just no way that doesn't mean that we're even many of the families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victim's families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. it. was. a commander of one of the ukrainian ships detained in the cut straight claims he deliberately ignored russia's orders to stop the ukrainian ships with first fired upon and seized by russia which they as they illegally entered its territorial waters. yet another reckless russian escalation nothing in our opinion

justifies this use of force it follows on from russia's illegal acceleration of crimea in two thousand and fourteen. the standoff resulted in two emergency sessions of the un security council where russia was roundly accused of being the aggressor. despite european pledges to support companies defying u.s. sanctions on iran the french petrochemical giants totalis pulls out of the largest accounts project in the country with a new part of contract flashed up by china. under school in the u.s. state of wisconsin provokes anger after failing to punish students who appeared to give the nazi salute and a group photo we put the issue of the debate. see a bunch of very innocent looking kids doing something stupid i think those things give you repeated and. leads to basically these kids joining the military and

behaving in a certain matters that are not acceptable as you argue about it. hello there in a very warm welcome you're watching r t international with me nicky aaron great to have you with us this hour now our top story moskos released video testimony of three crew members currently detained in russia following sunday's clash in the current strait the incident brought russia and ukraine close to conflict the commander of one of the ukrainian ships claims he told inches slee ignored russia's orders to stop. so i'm going to melissa morey commander of the navy division of the grain and military forces were answered the code 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 the straits provoke it if i was following my orders to move our ships from the port or for this to mario the standoff took place in the cut straight which lies between the russian mainland and crimean peninsula ukraine says its ships were intercepted after they left russia's territorial waters but now cross live to more gas they have has been the case in courage with the latest and more on thanks for joining us there's been a court hearing today can you bring us up to speed on what was said. all twelve of the ukrainian sailors that were detained by russian border border patrols have been charged with illegally crossing the russian border their vessels the three ships that were seized impounded behind me lined up to patrol

vessels and another ship but what we know what we learned yesterday from the russian federal security service is that brought the naval flotilla the ukrainian flag deal with to counter espionage agents to s.b.u. agents that's ukrainian intelligence why they were there we don't know but the ukrainian government has confirmed that the two agents were indeed bored perhaps giving this patrol this their mission you know are higher profile than an ordinary fleet maneuver rebasing from dessa to the as of sea as they initially said the russians or the russian federal security service also corner logically. detailed what exactly happened they said that they detected the ukrainian vessels approaching russian territorial waters they warned them that the strait of kutch was closed that they couldn't they had to follow notification something that the

ukrainians had done many times before with civilian vessels with military vessels ukrainians apparently said that they weren't going to cross the strait of kutch that they were merely navigating through russian territory. they proceeded and then they said that they were going to cross and they didn't need any sort of documents as the ukrainian president said all communication from the russian patrol boats they've been ordered to stop to halt and they refused to follow any sort of notification that resulted in the high speed dramatic chase that we saw on video in fact it happened somebody happened in the streets of courage itself we saw those ukrainian patrol boats maneuvering turning sharply dangerously very close in close proximity to tankers to fishing vessels that were parked waiting in queue to cross the narrow archway under the bridge that resulted in you know weapons being

deployed. being fired at the ukrainian vessels thankfully it ended without any any deaths but. as of right now the russian federation suspects that the orders for this mission came from the very top of the ukrainian government they believe that this was all planned this provocative act and they also said that some of this house speed chase happened in the territorial waters of russia on the east side of the strait which was russian territorial waters before the reunion with crimea in two thousand and fourteen so a lot of you know a lot of reaction a lot of development we've heard but this is how it happened exactly. contrary to the un convention russian border ships carried out a frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of

ukraine. the ukrainians though adamant they say that they did file a notification something the russian side says never happened that they received no notification of intent to pass through the strait of kutch just to make clear the strait of kutch is an exclusively russian territory so international shipping including ukrainian ships can pass through the arch way but in the interests of security and safety because the archways very small and there's a lot of traffic going through there's a queue system whereby ships a guided in and out according to their position in the queue the ukrainians who say

that they did file a notification they said the this was an act of war carried out by the russian federation they use that to justify establishing martial law in ukraine and they say that russia should immediately release all the ukrainian sailors and s.b.u. agents that were detained and that they should release the three vessels impounded the behind me. mark gasnier speaking to us live from kutch thank you for that update we can now get more on this from our correspondent shallow defense now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov he is currently in paris paying a visit what did he have to say about the situation. well this is one of the issues that was being discussed today between the russian foreign minister and the french foreign minister who met this morning in the building behind me they both said that they wanted to see a resolution to this the french foreign minister saying that he wanted to ensure

that there were no further escalations to tensions in the area and that there was a peaceful way forward the russian foreign minister saying that this was a clear act of provocation by the ukrainians and that many ships had already passed through this section of water the sea of as of many times before with getting to the russian government and russian services take a listen no to what a lover of had to say during that press conference. i don't see any need in mediators if the ukrainian side and his partners in europe are interested in not having such incidents ukrainian allies should send kiev strong signals so that such provocations never happen again on a practical level border authorities on both sides could have discussed any tenach allergies if the ukrainian so i didn't understand something although they use the existing procedures back in september. but.

if you want us to go with that press conference by the chief foreign ministers meeting here today came off to meetings at the u.n. security council they were called by kiev and moscow respectively no russia is meeting agenda was not adopted in russia's representative at the u.n. security council. she described western partners as behaving like overgrown toddlers however ukraine's action he also called you can sanctions a provocation and said that the linked to presidential elections in the country those presidential elections are taking place in march of next year however ukraine's meeting had support from other western countries and the discussions in terms of what happened there with that this was a russian act of aggression and the this was to do with the annexation of crimea

let's take a listen to some of the discussions at the u.n. security council meeting. russia decided to prevent passage of the ukrainian ships rammed them and then opened fire on them yesterday's action follows months of russian rassmann of international shipping in a series of nothing in our opinion justifies this use of force russia must immediately cease its unlawful conduct russia's actions must stop immediately. will come also being condemning russia's reactions in regard to that incident in the sea of of saying that they call on russia immediately to deescalate to release the captured vessels and allow freedom of passage in that area it said that canada is unwavering in its support for ukraine's sovereignty that was from the canadian

foreign minister and we've also had some reaction from the u.s. state department who says that the united states condemns this aggressive russian action they said we call on both parties to exercise restraint and abide by international obligations and commitments so that's the reaction that we're getting in regards to that from the international. community and of course that issue being addressed here in paris today a by the french and russian foreign ministers who have been meeting that was one of the main topics on their agenda so let's thank you so much for those details actually do reporting live from paris there. now after months of rumors it's been confirmed a chinese film giant is to replace france's totality in iran's multi-billion dollar southpark gas project and as daniel bushell explains the move might come as a surprise to some. self pauses the angelina jolie of gas fields

with by far the biggest reserves on the planet is the industry's star attraction yet toto's desperate bid to keep its paws on poles have been well a total failure who wins from trumpeting his own life france his biggest bugbear china of course china sea and b.c. has officially replaced the spars but it has not started work practically talks need to be held with c. and b. c. about where it will start operations what about your pledge to stand up to terrible mr trump in gas industry lingo hopes 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 or counter sanction american companies in response to this subject we will not force companies to stabilise and that is the reality of

the business life of the president of the french republic but he's not this is your of total never fear. to the rescue. operatives work 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. any one thing that blocking statute to stop us sanctions hurting europe no we're very angry at you mr trump and we're just going to let our companies fail as royal regions take over german italian investors quit iran's huge rail upgrade russia and china step in india's actually doubled purchases of iran's crude. diplomatic pledging to torture tehran we're going to do everything we can the squeeze iran hard as the british say to make to squeeze them until the pips squeak and that's actually europe's top firms as they dropped by e.u.

leaders so. the thing independence so much for europe standing up to trump economist alcohol and told us the european union is sadly unable to protect its own company. if you look at the union. with. john carr you see that it is basically an organisation. maybe the russians out there americans in. the european business know that nothing will happen americans don't want this is. just the facts of the problem is that americans are able to blackmail you know one of the kind of the companies you better say oh no and they will and this is exactly what happens to companies because the union is not able and not

really to protect their own companies. people living in a small community in germany have been warned not to eat the local fish due to talk sick water the pollution has been blamed on a nearby u.s. air base. i'm. not ashamed of the un charter and i'm thinking more and more about my baby people here are 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 mostly f. or one is scared to touch it and wounded us it is not 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 consequently for the root cause in the risks 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 and pay good money for the trust where the tenants if they were to leave all that income would disappear. that's an additional here. thanks. according to a german government report from twenty sixteen the country spent more than three hundred thirty thousand euro cleaning the water around the base seventy five percent of the cost will be refunded by the us armed forces what we've asked for the american side for comments on the issue will bring you any response as soon as we get it. with students in the u.s. escaping punishment for allegedly doing the nazi salute america's first amendment comes under fire we've got that story and small after this short break.

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our. culture. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back a group of high school students in the u.s. have avoided punishment for giving what appeared to be a non seize the lucena group photo and investigation ruled no action could be taken to show the students' first amendment rights which protect freedom of speech of expression. 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 from baraboo high school can be seen raising their right arms some of them told the media they were simply waving to their parents but not everyone was convinced the image went viral and there were widespread calls for action when we put the issue up for debate. 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 protests 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 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 the 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 the bearable con city or county in 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 i believe these kids should get much better education or understanding of what that salute means in fact actually the history of the salute is very complex it goes back to roman times and it's actually the first officially known military salute so it has a long history not necessarily tied with heat of the time it became a symbol of hate perhaps in the one nine hundred twenty s. and thirty's i just as somebody told them to wave in the ideas they did. they but that also comes from a lot of exposure to the media so we see a lot about trying to do it right in the streets we see a lot of proud boys but this type of social. social groups and social ideologies they're been popping up around our country so i can also see media having an impact on that. russian prosecutors have sent out requests

for cooperation to the u.k. and other countries i think connection with the bill browder case a british mine on thier suspected by the russian authorities of numerous crimes this time the focus is on ground as alleged money laundering however as medina cotton of the reports next the trail could well lead lead elsewhere. it seems the investigation as indeed in full swing as the recent an ounce meant follows the decision that was made by the russian prosecution office to open a new criminal case against william browder and the british based finance he had a huge business here in russia back in the ninety's and two thousand he was charged with nine years in prison in the percent for tax fraud and now russia has opened up a new case an organized crime case against him russian prosecutors plan to add mr browder to international wanted lists and also seize his assets abroad the

investigation believes that the illegal activity he has organized groups brought to several countries in some documents remote a move. which would just reach out to britain because the evidence points to the criminal group six to the two in many countries the u.s. the baltic countries and all those william browder is also under the investigation radar over the deaths of seven who was his lawyer and top tax advisor russia considered him to be involved in mr browder is criminal activities he was arrested and died and pretrial detention. became an international scandal with william browder accusing russian officials of killing him and saying that all the accusations against him were politically motivated he used it he has a case of back in two thousand and twelve to lobby the so-called mug sanctioning

russian officials implicated in corruption and for alleged violations of human rights and now russian prosecutors are basically stepping out was a mere zero accusations and saying that they have enough to prove that game of need ski was poisoned by talk the chemicals on browder orders. morton tests show that there were symptoms of chronic poisoning with the toxic water soluble elimimian compound taken orally but there has never been full scale research into such substances in russia but over dozens of years texaco logical research into these compounds has been conducted especially by the u.s. france and italy and while moscow plans to seek a broader is x. tradition where yet to see whether there is going to be any reaction coming from the west on the recent russian calls for cooperation well here with r.t. we'd love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by

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