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still small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles down to the bone. there is no relief clunes it says not to sure this is just the us. it is revealed that three ukrainian ships which russia says it illegally entered its territorial waters had weapons and ammunition on board however the international community has been quick to back. not moscow in the standoff. despite european pledges to support companies defying u.s.
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sanctions on iran the french oil giants total pulls out of the largest gas project in the country. and the us federal judge delays a decision on revealing possible charges against wiki leaks founder julian assange was holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our national. to have you with us. all right russia has a released video testimony of three ukrainian navy personnel who were detained following sunday's clash in the carriage strange incident brought russia and ukraine close to conflict the commander of one of the ukrainian ships claims he consciously ignored russia's orders to stop. at the cut straight to crossing the russian border we had visual contact with the russian border. wrestles i
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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 old has to move our ships from the ports or for this to mario pull or the standoff took place in the carriage straight which lies between the russian mainland and of the crimean peninsula ukraine says its ships were intercepted after they left russia's territorial waters let's hear now from our here's what i've got who has been following a court hearing for some of the detained crew and polly boyko from london who 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
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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 it 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
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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
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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 strait of curch but that the russians had carried out this aggressive action let's go to london now expect to polyploid our 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 to succumb 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 cuties approach is very similar to the idea
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of heating a frog in water that he keeps on pushing things and keeps on pushing that he will not believe what you see 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 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
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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 u. . craney inside take a listen you're using your produce i don't see any need in 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 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
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standing firm and saying that's not how we say it journalist martin summers believes the russian coast guard faced an impossible situation when confronted by of ukrainian navy vessels in the care of st what have 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 straits so they don't know that the ukrainians are always up to no i will fulfill that egregious so as far as they're concerned the russians are seizing ships well that's the russian seizing ships it's an example of the of the bad behavior but of course they don't know the background of course nobody's going to explain the background to the me them and quite sure that most of the parliamentarians in from british parliament have no idea what the agreement of the straits is and haven't
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bothered to look. switching gears now china's state energy giant c n.p.c. is replacing the french firm total as the operator of iran's south pars a gas field as artie said daniel bushell comments of 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 is the industry's star attraction yet toto's 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 pal 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 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 that means shirtfront in washington and then. we are going to
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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 a business like 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 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. 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 quits iran's huge rail upgrade russia and china step in india is actually doubled purchases of iran's crude member america's least
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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 that squeaking sell and that's actually europe's top firms as they dropped by e.u. leaders so i. think e.u. independence so much for europe standing up to trump the economist told us the european union is sadly unable to protect its own companies if you look at the union. with. john carr you see that it's basically an organisation. maybe the russians out there americans and one of these perpetrators the your business know that nothing will happen the americans don't want these is. just the facts of the problem is that
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americans are able to blame one of the kind of the companies. and they will restrain and this is exactly what happens to companies because the union is not able and not really to. their own kind of an east. us federal judge has postponed a ruling on whether to reveal possible charges against wiki leaks founder julian assange charges came up and has. 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
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julian a 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 to speculate the jew innocence could be charged for releasing the 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
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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 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. are related to his meetings allegedly with paul man a fort however wiki leaks has this response remember this day when the guardian permitted a serial fabricator to totally destroy the paper's reputation wiki leaks is willing to bet the guardian a million dollars and he said it is that metaphors 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
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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. for himself tonight any contacts with we can examine the story is totally false and deliberately libelous former m i five officer and emotional things assad has become a tool in a political game 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 helical the make up a new zot just to prosecute julian assange want to avenge for the fact that he's shown a very bright leisel 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 pool manifold the moon
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approach don't try we can mix is all part of big sort of russia gate type thing whereas a few unpick the details none of that holds together whatsoever and i think julian is now becoming a bit of a pawn in a very high stakes game that in american politics washington politics. 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
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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 it has also caused mass starvation several epidemics and the collapse of the health care system. to 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 food
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there are delays in getting goods into yemen 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 use 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 the from the conflict watching our attention nationally mornings have to short break stay with us. you know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up
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to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufactured consensus public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.
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and welcome back this is archie international now a group of high school students in the us have avoided punishment for giving what appeared to be a nazi salute in a group photo 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 are 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 can be seen raising their right arms some of them told the media they were simply waving to their parents but not everyone was convince image went viral and there were widespread calls for action we put the issue up for debate. when it comes to first amendment i mean that is
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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
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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 general it's not a four percent white. so that 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
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first officially 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 they did. they but that also comes from a lot of exposure to the media so we see a lot about trying to drive in the streets we see a lot of proud boys this type of social. social groups and social ideologies they're been popping out around our country so i can also see media having an impact on that. french firefighters have gone on strike in the city of the on demanding better pay and conditions firefighters block streets in the city as they marched with torches and banners 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 gripped by demonstrations nationwide against
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fuel tax increases which has been led by people wearing bright yellow vests president today reacted to the mass discontent his reforms have cost. so movement this movement has generated significant protests and also unacceptable 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 run a monday be in favor of the environment then on choose day 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 now taken part in what has become weekly demonstrations protesters told us that they will not stop until reverses his policy of the french people are not asking for too much we are demanding employment and an end to these excessive fuel taxes there are some people who are angry in resorting to violence because they're against
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everybody but the government really has to do more to address people's legitimate concerns many people made a mistake in voting for this government so now young people are angry. that i was hit in the face by a grenade from the right there was an explosion close by this won't change anything what we want is to raise the minimum wage and cock 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. the u.s. defense panel has warned that the military is falling out of alignment with its key goals and national defense strategy commission submitted a report to congress saying the u.s. needs to rebuild its military force capacity and capability in europe document says that if the united states had to fight russia in a baltic contingency or china in a war over taiwan americans could face
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a decisive military defeat the mission calls for budget caps on military spending to be removed and it says the wars in afghanistan syria and iraq are holding the military back causing the u.s. to neglect so-called great power competition are involved twenty twenty presidential hopeful for the us libertarian party says overseas interventions have harmed u.s. national security. the reason that americans are in danger right now and they are is because the u.s. military is creating enemies they're creating enemies in iran and iraq and afghanistan throughout the entire middle east we don't need to create more enemies united states is already spending more than the next several nations combined on military spending i think what the report is reflecting is that the u.s. military has entirely lost sight of its actual purpose the military's job is to keep the united states of america and our people safe at the lowest cost possible to keep us safe with as low taxes as we can and this move is
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a move in the wrong direction we can be safer and have less and have lower taxes if we have the courage to say america defense is important but defending israel and saudi arabia and friends that's not our job and that doesn't for me i will be back and say thirty three minutes with a full look at your news you are watching or to international have you with us. chose seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any new world that is
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yet to shape out these days comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. like going to places like camp sundown camp for people that can't bloody decide and they're like so vampires. this is like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand her daughter katie was diagnosed with a very rare son sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she does or she'll patients are going to have problems with the walk to talk to your son the brains of gradually shrinking inside the scolded sleeker in the brain still small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscle way
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down to the bone. there's no relief. we're just not sure this is going to discover. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle it's ukraine versus russia again a minor maritime incident on the courage strait is said to be anything between a major international crisis to a cheap campaign trick as ukraine enters an election cycle take your pick but one thing is for sure russia is deemed aggressive by the west even when defending its
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solvent. cross talking strained relations i'm joined by my guest a real concern to in london he's a foreign affairs consultant an analyst we also have in london married a chef ski she is a columnist for the independent and the guardian and in washington we have michael maloof he is a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you first here. i obviously read up on prepared for this program i looked at all of western media and government reactions and i have foreign policy an article that came out the twenty seventh and the title is putin pushes russia ukraine tensions to a four year high now the reason i mention that and i think i'll quote something of it later is that there's there's something that they can assume what russia's intentions are always no matter what the topic but in this instance there's.

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