ukraine declares last in response to russian detaining three of its navy ships off the coast of crimea on the sunday the presence of the forces was a provocation. we have agreed. with the u.k. . british prime minister. seal of approval for divorce she now faces a massive challenge to convince the public and parliament that it is the best way

forward. and russian military. in syria today we look at why the world's media has largely ignored the chemical attack. it's six o'clock in the watching altie international live from a moscow studio with me. welcome to the program. ukraine's declared martial law to protect the country against russian aggression after russia detain three ukrainian navy ships off the coast of crimea on sunday moscow says the vessels illegally entered its territorial waters in the current strait ignoring orders from the border. why. could play into the ukrainian

president's hands. well it has very wide reaching consequences consequences that are mostly advantageous to the government to the president of ukraine recently there's been some political turbulence we're talking about thousands of people protesting all over ukraine but now that martial law has been declared in ukraine protests become illegal because the country is supposed to in theory be entirely focused on more in this case however most of the restrictions that we're hearing about will affect civilian life rather than military life so the ukrainian government will be able to censor all sorts of media outlets new shuttles news papers online publications and remove any criticism of the ukrainian government will also be able to for example postpone elections to delay elections the ukrainian president has been actively calling together the u.n.

security council the. ukraine nato council the other organizations such as the normandy for trying to get the message across that this is all russian aggression and russia says that it has no illusions as to the reactions. talking about the actions we're going to take at the u.n. security council you know we don't have any illusions taking into account that the west has adopted a position of unconditional support. and his regime but yesterday's calls from the e.u. to both russia and ukraine to exercise restraint may just think crane to do this it means that kiev has certainly done something that their western sponsors do not approve of i hope that the ukrainian authorities will draw certain conclusions from that. to go back to what happened yesterday this incident that took place the russian version is that ukraine violated its territorial waters it all routes back

to the one nine hundred eighty. two un convention on the law of the sea which allows countries third parties third countries to sail through to navigate through the territorial waters of other countries soon long as they are on temporarily restricted for whatever reason the waters around the carriage strait the kutch bridge yesterday was restricted they were temporarily closed ukraine knew this and according to the law of the sea they couldn't of pos the other argument here is of course that ukraine doesn't recognize these waters as russian which is what some of ukraine the some ukrainians are saying which doesn't mesh because previously ukraine always notified the russian side that they were going to travel through the cut straight this time however they chose to bodge through literally bodge through the latest revealed use we've seen show ukrainian vessels maneuvering dangerously next to huge queues of vessels that waiting to pos through the cut straight.

ukraine korea claims that it did notify the russian side that its ships with vessels naval vessels were going to possibly cut straight under the cut bridge the russians say they received no such notification which is why this incident took place where this chase took place the ukrainian side though says this was a provocation by the russian side this was uncalled for and that this was another act an open act of war an act of aggression against the ukrainian state. 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 of seen the coach straight russian border ships carried out a frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of ukraine. doubted we will be hearing much more reaction coming in from there so organizations the un various countries as well as details emerging countries decide which way they lean but russia did mr lavrov the russian foreign minister did say that you know the message we've heard so far from nato from the you calling for deescalation calling for both sides to calm down and to behave coolly to behave calmly in a rational manner well that speaks volumes for now though ukraine is calling on russia to release the two dozen or so jailed sailors three of them injured though no life threatening injuries and to release the three vessels impounded behind my

back so far the russian state says that the sailors will be prosecuted for illegally entering russian territorial waters. actions taken by ukraine could how best part of. none president situation with ukraine declaring martial law my country member any other case where they actually did that we must look at this really from really a ryall politic point of view russia is the much stronger state it's in control of these waters his control is the code straight and ukraine really has to abide by russian law even though they may not accept it the difficulty for ukraine is of course is what you then do president persia goes now declared martial law which is quite an extraordinary step to take it will boost his ratings because he will come out as a savior of the nation he will say i'm here and the president i'm here to defend

ukraine and support me but of course he will not want war he will not want to conflict the russians would win very easily because of much much stronger and present pressure and you know that every. so they don't want military conflict they just want a conflict which will in fact increase the standing of the president and increase the standing of ukraine from the russian polish their acting they would say according to international maritime law and according to russian law and they were perfectly entitled to do what they did the un security council will debated and probably probably call on both sides to cool it and to understand that this is a very very dangerous situation and could in school it to a situation where there is really no going back because of one side attacks the other then the other side will respond and therefore cooler heads are needed here.

here opinion has given its rubber stamp to the pranks that divorce reached with the parties prime minister theresa may these top process made it clear the terms are non-negotiable trey's may for her party insists it's a good deal for the u k. the deal we have agreed today a lot of bright future for the u.k. m.p.'s will vote on this deal it will be one of the most significant votes that parliament has held for many years on it will depend whether we move forward together into a brighter future or open the door to yet more division and uncertainty while the door already appears to be open with mazen deal now facing its biggest hurdle approval by a hugely hostile parliament anything is technically still on the cards from agreement on the deal and no deal bragg's it even perhaps another referendum artie's allister's it looks at least 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 post which is just a burst of bullshit before europe gets used to only post 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 of to reason mazed take on backsides and they don't want to support the deal that has been put in front of them. over speaking just for fun but i wish to outline political decoration represents a huge and damaging failure been news and we've negotiated a good agreement the person of saw interests end of that. is five hundred eighty five pages over testament to broken promises failed to go she asians and

abject capitulation to the e.u. . if you. put this this has been really a very successful and ever in a difficult situation isn't it the regrettable but in this case. they still can't even move away as you go to the political climate continue to be good neutral trucks you are not delivering the brakes and people voted for. it will remain friends until the end of the day. so here back at home opinion certainly don't seem to be interested mainstream for during the last several weeks there have been plenty of talk of a posse. the 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 a 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 it's so i'm certain that he might even be better just to stay here as we rather than have to steal possibly the best deal we can get which is worse than staying in. 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 the situation for r.t. . has john will go on things theresa may faces an impossible task getting parliament's approval. i'm afraid when this comeback comes back to the commons i

think she's got a very old pill shoebox i mean we know today from molly foster from the 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 which jamie call win today has said labor will not vote for tories both direction remain as well i think the commons will 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 are and show duration mary she's got in possible past she's going to fail in my big. question chemical experts have confirmed an attack carried out on saturday night on the syrian city of aleppo involved toxic substances dozens of victims remain in hospital some of them in a critical condition. but not too long between us like something is burning inside and my eyes are hurting people all over the hump in the career in the morning at

breakfast i looked at homs and realized that there's something wrong with him he said to me but he had a stomach ache so i took him back to the hospital the case has drawn far less attention in the international media chemical attacks it looks at the reasons why a hospital rush oxygen masks scared and confused children pictures of an aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in the hunter 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 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. and then certainty 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 into 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 were taken to hospital after the attack it says the nighttime assault was carried out from an area controlled by an al qaeda linked group in neighboring province militant commanders have denied any involvement though and insist they don't have chemical weapons. nevertheless syria's foreign ministry is calling on the u.n. to condemn and punish the militants involved in the assault as well as the

countries that arm and finance them we spoke to a call for french activist in aleppo who told us about the aftermath of the attack . on our nose where. we thought a lot of people until seeing at people's for gaging it's really bad people. every day the situation is still really bad so still receiving rockets still receiving more. explosives that lets people. it's not the first time that we call with them used during the battle we just same kind of weapons especially 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 or worse until now and we're ready for what there is going to. coming up the ruler of dubai comes to the aid of a russian tourist after learning the family had suffered to prevent during a holiday in the country after this break.

when lawmakers manufactured. public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. we can all middle of the room see. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. want.

to be right to be crooks that's what. three of the more people. interested always in the long. welcome back to the program u.k. government funded organization which influences political and public opinion about alleged malign russian activities has reacted to a recent leak of its documents the trove was posted online by the hacker group anonymous last week prompted prompting the integrity initiative to issue a statement well to get more details on this story joins us live from london polly what is the integrity initiative a had to say about this. that's right they finally replied and it's taken them

quite a while because artie first spoke about this story last week and in actual fact these leaked documents were published at the start of the month the statement talks about the organization itself it's an international public program it says it was set up back in twenty fifteen and it's all about countering disinfo mation and other forms of malign influence also that the statement says that it's been funded by the u.k.'s foreign office for the past two years before that money was coming from private grants and in relation to the leaked documents specifically they said that it's a matter of deep regret the the paperwork was stolen take a listen to what they had to say in more detail we've not yet had the chance to analyze all of the documents so cannot say with confidence where the they were all genuine who whether they include doctored or false material though it is clear that

much of the material is dated and was never used. so the sense that the integrity initiative attempting to distance themselves from the leaked documents somewhat saying that they're not sure if they're not genuine if they're genuine they haven't really had a chance to check them all yet and to know whether any of them were in fact used and they point out that some of the documents leaked contained contacts for people that they were planning on getting in touch with but may have never used and then now faced with having to go back to all these people and explain why that information is in these documents in the first place so clearly a headache on their hands as a result of this leak by the hacking group anonymous now just to refresh your memory in regards to the original story last week anonymous say that they got their hands on this trove of classified documents which they claim is all about

the u.k. foreign office is p.r. campaign and as we store saw in the statement that the group itself says that its sole purpose is to counter this information and given that tosk integrity initiative has said that it's inevitable that a lot of it a lot of its work touches upon russia where they allege a lot of dissent from ation comes from but just to give you an example of the sort of campaigns that they have they according to these documents have been responsible for the group so-called spanish cluster managed to avert the appointment of someone who was perceived to be a pro russian politician to an influential post as director of homeland security in spain and it all just took a few tweets they led to a few articles by some influential kind of. journalists in spain and bingo this politician didn't get the job and all of this is conducted under one.

banner of sort of saving democratic institutions. ending this spread of disinclination and fighting the good fight. thanks for the update polly really interesting story and they got caught out by the looks of things reporting from london thanks. the ruler of dubai has gifted around three hundred thousand dollars to a russian tourist whose mother died during a family holiday in the country after hearing the family story he contacted our sister channel r.t. arabic expressing his desire to help. earlier 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 chest and pool and fell unconscious. 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 is 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 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 in his footsteps 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. shaikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum personally pre-born the hospital costs and costs of transporting her body to russia as well as family tickets home we'll still list we got news to shake was willing to pay our bills he was paying for everything the. patry shanta body or 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. news round up for now you can look us up on social media or our website that's

artie dot com i'll be back in around thirty minutes with more but first here on r.t. international we're going underground. what is the next step for the saga known as briggs it also is a stage being said to finally end the syrian conflict and why is m i six scrambling to stop trouble. 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 circulated branches off that says we're going to 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 surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for. time after tense here we're going underground just down was off to brussels wrapped up discussions on their vision for britain's future coming up on the show and 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 dumb luck 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 theory meanwhile thanks having a good laugh today because the president's daughter a vodka trump turns out who is a member of the trump administration used her personal e-mail account for official business but on the 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 hid from the public and which were exposed by wiki leaks 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 thumb's said on this program twenty thousand d.n.c.

the mouse that we're. ok so they from debbie wasserman schultz head of the d.n.c. and six. prominent people finance communications. 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 challenged to reveal possible links to u.s. law enforcement agencies themselves investigating the trump presidency during proceedings about three miles from the studio president trump was asked about the world's most famous prisoner now under detention by the u.k. government as determined by the u.n. and. i don't know what to think about it really i don't know much about i really don't why would.