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after the country's national security council voted to impose martial law in response to. the coast of crimea. federal security. maneuvers artie's my gal's d.f. reports from crimea there are certain advantages to declaring martial law it isn't just the military that's involved all sorts of aspects of civilian life also affected for example it becomes illegal to protest against the government would also give the government complete censorship over the media what it would become illegal for the media to criticize the government could also mean that reserve a simple gust of the ukrainian government will have a lot more power to call upon as one of the main things is they could potentially

it also means the elections a move that is accurate but there it all began yesterday in the early morning when three ukrainian ships approached the. strait in russian territorial waters and refused all communications. curch straight is very narrow there's only a limited amount of space that many vessels queue to get through there's a huge amount of traffic sometimes you wait for hours to get through it is also important to note that the procedures for crossing the straits of catch

a well known to you equate its military as well its navy had previously sent ships through the straits under the curch bridge criminal proceedings over the illegal state border crossing had 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 cash in a collie can now they have previously followed these procedures for peaceful maneuvering. ukrainian government various officials of called this incident through all manner of things contrary to the un convention on the law of the sea and the treaty between ukraine and the russian federation on cooperation on the use of the as a of c. in the coach straits russian border ships carried out a frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of ukraine and now calling on russia to release these sailors who are currently in

curch the three vessels are also impounded and. we we've heard reports that three. sailors an office and two contract sailors. are in hospital in carriage they've been injured apparently their injuries are not life threatening but ukraine is calling on russia to return those sailors russia has said that they will face criminal proceedings for illegal entry to russia's territorial borders russia has called for an emergency session of the u.n. security council to to discuss this matter you queen has also reached out to the security council pushing its view as to what happened but we've heard from nato we've heard from the european union which are urging for a deescalation urging all sides involved to feel cooler heads to prevail to avoid doing anything rash former u.s. diplomat told us that in his view the ukrainians may have staged this incident as

a type of provocation. according to the reports i have seen. 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 of reached with the u.k. prime minister to resign may the e.u. side has made it clear the final non-negotiable to resume my part insists this deal bodes very well for the u.k.

the deal we have agreed today unlocks a bright future for the u.k. and these will vote on this deal it will be one of the most significant votes that palomas held for many years and it will depend whether we move forward to get into a bright future open the door she gets more efficient and. well that door to division and on pay is already wide open with may's deal now facing an uphill struggle in a largely opposed to parliament and i think from the deal on offer to a no deal bracks it's still on the cards as aussies and asked us to reports we 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. which is just the best to push a button for europe. however whether or not this message is going to be heard by m.p.'s here back in london is the big question and many of

them have been disapproving off to recent may's take on bracks it's ad. they don't want to support the deal that has been put in front of them. over to speaking just for fun but i wish to find political decoration represents a huge and damaging failure in news and we've negotiated a good agreement the person of sa 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 on tuesday end of the day. i. think. so here back at home opinion certainly don't seem to be interested means fever during the last several weeks there have been plenty of talk of a possible 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 teresa mayes 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 parts of the deal goes ahead it's

favored. will to come out of it for an unforeseen future so it's so uncertain that he might even be better just to stay here as we say rather than have to steal possibly the best deal we can get which is worse than. voted of i wish 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 stacy churkin amp for r.t. . radio host john gaunt things to reason may face is an impossible task getting parliament's seal of approval. i'm afraid when this comeback comes back to the commons i think she got a very real shrug i mean we know today from arlene foster from the new you bait 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 jamie coburn today has said labor will not vote for torres direction remain as well so i think the commons will will

reject it i think should have no choice but to resign this isn't the breaks that we've voted for no matter which side you're on and showed true she's got any possible task she's going to fail in my opinion. the french city of strasburg now but 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 as a warning though the posters which were municipally funded to read this time i'm registering and i'm voting officials in strasburg say they hope their campaign will fire up debate and increase voter turnout. the aim of 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 poster blitz has divided strasberg locals both online and off but. i think this poster is quite good at european flags stuck over his face i believe the vote is also against the us bases shame the us could also be an ally . i think it's important to show that europe can also have power in perhaps power against trump well it don't hold europe comes together and you 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 is are 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 amid predictions that populist parties will make significant inroads into the european parliament next year and we spoke with independent journalist 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 this campaign 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 socialists 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 support trump and agree with trump are wrong maybe they are but

it's part of the population of france and the people who shouldn't shouldn't accept this. russian chemists have confirmed the attack carried out on saturday night on the syrian city of aleppo did involve toxic substances and dozens of victims remain in hospital some of them in critical condition. it feels like something is burning inside and my eyes are hurting. the jewel of the homes in the could be in the morning at breakfast i looked at hamza and realized that there's something wrong with him he said that he had a stomach ache so i took him back to the hospital this chemical assault however has in fact drawn far less attention in the international media than previous chemical attacks but he goes down off tries to understand why. a hospital rush oxygen masks scared and confused children pictures of an aftermath of an alleged chemical attack and 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 parents the gag on the gasp and the frantic efforts to save lives these images from it with 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 suspected 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 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 was 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 but. 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 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 you know if you also check the so-called opposition media side in syria of course they are saying that well that it could be a plot by the regime no surprise there before how easy and convenient in two wars 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 and was hospitalized after the aleppo attack says the nighttime assault was carried out from an area controlled by al shabab that is an al qaeda affiliated group in neighboring province melissa come on us have denied any involvement though they insist they don't have any chemical weapons all the same syria's foreign ministry is calling on the united nations to condemn and punish the militants involved in the assault as well as the countries that. we spoke to. who told us about the aftermath of the attack. people until seeing it. every day the situation is still.

it's not the first time that. 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. are in the mix of your story still to come on this monday program here parents in the u.k. well none too pleased off to finding out that the children have been studying with a thirty year old refugee classmate the details just.

what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want to. get it right to be close this is like the three in the morning and people. interested in the why is it .

you can join us today parents in the british town of ipswich are not too pleased after finding out that an iranian asylum seeker apparently around thirty years old 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 ace it's supposed to be safe i'm ashamed 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 eight years how come the school didn't know. 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 there especially when they're young girls at the school indeed or the man did claim to be fifteen years old he was suspended after pupils raised their suspicions over their new classmate one student posted a snapshot picture of him in class with

a comment how was there a thirty year old man in our math class and the man is now facing deportation and the home office is reportedly investigating the case now we understand he entered britain under the name c of ash students found out on his facebook profile that he had been an architecture student in iran and that he had also lived in germany i also discovered pictures of him with a full beard drinking beer one student said she of ash told him he was married with two children. so we debated the case with stephen morris from the english democrats 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 only 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 happen 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 riches communities i think 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 time did not against us really worry 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 a second time over there was found to be over eighteen now the equator around four hundred eight the last week 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 before they're 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. a myself and it was a refugee are fixed in zero point seven of our g.d.p. it's been supported for refugees are the most well no it shouldn't be our poverty in this poll that we will put i mean i was in this a conduit a lot of. the school was trying to do political correctness and squash it which is wrong if there's an issue re. using. the ruler of dubai has donated around three hundred thousand dollars to a russian interests his mother died during a family holiday in the country after hearing the family story he contacted all six to try to pick expressing a desire to help. where

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. knew that it would mean she had really complicated surgery he lasted five hours and went well the doctor said it was a miracle she survived and she was in critical condition. we're still us today as leader her kidneys failed for three weeks doctors fought for her life they did everything to save her but on nov dec twentieth her heart was 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 when the support of seriously stirred a fund raising campaign that 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. shaikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum personally paid all 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 sheik was willing to pay or bella's he was paying for everything 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 blasting a can return home and leave my mother to rest properly. that's the program for this hour here on the international now at twelve twenty six pm here in moscow we are back soon with more. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. on this on the line circumstances that's a loud for the emergence of this very very lengthy violence i think that we may get the sons and even grandsons of diet at some point in the future it's

finally a political issue in the article test taken on the military. and on the for cations . 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 they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defenses office says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them. money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for easiness for peace. oh.

my. god. you. know so for a reason it seems so. not to sure with me but to discover our strengths. away because we're here because through all of my mom was a witch that's why i got a black ribbon tied to. the symbolizes no matter the storm wow go through these have the strength to push through you know the matter what i want to i'm going to have. power and the positivity to just. go about my day everybody. so i just got a positive mindset because you have

a negative like if you have a negative mindset. you think everything bothers you i'm going to be the first. what we say yes. or daughter katie was first diagnosed with a very rare sunday. sensitive condition german pigmentosa i'm back in one thousand nine hundred four and we realized that we didn't want her to spend the rest of her life alone and we knew there had to be other families out there that were going through the same experience we were and somehow families were managing to make it so we needed to know who we could talk to what kind of resources what the scientists were working on we.