and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that cost was high. on may second two thousand and fourteen soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city for the ukrainian championship match surprisingly a great number of these fans who descended into odes

made a visit to odessa it's an interesting coincidence that some of the people he met with in odessa were seen at the scene that fateful day. but not everyone was mourning on the popular political talk show schuster live the news about the people burned alive in odessa was welcomed with a long round of applause for you. to see just to just put it. on its facebook page the right sector announced the events of may second a proud moment in national history an official investigation into this sad event has been going on now for nearly two years and it's yet to reach a conclusion but it seems the experts and all the information they needed from the very beginning. to just get really cute. it looks like odessa really is a very important piece of real estate as it was on with a very special new governor appointed on may thirtieth of two thousand and fifteen . old friend of the united states and born and raised in ukraine. neighboring country georgia down there in georgia a quick look at his biography gives one an understanding that he's been groomed for a special mission. mr saakashvili rec

so if odessa became a new u.s. state it would be at the top of the list mr saakashvili should feel right at home in his newly adopted country he is best of friends with fellow color revolutionary leader viktor yuschenko who is the godfather of his son. and then other mothers called us in the election of lucia but insufficient at the post but you walk us kind of being it's just a d.c. at them the if someone is going to. even though there's a double chooses to show. it when used in the but the least of those three is if i did it with you but i'd have to stand on both. despite their business doing this if it were good enough out of this almost a student body others to put it in the in the special political bone is not political to contain such. a war once launched doesn't choose its victims we are just learning at this hour that malaysian airlines has now confirmed that it has lost contact with one of its planes plane was indeed shot down by a missile while flying at a high altitude over eastern ukraine near the russi

this passage were the same as in september of this year when two ukrainian naval vessels sailed from odessa to mari pofment l. on 24 november during the naval march, the commander of the ukrainian naval group received a notice from the russian authorities concerning the closure of the kirch strait area. however the international center for navigation control located in spain did not confirm this notification. when 25 november the ukrainian commander requested twice the russian maritime control services the passage through kirch strait. did he not receive any answer. later, the russian maritime control officer directed the ukrainian navy boat group to the so-called area of waiting. it was stated that ukrainian vessels would be soon informed on the kirch strait passage procedure. and then all hell broke loose. a roximately at 8:39 a.m., russian coast guard ship made a ram attack against the tugboat and damaged it. the video of this attack is available online. if you watch it, you will clearly see that the ukrainian boat was trying to avoid the collision while the russian ship was deliberating

been a day of mounting tensions here in ukraine it all began when three ukrainian ships left the odessa port of adesa on the black sea they're heading for which is in the hours of c. that's even further east and close to the the war zone is between ukrainian forces and and moscow backed and supported separatists they were however blocked from entering the entering the as of c. . the streets have been narrowed there because the russians have recently completed a bridge and apparently this is over the ukrainians version of events one of their ships one of the ukrainian ships was rammed by a russian ship damaging the ship and then they were prevented from entering into the as of c. the ukrainians then said that the russian sent helicopters and jets and then later on they announced that the russians had opened fire on the ships and injured actually it seems to be more than two or the the reports and now have to change all three ships president parching because you said has called an emergency meeting of his military cabinet it's not quite clear who exactly enters into that but they're dispu

forty eight assertions a hundred twenty thousand people and the georgia attacks frankly clark at the odessa should say upcoming probably asked reich's but it's not to say that they exist as well or the parties aren't you know on to their everest they're actually committing grave violations in social humanitarian law and we need to some months ago actually attacked a refugee camp what we really need at this moment is an immediate cease fire pressing u.k. government the u.s. government to actually stop that but what was interesting to me just in the last few hours president truckers actually called out the sad thing is not to show off the weapons that they didn't but in fact to break the sorry go there is actually from what is a better way not targeting civilians so they don't have to do feel like that that that's really what we call how the british government providing more excuses when it's all sort of giving them dossiers macclesfield british government we never hear of them so we need the ability to stop the weapons stop with selden weapons now and the most important commit to a cease fir

back in odessa local police explain the difficulties they face in tackling crimes involving children. probably usually in the challenger loss and my big green relatives have forced them to pay tax rates when the nobility when there was a give their children love their parents. to train them until the truth. like colleges to explain it to the child is that she was being exploited so it was sort of near the wall there of his you understand you have to get around to the unconditional love that children have for their parents brought them to the field and don't understand that they are being exploited with those that. there are a half a million people in the e.u. who have been forced into prostitution including one hundred thousand children most of whom come from bulgaria romania and germany that's the official figure the real number could be even higher than the juvenile protection provided it's a police unit in paris specialized in rescuing children forced to beg and steal usually by criminal networks from eastern europe. the perpetrators face harsh sentences in french courts then in ge

now there's been renewed fighting in yemen's port city of odessa that despite efforts to arrange a ceasefire rebel supported by iran clashed with pro-government forces which have the backing of saudi arabia the two sides were edging towards talks before the latest fighting broke out on monday britain led a push at the un security council for an immediate truce un envoy martin griffiths is due to visit this region later this week. there for more on the situation we're joined by tom erik are all those from the charity save the children in sana game and thanks so much for being with us tom there has been renewed fighting at the key port of who died what does that mean for the millions of yemenis totally reliant on on food aid that comes through that port city well as you said this could result in millions more people becoming crude and secure meaning that they don't know where their next meal is coming from already we have it and a half million people on from date under six back to us if the fighting were to to new that millions more will rely on that but also there is a tragic impact on those

says confessed to killing denenie christie brothers in odessa in 1994, but that confession may be just one of many. >> he's confessed to over 90 murders in this country and over 30 of those have been confirmed so far. >> reporter: little, also known as samuel mcdowell, is currently serving three life sentences for strangling three women in the los angeles area in the late '80s, but he's allegedly confessed to dozens of murders from 1970 to 2005, in at least a dozen states. now investigators from texas to indiana to arizona who have interviewed little are considering their own cases. >> he may be a serial killer, but when you start to talk numbers that run into almost three digits, then i think we need a healthy dose of skepticism. >> reporter: if little is responsible for 90 murders, as he claims, it would make him among the deadliest serial killers in u.s. history. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> at the white house late today, president trump threw his support behind a deal to implement the biggest criminal justice reform this nation has seen in a generation. let's get more no

they were heading south, down around crimea, they were going to go up to odessa, a port in ukraine, whencked again by ten other russian navy vessels. one of them rammed the ukrainian tugboat. we have video of that. and one of them fired on one of the ukrainian tug boats injuring at least one ukrainian sailor. they then took possession of all three of those ukrainian ships, brought them into a port right there at the kerch strait and those sailors are now being tried in a russian criminal court. >> in response, ukraine has now imposed martial law. what will that entail here and how is russia reacting to it? >> martial law is not anything new under the sun. we've done it several times in the united states, including after the civil war when we were reconstructing the south. it means the military will take care of some civic civil i institution. the president of ukraine has designated the areas highlighted in yellow that are regions adjacent to russia or they're adjacent to areas where russian separatists and military forces are active. all those areas in crimea are under martial law. it on

bret: you can put the map up there, this is the cursed rates and where this happened, really, from odessan the black sea and what it seems like is that they are trying to, russia is trying to solidify this area to crimea, almost like a bridge to crimea. >> russia built a bridge, violating the law for everybody understandable. and we all understand this next attempt of international law, what are they doing now? trying to change the rule by force. so not making peace, but next step of aggression, that is a problem come because it is a challenge for all of us. it is about all of the allies of the united states and the origin. >> bret: there were people in the u.s. who are scared that this develops into a serious tension, fear perhaps that the u.s. will be drawn into some action in ukraine, what do you say to them tonight? >> first of all, we hear and appreciate the strong message from the congress. and comments from the president, i know that president trump has said something, but we know that action is more important than that. and we are waiting for the strong position of the united stat

translation: on november the 23rd i had been ordered to sail from odessa to mariupol by the kerch straitne guns with munitions onboard. i was aware that the actions of the ukrainian navy were provocative. ukraine says those videos were recorded under duress. the incident happened as the ships were moving through the kerch strait. it's a point of tension — and has been for several years — in part because of russia's illegal annexation of crimea in 2014. and also because more recently russia has built this bridge linking crimea to the russian mainland. that is also being seen as highly provocative. another development today — the ukrainian navy released a picture of one of its patrol boats, showing damage from russian naval artillery. and that all connects to this incident on sunday. a russian boat ramming a smaller ukranian vessel. well in response ukraine yesterday imposed martial law because its concerned about russian aggression on land — remember russia has also supported separatist rebels in the east of ukraine in recent years. russia maintains that the three ships were trying to cro