doesn't mean that we 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 victims' families want to that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite you know we've been through this this isn't the way. it was. the commander of one of the ukrainian ships detained in the current strait claims he deliberately ignored russia's or just to stop three ukrainian ships were found upon and seized by russia which says they illegally entered its territorial with. despite european pledges to support companies defying us signing u.s.

sanctions on iran the french petrochemical giants toto pulls out of the largest council project in the country with a new first of contract snatched up by china. and a school in the u.s. state of wisconsin provokes anger after failing to punish students who were paid to keep the nazi salute a new group photo so we put the issue up for debate to see a bunch of very innocent looking kids doing something stupid i think those things if you repeated them the elites you basically joining the military and. certain matters that are not acceptable. a very warm welcome you're watching aussie international with me mickey great to have you with us this hour now our top story moskos released a video testimony of three crew members currently detained in russia following

sunday's clash in the kurt strait the incidents brought russia and ukraine close to conflict the commander of one of the ukrainian ships claims he tong just lee ignored russia's orders to stop. i'm with the melissa voice command of the navy division of the ukrainian military forces of the code straight after crossing the russian border we had a visual contact with the russian border service vessels by consciously ignored their commands to stop when our boat we had small arms and a machine gun with ammunition 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 port or for this to my real standoff took place in the coach straight which lies between it the russian mainland and the crimean peninsula ukraine says its ships were intercepted after they left russia's territorial waters the russian foreign minister has discussed the situation with his french counterpart today in paris and we'll hear from our correspondent about that meeting shortly but first

more on galaxy of has the latest on the fate of the captured ukrainian sailors. it is charging twelve of the lie say liz twelve of the twenty four the detained ukrainian navy personnel charging them with illegally crossing russian borders the others the other twelve they'll be charged tomorrow i believe but so far what we what we know is board the ukrainian flotilla were to counter the 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. contrary to the un convention the russian border ships carried out today frankly

aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of ukraine. just to make clear the strait of kutch is an exclusively russian territory so international shipping including ukrainian ships can pass through the odds 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 guy the day 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 sergey

lavrov the russian foreign minister currently in paris and meeting with his counterparts what did he have to say about the standoff let's talk about first some of the. international reaction to that incident in the sea we've got 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 canada also saying that it condemns russian aggression towards ukraine and it's called on russia to immediately deescalate this situation it's called for russia to release those vessels that were captured and all of those reactions come as you mentioned there's the russian foreign minister has been meeting his french counterpart here in paris where this issue is high on the agenda 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 the russian foreign minister

stood firm and said that this was a provocation by ukraine. and i don't see any need in mediators if the side and its partners in europe are interested in not having such incidents those ukrainian allies should send keep strong signals so that such pro-creation never happen again on a practical level local border authorities on both sides could have discussed any technicalities if the ukrainian side don't understand something although they use the existing procedures back in september 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 action by ukraine this action was actually related to presidential elections which will 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 what we witnessed this weekend is yet another reckless russian escalation it follows on from russia's illegal acceleration of crimea in two thousand and fourteen nothing in our opinion justifies this use of force because the ukrainian side violated our border in a place which even before twenty fourteen was russian territory. russia must respect the full implementation of the minsk agreement. i hope that you read the middle school agreement and know perfectly there's not a single word about crimea russia wants to comics the sea. and now it's surprisingly turns out that we occupy the hands of c. is well this is something new if you're 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 carte blanche for ukraine to carry out further provocation 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. after months of rumors is being confirmed the chinese feel giant is to replace france's totality no wrong for multibillion dollar south park 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 from his biggest bugbear

china of course china sea and b.c. has officially replaced the. sparse 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 so i repeat very clearly we're not going to sanction all 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 the president of the french republic but he's not the c.e.o. of total never fear you both you to the rescue of our 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 is actually doubled purchases of iran's crude member america diplomatic 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 sell and that's actually europe's top firms as they dropped by e.u. leaders so. alvey to think e.u. independence so much for europe standing up to trump. economists out there hanna told us the european union as an able to protect its own company if you look at the

european union by now with under. john karr you would see that it is basically an organization to the german maybe the russian and the american and for this purpose the european businesses know that nothing will happen work with americans don't want these as these are just the facts of the of the powerful americans are able to blackmail one of the cut off the companies you better stay out and build briefcases and this is exactly what happened the company pulled out because your union is not able and not really to protect that all companies. people are living in a small community and gemini have been warned not to eat the local fish here to talk to quote the pollution is being blamed on a nearby u.s.

base. our. national gun carter 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 and consequently find 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 husni 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 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 to trust where the tenants if

they were to leave for that income would disappear. that's an additional here. but according to a german government report from twenty sixteen the country spends more than three hundred thirty thousand euro cleaning the area around the base the water around the base seventy five percent of the cost will be refunded by the us armed forces well we've asked for the american side to comment on the issue and we'll bring you any response as soon as we get it. the international humanitarian groups have called on the u.s. to halt its military support for saudi arabia overreacts ongoing campaign in yemen and a joint statement the five charities sounding the alarm stressed that as many as fourteen million people could starve to death unless urgent action is taken. the united states is one of the most generous donors of humanitarian assistance in yemen but

these contributions pale in comparison to the harm caused by u.s. military support and diplomatic cover to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates if the us does not cease its military support for this saudi u.a.e. coalition its too will bear responsibility for what may be the largest famine in decades the civil war in yemen which flared up in twenty fifteen soon saw and into intervention by a saudi led coalition which backs the yemeni government fight against two theme rebels the conflicts lead to severe wife spread famine as well as shortages of medicine as of now more than ten thousand yemenis have fallen victim to the ongoing war with some killed in the fighting and others succumbing to disease or hunger. but despite the mounting international pressure on saudi arabia over the war in yemen as well as the murder of journalist john mark a soldier in the u.k. has carried out joint military drills with riyadh involving both british and sound

voile our forces let's bring in our guest now jol charlie executive director at the norwegian refugee council usa who is one of the signatories to the joint statement to the u.s. government mr channing thank you for joining us on the program do you really think that president trump will heed your call i mean just recently commenting on the murder of jamal khashoggi he made it very clear that business with saudi arabia including major military current contracts will continue regardless. honestly do i think he will heed our call now not in the short term but this is part of a process of raising the alarm trying to raise the consciousness of people in the u.s. and i think most particularly continuing to push and raise the awareness. of congress related to the yemen situation in what steps that they might be able to take and i think what's interesting about the dynamic here is i think many people

in the administration agree with our perspective feeling that the u.s. could be more in should do more to try and bring the conflict to a halt but there's no question that in the white house president trump himself jarrett coercion or others quite close to the president in the white house they're adamant that you know the saudis are a u.s. ally in the struggle against iran and whether it's murdering a journalist or are putting yemen on the brink of famine i'm down is superseded by our tactical alliance with the saudis in the in the wider middle east i don't think there's any question about that how significant a lol it is the u.s. and the u.k. as a military assistance both saudi arabia really playing in the continuation of the war in yemen and by extension civilian suffering that. what i think i mean i think the

fundamental issue i would say is more political than military i mean there is no question that by continuing to supply the saudis with arms the us until very recently has been refueling planes there there is a role for the u.s. in supporting the war effort no question but does the war effort stand or fall on direct u.s. assistance i would say not necessarily but it's more if it really gets back to your first question it's more about political support and it's more about the feeling that this is a conflict in yemen and that's a proxy conflict for the wider struggle between the saudis and iran for influence in the middle east and in that context it's fundamentally ok a to pursue though the war the way the saudis are are doing so and again i think there are people in the

administration who don't agree with this who feel that you know their only solution is a political solution who would like to see the saudis and the m.r.i. these you know halt the assaults on what data would like to see them open the ports so that goods can come in both humanitarian and commercial goods but they are simply not winning the argument within the discussion in the administration i your organization no waiting refugee council usa is it the full friends of helping yemeni civilians could you give us a better idea of the humanitarian situation in the country right now. it's really catastrophic and what i would emphasize is there is a complete economic collapse that is primarily responsible for creating the famine conditions at this point in other words people don't have the money to buy there are delays in getting goods into yeah. the failure to pay salaries of civil

servants is one of the driving factor in then on top of this you have the conflict you have or you know have parties to the conflict that are preventing us from gaining access to vulnerable people the coalition is bombing food granary and preventing the production of food in some areas in the north on sarala for their part they are often preventing people from moving to safer places to where they might be able to find either food or at least shelter from from the conflict so it's a combination i would say of the conflicts but also just the economic collapse that the conflict is causing so china executive director at the norwegian refugee council usa thank you feel time. thank you so

a quick break now do you stay with us for most stories in just a minute. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from duration let it be an arms race is often experience dramatic development 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. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape our disdain become educated and in detroit it equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back accord haring in the u.s. state of virginia today could shed light on recent revelations which appeared to suggest the u.s. was about to charge the formal wiki leaks chief julian a song as well as his caleb moore pin and joins me now live with the details now so kayla what more do we know about this case. so there's been a grand jury and alexandria virginia who has been hearing testimony related to

julian assange but as of yet no public charges have been filed against a son is now recently there was a document a prosecutor's file that was made public and that sparked controversy that indicated that it was possible that charges were pending against julian a son so now we have the reporters committee that has filed for any charges against julian a songe to be immediately unsealed they have filed in court and the court proceedings are taking place asking that if there are indeed charges against a songe they be immediately unsealed and made public and made available to the public they can know what he's being charged with now the the prosecutor's file that was released we're now hearing from the court that is not confirmation or denial of any actual charges against julian a songe now people look at the case and speculate as to what julian assange could be charged for now we know that he released information about iraq and afghanistan video files from the military there were also classified diplomatic cables that

were released furthermore more recently he released cyber tools used by the u.s. central intelligence agency now people are keeping their eye on julian a son who's currently remains walled up in the london embassy of ecuador and he recently lost a case against ecuador as they imposed some new house rules on julian assad julian assad at this point for example is being required to take better care of his cat to pay for his own food and to clean the bathroom let's look at some of these new rules a julian a songe is being expected to comply with in the embassy. now

assad ultimately had to give up his cat now essentially joined us he's been in the ecuadorian embassy and he was actually recently declared a citizen a naturalized citizen of ecuador after being in the embassy for five and a half years and it's also been revealed at this point that the u.k. foreign office they've they've revealed that they were approached by ecuador ecuador asked to make julian assange a diplomat the hope was that if he could be made a diplomat of aqua door now that he is an ecuadorian citizen that he could then not be arrested and could have legal immunity when he then tried to leave the country and would not be facing these bail conditions however at this point he was not granted these diplomatic status despite the fact that he's forty seven years old has become a naturalized citizen of ecuador julian assad remains walled up in the ecuadorian

embassy and now it is not public information the court proceedings are continuing revealing the question whether or not he is facing any criminal charges in the united states can i thank you for those details that kenneth melson speaking live from new york. group of high school students in the u.s. have avoided punishment given what appeared to be and now it seems that it's a new group photo and investigation ruled no action could be taken to the student's first amendment rights which protect 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 high school can be seen raising their right own some of them told the media they were simply waving to their parents but not to everyone was convinced

the image went viral and there were widespread calls for action 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 or 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 i definitely think it was right not to punish the students i don't even think it should have brought the first amendment into that he 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 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 baraboo khan city or county general it's ninety four percent white. so the 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. klicks 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 hate all 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 be stupid. 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. of this type of the social. social groups and social ideologies start popping out around our country so i can also see media having an impact on that. things are chasing aussie international hey with the latest at the top of the out.

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