therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the russian black sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance. those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were and how angry and how we almost went to a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just so if the united states considers cuba to be in its backyard. then crimea plays at russia's doorstep. the consequences of a u.s. seizure of the face or a nato base which in general. but almost a sum up a symbol. is a little bit you have taught me to. put you in with a. post today and you know unless. you know us enough to speak with practical. yes no opinion it's. so just another to use ocean to illicit but it was no innocence that ended up with the old me the only leader on the. set it. was a piece of the school board. just him a part of what i get there but you know a buzz is just it but they both say you know that in the film fixing amongst the when doesn't it seem easy if

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accepted a proposal from germany and france for german observers to monitor the strait which links the black sea to the sea off of my ukraine temporarily imposed martial law after russia captured three of its best since in the case straight russia has also detained twenty four you create in seaman who was truly the best. on the job is correspondent in moscow is bush news so was worth more than a month ago chancellor merkel asked president putin to allow german exports into the strait of kurdish civilian cure should school produce. with them to study how passage this trade is organized especially in terms of security which is a prosperous ship captains with a pass through the strait a good president putin a great back then and so foreign minister masses to die presented me with a plan in europe it sets up the conditions the experts journey for you these conditions now have to be great with the ukrainian side so we believe that if the ukrainians agree with the plan his outlines president putin has promised chancellor merkel then we can put this plan into action to die tomorrow or of any time after

near the crimean peninsula the blaze occurred at the mouth of the character straight between the black sea and the sea of. well millions of stargazers got a treat to that last night a rare lunar eclipse known as a super blood wolf movie now of course you may know there were no reports of where was roaming the streets but the spectacle in the night sky did bring out plenty of amateur astronomers. around the world people stayed up late or got up early for a chance to see a rare sight in the night sky for some lucky sky gazers the conditions were just right to catch the so-called super blood wolf moon. it's a total lunar eclipse and was visible with the naked eye where the skies were clear enough. a total lunar eclipse happens when a full moon becomes completely blocked from sunlight by the earth the earth's shadow covers the moon obscuring it from view until only a dim outline can be seen at all. as for the name a super moon happens when the moon is closest to the earth making it appear larger than usual a wolf moon is an ancient name for any moon in january it comes from traditional tribal

and france volunteers have also offered to assist in the monitoring of the street which links the black sea to the sea of. ukraine temporarily imposed martial law after russia captured three of its vessels off the coast of crimea moscow's also detained twenty four ukrainian sea men who were the crew of those vessels let's have a listen to what the russian foreign minister had to say. more than a month ago chancellor merkel asked president putin to allow german experts into the strait of kurdish. school probably. for them to study how passage this strike is organized especially in terms of security which is a process ship captains were to pass through the strait of the president putin a great back then and so foreign minister mathis to die presented me with a plan in europe it sets up the conditions for the experts journey. these conditions now have to be great with the ukrainian side so we believe that if the ukrainians agree with the plan his outlines president putin has promised chancellor merkel then we can put this plan into action to die tomorrow borat any time after a little longer so

pipeline within the framework of this very important project for our country on the bottom of the black sea in less than one and have here as well laid. lines to rules that would allow it to power. for fifty seven cubic million billion cubic meters of the natural gas with think that the part of the land line to all the land line route will be also successful so that a launch at the start of the. r. till the end of this year this guess who will have it have much import as not only for the energy security of the turkish republic but also of the soudan and south eastern europe. according to the plan b. implementation of one more scale plan is going on on the creation of the first nuclear. station cool. a structure always first energy bloc is going on which we plan to launch in two thousand and twenty three as mr president has said this task by the hundreds and the best of the turkish republic and we welcome the interest of the turkish business sectors to expand their activity on the russian market in this connection we invited the. part as well as a partner country and international. exhibit i

the boys occurred at the mouth of the strait between the black sea. there are going to be stricter rules online healing services. they join drivers in barcelona who had been on strike since friday and today. they marched on parliament. the president of the uzbekistan has visited germany's chancellor here in berlin. it is the first such visit in 18 years. the president shavkat mirziyoyev says he wants to strengthen ties. the president assumed power two years ago after uzbekistan's long-term later. she mentioned increased military oppoposition.. they share a border with uzbekistan. how much has really changed in uzbekistan? in a moment, we will speak to a human rights campaigner. but first, juri rescheto spoke with a journalist who spent nearly two decades in prison. >> after 19 years behind bars, this journalist is enjoying every moment of his newfound freedom. the 55 rolleled journalist was jajailed in the late 90's for supporting opposition. he is one of hundreds of his backs -- uzbeks who had to pay for their political freedom. >> i was tortured in

the black sea shows him to the train. he's focused on making this little home. watching me in training sessions i notice a tendency to move. let's say he's trying a little bit too hot. and you know move ahead of me to speak. with a make an exception for the new. world. after a short layoff you to injury he's back in training how is he doing on home cause at the moment binyam is almost never responding to my messages which leaves me annoyed . really annoyed then i found out why. without writing me a lot of me say whatsapp sky instead ground. but it's difficult ones out of four or how many messages it's enjoyed by seeing. two hundred and. the most important thing for try this frankly. on the next trial against check first division champs live on the next number is not play in the. world comes on he shows his class in all movements which may be less rushed he could assist for the one to. make a difference and maybe come to the last spot to direct the game out drislane side of the ball. it was a pretty vital we're all over the muscle in the midst of all this evidenc

its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that cost was high. on may second two thousand and fourteen soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city for the ukrainian championship match surprisingly a great number of these fans who descended into odessa just the night before also turned out to be fighters from the my don self-defense units along with members of radical organizations from all parts of ukraine that these. law. these families and asked armed and shouting nationalist motto

as part of this project to pipelines that have been created that follow along the seabed of the black sea. have a huge we believe that. the work to create the land barge of the pipe . line will be created will be done just as effectively just as quickly so that we can complete the project by the end of this year. once the pipeline is operational this will not only hold. an energy security of turkey but also will have been. eastern and central europe we have another large scale project planned the creation of a large scale atomic power plant and a coup you the first. energy unit is currently under construction and it's supposed to be operational by two thousand and twenty three. it's supposed to coincide with the one hundred year anniversary of the turkish republic we welcome the interpreters of to. operations in russia we invited to participate as a part in the. twenty nine thousand exhibition that will take place in the gutter and bourke in july. of course we discussed a number of humanitarian and cultural issues we are preparing to hold cross cultural years and years of tourism. which i

attempting to break the deadlock in the dispute between russia and ukraine ricky watery into the black seagerman foreign minister heikal moscow is in moscow for talks with his russian counterpart two months off to the standoff on the coast of crimea gemini in france.

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at least 11 people have died in a fire involving two ships in the black sea, according to russian authoritiesis underway in the kerch strait off the coast of crimea, to find sailors who've jumped overboard. both ships are tanzanian flagged. one is a gas tanker and it's thought the blaze started when fuel was being transferred between the two. the european union has imposed sanctions on four russians over last year's nerve agent attack on sergei and yulia skripal in salisbury. eu officials say two agents from russian military intelligence, the gru as well as its head and deputy head were responsible for possession, transport and use of the nerve agent used. russia denies any part in the attack. another prominent woman has entered next year's race for the white house. kamala harris was attorney—general for california before she became a democratic senator in 2016. the daughter of immigrants from jamaica and india, she has one of the most liberal voting records in the senate, at a time when the party is leaning to the left. she drew attention for her tough questioning of supreme court nominee br

flames near the crimean peninsula the blaze occurred at the mouth of the care straight between the black sea and the sea of. taxi drivers in madrid that go on strike and calling for stricter regulations against wide healing services like and kava fire which operate under different licenses they join drivers in barcelona you've been on strike since friday and today marched on the kettle on parliament. well the president of stanton has visited germany's chancellor here in berlin it's the first such visit in eighteen years now president chavez cut here's a yard you have says he wants to deepen ties with chancellor angela merkel and germany is visit comes at a time of change for the central asian country the president assumed power two years ago after the death of these beckon stands long term although crowding leader chancellor merkel commended the new president on recent political reforms and she mentioned increased military cooperation respect a stand shares a border with afghanistan. but how much has really changed in was back in stare in a moment we'll speak to a human rights campaigner but

at least 11 people have died in a fire involving 2 ships in the black sea, according to russian authoritiestion is underway in the kerch strait off the coast of crimea, to find sailors who've jumped overboard. both ships are tanzanian—flagged. one is a gas tanker and it's thought the blaze started when fuel was being transferred between the two. the european union has imposed sanctions on 4 russians over last year's nerve agent attack on sergei and yulia skripal in salisbury. eu officials say two agents from russian military intelligence, the gru — as well as its head and deputy head — were responsible for "possession, transport and use" of the nerve agent used. russia denies any part in the attack. the international monetary fund has warned of a fall in global economic growth in the coming year and increased uncertainty. analysts say tensions over trade are affecting financial markets. official figures from china suggest the economy has grown at its slowest rate in nearly 3 decades. another prominent woman has entered next year's race for the white house. kamala harris was attorney general

proposal from german chancellor on the american observers to monitor the strait which links the black sea to the sea off of ukraine temporarily imposed matia no off to russia captured three of its vessels in the cash stream to the russians also detained twenty four ukrainian seamen who were the crew of those three vessels with no nothing on buses for the main it is a correspondent emily shebeen joins me on the line from law school emily ma sais the k. street is open which is quite a breakthrough what well can you tell us. well i'm sorry to today both sides confirm that the question. that ships ability it out and also today called again for those ukrainian sailors just to be let out they're still in custody there and pretrial trial detention actually and they have to feel better but it doesn't mean that there will be so much was going on from the russian side those soldiers are still behind far that their pretty time trial shouldn't it was actually a long week for some of the sales or. sale and eight of the pretrial detention which belonged to it doesn't mean they'll be much movement on bo

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clouds rolling in from the mediterranean though he could see some wet weather just pushing out of the black sea heading towards the caspian sea as we go on through the next day or so someone think a clout there just around armenia georgia pushing it which was a by john just there for bucky he says that sunshine kabul gets up to around three degrees celsius over the next couple of days they want to see wintry flowers pulling into afghanistan as we go on into sas they say that cloud continuing as you can see just over towards cape perhaps in want to see showers creeping into cyprus by race they find and try twenty two degrees celsius but as you can see some bits and pieces of plants in your possibility and some of that cloud also affecting the far north of saudi arabia then here in cats outlets good twenty five degrees celsius twenty seven in riyadh represents on the heat wave is that the only warm side at the moment and then for anything those temperatures nudging up as we go on through sas day so the temperature you expect to see around late february in sioux march actually may well be getting

ten people have died in a fire involving two ships in the black sea, according to russian authoritiesy the fate of the other sailors on board is still unknown. one ship is a gas tanker and it's thought the blaze started when fuel was being transferred between the two boats. a search and rescue operation is underway for a light aircraft which has disappeared from radar over the english channel. two people are believed to be onboard the plane, which was heading to cardiff when it lost contact with air traffic controllers off guernsey. two helicopters and two lifeboats are searching the area. britain's last surviving dambuster, george "johnny" johnson, has hit out at vandals who threw white paint over the bomber command memorial in central london. the statue, honouring the lives of raf crew members who lost their lives in the second world war, has been targeted four times in six years. i was saying earlier, a number of people turned up yesterday to try and clean the white paint off. it was cordoned off and hopefully that can reopen soon as well. sex—ed a.m., we have the weather coming up

moves into parts of turkey you know to the snow in the higher elevations as well pushing across the black sea and then we have another disturbance you can see over athens again really developing so this is going to be the trend as we go for the next couple of least seven days very much heavy rain as well as snow across much of the region here across parts of the u.s. we're watching one particular storm down here across texas dallas a high temperature of three degrees with a mix of rain and snow that means it's going to be very messy and if you are flying there could be many of delays across that area. kevin thank you very much indeed still to come on this al-jazeera news in the occupied west bank plans are underway for the expansion of an illegal israeli settlement. brazil's new president promises to crack down on crime and to improve the economy that many question his lack of experience. nick kyrgios is back on course and up to his old tricks later we'll have the latest from the new tennis season. in the next episode of science in the golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by sc

continue over the next few days the reason being is here's an air of low pressure right here over the black sea down here across parts of italy there's another airflow pressure these two over the next few days are going to continue to bring rain and snow for much of the area so for the rest of day today looks like this note here across much of turkey down here through parts of greece notice the snow just to the north of athens cold enough conditions that we're going to be seeing snow and then overnight getting colder so anything that melted is going to refreeze and it's going to me mean we're going to be seeing a slippery mess on some of the roads there up here towards the north we're going to see another with weather system coming in and that system is going to bring plenty of snow across much of eastern europe for vienna it is going to be a snowy day for you at five degrees there london not looking too bad temper though a little cool with a temperature of five degrees for you well that same weather system in the eastern med going to cause a lot of problems here across northeastern parts of af

its way into the balkans all tied in with this area of low pressure not sea but over towards the black sea no great shakes on the weather here but i would towards the west still quite a cold northerly wind coming down across a good part of the british isles into france digging down into spain and portugal still some snow there just around the peyronie's fabulous no that is spinning out of the low countries and they will ease its way down to ward c. balkans and some heavy rain across the balkans for a time quite a stiff wind into central possible makes its way eastwards to the increasingly wet and windy across a good parts of greece and athens at around fifteen celsius for what that's worth on shoes days a very wet weather also making its way into western parts of france by this stage just developing an area of low pressure has been named a storm cable that'll bring some very nasty conditions across western france as we go through chews day and into awareness day further south in circuit pos of north africa as nazi babbie you can see in there is a class still affect in the far north of alge

what they were pulling out of that time, the first report at a time with a very large giant black seach today is a protected species. what they're pulling out at the beginning of the 20th century was, were these six-foot long black sea bass, 800 pounds, lived to be 80 years old. as an agent they are a protected fish today. intel's thousand five iconic juvenile off the end of the period and is about three feet long, so pretty young and had a lot of growth lifted but everybody had to have their picture taken with it because it is a legendary fish. fishing has been a very important part to the existing pier and that kennedy has been the most dedicated. they are here 24 hours a day and very happy that we still have this pier. it's been used as an amusement park facility from 1916-1930 originally with the old wooden roller coasters and the curious fun houses and things like that. and a merry-go-round that still exist today, that's the original from 1915, the building is original. that particular merry-go-round has been her since 1947. the merry-go-round concept has remained since those ear

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makes steps such as attacking my military in the black sea and other see, which is an act of aggressionthan: some people might say it is to your benefit, the act of aggression ahead of elections. pres. poroshenko: i am a commander in chief of my troops, being hitsoldiers are by putin's soldiers, this is an act of aggression. they captured the ukrainian ambassador, put in prison prisoners of war, and do not explain to us why they keep them in prison. this is absolutely not good. are outortunately, we of time with you because of your schedule. we thank you so much for coming on. pres. poroshenko: we agree to talk about a visit. [laughter] tom: don't move. earlier on, we caught up with the bank of america of american chairman and ceo brian moynihan. take a listen. brian: just take the united states, to make it simple. the growth rate will come down every year, but will still be relatively strong on a worldwide basis, and pretty strong the last decade or so in the united states. the slowdown, the tip over is the bit that goes on. we think about -- the way i think about this is two points. t

a cloud rolling in from the mediterranean he could see some wet weather just pushing outs of the black sea heading towards the caspian sea as we go on through the next day or so someone think a clout there just around armenia georgia pushing that which was a by john twelve just for bucky he says that sunshine kabul gets up to around three degrees celsius over the next couple of days they want to see wintry flower is pulling into afghanistan as we go on into sas they say that cloud continuing as you can see just over towards cape perhaps seeing what it says showers creeping into cyprus by race day five and try twenty two degrees celsius but as you can see some bits and pieces of plants in your possibility and some of that cloud also affecting the far north of saudi arabia then here in cattle it let's get twenty five degrees celsius twenty seven in riyadh represents on the he said the only warm side at the moment in the friday thing those temperatures not going up as we go on through sas day so the temperature you expect to see around late february into march actually may well be getting up

stream planned within the framework of this report and project our country on the bottom of the black sea in less than one and have years well laid. lines to roots of that would allow it to part. for fifty seven cubic million billion cubic meters of the natural gas with think that the part of the land line to all the land line route will be also successful so that the launch at the start of the. art of the end of this year this guess who will have it have much to port is not only for the energy security of the turkish republic but also of the soudan and south eastern europe. according to the plan the implementation of one more scale plan is going on on the creation of the first nuclear station cool. construction always first energy bloc is going on which we plan to launch in two thousand and twenty three as mr president has said this task by the hundreds and the best of the turkish republic and we welcome their interest of the turkish business sectors to expand their activity on the russian market in this connection we invited to take part as well as a partner country and international. e

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long after a very aggressive action by russian naval forces against ukrainian forces just off the black sea. i'll remind you relations between the united states and russia soured significantly after they took aggressive action annex crimea and that president trump chose to sit down in person for what was reportedly 10 or 15 minutes with no translator, with no aide, and then with no readout to senior levels of the american government. it would be deeply concerning and unprecedented. this would not be the first time president trump would have taken the opportunity at an international meeting to have a side-by-side conversation with vladimir putin. why i feels compelled to keep doing this, why he keeps doing this, i think just adds more concern to the nature of the relationship between the trump administration and vladimir putin and personally between our president and the president of the russian federation. >> we still really have no idea what they discussed in helsinki behind closed doors. it's unprecedented in presidential history but not in the history of this president, it seems. senator

people want to put the nation of georgia on the complete other side of the black sea in to which we arehibited from putting any significant military expansion want to go on. what we heard from the last guest is a desperate search for new mission for alliance that is completely obsolete and which frankly succeeded almost two decades ago. >> tucker: i would be happy for a new mission. i would just like to know what it is. i'm not against nato and not making argument for disbanding nato if we could do something useful with it that's great. we should be orient from 1945. why do you think it is that the new democratic orthodoxy mandates that we keep troops in syria forever and anybody who disagrees with that as the daily beast pointed out today somehow aligned with david duke? where did that idea come from. >> this comes from yellow fever over russia. the idea that trump is a sleeper agent for russia. that russia, as your last guest pointed out to you, is poised to you invade western europe out same way hitler did in 1945. none of that is true. if you look at russia today it has gotten away

is it that russia may move into the baltic states or what happens in the black sea in the balkan area for nato is that we are faced with many different threats at the same time. russia using violence against neighbors, but also daish, isil in the south and cyber proliferation of nuclear weapons. so we are now in the midst of the biggest reinforcement of nato since the end of the cold war. john: there are real concerns that vladimir putin may make a play on a part of estonia. if he were to do that, estonia's a nato member, would that invoke article v? >> first of all, we don't see any imminent threat against any nato ally. second, the main reason we have nato is to prevent the conflict, prevent war. as long as all nato allies make it clear that an attack on one ally will trigger a response from the whole alliance, then no one try to be aggressive against nato because they know we are by far the strongest alliance in the world, half of the world's economic might and half of the world's military might. so as long as we stand together, we prevent conflict. john: mr. secretary-general, we'

in as we go on through the next couple of days for something see that cloud there just about the black sea caspian sea through the caucasus so pushing its way little bit a tattoo just coming into the eastern side of the mediterranean so possibility of some light showers coming through but i think for the most part it will be fine and sefl nineteen celsius in baghdad and in kuwait city back cloud coming down across iraq into the far north of saudi arabia but not really making too much progress as we go on through the next couple of days meanwhile further east is find at it strike rest sunshine in kabul's had just hit at around three degrees celsius twenty three celsius the full karate and further north we're getting up to around minus three and matty we're going to have twenty four here in doha some lovely pleasant sunshine coming through over the next couple of days just a gentle breeze as well so really will feel quite nice thursday added the going on into friday that cloud further north not really causing any problems if anything something to thin and break as we head towards the weekend

ten people have died in a fire involving two ships in the black sea, according to russian authoritiesation off the coast of ukraine. russia's maritime agency say the fate of the other sailors on board is still unknown. 0ne ship is a gas tanker and it's thought the blaze started when fuel was being transferred between the boats. cristiano ronaldo is expected to plead guilty to tax evasion in a madrid court today. ronaldo will be in the spanish capital on tax charges related to his time at real madrid. the juventus forward is expected to plead guilty and accept a suspended 23—month jail sentence and a fine of 5.7 million euros plus interest, which is part of an overall settlement worth 18.8 million euros. the headlines on bbc news: theresa may will meet her cabinet today, as mps put forward alternative brexit plans, including a labour amendment, giving parliament the option to vote on another referendum on its final proposal. mps have backed a campaign lead by katie price to make the online abuse of disabled people a crime. cardiff city football club say there is genuine concern that th

visit that russia may move into the baltic states or what is happening in the black sea and the balkan area? >> the challenge for nato is that we are faced with many different threats of the same time. russia using violence against neighbors, but also the south, and then nuclear weapons. so we are now in the midst of the biggest reinforcement of concerns in some circles tha on estonian. if you were to do that, that invoke article five? >> first of all, we don't see any imminent threat against any nato ally and that includes estonia. second, the main reason why we have nato is to prevent the conflict and prevent war because almost all nato allies make it clear that the attacks on one ally would trigger a response from all allies. trying to be aggressive against nato because they know that we are by far the strongest alliance in the world, half of the world military mind is within nato. we prevent conflict. >> john: mr. secretary general, thanks for being with us. we will see you next december in brussels. a good meeting by the way with the defense minister is. up next, longtime trump ad

several weather systems are making their way through parts of greece turkey as well as into the black sea and that's bringing a combination of winds rain and snow to many of these locations as well as this other system making its way from the north across the central and eastern part of europe this is going to bring plenty of snow across much of that area and then when we go from saturday to sunday a big drop in temperature for many locations out here we're going from above average to below average and below zero for many of those locations with warsaw only reaching a high of about minus four degrees there well that same weather system is going to cause a big problem here across much of the eastern mediterranean winds rain across much of this area is going to be lasting for several days are here on saturday anywhere from tripoli been gazi all the way over here towards cairo even over here towards parts of the middle east we are going to be seeing some very windy as well as rainy conditions and we can't rule out the possibility of flooding this could be happening particularly out here towa

another round of storms across the region here's an air of low pressure that is now pushing in to the black sea as you can see right there we also have another area of low pressure back here across parts of southern italy moving into greece both of these systems are we're going to be dealing with these for the next couple of days let's take a look your forecast map here as we take a look what's happening for the rest of the day here on friday we're going to be seeing some very heavy rain across much of the area as well as snow take a look down here towards greece though just to the north of athens greece is going to see some snow also in the higher elevations temperatures overnight going to be dropping down into the freezing areas and we're going to be seeing a lot of that wet snow and rain turn to freezing ice in some locations so it is going to be a slick mess right there as we go towards the next couple of days notice how we watch those storms continue to make their way towards the east more snow for parts of turkey but here across central europe our next system is coming down this one is go

when you have russians ramming boats in the black sea and capturing their crews, when you have close confrontations with jets and ships at sea. you know, you are too close. same thing in asia. we are poised in a much more confrontational way with china. china wants to push back. >> john, we are reminded, time and again, robert mueller is in the backdrop of this. we don't know what is coming around the corner in 2019 with mueller. we had one former prosecutor say we know 1% to 2% of what bob mueller is working on. i wonder, who is around the president as we head into the new year? he lost his chief of staff. he has nick in there. his children? where are the guardrails? who is around the president as the walls close. >> the circle around the president has really shrunk. john kelly was able to impose a degree of discipline on the west wing. that faded. he and the president were barely speaking the last few months. you have the attorney general, jeff sessions who drew the president's wrath. he was there and rob rosenstein were there to run some interference with the mueller probe. time w