and for the latest now i'm joined by our very own nicholas conley he's in kiev good evening to you nicholas so what will the introduction of martial law mean in concrete terms and help us understand how will martial law protect ukrainians from aggression by russia good evening brant well this has been a very stormy day even by the relatively lively standards of ukraine's parliament the rada just in the last few hours so we've seen this martial law passed what exactly that will mean concrete terms that seems to all of confusion as the exact terms but we know it's going to be in place for thirty days and applied to ten regions along ukraine's borders especially those borders next to. russia and of the russian occupied crimea what this is about is about civil liberties about basically sex facing potentially some civil liberties temporarily for the greater good of the country as the government would have it so that means potentially employer imposing temporary censorship restricting freedom of assembly and also giving the police greater powers and even potentially mobilizing reserve it so that

to move the w correspondent nicholas conley and the ukrainian capital can name the two leaders met and held a press conference what have we learned good evening phil well today's press conference was notable for what wasn't said as for what was said we kept on waiting for the difficult issues between kevin berlin and there are some like the north stream to pipeline that germany's dealing with russia that ukraine hates and also maybe some criticism from angela merkel of the slow pace of reform here the slow fight against corruption but it didn't come instead anglo merkel was at pains to stress germany's commitment to ukraine to its territorial integrity to mention all kinds of positive social sort of societal projects language learning science and it's just been the two countries the only time it really got serious was when they spoke about eastern ukraine and all that merkel was adamant the mint's process frustrating slow as it is was and is the only show in town at least that's michael's opinion on this all right what will give him the she's played such a pivotal role in trying to med

straits to ukraine's capital care of what we find e w correspondent nicholas conley welcome and nicholas the two leaders have not met and held a press conference wanted with. good evening phil well the press conference was notable more for what they didn't say that will actually was said they were very keen to focus on the positives to talk about special angle merkel about ukraine's reform achievements to talk about. cooperation to talk about bringing homes to people who've lost lost their home in the east the country there was very little criticism from angela merkel of failures to crack down on corruption there was very little talk about the north stream to pipeline which has been a source of quite a lot of disagreement chinky haven't belin. so it seemed really that this was an option chief angela merkel who hasn't been to kiev since twenty fourteen to really focus on underlining those ties and to talk about anything from culture to infrastructure she's meeting students behind me university rather than addressing the really difficult issues those i think were left for the behind the sc