it's. the time. the commander of one of the ukrainian ships detained in a straight claims he deliberately ignored russia's the orders to stop three ukrainian ships were fired upon and seized by russia which they say they illegally entered into territorial waters. yet another reckless russian escalation nothing in

our opinion justifies this use of force that follows on from russia's illegal an 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 giant hotel pulls out of the largest gas project in the country but the lucrative contract contracts matched up by china. underscoring the u.s. state of wisconsin provokes anger after failing to punish students who are paid to give the not things to loot in a group photo we put the debate. to see a bunch of very innocent looking kids doing something stupid i think those things will be repeated and the. basis of your joining the military and. certain

members that are not accepted gave. a very warm welcome you're watching r t international with me ticky 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 as following sunday's clash in the clutch strait the incidents brought russia and ukraine close to conflict become on dolls one of the ukrainian ships claims he consciously ignored russia's orders to stop. so i'm going to melissa morey commander of the navy division of the grain and military forces of 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 munitions i was aware that the action of the ukrainian vessels

and because straights provoked it if i was following orders to move our ships from the portal for this to mario. the standoff took place in the current straight lines between the russian mainland and the crimean peninsula ukraine says its ships were intercepted after they left russia's territorial waters a canal cross live to more advanced e.f. who's encouraged with the latest and then we'll be going to charlotte dubai is he who is in paris where the russian foreign minister is paying a visit so first to you marans there's been a court hearing today can you bring us up to speed on what was said. ok we seem to have lost the connection with mariah downstairs let's go straight to paris now to shallow to ben ski our correspondents are a lover of the russian foreign minister currently in paris meeting with his counterparts what did he have to say about the standoff earlier today.

well he talked about that standoff and said that this was a provocation on the part of ukraine but let's talk about first some of the international reaction to that incident in this. we've got the reaction from the u.s. state security department saying that it condemns what it's describing as being this aggressive russian action that's going on to say that it's calling for both parties exercise restraint and to abide by international obligations nickie also some reaction. canada canada also saying that it condemns russian aggression towards ukraine and it's called on russia to immediately deescalate this situation its called for russia to release those vessels that were captured it's also called for the freedom of passage in strait and it's called and said that it has

unwavering support for ukrainian sovereignty when all of those reactions come as you mentioned there's the russian foreign minister has been meeting his french counterparts here in paris where this issue is high on the agenda and was discussed the french foreign minister said that he wanted both sides to cool down to ensure that there was no escalation of tensions in the region and said ok love rove the russian foreign minister talked about the incident talked about the international reaction but he stood firm and said that this was a provocation by ukraine. i don't see any need in mediators if the ukrainian side and his partners in europe are interested in not having such incidents those 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. well this incident has also been discussed a u.n. security council there were two meetings called at the u.n. security council one by kiev and one boy moscow the russian meeting was not adopted and russia's representative went on to describe western allies reacting like overgrown toddlers and suggested that the reaction by ukraine this action was actually related to presidential elections which. take place next year now at the ukrainian meeting which was supported by western allies the discussion there was about what they said was russian aggression also discussion of what they view as being the an extension of crimea let's get a flavor now of that 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 harassment 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. well a lot of aggressive comments in regards to russian condemnation of russia's action coming from members of the international community but russia stands firm as does its foreign minister here in a visit in paris saying the actions were a provocation by ukraine and russia acted accordingly charlotte dubinsky thank you for that update i believe we can go back to our correspondent mark now who's in curch more on to a court hearing today can you bring us up to speed on what was said that.

indeed two hundred kilometers from here where the three ukrainian vessels are impounded in kutch in simferopol the court there has heard the prosecution it is charging twelve of the lie. twelve of the twenty four detained ukrainian navy personnel charging them with illegally crossing russian borders was. elected to arrest them until the twenty fifth of january the others the other twelve the offices and to s.b.u. agents ukrainian intelligence agents they'll be charged. tomorrow i believe but so far what we what we know is what the federal security service said revealed yesterday that aboard the ukrainian flotilla were to counter espionage s.b.u. agents that the f.s.b. believes was directing orchestrating these provocative acts and they believe it was

ordered by the highest echelons of ukraine's government would by the very top in order to bring about an environment just the big ation to establish martial law in ukraine just four months before elections making it illegal to protest that criticize the government in giving the government the right to sense that all media outlets nevertheless what happened in kut yesterday was credibly dangerous russia made clear at no point says that they could straighten the crossing between the black sea and the as oxy. exclusive territory this in its territorial waters but according to the u.n. the sequel vention on the law of the sea all shipping international other ships composite through the cut straight so long as they notify the authorities there that they intend to pass this is done because there's a lot of the and heavy traffic heavy marine traffic tankers fishing vessels other vessels passing through a very narrow archway and yesterday we shall queues of dozens and dozens of ships

on both sides while this dangerous high speed chase was going on. contrary to the un convention on russian border ships carried out today frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of ukraine. to recap the russian federal security service patrol boats to take to get detected the approaching ukrainian flotilla monza miles away as they were entering russian

territorial waters they contacted them the ukrainians claim that they weren't making for the cut straight that they wanted tending to pass into the sea and that they were merely navigating through which they have the right to they continued on then suddenly they declared that they were passing through the cut straight without filing any sort of notification notification the russians inform them that the trade was closed temporarily closed but the ukrainian said that they were going to pass through anyway and that was all that in this dramatic and dangerous dangerous yesterday which ended in the three ukrainian vessels being fired upon halted in the sale as the office is being arrested russia again claims that some of this chase in the strait happened didn't territorial waters that were russian before the reunion with crimea on the eastern side of the straits ukraine meanwhile claims that this was an act of war this was aggression that they filed the notification

they say that they did everything by procedures they had done before in this case they calling on russia to release the detained sailors and offices the two s.b.u. agents that ukraine also confirmed on board there saying that this was a hostile act and they're calling for russia to release the three impounded vessels again behind me and i thank you for the state house to both of our correspondents mind speaking live from kucha and shall i do penske life in paris thank you very much. now after months of remus has been confirmed a chinese feel giant has to replace france's totality in a wrong that multibillion dollar southpaws gas project and as daniel bushell explains the move might come as a surprise to some. 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 toto's 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 pal insults parts but it has not started work practically talks need to be held with c. and b. c. about when it will start operations what 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 and then. we are going to start a strategic trade war with the united states over iran and 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 a business like the president of the french republic but he's not this your of total never fear you both your own cut to the rescue of all people 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 sanctions hurting europe know we're very angry at you mr trump and we're just going to let our companies fail as rival 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 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 that. dropped by e.u. leaders so of well thought out v the thing independence so much for europe standing up to trump. well economist at the hanna told us the european union is sadly unable

to protect its own companies if you look at the european union by now or we're under. jhankaar you will see that it is basically an organisation to the german maybe the russians out there americans. for this purpose the european businesses know that nothing will happen work that americans don't want this is. just know the facts of the power of the americans are able to blackmail one of the kind of the companies you better stay out and they will risk anything and this is exactly what happens to companies who are out because the european union is not able and not willing to protect their own companies. people are living in a small community in germany have been warned not to eat the local fish that's due

to toxic 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 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 risks you need research that would cover a much larger number of people you need a good database on diseases if the local hospital hasn't from the 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 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.

volunteers and pay good money to the trust where the tenants if they were to leave for that income with this is their. that's an additional. thanks. well according to a german government report from twenty sixteen the country spends 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 or we've asked for the american side to comment on the issue and will bring you any response as soon as we get it now with students in the u.s. escaping punishment for allegedly doing the nazi salute america's first amendment comes under fire we've got the details for you and more after this quick break.

if. politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. let you go right to be that's what the fuck are you the more people. interested always in the logs. to.

welcome back a group of high school students in the us to have avoided punishment for giving what appeared to be a nazi salute in a group photo an investigation ruled no action could be taken due to the student's fast amendment rights which protects freedom 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 oh and 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 so we decided to 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 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 their bearable con 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 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. works 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 this is somebody told them to believe in the ideas they did. 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 the social. social groups and social ideologies they're been popping up around our country so i can also see having an impact on that. the british prime minister has just two weeks to convince them pays her break that plan with the e.u. is the only way forward parliament will lobaton the divorce deal on december

eleventh but many believe to raise them a face is a mission impossible to win a round the doubters and as they say a check and a has more now from london. i firmly believe that the draft withdrawal agreement was the best that could be negotiated this is a brix it the delivers on the priorities of the british people and we can choose to unite 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 facing 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 due to use 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. 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 this will never get. she's not going to get a majority in this house for this do you because it would leave the british people worse so that it cannot be controlled or not taken back. 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 lists months it seems of 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. russian prosecutors have asked the u.k.

and other countries for help in bringing to justice or prominence kremlin critic bill browder is a british why not see a suspected by the russian authorities of numerous crimes the focus this time is on his alleged money laundering with more details his medina cauchon of. 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 of 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. but we won't just reach out to britain because the evidence points to the criminal groups to that 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 game 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 montt to vait it he used it he has a case of back in two thousand and twelve to lobby the so-called mug act 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 talks the chemicals on browder orders. mortem tests show that there were symptoms of chronic poisoning with the toxic water soluble compounds 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. 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. if you have something you'd like to say do get in touch via social media and join us again at the top of the hour.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is also a spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. joining me every thursday on the alex song i'm sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.