and moscow just aren't talking to each other nic thank you very much for the update that was use nic conley in kiev. now looking at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a scientist who claims to have created the world's first genetically edited baby is has defended his work at a genetics conference in hong kong to hate q. said he was proud of the research he says altered the d.n.a. of twin girls a claim which sparked outrage among other scientists. an explosion outside a chemical plant in china has killed at least twenty two people the blast occurred in the city of java who some one hundred sixty kilometers northwest of beijing several dozen vehicles were destroyed in the blames. and indonesian investigators say a lion airplane that crashed last month suffered technical problems the day before the accident and should have been grounded all one hundred eighty nine people on board the boeing seven thirty seven were killed when it crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from jakarta the. european commission is set to unveil an ambitious new climate proposal i

correspondent nick conley welcome nic so the u.s. and ukraine have named angle america as a possible a mediator is vladimir putin any more likely to listen to this time than before. good evening phil well whether or not he listens to her he certainly picks up the phone when she calls i think this idea comes from the weekend when petro poroshenko was trying to get through to the kremlin just off the seizure of those ukrainian ships and his call was not returned his solution was to call berlin to call engler merkel and she was then able to establish some communication i think it's important to remember here that even though anger merkel has is very. is known for her the actions she took over sanctions and was very key to making sure those sanctions on russia were put in place and kept up by the european union she was very fastidious about keeping those lines of communication open visiting let him eat food and even at the height of the crisis so given that the key of no moscow seems willing to talk directly there are going to be many ot

correspondent nick conley is in camp welcome nic what reaction has there been from ukraine to this court sentence good evening fail well the ukrainian position has consistently been that this is completely illegitimate that russia has no right deciding who passes through the current straits crimea obviously internationally recognized as ukrainian territory and so they have been demanding they're immediately released. and tell us what the the sailor said when they appeared on russian t.v. was there any suspicion of coercion. well indeed they said that they recognized that what they'd been doing the cut straight was quote provocative and that they had ignored warnings from the russian side to desist now most people here in kiev say that the language used seemed very unnatural that they seem to be reading if they were reading off a page and that their whole body language suggested that this wasn't done on the basis of free will but this latest standoff between russia and ukraine clearly it's not the first why is it so dangerous. well what really makes this different feel is that unlike in e

where it seemed like things had become stable in a cool kind of frozen conflicts nic thank you very much that was nick conley in kiev and in moscow for us emily sherman thank you both very much. now one small step closer to unlocking the secrets of the red planet scientists are celebrating after their insights spacecraft touchdown on mars the billion dollar mission expects to collect important data on martian quakes and tremors deep underground to explain how the red planet formed the scientists involved it's been a nail biting journey. sixty meters. fifty meters constant velocity tension almost impossible to bat touchdown. followed by an outpouring off relief this is the moment a nasa spacecraft completes its six month journey to months called the inside the craft traveled four hundred eighty four million kilometers to reach the red planet . well this is a very exciting day as you can imagine we've got a lot of scientists and engineers that have put many years of work into this particular mission and today is the moment of truth in the thirty minutes between entering the planet's atmosphere and touchdown th

for more on this story we're joined now by our correspondent nick conley in kiev and emily short one in moscow good morning to you both nic ukraine has imposed martial law what kinds of power does this give ukrainian authorities and how will that help them solve this crisis good morning terry well this is unprecedented in all the years of conflict we've seen here in ukraine off the onyx ation by russia of crimea and the conflict in the east this has never happened before this is. basically this gives the government the option to restrict civil liberties anything from freedom of speech to freedom of assembly giving the police more powers and also potentially allowing for the mobilization of all me reservists having said that we still haven't seen much detail this was voted through late last night in pretty chaotic parliament tree assembly it wasn't clear for a long time if it would actually get the number the required number of votes it did . but whether this is just an option the government is giving itself for the case of escalation with russia or if we're going to see a direct impact on everyday ukrainians lives we stil

where they'll end up and when they'll come home is anyone's guess nic thank you very much for that update our correspondent nick conley there in kiev. now catching up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today an explosion outside a chemical plant in china has killed at least twenty two people the blast occurred in the city. some one hundred sixty kilometers northwest of beijing several dozen vehicles were destroyed in the blaze. tens of thousands of people turned out in support of opposition double ticket felix said kennedy and vitale on their return to the democratic republic of congo the medicare campaign to unseat longtime president joseph kabila in elections on december twenty third the u. s. and leaders agreed to join forces at a conference in nairobi on friday. and hundreds of tunisians have greeted saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon with protests during his visit to the north african nation demonstrators called for justice for jamal khashoggi the dissident journalist was killed in saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul in october protesters also criticized the country's role in a p

western partners and i think that's something that kiev is hoping for nic thank you very much for that update our correspondent nick conley there in kiev a new global report on climate change says the world's nations must triple their efforts to keep global warming within the target limits agreed by nearly every country a study by the u.n. environment program found that after three years of decline emissions of greenhouse gases rose in two thousand and seventeen the stark warning comes ahead of a key climate change meeting in poland starting this weekend. if we are serious about preventing climate change we need people paying a lot less of this into the atmosphere. that is the message of a new u.n. report. its authors one of a growing gap between rising emissions and the reductions needed to achieve the goals set out in the paris climate accords. emissions have to be cut by a quarter by twenty thirty to keep global warming at two degrees celsius and avoid drastic consequences says the report. and the biggest elephant in the room that we refuse to see is the risk that it poses to everything we like and appreciate in this p

western partners and i think that's something that kiev is hoping for nic thank you very much for that update our correspondent nick conley there in kiev. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a scientists who claims to have created the world's first genetically edited babies has defended his work at it genetics conference in hong kong and page. said he was proud of the research he says he altered the d.n.a. of twin girls a claim which sparked outrage among other scientists. an explosion outside a chemical plant in china has killed at least twenty two people the blast occurred in the city of kuwait some one hundred sixty kilometers northwest of beijing several dozen vehicles were destroyed in the blaze as well. at least one person has died in two are seriously injured after severe storms hit the australian city of sydney. authorities have warned motorists to stay home and sydney airport has cancelled dozens of flights meteorologists say one month's worth of rain fell on the city in just a few hours. now a new global report on climate change says the world's nations must triple their effo