this is the news live from berlin russia puts captured ukrainian sailors on state television after the clash of crimea the statements of russian culture ukrainian said to be detect and others are likely to follow world leaders and call for calm in the escalating confrontation also on the program. libya's new boats policing the coast to stop migrants setting sail for europe from the migrants still arrive in libya where they often face the truth mistreatment and despair. scientists around the world condemn the chinese researcher who claims to have created three your first genetically every educated baby's user university says the work violates ethical standards.

i'm phil gale welcome to the program tensions between kiev and moscow escalated a stray off the twenty four ukrainian sailors detained on sunday shown on russian television court in crimea today ordered one saves to be held in custody for two months the sailors were captured when russian vessels fired on board in seized three ukrainian boats as they made that as they were about to make their way through the cash straits on sunday careful reacted by demanding the return of its ships and crew and has introduced martial law in parts of the country. let's get the latest from from the ukrainian capital d.w. correspondent nick calmly is in kiev welcome nick what reaction has there been from ukraine to this court sentance. good evening faile well the ukrainian

position has consistently been that this is completely illegitimate that russia has no right deciding who passes through the current straits crimea obviously internationally recognized as ukrainian territory and so they have been demanding their immediately release. and terms what the the sailor said when they appeared on russian t.v. was there any suspicion of coercion. well indeed they said that they recognized that what they'd been doing the cut straight was quote provocative and that they had ignored warnings from the russian sides to desist now most people here in kiev say that the language used seemed very unnatural that they seem to be reading if they were reading off a page and that their whole body language suggested that this wasn't done on the basis of free will but this latest a standoff between russia and ukraine clearly it's not the first why is it so dangerous. what really makes this different feel is that unlike in

eastern ukraine donbass where you have ukrainian government troops facing off against russian backed separatists here you have really the military might of both ukraine and russia facing off against each other directly potentially firing at each other that is something that is new that we haven't seen since the crimea which went off mostly without a shot being fired and going forward the really difficult thing is to see who if anyone is willing to step down ukraine insists that it has the right to pass through the straits to get to its ports on the sea of ours all of russia insists on its part that it has the rights to manage passage through that waterway so for now it looks like no one is willing really to take a step back president calls for the imposition of martial law the parliament agreed how does that help a visit to get the sailors on the ships back. when the first instance it doesn't they are in russian custody and looks set to be there for quite some time what it does do though it gives the government further powers and further.

instruments to deal with any further incidents yesterday when he was explaining his justification for seeking these extra powers said that he had intelligence to suggest that the russians were massing their forces along ukraine's borders he has shared that intelligence but he says that the government needs these powers for instance to reduce the freedom of assembly or freedom of speech that those are essential to protect ukraine's sovereignty and that is the government reason for now they can link here. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world mexico says it has deported almost one hundred central american migrants from trying to cross illegally from t. you on it to the united states on sunday it's also called on the u.s. to investigate how u.s. border agents came to fire tear gas across the border when migrants stormed the boundary wall near san diego. the president of france says his country will shut

down fourteen of its fifty eight nuclear reactors by the year twenty thirty five emanuel mccraw made this pledge in a speech laying out his road map for france's transition to clean energy you know when it comes amidst ongoing protests over a fuel tax increase aimed at financing green initiatives. u.s. prosecutors say donald trump's former campaign chairman. violated the terms of a plea deal with the justice department they say he lied to investigators looking into russian interference in the twenty sixteen election despite agreeing to help them is currently behind bars awaiting sentencing on conspiracy charges. for the libya which has become a gateway for migrants hoping to reach europe by crossing the mediterranean many land in italy and the italian government along with the e.u. supporting libyan efforts to stem the flow for any city in the a year the african is paying off but the migrant still face despair in libya.

stranded and in despair hundreds of thousands and you're a grim day to day existence in libya's capital tripoli clinging to hope of a new life in europe the chances are minimal the risks are enormous you've been at the i'm going to get i want to leave and go anywhere else and i'm twelve years old and i want to future to go to school and live my life there's nothing here. dangerous on the mediterranean but what are the choice do i have except to try and reach europe. it will be very had i don't even have the money. the week the injured and the sick come to this health center run by refugee aid organizations for help up to three hundred patients a day are treated here. fled from sudan to tripoli hoping to carry on to europe. but in libya he experienced torture and abuse.

really took a kalashnikov and hit me on the neck and on my back you know. they beat my legs and finally they took a knife and cut my skin open. to feel having. a doctor who is treating countless refugees who fell into the hands of the libyan coast guard he says the medical care in the reception camps is catastrophic. there are malnourished people there are wounded be able to stay to be able there are people with chronic diseases would didn't take their medication for a long time the libyan coast guard on the other hand considers itself on course this year crews have already returned thirteen thousand people to the mainland brought them back and then lock them up italy has lent libya seven ships provided training and tip the start off to suspicious boats this year the number of refugees arriving in italy is down by eighty percent the coast guard sees that as a success we send with them a message

a message that said don't try to do it again because you will lose your money you'll lose your your. and believe in god will take you we're going to see. backed. n.g.o.s conducting rescue operations are a thorn in their side a libyan coast guard spokesman says the n.g.o.s are hindering their work and shows a video to substantiate his claim german activists from the nonprofit see watch are seen plucking people out of the water although the coast guard was allegedly there first and wanted to help in his eyes they were sending the wrong signal yesterday thousand people make it to europe then ten thousand migrants will come to libya and if ten thousand make it then there'll be one hundred thousand new ones the numbers are going through the roof. but where should they go the hundreds of thousands of people who want to leave libya. they beat me and i'm not the only one the

coast guard on the high seas and forced us to return. to. the libyan coast is the ugly underbelly of the european refugee crisis. general director for doctors without borders joe welcome to day doubly what do your colleagues in tripoli tell you about the situation in those migrant camps the places revisit which are really more like prison so detention centers rather than refugee camps very often the conditions are really catastrophic so what they're seeing there is often overcrowding seeing signs of. attrition insufficient water and hygiene and also totally insufficient access to medical care because even the few places we managed to visit the tip of the iceberg what we're also hearing are repeated stories of torture of treatment of sexual violence that people have experienced in detention. as

a country with its own problems of poverty. war. arrive. hoping to get to europe if that's as far as they can go then the problems that you outline. surely. i think what the migrants are being told obviously while on route to libya in the hope of going further probably to europe is obviously not the true story and i think they are very often end up in the hands of criminal and criminal networks and what we're hearing from them is that some of the places where they're being kept by the traffickers even worse than the official detention places that we managed to visit but that doesn't actually take anything away from the fact that these people should not be detained in the first place we're seeing here is arbitrary detention migrating into libya seeking safety somewhere else outside one's home country many of these people come from war zones is not a crime. what then should should happen to them because clearly libya does want

them europe doesn't want them you come to a country by by whatever route and a lot of the country that doesn't want you what do they do what should they do well this is humanitarian imperative feel really whether one wants people on the inside one's own borders in libya in europe you have an obligation really to provide them with the basics we need to live and those basics include nutrition food and water and also protection from arbitrary detention the second thing is that these people and that's really where europe comes into the mix need to be given the opportunity also to go through some sort of regular procedure to seek safety from prosecution for europe as effectively done its close down practically all legal avenues to seek security in europe and instead push people back into this situation where they have no option but to seek illegal avenues to reach europe and at the same time become victims to these situations two thousand people estimated to have drowned in the

mediterranean and if people take that risk it gives you an idea of how bad the conditions on the idea that they're fleeing from good to talk to thank you so much for joining us for invest felt from doctors without borders of the thank you you thank. scientists around the world have condemned a chinese doctor who claims to have created the world's first and i think i just said baby he says he altered the d.n.a. of twin girls born and earlier this month to try to make them resistant to infection with hiv but his claims have prompted a backlash in the scientific community including in china with many casting doubt on the supposed breakthrough and questioning its ethics. his study is not yet been published but academics around the world say quaid has crossed the line the geneticist is said to have changed the d.n.a. of two babies born earlier this month through regular in vitro fertilization. claims the father of the two babies is a positive and that he edited the genes while they were just embryos to make them

resistant to the edge of a virus. feel strong response be to. god it's not us that make a first but also make good. example there we have some want some well history in this if it's not of someone else questions or no being asked about the credibility of his urine quiz claims along with his motivations did he simply want to further scientific research on the topic even though scientists worldwide have so far agreed not to test gene editing on embryos. that i made he wanted to play god i don't know i think doing these kinds of tests on humans is absolutely inexcusable we have no idea about what side effects there might be what might happen to these children in the next fifteen to twenty years doing these kinds of experiments on humans is beyond reason and ethically completely unacceptable the gene editing technology used in the experiment was initially developed to treat

inherited diseases it involves changing the genetic makeup of plant life animals and humans. it's a special protein that can be precisely programmed to take out entire snippets of d.n.a. . mutated genes which can cause diseases for example can be completely switched off. genes can not only because out but they can also be repaired or even replaced. the for. using the technology on human embryos however has so far been taboo not all research has feel bound by these ethical traditions for some it may be more important to prove they are at the forefront of gene therapy technology. by max i meant hundred to three times in my opinion this represents a reckless human experiment and neither the risks nor the benefits have been

properly established society hasn't been consulted it's medically not necessary the whole thing was announced a day before a major international summit on the topic as a provocation and for cuts on. the case has also caused an uproar in china more than one hundred scientists have signed an open letter denouncing it as risky and unjustified adding that it hummed the reputation and development of the by medical community in china. d.w. science welcome to terry let's start with the claim it's not been verified how sure can we build it well it hasn't this particular research hasn't taken the proper channels generally there would have been a publication that would then peer review that hasn't happened still evidence seems to be piling up that it did and that the research did indeed take place and the researcher himself certainly has the background and their credentials to have been

able to perform it he says he has acted to protect these babies from inheriting the hiv this sounds laudable what's what's wrong with that well the particular protein that he's talking about having cut allegory for the particular genetic sequence that codes for that particular protein does act as a gateway for hiv however genes don't really work that way we've come a long way away from saying that a particular gene does a only one particular thing and by actually excising this particular gene he might have caused. further damage to these babies farther down the road because we don't necessarily know every every single process that that particular gene is involved in and the human being he says someone would have done this eventually even if it wasn't. right isn't it yeah that's absolutely correct i mean this has been looming on the horizon for quite a while now and the technology is there crisper has not which is the technology that used to edit genes now it is a very is

a very precise tool it's an extremely powerful tool but it isn't perfect and that's one of the problems with it is that there is there can be what are called off target effects that means that when you go in and you excise a gene as you did for example it might cause damage in other parts of the genome as well and that's one of the biggest drawbacks do we really want to be experimenting basically with human beings in that way because that's really if this is true if this claim proves to be true that's really what this is but we are going to do that because that's what human beings do we are curious and even when the rules say we must know it's the ultimate in any scientific endeavor must be to to better humankind so someone's going to see that and go well it was it must needs to be regulated that's the whole point from from the very beginning this is something that needs to happen at a much slower pace we don't know many we know a lot about the genome but we there's much more that we don't know and that's why we need to regulate this kind of research and it needs to be more transparent it can't be happening in some places in the world and not happening in others there

needs to be actually i think a global regulation of this kind of technology because in the end those children are going to grow up to have children of their own and that means that those edited genomes will enter the human gene pool it's a question it's a story that affects us all briefly we've heard of this this christmas technology. in a much more glowing terms in the last few months is that when we talk about gene editing it's not all bad news is it no no no it's not good crisper good technology is actually for years i've been thinking that. it's deserved a nobel prize and so have many many other people it's allowed it's what allows us to also for example alter crops i mean every organism has genes and by engineering those genes in those organisms we can engineer certain characteristics that we want to have for example resistance to drought or or possibly a resistance for example to a pesticide it's been used in that way before as well so we've also used it to do for example for animals in certain ways to grow heavier or the things that we want

to do the technology in and of itself is not a bad technology but it is a very powerful tool that can also be turned and used on human beings and that's where we need to be drawing the lines. derek williams thank you for a man who's been convicted of bombing they don't win football team bus last year identified only a surrogate w. as a german proves he lost the german and russian national was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for attempted murder of a dog and plan a police officer were mostly injured in the attack prosecutors say he left fake glasses attempting to pass off the attack as islamic terrorism in reality he planned to make money from a fall in the tub stock market value. sons had already started gathering in the stadium foot don't mince champions league match against monica but dortmund didn't make it there that night just as they left the hotel shortly after seven pm the team bus was rocked by several blasts class shouted don't defend

a month but truck and a police officer were injured. doctrove was taken to hospital for surgery on a fractured wrist. that buses reinforced windows prevented further injuries. police discovered three homemade explosive devices packed with shaun's of metal placed in bush's by the roadside. the shaken dortmund team lost against monaco when they played their match the next evening. the authorities first line of inquiry a terror plot letters left at the scene claimed the attack was retaliation for german military operations against so-called islamic state in iraq and syria ten days later police arrested a twenty eight year old german russian national identified only as sergei wu the motive of the attack not terrorism but greed the suspect had taken out options and

thousands of tourists you have bought one shares betting that an attack would send prices plummeting and net him millions. physicians that would helen humphrey asking the question what ever happened to bitcoin yeah remember that we talk about it nonstop it seemed like last year the rise and rise of course of the digital currency that was talk of the town then it starts to plunge and plunge last december one bitcoin would cost you nineteen thousand dollars now they're trading below four thousand dollars additional currencies are facing an existential crisis only the most hardened risk takers debt to trade in them. this is how some on twitter have depicted what's happening behind the scenes during the ongoing bitcoin crash although these images are not actually connected to bitcoin they nonetheless serve to illustrate how dramatic the mood is for some right now. across the board

digital currencies are flailing big coin has lost seventy eight percent since the beginning of the year ripple has lost even more and to theri amant bitcoin cash have dropped more than ninety percent each. a year ago big corn was the talk of the town people watched excitedly as the value skyrocketed to twenty thousand dollars banks started working feverishly to build a digital currency infrastructure but the plunge in value seems to have dutch topes is it game over for crypto currency is will they not be an accepted asset class after all some die hard crypto analysts remain confident they believe digital currencies will rise like phoenix from the ashes as they've done many times before others say their value has always been zero making them still overpriced. so let's get the expert take now with our financial correspondent frankfurt stock

exchange i mean. koreans tomorrow it should not really come as a surprise that plenty of warnings no. yes i can still hear them they're ringing in my ears even as bitcoin was rising and rising i can remember december two thousand and seventeen being a member of a group that was talking with this bank president jens weidmann central bank head here in germany and he said it's not a currency it's risky to know that you can lose and he wasn't the only financial supervisor who warned and there's a famous diatribe by jamie diamond the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan against bitcoin who chided his daughter for experimenting with it and you know there were plenty of warnings because people said it's not a currency there's no intrinsic value there's no financial supervision one shouldn't have been surprised with all these experts weighing so plenty all food.

you know about. it's not all bad i think it's good that there's been a debate on an anonymous fast independent of central bank's currency but especially the technology behind it the block chain that's here to stay that's something that was i think promoted by all the publicity on bitcoin itself and it has to be separated from the bitcoin itself and that's going to be a basis for the financial business in the future it will revolutionize trading and payment systems i'm pretty sure of that all right he votes for us in frankfurt thanks judy. in the car manufacturing world germany has just lost its first base position to japan when it comes to sales turnover and profits in the third quarter but the entire car industry is also experiencing a global downturn and in the third quarter will sales champion was a japanese carmaker toyota the group sold almost three million cars between july

and september but no one's investing as much in the future as the germans are currently doing folks foghat recently slated thirty four billion euros for the development and manufacturing of autonomous vehicles and electric costs. it's been described as the most important meeting on environmental policy since the paris climate deal was signed in twenty fifteen and just five days time representatives from one hundred nineteen nations will gather for a crucial climate summit aimed at deciding how to implement the historic agreement surprisingly perhaps the meeting will take place in the city of kut the wheelchair in the heart of poland's mining region. for generations coal has been the lifeblood of kassovitz. now the city's preparing to play host to the world's most important meeting on climate change. poland by far the e.u.'s largest coal producer has been working hard to reduce its dependence on the fossil fuel but for the

miners that remain here it's the core of their identity. it's a treasure if there were no coal there be no jobs if we closed minds and everything else goes bankrupt like the shops and companies that produce and to live or goods to them. the polish government is keen to showcase cut of it as an example of a mining area that's been transformed into a modern environmentally friendly city the summit's venue is a former mine turned cultural center. coal is certainly in our memory and on our minds all the time. because it was cold that formed the whole potential of. it was the basic commodity that was extracted here and for sure there are some sentimentality. but we know perfectly well what's going on in the world and which direction we should be taking. each. speaking of direction answering that

question will be a priority when delegates gather here next week at the paris climate deal set a target of keeping global warming below two degrees celsius all signatories except for the united states remain committed to that goal but what they have not yet agreed on is how to achieve this. and just reminded of the top stories we're following for you russia has put captured ukrainian sailors on state television following a clash off crimea statements came as a russian several ukrainian saying this be detained for two months world leaders have called for calm. on the walk.

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