that is creating a headache for the council.to accept people on benefits. it smells freshly decorated... three years ago, she had 346 landlords on the council's books. now the number willing to read to people on benefits has plummeted tojust 50. universal credit is often the deal—brea ker. will the tenant pay us direct or will you? the rent? the rent will be the tenants' responsibility. the council doesn't have enough accommodation to house all homeless families. marj is under intense pressure to find a solution. welcome to third—party payments, part of the department for work and pensions... good afternoon, it's marj cooper from flintshire county council... according to the universal credit website, the government will consider paying rent to landlords directly but only in certain crisis situations. i want to make sure i am understanding this correctly. can marj arrange that on someone‘s be hard? the landlord themselves has to originate that request for alternative payment arrangements, it can't be done by a third party? she ca

council member tatiana kostanian? >> here. council member?council member sassouni: here. >> council member smolinski: here. >> council member williams: present. >> co-chair blacksten: lets move forward to the next agenda item which i believe is the reading of the agenda today. >> item 1, welcome, introduction and roll call. item 2, action item. reading and approval of the agenda. item 3, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. we welcome the public's participation during public comment periods. there will be an opportunity for public comment at the beginning and end of the meeting, as well as as after everytime on today's agenda. each comment is limited to three minutes and the council will respond to your comments following the meeting if you provide your contact information. you may complete a speaker's card, available in the front of the room, approach the microphone during public comment, or call our bridge line at 1-415-554-9632, where a staff person will handle requests to speak at the appropr

>> council member sassouni: yes, council member orkid. >> co-chair blacksten: orkid? >> council member sassouni: yes. >> go ahead. >> council member sassouni: so as a member of the deaf community and advocate for other consumers, i notice that the equipment for smart phones and ipads and stuff like that is very outdated. and also, there is a new product coming out every two years. so it's not affordable to have the most up to date technology, which leaves people with disabilities stuck in a way. and you know, the apps for all of the technology that we have have to be regulated by the scc and follow the regulations by fcc for compliance. but the equipment that we buy is self-bought. we have to purchase it ourselves. although the apps are regulated by the fcc, the sad fact is we have to pay for it. like the data plan for phone companies which can get very pricey. and you know, we need the service to be able to use our video phones as the deaf community and if we have a low internet or quality, we're not able to use that. so the data really impacts our service to access

members of the space council. i'm honored to be asked to speak today on the creation of the space force. what follows are my own personal views, not of any organization that have been part of. over the past two decades, i've had the privilege to be part of and led organizations that have done over 300 space missions, which combined with the time that i've spent in the government, military, and industry associations and now academia has provided me with some unique insights into the creation of a space force. so i'm going to focus my remarks today on the why and not the how. the united states is fortunate to have a storied space history. we have the most advanced space technologies, the largest space budgets, a commercial space sector that is innovating and investing, strong government leadership, universities and laboratories producing valuable primary results and research and above all, talented people in and out of uniform who have created a space infrastructure that has no global equal. it was once famously sai

but ultimately, the tribal council voted to approve, and council members negotiated after failing with one company, negotiated a deal with harris casino -- harrah's casino. the decision was really controversial because the tribal council did not hold a referendum on the issue. according to the deal signed with harrah's, 50% of the profits would go directly to tribal members in the form of per capita payments. minors would have their shares deposited in a mutual fund until they turned 18. the other 50% of the profitsts would go to the cherokee government to fund tribal goprograms, programs that had bn cut or eliminated because of previous budget cuts. that takes us back to the beginning. prior to the late 20th century, the tribal council of the eastern band of cherokee indians could never have dreamed of successfully carrying out such a notion. the opening of harrah's symbolized the 100-year culmination of the growth of th cherokee tribal council and the evolution of their, as i call it, interdependent sovereignty. this was not without controversy. when native americans adopted new econ

a security council session this morning. we called for this meeting because we received the information about you green from occasionally in the carriage street which was very disturbing and alarming and we decided to convene security council meeting on the item agenda and maintenance of international peace and security. but strangely enough the settlement of ours was blocked by western countries which supported the. support of the letter of ukraine which was sent a little bit later than our request. to to call the meeting on the agenda item letter of ukrainian p.r. which. they spectrally to the days back to the time when the problems of ukraine just started after them i don and we thought that these threats that we are facing now are all to give you non-black sea of sea and go straight they really merits being discussed onto the agenda item the dimensions so this was a very strange discussion usually security council members it wards. will see these drug game of agenda item but this time they decided to go to the answer and

he decided that he would be establishing an issue a council is advisory council that was one way actually by the saudi government in order to. try to have displeasure by. so would the elites alleviate this somehow so the king is. so. nice to the show that the shooter council give. the ruler of saudi arabia and how much of that advice does he take well actually we all know that it doesn't have much by the short passage doesn't have much power in fact it doesn't even have the power to someone ministers from the government. in fact it's the charter which established i mean sure the council does not actually allowed to have that sort of a fart in fact so we shouldn't be expecting much actually. from this advisory council members absolute self what about the speech that we're about to pass on what i believe that we'll be talking about the range of issues domestic and still another. i mean the international community will be probably interested more on what the king is going to see about a member of jamaah hotshot gee. do you think that he will actually but will come up and it is clear he might

the european council invited the commission, the european parliament, and the council to take the necessary steps to ensure that the agreement can can enter into on the 30th of march, 2019. provide for an orderly withdrawal. theure piian council approved the political declaration setting out the framework for the future relationship between the european union and the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. the european council restated the determination to have as close as possible a partnership with the united kingdom in the future. i quote this passage of today's conclusions as it contains the sense of our meeting. ahead of us is a difficult process of ratification as well as further negotiations. but regardless of how it will all end, one thing is certain. we will remain friends until the end of days. >> yes, indeed. it is a day on which we're satisfied with the results we have obtained. it's a very sad day to see a country like the u.k.. and the same would have applied to any other country, a country leaving the e.u. doesn't give rise to the raising of champagne glasses or

. >> reporter: brooks isn't the only council member who will be replaced. the district 4 council seat, any campbell washington announced she would vacate this year. district 2 incumbent also fell to the community organizer. >>> voters are looking for change and hope. >> change is what they'll get in their new faces. vote are turnout declined in this election, despite record breaking turnout across the county. >> many district 6 residents have given up on voting and the city to solve their problems. they're not excited -- i'm excited they've put their faith in me. >> reporter: council member larry reid has said this will be his last term. in oakland, kpix 5. >> the voters passed san francisco's business tax to raise money for the homeless, but he t may take a while before we -- it may take a while before we see anyff of pr. th 60% of the yes votes but faces a potential legal challenge. opponents say that it should have required a two-thirds majority to pass. city controller says the city will still collect the tax money but those funds will be frozen until a

you're referring to the whole place in general yes the audit council yes the op ed. well yeah i mean i follow the atlantic council closely because i want to know how the sausage is made in washington and because they have this lucrative deal with facebook to basically that political content including you know the content that i post of my own reporting to facebook and you know i saw that the atlantic council it published this op ed by fred camp their president who ironically used to be a correspondent for the wall street journal basically urging constructive engagement with mohamed bin selma and right after the cia hughes's him of being directly involved in the bone sawing of a washington post columnist and i you know i see there are these op ed is kind of for internal consumption in the think tank world in washington and i wanted to give it more oxygen so i was one of the first to kind of point that out on twitter and then it went from there with just a full on pile on on the atlantic council to. it's great for people to finally see what the true agenda of this saud

. >> the united nations security council held an emergency meeting in new york yesterday to discuss the confrontation between russia and ukraine in the strait which connects the black sea and the sea of azaf. this portion of the session included remarks by u.s. ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley. as well as the ukrainian ambassador and deputy russian ambassador. we begin with the united nations undersecretary-general for political affairs who gave n update on the situation. >> thank you, mr. president. less than a month ago when i last briefed the security council on the situation in ukraine, i brought to the council's attention the reports of increased tensions in the sea of azuf and underlying the need to avoid any risk of escalation, provocation, or o miscalculation. regrettably, a serious security incident took place near cry merea, close to the sea only yesterday. i wish to underline that the united nations currently cannot independently verify the circumstances surrounding the incident. however, reports indicate on 25 november an incident involving three ukrainian vessels and at

and in the presidential council are going. on with their bickering and. instead of organizing themselves to go for elections that can really get to meet institutions in libya and can unify institutions in libya they're actually trying to prolong their stay in power as much as they can the cost of the libyan population so we're losing people to these isis attacks but we're also. suffering a great deal the population is suffering in luck of medical care or proper education electrical supply water supply all services are actually delivered and of course the most important services security and these killings of innocent people are just another example of the second forces that the libyan people are having to make simply because their politicians. are not uniting in order to put the country on a proper truck british politicians don't seem to be mentioning libya much suddenly much less than they did when britain was bombing your country in twenty eleven there's a conference scheduled in sicily even a member of the twelve how do you

a member of the security council. will has an important role to play to make sure that they would veto anything that would be detrimental to the libyan people and they should be firm about the affirming the libyan people's right to vote i know that some russian officials have expressed doubts about the elections and the conditions but i'm of the view and this is what i've been arguing in moscow that rather than wait for stability in order to have elections elections themselves can deliver stability because people when their spirit ins are blocked and when they're not being given services and when they're being dismissed and marginalized and when they're being deprived of the right to vote that is when things go unstable actions are important for stability in libya and you know i think the libyan army and the police you see general haftar of the army is in a in rome this week your and most curious countries like britain which bombed. fronts they seem to be edged edged out of things really do you think russian is for hu

all three least land from the tribal council. the manufacturing's they made women's hair accessories. these operations employed more than 300 full-time workersthlo % of whom were cherokee with aro yearly payroll of more than $650,000. the creation of 300 jobs was not insignificant.. one official quote this is the first indian reservation to be industrialized. they waged a war on poverty the threat of tribal termination had widespread opposition. and strengthened indian identity and activism. they lobbied the state and federal officials against determination and in favor of the protection of indian rights. they typically sought to affect change within the u.s. political and governmental system. some younger native americans however argued that the group acted too passively. in the early 1960s young africans americans they a job adopted more confrontational tactics. younger native americans founded groups dedicated to more direct public action. the american indian movement became the most well-known of these red power groups. they

less than a month ago, when i last briefed the security council on the situation in ukraine, i brought to the council's attention the reports of increased tensions in the sea of azov and underlying the need to avoid any risk of escalation, provocation, or miscalculation. regrettably, a serious security incident took place near crimea, close to the sea only yesterday. i wish to underline that the united nations currently cannot independently verify the circumstances surrounding the incident. however, reports indicate on 25 november, an incident involving three ukrainian vessels and at least one russian vessel took place near the straits when the former attempted to enter the sea of azov. a number of ukrainian sailors, though the exact number remains unclear, were reportedly injured in the event. ukraine claims that it had previously notified the russian federation of its intent to sail these vessels to the ukrainian port of mariupol in the sea, which requires entry through the narrow kerch straits. the russian federation, meanwhile, claims that ukraine has provoked the incident and that

human rights council actually asking saudi arabia to do. well i mean this proceeding feeds into a report which will go before the full human rights council early next year and it's true frankly that the working group in the human rights council doesn't have a big stick to beat saudi arabia with there's a as the u.n. special commissioner on human rights previously said is that these periodic reviews just elaborate so it's a nice process of diplomatic niceties are they actually have any real change or an effect and he left that question open you've also got for example america the united states has withdrawn from the human rights council but it has the bite i mean frankly every nation in the world has signed up to at least one of the nine core human rights treaties and in order to maintain their public perception of that they have to show that they are abiding by them so this kind of peer review kind of look at the record of saudi arabia and other countries is very very important because although if they don't have a stick here to beat saudi

she told me more about the action rotherham council had taken.at raped me and was convicted and sentenced to 35 years for what he did to me and other children, they have offered him to apply for custody of my son. not only have they done that, they've done that without my permission. they didn't tell me. but even though i've proved that he is a danger to himself, to children around the country and to my son as well. and is it custody, or is it access to your son? no, they asked him to apply for custody so then he could make all the parental decisions. so how about woodwork as he's in prison for 35 years, he would decide where my son would live and make all the decisions and then my son would go and visit him in prison, which is just absolutely outrageous. and i'm not the only person that's going through this, there are women all over the country that have to share access with their children to the men that raped them. they have to see them, they are cross—examined by them, they have to ask their permission for things. you know, i even tried to ap

they stepped in when the council library closed due to cuts.aving a library that is being run by the community and we are very lucky in that regard here in langley, but the bottom line is the funding for libraries and community services. balancing the books is a problem for county councils across england who have faced budget cuts and rising demand for social care. here in east sussex, the council plans to only offer essential services. that would less money for highways and road safety, further cuts to the library service, there could be slower assessments for children with special educational needs, and less preventative work in children's social services. but i think it's important that we give the government the evidence that they need. the council says unless it gets more government funding, it will only be able to provide the bare minimum for the most vulnerable. clearly, we are having to make really, really difficult decisions. we've taken the opportunity to raise council tax as much as allowed by government, but it clearly doesn't take

they stepped in when the council library closed due to cuts.aving a library that is being run by the community and we are very lucky that regard here in langley, but the bottom line is the funding for libraries and community services. balancing the books is a problem for county councils across england who face budget cuts and rising demand for social care. here in east sussex, the council plans to only offer essential services, with less money for highways, further cuts to the library service, slower assessments for children with special educational needs, and less preventative work in children's social services. but i think it's important that we give the government the evidence that they need. the council says that unless it gets more government funding, it will only be able to provide the bare minimum for the most vulnerable. clearly, we are having to make really, really difficult decisions. we taken the opportunity to raise council tax as much as allowed by government, but it clearly doesn't take into account the increase in demographics an

lee has violated the united nations security cancer council resolution because the un security council resolution two two three one approved a rainy and nuclear deal and the united states is the on live member of un security council to be strong unilaterally and to violate the sanctions and the second fact is the are there members of pearman and member of united nations security council russia china europe they are united to defend and to support the u.n. resolution and the uranium nuclear deal as you say russia and china said they're going to ignore the united states theresa may the also said u.k. companies should take advantage of business ties with iran and britain will try and protect business relations with iran what do you make of that u.n. security council response this is really far beyond the u.k. business this is an international issue a member of the united nations security council is punishing the are there members for implementation of the nuclear deal you know for the implementation of u.n. security council second definitely this is a big moment for your op to prove it is

security council meetings called together the ukraine nato council the as well as the normandy for that's germany france russia and ukraine the minsk agreement back is to condemn russia's actions so far great britain has condemned russia's actions nato has called on russia to immediately release the seized vessels the three vessels that are here impounded encourage as well as the two dozen sailors that have been. rest that ukrainian sailors as i say it all happened here encourage earlier today we managed to film the vessels themselves impounded after yesterday's desperate chase. 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. like a. criminal proceedings over the illegal state border crossing and been initiated the ukraine is aware of the procedures regulating the navigation of navy ships they have previously followed these procedures for peaceful maneuvering. russia remains adamant that ukraine violated international law specifically the un convention of one thousand nine hundred

the security council. is guilty on this situation because the security council did not take a decision to put in. its regular doc or to be fair to the. money into criminal court. so. after six years in the commission. trying to obtain justice for the victims and it was not possible nobody's listening to us to the commission and then see the. total impunity when you said that the u.n. commission was not backed by any political will for example which countries on the security council were you referring to which countries specifically lacked the political will that you were looking for or its well known needs russia first of all to russia and china and russia uses a victorian right so they stopped each resolution that want to to put in place the international tribunal it was not possible it is still not possible because russia is still putting an obstacle to each each decision to tina justice for the victims isn't there a bit of a contradiction there when we hear you talk about russia because right now you're

didn't want that because the security council. don't want to just. see the avoid to be teams because of former yugoslavia and there was the security council. unanimously decided to go constituted a mission that i bulent to that to deal with the crimes that way they committed war crimes and crimes again your money and genocide but unfortunately it is a political decision from the security council while out an entire nation an institution a tribe you all know a dog to obtain just deployed to beat teams. the weak point that it is a political decision you will but the but those decisions are made not just by governments are made by prosecutors you once expressed a willingness to press charges against nato personnel for alleged war crimes in one nine hundred ninety nine in december ninety nine when you told the guardian you were up for that nato had broken the geneva conventions then six months later you change your mind you did one hundred percent u. turn and said major didn't do anything wrong you're not going to investigate them why

the european council and the commission, the european parliament, and the council took the necessary steps to ensure can happen onment , to provide for an orderly withdrawal. the european council approved the political declarations with the framework for the relationship between the european union and the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. respectedan council the determination to have as close as possible a partnership with the united kingdom in the future. passage of today's it contains the essence of our meeting. after a difficult process of ratification as well as further , but regardless of how it will all and, one thing is certain. we will remain friends until the end. >> the day on which we have set aside the results that have been obtained, but it is a very sad day to see a country like the u.k., in the same would apply to any other country. a country leaving the eu does not give way to the raising of and they haveses, attempted to express their , broadly shared, if not unanimously shared. ago, the a year european commission was given a mandate to conduct ne

they stepped in when the council library closed due to cuts.ing a library that is being run by the community and we are very lucky in that regard here in langley, but the bottom line is the funding for libraries and community services. balancing the books is a problem for county councils across england who have faced budget cuts and rising demand for social care. here in east sussex, the council plans to only offer essential services — that would mean less money for highways, further cuts to the library service, slower assessments for children with special educational needs, and less preventative work in children's social services. but i think it's important that we give the government the evidence that they need. the council says, unless it gets more government funding, it will only be able to provide the bare minimum for the most vulnerable. clearly, we are having to make really, really difficult decisions. as allowed by government, but it clearly doesn't take into account the increase in demographics and cost of providing those services. in

distinguish members of the council. throughout all of these events, the ukrainian side acted strictly in line with international law and the existing bilateral agreement with the russian federation. ukraine tried to cross the channel and it is guaranteed from article 2 of the treaty between ukraine and russia and the strait from 2003. the treaty clearly provides for the freedom of litigation for both civil and military vessels of ukraine and russia in the sea and the strait. this is the treaty. that was signed by the current russian federation. secondly, the russian federation new well in advance and was informed through traditional channels of communication about the ukrainian group through the strait. the ukrainian group strictly followed the orders, and as you can see, there was no provocation whatsoever from the ukraine part. nevertheless, the russian federation opted to purposely block the passage of the ukrainian ships, thus violating the freedom of litigation guaranteed by the ukraine and russia cooperation. more

didn't want that because the security council. don't want to just. see the avoid to be teams because of former yugoslavia and there was a security council. meeting and decided to go constituted of nations that would be on or linked to that to deal with the crimes that way they committed war crimes and crimes again your money and genocide but unfortunately it is a political decision from the security council while out an entire nation an institution a tribe you all know a dog to obtain just deployed to beat teams. the weak point that it is a political decision you will but the but those decisions are made not just by governments are made by prosecutors you once expressed a willingness to press charges against nato personnel for alleged war crimes in one nine hundred ninety nine in december ninety nine when you told the guardian you were up for that nato had broken the geneva conventions then six months later you change your mind you did one hundred percent you turned and said major didn't do anything wrong you're not going to inves

skirmish in the sea off crimea russia seized the three ukrainian ships the united nations security council is meeting in emergency session ukraine's president has called for martial law also on the program. landing on mars the spacecraft will reach the red planet in a few hours and scientists hope to dig beneath the surface to find out how this was formed billions of years ago. i'm phil gale welcome to the program. the u.n. security council's meeting in emergency session after russia sees to three ukrainian ships off the crimean peninsula ukrainian president petro poroshenko has demanded media release of the crew and vessels and he's calling on parliament to impose martial law the clash took place in the straight between russia and crimea as a point of international tension ever since russia annexed the region four years ago . this video has been circulating online since it was a released on sunday. taken from on board a russian military ship swearing and shouting could be heard as well as the command to stay the course directly towards ukrainian tugboat. in the russian ship rams the ukrai

security council meetings called together the ukraine nato council the as well as the normandy for that's germany france russia and ukraine the minsk agreement backers to condemn russia's actions so far great britain has condemned russia's actions nato has called on russia to immediately release the seize the vessels of the three vessels that are here impounded in kutch as well as the two dozen sailors that have been arrested ukrainian sailors as i say it all happened here in qatar earlier today we managed to film the vessels themselves impounded off the yesterday's desperate chase. russia remains adamant that ukraine violated international law specifically the un convention of one thousand nine hundred eighty two when the law of the sea which prohibits navigation through territorial waters in this case the waters surrounding the strip the strait of. when the area is restricted when territorial waters are restricted at all of the times navigation ease is allowed so any third country. third party country can freely travel through the territorial waters of any other country unless those ter

all the members of the security council will think about this. appropriate measures to come back to the o p c w and after the events of this conference that's taking place. there were some talks beforehand of russia perhaps even wanting to remove themselves from the o.p.c. w. is that ever on the agenda or is that something you'd ever consider pulling out of the the organization entirely. too early to jump to the conclusions we need to talk over many many aspects not to really to. rule any conclusions just the time at this time point and time. we will think. we will to a proper decision in proper time very quickly as far as russia khan is concerned this isn't over. for you still continue thank you very much ambassador shogun russia's permanent representative to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and the russian federation's ambassador here in the netherlands it's been well a busy few days there's been more voting going on in the o.p.c. w in this afternoon in the house being in several years put together so a lot still to dige

security council really rounded on russia is surprising for you. well it doesn't surprise me that the united nations. is not very deliberative it's supposed to be a deliberative body but. everyone has rushed to judgment without being able to examine the facts of the situation. i think there is some possibility that both sides were asserting rights obviously now that crimea is part of russia. russia needs to assert its sovereignty at the same time there is a two thousand and three treaty that still is in effect that allows ukraine to to trance it through this very important strait and so to some extent i think perhaps it is possible that the ukrainians were also trying to assert their rights under that treaty so so both sides may have a certain amount of merit to their claims yes and as you say that it feels that the claims to be made by both sides you would think that that would lead to some kind of deliberation he said that's what the security council should be that what you think they will listen to the information put across by russia as to what

security council response this is really far beyond the u.k. business this is an international issue or a member of united nations security council is punishing the are there members for implementation of the nuclear deal you know for the implementation of u.n. security council second definitely this is a big more meant for you or your to prove it is really independent and can be independent from us pressures its territorial sanctions not only for europe but for russia and china and third definitely this is an opportunity for you and your op to expand economic relations with iran are there are lies. chinese russia they would go ahead regardless of the u.s. sanctions the eastern powers they are not going to give a damn to unilateral decisions of united the state therefore if you're up this size to continue to decide to continue business with iran iran would be able to have a balanced economic trade relation with the east and west are there why is iran would go more and more toward the eastern bloc's just like with cuba or arguably in your latest

while thank you for having me in fire the guardian council in the country in fact did not reject but did not endorse the bill by the government on this which is combating the financing of terrorism they have returned and referred. bill back to the parliament mentioning turn it to begin and the flaws in the bill and the parliament will have the chance to correct those flaws and ambiguity again send it to the guardian council or they can insist on the bell and send it to the expat the city council which can resolve the difference between the parliament and the guardian council or the government can the third option would be to send a bill on the issue it seems that the the twenty two issues which have been mentioned by the guardian council in order not to endorse the well are mostly technical and legal issues and they do not it has it has nothing to do with the concept of terrorism but it's mostly based on technical and legal issues or some even related punctuations or some warrant being in order to for example impose one part of the bell the black least has been mentioned the guardian

they called the special council about this. that is what delayed. we were try to go get to the bottom of this. the answer in part was because his legal team was hearing for some time that the mueller investigators were pressing him from his per specifspective too. >>> we are following two other breaking stories. a bill to protect mueller and his russia investigation just got blocked. >> senators just left a closed door briefing on the involvement of the murder. i will speak with one of them to find out what they learned. when your blanket's freshness fades before the binge-watching begins... that's when you know, it's half-washed. next time, add downy fabric conditioner for freshness that lasts through next week's finale. downy and it's done. about the colonial penn program. here to tell you if you're age 50 to 85 and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three p's. what are the three p's? the three p's of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. a price you can afford, a price that can't increase, and a

in stands led to two emergency sessions of the un security council where russia was accused of being an aggressor. this will never get through she's not going to get a majority we have no idea where this is heading m.p.'s launch a scathing attack on three of them a strike that plan is the british prime minister battles to win them over the heads of a crucial deceptive it's. russia minute tracks that say toxic substances were used in an assault on the black hole in syria on saturday we look at why the world's media has largely ignored the attack. it's just ten three am head in moscow you're watching international. russia's president vladimir putin has spoken by phone with german chancellor angela merkel they discuss an ongoing dispute between russia and ukraine where putin described this as a provocation by kiev timed for the upcoming presidential elections. meanwhile russia's border security forces issued new details into sunday's clash in the straits which course the two sides close to conflict the captain of one of the detained ukrainian ships admit consciously acknowledge the comm

disagrees with it and so does the council of europe and the human rights commission who complained in this reporter earlier this year that things with regard to access to information are not going well the government is not implementing the recommendations of the commissioner for information of public importance and the parliament is not discussing his reports you want to continue down this road because they're not buying your denials of this. i'm not saying that these are denials there is so much work to be done and i'm saying i said i said yesterday. at the conference of konrad adenauer stiff them i think if we look. our you integration in three key pillars economy public administration rule of law by far the most was done in the economy i would say in terms of structural reforms eighty five percent of the job has been done which is shown in the numbers that serbia has right now our g.d.p. growth in this year was four point five percent our our employment coughed our. we are the world leaders in the our attraction in terms of public administration reform public pub probably fifty pe

security council where russia was once again accused of being an aggressor. this team never gets through she's not going to get a majority we have no idea where this is headed. m.p.'s low interest scathing attack on some reason made strikes a plan as the british prime minister battles to win them over the heads of a crucial december dates. russian military experts say toxic substances were used in an assault on the left her in syria long stuff today we look at why the world's media has largely ignored the chemical attack. fly from the russian capital this is r.t. international. russia's president vladimir putin has spoken by phone with german chancellor angela merkel according to a crime and statements they discussed an ongoing dispute between russia and ukraine who are to describe it as a provocation by kiev time for the upcoming presidential elections meanwhile russia's border security forces issued new details into sunday's clash in the straits which brought the two sides. close to conflict the captain of one of the detained ukrainian ships admits he consc

security council. sanctions and the idea it was to always like keep a dalek going and one of the direct results of the normandy format has been for some of the means agreement which still hasn't brought any results in the crisis itself but of course it's a channel to keep dialogue and to give diplomatic efforts in this crisis going question however is if there's going to be new sanctions coming from the united nations how this will work out together with this diplomatic format you know it's a very good point to maximally for fickleness story corps here in berlin thank you . for britain's prime minister is urging lawmakers from all parties to support the brig's a deal that she agreed with the european union on sunday speaking before her parliament recently warned skeptical lawmakers of the unknown consequences of not read of on britain's withdrawal of the old from the e.u. lawmakers are now due to vote on the recently as planned on december eleventh. we can back this do you deliver on the voters a refer

security council or the human rights council and that's great that will we haven't see is a commitment from the international community to look into sustainable long term conditions for the range of imports is bizarre and you know if you want to tell you this year the u.n. needs a very modest appeal of nine hundred fifty million dollars just pulled in really just most urgent needs in the scarcely a dollar per refugee and yet. those situations are scarcely a thousand dollars per refugee and those conditions were met so not substantially approaching the end of the year and only a pitiful forty percent of the people has been committed in day to any bottom line can explain for an additional government of this we also have to look at the attitudes of the incident i mean it's an absolutely six hundred thirty four million is the sum apparently that is missing from the international commitment so where do you think international efforts should focus should they focus on improving the conditions in the refugee camps for the remainder refugee population or should the efforts be their right to th

security council to take steps to end the violence we won the security council to shoulder its responsibility with regard to this situation threatening international peace and security and it is unfortunately the security council is paralyzed it did not show that its responsibility nevertheless we will keep knocking on the door of the security council to shoulder its responsibility i hope the efforts by our brothers in egypt of having the cease fire to to be put in place that will hold. well most all to come for you here on al-jazeera including these stories the search for bodies continuing in california as hundreds are still missing after the worst wildfire in the history of the state. and the u.k. and the e.u. have reportedly agreed to a draft brix a deal after months of negotiations but can it get approval today from the u.k. cabinet and indeed the parliament. hello is still far to war in the austrian alps to get any snow and this area generally speaking is warned it should be by average however what's creeping in from the west which is largely rain has just come a bit further in than of r