captured in that clash off of crimea on state television. their appearance came as a russia court ordered the detention of a number of the men on board the captured ships. and one russian man's defiance in the face of hiv. in our special series, we will meet one man who is determined to raise awareness and fight the stigma afflicting victims of russia's aids epidemic. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. it's good to have you with us. the united nations says that humankind is falling further behind in its race to limit climate change. the u.n. report released by the u.n.'s environment agency today finds that greenhouse gas emissions have risen in the first time in four years. the report urges countries to put forward more ambitious, voluntary national targets.

the european union's climate chief, meanwhile, has called for the eu to aim for net zero emissions by the year 2050. that means that the eu would not create any more emissions than it removes. for more on this i'm joined now from boston by kelly levin. she is a senior associate at the world resources institute and she is a co-author of that report released today. it is good to have you on the program. i have got to ask you, when i read your report, have we been sugarcoating this s situatioion? i mean, why are we still failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?s? kelly: thanknks, great to be wih you. so, this is a a reporthat is done a annually and documents se gap between whwhere emisissionse headed and where they neneed toe to meet t the temperature goalsf the ris agreement, whihich is well b below two degrees.. with effororts to meet 1.5 deees.

and there has been a gap every year found. this year it is found to be larger in part due to some methodological changes. and i think this is not necessarily new news, because it really comes on the heels of a number of different reports that have found t that action is not commensurate with the impacts we are seeing today and where they will be in the future. brent: this report calls for voluntary national targets. as a scientist, are you comfortable with that language, or is it time, considering what is h happening aroround the worf with climate, is it time to make that language at least more formididable? kelly: y yeah. so, it''s an interesting evolution where we had under kyoto protocols some more binding g rgets. ununder the paris agreemenent, y country can afford with what are known as naturally determined contributions. this is a voluntary pledge as to

what they can do, and it is really a result of c consultatis domestically. a lot of people think that there is actually a lot of power and momentum behind these voluntary pledges. in the end, because of a veryy weak abibility to hold countries accountable e internationanally- for example,e, we're not slappig sanctitions on countriries thato nonot cessarily y meet their climate gogoals -- that ththe difference betetween bindiding d voluntntary is not as bright in the international law.w. so, the hope is that the paris agreemenent sets up a mechanismo increase ambition over time. that is the vision. and really, this is the true test, especially as negotiators step into poland, where the next set of negotiations will start next week. brent: we are dealing with the effects of climate change already. and if that does not prompt action, why will a u.n. environment report make a difference? i mean, if you would, try to convince the cynic in me here

that t this report couould makea difference. kelly: yeah, so, i thinknk many are waking up to the facact that the impacts they are seeing unfold around d them, whethehert is wildfires or intensified heat waves or storms, are definitely a result in n part by climate change. and i think that will compel action, because it is harming communities around the world. but also i think that there are a lot ofof compelling evidence right now that there are significant economic benefits and benenefits to well-being ina low carbon future. there is a rececent report shohg from the new climate economy showing billions of dollars s of savingngs if we get on a a difft pathway. this makes a lot of sense for human health, for cocompetitiveness, f for incread jojobs and innovation. soso, this is actually a real wn if we actually start to transform our behavior. brent: yeah, that is a big if, there.

kelly levin joining us tonight from boston. ms. levin, we appreciate your insights. thank you. kelly: thank you very much. brent: here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world. the president of france says that his country will shut down 14 of its 58 nuclear reactors by the year 2035. emmanuel macron made the pledge in a speech laying out his roadmap for france's transition. the announcement comes amid ongoing protests over a fuelel x increase aimed at financing real -- green initiatives. mexico says it has deported almost 100 central american migrants who tried to cross illegally from tijuana to the united states on sunday. it has also called on the u.s. to investigate how u u.s. border agents came to fire tear gas across the bororder when migrans stormed a boundary wall near san diego. the u.n. secretary-general has

called for russia and ukraine to exercise maximum restraint in their confrontation over crimea. russia seized three ukrainian naval vessels in a skirmish on sunday. a russian court in crimea today ordered a number of captured ukrainian sailors to be detained pending trial. reporter: just passing through, now here to stay. ukrainian sailors captured by russia appear in court, charged with unlawfully entering the country carrying weapons. they face up to six years in jail if found guilty. earlier, some of the sailors were shown on russian state television saying they had deliberately entered russian waters a as a provocatioion. their confessions, disputed by ukraine, match the message of russia's leaders. momoscow accusesieiev of spaparg the sea skirmish to boost supppport ahead d of an electio.

>> most probably t this provocatation took place i in or to achieve certain political decisions which are beneficial for the current president of ukraine. reporter: ukraine accuses russia of illegally capturing its ships and sailors off the coast of crimea. president petro poroshenko now claims moscow is preparing for an invasion. together with the country's parliament, he has imposed martial law in the regions bordering russia for 30 days. >> fundamentally, the whole martial law is about getting resources together, and for everybody here in ukraine, to understand his or her place when the russians come further. reporter: president poroshenko insisted the measures will not interfere with elections scheduled for march, but his decree is causing concern and confusion in the capital, kiev.

>> this is not going to help ordinary ukrainians. this is about the politicians. if we needed martial law at all, they should have introduced it years ago. >> we need to react to the situation differently, with diplomatic, economic means. martial law is just going to make people worry. >> the politicians should have explained what exactly this means for us. how w people's rights are goingo be affected. reporter: for ukrainians, it is unclear what changes martial law will bring. after four years of war with russia, peace seems a distant outcome. brent: let's pull in our correspondent nick connolly joining us from the ukrainian capital kiev. good evening to you, nick. the president of ukraine reportedly saying that russia is now concentrating troops along the border with ukraine. now, is he saying that to justify martial law, or are we

really looking at the brink of a war, as he claims? nick: goodod evening, brent.t. well, president poroshenko has presented some intelligence evidence to ukrainian journalists in the last few hours which he says shows russia upping the number of tanks among ukraine's borders. that is very difficult to verify independently.y. and there are plenty of internal critics in ukraine who accuse him of politicking, of trying to change the terms of public discourse ahead of next year's presidential elections, with the polls looking pretty bad for him in recent weekeks, and trying to present himself as a sort of commander-in-chief in that way. having said that, this is different to the situation we have had in the last months and years. this was ukrainian professional troops standing off against russian professional troops. whereas obviously the other contact is vivia proxy of

russian-backed separatists ththat is someththing new. intereststingly, president poroshenko said he tried to call president putin to discuss this, but the kremlin would not take his calls. brent: interesting there, no call accepted. we know that a russian court today said that several ukrainian sailors -- what are the claims against them, and what has been the reaction in ukraine? nick: well, they stand accused of illegally crossing the border. now, some analysts say that is one of the lesser charges that could have been leveled against them, so in a way maybe that is a sign of restraint from moscow. but they have now been sentenced to at least two months of arrest for that, initially. obviously the ukrainian edition is this is -- position is this is totally illegitimate ukraine has free access to those straights and d that any russian attempt to limimit ukraine's freedom of access there is illegitimate. it looks as though those naval officers are going nowhere in a hurry, and their fate is set to

be part of a bigger, more complicated political game. brent: some of the sailors were basically paraded on russian television today. was there any suspicion that they were coerced? what did you see on television today? nick: well, it was telling. the formulations they used, the language did sound very forced. some people said it looked as though they were reading off of pieces of paper, they had been given a text to read out. we have heard in ukraine from some of the people, the officer's family and relatives say they think it sounds unusual for them. again, this is all part of a bigggger media warar, russia vey keen to present this as all ukrainian attempt to discredit russia, and someththing thatat a provocation for domestic consumption rather than a bigggr political issue. ukrainians to this would say this is just an issue the world has not been paying attention to. russia putting pressure on

ukraine, trying to turn that sea into a russian lake. and finally the kiev position would be that the world is paying attention. brent: our nick connolly on the story for us tonight in kiev. nick, thank you. this weekend marks the 30th anniversary of world aids day. as well as marking great strides in combating the condition, the world has also seen public awareness campaigns informing people about hiv, aids, and dispelling misinformation. despite all of this, people living with hiv are still stigmatized and shunned in many places. dw's russia correspondent juri rescheto met one young man doing his best to change attitudes. >> i don't like it when people point at me and say i'm contagious. i hear the worst kinds of insults on the streets. juri: vitali has been

hiv-positive for 11 years. >> i want to let everyone know that hiv is not a death sentence. we are people, just like everyone else. the only thing that makes me different are the four pills that i take every day to keep me from dying. juri: but these pills that keep him from dying, as vitali calls them, are not a cure for a different problem. the stigmatization of people with hiv. to fight the stigma, vitali has come up with an unusual idea. he wants to confront people with his illness by publicly outing himself as hiv-positive. >> this huge stigma surrounding hiv-positive people in russia comes from fear. many still think that hiv can be transmitted by breathing the

same air, that hiv people should just be rounded up, denounced, and sesent away. to the moon or to mars, for us to just disappear out of view. it is very hurtful. juri: vitali wants to start his campaign in his hometown. he knows it could be dangerous. his aim is to break down the barrier that has existed between him and the world around him since he got his diagnosis. his placard reads, "i am hiv-positive. hug me if you are not afraid." it is a protest against loneliness, and challenge. >> i told my mother eight years after i was affected. 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 are dead. juri: and what do passersby think? >> you're really not scared? >> no, i'm a doctor. >> all the best. >> shall we hug? >> only if you're not scared. >> why should i be? >> thank you so much. >> if a few momore people hug m, then i am just going to cry. i am overwhelmed. this makes me stronger, and i'm beginning to realize that i did not out myself for nothing. juri: even on a cold november

evening, the reaction about his openness about his hiv status has been surprisingly warm. however, vitali knows it will take many more activists like him before people with hiv in russia can be sure they will be treated with respect. brent: that was juri rescheto reporting. the body of an american missionary who was reportedly killed on a remote island is likely to stay there forever. there have been appeals to leave the indigenous people there, who are suspected to shooting him dead with arrows, or leave him in peace. the north sentinel island people have no direct contact with the rest of the world. they are protected by indian law, a law the american broke by visiting and trying to convert them to christianity. it is thought they killed him with arrows and buried his body on the beach. reporter: these are the people

thought to have killed an american missionary. they are the sentinelese. their lives have been largely undisturbed by the outside world. but john allen chau thought they were in the grasp of satan. he told his parents he wanted to save their souls and that he would risk his own life to do that. he paid local fishermen to take him to the island. he wanted to tell the people about jesus. but he never came back. indian police will not go on to the island. it would be dangerous for everyone. >> they are very precious citizens of our country, and we should respect their freedom. we should respect their rights. we should respect their life, also. because if i go there, i am a product of so many antibodies, i am carrying so many germs with me. if i even shake hands with them

i may pass thousands and hundreds of germs to them. and they could die with something like the flu. they are not immune to anything. so it is therefore very important that we have a very, very controlled contact with them. reporter: chau's parents are unlikelyly to be a able to buryy their son, but they say they have forgiven those who killed him. and they have asked for those who took him to the island to be released from police custody. the sentinelese have a reputation for attacking anyone who goes to their island, and they have largely been left alone. even the gift-giving visits like this one by the anthropological survey of i india have been very rare. for now, the unlikely isisolatin of the senentinelese people sess set to c continue. brent: for more, i'm joined from london by jonathan mazower. he is with survival international, a group

campaigning for indigenous peoples' rights. it is good to have you on the show. this story, it appears to be a needless tragedy. how much do we know about the people who are living on north sentinel island? i mean, how long have they been isolated? and d how many are there? jonathan: well, we k know that they have alalmost certainly ben liliving on ththat island for thousands of yearsrs. their popupulation is unknknown. the best estimates are somewhere between 50 and 200 people. and we know a little about them from expeditions that the indian government used to organize to try and make contact with them, which thankfully they stopped. they are clearly hunting, they are gathering and fishing in the waters around the island. and from all video and photographic evidence, they appear extremely healthy. and as we have heard in your report, they want to be left alone and they have made that abundantly clear.

and the centntral thrust of survrvival's campmpaign and c cn of thehe people in the islandsds ththemselves has been that that right to be left alone must be respected, because as one of the contributorsrs in yourur report said, they a are extremely vulnerabable to outside diseases and could easilyly be completely wiped out if they are infected even by common diseases like flu and the common cold. brent: jonathan, do we know, did john allen chau, did he know that? wawas he awarere that simply coughing or sneezing around these people could be toxic and lethal to them? did he know that? jonathan: well, it is hard to tetell. i have s seen in news reports se extracts f from his diary, w whe he clearly knew th i it wa dangerous s to try and apppproah them. and the quickest google sech would have told hihim that. and he should have known that it was an extremely foolhardy thing to do from the point of view not

only from his own life, but putting the lives of the sentinelese themselves at risk. but for some reason he chose to continue and to try to make contact. and it is really a tragedy obviously for him and his family, and potentially a tragedy for the sentinelese because there is no way of knowing yet whether they may have been infected already. brent: yeah, that is a very good point. jonathan with survival international joining us tonight frfrom london. jonathan, thank you. jonathan: thank you. javier: the chief economic advisor of a european insurance giant says crypto currencies are here to stay. and according to news station bloomberg, nasdaq is moving ahead to list bitcoin futures as early as the first quarter of next year. this news might come as somewhat of a surprise, as crypto currencies like bitcoin have

done little but tumbling lately. some say they are facing an existential crisis, with only the most hardened risktakers daring to touch them. reporter: this is how some on twitter have depicted what is happening behind the scenes during the ongoing b 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. bitcoin has lost 78% since the beginning of the year. ripple has lost even more. and ethereum and bitcoin cash have dropped more than 90% each. a year ago, bitcoin was the talk of the town. people watched excitedly as the value skyrocketed to $20,000. banks started working feverishly to build a digital currency infrastructure.

but the e plunge in value seemso have dashed hohopes. is it now game over for crypto currencies? will they not be an accepted asset class after all? some diehard crypto analysts remain confident. they believe digital currencies will rise like phoenix from the ashes, as they have done many times before. others say their value has always been zero, making them still overpriced. javier: japanese messaging app provider line is teaming up with one of the largest financial service companies in japan, with assets over $1.8 trillion. together they are launching a special bank for smartphone users. the new bank will not have any physical outlets. all transactions will be made via smartphone. the line app has more than 70 million users in japan. line wants to improve its ability to process payments via smartphone.

the other company hopes to acquire a large base of young smartphone users. both companies plan on offering financial loan services. jakarta is getting in gear with its own bike sharing trail. transport experts hope the emission-free service will help combat air pollution and traffic congestion in the indonesian capital. the aim is to support the public transport system by solving the issue of the first and the last mile. reporter: jakarta's national monument park in the heart of the indonesian capital is offering a new attraction -- bike sharing. during the initial trial period, 100 bikes are available free of charge from seven stations dotted across the park. users install an app that show them the positions of f the bik. they then scan a qr code on the bike to unlock it, again, using the app. so far the response seems positive. >> this is good because it could motivate people to stop using private vehicles and become healthier by riding a bike.

reporter: besides jakarta, the company offers the service on the island of bali, a popular tourist destination. it has teamed up with hotels and local stores to offer the service for $0.70 an hour. but it says locals make up its main target group. >> our primary goal is to provide first and last mile transport, and tourism use is only an additional benefit. repoporter: it is hoped the biks will encourage people to use public transport by helping them move easily between their homes and the nearest bus or train stop. air quality analysts are also likely to welcome the new arrivals. after all, jakarta is among the top 10 most polluted cities in the world. javier: in the manufacturing world, germany has just lost his first-place position to japan

when it comes to sales, volume, and profits in cars. in the third quarter, sales champion was japanese carmaker toyota. the group sold almost three million cars between july and september, but no one is investing as much in the future as the germans are currently doing. volkswagen recently slated 34 billion euros for the development and manufacturing of autonomous and e-cars. the ranks could soon be shaken up again, though, as many in the automotive industry are bracing for tougher times. you're watching "dw news," coming to you live from berlin. after a short break, brent will be back to take you through "the day." see you then. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

was. from two it is also [inaudible] many. more box