based off and i thought was the german chancellor angela merkel well the president of ukraine mr poroshenko he has urged his military to be ready for a possible invasion he has imposed martial law in border regions he's also threatened to impose restrictions on russian citizens in his country our correspondent nick connelly is on the ground in the city of mariupol here's his report but we still don't really know to the full extent of how it's actually how it's going to be interpreted here in america where i am now things have already been pretty strict for the last two years we are directly within about fifteen kilometers of the front line in some regions of ukraine we've heard about restrictions on freedom of assembly demonstrations effectively banned there are new rules restricting basically making it impossible for foreigners to enter crimea legally from ukraine but this still has a whole month to go and seems right now that even the ukrainian government doesn't really know what powers that they potentially now have they're actually going to end up using. and that was our nick conley the

region to change its status box of mr poroshenko did not sign the law. maybe the showers in ukraine change. maybe the new comers will change the situation i don't know it's going to happen we're going to have to wait. for the final question most. of the during a short conversation with the. possibility of a meeting in the coming future no we haven't learned anything so far but we have discussed the the tragedy that happened i'm talking about the downing of four russian plane. of course we know the position of israel they believe that they have nothing to do with the tragedy and we also discussed a number of other issues related to our bilateral cooperation in the region on and in syria on the whole. as for any specific schedules for our upcoming meeting biliteral meeting this wasn't something we discuss no. longer works for fox mr president. believe that taking into account the volatility of the current chemical. market is the and the reason to cooperate with saudi arabia and limit the production of oil now i'm going i'm not going to say anything about l

mr. poroshenko to mr. putin was recently rebuffed.rent: our correspondent david stern on the story for us in kiev tonight. david, thank you. does islam belong in g german society? does it have a future here? those questions were controversial when germany held its first islam conference back in 2006. today, as the fourth islam conference begins, the controversy remains. the country's interior minister horst seehofer is hosting the conference. in the past, there has been criticism that the conference has promoted only conservative forms of islam, conservative forms that have little interest in integration. this year the organizers say that they have also invited liberal theologians and social scientists. it is thought that there are almost five million muslims living here in germany. in our next re, ear from one young woman who is trying to liberalize her faith. reporter: understanding how muslims are perceived in germany is a mission for sineb el masrar. an author and daughter of moroccan immigrants, she was born and raised in germany

mr. poroshenko would say it's ukraine first but if crimea is part of ukraine by bringing the ships to the territory, to the sea, but if tomorrow he decides to bring tanks to crimea, saying it is ukrainian territory, what's going to happen? just imagine. liz: this week i was supposed to attend your russia calling conference, the vtb is putting on, then they reassigned me to the g20. let's talk about that. have any u.s. bankers withdrawn? who's coming? do you get a sense it's harder when you have sanctions on you to draw international business leaders? >> this year, we expect more than 2,000 guests from 53 countries and as far as i remember, 39 are people from the united states. they represent different investment funds. liz: thank you, as always. we appreciate the russian perspective. it's good to see you. thank you so much. >> thank you, liz. liz: of course, i will have a front row seat to all the action between president trump and vladimir putin at the g20 in argentina. i will be flying south to report live from buenos aries beginning friday. our thanks to andrey. we will be right back.

to squeeze ukraine ahead of the march presidential elections and make life very difficult for mr poroshenko well on top of all that it's going to bring in some more missiles as well there's already some as four hundred systems there but another set of surface to air missiles i mean it it's said something doesn't it. you know the missiles likely were planned the russian federation likely use the opportunity of this incident to increase its military power in crimea but absolutely russia's always looking for opportunities to increase its military presence in crimea both for any contingencies against ukraine but more importantly to showcase the united states in nato that it will continue to limit access and continue to push back against any efforts both diplomatic and militarily to support ukraine and so absolutely the deployment of these forces will more i would say impact concerns in the west about russian military maneuvers and of course russia's already providing significant tanks equipment personnel to its forces in eastern ukraine and there's an ongoing conflict in eastern ukraine and i t

any sort of gatherings or protests in ukraine to regulate the media as you rightly pointed out mr poroshenko estimating today he's chances to get through the second round of the presidential elections in ukraine is zero he's not even able to get to the second round what mr porson sees he's waiting for the concert qantas straight from the u.s. he's waiting to be a good knowledge as the right for hold all the power in the ukraine or also this. for the us neo cons to use the ukraine for the base to attack russia in the future i mean let us be clear yesterday my profits from from the you know university of warsaw professor contacted me at night saying done what they are doing asking me what they are doing well i mean when we are sitting in moscow in washington now in london it looks like a zero is another conflict no you know that on the border between ukraine and poland out prop. people are fighting one child ok i go i want to get me another yeah let me go to let me go to mary here you know you know mary with this proclamation of martial law all of us here on this program and many of our viewer

armies in ukraine which is difficult to imagine but then again mr poroshenko has over the years predicted the imminent russian invasion numerous times nevertheless moscow has reacted the foreign ministry has said that this latest act carried out by the regime in kiev is merely a political ploy it's an attempt to shore up the ratings ranks fourth in the polls for presidential elections and presidential elections are only four months away and suddenly we have martial law being enacted meal four months before elections this follows on of course from ukraine's ban on no foreigners for making their way into crimea. if they aren't ukrainian citizens in ukraine citizens can enter crimea from from ukraine this is of course complicated the job of journalists that are seeking to cover events in. ukraine itself in crimea as well there's also complicated things for families or relatives there are millions of people both in russia in ukraine with relatives on the other side and this measure is doing to drastically complicate you know contact basic contact with their families nevertheless on the topic

the ukrainian side either in relation to the the conflict in the dawn boss or perhaps because mr poroshenko is trying to enhance his political prospects of the election early next year by provoking higher tensions with russia. dozens of people gathered outside the russian embassy in cabs late on sunday protesting against russia's seizing of the ukrainian vessels the demonstrators pens paper ships anti is in chanted anti kremlin slogans some of the protesters three flares in the building. dozens of people including children have been taken to hospital after an apparent chemical attack targeting the syrian city of that that's according to the russian defense ministry these images of victims receiving medical treatment medics say they had symptoms consistent with chlorine exposure russian chemical expresso waking at the scene of the attack. the russian defense ministry says the attack was carried out and nights with the shelling coming from an area controlled by an al qaeda linked group in neighboring adlib province militants commandos in ten deny any involvement insisting they don't have any

poroshenko today i mean this is part of the statement that was issued to justify imposing martial law mr poroshenko says that russia has been waging a hybrid war against our country for five years but within its hack on ukrainian military bodes it moved to a new stage of aggression no one will say now they are not there i mean this is a qualitatively different situation a qualitatively different threat. mr marriott how is this so fundamentally different than what we have seen i mean there was no martial law declared in ukraine in the last four or five years correct me if i'm wrong but we haven't seen martial law up until tonight. that is quite correct at the time that crimea was seized and annexed by russia there was no. declare martial law the war in the dawn sit in the hunts which has been a very very violent war by far the most violent war in europe since the yugoslav wars and in some respects even more violent never provoked martial law in ukraine so far the confrontation at the kurds straits has not led to so far as we know a single casualty the notion that somehow that justifies martial law w

broken up under the pretext of martial law and the russians are saying that this is another ploy by mr poroshenko to you know with just four months to go until elections and martial law being put in place is an attempt by him to radicalize to solidify the base and to guarantee himself more votes russia meanwhile that said that it is not planning on responding in kind that it isn't going to put in place any sort of restriction on ukrainians coming into russia for now but we've seen other restrictions put in place by the government in kiev we've seen for example foreigners banned from moving. into from journeying into crimea from the ukrainian side this includes journalists and this is drastically called complicated jobs because now foreign correspondents seeking to cover events in crimea even if they do manage to get into crimea they you know they might be punished by the ukrainians but we've seen a c.n.n. crew for example now in marry you pool which is a ukrainian city in the south of ukraine they've been going around they've been talking collecting opinions from people in the interview for examp

the ukrainian side either in relation to the the conflict in the dawn boss or perhaps because mr poroshenko is trying to enhance his political prospects of the election early next year by provoking higher tensions with russia. past the hour here in moscow to the french town of strasburg now with a new face of a campaign to encourage people to get out and vote in your. paean parliamentary parliamentary elections may come as a bit of a surprise it's none other than donald trump his face covered by the e.u. flag is being used more as a warning the poster is read this time i'm registering and i'm voting officials in strasburg say they hope the campaign will fire up debate and increase voter turnout . the aim of the slogan is to remind voters of the importance of a strong europe in the face of trump's america which is hostile to the european project europe is a model which provides no turnitin of to isolationist tendencies which mr trump embodies when you look at the way he treats europe we take full responsibility for the post his message. of the post of blitz has divided strasberg locals both

the ukrainian side either in relation to agree the conflict in the dawn boss or perhaps because mr poroshenko is trying to enhance his political prospects of the election early next year by provoking higher tensions with russia. the european union has approved the divorce deal of reached with the u.k. prime minister to resign may the e.u. side has made it clear the final non-negotiable to resume my part insists this deal bodes very well for the u.k. the deal we have agreed today unlocks a bright future for the u.k. and these will vote on this deal it will be one of the most significant votes that palomas held for many years and it will depend whether we move forward to get into a bright future open the door she gets more efficient and. well that door to division and on pay is already wide open with may's deal now facing an uphill struggle in a largely opposed to parliament and i think from the deal on offer to a no deal bracks it's still on the cards as aussies and asked us to reports we have heard the european commission president have a separate message for m.p.'s telling them that the deal

consider that elections for just four months away so a month of that will have new criticism of mr poroshenko at all if they don't prolong this martial law as they say they won't now but that they you know it's a russian aggression factor won't go away that hasn't gone away for four years in the ukrainian press little go away in a month never lessens the person who has been busy over the last day or so he's been calling on all the support that he can potentially count on for example he's called together the u.n. 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. contr

the ukrainian side either in relation to agree the conflict in the dawn boss or perhaps because mr poroshenko is trying to enhance his political prospects of the election early next year by provoking higher tensions with russia. the european union has approved the brics it divorce deal reached with the u.k. prime minister to resubmit the e.u. side has made it clear the final non-negotiable to resume part insists this deal bodes very well for the u.k. . the deal we have agreed today unlocks a bright future for the u.k. and these will vote on this deal it will be one of the most significant palomas held for many years and it will depend whether we move forward to get into a brighter future open the door to yes more efficient. door to division i don't so i can tell you appears already to be wide open though with may's deal now facing an uphill struggle in a log post parliament anything or from the deal on offer to a no deal breck's it still on the cards a correspondent honest i see a check on our investigations have heard the european commission presidents have a separate message for m.p.'s tell

is achieved and how strong are those voices in the parliament there that want to clearly keep mr poroshenko in check and they want to kind of monitor what he's doing and how he's reacting to this crisis. they're pretty strong there's a number of the former presidents of the ukraine amongst those who are accusing him of being really over the top with his initial suggestion that there would be a sixty day. martial more period with measures put it has to be said that there is a genuine feeling in ukraine that russia is pushing things to the limit now that it has come so close to full on conflict that it's really the provocation is coming from russia rather than the other way round there appears according to many people in government and in parliament a feeling that russia is is really trying to undermine every step of the way the political picture here to destabilize the government whoever might be in charge of it so really i think one could put too emphasis too much emphasis on the domestic position this president is in he is all busy trying to enhance his image with the electorate but on the

the ukrainian side either in relation to agree the conflict in the donbass or perhaps because mr poroshenko is trying to enhance his political prospects of being lectured early next year by provoking higher tensions with russia. the european union has approved the braggs it divorce dale rees to the u.k. prime minister to resume the site has made it clear the terms of final and non-negotiable trey's a may for her part insists this deal bodes well for the way the deal we have agreed today a loss a bright future for the u.k. m.p.'s will vote on this deal it will be one of the most significant votes the parliament has held for many years and it will depend whether we move forward to get into a brighter future or open the door to yet more deficient and uncertainty the door to division uncertainty appears already to be open though with may's deal now facing an uphill struggle and at last a post parliament and i think from the daylong off to a no breaks it is still on the cards. that looks at the possible outcomes. i have heard the european commission president have a separate message for m.p.'s t

the ukrainian side either in relation to the the conflict in the dawn boss or perhaps because mr poroshenko is trying to enhance is political prospects of the election early next year by provoking higher tensions with russia by coming up here on r.t. international parents in the u.k. a mildly frustrated after finding out the children have been studying with a thirty year old refugee classmate we suppose he was studying incognito we'll give the details off to the break. well. when the ruling class is a project. we can all. see. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic. i don't see how. very critical. you see it. at this moment tony try to parse that out here in moscow parents in the british town of eps which are not too happy after finding out that an iranian asylum seeker apparently aged around thirty was placed in their children's school for six weeks the asylum seeker claim to be fifteen years old he was suspended after people's raised suspicions over their new classmate i once posted a snapshot picture of him in class with a c

mr. poroshenko, the president of ukraine definitely the idea of his was to postpone elections.'t perform very well, and creating this tension, additional tension led to the martial law, not as he wanted to, but still situation when he might extend his presidency i think that's our point of view it's very artificial conflict. >> so this is a political move on behalf of the ukrainian president? >> we are sure about this. there is no other reason we live like this for years with ukraine, then a couple months before elections this happens. >> the national bank of ukraine declared that vtb insolvent yesterday and said the parent company failed to comply with banking law and regulations and made no attempt to make the bank solvent. what do you make of these claims >> they arrested all our assets and stocks in ukraine on the completely false court decision, because mko lshr. kolomuski subd the court case, and all our assets were arrested in these conditions we could not support the bank it's illegal decisions on the part of ukrainian courts and the government, maybe the government som

andrew joins us live now from kiev so andrew what's your reading of what those comments mean for mr poroshenko. well remarks come as tension is rising and they will do nothing whatsoever to calm the atmosphere you heard earlier about the s four hundred missile deployment extra s four hundred missiles apparently russia's defense ministry is announcing that right now we're waiting for more details on exactly what that could mean further more donald trump has told the washington post that he is waiting for a report on sunday's incident furthermore he also says that he may not meet in the g twenty summit jew later this week. more on that later but coming back to poroshenko he says that really he's on a war footing that he is concerned that there could be a land invasion by russia and he says that there are more tank deployments on the borders and he's warning that there could be conflict and he has to prepare his army to defend itself this is what he had to say to. these tanks have not yet been removed from there they're still there i don't want anybody to think those are toys the country is under

strongly be condemned it is an aggression which does not help because we have these tensions and now mr poroshenko announced today a. lot of the. wall and this does not help when we come and we want to calm down the situation so we ask also to deescalate knol the situation and. is in the role they have to act and not in a military sense that's quite clear so. i hope that it will be possible if both sides are reasonable now and perhaps also with france and germany as an honest broker in this situation. to calm down the situation and. finally and this has to be emphasized once a gun the seed that s of c. can be used by both nations by ukraine and russia we have a treaty since two thousand and three and this was violated by russia ok so this all sounds very reasonable use you say that germany wants to see a deescalation of this issue and wants everybody to be to act to reasonably russia has demonstrated time and time again that it is not prepared to act reasonably so once germany has called for deescalation and been ignored what then well first it will be discussed now in the security council in un s

or a challenge joining us live this hour from moscow rory questions being asked about how far mr poroshenko might go with this. yeah well i think for petro poroshenko looking at the the aftermath of the weekend's altercations and the diplomatic activity since then. i think feel sort of i think some way content with how things have gone although there are significant causes for concern for him both domestically and internationally so domestically he got his martial law through parliament but see have to chop it down significantly to save face really and get it through it was in originally intended to be a sixty days period of martial law it's now thirty days it was initially intended to be nationwide but it's actually it's now only applying to ten regions from syria maritime parts of the country internationally yes the un security council they went with the ukrainian agenda for the meeting rather than the russian agenda there was condemnation of russia's activity except for that will be a boost for petro poroshenko but there was also comments from the united states that . crane had a role to

that martial law is in theory in place to work thirty days as of now is there a sense them that mr poroshenko might either try to extend the time scale or put it in place in other regions in the country as well. good question forty minutes ago is when the martial law was imposed ten regions not the whole country now he did want to impose it throughout the whole country originally he also wanted it to be sixty days however on the day after the incident on monday it was a time when the country was uniting behind a cause to defend itself but. his own problems with parliament trying to distil the martial law order because this was a political affair they thought many politicians within the parliament. is up for reelection in the parliament in the presidential elections march thirty first many people felt that the type of laws being imposed which will restrict political gatherings which will restrict mobilization of people in public places that is not a good climate for for actual election campaign and so what's happening now is poroshenko wants to mobilize people in a different direction and that

mr poroshenko said he had a dossier of papers telling him all about the troops and equipment that was from ukraine's borders and that was why he had taken the decision to introduce martial law and that's why it is being discussed now in parliament. the reaction from russia is always the same, it was the same in georgia and with crimea, and that is that we didn't start this. but the simple pa rt didn't start this. but the simple part of the matter is easy to hit us on the treaty in place that gives freedom of navigation in the sea. —— 2003 treaty that is a agreement in place that treats the kerch strait asjointly place that treats the kerch strait as jointly owned waters off russia and ukraine. both can move around in theory as if it was their own water. that has not been the case for the last six months or so because now that russia has occupied crimea, it has built a bridge to connect crimea to the russian mainland and it has started taking a pretty keen interest in who uses that street, who passes under the bridge, and ukrainian bolts and balls destined to ukrainian ports have been

president mr putin is completely to blame for the crisis the escalating tensions with ukraine and she's called for a diplomatic solution you know what comes after ukrainian president petro poroshenko call the nato countries to intervene to ensure the free passage of ukrainian ships in the as all see the alliance nato says that it is or it already has a strong patrol presence in the region or russia denies kiev's accusations that it's blocking vehicles from entering or leaving ukrainian ports where tensions between russia and ukraine have risen since sunday's naval clash off the coast of russian occupied crimea russian ships fired on and seized three ukrainian navy vessels and captured the group president george ingo has urged his military to be ready for a possible invasion even posed martial wall in border regions he's also threaten to impose restrictions on russian citizens in his country. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world china's government has halted the work of the medical team they claim to have created the world's first gene genetically edited baby it's the country's science and technology vice minister described the action

mrs nick can believe thanks so much for the thank you. now ukraine has banned russian men between the ages of sixteen and sixteen from entering the country for a month the ukrainian president petro poroshenko says the bomb will help to stop the formation of what he describes as private armies ukraine says a working alongside moscow backed rebels in the border area ukraine impose martial law in a number of provinces for thirty days i was off to russia sees three ukrainian ships and twenty four sailors on sunday under simmons's in khaki live not far from the russian border and has more than. tens of thousands of russian nationals are going to be affected by this move and certainly the economy will be affected as well petro poroshenko says the main reason is to stop russian forces from being gauging private companies to send men in here effectively to form private armies and he says this is what happened back in twenty fourteen after the ukrainian uprising when pro russian has caused so much trouble here in hockey even other places trying to force resistance against the new rule of ukraine now he says that this move will affect all men young men sixteen years of age right up until sixty years