i don't want or i can't has been named as one of the nation under the outcome of to me and i have to say i am question whom he could feel that he had a ticking god when i say he made a move out of one of the last young enough i don't have before i don't. 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 put to back here and not moscow in the standoff. by european pledges to support companies that defying u.s.

sanctions on iran the french oil giant total pulls out of the largest gas project in the country. the us federal judge it delays a decision on revealing possible charges against wiki leaks founder julian assange who is holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london. are broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us right now russia has released a video testimony of three ukrainian navy personnel who were detained following sunday's clash in the carriage straight incident brought russia and ukraine close to conflict the commander of one of the ukrainian ships claims he consciously ignored to russia's orders to stop the ends of the cut straight to crossing the russian border we had visual contact with the russian border service vessels i consciously ignored their commands to stop when 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. in the standoff took place in the carriage straight which lies between the russian mainland and the crimean peninsula ukraine says its ships were intercepted after they left russia's territorial waters but on gaza has been following a court hearing for some of the detained crew. 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 are

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 also earlier reported that abroad this ukrainian naval throughout flew till. two agents count to espionage agents of the ukrainian intelligence agency. s.b.u. two of them something that ukraine has since confirmed the russians believe that 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 strait of curch 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 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 our troops have redrawn barstools the borders of the nation for the first time since 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 to be putin's approach is very similar to the idea of heating a frog in the water that he keeps on pushing things and keeps on 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 drea and according to the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov this was all a provocation but not from the russian side from the. ukrainian side take a listen you're using your approach i don't see any need to mediate 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 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 the international community saying one thing and russia 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 current strait 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 straits so they don't know that the ukrainians always up to now have fulfilled that egregious so as far as they can see the russians seizing ships well that's the russian seizing ships as an example of the of the bad behavior but of course they don't know the but drug of course nobody's going to explain the background to the me them quite sure that most of the parliamentarians in from british parliament have no idea what the agreement of the straits is and haven't bothered to look. switching gears now and china's state energy giant to see n.p.c. is replacing the french firm total as the operator of iran's south gas field and is

artie's daniel bushell comments the move might calm 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 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 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 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 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 your own cut to the rescue of all 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. any one thing that blocking statute to stop us sanctions hurting europe no 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'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 that squeaking cell nets

actually europe's top firms as they dropped by e.u. leaders so. v the thing e.u. independence so much for europe standing up to trump economists are 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 is basically an organisation. maybe the russians out there americans and one of these perpetrators the your business know that nothing will happen. on one this is. just the facts of the problem is that americans are able to blame one of the kind of the companies. and build restating and this is exactly what happens to companies because the union is not

able and not really. they're all kind of an east. us federal judge has postponed a ruling on whether to reveal possible charges against wiki leaks founder julian assange archies caremark and 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'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 jew innocent 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 a fourth visited julian assange twenty thirteen twenty fifteen and the spring of

twenty 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 julian. 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 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 denied any contacts with wiki leaks is saying that the story is totally false and deliberately libelous former m i five officer and he thinks a song 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 of a new zot just to prosecute julian assange want to avenge the fact that he's shown a very bright license and 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 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 hangs 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 halt its military support for saudi arabia over the devastating military campaign in yemen joint statement five charities sounded the alarm saying that up to fourteen million people could starve to death unless urgent action is taken. the united states is one of the most generous donors of humanitarian assistance in yemen but these contributions pale in comparison to the harm caused by u.s. military support and diplomatic cover to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates if the us does not cease its military support for this saudi 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 the conflict has claimed the lives of at least ten thousand civilians and has also caused mass starvation several epidemics and at 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 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's 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 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 ansari 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 shelter from from the conflict. a group of high school students in the u.s. has 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 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 can be seen raising their right arms some of them told the media they were simply waving to their parents but not everyone was convinced the 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 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 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 that 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 in their 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 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 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 and they obviously did this thing 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 out around our country so i can also see having an impact on that. french firefighters have gone on strike in the city of the on

demanding a better pay and conditions firefighters block streets in the city as they marched with torches and banners the walkout comes just ahead of the world famous festival of lights which attracts thousands of visitors the city from around the world. france has also been gripped by demonstrations against fuel tax increases which has been led by people wearing bright yellow vests president on reacted to the massive discontent his reforms have cost the movement this movement has generated significant protests and also unacceptable violence in france as 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 tuesday begins fuel price increases we can decide some years ago to have a tax increase and we now to do now. 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. difference 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 the results into violence because they're against 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 caught fuel prices the environment is not a priority for french people at the moment who keep protesting and this room stop us despite the victims it is shame that it caused such violence. u.s. defense panel has warned that the military is falling out of alignment with its key goals national defense strategy commission submitted a report to congress saying the u.s.

needs to rebuild its military force capacity and capability in europe the 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 a decisive military defeat commission calls for budget caps on military spending to be removed and it says that the wars in afghanistan syria and iraq are holding the military back causing the us to neglect so called great power competition i've been 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 us military is creating enemies they are creating enemies in iran and iraq and afghanistan drew out the entire middle east we don't need to create more enemies united states already spending more than the next several nations come behind. on military spending i think what the report is reflecting is that the us 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 a move in the wrong direction we can be safer and have less have lower taxes if we have the courage to say america is defense is important but defending israel and saudi arabia and friends that's not our job. people living in a small community in germany have been warned not to eat the local fish due to talks of water the pollution has been blamed on a nearby us air base. our

. business on the ground i'm thinking more and more about my b.b. people here are 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 it is. for the root cause you cause you need research that would cover

a much larger number of people you need a good database on diseases if the local hospital hasn't found a 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 well covered up. but americans rent apartments here and pay good money they trust where the tenants if they were to leave all that income would disappear that's an additional hit. well according to a german government report from two thousand and sixteen the country spent more than three hundred thirty thousand euros cleaning the water around the base seventy

five percent of the cost will be refunded by the us armed forces we asked the u.s. military for comment on the issue of course we will bring you any response when we get it and that does it for me thirty two and a half minutes i'll be back with your headlines you are watching r.t. international. are such a banks prepared to let the credit market collapse or are they going to do for now with the recent rate rises there's room for q.e. for sal they would come in and they would revert to reverse q t r a quantitative tightening and they'll engineer another bond market rally. 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 is terrifying the is just new really hasn't been that we hear even many of the dems 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 it's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

greetings and salutation. while the mainstream corporate profits have been bad for us this week with new russia gate plot twists in the latest excuse for corporate democrat hipster cream lena dunham's racism is the excuse now is that she was burdened. with a chronic blind spot to raise issues because she went to rich kid private schools in new york city i guess there actually has been real important news going on like the under reported recent rash of guns police violence and racism cropping up across the heartland of the united states once again in milwaukee recently released police body cam footage finally confirms what many suspected the twenty seventeen police shooting of teenager jerry smith jr after being cornered by four officers on a rooftop. it confirmed that the kid was indeed an armed and completely innocent of any crime except for i guess the crime of holding a cell phone and trying to surrender while being black in america next door in the snow covered state of minnesota.