today's. the day it was. agreed that. this hour's top stories. ukraine's president has called on his country's parliament . in response to russia detaining three ukrainian naval ships on sunday just off the coast of crimea. the deal we have agreed today. for the u.k. prime minister to resign gets the e.u. seal of approval for. a tough challenge ahead.

it is the best deal. for the french. is using donald trump's face. some say it designed to frighten people into voting in european parliamentary elections. russian military chemists say toxic substances were used in syria on friday on the program we look at why the media has largely ignored this chemical weapons attack. that is already becoming a busy monday for you. welcome to the program. the military forces of ukraine ready after the country's national security council voted to impose martial law comes and respond. moscow detaining three ukrainian naval ships on sunday off

the coast of crimea the russian federal security service claims the ships illegally entered russia's territorial waters where they carried out quote dangerous but do we're now joined by the difficulty of a correspondent with the latest details all this been a good morning to you why would you crane want to impose a state of martial law well it all happened shortly after the incident when the ukrainian president petro poroshenko proposed to declare martial law in the country for the period of sixty days now it hasn't happened yet because the ukrainian parliament has first to approve it and we expect the session of the ukrainian parliament to take place later in the day now the ukrainian president also stressed that this measure will not affect the daily lives of the citizens and they are not talking about any media to mobilize ation but there is going to be some exercise this taking place now and in addition neither the upcoming presidential nor

parliamentary elections can be held with martial law in place however since a martial law can only last for sixty days unless it is extended it is set to expire before the vote now all these follows quite at tense encounter that took place earlier on sunday and let's have a look at what happened exactly. i . i. i well russia was forced to open fire to stop the ukrainian vessels and now three ukrainian sailors were wounded and they were given medical assistant. by the

russian servicemen and it was announced that their lives are out of danger and now the carriage street itself was closed for navigation it has since been reopened and the russian asked as he says that before the whole incident ukraine was actually aware of the procedure that regulates that particular passage. criminal proceedings over the illegal state border crossing has been initiated under the russian criminal code it's important to highlight the ukraine is aware of the procedures regulating the navigation navy ships through the territorial waters of the russian federation and the current unit kali canal they have previously followed these procedures for peaceful maneuvering. so we do know we've already seen some reaction out of kiev with president poroshenko talking about imposing martial law but what about what are they saying about least say lives that were detained well i should be after the incident the ukrainian foreign ministry released a statement where the country was calling for an immediate release of the sailors

that were detained those sailors on board of the three ukrainian vassals also ukraine called the whole incident a provocation that was initiated by russia. contrary to the un convention on the lure of the sea and the treaty between ukraine and the russian federation on cooperation on the use of the as of c. in the coach straits russian border ships carried out very frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of ukraine. so what about international reaction to this incident what we know well of course there's been some international reaction it was a very tense incident indeed and now nato has urged both parties to show restraint and now russia as well as ukraine have called for an emergency u.n. security council meeting and that meeting is scheduled for eleven am monday in new york time which is going to happen very soon and i'm sure we will hear more reaction coming out of this meeting and i'm sure as well he's been

a caution about thank you. we did speak with a former u.s. diplomat jim just trusts who told us in his view in his opinion the ukrainians may have staged this incident as a type of provocation according to the reports i have seen in question did not provide the proper and customary advance notification of their wishing to trans transmit through this area if that is the case it could be considered provocation by the ukrainian side if this was an action taken by the ukrainian side either in relation to agree the conflict in the dawn boss or perhaps because mr poroshenko is trying to enhance his political prospects of the election early next year by provoking higher tensions with russia. the european union has approved the divorce deal reached with the u.k. prime minister to resubmit the e.u. side has made it clear that final and non-negotiable to resign part insists this

deal bodes very well for the u.k. the deal we have agreed today bright future for the u.k. m.p.'s will vote on this deal it will be one of the most significant votes the palomas held for many years on it will depend whether we move forward to get into a brighter future open the door she gets more deficient and. the door to division and. uncertainty appears already to be wide open though with may's deal now facing an uphill struggle in a largely opposed parliament anything from the deal on offer to a no deal bracks it's still in the cards a correspondent an assessor churkin a look at the possible outcomes. i have heard the european commission president have a separate message for m.p.'s telling them that the deal that has been agreed upon is the only deal possible this is the best possible which is just a burst of push button for europe. the only possible however whether or not this

message is going to be heard by m.p.'s here back in london is the big question many of them have been disapproving of to reason may's take on backsides and they don't want to support the deal that has been put in front of them. over to speaking just for fun but just by a political declaration represents a huge and damaging failure then. we've negotiated a good agreement that preserves our interests and our values is five hundred eighty five pages over testament to broken promises failed to go see asians and abject capitulation to the e.u. . if you. put this is this has

been really a very successful and ever in a difficult situation isn't it the regrettable but inescapable reality that this deal gets even more away as you go through the political climate continues to be good there's mutual trust you are not delivering the brakes it people voted for. we will remain friends those ghent over days. i thank you. so here back at home opinion certainly don't seem to be interested means we were during the last several weeks there have been plenty of talk of a posse. vote of no confidence and that continues to be a possibility here in westminster we have seen several high profile figures resign from their posts in defiance of theresa may's handling of practice it the public here in the u.k. has certainly been meeting quite

a bit of reassurance i think what will happen is they will be disagreement we won't get to a majority and there will be. no deal brooks of the deal goes ahead he's favored difficult to come out of it for an unforeseen future so so i'm certain that he might even be better just to stay here as we rather than have to steal this possibly the best deal we can get which is worse than staying in. which we could stay in given all of the political turmoil that has been and will it looks like continue to be unraveling reporting from london and for r.t. . radio host john go and thanks to reason may faces an impossible task getting parliament's seal of approval. i'm afraid when this comeback comes back to the commons i think she's got a very old pill should go i mean we know today from arlene foster from the u. bakes they're not going to back it so that's the ten vote vote that keeps the trees

the main power of the moment out of the window jeremy coburn today has said labor will not vote for it torres both direction remain as well so i think the commons will will all reject it i think should have no choice them but to resign this isn't the breaks that we've voted for no matter which side you're on that's so true she's got any possible task she's going to fail in my opinion. for the french town of strasburg now where the new face of a campaign to encourage people to get out and vote in european parliamentary elections may come as a surprise it's none other than donald trump his face covered by the e.u. flag is being used more of a warning though the poster the posters read at this time i'm registering and i'm voting officials in strasburg say they hope the campaign will fire up debate and increase voter turnout via a move the slogan is to remind voters of the importance of

a strong europe in the face of trump's america which is hostile to the european project europe is a model which provides no turnitin of to isolationist tendencies which mr trump embodies when you look at the way he treats europe we take full responsibility for the post his message the post of bullets has divided locals and strasburg both online and off. well you know i think this poster is quite good at european flags stuck over his face i believe the vote is also against the u.s. bases shame the u.s. could also be an ally. i think it's important to show that europe can also have power in perhaps power against trump don't whole of europe comes together it can counter the power of us. shouldn't i campaign be neutral politically speaking who is paying for this poster. do you really believe that this propaganda will trick the french it's not the first campaign designed to scare people into voting

last month the french government used images of hungary's leader and italy's deputy prime minister on posters urging people to vote for unity and not division the poster campaigns come a bit predictions that populist parties will make significant inroads into the european parliament next year and we spoke with independent journalist a local who pay who says it's wrong to spend taxpayers' money on politically charged messaging. well it shows really how far we are already into distancing between the united states and europe what is striking with the scam paying is that it is not the campaign of a political party which would be acceptable but it is the party of the city of one of the largest cities in the country where the european parliament has as its plenary sessions so it is disgraceful to see that the socialist decide to use the money of all taxpayers in the city to to finance a campaign attacking the populists on and showing trump as an isolationist saying

that these people who support trump who agree with trump are wrong maybe they are but it's part of the population of france and the people in pool shouldn't shouldn't accept this. russian chemists have confirmed the attack carried out on friday night on the syrian city of aleppo did involve toxic substances however the assault has in fact drawn far less attention in the international media than previous chemical attacks auntie's either was done or tries to understand why a hospital rush oxygen masks scared and confused children pictures of an aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in hunchy who last year instantly became a catalyst for a media big bang these graphic images posted online by activists and people who live in the area killed victims many of them children struggling to breathe and children foaming at the mouth. suffering convulsions being carried

in the arms of desperate. the gag on the gasp and the frantic efforts to save lives these images from syria range world leaders on tuesday at the united nations calls for information and accountability in what diplomats said could be a war crime the russian government is denying any involvement in a. chemical attack in syria that has a lot of dozens of people dead including many children this comes after witnesses said they saw people collapsing to the ground this time reports of a chlorine attack in aleppo. so an emergency check ambulance sirens check anxiety and uncertainty in children's eyes check the media reaction was this russia has accused syrian rebel fighters of firing shells filled with chlorine gas into the city of

aleppo syria and russia accused opposition fighters of carrying out a toxic gas attack so hold on what. what happened there where is outrage words this carousel of condemnation and shaming by the world's most powerful like the united states we believe it is highly likely that attack was carried out by the assad regime. it looks a lot like this attack was done by the side regime that's truly an evil person this is an animal well the difference is aleppo is under the control of the syrian government has been for years now slowly but surely clearing out its streets of rubble trying to piece back together the normality the chances that animal assad gave orders to slaughter the innocent is let's say slim hence it's worth a mention maybe but not much more i want to read to rate here is that france does condemned the use of chemical weapons whatever. the uses are they

don't care because the attack is coming from the wrong side as it were if you check the mainstream media coverage globally it's a nonevent in if you also check the so-called opposition media side in syria course they are saying that well that it could be a plot by the regime no surprise there before how easy and convenient in tours to instantly pin the blame on the baddest of the bad guys now when the alleged hit potentially just potentially could be ordered by your former allies or you had given out millions of dollars worth of aid yeah let's not rush to any conclusions. according to the russian defense ministry dozens of people including children were taken to the hospital after the n.f.l. attack and says the night time a soldier was carried out from an area controlled by al shabab that is an al qaeda

affiliated group in neighboring province militant commanders have denied any involvement though and insists they don't have any high tech chemical weapons or syria's foreign ministry though is calling on the u.n. to condemn and punish the militants involved in the u.s. sold as well as the countries that weaponized and finance them we spoke to french activist in aleppo who told us about the aftermath of the attack but. knows where. people until seeing it people say it's really bad people. every day the situation is still very bad in the law so that it still receiving rockets was to receive. explosives that lets people. it's not the first time that. they used during the battle we just same kind of. it's really hard to imagine that

everything is going to start again that everything is going to happen again in the same way we lived a worse until now and we are grateful whatever is going to. still to come here on your monday program on parents in the u.k. openly frustrated to finding out that their children have been studying with a thirty year old refugee classmate a story and much more intimate. seems wrong. to me. to shape

out this day. and engage with. the trail. once and find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in the spear in dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. on just one and twenty past the hour here in moscow a parents in the british town of ipswich are not too pleased after finding out that an iranian asylum seeker apparently aged around thirty was placed in the children's

school for six weeks they should have done more checks i blame the home office it was scary because you don't know who this person s. it's supposed to be safe i'm ashamed to pay for the school and the government for allowing this to happen they have both failed to protect our children the teacher should be sacked if the kids knew he's the age he is how come the school didn't. it's not right it's the children safety it's crossed the line if someone says they are fifteen you have to believe them but you don't know what they are doing that especially when they're young girls at the school he claimed to be fifteen years old he was suspended after pupils raised their suspicions over the new classmate a student posted a snapshot picture of him in class with a comment how is there a thirty year old man in our math class the man is now facing deportation and the home office says it is investigating the case now he entered britain under the name

of ash students found out on his facebook profile that he had actually been an architecture student in iran and that he'd also lived in germany they also discovered pictures of him with a full beard drinking beer and one student said see of us told him he was married with two children so we debated the case with us stephen morris from the english democrats and mohammed shafiq of the ramadan foundation. should have been there in the first place it's a clear failure of the border services it's a clear failure of the education system especially when the the train supposedly highly trained border agencies allowed him to come through through the process put him into a school if there are genuine refugees out there there is a process that they have to follow they have to be screened and they have to have a look at those background checks and i'm pretty certain. the authorities will be looking into this in in more detail to see where their feelings of happened the difference if you like between stephen myself is that i think immigration

supporting refugees is a good think it's value to our societies in rich's communities i think it's not we're not going to silently all of the hundred we're not against asylum seekers clearly we're not against asylum sciri and we're not against immigration that's a really long term did not against us really worrying is that a thirty year old man has got into a school and put those children at risk on the last report sixty five percent of those questioned over there was found to be over eighteen and the equator around four hundred in eight the last five years or so it was four hundred eight people that's four hundred eight possibilities of a manchester let's get that into context these are people who have lied to deliberately get in the country and we don't know quite ground and there is a possibility i think if i hold it is the thought of not doing their job from the line to be a refugee steve it is far fetched to be you know stretching your son we're not far from being who is lying to you trying to get. money just to get on. my side of the

music refuse you are fixed in zero point seven of our g.d.p. it's been supported for refugees are the most well know it shouldn't be our poverty in this poll that we will point out we are as deprivation english and conduit a lot of us in the school was trying to do political correctness and squash it which is wrong if there's an issue re. the ruler of dubai has donated around three hundred thousand dollars to a russian tourist whose mother died during a family holiday in the country after hearing the family's story. expressing his desire. we came to dubai on october twenty fifth my mom me in my two daughters forty's and my mother suddenly felt sick she gripped her chast in a pool and fell unconscious. if

it is really she had really complicated surgery elastic five hours and when while the doctor said it was a miracle she survived and she was in critical condition. and. we still was two days later her kidneys failed for three weeks doctors fought for her life they did everything to save her but our november did twentieth her heart stopped. that should pull everyone warned us it was the most expensive hospital but we didn't have a choice it was a critical situation it's a heartbreak to lose your mother after so many weeks of fighting for her life.

and that's what is for sale we started a fund raising campaign but he was such a large amount not something you can collect easily the next step for us was to write a letter to the ruler of dubai. the u.a.e. prime minister personally paid the hospital costs and costs of transporting her body to russia as well as family tickets home we'll still list we got news the shape was willing to pay our bills he was paying for everything the. patry shanta body our tickets home we understand he got information very promptly and acted immediately it was like light at the end of the tunnel like a blessing i can return home and lay my mother to rest properly.

as a program for this hour here on the international that it is quickly a busy monday if you worldwide headlines so i can join us in about twenty five. i really want to say. three days three days a week then that final sat reason she knew. and that it was. agreed that stop. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after

the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulating branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort for uneasiness for peace. i'm after tense here we're going underground just i was off to brussels wrapped up

discussions on their vision for britain's future coming up on the show and he's not border guards following the appointment of disgraced home office minister on but rather as secretary of state for work and pensions you speak to two people arguably still living in teresa mayes hostile environment and the future of everything in it conservative back to chaos beyond schools a gym done a lot if the country would be better off by the people that's all coming up in today's going underground but first what's the connection between a prisoner in west london and this enemy meanwhile is having a good laugh today because the president's daughter a vodka trump turns out a vodka who is a member of the trump administration used her personal e-mail account for official business but on the a liberal democrats writing the jokes of us corporate media is there really a double standard over the e-mails of hillary clinton and ivanka trump or is what rankled trump so much about clinton secret emails the content not the process i really had no defense for her secret speeches to wall street international banks

that she had from the public and which were exposed by wiki links. and the d.n.c. is emails not only revealed clinton attempts to conceal economic policies but also a strategy to take down the campaign of socialist bernie sanders as a son said on this program twenty thousand d.n.c. the mouse that would be. ok so therefore debbie wassermann schultz head of the d.n.c. and six. prominent people finance communications for. so what they show is that within the d.n.c. there was a huge a unity of the. most senior people including debbie wasserman schultz. to act. against bernie sanders in the past few days british police were challenge to reveal possible links to u.s. law enforcement agencies themselves a vested gating the trump presidency during proceed.