president puts the blame on ukraine saying sunday's naval standoff was a premeditated provocation mr putin also said that some ukrainian sailors were spawn's saying the crews of the captured ukrainian vessels included two secret service agents also coming up tonight the role of islam in german society it remains a controversial topic in parliament and on the streets tonight one story of hope faith and shaping the future. also coming up at russia's most vulnerable victims of. the latest in our series of special reports the head of the world aids day takes you to a russian orphanage where children infected with the virus live with each of the negative. i'm good to have you with us ratcheting up the tension and russia's president vladimir putin is accusing ukraine of orchestrating sunday's naval standoff russia seized three ukrainian vessels on sunday and at least twelve ukrainian sailors have been detained pending trial and u.s. president as expressed deep concern over russia's actions ukraine's president has declared martial wall in the border regions and he is warning that russia is prepar

trump who sent sort of mixed messages but at the moment is discussing possibly not meeting with mr putin on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit otherwise the the ukrainians have been good have received a great deal of support from their western partners there's talks of increased sanctions there's also talks about there's been a demand from the e.u. to allow free access to the as i see which is actually what the ukrainians and the russians have had in place since two thousand and three but at the same time nothing between russia and ukraine a phone call from mr partial to mr putin was recently rebuffed. or correspondent david stern in the story corps in kiev tonight david thank you well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a democrat nancy pelosi has been nominated for her job as speaker of the u.s. house of representatives well that's despite calls for younger leadership. the seventy eight year old lost the post when republicans took control of the house way back in two thousand and eleven the new democratic majority take their seats in janua

president trump we also know that german chancellor angela merkel will meet with mr putin to discuss escalations tensions with ukraine no word on whether or not trump will be present for that talk expected to bring up the possibility of new economic sanctions as a response to last sunday's naval clash between russia and ukraine here's what mr putin said about the possibility of new sanctions you do need. think cannot be ignored that dishonest competition is replacing honest dialogue between nation states a vicious practice of returning to illegal uni lateral sanctions and protectionist measures spreading going around the un. and internationally recognized legal norms. linda is the german chancellor is she really going to go in that meeting and say either change or it will just let more sanctions on well it's not into the saveable she actually has been pretty tough about sanctions so far in regard to the russian incursions into crimea and ukraine and she may well be willing to make that argument certainly european union leaders were saying today that that is the european line on this

president puts the blame on ukraine saying sunday's naval standoff was a premeditated provocation mr putin also says that some ukrainian sailors were also spawns saying crews of the captured ukrainian vessels included two secret service is also coming up tonight the role of islam in german society it remains a controversial topic in parliament and on the streets tonight one story of hope faith and shaping the future. plus a nail biting world of chess championship has finally produced a winner magnus carlsen has defended his crown by beating fabiano cover off in a series of quickfire time. it's good to have you with us tonight ratcheting up the tension russia's president vladimir putin is accusing ukraine of orchestrating sunday's naval standoff now russia seized three ukrainian boats and at least twelve ukrainian sailors they've been detained pending trial u.s. president says he is deeply concerned about what happened ukraine's president has declared martial law in the border regions and he is mourning that russia is preparing for war again. this is what life has become for many living aro

mr. putin also says that somome ukrainian sailors were also spies, saying the crews of the captured ukrainian vessels included two secret service agents. also coming up tonight, the role of islam in german society remains a controversial topic in parliament and on the street. tonight, one story of hope, faith, and shaping the future. plus, a nanailbiting wldld chess championship has finally produced a a winner. magnus carlsen has defended his crown by beaeating fababiano caa in a series of quick-fire tiebreakers. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. it's good to have you with us. tonight, ratcheting up the tension. russia's president vladimir tin is accusing ukraine of orchestrating sunday's naval standoff where russia seized three ukrainian boats and at least 12 ukrainian sailors. they have been detained pending trial. u.s. president donald trump says he is deeply concerned about what happened. ukraine's president has declared martial law in the border reregions a and he is warning tt russia is preparing

colleagues from france also managed to get a quote from mr putin specifically on the functioning of the channel here in france as well we hear today that at least in the courtyard of the palace among a host of other media but r.t. has had problems before getting into official events in this in this palace as you to prove preventing them getting in by orders of president and mr putin also commented on that issue of the things that are in his name. we have always heard from our western partners that one of the main principles of democracy is freedom of information creating lists and special counsel switch decide which media is bad and which is good this is not acceptable this has nothing to do with democracy. now that meeting as we said earlier going back to that behind closed doors the didn't take place of course speculated that didn't want to divert attention from the main events but also didn't want his french counterpart president by devoting specific special time to meeting the russian leader the two leaders met. together yesterday before all the main events today despite their major

a russian expert told me why mr putin's trip is so important for the country.ly you know putin normally attends the apec summit, which is... it's the first time in history the head of state inrush of prefers to go to the asean forum instead of apec. —— in russia prefers. he wants to partner with many industries. as we know, from 2016 to 2017, our trade between countries increased a0%. maybe it isn't such a big amount yet, but it isn't such a big amount yet, but it is still a positive dynamic. interesting because president putin announced his turn to east policy backin announced his turn to east policy back in 2010. as you say, he's attended many apecs but this is his first time at the east asia summit and analysts are arguing russia is having to diversify from usual markets, looking to asia, because of the threat of potentially more sanctions from the west, from the us, over the scandal involving the 2016 elections. is there any truth to that? truth to elections? truth to that? truth to elections? truth to russia looking east? for sure there is. i would like to

kremlin or putin in the united states is so strong it's hard to imagine what's going to happen when mr putin president putin comes here i don't think it's the greatest idea they'd probably be better off continuing to meet in foreign capitals capitals but you mentioned the treaty of trump ministration wants to pull out of the u.s. russia treaty banning short and mint range nuclear missiles but judging by the latest examples like nafta a for instance attempts to deal with north korea and the tariff war with china transpersonal art of the deal can be described as break first and then create a problem and then find a solution on his terms in case of iran after eighty are we seeing the same game play out here. maybe i think you're right it is possible we don't know if this decision announced to leave and trump announced it and then his national security advisor john bolton announced it again in moscow so our lee appears that the united states is going to submit the documents i think you have to give six months prior warning according to the treaty that you're withdrawing so i you're right it may

mr. putin. please get out from ukraine. >>> russia is strong enough to survive the toughest measures says vtv president >> it's damaging for russia, but how much it damages i don't know i'm sure with the state of the economy and health sector, i'm sure the russian financial sector will survive it >>> good morning you can see it's been a slightly positive start so far in the european trading the stoxx 600 is currently higher by around a quarter of a percent. if we look at individual markets, you can see the ftse 100 in london is trading up more than 1%. in germany the xetra dax is up 0.5% in paris, the cac 40 is trading almost 0.30% higher. in italy, the ftse mib higher. you can see technology doing relatively well. bouncing back from earlier in the week after nervousness in the u.s. around that sector. autos trading lower. a lot of news flow around that sector, some news out of the white house in particular of concern to european manufacturers. president trump has said he may slap fresh tariffs

. >> mr. putin wants foreign leaders to accept him and his regime as a decent one. >> at the july 2018 summit, vladimir putin became the only russian president in history to meet alone without advisers from either side with a sitten american president. while no one knows what transpired during their private meeting, the press conference afterward held several revelations about putin's views of donald trump. >> president putin, did you want president trump to win the election? and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s./russia relationship back to normal. >> this is speculation that putin was replying only to the first part of the question. since he's vehemently denied interfering in the election. but american national security agencies came to a different conclusion. >> not only did putin intervene in the elections, he intervened on behalf of trump to combat putin's worst fear. that hillary clinton would become pr

or today mr putin presented his case against those ukrainian sailors claiming some were spied on the mission. to do a little bit by turns out that among the crew members two of them were security service members they confessed that they were members of the security services of ukraine but he's in the queue this points to it being an act of premeditated provocation. that is intended to use this provocation as a pretext to impose martial law in the country additionally in that this has nothing to do with an attempt to improve relations between russia and ukraine. it is an attempt to escalate the situation further it's part of a dirty game being played in ukraine against its political opponents. and just up will need it for martial law is now in effect in ten regions in eastern ukraine it is one of the few nonmilitary options that ukraine's president poroshenko has at his disposal. he warns that russia is preparing for work the day he visited ukrainian troops at an army training base near the border with russia he told the soldiers to prepare for what might be on the horizon the beaches

the french election when they were denied access on orders given up from the highest levels and mr putin also had a comment to make about that. we have always heard from our western partners that one of the main principles of democracy is freedom of information from creating lists and special counsel switch decide which media is bad and which is good this is unacceptable but this has nothing to do with democracy donald trump and president together yes that. before the main events today and despite some frayed relations juden recent times some differences on key international questions of the iran nuclear deal trade tariffs the powers the calls they put on a show of unity which they try to make visible at least in their body language. to repeat. what media speculation and second guessing on diplomacy behind closed doors what exactly would happen if any meeting would take place was driven away by the end of the day when it became clear no meeting would take place and indeed perhaps that is for the best after all these world leaders here today all for the aim of commemorating and rememberin

was written but at the insistent request of the french side they decided not to go ahead with that mr putin also gave an exclusive comment to all t. frog space their own paris we were lucky enough today to get into the palace early say or at least into the courtyard alongside much media from all over the world all colleagues from all to france previously have been so lucky particularly during the french election when they would the noid access orders given from the highest levels and mr putin also had a comment to make about that. we have always heard from our western partners that one of the main principles of democracy is freedom of information creating lists and special counsel switch decide which media is bad and which is good this is not acceptable this has nothing to do with democracy donald trump and president together yesterday before the main events today and despite some frayed relations juden recent times some differences on key international questions of the iran nuclear deal trade tariffs the paris accords they put on a show of unity which they try to make visible at least in t

president we also know that german chancellor angela merkel will meet with mr putin to discuss escalations intentions with ukraine no word on whether or not trump will be present for that talk is expected to bring up the possibility of new economic sanctions as a response to last sunday's naval clash between russia and ukraine here's what mr putin said about the possibility of new sanctions you do need to. it cannot be ignored that dishonest competition is replacing almost dialogue between nation states a vicious practice of returning to illegal you need luck all sanctions and protectionist measures and spreading going around the un. and internationally recognized legal norms. linda is the german chancellor is she really going to go in that meeting and say either change or would a slight more sanctions on well it's not into the saveable she actually has been pretty tough about sanctions so far in regard to the russian incursions into crimea and ukraine and she may well be willing to make that argument certainly european union leaders were saying today that that is the european line on this

mr. putind nato ought to look at everything it's doing and not doing and say to itself what more do we need to do so mr. putin is not tempted to do the sorts of things he's doing in ukraine anywhere else in nato. this is another wake-up call, and i hope nato hears it. >> let's talk about america's response here. you heard president trump yesterday use something approaching a both sides language here saying he's not happy, quote, either way. then you heard mike pompeo while condemning russian actions, he then urged restraint on both sides, which is an interesting thing to do. what message is the administration sending here? does russia take that as license to move further? >> there is a moral equivalence or strategic equivalence coming out of the administration. i think it is important to say that nikki haley was much more pointed on her denunciation of the russians. but the president and secretary of the state were quote, unquote, even handed, and i don't see why. sure, mr. putin takes this as

german chancellor angela merkel's says that the russian 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 t

nothing happens in russia of important without mr putin's approval the president dismissed the news. in his usual fashion badmouthing his former top aide he's a weak person. by the way god like other people that you watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open to where the kohen did plead guilty to crimes that completely related to trump pain of women who trump had an affair with so they would stay quiet before the election and while it might not have been illegal to do a deal in russia while he is under investigation for potentially colluding with russia to win the election it would have looked suspicious this makes six six close aides to the president have now pled guilty as part of the special counsel's probe democrats say this is bad for the president you've got all these closest associates of the president one after another pleading guilty often pleading guilty about their ties to russia and russians and what are they covering up for and we also have a white house th

it's no secret that mr putin hopes to destabilise nato and to undermine the european union. first, as one newspaper headline put it, now for the hard part. theresa may has been given a further stern reminder of the huge challenge she faces to get her brexit deal approved by the house of commons. on sunday, eu leaders at a special summit in brussels gave their formal backing to britain's so—called divorce deal, hammered out by uk and eu negotiators over many months. but opposition to the deal shows no signs of letting up at westminster. with britain's june eu exit date edging closer, mps will have a lengthy debate and crucial vote in december on the divorce deal. reporting back after the brussels summit, the prime ministerfaced a packed house of commons once again. she said the nature of any negotiation required give and take on both sides. mr speaker, the withdrawal agreement will ensure that we leave the european union in march next year in a smooth and orderly way. it protects the rights of eu citizens living in the uk and uk citizens living in the eu so they can carry on

nothing happens in russia of important without mr putin's approval the president dismissed the news in his usual fashion badmouthing his former top aide he's a weak person. by being weak not like other people that you watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open with the cohen did plead guilty to crimes that completely related to trump pain of women who trump had an affair with so they would stay quiet before the election and while it might not have been illegal to do a deal in russia while he is under investigation for potentially colluding with russia to win the election it would have looked suspicious this makes six six close aides to the president have now pled guilty as part of the special counsel's probe democrats say this is bad for the president. you've got all these closest associates of the president one after another pleading guilty often pleading guilty about their ties to russia and russians and what are they covering up for and we also have a white house th

of two thousand and two thousand and three and also if mr putin has any desire. to be able to work with the outside world he should immediately release the boats the twenty three people and should be providing the best medical care for those people who are injured that that is an obvious thing to do robert hunter former u.s. ambassador to nato speaking to us from washington d.c. source thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us thank you my pleasure. well still to come on this al-jazeera news hour she has formed an agreement with the european union but can the british prime minister to resign may get politicians back home to back her brakes if the president donald trump describes asylum seekers trying to cross into the u.s. from mexico as a stone cold criminals and is threatening to close the border and then scorch the teenage driver who survived this horrific crash speaks for the first time since the accident. turkish police investigating the murder of saudi journalist have been searching to villas one hundred kilometers south of istanbul a shell g.'s

nothing happens in russia of important without mr putin's approval the president dismissed the news in his usual fashion badmouthing his former top aide he's a weak person. by being weak i'd like other people that you watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open to where the kohen did plead guilty to crimes that completely related to trump pain of women who trump had an affair with so they would stay quiet before the election and while it might not have been illegal to do a deal in russia while he is under investigation for potentially colluding with russia to win the election it would have looked suspicious this makes six six close aides to the president have now pled guilty as part of the special counsel's probe democrats say this is bad for the president. you've got all these closest associates of the president one after another pleading guilty often pleading guilty about their ties to russia and russians and what are they covering up for and we also have a white hous

he has not stood up to what mr. putin>> i will talk about the pictures we have seen over the last 24 hours at the southern border with the u.s. and tijuana where some 500 migrants from central america ran towards the border, and there was tear-gas used on women and children. what do you see here? >> this is horrible. the humanitarian problem at our border, president trump argued our immigration system needs to be fixed yet under his last two years of his presidency, they have not taken action to improve our immigration system. instead they put all air weight behind building a wall that the experts tell us will do little to protect our cusecurity at th border. you have people fleeing horrible circumstances in their own country and many fear their own lives and they have legitimate concerns about their safety and they want to seek asylum in the united states and there's a process to be followed and the trump administration is not following the guidelines. we are looking at children being subject to tear-gas and that's the u

it's very clear that mr. putin it as far as he can go if he doesn't see a resolve from the west led by the united states. my point is it's more than cancelling a g-20 meeting. i don't know if they'll meet with mr. putin or not but it's got to be a clear message the united states is going to demand the territorial integrity of ukraine and free commerce on the seas. >> just briefly on saudi arabia and the murder of jamal khashoggi, your republican colleague lindsey graham had said he had wanted the cia briefing. he says just today that they will be briefing me. do you know if the cia, if gina haspel will be coming to the hill and briefing all of you senators? >> we certainly have asked for that, and her appearance before the senate was blocked yesterday. she should have been there. we were having a briefing on yemen and the intelligence community asecret servisessment critically important. it was very clear that the trump administration did not want the united states senate to get that information. certainly senator

geography simply favors mr. putinin has made the very cold, and perhaps correct, assessment that he can continue to slice the sa lalami and get y from it. this is now another shoe to drop. and the real question is not whether we can fight him on the scene but whether we can penalize him enough that he basically says, this isn't worth it. but that will take the united states and europe working together. >> and gene robinson, all this, all richard is talking about right now, just more reason why the moments between president trump and president putin will be fascinating to watch over the next couple of days. >> it will be. they're not going to meet, but who knows, right? they could end up sitting next to each other at something, they run into each other. these sort of chance or maybe not so chance encounters happen at these summits. it's fascinating, you know, as per the earlier conversation, there are so many people there who don't want to be seen with other people, specifically. this drama is just perfect for buenos a

nothing happens in russia of important without mr putin's approval the president dismissed the news in his usual fashion badmouthing his former top aide he's a weak person. by being weak not like other people that you watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open to where the kohen did plead guilty to crimes that completely related to trump pain of women who trump had an affair with so they would stay quiet before the election and while it might not have been illegal to do a deal in russia while he is under investigation for potentially colluding with russia to win the election it would have looked suspicious this makes six six close aides to the president have now pled guilty as part of the special counsel's probe democrats say this is bad for the president you've got all these closest associates of the president. one after another pleading guilty often pleading guilty about their ties to russia and russians and what are they covering up for and we also have a white hous

he tweeted he is cancelling a scheduled discussion with mr. putin. he said that it's because russia keeps holding three ukrainian naval slips and several sailors after a recent confrontation at -- ships and several sailors after a recent confrontation at sea. he will meet with china's president amid continuing trade tensions. >>> on her way to the summit, german chancellor angela merkel's plane had mechanical problems and turned around about an hour into the flight, not clear what went wrong exactly with the government airbus. mrs. merkel and her entourage will use a replacement aircraft. >>> in the tenderloin neighborhood the bristol hotel on mason street and eddie is sporting brand-new paint and fixtures to make a place for the homeless. mark benioff is donating over $6 million to help subsidize rents which will range from 500 to $650 a month. >> through bold and innovative solutions we know that we can make a difference in people's lives. >> this is an example, an example of the difference that we are going to make with public/private partnerships

mr. putin. >> reporter: richard engel, nbc news, kiev. >>> back here at home, a big winter storm is on the move tonight. a lot of people are about to get hit with snow in the north and a deep freeze in the south. our friend, al roker, is monitoring the path of all this. al, what are we looking at here? >> well, lester, this storm is the one that brought the record snow back through the midwest. right now snow from as far west as chicago, as far south as kentucky, stretching all the way into the northeast and new england. this storm system has 7 million people under winter storm warnings or watches. we're also lookiards of 35 mile hour, making for some strong windchills. that is bringing lake-effect snow, lake-effect snow that could dump up to a foot or more in parts of the tug hill plateau and into parts of northern new england. meantime, it's dragging in colder air further down south. 5 million people under freeze warnings. we're talking windchills tomorrow morning, lester, that will be somewh