join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to the world of politics. i'm sure. i'll see you then. people also get. twelve euros fifty per month. it's revealed these three ukrainian ships. and its territorial waters have weapons and ammunition on board the international community has been quick to bank moscow. to support companies defying u.s. sanctions on iran the french petrochemical giant pulls out of the largest gas

projects in the country the lucrative contract is snatched up by china. and five international humanitarian groups in the u.s. to hold military support for saudi arabia in the war in yemen stressing if things continue as they are some fourteen million people could starve to death. welcome this is. video testimony of three crew members currently detained in russia following sunday's clash in the cat straight into russia and ukraine goes to conflict the commander of one of the ukrainian ships consciously ignored this orders to stop. so i am going to melissa boy commander of the navy division of the grain and military forces were answered the code straight after crossing the russian border we had visual contact with the russian

border service vessels i consciously ignored their commands to stop on our boat we had small arms and a machine gun with ammunition i was aware that the action of the ukrainian vessels in the coast straits were provoked if i was following my orders to move our ships from the port or for this to mario pull with standoff took place in the kitchen strait which lies between the russian nayland and the crimean peninsula ukraine says it ships were intercepted after they left russia's territorial waters we can hear now from a guest there has been following a court hearing for some of the detained crew and police boy who in london who's got the 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 were in but that are impounded now here in kutch was in tile arsenal we're talking about with the mats a grenade launchers for them i believe six machine guns other weapons as well pistols we're talking about thousands and thousands of rounds of ammunition of 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 throughout the fla 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 the order to do so came from the very top from ukraine's government to justify the ensuing martial law that we've seen stablished 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 ukraine that they shouldn't have done this that they had filed an. intent to pass through the strait of courage but that the russians had carried out this aggressive action let's go to london. correspondent in the u.k. where parliament's 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 for president putin's actions have redrawn barstools the borders of the european 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 of the 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 that he 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 dream. 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 listen but you're using your produce i don't see any need to mediate is 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 but on a practical level local 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 sir as is the case with the recent history you've got the international community saying one thing and russia

standing firm and saying that's not how we say it journalist martin summers believes that russia was on to a lose lose situation in the strait no matter what whatever you do you're going to be rolled so if you let the ships through what you've done is you've created a precedent where they will think that they can come back the next on without going through the procedure and they will so you can't really do that but if you stop them then you then you are made to look like the bad guys because you're stopping people most people don't know that there's an agreement about how to use the strait so are they don't know that the ukrainians always up to now have fulfilled that agreement so as far as they're concerned the russians are seizing ships well that's the russian seizing ships as an example of the of their bad behavior but of course they don't know the background of course nobody's going to explain the background to them either i'm quite sure that most of the parliamentarians from british parliament have no idea what the agreement of the straits is and haven't bothered to look. to months of rumors it's been confirmed chinese feel giant is replacing

france's total and iran's multi-billion dollar south pass gas project on a bushel 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 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 that 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 or 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 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 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 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. alveda think e.u. independence so much for europe standing up to trump economist as the hammer told us the european union is subtly unable to protect its own companies. if you look at the european union by now we're under. a car you would see that it's basically an organisation to down maybe the russians out there americans in. her marriage is the european business there's no or nothing will happen the americans don't want these as these are just know the facts of the problem is that americans are able to blame one of the kind of the companies

you better say oh and they will risk anything and this is exactly what happens to companies a lot because the european union is not able and not willingly to protect their own kind of an east. european court of justice is to decide whether the u.k. can unilaterally reverse brags that a four hour hearing was held on tuesday and no deadline has been given for a ruling but lawyers are saying that britain should not have the right to stop the process on its own there is no parallelism between the right to notify and the right to take back national a process is cannot suffice to pull the carpet and which everyone has been forced to stand or cases launched at the looks and book caught by a group of scottish lawmakers who want legal clarity on the government's claim that it cannot stop the brig's a process will to leave the you on march twenty ninth after britain voted in favor of bragg's it during the twenty sixth

a referendum and the european leaders recently approved a draft withdrawal deal with the u.k.'s prime minister to resign may. i'm invited to goes. to work if i just do in the house of commons to take this in front should wish this is the best possible for britain just a burst of possible for europe this is the totally different course. the draft prigs deal now requires the approval of the british parliament which will hold a vote on december eleventh if rejected britain could leave the e.u. without any agreement potentially causing huge disruptions to trade and there have been growing calls for a second referendum with an option to remain in the european union in all members of parliament from all sides have been savaging to resume its plan as a disaster for the country. our duty as 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 can the prime minister expect the house to vote to put the

country in such a weak position you know yeah maybe out of this yeah 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 through she's not going to get a majority in this house for this deal because it would leave the british people worse off without giving up control not taking back that. it's been in place memoranda he's the director of the pangea wire london based business consultancy good evening to you we've heard the possibilities if the european court of justice did rule the u.k. could stop brigs it without the agreement of the twenty seven how much of an upset could this course. well i think briggs that in itself is causing

a big upset in europe and in the u.k. anyway so this news doesn't really give any more fuel to be broken fire what's important to realize is how far i think. in this although the support from our company and from the part of itself may not be forthcoming she's trying her best of course to get this through but the main issue the brig's it was at the beginning you know they didn't have a clear idea of where this going to go and this is the message you see as a result you could government lawyers tried to stop this case from being heard loud several appeals would they want to know to know where they stand legally. sure i think legally everyone needs to know where they stand to see what future what the future holds for both the u.k. and the e.u. but it's important to realize you know the essence of you know initially when it was proposed again i mention the same point again no one knew where it was heading so now to have some sort of clear path forward is very very difficult if at the

beginning you know when you what was happening. the decision of the looks of the court could take several weeks could be dragged out towards a new year which doesn't leave much time before the shuttle departure date how important is the timing here. timing has been very important since. the u.k. voted for briggs it's to over two years gone but time is getting more essential now as we come closer to the deadline for breaks to happen i think it was december eleventh has been they are going to vote in parliament then the u.k. is going to go into some into recess which doesn't give enough time for many things to happen unless they extend the brig's a deadline to come to some sort of agreement or some sort of clarity but pressure is building day by day minute by minute on this whole process. the campaign for so-called people's vote they don't give up the remaining seems to be gathering momentum as well the government has ruled out a second referendum do you think it could happen. i think. we'll need to happen

is that firstly reason may with her company to come to some sort of clear idea of what move forward will be if they can come to some sort of clear idea of what to do in the future then by force a second referendum would need to be considered if there's no. consensus within parliament and if that were to be considered they need to give a clear question as to what the second vote would mean what the question would be and with the options are something that wasn't very clear in the first referendum if they do that correctly then perhaps as briggs it won't happen. there's been appreciate your time i guess klezmer artie director of punji a wire london based business consultancy thank you. thank you. 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 sounded the alarm stressing as many as fourteen million 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 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 assad to lead coalition backed the backing the yemeni government's fight against the rebels conflicts lead to severe widespread famine dollars shortages of medicine as of now more than ten thousand yemenis are for the victim to the war with some killed in the fighting others have succumbed to disease and hunger. for the mounting international pressure on saudi arabia over the war in yemen as well as the murder of journalist to marcus the u.k. still carried out joint military drills with the riyadh involving british and saudi

royal air forces we heard from charney executive director the the weeds and refugee council usa one of the signatories of the joint statement to the us government he told us both were exciting m. and a contribution to the fam. 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 into 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 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 show from the conflict. a clearer picture would emerge as to whether the form we can weeks from julian assange will face charges in the u.s. have been put on hold after a hearing brought by journalists to have official information unsealed was adjourned and i'm open explains judge has asked both sides to come back in one week with supplemental information and a response so no conclusion at the courthouse in alexandria virginia now essentially what is taking place is that the reporters committee has filed to make it public any charges facing julian assange the co-founder of wiki leaks now essentially we've had it a grand jury in alexandria virginia that has been hearing testimony related to julian massage and at this point there are no public charges that been filed however they document has been made public

a case file from the prosecution and that led many to believe that there were going to be criminal charges pending against julian assads now at this point there is no public record of that in the court will neither confirm nor deny any charges. cuter say that any charges against assad can't be made public until he's been arrested and apprehended however the reporters committee is saying that this should be a matter of public record and it should be well known now to speculate the julian assad should be charged for releasing u.s. military material that was classified related to iraq and afghanistan others speculate he could face charges related to the diplomatic cables that were classified that he made public now still others suggest that it's possibly the cia's cyber security programs however the guardian newspaper in the united kingdom has recently come out with a story alleging that secret meetings took place between julian assad and paul man a forward at the ecuadorian embassy and that apparently paul man afore visited

julian assad in two thousand and thirteen two thousand and fifteen and the spring of two thousand and sixteen just a few months after one of the alleged meetings between julianna songe and paul man of fort wiki leaks revealed that some of the democratic party e-mails had been stolen by russian intelligence officers now many are suggesting that it's possible that the charges against julian assange are related to his meetings allegedly with paul mann afford however wiki leaks has this response remember this day when they go into and committed to serial fabricated to tell he destroyed the papers reputation wiki leaks is willing to bet the go on to a million dollars and he said it is that manifolds never matches so on outside the courthouse in alexandria virginia supporters of joyous songe have made a public presence and displayed their words the reason that the reporters committee in particular is particularly interested in this manner and this because of the possibility or at least suggestion that's been made. that. the criminal charges

against mr signs are predicated on his publication of information i think there's a public interest certainly weighed in favor of disclosure we'll have to see i think how the court ultimately comes out. five intelligence officers i mean mushroom things a song became an instrument for us political. it's been an open secret for many years that there's been a secret grand jury convened in virginia trying to find a charge any charge hela probably make up a new law just to prosecute julian assange wanted to avenge for the fact that he's shown a very bright light on some very murky and dark details of what the american state was doing it's very very useful for the american establishment and the democrats particularly to conflate everything with one big mass that you know poor man afford the moon approach donald trump we can mix is all part of when the big sort of russia gate type thing where is actually on pick the details none of that holds together whatsoever and i think julian sanchez now becoming a bit of a pawn in

a very high stakes game that in american politics washington politics. bridge firefighters went on strike today in the city of leon demanding better pay and conditions block streets in the cities they march with torches and the walkout was just ahead of the world famous festival of lights of the tracks thousands of visitors to the city from around the world. moreover france has been rocked by angry demonstrations nationwide against fuel tax increases which has been led by people wearing bright yellow vests as the micro today reacted to the must discontent his 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 he now to denounce it. several hundred thousand people have now taken part in what's become weekly demonstrations on protester told us they won't stop until micro reverses his policy. joy 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 have avoided punishment for giving what appeared to be a nazi salute in a group photograph an 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 in may students from baraboo high school could be seen raising their right arms some told the media they were simply waving to parents not everybody's convinced though the image went viral and there was widespread call 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 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 always want to do something stupid particularly in the picture i've done silly things that pictures make 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 education is not what it should be and 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. next it goes back to roman times and it's actually the first visually 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 wave and they obviously did. they but that also comes from a lot of exposure to the media so we see a lot about trying to do it right in the streets we see a lot of proud boys but this type of social. social groups and social ideologies they're been popping up around our country so i can also see media having an impact on that and i think you've got

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