that's right. more and more to that. you need to protect yourself and get informed. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. here in dramatic development the only move. i don't see. will be very. just twelve euros fifty per month.

it's revealed the three ukrainian ships which russia says illegally into this territorial waters have weapons and ammunition. communities being quick to. moscow in the. european pledges to support companies defying u.s. sanctions on iran the french. project and the lucrative contract snatched up by china. five international for money tearing groups call on the us to halt its military support for saudi arabia over the war stressing if things continue as they are people could starve to death.

good evening to you this is r.t. international. moscow's released video testimony of three crew crew members currently detained in russia following sunday's clash in the cat strait 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 so i am led to melissa boy commander 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 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 my orders to move our ships from the port or for this to mario pull the standoff took place in the kitts strait which lies between the russian mainland and the crimean peninsula and ukraine says

its ships were intercepted after they left russia's territorial waters say from rutgers the of has been following a court hearing for some of the detained crew and in london has more international reaction. 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 late to date but the federal security services again released more details as to what was in these ships and that all of this the federal security service has now released for example documents that they found aboard the three vessels that go into that are impounded now here in kutch was in tile arsenal we're talking about would amount to 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 the incident itself to place party 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. flotilla were to agents counter espionage agents of the ukrainian intelligence agency s b u two of them something that ukraine has since confirmed the russians believe that 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 is adamant they're saying that this was an act of war provocation by russia that russia behaved aggressively towards the ukraine that they shouldn't have done this that they had filed a notification of intent to pass through the strait of courage but that the russians had carried out this aggressive action let's go to london now expects a political correspondent in the u.k.

where palmer has been discussing the developments today what's been said polly. well it wasn't in the plan 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 president putin's our troops have redrawn barstools the borders of the nation for the first time since the can will rule we must never forget or normalize the united kingdom will certainly continue to be committed to the crane's independence sovereignty and territorial integrity is approach is very similar to the idea of heating a frog in water that he keeps on pushing things to keep from pushing the heat will not be what you said it's the reaction 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 ukraine

practical support there were a few questions about making sure that 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 moscow 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 saying 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 drea and according to the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov this was all

a provocation but not from the russian side from the ukraine. inside take a lesson. i don't see any need in mediators if the ukrainian side and its 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 local border authorities on both sides could have discussed any tenach allergies if the ukrainian side didn't understand something although they use the existing procedures back in september. well sir as is the case with the recent history you've got the international community saying one thing and russia's standing firm and saying that's not how we sat. down to independent journalist martin service given to martin one of the key findings i think here is that one of the detained commanders claims he deliberately ignored russia's calls to stop if that's true as i understand is a breach of international law why we're not hearing much about that from the

international community there were looking up. well if this is a provocation by the ukraine which i think the level of is absolutely correct that that's what it is then of course they're prepared a narrative to go with the provocation about how russia is to blame etc in the way that's just been suggested and as i understand it there's been an agreement between ukraine and russia going much two thousand and three about what's the procedures all for coming through the strait of curch which as level pointed out they they they the military vessels carried out the same procedure in september were allowed through without any without any less or hindrance or will this occasion they've decided not to the russians have reacted in the way that they heard and of course then that's led to the declaration of martial law in ukraine although it was looking for a an open ended declaration and the rada only went for thirty days because they

don't want to try to affect the election on the obvious conclusions to draw is that poroshenko. wants to say i have this provocation to try and get ukraine back into the international media recent ceded to try and help his election chances in march and also of course western intelligence services are probably also involved in this because they want to sabotage the g twenty meeting in argentina in which putin and trump are going to meet so. if you if you look at this objectively it's pretty clear what's happened here and it's rather depressing to see all of the comment coming from the parliament here which is basically the you know what the sort of thing you'd expect from people who haven't bothered to think about what they're saying frankly. so c.n.n. have said that the interest response to what they called russian aggression was was mild so they're criticizing the president whereas the us ambassador to the un nikki haley says that russia's actions were a breach of international law it is not the president and his representative not

really on the same hymn sheet why we say it's a difference in opinion on this. well because trump is being hemmed in by the war faction in in his own administration including nikki haley who's being forced out of course and incidents like this put trump on the back foot if he'd wanted to try and build bridges with putin and it's not clear that he does eisley the idea that he's pro russian i think is laughable but they let's just imagine that he wanted to try and build bridges this kind of incident makes it very difficult for him. basically will back down as he did over the chemical weapons attack in syria which clearly wasn't carried out by the syrian army but he pretended that he believed it was and then you know a provocation them to turned into an airstrike and all the rest of it the danger of all this power brinkmanship is that at some point people are going to be killed as alexander zaka genco the elected leader of one of the donbass republics was killed

by a bomb not that long ago in august now nobody in the west really picks up. and there is that's a provocation that certainly wasn't carried out by the russians was it and if the russians were to be unreasonable that could be a cast a spell i mean while we have these kind of you know body in the streets of curch which is presented as a potentially war leading to war this this this is the tension sarajevo mark three isn't it little incidents like this turning into a major war and i don't think that that's what they want but that may be what they get if they're not careful martin appreciate it i'm going to speak to you martin some as journalist independent journalist there my guest. until. after months of rumors it's been confirmed chinese fuel giant is replacing france's town and iran's multi-billion dollar southpark gas project in istanbul 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 pile in south 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 or 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 you both you cut to the rescue of our poor 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. any one thing that blocking statute to stop us sanctions hurting europe you know 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 member america's least diplomatic diplomat pledging to torture tehran we're going to do everything we can describe is iran hard as the british say to make to squeeze them until the pips squeak squeak and that's actually europe's top firms as they dropped by e.u.

leaders so. the thing e.u. independence so much for europe standing up to trump. economists told is the pinyin in sadly unable to protect its own companies 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 europe the businesses know that nothing will happen the americans don't want these is. just the facts of the of the power 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 e.u. is not able and not really to protect their own companies.

international humanitarian groups have called on the united states to halt its military support for saudi arabia overheads ongoing campaign in yemen in a joint statement the five charities sounding the alarm stressed that as many as fourteen million people could starve to death on the urgent action is taking. 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 it's too will bear responsibility for what may be the largest famine in decades a civil war in yemen which flared up in twenty fifteen soon saw an intervention by a saudi led coalition which backed the yemeni government's fights against two three rebels the conflicts lead to severe widespread famine as well as shortages of

medicine as of now more than ten thousand yemenis are for the victim to the ongoing war with some killed in fighting others succumbing to disease or hunger. despite the mounting international pressure on saudi arabia over the war in yemen as well as the murder of journalist to mark the u.k. is carried out joint military drills with riyadh involving both british and saudi royal air forces and we heard from joel channing executive director of the norwegian refugee council usa is one of the signatories of the joint statement to the us government he told us both warring sides in yemen are contributing to 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 food there are delays in getting goods in to young them in then on top of this you have the conflict you have parties to the conflict that are preventing us from gaining

access to people on the coalition is bombing food granary is and preventing the production of food in some areas in the north on sarala for their part there are often preventing people from moving to safer places to where they might be able to find either food or at least show from the from the conflict. hopes the clearer picture would emerge as to whether the film the wiki leaks from julian the sons will face charges in the u.s. will be put on hold after having brought by journalists to have official information unsealed was adjourned it i'm open explains at this point out 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 a songe 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 a the reporter's 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 a son that the prosecution is arguing that rather that those char. just 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 son and whether or not that information will be public is what we are waiting 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 a 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 has been given up at this point this is been almost six years that julian assange has been held and basically remained in the ecuadorian embassy now that this point he 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. we should say the u.s. scaping punishment for allegedly doing a nazi salute america's first amendment comes under fire story more after the break . what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be. right to be crooks that's what the four three in the morning can't be good. interested always in the last hour. welcome back french firefighters have gone on strike today in the city of demanding better pay and conditions the firefighters block streets in the city as they march with torches as they walk out comes just ahead of the world famous festival of lights which attracts thousands of visitors to the city from around the world.

france has been rocked by angry demonstrations nationwide against fuel tax increases which is being led by people wearing bright yellow vests as the they reacted to the must discontent is reforms of course. the move more this movement has generated significant protests and also an acceptable violence in france's mainland and in its overseas territories what was said during the presidential campaign has to stand regardless of whether you backed me in the election we can't on a monday be in favor of the environment then on tuesday begins fuel price increases we can decide some years ago to have a tax increase and we now to denounce it. several hundred thousand people have taken part in demonstrations or protest or told us they won't stop until my drum reverses his policy. that i was hit in the face by a grenade from the riot police there was an explosion close by this won't change anything what we want is to raise the minimum wage and cut fuel prices the

environment is not a priority for french people at the moment will keep protesting and this room stop us despite the victims it is shame that it caused such violence. a group of high school students in america are avoided punishment for giving what appeared to be a nazi salute in the group photograph investigation ruled no action could be taken due 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 baraboo high school could be seen raising their right arms some told the media they were simply waving to their parents but everybody was so easily convinced the image went viral 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 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 them bearable con city or county in general it's not a four percent white. so the kids in that county have a little exposure to other cultures that versity maybe inclusion education is not what it should be and 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 visually no one 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 disassembled and told them to wave and they obviously did the. day 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 social. social groups and social ideologies there been popping up around our country so i can also see media having an impact on that. ok i'll be back with updates for you at the top of the see that . would lol maybe just manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous

merry go round to lift the one percent so. we can all middle of the room sick. go to the real news room. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer it be in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people was terrifying news just mooned the present and then we hear even many of the times 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 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 their way. so we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and told.