also off ukrainian vessels military as well as civilian have the right to navigate through the kirks strait and the sea also. this is al jazeera these are your headlining stories cattle is withdrawing from opec next month as opposed to its position as the world's number one exporter liquefied natural gas the state owned cats are petroleum company plans to increase output from seventy seven million tonnes a year to one hundred ten million in our pursuit to strengthen the other's position as a reliable and trustworthy energy supplier across the globe. we have had taken steps to review the role in contribution of the international in our international energy scene we also saw that wish to enhance that all and those contributions in a manner that help achieve our strategy and joked is for the long. hundreds of private messages sent between jamal khashoggi and a saudi dissident show the journalist was planning an online movement that would hold the kingdom to account she called mohammed bin samana a beast who would devour all his off ukraine army reservists are being asked to report for duty it

but it's fair to sayt te united states was very sluggish ving the sponse inv kirk strait and the ukrainian naval ship that were a board seized by russia. other countries, nato, the e.u. issued statements far stronger an those of the u.s. government. president trump seemed to say, well, there's a problem on both des. he came out and said i don't like this aggression. i don't like it at all. it was much after the fact. and it didn't seem to be an issue that motivated to cancel a meeting with putin days later. when he got on the plane to go to buenos aires he said he was going to have the meeting one hour later. canceled. robert: you would seeis children there in the trump working n jr., ivanka, with him on business and on the campaign. you read about cohen, his work with mueller, does the family have exposure here gally and politically? >> i think in the president's mind, they do. and that i probably the most important thing. we don't know what mueller has. we don't know what he's doing. certainly the president, you, kne has these different red lines that he's made up. i think a true real on

resolution now this follows an incident in which you had a ukrainian naval vessel trying to cross the kirks strait now when this happened at that point there were ukrainian navy boats trying to cross this courage strait and they ignored instructions from maritime control and at that point russian border guards had to intervene and detain the violators now the current bridge which was recently constructed connecting crimea to other parts of russia was frequently brought up by those condemning russia it's important to note that bridge has been a point of criticism by those who oppose russia. so much so that the washington examiner a publication in the united states went as far as to call for the bridge to be blown up it's interesting that there was not then widespread condemnation of the washington examiner but regardless so we also have recently heard the united states promising to send more weapons to kiev and furthermore we did see another resolution voted on now the united states voted in favor of the resolution condemning russia however they voted against a resolution put forward by russia to c

resolution now this follows an incident in which you had a ukrainian naval vessel trying to cross the kirks strait now when this happened at that point there were ukrainian navy boats trying to cross this courage straight and they ignored instructions from maritime control and at that point russian border guards had to intervene and detain the violators but regardless that we also have recently heard the united states promising to send more weapons to kiev and furthermore we did see another resolution voted on now the united states voted in favor of the resolution condemning russia however they voted against a resolution put forward by russia to condemn naziism in fact the united states and ukraine were the only two countries to vote against that resolution opposing nazis so pretty clear differences in the international community displayed in the debate and passing of resolutions today at the u.n. general assembly. well. the move is part of a russian cum pain while the legal analysts we spoke to believes u.n. resolutions are all about blocks these political games. not only are we seeing a lot of a

it's necessary to stress that the rules of passage through the kirk strait have been effective for more than twenty years and they have always been observed by both russian and ukrainian ships the f.s.b. goes guard so that there were ammunition and weapons found on board of the arrested ukrainian vessels that exceeded the standard load and also documents that said that that should have been a call for an op put it in the first lot of during the inspection of ukrainian ships a document was found which orders and this is a court order to make sure the coach straight out of the russian navy and f.s.b. supervision the main goal is to covertly pass through the crowd straight skinny end of quote you can make your own conclusion you might escape russian court issued a decision or doing that all of the twenty four ukrainian servicemen assets and the incident be held in custody for two months while the investigation is underway all of the men were accused of trust passing ukraine because this is an act of aggression precious up because he says that the country is trying to picture that serviceme

attack from russia it was imposed in november after russia captured three ukrainian ships in the kirk strait the measure affects the regions closest to russia's military bases are said it was aimed at preventing an all out russian invasion georgia's fast woman president has been sworn in vowing to reconcile political divisions last month alone is. defeated greegor the should say in elections which the election which the opposition said were rigged international observers said they had been unfair use of state resources away from the ceremony in tel aviv scuffles broke out as police blocked of a and his supporters from entering the city. don is the poorest of the post soviet states in central asia more than one million tajiks work in russia because they can't find jobs at home but the government hopes that a major hydroelectric power project will provide employment the economy tells strafford reports from rogan. construction of the rogue and dam started in one thousand nine hundred eighty six when tajikistan was part of the soviet union but the collapse of the communist state a civil war and

of also ukrainian brussels military as well as civilian have the right to navigate through the kirks strait and the sea also well the emergency measures in ukraine of raised political tensions far right militias are trying to capitalize on it to gain support but they've also been accused of vigilante violence and extremism under simmons has more now from kharkiv in north eastern ukraine another exchange of accusations between ukraine and russia from the president here. don't leave a problem if the kremlin keeps testing the limits of the global order checking whether the world will accept turning the hours of sea and the black sea into a russian lake it's an enormous threat. russia says poroshenko has words are absurd the ukrainian president had a photo call with new deliveries of military hardware as the kremlin accused him of trying to generate tension prashant go is making a partial call up of reservists but at the same time stressing it is an mobilization that will only happen if russia invades he says. but some veterans of ukraine's war with pro russian separatists say there's confusion

we have obviously seen these incidents in the kirk strait, we are working european partners in theiring back against the russians that actually leads to deterrence from this kind of aggression from vladimir putin. steve: mr. secretary, we know you have been doing a lot of traveling all over the world since have you gotten the job. >> yes, sir. steve: thank you for joining us on the couch: and merry christmas. >> merry christmas, steve. steve: we're going to take a quick time-out. back in two minutes. ♪ ♪ steve: north carolina got a whole bunch of snow in the last week or so. and they have got a lot of opinions as well. ainsley: that's right. todd piro is having breakfast with some of the folks down in the great state of north carolina. hey, todd. todd: hey, guys we are having way too much fun here this morning we also are talking about the serious issues of the day. we begin with cathy. cathy, you say that schumer/pelosi meeting was a fiasco. why? >> because the president wanted to be transparent. and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer didn't want to be transparents. they wanted to do it