more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. after crossing the russian border we had contact with the russian border. i consciously. i was aware that the action of the ukrainian vessels in the straits where. the testimony of a lieutenant commander of one of the ukrainian ships contained in the. kiev of masterminding a provocation three ukrainian ships were fired upon and detained by russia which says they illegally entered its territorial waters. yet another reckless russian escalation and nothing in our opinion justifies this use of force follows on from

russia's illegal acts. followed by two emergency sessions of the un security council russia was roundly accused of being. a spy europe's pledge to support iran amid crippling u.s. sanctions french petrochemical. project the lucrative contracts being picked up by china. and a school that was comes under fire for failing to punish. the nazi salute the issue up for debate. see a bunch of very innocent looking kids doing something stupid i think those things will be repeated and the it will lead to basically joining the military and behaving in certain manners that are not acceptable.

just in time for this hour's top stories here on r.t. international a very warm welcome to you. russia's security services have issued new details regarding sunday's clash in the coach strait which escalated tensions between russia and ukraine moscow has released a video testimony of three crew members who are now in detention in russia including the lieutenant commander of one of the ukrainian ships who admits he consciously ignored russia's orders to stop. so we would i'm going to melissa boy command of the navy division of the grain and military forces were entered the code straight after crossing the russian border we had visual contact with the russian border service vessels by consciously ignored their commands to stop on our boat we had small arms and a machine gun and with ammunition i was aware that the action of the ukrainian vessels in the coast straits were provoked i was following my orders to move our

ships from the port or for this to mario pull the stand off took place in the coach straight which is between russia's mainland and the crimean peninsula ukraine says it informed the russian side of the ship's passage in advance but didn't receive an answer r.t.s. but i guess the of reports on sunday's events. 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 facility 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 tank as much and fishing vessels waiting queuing to cross through a narrow archway under a bridge so that the safety concerns there's this queues there's lines and there's

a procedure in place gradients of followed through a number of times. contrary to the un convention on russian border ships carried out and frankly aggressive actions against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of ukraine. 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 these showdown in this case took place and

were russian woods is even before the reunion of crimea and russia furthermore of the russian federal security service revealed that on board the vessels of the ukrainian flotilla s.b.u. offices that is ukrainian intelligence agents so this cross. seemingly wasn't just an ordinary three 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 a lot of important describe the coach straight class as a provocation by key have timed very well for the upcoming ukrainian a presidential elections political analyst or gregory company agrees saying that poroshenko was trying to put off his inevitable loss of power it was

a premeditated event it was designed specifically to create a confrontation 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 he's facing elections on march thirty first presidential elections in ukraine so he has to do something to bring his ratings out in this thirty days of martial law gives him a chance to either participate in the elections continue to marshal or process or at least gain substantially in the public's esteem so that he will stand a chance in the elections. russia's president vladimir putin discussed the situation with german chancellor angela merkel via telephone western countries have expressed serious concern over what's happened but u.n. security council held two emergency sessions one requested by russia the other by ukraine. as details so there were two emergency meetings of the u.n.

security council not while the meetings were called regarding the situation in the current strait now at this point the first meeting was called by russia and western countries did not approve of the agenda items so it was not adopted the agenda was not adopted there was then a second meeting called on behalf of ukraine now the representative of russia spoke at the first session when he spoke he accused western partners of behaving like overgrown toddlers essentially by quibbling over resolutions and not simply working to resolve the crisis furthermore he pointed out that the provocative actions of the ukraine are coming as a ukrainian presidential election approaches and he pointed out that poroshenko needs to boost his ratings up with the person person goes ratings are extremely low but the elections are not so far away so how do you hold on to power these teams

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 used to russia the second session was called on behalf of ukraine we heard from the united kingdom france poland and they rolled out a narrative that we have heard many times before about russia being supposedly an aggressor threatening the world and wanting to annex more territory what we witnessed this weekend is yet another reckless russian escalation it follows on from russia is that legal action of crimea in two thousand and fourteen nothing in our opinion justifies this use of force because the ukrainian soil. border in a place which even before twenty forty was russian territory you know russia must respect the full implementation of the means grim and you know that i hope that you read in the midst greenman to know perfectly there's not a single word about crimea russia wants to comics the sea. and now it surprises me

turns out that we occupy the hands of c. as well this is something new if you me for i'd like to assure you korean affair with solidarity united states will continue to stand with the people of ukraine against the russian aggression. so this could be perceived as calm for ukraine to carry out further provocations before the un security council meeting began the russian foreign ministry was asked to comment on what it expected of the proceedings they said that they had no allusions they expected that as has happened many times before regardless of what facts they presented before the security council these facts would fall on deaf ears and the same narrative would be rolled out by western leaders and it appears that the prediction given by the russian foreign ministry has proved to be correct. r.t. spoke with russia's deputy u.n. envoy dmitri party and he says the west's response will only encourage ukraine

further by fear that after the western countries that have particular influence on ukraine are really displayed surf session up at its units that the ukrainian side might feel a little bit and bold and to engage in further provocations of this type because they haven't heard that they didn't hear during the meeting and your approach is from from western side that they did something wrong though it seems to me that the issues of slickly clear it is directly linked to the prospect of elections in ukraine it is directly linked to the falling ratings of president poroshenko so it was very strange that the security council colleagues actually avoided. calling calling these things by their real value. after months of rumors china's c.n.n. p.c. oil corporation is replacing french toast towel in iran's multi-billion dollar

south pass gas project the move might come as a surprise to some if the new bush will explain. self pars is the angelina jolie of gas fields with by far the biggest reserves on the planet it's the industry's star attraction yet desperate bid to keep its paws on polls have been well a total failure who wins from trumpeting its own ally france his biggest bugbear china of course china sea and b.c. has officially replaced the pilot parts but it has not started work practically talks need to be held with c. and b. c. about when it will start operations or about your pledge to stand up to terrible mr trump in gas industry lingo hot air mr michael will fight his nation's top employers unless it means shirtfront in washington. we are going to start a strategic trade war with the united states over iran and so i repeat very clearly

we're not going to sanction counter sanction american companies in response to this subject we will not force companies to stay and that is the reality of the business life of the president of the french republic but he's not the c.e.o. of total never fear to the rescue of a pool of diverse as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies so we now need to act and this is why we're launching the process of activating the blocking statute from one thousand nine hundred six and the one thing that blocking statute to stop us think she's hurting europe no we're very angry at you mr trump and we're just going to let our companies fail as rival regions take over investors quit iran's huge rail upgrade russia and china step in india's actually doubled purchases of iran's crude member america's diplomatic diplomat pledging to torture tehran we're going to do everything we can discourage iran hard as the british say to make to squeeze them until the pips squeak their

squeaking sound that's actually europe's top firms as they dropped by e.u. leaders so. alvey the thing e.u. independence so much for europe standing up to trump. economist says that the european union is sadly unable to protect its own companies if you look at the european union by now or with. john karr you would see that it was basically an organisation to the germans maybe the russians out there americans in one of these perpetrators the european businesses know that nothing will happen work them eric and so on one of these is these are just no the facts of the problem is that americans are able to blackmail one of the kind of the companies you better say ok and build restraint and this is exactly what happened because of the slope

because the union is not able and not willingly to protect their own kind of an east. then the chinese the russians and the americans of course. residents in a small community in germany have been warned not to wete their local fish due to contaminated water which they blame on a nearby base. i'm . not ashamed of that carter

i'm thinking more and more about my baby people here increasingly learning they have cancer i think that a lot of it is linked to the jet fuel this topic is sometimes raised locally but most of the effort one is scared to touch it and wounded us is not the news that every other person has cancer this includes me i have cancer my boss at work also has cancer it involves everyone and every day is just that not many think about it until it involves them. the number of cancer patients hasn't changed in the last ten years the same goes with the other diseases constantly for the root cause of the jet at risk you need research that would cover a much larger number of people you need a good database on diseases if the local hospital husband found a spike in oncology diseases that doesn't say anything about a possible connection it's not the way it's established. the problem is that there are too many risk factors that influence our bodies in the end it's very difficult

to find who's the one to blame. we need to find who to blame but who will go against the americans nobody will order them to leave this topic will always be denied well covered up i see that all americans rent apartments here pay good money they're trustworthy tenants if they were to leave or that income would disappear. that's an additional hit. to a german government report from twenty sixteen the country spent over three hundred thirty thousand euros on only cleaning the water sources around the military base. a group of high school students in america have avoided punishment for giving what appears to be the nazi salute in a group photo of the baraboo school district in wisconsin conducted an

investigation and ruled that no action could be taken to do to the students first amendment rights. we cannot know the intentions in the hearts of those who were involved more over because of students first amendment rights the district is not in a position to punish the students for their actions in the photo taken back in may students of baraboo high school can be seen raising their right arms some of the boys later said to the media they were simply waving to their parents some found out unconvincing the image went viral and there were widespread colds for the students to be punished so we put up the issue for debate with activist a sort of. an independent political analyst i started a blew in. when it comes to first amendment i mean that is a very tricky thing and as far as i'm concerned wisconsin legislative house just passed a year a year ago they passed a legislature that if you actually do any type of protest or some kind of action against the right or the neo nazis you actually get punished

some kind of curious how they're perceiving that there's no consequences for doing that kind of behavior but then at the same time they're willing to punish somebody who's willing to stand against it i definitely think it was right not to punish the students i don't even think it should have brought the first amendment into the equation because it diminishes the first amendment which has bigger fish to fry in this case i think to be dismissed as a prank so if you have an image especially photograph it's created it's it's not natural image so the question is who was the person who was taking that picture and who was the person giving basically direction to the kids to wave that way so that i mean that's i mean for me that's i think one of the most important things to take into consideration kids oh always want to do something stupid particularly in the picture i've done silly things in pictures making my face look

silly or wearing something dumb that's why i had an immediate instinct to defend these kids even though i will give them a few hours of history classes we look at them bearable canasa city or county general it's not a four percent white. so that kids in that county have a little exposure to other cultures diversity maybe inclusion education is not what it should be and i believe these kids should get much better education not understanding of what that salute means in fact actually the history of the salute is very calm. next it goes back to roman times and it's actually the first before actually known military salute so it has a long history not necessarily tied with hate all of the time it became a symbol of hate perhaps in the one nine hundred twenty isn't there it's this is somebody told them to play then the ideas they did. but that also comes from

a lot of exposure to the media so we see a lot about trying to drive in the streets we see a lot of proud. of this type of social. social groups and social ideologies they're been popping out around our country so i can also see media having an impact on that i still to come here on the program on the george soros is open society foundation is ceasing operations in turkey we'll explain why in just a moment. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want the president. to go right to the press this is what

the four three of them all can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic to follow only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of. you said.

stories here to the e.u. leaders might have endorsed the deal but to resume a is facing resistance on skepticism back in her own parliament and ahead of the crucial vote. she is rallying to win around the many. reports from london. i firmly believe that the draft withdrawal agreement was the best that could be negotiated this is a brics it the delivers on the priorities of the british people and we can choose to support the best deal that can be negotiated this deal that we have in view a deal that will work for the u.k. so i will take this deal back to the house of commons confident we have achieved the best deal available mr speaker this is the right deal for britain because it delivers on the democratic decision of the british people and i can say to the house with absolute certainty that there is not a better deal available the british prime minister's schedule has been jampacked recently as she tries to save face by saving her bracks

a deal and as she describes it get on with it despite being met with lots and lots of resistance back home now just this weekend she was in brussels where she saw leaders of the european union and doris her bracks the deal but now she's back in the westminster and three saying her biggest adversary at the moment which is the house of commons she was presenting the house with a statement on leaving the european union answering lots and lots of questions and for now it seems clear that m.p.'s there are not quite ready to let her off the hook easily when it comes to her bracks a 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 doubt that 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. radio of vishnu. we have

no idea where this is heading why can't people actually have the chance to have their say in a people's vote if you really trust them she would do it the prime minister of the whole house knows the mathematics so this will never get. he's not going to get a majority in this house for this deal because it would leave the british people worse off that he could not control or not take him back and that. well time is certainly ticking and the pressure is piling up because a so-called meaningful vote at the house of commons is now scheduled for december eleventh and that vote will determine whether or not the last endless months it seems of a torturous negotiations to try to get some kind of deal between the u.k. and the e.u. on the table were worth it or whether more chaos will end up in suing. little

traumas former campaign chairman who has already been indicted in the russia collusion probe may now face a tougher sentence hold on a ford is accused of lying to the f.b.i. something he denies. he believes he has provided the truthful information and does not agree with the government's characterization or that he has breached the agreement. among accusation appears in a report by special counsel robert mueller his office which claims moneyball breached a plea deal however it doesn't specify what he lied about or when this is not stopped the media from going into him. today was the deadline for the motor team to tell the judge whether man a ford is telling them the whole truth and tonight they say no not even close former trump campaign chairman man of ford lied to the f.b.i. and to the special counsel in a breach of his plea agreement after he pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with

prosecutors so after he reached this whole deal he lies to bob miller's team he lies to the f.b.i. legal analyst jennifer bruton told us the manifold must be provided with more details to be able to defend himself when it comes to media stories than what the us mainstream media is choosing to choosing to play on this narrative specifically surrounding the man afforded allegations a man for trials in the mueller investigations it's always a narrative that they're trying to play they're trying to show it is very confusing as to why none of the media stories that have come out have provided substance now in the articles that shows that manna for its defense attorneys had already responded to some of these allegations from the federal prosecutors stating that he lied yet none of the media stories seem to state that which means either that none of the details have been raised or that federal prosecutors didn't provide man a ford or his attorneys with specifics on how he lied they're saying that he lied to federal prosecutors which is part of the plea deal which would now result in

more federal charges but in the u.s. we have the fifth amendment of the constitution states that you're guaranteed due process of they're talking about new federal charges being brought because of lies or omissions the accused. is afforded under u.s. law to know what the charges are against him a specific set of that so that they can defend themselves that. george resources open society foundation is operations in turkey. what it describes as baseless claims that after anchor wrote linked the billionaire to antigovernment protests staged and twenty thirteen. there was a person who financed the terrorists in the event now he is behind us and who is behind him the famous one gary into soros when he thirteen saw the nationwide protests in turkey with the most violent taking place in ankara's gezi park.

over one hundred people were injured in that demonstration the turkish president appears convinced soros was involved in something the billionaire denies. there is an effort to link the open society to foundation so that gives the incidents in twenty thirteen these efforts are not new and they are outside reality sources open society foundation already pulled out of another country earlier this year by the government accused of meddling in the nation's affairs meanwhile back in turkey the country's former foreign minister. says the turbulence in turkish society was easily exploited. i don't think that it is directed to one of the activities so the activities that it conducted what was regarded by the pro government circles a suspicious and the most important part of course the beer involvement or the

claim pinball moment in the incidents that took place in some balls several years ago turkey who was going through a turbulent period socially because of muslim cleric who is living in the united states for two lucky land and his activities and the coup attempt in turkey and now turkey is the moment in syria in the syrian crisis and its effect clashes in turkey all these things may turkish society a little turbulent and for organizations who want to do something in a country such total society is a bit of fertile ground. for showing it to stay with us here at r.t. international many more of the world wide had like to come your way at the top of the hour good to see you.

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