is revealed to the three ukrainian ships which russia says illegally entered its territorial waters had weapons and ammunition on board and whether the international community has been quick to back not moscow in the. european pledges to support companies defying u.s. sanctions on iran the french petrochemical giant pulls out of the largest gas

project in the country the lucrative contract snatched up by china. and five international humanitarian groups called on the u.s. to hold its military support for saudi arabia over the war in yemen stressing if things continue as they are fourteen million people could starve to death. joining us this evening this is r.t. international. released video testimony of three crew members currently detained in russia following sunday's clash in the strait the incident brought russia and ukraine close to conflict the commander of one of the ukrainian ships claims that he consciously ignored russia's orders to stop. commands a division of the military forces of the cuts. great 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 coast straits were provoked if i was following orders to move our ships from the port or for this to mario pull the standard to place in the care straight which lies between the russian mainland and the crimean peninsula ukraine says that it ships were intercepted after they left russia's territorial waters let's get more on this story now from our correspondent who's in care she has been following a court hearing involving some of the detained crew and also will be speaking to a poly boy here in london who has more the international reaction first you. bring is the details what do we know then about what happened in this court hearing. well twelve of the detained ukrainian sailors and officers have been charged

with illegally crossing the russian border they've been arrested now until the twenty fifth of january the rest will be charged presumably with the same accusation charge as the others at the later date but the federal security services again released more details as to what was in the ships and their orders previously we had heard about how the ukrainian ships were intercepted how they would take that how they refused all communication requests how they refused to follow notification to parch process to the curch traded we sure the ensuing chase the high speed chase which was also very dangerous because the a lot of shipping a lot of big lines waiting to cross through the strait we're talking about tankers fishing vessels other vessels but the federal security service has now released for example documents that they found on board the three vessels that there are impounded now here in kutch we saw orders for example to proceed with maximum

stealth to maximize stealth as these ukrainian ships travel through woods patrolled by russian forces by the russian border guard presumably to avoid detection and to get as close to the streets as possible we also saw account of the weapons and ammunition seized the brought these three ukrainian ukrainian vessels and it was a it was an arsenal we're talking about the math a grenade launchers for them i believe six machine guns doesn't make a forty seven rifles and other weapons as well pistols we're talking about thousands and thousands of rounds of ammunition and ten thousand rounds just for the a k forty seven there was grenades there was all sorts of explosives as well it was a huge hole russia by the way again reminding. issuing their. position saying that the incident itself to place pati in the territorial waters of the russian

federation the strait of kutch in the territorial waters that were part of the russian federation before they were union with crimea in two thousand and fourteen . contrary to the un convention on russian border ships carried out a frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of ukraine. russian federal security service. reported that abroad this ukrainian naval flood

flew till. two agents count to espionage agents of the ukrainian intelligence agency s b u two of them something that ukraine has since confirmed the russians believe that these two men were directing orchestrating this incident with full intent to provoke they believe the order to do so came from the very top from ukraine's government to justify the ensuing martial law that we've seen established across many regions of ukraine the ukrainians however stand on their own they're adamant they're saying that this was an act of war provocation by russia that russia behaved aggressively towards ukraine that they shouldn't have done this that they had filed a notification of intent to posture the strait of of kutch but that the russians had carried out this aggressive action that they're now calling. russia to release the twenty four sailors officers and agents that have been detained and to release

the three vessels that are impounded here in curch. ok that's my guess the of with from many thanks let's go to london now expects a pollie boycott correspondence in the u.k. where parliament's been discussing the developments today what's been said polly well i wasn't in the plan a but politicians demanded an urgent debate on the situation in the sea or was over and they got it except i would say that it wasn't much of a debate because the condemnation of russia's actions was pretty much unanimous from the politicians first it was the town of the u.k. foreign minister alistair he said that the u.k. condemns russia's actions called for the immediate release of the ukrainian sailors in russia's custody and he also said that what's taken place is a serious escalation of the conflict between russia and ukraine and all the politicians members of parliament we came to express their condemnation as well

take a listen to what some of them had to say given russia's interference with maraton trade in the sea of us of united kingdom will certainly continue to be committed to the crane's independence sovereignty and territorial integrity to be putin's approach is very similar to the idea of heating a frog in water that he keeps on pushing things and keep from pushing the heat it will not be in what used to be instant reaction. yeah and i was listening into that debate there was talk of russia being a pariah state ignoring the international rule based system also talking about showing russia the consequences of its actions and debates on how to show you crane practical support there were a few questions about making sure all the president poroshenko of ukraine doesn't abuse this martial law that he's going to be putting in place making sure that he sticks to the elections that are scheduled for early next year perhaps the brightest note struck from that debate was from the foreign minister saying that

the u.k. really wants to have a good relationship with russia if only mosco would behave better now a similar attitude coming from across the poland the u.s. state department announced today that it condemns russia's aggressive actions as well canada issued a similar statement say siding with ukraine calling for russia to release the captured vessels and we heard from the russian foreign minister as well today he was actually in paris meeting with his french counterpart to join even a dream. according to the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov this was all a provocation but not from the russian side from the ukrainian side take a listen you're heard you don't see any need to mediate the ukrainian side and these partners in your brain 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 technicalities if the ukrainian so i didn't understand something they use the existing procedures back in september. well as is the case with the recent history the international community saying one thing and russia standing firm and saying that's not how we say it. many thanks us political reporting for us from london earlier from rag as the in coach and we've asked a writer broadcaster married a jet ski why western countries are immediately backing ukraine. i think it's because there is a very often there is a tendency to believe the smaller party rather than the bigger party and to assume that the bigger party is wrong in a smaller part is right also i think that i don't know about other countries but

certainly in terms of. western europe the ukrainians were very efficient about getting their version of what happened out first so the first account everybody heard of what had happened in the. in the hours of c. or getting into the us of c. that came from ukraine and once the first version has got out it's actually very difficult to contradict it. only months of rumors it's been confirmed a chinese feel giant is replacing francis to iran's multi-billion dollar southpaws gas project as the new 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 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 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 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 that 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 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 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 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 cell nets actually europe's top firms as they dropped by e.u. leaders so. alveda think e.u. independence so much for europe standing up to trump. kind of still kahala told us

the european union is sadly unable to protect its own companies. if you look at the european union by now well with. john karr you would see that it was basically an organisation to keep the german maybe the russians out there americans and various the european businesses know that nothing will happen what the americans don't want this is. just another the facts of the problem is that americans are able to blackmail one of the companies you better stay on and build risk and this is exactly what happens to companies because the european union is not able and not willingly to protect their own companies journalists have been challenging the u.s.

courts to reveal whether or not the american or thirty's are brought charges against former we can exchange julian assange to find out how they got on after the break. when i was still seem wrong. roles just don't hold. me. yet to shape out these days. and it. equals betrayal. when somebody find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. you know world big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than

ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. a group of high school students in the u.s. avoided punishment for giving what appeared to be a nazi salute in a group photo 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 in may students from baraboo high school could be seen raising their right arms some of them told the media they were simply waving to their parents but not everybody was convinced the image went viral and there were widespread calls for action we put the issue of the 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 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 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 them bearable canasa 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 gluten 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 of usually 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 this is somebody told them to burn the ideas that. 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 cut this type of social. social groups and social ideologies there been popping up around our country so i can also see media having

an impact on that. international humanitarian groups have called on the u.s. to halt its military support for saudi arabia over riyadh's ongoing campaign in yemen in a joint statement the five charities sounding the alarm stressed that as many as forty 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 you eat coalition its too will bear responsibility for what may be the largest famine in decades. civil war in yemen which fed up in two and fifteen soon saw an intervention by a saudi led coalition which backed the yemeni government's fight against the three rebels the conflicts lead to severe widespread famine as well as shortages of medicine as of now more than one more than ten thousand yemenis have for the victim

to the ongoing war with some killed in fighting succumbing to disease or hunger. despite the mounting international pressure inside a rabia over the war in yemen as well as the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the u.k. is carried out joint military drills with riyadh involving both british and saudi royal air forces earlier we heard from jill chani executive director of the norwegian refugee council usa he's one of the signatories of the joint statement to the us government he told us both warring sides in yemen a contributing to the ongoing famine. 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 in to young in then on top of this you have the conflict you have parties to the conflict that are preventing us from gaining access to vulnerable people on the coalition is bombing food granary

and preventing the production of food in some areas in the north ansari for their part they are often preventing people from moving to a safer place too. where they might be able to find either food or at least show from the conqueror. hopes the clearer picture would just see whether the form of wiki leaks for julian assange will face challenges in the u.s. have been put on hold after hearing brought by journalists to have official information unsealed was adjourned on the east coast from the killer more joins me on the line with a bit of a delay from new york kelli what more do we know about this case. well

at this point we've heard an inconclusive ruling from the judge the judge has come forward and said that supplemental material needs to be provided before a ruling can be given now this is all related to the fact that there has been a grand jury in alexandria virginia that has been hearing testimony related to julian assigns now at this point no public charges against a songe have been filed or made public however there was a prosecutor file that was released to the public and now we have the reporters committee that it's called that is filing that all charges against julian a songe be unsealed they're saying that it should be made public if there are any files any criminal charges against the sons now the prosecution is arguing that

rather that those charges should remain sealed until the time that julius onj was arrested now at this point it cannot be confirmed or denied whether or not there are charges against his sons and whether or not that information will be public is what we are waiting for. for the court to rule they will come back with a ruling after another hearing in a week now at this point people are speculating that joined us on the founder of wiki leaks could be charged for possibly for releasing files related to iraq and afghanistan and u.s. military activities there he could also be charged for for releasing classified diplomatic cables most recently he did release information related to cia cyber security programs now it's also important to note that julius onto remains our walled up in the ecuadorian embassy in london that he recently lost a case against the government of ecuador and has been required to live under some

new house rules he's being required at this point to take care better of his captor to clean the bathroom i mean to pay for his own food let's review some of the rules that join us on just having to live by in the ecuadorian consulate and korean embassy in london. now at this point julian assad has had to give up his cat his cat has been given up at this point this is been almost six years that has been held and basically

remained in the ecuadorian embassy now that this point has been granted ecuadorian citizenship and it's now been revealed that ecuador attempted to give julian assigns the status of a diplomat and that would enable him to have diplomatic immunity so he could then get to the airport and flee the country however he was not granted diplomatic status so at the moment julian assange remains in the embassy and at this point it is still not public as the hearing concludes in alexandria virginia still not public whether or not he's facing criminal charges in the united states and i think so of course wouldn't kill him open with the new york. staying with us here and now for the latest. what politicians do something anything. i put themselves on the line to get

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