you should have been there so. that's i mean yes. you know that the united states will keep its feet and to keep. he made the move on to follow the money that you know enough to build. it is revealed that three ukrainian ships which russia says illegally entered its territorial waters had weapons and ammunition on board however the international community has been quick to back and not moscow in the standoff. despite

european pledges to support companies defying u.s. sanctions on iran a french oil giant so tall pulls out of the largest gas project in the country. and the us federal judge it delays a decision on revealing possible charges against we can leaks founder julian assange who is holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now russia has released a video testimony of three ukrainian navy personnel who were detained following sunday's clash in the carriage strait incident abroad to russia and ukraine closer to conflict the commander of one of the ukrainian ships claims he consciously ignored russia's orders to stop. so i'm with the 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 straits provoke it if i was following my orders to move our ships from the ports or for this to mario the standoff that took place in the carriage the strait which lies between the russian mainland and the crimean peninsula ukraine says its ships were intercepted after they left russia's territorial waters let's hear now from artie's what i've got is you who has been following a court hearing for some of the detained crew and polly boyko who is in london and has more on 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 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 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. the. 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 a notification of intent to pass through the streets of curch but that the russians had carried out this aggressive action let's go to london now expects a 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 president putin's actions have redrawn barstools the borders of the nation for the tonton second 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 keeps on pushing that he will not be what you said it's to 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 you krane 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. and side take a listen but you're using your i don't see any need to mediate if the ukrainian side and his partners in europe are interested in not having such incidents those ukrainian allies should send kiev strong signals so that such provocations never happen again on a practical level local border authorities on both sides could have discussed any technicalities if the ukrainian so i didn't understand something although they used the existing procedures back in september. well so 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. our for more on this we're now joined by richard becker from the anti-war answer coalition thanks very much richard for being with us here on r.t. international and as we talked about in the sound check i said it's always something in this case again with the anti russia side of things one of the detained commanders says that he deliberately ignored russian requests to stop. the west isn't picking up on that does that make it seem like he was deliberately looking for contra confrontation. well i think we have to start by asking the question that insurance investigators asked which is who is the beneficiary and in this case we can see how russia benefits

from creating this kind of incident. will they get in return more sanctions but we can see that poroshenko government oppression or himself might have an interest in creating an incident which enabled him to who to. call for and have carried out the imposition of martial law in at least five regions of ukraine and poroshenko course is very far behind in the election polls he's running third somewhere about eight or nine percent according to latest opinion polls there and while this doesn't give him in the initial phase the right to call off the election it does open the door for that and with the lengthening of the one month i believe this one month martial law is for nuclear power there are many other things that in a powers the president to do which includes banning assembly

gatherings strikes converting civilian to military use of. factories and so forth and more so this is then a way for a poroshenko doing very very badly in the polls for the election coming soon i do greatly empower. it's part of the can textural side of things that people don't really look at the fact that there is an election there and he isn't doing well in the polls. so trump if we go to the u.s. side things gave quite a neutral response to the situation not blaming either side but the u.s. envoy to the u.n. accused russia of breaking international law why are we seeing different positions from within the same administration. well i think that there are different positions and i think that a majority of the ruling elite in the united states very much wants to promote

the entered russian campaign and we should remember that this is also perhaps not in this particular case or as we can see it as of now but the national security strategy of the united states which was adopted the new one in december of two thousand so the team signed off on by the president trump. points the finger or really points the direction of a future u.s. policy has been one of confrontation particularly with china and russia so i think it's a question about this particular incident why there are different positions but i think overwhelming to the position certainly of the democrats as well as the republicans is a very belligerent one toward russia all right now ukrainian president petro poroshenko has been speaking to us media let's take a listen to what he had to say in the nazi on the other side. it's not like what's happening is the way we're like what's happening president promptly with his speech also support ukraine and had

a photo and taken it to be on our site and we heard from trump and push and go there so we just heard president poroshenko claim that president trump supported ukraine in his speech in fact never actually said any such thing and avoided blaming russia as well so where is pushing go getting his information from. well i think that there we have an example of wishful thinking on the part of the president and perhaps president poroshenko and i think that he's what he's hoping for is that there will be an overwhelming surge of support for the ukraine position from nato as a whole so he's really i think putting it to trump that trunk and do what he says or stay with what he says that he's counting on a very strong response from the nato countries which is and nato of course is headed by the united states even if the top officials come from somewhere else it's

really an institution created by and serving the interest of our u.s. foreign policy all right richard becker interesting your thoughts anti-war activist from the answer coalition thanks for being with us here on our to international thank you. for ten years now china's state energy giant c.n. p.c. is replacing the french firm total as the operator of iran's south park gas field and as artie's daniel bushell comments 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. 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 europe's 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 a business like the president of the french republic but he's not this is your of total never fear you both you cut 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's least 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 that. dropped by e.u. leaders so. our view to think e.u. independence so much for europe standing up to trump. a u.s. federal judge has postponed a ruling on whether to reveal possible charges against wiki leaks founder julian assange chartres killer martin has more. 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 reporter's committee has filed to make it public any charges facing julian asunta the co-founder of wiki leaks now essentially we've had a grand jury in alexandria virginia that has been hearing testimony related to julius songe 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 a songe now at this point there is no public record of that in the court will neither confirm nor deny any charges prosecutors say that any charges against assad can't be made public until he has 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 speculate the jew in assad could be charged for releasing u.s. military material that was classified related to iraq and afghanistan other

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 assange twenty thirteen twenty fifteen and the spring of two thousand and sixteen just a few months after one of the alleged meetings between giuliana songe and paul mann 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. are related to his meetings allegedly with paul manna for however wiki leaks has this response remember this day when they go into and committed to serial fabricator to totally destroy the papers reputation wiki leaks

is willing to bet the guardian 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 it's 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 weighs in favor of disclosure we'll have to see i think how the court ultimately comes out. groups have called on the u.s. to hold its military support for saudi arabia over the devastating military campaign in yemen in a joint statement five charities sounded the alarm saying that up to fourteen million people could starve to death unless urgent action is take. 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. saudi warplanes have been bombing yemen since march two thousand and fifteen it started as an intervention to prop up the country's leader against a hoot the rebel insurgency conflict has claimed the lives of at least ten thousand civilians is also caused mass starvation several epidemics and that the collapse of the health care system. two of saudi arabia's closest military partners are the u.s. and the u.k. and there are calls in both countries to halt arms supplies to the saudis so far those have been ignored and the u.k. recently held a joint military drills with saudi arabia joel charny from the norwegian refugee

council says western powers are directly contributing to a humanitarian catastrophe in yemen. 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 yond them and 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 the coalition is bombing food granary these 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. one is have short break you're watching hearty international. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express injury. or some want to be rich. that's it right to be crooks that's what the four three of them all the people. interested always in the was the. first sip.

of the atlantic council a think tank that advises facebook is offering its help to saudi arabia in handling the fallout caused by the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi an article from the group advises crown prince mohammed bin solomon to refocus western thinking by redoubling his efforts to reform saudi society it led to council describes the murder of kushal ji as brutal foolish and irresponsible but it goes on to argue

that severing u.s. ties with the saudis would strengthen china and russia investigative journalist max blumenthal believes such behavior is common for us think tanks this is completely in keeping with the atlantic council's behavior what's shocking is that facebook is now paying them. upwards of five hundred thousand dollars to vet political content and maintain the integrity of their website while they're defending a century defending the killing of a journalist there's no question that there is an intersection between kind of pay for play policy papers and op eds and punditry and the thinking of those who the atlantic council chooses to hire and that you know can have a powerful effect in washington particularly in our media which doesn't to tend to solicit opinions from working journalists investigative journalists or academics and often relies on think tank fellows so you basically when you turn on

cable news in the u.s. you get more senior fellows than a retired persons association because they simply rely on these pay for play think tanks to tell people what to think jamal khashoggi who wrote for the washington post was killed at the beginning of october here's a quick reminder of what happened.

people living in a small community in germany have been warned not to eat the local fish or due to toxic water pollutions been blamed on a nearby u.s. air base. i'm. not ashamed of that carter i'm thinking more and more about my baby people here 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 effort one is scared to touch it and wounded to see it is not the news that

every other person has cancer this includes me i have cancer my boss at work also has cancer it involves everyone and every day is just that not many think about it until it involves them. the number of cancer patients hasn't changed in the last ten years the same goes with the other diseases constantly for the root cause because magick 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 coverage of

a scene at all but americans rent apartments here and pay good money for the trust where the tenants if they were to leave for that income with this is their. that's an additional hit. well according to a german government report from two thousand and sixteen of the country spend more than three hundred thirty thousand euros cleaning the water around the base seventy five percent of the cost will be refunded by the u.s. armed forces we've asked the american side for comment on the issue we'll bring you any response that we get and that doesn't from al be back in about thirty three minutes with more news you're watching our international stay with us. because there's a survival guide look stay single malt to start simply putting all these are.

you going to get. back to. playing those. repatriations look at the rest of seventy years. bill of the century the kaiser report. us veterans who come back from war often till the same stories. were going out for the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulating branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money those with. if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort or easiness

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact on all of us i'm part children in washington thank you for being on board we're sure glad to have you coming off we've got the latest on that french fuel fight we told you about yesterday from our to charlotte dubinsky in paris plus we'll look at some big business news and these stocks and companies imp. acted from autos to technology from retail to airlines will do so in light of the major news about general motors plants there's just downs that they've talked about with the able assist of artie's alex miles veteran toronto and will have expert commentary from danielle sherry of simpler trading and the c.e.o. of strong mark hillary ford which they're standing by all that in our sights but first we have a right to some headlines let's go. internet intrigue in asian oceana leads our globe report today chinese tech giant huawei is set to complete control.