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 nick 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 annexation 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 imp

well for more on this story now i'm joined by the correspondence nick conley in kiev and emily short one in moscow good morning to you both nic ukraine has imposed martial law now what kind of power does this give ukrainian authorities and how will that help them solve this crisis. good morning terry well there's a good deal of uncertainty here in kiev this morning the seas precedented in the four years since then exception of crimea we have not seen this in ukraine either off to the annexation of crimea by russia or the conflict in. it wasn't clear that this would be passed yesterday evening these were very heated debates in ukraine's parliament it looked like the debates would go on all night and then suddenly it was passed but we haven't seen any text any concrete confirmation of what exactly will be in this package it seems like president poroshenko has got less than he was hoping for as you mentioned it's limited to thirty days this is basically about reducing civil liberties temporarily for what the government says is the interests of the nation so that limiting freedom of asse

over the latest on this developing story let's cross over to our correspondent nick conley in the ukrainian capital kiev nick there are reports that russia is deploying new surface to air missiles to the crimean peninsula and ukraine's president reportedly claims that russia is concentrating troops at the border is this conflict escalating good morning terry well these are obviously worrying developments but we have seen similar build ups in the past before during exercises russian military exercises so at the moment hard to tell whether or not this is more serious or if this is just posturing a expression of dissatisfaction from moscow what is worrying about this conflict in general is that this is the first time in the last four years that ukraine and russia have faced off so directly the rim of the conflict between the ukrainian government and russian backed separatists not the russian military per se at least . they don't operate openly as russian soldiers there so this is different you've saw them face off in the straits shots being fired and this could potentially escalate very quickl

don't you correspondent nick conley joins us from the ukrainian capital kiev . welcome nick we heard the crimean court has ordered a ukrainian sailor to be held for two months. ukraine i will how will you crying react. good afternoon phil well the ukrainian position has and seems to be still that this is totally illegitimate that russia has no right to control access to the sea of us off through the straits or to prevent anyone with ukraine from accessing it these convictions these these order court orders in crimea come as no surprise what i think has provoked more of an emotional response with those videos you mentioned earlier with those seeming confessions on the part of the ukrainian sailor saying they recognized that what they've been doing was quote provocative that really has got a lot of people's backs up here in kiev and it's been seen as some kind of. disrespectful move towards ukrainians naval personnel there. and so now that ukraine has imposed martial law just explain to us if you would how this is supposed to help ukraine get it ships and sailors b

for more on this developing story i'm joined now by our correspondents david stern in kiev and nick conley who's in our moscow studio good to see you both let's start with you david strong words from as we just heard in the report he's proposing martial law what more can you tell us about that indeed strong words it remains to be seen what exactly this martial law entails now parliament the better hold norada will have to vote on it later today it will be a closed session what we can say is that potentially this may involve a postponement of the presidential elections which are scheduled for march also the question is how much or whether any civil liberties will be curtailed now the president has said that there won't be any reduction of civil liberties but there is some speculation that there could be a form of censorship limitations on public gatherings perhaps on freedom of movement but again as i said the president has said that there won't be any any curtailment of people's rights also this is going to be for sixty days and we'll see if indeed this is the case and then obviously at th

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

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

and that was our nick conley there reporting from mariupol in ukraine all right let's take the story now to fabrice pulte he is chief strategist at last muse in global he is former nato head of policy planning and a current senior consulting fellow at the international institute for strategic studies stories we appreciate you joining us tonight ukrainian president asking for help from nato it doesn't look like he's going to get it should he be getting something from nato. i think he should be getting something from the west whether it should be nato or the european union or the coalition of western countries diets in a way certain very question but which is clear is that the response from the west has been quite weak and i think the chancellor is right to die i know but there's no doubt i know if there are no means of pressure to push especially must go to come to the table so i think we hold on tight you know they's no military sort of shunt crisis but then military means to get to a point of fighting sort of and i think this is where both ear opens but also the americans have thoug

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

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

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

our correspondent nick conley is standing by for us in kiev with more on the story hi nick good to see you so chancellor merkel and president bush and co have met they've also held a press conference what came out of that could off news sumi well the expectation of this meeting have been very high given that this is angela merkel's first visit to ukraine since twenty fourteen since the high point of the war i think the press conference was notable more for what they didn't say than for what they actually said there was precious little talk of controversial issues like germany's plan to build a pipeline directly from russia which kiev says could cut ukraine off from russian gas there was little criticism from angela merkel of ukraine slow pace of reform and said they focused on the positives cultural cooperation growing trade i'm standing in front of kiev university where angela merkel is expected in time soon not to meet students this is really about stressing those ties stressing germany's commitment to ukraine's territorial integrity and leaving the difficult things to the behind the

nick conley in care found here. well busy season from crystal cove but we're off to tokyo where the travel network is feeling the strain that's right i've got a staggering figure for you twenty million people use tokyo's public transportation network every day leading to overfill trains but eagerly during rush hour there's even special staff signed with the task of cramming people into the overcrowded carriages now as the japanese capital will holds the summer olympics and less than two years some people are now fearing this is verse to the olympics could cause the network to collapse. this is the kind of overcrowding the tokyo subway passengers have to contend with every day. and it could get worse when the city hosts the twenty twenty summer olympics. if you want people in you know my commute every day so if there's a big event and it gets busy the worst case would be that i won't be able to get on the trains that's what i'm worried about. the most according to a new study tokyo's transportation network could buck