that any plato like so many of us with ultimately taken to jack after not the capital city of indonesia but to a cliff south of dili and then troll now. gleeful cynically named by the indonesians because the families of victims taken their toll that it was to jakarta that their loved ones had flats. i think this journey is for me. looking for some kind of closure and i'm not really sure closing what exactly. the idea when you are late but early on to gently my

luck to mike at that spot. with your proselytes are. underway at the men's hockey table you're blind to the money barnett's a great time of the messiah and upwards are you to be of early morning go might be the same but. i get up each day what i said you did you know we got a. police investigation shows that sandra was most probably still alive and the soldiers picked up his body and directed off the road. that brought him to a piece of scrap and behind the house in shock to the liberty that. by the time his body was found his face had been mutilated beyond recognition. probably by used. to cut a can. be. by a by a muscle seven job or. open set it up like to do this at our last set up by.

the daughter. so i think that it will be stopped but the. young girl. got a mummy my. guest must allow it but i'll put up by this i. hung up a big muscle out of your. that's what got you got the size. so dusty up might be if you ever felt responsible for what happened in east timor. that is one that always does say i told you many many know. this is over youse on the. mutallab made it up but i'm a jackal. and lit a call for a week of men's lives lost and the old now is all on the pursues its article.

i always thought they're just going to chase us away to make us they want to make us scared they don't want any witnesses. to see the plan they had to file and says they had planned all the healings and they succeeded many journalists including me had to leave. and when we came back we thought no it's over it's better it's safer in. general we handle was eventually indicted by the special crimes unit in delhi for gross human rights violations but he never appeared in court. to be judged and to be taken so you're on behalf. of us probably just a bigger your own their own home into a dollar when you're going to be judged on the god of the state policy than state policy arguably should have done so you could when do comes to policy.

look he may see everything the world is not blind that day as i told you i have done my job show me the fact that they were instructed by i b b to kill. sean. o'keefe. let me hide the past we look for in the future. and the future that we are on two aims for is becoming the president of indonesia in the twenty fourteen election. the former east timor guerrilla leader has become the president of his country and he leaves me with a very warm message. then we did a. deal.

and. all the three more. that i'm in. the message body. event in east timor are one of the most traumatic events i experience not only as a journey journalist but as a person. and these events have led to a lot of other events in my life. that are also traumatic so being here of course has something to do with. it's. my always believe some kind of spirits are in birds. for some reason and now good suppressing us.

as i sat at the start of this film this journey was something i could only do alone and it is a very sad reason for that. everything that happened here was very traumatic for andrei and he decided not to work in conflict areas anymore. not long after he started to suffer from depression. minor ones at first but then more and more severe. three years ago life became to my trainer and he decided to end it. but as i noted in indonesia in east timor. life there. we need to accept them as they come. and things do change for the battle so the only he who sold me the ticket at the mandarin oriental hotel my one

way ticket to hell is my wife of seven years. seven years to kill me when we do it again two thousand and four two thousand and thirty nine years we couldn't ask are we truly last. happy with a. family who cares one way one. look at this. and what of me i don't have andrea in my life anymore but i do have a wonderful son a miss. he's thirteen years old yes we conceived him to get a year and a terrible time indeed. i see in him every day the spirit of andrei and use the absolute love of my life. it seems that true beauty can be born of tragedy after

all. it was since i was a little boy in india my dream was to me body would firms so five years ago i decided i was finally going to do it one man's quest to realize a lifelong ambition the story i chose the laws of my own village and gets tons of polish going behind the lens as gautam saying brings his personal story to life. al-jazeera correspondent my own private bollywood.

hello again a welcome back we're here across sr it is the brush fires we are going to be watching over the next couple days that is all because the temperatures are really beginning to rise across much of queensland we also has to be dealing with a heat wave across that area temp to wise townsville thirty eight degrees in your forecast so it is going to be quite difficult there over the next few days we do think it is going to last at least for the middle to the end of the week over here towards wednesday we're looking at townsville thirty six degrees maybe some showers coming into play but down here towards brisbane your temperatures are going up as well we do expect to see thirty four degrees shower down here toward sydney and melbourne but adelaide a little bit cooler with winds coming out of the south attempts are there of one thousand degrees well across much of new zealand we have been dealing with this pesky area of low pressure bring a lot of clouds and rain across the region i don't want to say it's going to get completely better but we do see a slow progress of clearing skies across much of the south island christ church

partly cloudy clear conditions few with attempted there of about fifteen degrees off land is still going to be quite messy with the rain in your forecast but we do think by wednesday things start to improve not looking to bet on the temperature of the tempter there about twenty degrees and then very quickly across parts of japan we are looking at some clouds across and die but tokyo a partly cloudy day if you would temperatures of eighty. al-jazeera. hello barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes ukraine declares martial law for

thirty days after russia seizes three ships in an altercation off the crimean coast . turkish police combed through two villages south of istanbul as they search for the remains of jamal khashoggi the united arab emirates frees a british academic sentenced to life in jail but insists he was spotted. and joy for nasa scientists as the inside probe lands successfully on mars on a mission to study the planet's quakes. and i'm sure is small have all the day's sporting including south american football officials are set to decide when or if the continent's biggest football final will ever take place. thank you for joining us well let's start this news hour with some breaking news just coming in from the united states where the u.s.

secretaries of state and defense are to brief the senate on wednesday on saudi arabia that's all we're getting so far the u.s. secretaries of state and the u.s. secretary of defense are to brief the senate on wednesday on saudi arabia that's all we have for now but as you can imagine our correspondents in the u.s. are trying to get more information on that and we'll bring you that to you here on the news hour as soon as we can. now ukraine's parliament has backed president petro poroshenko decision to impose martial law for thirty days following a flare up of tensions with russia on sunday russian forces seized three ukrainian boats in the black sea leading to fears of open conflict between the countries russia says ukrainian naval ships ignored warning shots well the incident took place in the care a strait an important shipping channel for ukraine it's closer to the spew to region of crimea which was an expired russian troops four years ago

a two thousand and three treaty between moscow and kiev guarantees the care strait and the sea of as of as shared the territorial waters in a minute we'll hear from kristen salumi at the united nations which has met in an emergency session first though let's get the latest from andrew symonds in kiev so what reaction has there been in kiev to this development. well anger widespread and also this is sure from president petro poroshenko that martial law would be imposed now he had a decree he put this to parliament for approval there was a lot of debate in fact several hours of debate going into the night there was also some concern about the fact that he was imposing this rule ahead of elections in march next year that concerned members of his own coalition because it would restrict the amount of campaigning that could be done the freedom

of speech and so on and so forth so there was a political concern there but now there is agreement parliament has voted with a large majority as to be said two hundred seventy more than two hundred seventy votes out of more than three hundred thirty people in the parliament actually going for this martial law however it will not be nationwide it will be in regions bordering russia and the coastal areas surrounding the sea of as of and also the black sea this will be imposed as of november the twenty eighth roughly thirty day period now the president insists this is not a decorator mission of war he describes it as the only means he can see to give the full defense of the nation against russian aggression he's building on that

allegation and it's gone worldwide condemnation from every corner of the world about what's called russian aggression russia countering with an accusation to the ukraine suggesting that the president is effectively electioneering ahead of time and this was provocation that the. the boats were in russian territorial waters which is hotly disputed by ukraine and also that there was no permission granted for these boats to go through the kurdish straits where they apparently were at the time but then we're also hearing now that the ukrainian vessels were actually retreating were trying to get away when the russians opened fire so this is a situation where the curse straight now may be reasonably calm now but this whole

follow on from the dramatic events stand is getting louder and louder diplomatically and also more and more dangerous it would seem with nato warning russia that it has to release the sailors that it's detained twenty three of them according to ukraine and ukraine says six of them have been injured although russia was saying sri originally what's going to happen to them will they face court action it will appear they may well face court action and of course what's going to happen to the vessels that are lined up in dock now encourage the town of kirsch near the bridge which joins the crimean peninsula to the russian mainland and are simmons with the latest there from here for the moment andrew thank you and let's speak to christen salumi she's at the united nations in new york where of course there has been an emergency meeting of the security council about this potential escalation of tensions between ukraine and russia tell

us a little bit about what came out of that meeting kristen. well barbara we heard from the russians and the ukraine each giving details of their dueling versions of what happened in this current straight on the international stage here russia for its part accuse the ukraine of violating its international borders and by doing so violating international law ukraine for its part cues is russia being the aggressor here saying that russia fired upon its ships even when they were trying to back away from the situation and the russians did get some backing for their version of events from the chinese and a couple other members of the council but the united states and european members of the council made it clear that they were standing strongly with the crane on this issue u.s. ambassador nikki haley described russia's actions as an outrageous violation of

ukrainian sovereignty and a reckless escalation of tensions in the region we strongly support ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders extending to its territorial waters we express our deep concern over the incident which represent a dangerous escalation and violation of international law. is a book we've been did using this banditry must because it and the international community is bound to understand what ukraine is doing ok if it's doing we would be partners in the security council notes to show the responsibility for the dangerous conduct of the ukrainian authorities. and that was russia's deputy ambassador dimitri poleon skee given the divisions in the security council and the veto power possessed by both the russians and the americans no action was taken no surprise there the ukrainian ambassador said that they got the strong condemnation they were

hoping for from a majority of members of the security council but they are also hoping that individual nations will strengthen sanctions against russia for this action as he said that is the only language that russia understands chris is salumi with the latest there from the u.n. kristen thank you well that's reaction from the u.n. meanwhile nato secretary-general stoltenberg has criticized russia's actions in crimea saying they confirm a pattern of destabilizing behavior he also expressed full support from nato and its allies and has warned the russians over their conduct against ukraine. standard stump but its actions have consequences and that's the reason why nato has reacted so for libya against the actions of russia against ukraine over several years well joining us now from washington d.c.

is robert hunter he's a former u.s. ambassador to nato so thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera first of all your reaction to what we've seen you know a developing between russia and ukraine over the past few hours what do you make of it. well this is a continuation of the struggle that's gone on ever since russia seized crimea and then supported what we used to call those little green men and other parts of ukraine it is going to have a stupid thing for a country that wants to be a great power again i play this kind of game clearly russia is at fault here it's the kind of thing even if these ukrainian boats had been on the wrong side of the strait there it was an overreaction by the russians and obviously ukraine which has been feeling like the world has forgotten about it felt the need to respond and to

respond quite vocally. unfortunately i think everybody is blowing us a bit out of proportion rather than trying to say are is less crowded calm things down and let's try to get back into the process of saying we can sort out relations between ukraine and russia and get the russians start behaving again. it's interesting hearing the words of yens stoltenberg the secretary general of nato very much warning russia i guess about the alliance about the fact that they will you know that the actions will have consequences do you think there's an element he'll of russia pouncing on the fact that actually the western alliance nato another alliance is the e.u. right now it's all feeling a little bit too weak and alternately when russia annexed crimea well they were effectively allowed to do so do you think there's an element of that in russia's actions. well to begin with there's not really much and a body can do other months and more sanctions but russia doesn't seem to care about

those and also your crane is not a member of nato one has to remember that what i think we have to look at here is not allowing this mini crisis to get blown out of proportion but also to remind people that want to needs to get back in the business of trying to reduce russian pressure on the outside world and also to try to reduce the isolation of russia that lays mr putin to do this in part for his domestic reasons i mean after all he's going through an economic belt tightening process now within russia and this will play very well with with those people who are prepared to look to nationalism rather than to their own economic circumstance so i would caution people step back a little bit and and try to get this back in its box and that i one interesting thing.