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with 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 for an easy no for. the. commander of the seized ukrainian navy vessel says that he deliberately ignored russia's orders not to enter its waters in the caird strait during a clash the border russia and ukraine close to conflict. incident led to emergency sessions of the un security council where russia was once again accused of being an aggressor. this will never get through she's not going to get a majority we have no idea where this is heading and peace launch a scathing attack on trees amaze breaks it plan of the british pm battles to win
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them over ahead of a crucial december vote. russian military experts say toxic substances were used in an assault on aleppo in syria on saturday we look at why the world's media is largely ignored the chemical attack. joining as one of them here in moscow this is are to. russia's president vladimir putin and spoken by phone with german chancellor angela merkel discussed an ongoing dispute between russia and ukraine putin described it as a provocation by kiev timed for the upcoming presidential elections while russia's border security forces issued new details on sunday's clash in the straight which brought the two sides close to conflict the captain of one of the detained ukrainian ships admits it consciously ignored commands. from russia's border
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control to stop well guess the as the tolls the russian federal security service has revealed new details scored logically as to what happened on sunday in the strait of kutch they said that they detected the ukrainian naval flotilla early on heading into russian territorial waters they were warned that if they intended to cross the street of kutch as they well knew as they had done previously that they should send notification of their intent to cross the street it's a busy place there's a lot of ships tankers merchantman fishing vessels waiting queuing to cross through a narrow archway under a bridge and of safety concerns there's this queues there's lines and there's a procedure in place of followed through a number of times the less the ukrainians stormed on ahead than a captain himself the captain of the naval philatelic said he was aware that his orders were provoking of but they were his orders so i'm going to melissa morey
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commander of the navy division of the grain and military forces were answered the card straight after crossing the russian border we had visual contact with the russian border service vessels i consciously ignored their commands to stop on our boat we had small arms and a machine gun with ammunition i was aware that the action of the ukrainian vessels in because straits provoked it if i was following my orders to move our ships from the port or for this to mario the federal security service is also in possession of information that says the provocative actions of the ukrainian fleet were ordered by the government in kiev the territorial waters in which some of this showdown in this case took place and were russian waters even before the reunion of crimea and russia furthermore the russian federal security service revealed that on board the vessels of the ukrainian flag deliver s b u offices that is. ukrainian intelligence
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agents so this crossing seemingly wasn't just an ordinary re stationing of naval assets but rather a special operation it seems with a mission overseen by intelligence agents if indeed the case perhaps the mission was to give the president a reason justification for the implementation of martial law as he has done the russian security services published a timeline detailing what happened in the strait his a short version of events. contrary to the un convention on russian border ships carried out a frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of ukraine.
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was criminal proceedings over the illegal state border crossing had been initiated the ukraine is aware of the procedures regulating the navigation navy ships they have previously followed these procedures for peaceful maneuvering. the situation is raised much concern among western countries the un security council held to emergency sessions on the clash killam open has the story. well instead of having one meeting we are having two emergency sessions of the u.n. security council the first meeting was called by russia the second one called on behalf of ukraine now during the first meeting we did hear from the representative of russia he accused the forces in the security council the western partners of
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essential acting like overgrown toddlers and focusing on which resolutions to vote for calling a different meeting and not really focusing on resulting the tension and resolving the situation furthermore he argued that essentially of the provocative actions from ukraine serve a political purpose which to put the person person goes ratings are extremely low but the elections are not so far away so how do you hold on to power whose team really needs a serious exacerbation of the situation in a war the necessary next portion of the anti russian drug so that people in the country believe that all the troubles that you tube russia now at this second session we did hear from the western countries that we did hear kind of a familiar song from the united states from the u.k. from poland from france all of them accusing russia of being an aggressor and wanting to annex more territory this is their remarks russia decided to prevent
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passage of the ukrainian ships rammed them and then opened fire on them yes today's action follows months of russian harassment of international shipping in a season of just nothing in our opinion justifies this use of force russia must immediately cease its unlawful conduct russia's actions must stop immediately prior to the security council meeting the russian foreign ministry was asked what their expectations were they said essentially said that they really had no illusions that they expected that regardless of the facts they present before the council that they would. fall on deaf ears and essentially the same script would be repeated and it seems that the prediction we heard from the russian foreign ministry has turned out to be correct he spoke exclusively with russia's first deputy permanent representative to the un dmitri polanski he said that western powers officially at least refusing to acknowledge any wrongdoing by ukraine first of all the really
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don't want to put the blame on ukraine in any case that's their position and that's their physician for many years whatever you cream does whatever crimes ukrainian leaders come eat they just don't want to acknowledge these and secondly the dystopic the whole situation is developing very very quickly very fast saw that at the moment when for example at the moment when we called for this meeting in the morning. i didn't dispose of this kind of information but they only scheme to national aegis is so our agencies and i really decided to work towards it during the security council meeting i think this is this is very important these shows really to what extent of the korean side was eager to talk i mean this provocation and to do it in the most in the most violent violent way they didn't even care we were exactly they were located they just needed to engage with
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border guards and to create a problem for us so i think that with the piece of time when we get more information because you know the investigation is. ongoing we'll get more details to support this theory and maybe this point of time it will be it will be more difficult for for my colleagues in security council to which we can or this information. ok let's bring in political analyst gregory copley who has a new book out sovereignty in the twenty first century could have young gregory let's start with putin because he says this is a provocation by the leader of ukraine with a view to the elections that are coming up in the country fanciful thinking or would you agree with him. absolutely correct in fact it's a it was a very much a premeditated event by the government of ukraine certainly coordinated with the government of the united states and possibly with european union officials and this
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was designed to use some of the language was the u.s. has been using about freedom of navigation of the international vessels and u.s. officials through the south china sea so there's a great parallel there in the language being used by the u.s. and by the ukraine government it was a premeditated event it was designed specifically to create a confrontation as the captain of the clotilda the ukrainian foothill of knowledge it was designed to do that in order to give president poroshenko ukraine the opportunity to declare martial law which he has not done in even more serious security situations in the past but as president putin said he's facing elections on march thirty first presidential elections in ukraine so he has to do something to bring his ratings up yulia timoshenko the former prime minister is now well ahead of him in the polling for those elections so this thirty days of martial law
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gives him a chance to either postpone the elections continue the marshal or process or at least gain substantially in the public's esteem so that he will stand a chance in the elections what this does show us is that the united states and probably the european union behind president poroshenko and not supporting yulia timoshenko at this particular time because they're clearly making this a cause celeb to help president poroshenko the reality is that ukraine is twat tried to force unable. to into the sea of us off in recent times they didn't need to do it for strategic reasons yes they've got a and they. well passivity at merion all. already but if they wanted to move these two vessels which are very small warships they could have done it over land to put them into the sea about solve their particular brought
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a tug with them this time showed that they were expecting problems and there was a possibility that they would need the time to extract them from in those situations these are two of seven new this class of warship which the ukrainian navy has got several of them of built in on the sea of us off for perth for operations in that say the two that ended on sunday were built for operations in western ukrainian waters so this was a totally contrived situation just to to get a response from the russian border security forces and russian armed forces for the purpose of saving president poroshenko he should be most grateful in fact to the russians that they responded on cue to the protection of the this sovereignty of russian waters. and by the way that the claim of prior notification of transit by the ukrainian naval forces was clearly false and that was confirmed i
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think by the commander of the ukrainian put. lots of evidence to support the argument that the you just made and yet the western powers consistently blaming russia over this in the incident do you think that they're being objective. no not at all they're trying to achieve a strategic outcome which they have predetermine the evidence that the u.s. participation in the planning of this incident in other words contrived the incident forced to and can order to achieve a specific outcome is quite apparent and we've seen that in the past resort when for example the us defense forces during the obama administration supported the turkish air force in the shooting down over syria of that so called twenty four in order to get provocation which they hoped would lead to so now comes from the government of turkey being able to close the bosphorus for example so we see this is a is a pattern of behavior. and i think that the us ambassador to the u.n.
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and nicky howley is either unconscious of this planning or or is or is part of that strategic planning. in order to support president poroshenko and other u.s. strategic outcomes in the black sea how do you explain the rationale behind poroshenko hearing that you know there is you know a disagreement of a little bit of a coming to in the kitts strait and then he says well let's invoke martial law what's the reasoning. well they're raising it as it was that he needs to gain in stature with the ukrainian electorate in preparation for their march thirty first election next year otherwise you'll get to machine code he's a walk over to take the presidency from him he can by invoking martial law which is seemingly out of step with the reality of the security situation of this
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occasion but by and looking at he also has the opportunity under martial law to postpone the elections or to somehow limit opposition political activity against him so it's all about his political future it's not about the security of ukraine nor is it really about commercial traffic from ukrainian ports like mari pole through a sea of hours off to the black sea and beyond. martial law what thing that's going to do to the public how will they view their president. well i think. that the president is going to look strong he's going to look as though he has rallied international support around him and around ukraine's case against russia so that in that respect he could he could look very strong on the other hand i think that there are. a growing number of ukrainian people who are becoming
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disenchanted with this contrived situation in order to allow politicians to if you like railroad the situation for personal purposes i think we're going to start to see as a result the. political match between tomasz and co and poroshenko descend into allegations of corruption on either side and quite valid assumptions of corruption by both of those politicians so we're going to see this thing becoming very dirty very quickly now from the western standpoint from the european union or the united states and what perhaps they see that a ukraine without a strong leader corrupt or otherwise means that ukraine would be vulnerable to seeking your approach more with moscow who knows but the reality is that the gamble by president poroshenko and by washington is that this will make the president look
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stronger in the run up to the elections and maybe give him some options about postponing or or you know way canceling the elections perhaps so we're not sure yet and i believe the present parsing here is not sure yet as to what outcomes are possible but he wants to keep these his resources available for whatever might transpire gregory could speak to the way so i guess political analyst gregory company. ok. a day after e.u. leaders agreed to endorse a briggs it deal to resume a's been back in her own parliament trying to win over skeptical and peace but she faces a massive challenge over the next two weeks to win round down to as head of the december eleventh vote and as the latest from london. the british prime minister's schedule has been jam packed recently as she tries to save face and see her bracks a deal and as she describes it get on with it despite being met with lots and lots
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of resistance back home following of being in brussels this weekend for the e.u. summit where she did in fact see e.u. leaders indorse her bracks a deal she's now back home in westminster and facing the house of commons and this is where her mean adversary is out the moment because despite presenting them today with a statement on leaving the e.u. and answering their questions on hours on end it remains clear that for now m.p.'s are not showing very many signs of being ready to let her off the hook easily when it comes to this deal are to choose a parliament over these coming weeks is to examine this deal in detail to debate it respectfully there could be no joe this deal would leave us with the worst of all worlds how come the prime minister expect the house to vote to put the country in such a weak position. we have
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no idea where this is heading why can't people actually have the chance to have their say in the people's vote if you really trust them she would do it the prime minister of the whole house knows the mathematics of. this will never get through she's not going to get a majority in this house for this deal because it would leave the british people worse off giving up control not taking back a. well look time is certainly ticking and the pressure is piling up as we expect a so-called meaningful vote to take place at the house of commons that date has now been set for december eleventh and this vote will show of the world really if the last. months. of torture as negotiations to try to get a deal on the table had been worth it or whether or not it's more chaos is yet to come. russian chemical experts have confirmed an attack carried out saturday night
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on the syrian city of aleppo involved toxic substances dozens of victims remain in hospital some of them in a critical condition but. it feels like something is burning inside and my eyes are hurting. in the morning at breakfast i looked at homs 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 the cases are far less attention in the international media than previous chemical attacks you can start off looks at the reasons 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 these graphic images posted online by activists and people who live in the area killed victims many of them children drug going to children
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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 the media reaction was this russia has accused
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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 as outreach workers 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 is 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 read here is that france does
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condemned the use of chemical weapons whatever. the uses are they don't care because the targets 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 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 aleppo attack he says the nighttime assault was carried
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out from an area controlled by an al qaeda linked group in neighboring province militant commanders of denied involvement though and insists they don't have chemical weapons. on the less serious foreign ministry is calling on the un to condemn and punish militants involved as well as the countries that arm and finance them we spoke to cough a 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 and people spoke eighteen pretty bad people coming from everywhere. every day the situation is still really bad in the law so that it has still receiving rockets was to receiving more. explosive bullets people today. it's not the first time that we can recall with them used during the battle of we just same kind of weapons but 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 live to worse until now and we are ready for whatever is going to the. u.k.
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government funded organization that influences political and public opinion about alleged to malign russian activities has reacted to a recent leak of documents the trove was posted online by the hacker group anonymous prompting the integrity initiative to issue a statement explains. well integrity initiative has finally replied it's taken them a while because artie first spoke about this story last week but originally these documents were leaked at the start of the month and the statement talks about the organization itself that it's an international public program that was set up back in twenty fifteen in order to count to disinform ation and malign influence and also the fact that it's funded by the u.k. foreign office or at least it has been for the past two years before that its money came from private grants and in relation to the leaked documents specifically the group said that it's a matter of deep regret that they were stolen take
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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 you cannot say with confidence where the they were genuine who whether they include doctored or false material there it is clear that much of the material is dated and was never used so you can see the group distancing itself from the leaked documents that they're saying they're not sure if that genuine they haven't had time to verify whether they're all real and they also point out that a lot of the documents contain sensitive contact details some of people that they were actually considering getting in touch with but hadn't got in touch with the now faced with the headache of contacting these people and explaining about this data breach even though they've had essentially nothing to do with the group so clearly not very happy about this leak and just to refresh your memory in regards to the original story the hacked documents have pared through the anonymous hacking
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website they got their hands on this trove of classified documents that they say proves that the u.k. foreign office is funding this sort of anti russia campaign and as we saw in the statement that the group says that its sole purpose is to counter this information and as a result. ult inevitably that means dealing with a lot of stuff to do with russia where they claim a lot of dissent from ation comes from and just to give you an example of the sort of campaigns that the group. conduct according to these leaked documents you may have heard allegations that russia has was meddling in the catalonia and independence referendum for example well that story may have been helped along by integrity initiative by this group how well a journalist after lated to the group originally posted that story after
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that other mainstream media organizations started talking about it as well so that for you is how the system appears to be working that is just one example and of course it's all conducted under the banner of. of saving democratic institutions preventing the spread of dissent from ation and fighting the good fight. style of ipswich you've been speaking of the shock of to discovering in the rain an asylum seeker apparently used around thirty been attending the children's school posing as a child should have done more checks i blame the home office it was scary because you don't know who this person is 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
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don't know what they are doing there especially when they're young girls at the school. claim to be fifteen years old was suspended after pupils raised their suspicions over the new classmate the student posted a snapshot picture of him in class with the comment house there are thirty year old man in our math class a man now faces deportation with the home office investigating the case he entered britain under the name students found out on his facebook profile he'd been an architecture student in iran before he moved to germany they also discovered pictures of him with a full beard drinking beer one student said told him he was married with two children. reaction to the story from stephen morris member of the english democrats party and one hundred feet from the ramadan foundation thirty years old 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 holy train
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supposedly highly trained border agencies allowed him to come through through the process point me to 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 they're fairly it's 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 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 don't did not against us really worrying is that a thirty year old man has got into a school and put those children at risk in the last report sixty five percent of those questioned a second time over their age was found to be over eighteen and the equator around four hundred eight the last week or so it was four hundred eight people that's four
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hundred eight possibility.

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