this is duty of the news coming to you live from berlin tensions between ukraine and russia escalate your creating imposing martial law in parts of the country saying russia has entered a new phase of aggression in this op the russian coast guard on sunday seems to have created navy ships on a tugboat off the crimean peninsula also coming up the town compound. nasa will celebrate its as its space craft inside to land them on the probe has

already sent a selfie from the red planet since its primary mission is to dig beneath the surface and send back vital details on the planet's composition. and one russian man's defiance in the face of hiv in our special series beneath the tally mail concert who's determined to raise awareness and fight the stigma afflicting victims of the country's aids epidemic. hello and welcome cheema. german chancellor angela merkel has called for calm this tensions between ukraine and russia flare up she's spoken with leaders of both countries this after you created impose martial law in parts of the country in response to russia's seizure of its warships on sunday of the kremlin insists it was provoked but ukraine's president says there is an extremely serious threat of

a russian invasion we'll talk to a military analysts in moscow shortly but first a look back on how this latest escalation began. question c. causing waves of international concern a russian military ship rams into a ukrainian tugboat off the coast of crimea the vessel was later fired at and captured by the russians along with two other ships and dozens of ukrainian seamen several of whom were injured. the united nations security council held an emergency meeting where western countries accused russia of stoking an 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 with moscow says the incident was a provocation by ukrainian president petro poroshenko to boost his support and upcoming elections. because of them in kiev pushing 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 that is no justification for the use of military force against ukrainian ships and naval personnel so we call on our show to release immediately their crane and sailors and ships it seized yesterday. see traffic is again flowing through the disputed waters after russia briefly blocked the crucial passage. but most gulf says it will continue to hold the ukrainian ships and silas while it conducts its own investigation. joining me now

from moscow is a russian military analyst bob fenton how welcome to do this if i'm going to how on the premise is the introduction of martian on ukraine could lead to an escalation is the kremlin issuing a try tell. all they have been was going around the russian foreign ministry has direct q united states and european being the organizers of chords and they are the incident in the straits or care and had warned that you were europe and america not the meadow and russia and the blacks and those o.c. or there will be very serious consequences so moscow actually believes that this is the west but then show real enemy standing behind the ukrainians in provoking a confrontation with russia at the same time the international courts including

from jail need to release a ukrainian vessels and say this or russia is refusing to do this issue not helping the situation. well the ukrainian then they go to small ships naser very small ships only with five cruise members each. actually you know these are. river gunboat. can be used against smog words but they didn't really pose and they're going through the straits out into the sea as a result first of all they have the legal right to do that. and second of all they would not threaten themselves the russian total dominance military in air and sea in their reach but brush up there and he's very very concerned that they trade with the great indian plans to build the naval base in. their existence on the sea of us

all and that and they are actually afraid that nato ships may come to visit and overtake the sierras closing the routes where russian say neighbors ships that right now move to the cost be and get the black sea in the mediterranean back again as ships carrying one greek. and i can even better cruise missiles so that's and that would be very bad and that would be a good use of if you're in so such a base most likely see it as a very very grave situation that development in moscow and that chile and they're greatly impressed that the trucker ashamed because talking about a mosque fighting a ground operation and had to take over i got the seed to take this ease up my real. and push close the back of the seat to ukraine entirely and that's apparently the real he said why he owes martial law preparing for such

a possible invasion and that threat i think is a real there's a possibility the big who are maybe in the coming weeks or couple of months of winter war between russia and ukraine outward the sea of us all right so you see this is a fairly serious situation a father in effect going how a russian military analyst in moscow thank you very much for sharing your perspective with us. thank you. now one step closer to unlocking the secrets of the red planet nasa says inside spacecraft has touched down on mas now this picture that you see behind me is a kind of a selfie it's one of the first images insight has sent back but it will do it's expected to drill down into the martian soil to collect important data or how the planet formed but the scientists involved it's been a thrilling and a nailbiting journey fifty meters constant

barrage thirty suspense that's almost impossible to bear touchdown compared. followed by an outpouring of jubilation and relief this is the moment nasa scientists received confirmation that the in science spacecraft had landed safely on mars. the news was relayed by a pair of tiny satellites that had been trailing inside throughout its four hundred eighty two million kilometer journey because of the distance between earth and mars it took several tens minutes for confirmation to arrive. to think about working for seven years as many of the people here in the room have done to get to the point where you have seven more minutes to survive to literally survive is. it credibly hard to describe my heart was basically i think to stop beating for seven minutes i don't know if that's healthy or not the two satellites not only

transmitted the good news they also sent back inside its first snapshot of mars with dark specks of debris still visible from the landing the inside will now spend the next two years studying mars core to learn more about the planet's origins but scientists say this will be a slow motion mission this entire process just getting the incident to the ground takes approximately two to three months so it's going to take a little bit of time to get to that point and then another couple months for them all to penetrate through the ground and to do the fine tuning of the seismometer and at that point we'll be sitting back and listening for those mars quakes and measuring the vital signs on mars getting all that great science return we're really looking forward to that. after transmitting the inside spacecraft dramatic landing sequence the twin satellites then took this final image roughly seven and a half thousand kilometers from mars a farewell to insight as it embarks on its mission. here watching the news coming

up ahead been for your job have affected. what happened to america first donald trump isn't happy either. but first mexico says it's deporting scores of central american migrants who try to illegally cross into the united states at the same time this is called on the u.s. to investigates its use of tear gas fired across the border but many stormed a boundary wall and yes san diego and the incident has left many of the five thousand migrants have traveled thousands of kilometers to mexico anxious about their options for many of these migrants their six week journey may soon have to be repeated returning to where they came from the u.s. president is standing firm only those who qualify can enter the united states which is a look at. the moon to close the border that's not really been burned to the extent

that i'm doing because i mean it. on sunday he made that crystal clear when some migrants rushed the u.s. border a cio wanna only to retreat after u.s. border patrol agents responded with tear gas mexican authorities also increased security and will deport scores of migrants after arrests were made. now some believe their voyage here may have been in vain the u.s. is processing asylum requests but that can take many months. we have nor. we've been here for many days. it's like there's no hope of crossing. but if it was with the difficulties that were presented in the events that occurred i see getting asylum more distant it's looking more and more remote only god knows the time that we will have here what will happen we have to wait a bit. meanwhile the mexican government is offering some hope

a job center has opened up for people considering working in the country not quite their dream though of the promised land. that's been now being up to date that some of the stories making news around the u.s. prosecutors say donald trump's former campaign chairman a poor amount of force has violated the terms of the with the justice department this is a man of forty nights to investigate is probing russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election despite agreeing to have them he's counted behind voz awaiting sentencing on conspiracy charges but the trial has begun in thailand of a billionaire construction tycoon accused of poaching and endangered panthers and other animals in a wildlife sanctuary. was arrested in june after pa crean just found him in the sanctuary with guns and animal carcasses. conservation work as

a vis queued six ways stranded in new zealand. north highland and return them to the ocean ten red big me killer whales were initially found beached but four of them later died volunteers hope the surviving adam was will swim away soon into deep water. this weekend will mark the thirtieth anniversary of aids day over the past three decades great progress has been made in dealing with the infection they've also been to public awareness campaigns worldwide to inform people about hiv aids and dispel misinformation yet in many places people living with hiv stigmatized and shunned for us pressured cities from russia our correspondent judy to shadow met a young man struggling bravely to change attitudes. money and. i don't like it when people point at me and say that i'm contagious.

i hear the worst kinds of insults on the streets we spoke up on the positives from voting vitale has been h. of the positive for eleven e.g. as you are choosing to function. i want to let everyone know that hiv is not a death sentence where people just like everyone else. can have insured but above the only thing that makes me different are the four pills that i take every day to keep me from dying those who know 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.l.v. . 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. e pulls. a used. approach to

this huge stigma surrounding a job the positive people in russia accounts from fear and many still think that hiv can be transmitted by breathing the same air that each ovi people should just be rounded up denounced and sent away. to the moon somewhere to mars the rest to just disappear out of view is very hurtful and it. became. vitale wants to start his campaign in his home town your criterion borke he knows it could be dangerous his aim is to break down the barrier as it has existed between him and the built around him since he got his diagnosis. he's black art reads i'm pose it if alchemy if you're not afraid. it's a proto. against loneliness and a challenge. just as all the same money i told my mother eight years after i was in

fact in the first thing she said to me was we had such high hopes for you for her in meant that i was through the holes in my mother's world hiv positive people are no longer human they're dead. and want to deposit by see. you really not scared you know i'm a doctor with all the best i love you what shall we hark if only if you're not scared. why should i be thank you so much gets into it we need a young persons of course the north and sick if you more people hug me then i'm just going to cry i'm overwhelms you up this makes me stronger and i'm beginning to

realize that i didn't out myself for nothing you know yet now you see meeting. even on a cold november evening is the reaction still vitaly milonov skinned his openness about his age as he status have been surprisingly warm however vitale knows it to bill take many more activists like him before people be thanked i feel russia can be sure that they will be treated with respect. champions league football is back tonight as the penultimate match of the group stage sees sides from all over europe scrambling to seal their ticket to the knockout stages but for by munich coach much there's more than just qualification at stake his job is also on the line. or coach on thin ice on saturday by and were held to a home draw against the league's second worst team doff by and president only heard

a spread of the performance slapstick refusing to comment on nico kobayashi's future beyond tuesday's champions league game on monday a prickly kovacs insisted he has the backing of his players. for example i've had conversations with several players and the ones i spoke to told me what i'm about to tell you this our relationship is exceptionally good so so not just with the players that i spoke to by the way they also amongst themselves. for the beleaguered by and side opponents benfica may look an easy target having lost two of the last three league games in portugal but by and missing five key players through injury and their own mistakes have been their achilles heel this season. and we analyze every game and we can see where we're making mistakes unfortunately their mistakes that we keep repeating or. throwing everything out and starting from

scratch isn't possible when you only have fourteen feet out there are players. by and have never before lost to benfica as the margin for error shrinks kovacs needs a win to breathe easy. now a man who set out to become the first person to spin across the pacific ocean has been forced to abandon his attempt fifty one year old have been called off the ambitious endeavor after. storm broke out and built the main sail of the supports he had small more or less three thousand kilometers about a third of the plant's distance the frenchman was attempting to raise awareness of marine pollution my filming through the great pacific garbage patch. and you had just been on the german government's plans to rule out the latest generation of more by phone technology across large parts of the country and given how it is proving to be

a bumpy road it is actually because the plan leaves ten percent of the country completely covered by the new ultra fast service five g. but critics say that's unacceptable 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 decision on that and 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. and 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's drawn 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 us all tech at its hour and 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 fracturing 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 some sort of 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 not necessarily industrial powerhouses 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 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. as a 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 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 the fell upon their own so really if germany wants their own tech giant if they want a 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 that means fifteen percent of g.m.'s and tile workforce affected by these plans the comic owning iconic brands like chevrolet and cadillac say says it wants to focus more on autonomy as electric vehicles but the decision has already drawn from washington. g.m. said waning demand for traditional sedans and rising costs prompted the massive cuts and the steel tariffs introduced by the u.s.

this year haven't helped either 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 something else and i was very tough i spoke with her when i heard there were closing down i said you know this country's done a lot but general motors you better get back in there doing that so i owe a rare echo of sentiments from canadian prime minister justin trudeau disappointed by g.m. is decision regarding their plans there are sure as part of the global restructuring our thoughts are with those those whose jobs will be affected and their families. but unhappiest of will are affected general motors stuff i've been 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 this term. the five g.m. plants will halt production next year laying off three thousand three hundred

production workers in the u.s. and about three thousand in canada the company also plans to trim its white collar stuff by eight thousand. that's bringing our financial correspondent on a box and find it really is jim really in such a bad way that they need to find a fifteen percent of their workforce. yes it's really drastic and g.m. is making profits in the last quarter it was two and a half billion dollars alone in that quarter not the whole year but just a quarter so they seem to be on sound financial footing but the world is changing and mary barrow the c.e.o. says this is a forward looking decision and they need to go that way not least because of all the investment that's needed in order to keep up with other car companies and to have a competitive position in e-cards electric cars autonomy asli driving cars everyone is investing in this has to be finance from ongoing operations. donald trump as we

heard the report voiced his disappointment he said america has done a lot of g.m. does he maybe have a point this time he sure does because g.m. was close to bankruptcy it would have gone under if the american taxpayer hadn't saved it and nationalized that for a time ten years ago when the financial crisis was very long and the economy was suffering not just their elsewhere as well but on the other hand donald trump's own policies are part of the problem mary barra put the point to rising costs for suppliers and that's of course the steel tariffs that are making itself making themselves felt and worsening the situation for g.m. and the workers thanks when i bought them five. that's it for me thanks for watching bye bye.

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