this is g.w. news coming to you live from berlin is posturing or could ukraine and russia be headed for open war ukraine imposes martial law in parts of the country saying russia has entered a new phase of aggression this after the russian coast guard on sunday so used to ukrainian naval ships and a tugboat off the crimean peninsula also on the program at accountant parent. that's the celebrates as its space craft inside lands on mars the probe will dig beneath the red planet's surface and send back vital test of that scientists have

been dreaming about for decades and mexico says it's deporting dozens of migrants who tried to rush the border near san diego into the united states but has demanded an investigation into the use of tear gas by u.s. police firing across that border. following terry martin welcome to the program ukraine has imposed martial law on parts of the country following russia's seizure of ukrainian warships on sunday the measures apply to mostly border regions to prevent what ukraine's president called an extremely serious threat of a russian invasion number of western nations have condemned moscow but the kremlin insists that it was provoked in a moment we'll cross to our correspondents in kiev and moscow but first

a look back on how this latest escalation began. a clash at sea causing waves of international concern a russian military ship rams into a ukrainian tugboat off the coast of crimea. the vessel was then fired at and captured by the russians along with two other ships and dozens of ukrainian sailors several of whom were injured. the united nations security council held an emergency meeting where western countries accused russia of stoking the already deadly war with ukraine what we witnessed this weekend is yet another reckless russian escalation it is an arrogant act that the international community must condemn and will never accept in response russia's representative said the ukrainian ship had violated its territorial waters moscow says the vessel ignored warning shots to stop it claims the incident was

a provocation by ukrainian president viktor to boost his support in upcoming elections there in kiev publishing co has declared a state of martial law for thirty days but insisted it would not interfere with the looming presidential vote. in brussels nato secretary-general warned russia that its actions would have consequences questions that is no justification for the use of military force against ukraine and ships and naval personnel. so we call on our show to release immediately the ukrainian sailors and ships it seized yesterday sea traffic is again flowing through the disputed waters after russia briefly blocked the crucial passage but moscow says it will continue to hold the ukrainian ships and sailors while it conducts its own investigation. well for more on this story now i'm joined by the correspondence nick conley in kiev and emily short one in moscow good morning to you both nic ukraine has imposed martial law now what

kind of power does this give ukrainian authorities and how will that help them solve this crisis. good morning terry well there's a good deal of uncertainty here in kiev this morning the seas precedented in the four years since then exception of crimea we have not seen this in ukraine either off to the annexation of crimea by russia or the conflict in. it wasn't clear that this would be passed yesterday evening these were very heated debates in ukraine's parliament it looked like the debates would go on all night and then suddenly it was passed but we haven't seen any text any concrete confirmation of what exactly will be in this package it seems like president poroshenko has got less than he was hoping for as you mentioned it's limited to thirty days this is basically about reducing civil liberties temporarily for what the government says is the interests of the nation so that limiting freedom of assembly freedom of speech to extent

mobilizing reservists army reservists at a push and also. and also giving the government greater police powers and as you also mentioned this is something to be limited to the regions along ukraine's borders with russia with occupy crimea and there was this gesture from the opposition here in kiev that this was just a ploy by president poroshenko to push the presidential elections back elections that are planned for early next year but he's been quite adamant that this is not about political and this is his response to what he says is a very direct threat of further escalation from russia. western nations are calling on russia to release the ukrainian sailors and ships is that it has seized is that likely to happen. well i don't think that there will be a concession on that point from russia at least not anytime soon especially considering that the russian side thinks that it is absolutely in the right and

they acted absolutely legally when it captured those vessels and the crew. because as russia the russian side sees it this was an invasion that's what the kremlin spokesperson called it yesterday and russia you have to remember it considers the seed to be russian waters since they are next crimea in two thousand and fourteen which of course ukraine does not agree with plus the russian side is very much been portraying ukraine as the aggressor here we saw yesterday also a statement from the f.s.b. the russian security services saying that ukraine actually the ukrainian vessels pointed their guns at the russian ships first and that is what provoked a reaction from the russian side so it doesn't seem likely to me with that rhetoric with those statements that they will be a concession from russia any time soon because russia thinks that they acted

correctly. nic explain to us how this waterway this disputed waterway is shared and why it's so important to ukraine. well this isn't just about crimea and kind of abstract concepts of sovereignty this is also crucial to ukraine's other conflict proxy conflict with russia to don't buy a situation the east of the country because beyond the strait on the other side of the sea ukrainian ports like mario pull which are in ukrainian control donbass and tens of thousands of people and their jobs and the social stability of that region depends on the open trade routes through the eyes of sea in the strait there's huge metallurgical industry there and this is a region that has seen fighting over the last few years where things had become a bit more quiet but if economically that region is cut off and we have seen tensions rise of the summer with what the ukrainians say is russian heris amount of

civilian shipping several civilian shipping lines have stopped going to the ports of ukrainian ports on the sea of as well because they say it's just not worth it dealing with that russian security checks and hassles that could see that the economic and social situation there really deteriorate and tensions in donbass rise again after a year or two where it seemed like things had become stable in a cool kind of frozen conflicts nic thank you very much that was nick conley in kiev and in moscow for us emily sherman thank you both very much. now one small step closer to unlocking the secrets of the red planet scientists are celebrating after their insights spacecraft touchdown on mars the billion dollar mission expects to collect important data on martian quakes and tremors deep underground to explain how the red planet formed the scientists involved it's been

a nail biting journey. sixty meters. fifty meters constant velocity tension almost impossible to bat touchdown. followed by an outpouring off relief this is the moment a nasa spacecraft completes its six month journey to months called the inside the craft traveled four hundred eighty four million kilometers to reach the red planet . well this is a very exciting day as you can imagine we've got a lot of scientists and engineers that have put many years of work into this particular mission and today is the moment of truth in the thirty minutes between entering the planet's atmosphere and touchdown the spacecraft traveled at almost twenty thousand kilometers per hour for temperatures of one thousand five hundred degree celsius before shutting its heat shield opening its parachute and landing safely. over the next two years the inside will measure seismic activity and the

temperature of the planet's core scientists want to find out more about the origins and the current state of the planet. breaking and take us down to mars was a habitable planet about three billion years ago and then something happened and now it is desolate and we're trying to understand what caused that to happen this is a collaborative effort and the u.s. craft is packed with equipment developed by european space agency's france spain and britain have provided census gemini a robot mole that can bar five meters into the ground. the current mission is one of only eight successful landing on mars over half of the forty three attempts to reach the planet and failed. goals remain ambitious the agency aims to send the first tomatoes within the next twenty years. says it is deporting scores of migrants who try to illegally cross into the united states on sunday

a peaceful protest by migrants descended into chaos after hundreds tried to force their way across the border frontier there in tijuana u.s. guards fired tear gas at the group which included children with police making dozens of arrests on both sides of the fence mexico says it's called on the u.s. to investigate the use of tear gas during the incident u.s. president. on twitter to permanently close the border with mexico. correspondent stefan simons is. border crossing on the u.s. side of the border there with mexico and he joins us now stefan what's the situation now calm down. significantly you can say that definitely we have seen over the course of the day though on the mexican side as well as here on the u.s. side of the security more c.b.p. agency on the u.s.

side and more border police federal. police on the mexican side trying to make this border more secure in terms to prevent something like what happened on sunday happens here again. and traffic is back to normal and that means on the other side behind me from. moving into the united states like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cars remember all the people who didn't make it yesterday into the united states they are keen and working to come today and probably tomorrow to do their holiday shopping which they missed on on sunday now mexico is set to deport scores of migrants i understand who managed to breach of security cordon and tried to cross into the u.s. yesterday are more deportations likely to fall oh. yeah. thirty nine that's the number today and all those thirty nine people will be deported the u.s.

. sixty nine people they may be they actually on to u.s. soil and of course they will be deported directly to now we have another number. up to two hundred people from sunday will be deported in the next few days and will then not allowed to re enter mexico and let up to the united states this is i think everybody's best guess but also a sound estimate evaluation of the situation is that this is not going to stop anything that will be more central american migrants coming through. and there will be probably more attempts to jump the fence and cross the border people over there in the background he. you have to buy nights are in shelters and five thousand now from three thousand just a few days ago and the situation there is not really great. stephen we've seen the

images of migrants some of them children running away from smoking tear gas canisters fired into mexico from the u.s. thanks koz very upset about that have u.s. authorities explained their use of tear gas. yeah us is already there are reluctant a little bit to take any kind of blame here. authorities and the higher ups of the board of supervisors here those are the guys who are giving the command to the police officers to deploy gas or or pepper bullets to which were also deployed they made the call and they're the u.s. authorities say and their superiors say that they did the right call because there were assaults maids and rocks thrown at the border police here at customs and border police agents and they had to disperse the crowd because they became unmanageable now having said that it is not the case that as portrayed in some

media that border police on sunday was unprepared their pictures also. given to the media by border police showing that the border police were quite prepared for this to happen they had heard about demonstrations happening and were prepared for anybody who was trying to come over so that was not prepared and but they're not taking the fall for using tear gas or anything like this thank you very much for bringing us up to date their stuff at the us mexico border. now moving on to some other stories making headlines around the world today u.s. prosecutors say donald trump's former campaign chairman paul not a ford has violated the terms of a plea deal with the justice department they say metaphor lied to investigators probing russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election despite agreeing to help them he's currently behind bars awaiting sentencing on conspiracy charges. in yemen the saudi led coalition has launched an assault on rebel held

positions self of the city of tal yes it comes as officials say fighting has again flared up around the port city of what data humanitarian groups have warned the conflict is put up to fourteen million people at risk of starvation. and tunisian activists a protester to visit to the country by saudi crown prince one khalid been solemn on he's there as part of his first foreign trip since the murder of journalist jamal deep saudi arabia has come under intense pressure over the killing and denied the crown prince was involved. last week or rather later this week on saturday december the first it'll be the thirtieth anniversary of worlds a world aids day over the past three decades hiv has gone from being in the bench will death sentence to a disease that can be managed with antiretroviral medication but despite these

advances those living with hiv often pay stigma in russia one young hiv positive man has gone very public hoping to change attitudes there are moscow correspondent yury rich chateau went to meet. i don't like it when people point at me and say that i'm contagious around here the worst kinds of insults on the streets we still. present. it's from grady vitale has been an age of infected for eleven years. choosing to function. i want to let everyone know that hiv is not a death sentence where people just like everyone else. you know. the only thing that makes me different are the four pills that i take every day to keep me from dying that was new to me. but these pills that keep him from dying as we tally

calls them are not a cure for a different problem but the stigmatization of people with h r v's. to fight the stigma vitale has come up with an unusual idea. he wants to confront people with his illness by publicly outing himself as h. positive. a used by misty my approach to this huge stigma surrounding a hiv positive people in russia comes from fear and now it's hard many still think that hiv can be transmitted by breathing the same air that it hiv people should just be rounded up and denounced and sent away. to the mood or to mars for us to just disappear out of view it's very hurtful and it. became. vitale wants to start his campaign in his home town here in burke he knows it could

be dangerous his aim is to break down the barrier that has existed between him and the belt around him since he got his diagnosis. he's black are treats i'm eight of the positive acne if you're not afraid. it's a protest against loneliness and a challenge. just cover all the same one i told my mother eight years after i was infected in the first thing she said to me was we had such high hopes for you for her it meant that i was through in my mother's world hiv positive people are no longer human they're dead. thing a choice. and what if it passes by saying.

i'm really not scared you know i'm a doctor with all the best to love me what shall we hark. if you're not scared. why should i be thank you so much. if you more people hug me then i'm just going to cry i'm overwhelmed. this makes me stronger and i'm beginning to realize that i didn't out myself for nothing. even on a cold and then the evening is the reaction still vitaly medical skin he's openness about his age at the status have been surprisingly warm however vitale knows it to bill take many more activists like him before people we think russia can be sure that they will be treated with respect. in your earshot a reporting there well german the gun german government plans to roll out the latest generation of mobile phone technology here across large parts of the country

but it's not exactly a smooth operations ago. because the plans leave ten percent of the country uncovered by the new ultra fast service five g. but critics say that's unacceptable demanding providers should be forced to do better with high penalties mobile phone companies argue covering every nook and cranny of the country will be too expensive. autonomous driving it's just one example of the kind of technology that only functions with super speedy highly reactive wireless networks with funny g. is the name given to the cellular technology behind it the german government wants to introduce it to large parts of the country by twenty twenty two that's why we've introduced regulations relating to how to bonds federal and state highways country roads waterways and railways this will lead to an improvement in coverage. despite

those plans some ten percent of germany is set to remain without any coverage at all. almost eight hundred thousand cell towers to roll out five g. across germany that's not possible since it would cost over one hundred thirty billion euros that's a scale we can't afford that strong criticism from german businesses setting their sights on digital innovation and people in rural areas with no coverage will not be able to use other carriers free of charge like they can when roaming abroad. well within the student tech and it's our own tells an hour and five g. is an important technological step why is there such a fuss about this well basically because five g. is really going to determine how many faction rain self driving cars in all these bevy of technologies are constant talking about are rolled out to the german people the last generation of solar technology was introduced ten years ago and we're still living with the day we're going to have it for another four years so right now who gets the five g.

writes and how they get them is really going to give them ten years of basically indefinite business that they can look forward to it seems to be a problem here in germany how are the companies doing in this respect with five looking at five g. well actually when it comes to digitalisation in general germany has been not necessarily keeping up with the other players if you look at it four g. the old technology is only available in sixty six percent of germany now that puts place seventy and seventy's position in the world you know with other in seventy seven zero seventy exactly you know our our direct neighbors are albania and colombia and you know it's really industrial power houses and if you compare that to the asian markets or north america they're looking at ninety seven percent adoption so germany is really behind the curve on this. how is it possible that country famed for its engineering prowess lags behind of the well when it comes to digitalisation germany has traditionally kind of neglected its infrastructure back in the eighty's and ninety's when every other country was adapting. so fiber optic

cables germany was still betting on copper wires and of course that led the telecom and also the german government save a lot of money but now they're having to catch up they're having to build that infrastructure that every other country has enjoyed for a number of years so when it comes to adapting five g. and also four g. technology it really looks like they need to do their homework and up their game a little bit is this just an embarrassment for germany or is that real quantifiable damage to the german economy or i think it's hard to put a direct number on it but if you look at many regions especially more rule regions or even the east of the country don't really have the internet infrastructure they need and that's preventing things like universities and startups and also large corporations from moving their campuses to those parts of the country and a couple of years ago i was actually at a tech conference where chancellor merkel actually lamented the fact that germany didn't have a homegrown google apple facebook or something like that but if you and they say she said it was actually part of the german business culture that encourages kind

of start ups but really i also think digitalisation is playing a huge role because you know if you don't give those type of companies like the sandbox they need to play and develop their never even develop on their own so really if germany wants their own tech giant if they want to homegrown google or facebook they really need to give them the tools they need to succeed and part of that is five g. technology so the internet of things of course. needs this technology to work thank you very much. general motors plans to layoff up to fourteen thousand factory and white collar workers in the u.s. and canada and put five plants up for possible closure fifteen percent of jem's entire workforce are affected by these plans the comic owning iconic brands like chevrolet on camelback says it wants to focus more on the total most and electric vehicles but the decision has drawn from washington. g.m. said waning demand for traditional sedans android's in costs prompted the massive

cuts and the steel tariffs introduced by the u.s. this year haven't helped president donald trump was quick to say g.m. decision to cut its american workforce. well we don't like it i believe they'll be opening up they go wherever i was very tough i spoke with there when i heard there were closing down i said you know this country's done a lot for general motors you better get back it is true that the audio. of trump sentiments from canadian prime minister justin trudeau disappointed by g.m.'s decision regarding their plan to the ocean work as part of their global restructuring our thoughts are with those those whose jobs would be affected and their families. but unhappiest of will are affected general motors stuff i mean here twenty years i've been through a closure in scarborough i've been through a closure in london i moved my family twice for this company and they do this to me stir. this life g.m.

plants to halt production next year laying off three thousand three hundred production work because in the u.s. and about three thousand in canada the company also plans to trim its white collar stuff by eight thousand. and that's interrupt today you're watching news live from berlin wall coming up at the top of the hour stay tune to deal with the w bill for culture magazine us twenty one up next right here don't forget you can get all the latest news and information. rather talk all web site that's called d w. thanks for joining me.

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history in everyone is too small for. instance to have a vision. as to. digital africa starts december twelfth on t.w. . welcome to arts twenty one. this time around we focus on a very famous man with a beard and a vision karl marx revolutionary thinker hero of the working class and pop icon he was born two hundred years ago it would get out much these that unimaginable head of a completely different west than our. marx denounced the power of capital and lived in poverty.