security council's meeting in emergency session after russia sees to three ukrainian ships off the crimean peninsula ukrainian president petro poroshenko has demanded media release of the crew and vessels and he's calling on parliament to impose martial law the clash took place in the straight between russia and crimea as a point of international tension ever since russia annexed the region four years ago . this video has been circulating online since it was a released on sunday. taken from on board a russian military ship swearing and shouting could be heard as well as the command to stay the course directly towards ukrainian tugboat. in the russian ship rams the ukrainian boat head on. the incident escalated further a russian tanker blocked a tight underpass between the black sea and the sea of us off a vital trade route for ukraine it was later announced that the russian coastguard had shot at three ukrainian ships the ships were seized by russia with authority saying that boats had illegally entered russian waters but the ukrainian navy says it had announced the ship's transit in advan

council didn't want that because the security council. don't want to just. see the avoid to be teams because of former yugoslavia and there was the security council. unanimously decided to go constituted a mission that i bulent to that to deal with the crimes that way they committed war crimes and crimes again your money and genocide but unfortunately it is a political decision from the security council while out an entire nation an institution a tribe you all know a dog to obtain just deployed to beat teams. the weak point that it is a political decision you will but the but those decisions are made not just by governments are made by prosecutors you once expressed a willingness to press charges against nato personnel for alleged war crimes in one nine hundred ninety nine in december ninety nine when you told the guardian you were up for that nato had broken the geneva conventions then six months later you change your mind you did one hundred percent u. turn and said major didn't do anything wrong you're not going to investigate them why

security council to draw your needle. really and to violate the sanctions and the second fact is the are there members of permanent member of united nations security council russia china europe they are your to defend and to support the u.n. resolution and the iranian nuclear deal as you say russia and china said they're going to ignore the united states to resume the also said u.k. companies should take advantage of business ties with iran and britain will try and protect business relations with iran what do you make of the u.n. security council response to this is really far beyond the u.k. business this is an international issue or a member of united nations security council is punishing the are there members for implementation of the nuclear deal you know for the implementation of u.n. security council second definitely this is a big more meant for you or your to prove it is really independent and can be independent from us pressures its territorial sanctions not only for europe but for russia and china and third defi

security council. sanctions and the idea it was to always like keep a dalek going and one of the direct results of the normandy format has been for some of the means agreement which still hasn't brought any results in the crisis itself but of course it's a channel to keep dialogue and to give diplomatic efforts in this crisis going question however is if there's going to be new sanctions coming from the united nations how this will work out together with this diplomatic format you know it's a very good point to maximally for fickleness story corps here in berlin thank you . for britain's prime minister is urging lawmakers from all parties to support the brig's a deal that she agreed with the european union on sunday speaking before her parliament recently warned skeptical lawmakers of the unknown consequences of not read of on britain's withdrawal of the old from the e.u. lawmakers are now due to vote on the recently as planned on december eleventh. we can back this do you deliver on the voters a refer

a security council session this morning. we called for this meeting because we received the information about you green from occasionally in the carriage street which was very disturbing and alarming and we decided to convene security council meeting on the item agenda and maintenance of international peace and security. but strangely enough the settlement of ours was blocked by western countries which supported the. support of the letter of ukraine which was sent a little bit later than our request. to to call the meeting on the agenda item letter of ukrainian p.r. which. they spectrally to the days back to the time when the problems of ukraine just started after them i don and we thought that these threats that we are facing now are all to give you non-black sea of sea and go straight they really merits being discussed onto the agenda item the dimensions so this was a very strange discussion usually security council members it wards. will see these drug game of agenda item but this time they decided to go to the answer and

security council to take steps to end the violence we won the security council to shoulder its responsibility with regard to this situation threatening international peace and security and it is unfortunately the security council is paralyzed it did not show that its responsibility nevertheless we will keep knocking on the door of the security council to shoulder its responsibility i hope the efforts by our brothers in egypt of having the cease fire to to be put in place that will hold. well most all to come for you here on al-jazeera including these stories the search for bodies continuing in california as hundreds are still missing after the worst wildfire in the history of the state. and the u.k. and the e.u. have reportedly agreed to a draft brix a deal after months of negotiations but can it get approval today from the u.k. cabinet and indeed the parliament. hello is still far to war in the austrian alps to get any snow and this area generally speaking is warned it should be by average however what's creeping in from the west which is largely rain has just come a bit further in than of r

so it was very strange that the security council colleagues actually awarded. calling calling these things by their real value. so we already got used to the situation when there is a kind of list of scenes of russia. allegedly by some western developed countries like the united kingdom first of all in there being in you married to one after another or on many occasions and actually they don't do one dear tool to check whether these this case is completed or not so whether there are proofs. that russia was behind this and of course there are no proofs that russia is behind any of these cases so this is kind of ritual kind of kind of mantra when they are mentioning russia they need to mention all the alleged wrongdoings that we are. allegedly responsible for we we've got used to it if we don't agree with the with our fault in these cases it's just kind of ritual that they need for i don't know internal consumption or for for external consumption. it's very worrying for for us as a country because some neighboring countries if a neighboring country declares a mar

council didn't want that because the security council. don't want to just. see the avoid to be teams because of former yugoslavia and there was a security council. meeting and decided to go constituted of nations that would be on or linked to that to deal with the crimes that way they committed war crimes and crimes again your money and genocide but unfortunately it is a political decision from the security council while out an entire nation an institution a tribe you all know a dog to obtain just deployed to beat teams. the weak point that it is a political decision you will but the but those decisions are made not just by governments are made by prosecutors you once expressed a willingness to press charges against nato personnel for alleged war crimes in one nine hundred ninety nine in december ninety nine when you told the guardian you were up for that nato had broken the geneva conventions then six months later you change your mind you did one hundred percent you turned and said major didn't do anything wrong you're not going to inves

security council really rounded on russia is surprising for you. well it doesn't surprise me that the united nations. is not very deliberative it's supposed to be a deliberative body but. everyone has rushed to judgment without being able to examine the facts of the situation. i think there is some possibility that both sides were asserting rights obviously now that crimea is part of russia. russia needs to assert its sovereignty at the same time there is a two thousand and three treaty that still is in effect that allows ukraine to to trance it through this very important strait and so to some extent i think perhaps it is possible that the ukrainians were also trying to assert their rights under that treaty so so both sides may have a certain amount of merit to their claims yes and as you say that it feels that the claims to be made by both sides you would think that that would lead to some kind of deliberation he said that's what the security council should be that what you think they will listen to the information put across by russia as to what

. >> the united nations security council held an emergency meeting in new york yesterday to discuss the confrontation between russia and ukraine in the strait which connects the black sea and the sea of azaf. this portion of the session included remarks by u.s. ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley. as well as the ukrainian ambassador and deputy russian ambassador. we begin with the united nations undersecretary-general for political affairs who gave n update on the situation. >> thank you, mr. president. less than a month ago when i last briefed the security council on the situation in ukraine, i brought to the council's attention the reports of increased tensions in the sea of azuf and underlying the need to avoid any risk of escalation, provocation, or o miscalculation. regrettably, a serious security incident took place near cry merea, close to the sea only yesterday. i wish to underline that the united nations currently cannot independently verify the circumstances surrounding the incident. however, reports indicate on 25 november an incident involving three ukrainian vessels and at

security council response this is really far beyond the u.k. business this is an international issue or a member of united nations security council is punishing the are there members for implementation of the nuclear deal you know for the implementation of u.n. security council second definitely this is a big more meant for you or your to prove it is really independent and can be independent from us pressures its territorial sanctions not only for europe but for russia and china and third definitely this is an opportunity for you and your op to expand economic relations with iran are there are lies. chinese russia they would go ahead regardless of the u.s. sanctions the eastern powers they are not going to give a damn to unilateral decisions of united the state therefore if you're up this size to continue to decide to continue business with iran iran would be able to have a balanced economic trade relation with the east and west are there why is iran would go more and more toward the eastern bloc's just like with cuba or arguably in your latest

is also in the security council to take steps to end the violence we want the security council to shoulder its responsibility with regard to this situation threatening international peace and security and it is unfortunately the security council is paralyzed it did not sure that it's the responsibility nevertheless we will keep knocking on the door of the security council to shoulder its responsibility i hope the efforts by our brothers in egypt of having the cease fire to be put in place that will hold the u.s. republican senator lindsey graham has described as crown prince mohammed bin as unstable and unreliable he says he and other senators are discussing sanctions against riyadh in the wake of the saudi journalist killing on a resolution to cut off all assistance to riyadh for the war in yemen could also happen in weeks the senate has asked the secretary of state mike pompei of the defense secretary jim mattis and the cia director to give a briefing this month about yemen and about the murder of jamal khashoggi and her simmons with more now from istanbul. the political dimension to thi

security council has held two emergency sessions one requested by russia and the at that by ukraine. has more details so there were two emergency meetings of the u.n. security council not one the meetings were called regarding the situation in the current strait now at this point the first meeting was called by russia and western countries did not approve of the agenda items so it was not adopted the agenda was not adopted there was then a second meeting called on behalf of ukraine now the representative of russia spoke at the first session when he spoke he accused western partners of behaving like overgrown toddlers essentially by quibbling over resolutions and not simply working to resolve the crisis furthermore he pointed out that the provocative actions of the ukraine are coming as a ukrainian presidential election approaches and he pointed out that poroshenko needs to boost his ratings to put those in persian goes ratings are extremely low to the elections not so far away so how do you hold onto power he really needs a serious exacerbation of the situation in a war that necessar

incident led to emergency sessions of the un security council where russia was once again accused of being an aggressor. this will never get through she's not going to get a majority we have no idea where this is heading and peace launch a scathing attack on trees amaze breaks it plan of the british pm battles to win them over ahead of a crucial december vote. russian military experts say toxic substances were used in an assault on aleppo in syria on saturday we look at why the world's media is largely ignored the chemical attack. joining as one of them here in moscow this is are to. russia's president vladimir putin and spoken by phone with german chancellor angela merkel discussed an ongoing dispute between russia and ukraine putin described it as a provocation by kiev timed for the upcoming presidential elections while russia's border security forces issued new details on sunday's clash in the straight which brought the two sides close to conflict the captain of one of the detained ukrainian ships admits it consciously ignored commands. from russia's border control to stop well gu

security council is held to emergency sessions over the clash between russia and ukraine after russia detained three ukrainian navy ships off the coast of crimea on sunday says the vessels illegally entered its territorial waters on the straight to ignoring orders from the border service. let's go live to new york now of course from kilmore pin joins me kaleb so far the words in the security council sessions take us through what was said. while instead of having one meeting regarding the situation in the current strait instead. we are having to do emergency sessions of the u.n. security council the first meeting was called by russia the second one called on behalf of ukraine now during the first meeting we did hear from the representative of russia he accused the forces in the security council the western partners of essential acting like overgrown toddlers and focusing on which resolutions to vote for calling a different meeting and not really focusing on resulting the tension and resolving the situation furthermore he argued that essentially the provocative actions from ukraine serv

. >> the un security council held a emergency meeting to discuss a confrontation between russia and ukraine. this half-hour portion of the meeting includes remarks from u.s. ambassador nikki haley, and investors representing the ukraine and russia. it begins with an update and update from rosemary dicarlo. >> less than a month ago when i last briefed the security council on the situation in that ukraine, i brought to the council the increased tensions in the sea of azaf. regrettably, a serious security incident took place close to the sea only yesterday. i wish to underline that the united nations currently cannot independently verify the circumstances surrounding the incident. however, reports indicate on 25 november, an incident involving three ukrainian vessels and at least one russian vessel took place when the former attempted to enter the sea. a number of ukrainian sailors though the exact number remains unclear, was reportedly injured in the event. ukraine claims they had briefly notified the russian federation of his intent to sell these vessels to the -- -- sail these vessels throu

security council where russia was once again accused of being an aggressor. this team never gets through she's not going to get a majority we have no idea where this is headed. m.p.'s low interest scathing attack on some reason made strikes a plan as the british prime minister battles to win them over the heads of a crucial december dates. russian military experts say toxic substances were used in an assault on the left her in syria long stuff today we look at why the world's media has largely ignored the chemical attack. fly from the russian capital this is r.t. international. russia's president vladimir putin has spoken by phone with german chancellor angela merkel according to a crime and statements they discussed an ongoing dispute between russia and ukraine who are to describe it as a provocation by kiev time for the upcoming presidential elections meanwhile russia's border security forces issued new details into sunday's clash in the straits which brought the two sides. close to conflict the captain of one of the detained ukrainian ships admits he consc

the security council. is guilty on this situation because the security council did not take a decision to put in. its regular doc or to be fair to the. money into criminal court. so. after six years in the commission. trying to obtain justice for the victims and it was not possible nobody's listening to us to the commission and then see the. total impunity when you said that the u.n. commission was not backed by any political will for example which countries on the security council were you referring to which countries specifically lacked the political will that you were looking for or its well known needs russia first of all to russia and china and russia uses a victorian right so they stopped each resolution that want to to put in place the international tribunal it was not possible it is still not possible because russia is still putting an obstacle to each each decision to tina justice for the victims isn't there a bit of a contradiction there when we hear you talk about russia because right now you're

well we've been hearing the dueling narratives inside the security council chamber from the russians on the one hand and ukraine and its backers on the other the russian deputy ambassador dmitri polonsky spoke earlier and he basically accused the ukraine of violating its borders in entering the current strait saying that the ukrainian ships did not follow procedures that they had been following prior to this and he went so far as calling their actions a provocation cynically done by the president petro poroshenko to regain popularity in the face of upcoming elections the u.s. and european members of the security council for their part made it clear that their support for ukraine is ongoing and will they will continue to stand with the ukraine u.s. ambassador nikki haley started her remarks by saying that she had spoken to president trump and secretary of state mike pompei o s making it clear that the administration was behind the strong remarks that she was about to issue she called the acts of russian of russia an outrageous violation of ukrainian secure sovereignty she called it a

security council or orian mosco thank you let's take you to the u.n. in new york and speak to our correspondent there kristen saleman kristen it's not the same is it to say there's a lot of international concern about what is happening now in that area between russia and ukraine. certainly it's a very tense situation both the ukraine and russia called for this meeting of the united nations security council which is about to get underway any minute now they both want to chance to air their grievances on the international stage the ukraine submitted a letter to the security council calling this act of that an act of aggression on the part of russia it wants its ships back it wants its crew back russia for its part is labeling this a violation of its borders that is how it wants this incident to be seen and it's called for a meeting on that premise here in the security council now we don't expect any official action certainly not to criticize russia here in the security council the russian veto pretty much guarantees that that won't happen but as rory was

justice which is that there are many authoritarian regimes some of whom are on the security council and many of whom are on the un human rights commission that also persecute if not outright killed journalists and so if this is set as a precedent then many other authoritarian regimes who do not respect the freedom of press and who as a range for their. journalist to be assassinated were always are complicit in their will find themselves susceptible to similar. courts and similar trials or similar procedures so i think what we're dealing with in many ways is much broader than just accountability for saudi arabia but it includes us saudi arabian relations and also international freedom of the press and for that reason i think what the international press has been doing has been monumental and very important but for the washington post the new york times and and many other international venues but for their pressure in terms of bringing out the facts and reporting the facts to the public i don't think we would have even gotten this far we have these very minor sanctions but it's better

the incidents led to to imagine sea sessions at the un security council where russia was accused of being an aggressor. never gets through she's not going to give it georgie we have no idea where this is heading. and pays no interest scathing attack comes to reason may surprise said crime as the british prime minister battles to win them over the head of a crucial to set up a very. russian military experts say toxic substances were used in an assault on that and say we're on soft day we look at why the world's media has largely ignored the chemical attack. is just ten five am head in the russian capital we are watching. russia's president vladimir putin has spoken by side with german chancellor angela merkel they discussed an ongoing dispute between russia and ukraine which putin described it as a provocation by kiev timed for the upcoming presidential election. meanwhile russia's border security forces issued new details into sunday's clash in the cage strait which forced the two sides close to conflicts the captain of one of the detained ukrainian ships admit he consciously ignored the

ukraine has supported the request for a meeting of the security council. this is useful to allow people truth.cquainted with the the future does not depend on those players. whoepends on the fact those decisions ofg the the ukrainian authorities must clearly tell them not to play with fire. view, ukrainian point of , regardingo which ,he second question, integrity the only thing i can say regarding the integrity initiative is of the to give a negative and the russia initiative taken in the west and in europe organized by reporters reportersrders, without borders are seeking to create a list of the reliability of journalists. the fact some european governments support this initiative is a source of us, it is a form of political censorship which we do not support, which we do not wish to see. world news being disseminated with a bias of certain countries. the security council reminded everybody of the importance of the seaof movement in of azof. takee prepared to sanctions to secure the movement in the sea of azof? , in myearlier discussions with sergei lavr

security council meeting in new york. who. is that actions taken by ukraine could help to boost ratings. based on president a situation with ukraine declaring martial law my country member or any other case where they actually did that we must look at this really from really a ryall politic point of view russia is the much stronger state it's in control of these waters which controls the code straight and ukraine really has to abide by russian law even though they may not accept it but the difficulty for ukraine is of course is what you then do president persia goes now declared martial law which is quite an extraordinary step to take it will boost his rating because he will come out as a savior of the nation he will say i'm here on the president i'm here to defend ukraine and support me but of course he will not want war he will not want to conflict the russians would win very easily because of much much stronger and present pressure and you know that every. so they don't want a military conflict they just want a conflict whi

less than a month ago, when i last briefed the security council on the situation in ukraine, i brought to the council's attention the reports of increased tensions in the sea of azov and underlying the need to avoid any risk of escalation, provocation, or miscalculation. regrettably, a serious security incident took place near crimea, close to the sea only yesterday. i wish to underline that the united nations currently cannot independently verify the circumstances surrounding the incident. however, reports indicate on 25 november, an incident involving three ukrainian vessels and at least one russian vessel took place near the straits when the former attempted to enter the sea of azov. a number of ukrainian sailors, though the exact number remains unclear, were reportedly injured in the event. ukraine claims that it had previously notified the russian federation of its intent to sail these vessels to the ukrainian port of mariupol in the sea, which requires entry through the narrow kerch straits. the russian federation, meanwhile, claims that ukraine has provoked the incident and that

security council are also following things very closely because clearly we've had some very important military and now political developments in recent hours the security council met late on choose a the overall position with regard to the peace process of course the last two years this is a u.n. security council that has been waiting for the united states for that peace plan from president trump son in law jared cushion and i'm beginning to detect behind the scenes there is growing impatience from those on the security council that the plan is not being announced and the situation is just getting worse just listen to the comments of two of the ambassadors as they were arriving this morning and these are two close allies of the u.s. i think we are under play under playing our own role a six security council on some issues and the world this is one of them. i think the security council a lot of people still look up to the council to take preventive action i don't think we've been managing to do that we have not been able to do that in this particular situation i think that needs to cha

security council the first meeting was called by russia the second one called on behalf of ukraine now during the first meeting we did hear from the representative of russia he accused the forces in the security council the western partners of essential acting like overgrown toddlers and focusing on which resolutions to vote for calling a different meeting and not really focusing on resulting the tension and resolving the situation furthermore he argued that essentially of the provocative actions from ukraine serve a political purpose which to put the person person goes ratings are extremely low due to the elections not so far away so how do you hold on to power whose team really needs a serious exacerbation of the situation in daily a war the necessary next portion of the anti russian drug so that people in the country believe that all the troubles it used to russia now at this second session we did hear from the western countries that we did hear kind of a familiar song from the united states from the u.k. from poland from france all of them accusing russia of being an aggressor and

in stands led to two emergency sessions of the un security council where russia was accused of being an aggressor. this will never get through she's not going to get a majority we have no idea where this is heading m.p.'s launch a scathing attack on three of them a strike that plan is the british prime minister battles to win them over the heads of a crucial deceptive it's. russia minute tracks that say toxic substances were used in an assault on the black hole in syria on saturday we look at why the world's media has largely ignored the attack. it's just ten three am head in moscow you're watching international. russia's president vladimir putin has spoken by phone with german chancellor angela merkel they discuss an ongoing dispute between russia and ukraine where putin described this as a provocation by kiev timed for the upcoming presidential elections. meanwhile russia's border security forces issued new details into sunday's clash in the straits which course the two sides close to conflict the captain of one of the detained ukrainian ships admit consciously acknowledge the comm

the standoff was followed by to the emergency session of the un security council where russia was roundly accused of being the worst. of. the five europe's pledge to support iran and made crippling us function petrochemical giants toto quick to wrongs large discount projects lucrative contracts now being picked up by china. under school in wisconsin comes under fire for failing to punish students who appeared to give the nazi salute in a group photo we put the issue of for the sake. see a bunch of very innocent looking kids doing something stupid i think those things will be repeated and they will lead to basically these kids joining the military and behaving in certain matters that are not acceptable argument. it's. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me mickey aaron great to have you with us this hour now our top story russia's security services have issued new details regarding sunday's clash in the coach strait which escalated tensions between russia and ukraine moscow has released a video testimony of three crew members who are now in detention in russia inclu

security council to discuss this matter you queen has also reached out to the security council pushing its view as to what happened but we've heard from nato we've heard from the european union which are urging for deescalation urging all sides involved to feel cooler heads to prevail to avoid doing anything rash. let's get reaction martin mccauley martin program now russia's foreign minister crania navy a product haitian designed to escalate the war in ukraine let's take a quick listen to what was said before we discuss. you know in the case of ukraine imposing martial law well knowing their habits even without martial law they repeatedly breach international humanitarian law was firing on residential areas killing civilians with martial law the radicals will feel free to do what they want we very strong the western sponsors to calm down those who try to gain political points at times of hysteria a major upcoming elections in ukraine. well so what we have say missing right is already throwing grenades and flares near the russian embassy of a night is it likely to create further escala

ukraine has requested an urgent meeting of the un security council for later on monday leaders in kiev trying to gauge the level of international support they have and what they're calling a place in tact of russian aggression for a challenge how does iran moscow well chris the salumi is live at the united nations we're going to hear from her in just a moment first though let's get the latest from andrew symonds who joins us live now from kiev andrew as we heard there it's all calm now on the strait of cash what's the situation like in kiev though one of great contrast to the calm waters of the straits it has to be said that there is really a palpable anger right the way through ukraine right now and that is also permeating intolerant but in a different way because there is a proposal on the table to put through this bill for martial law lasting thirty days right ahead of the presidential election so there is a problem now in terms of parliament actually passing that law absent that the course of protest worldwide the declarations against russia are lost far too numerous to count and t

well, there is a session of the security council tomorrow. it is iiam of the security council tomorrow. it is ”am est. and well, this is the united nations, and russia has a seatin united nations, and russia has a seat in the security council. there are no... well, actually some expectations that it will come to some. . . expectations that it will come to some... some decisive outcome. personally, i do not expect that it will come to some serious result. thank you very much for your assessment of the situation. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the talent show with a difference. prisoners in indonesia compete for recording contract. president kennedy was shot down and died almost immediately. the murder ofjohn kennedy is a disaster for the whole free world. he caught the imagination of the world. the first of a new generation of leaders. margaret thatcher is resigning as leader of the conservative party and prime minister. before leaving number 10 to see the queen, she told her cabinet, "it's a funny old world." angela merkel is germ

all the members of the security council will think about this. appropriate measures to come back to the o p c w and after the events of this conference that's taking place. there were some talks beforehand of russia perhaps even wanting to remove themselves from the o.p.c. w. is that ever on the agenda or is that something you'd ever consider pulling out of the the organization entirely. too early to jump to the conclusions we need to talk over many many aspects not to really to. rule any conclusions just the time at this time point and time. we will think. we will to a proper decision in proper time very quickly as far as russia khan is concerned this isn't over. for you still continue thank you very much ambassador shogun russia's permanent representative to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and the russian federation's ambassador here in the netherlands it's been well a busy few days there's been more voting going on in the o.p.c. w in this afternoon in the house being in several years put together so a lot still to dige

un official it's not really in my place to opine on the methodology of the un security council or what i can say is that our organization does look for all security council members to live up to the un charter which is of course the mandate behind the un security council and that means that if there is a situation of mass atrocities we would expect all security council members to engage on that in a way that is consistent with the un charter the reason that i was asking this is because the un these days talks a lot about prevention especially conflict prevention and it's not clear to me at least what is man by because. if we take the syrian conflict do you think there were any point when these mass. killing mass destruction could have been averted over the last seven years i'm not an expert on syria but i can i can talk about it in the general sense of what we in the human rights community see we think that there are situations where there are endemic ongoing human rights abuses and addressing those human rights abuses creates more stability in a way that could allow a situation like s

i have already as he tells what happened at the national security council. can you let us in on what you and the pope discussed? fmr. ag meese: it was a great meeting. the opportunity to meet this great man, and everything that has been said about him is true from my standpoint. while about him, but also reading about him. he knew god had taken care of the church by having a leader such as that at that point in history. the opportunity to talk with him for 15 or 20 minutes was a great privilege for me. we talked about some of the things -- again, our countries had in common. that was the morality view. a topic very much on his mind, something we were concerned about in the justice department. we talked about the drug problem in the united states. we also talked about how some of the catholic bishops, which you heard about last night, how there were problems with them. >> in the united states. fmr. ag meese: in the united states, doing things which were an amicable to what ronald reagan was trying to do in other areas. the pope said, sometimes even bishops ma

security council meeting today could that defuse this escalating situation. well there has been speculation we might see some kind of relatively rapid to monetary and solution maybe even some early release of those ukrainian sail as the ships but that doesn't take away the underlying problem that david mentioned that all of this conflict over control of the sea of as all of the russians de facto control access to the sea specially since they built the bridge over the strait and this is something that is why did the crimea this is also about eastern ukraine the ukrainian controlled politic don't bass is economically dependent on those ports in the sea of as over tens of thousands of jobs at risk if they see it as well becomes a military zone that is prone to these kind of conflicts so we could definitely be seeing tensions ratcheting up that a knock on effect beyond crimea nick thank you so much for that was nick connelly in moscow and in kiev david stern thanks to both of you. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today mexico has

security council and a show of support from the united states but i think there would be concerns as well that on both of these fronts he didn't quite get the full extent of what he was working towards so on is martial law the parliamentarians who are voting in the rod basically chopped it down from sixty days to thirty days and they made sure that this was not a nationwide imposition of martial law it only affected kind of front here parts of the country bits of the country that are either facing russian troops or the sea or you know other breakaway bits of other countries so. i think there are there are parts of the ukrainian body politic which saw what it was trying to do as a political overreach as essentially a power grab in the run up to the presidential elections next year and also on the international front i think poroshenko will be slightly concerns that donald trump doesn't seem particularly interested in this issue when he was asked about it i think yesterday he said well we don't like what's happening either way we don't lie what's happening i hope it will get straighten