on not allowing the fight into hot for between ukraine and russia. ukraine. it's an ancient and proud land. with a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. ukraine is a border land. a place where east meets west. this is the flag of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold its seemingly endless fields of wheat. ukraine is a prize many have sought. and much blood spilled in the quest to possess it. ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war two. and every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader dunhill netsky broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerfu

but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. c. and not to go and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than eighty thousand people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galad seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russian people on the territory of ukraine. members of these military groups came mostly from the organization of ukrainian nationalists the zero un founded in one nine hundred twenty nine this organization had an ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure independent ukraine and considered terror an acceptable tool for achieving the

it will further increase tensions with ukraine. in the name of international peace and security, russia must immediately cease its unlawful conduct and respect the navigational rights and freedoms of all states. thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. president. mr. president, before coming what some of i did us do every morning. i searched through internet to find out what happened this day in history. look what i found. 26ctly on this day, november in 1939, the soviet army orchestrated an incident by setting a village. then they claimed it was done and used as a pretext for the invasion on november the 30th. that is how the so-called winter d which eventually led to the expulsion of the soviet union from the league of nations. interesting, isn't it? that is all to say about the unlearned lessons. [speaking foreign language] >> mr. president, we appreciate the convening of this briefing at the request of ukraine. i would like to sincerely thank the members of the security council for the unwavering support of my country demonstrate

that invaded ukraine in crimea it is russia that has invaded the don't vos it is not ukraine that is invading invading russia it's your it's a case of blaming the victim and this is a classic russian excuse me kremlin propaganda ploy where we were going to blame ukraine for the fact that now we have three ukrainian vessels that are held by force by russian forces and we have twenty five ukrainian naval officers that are currently in jail six of which happen to be. seriously wounded from russian military fire this has nothing to do with a provocation from ukraine professor in moscow to want to join to reply to that. no i i think that the blame lies more in in washington in terms of a staging this. could happen no i don't agree i don't disagree that there was a popular uprising but i have to see what the voting patterns in ukraine or if you look at for two thousand and four election for example did or two thousand and ten when in the eastern regions you had over ninety percent voting for the pro western option and in the furthest western region you had over ninety percent voted for the

the war in ukraine. for europe so let us be fair the machinery to p.r. machinery behind this is coming from the english there i mean it is beyond comprehension i mean you know if you project the situation it's just the opposite is very comprehensive to me because it all seems to fit together i mean like it's like an oiled machine it really kicked in mary of course i mean you know hang on we're going to marry that we got to make it and if you see there's a big talk is one of the first reactions to all of this is that this is also aimed at the trumpet ministration you know the trumpet ministration is saying should russia over and over again congress has more sanctions on the way for the script affair that the u.s. has nothing to do with but anyway. and then we have the g. twenty i mean you know so make sure trump and putin don't talk here i mean i think that's a bit of a stretch but because i think the u.s. russia relations have been so soured it'll take a generation for that to change and i can tell you m

which ukraine has a coastline on so you know there by agreement russia and ukraine share access to that body of water and ukraine is hoping that it can get as much support as possible from its international friends partners people in the united nations people in. people in the european union to back it up a century on this side against russia chalons for inside story in moscow so what's the background to this latest escalation will occur straight is an important trade route for ukraine as it gives ships access to the port of mali a pole in the sea of as of east of crimea russia's been inspecting all vessels going in and out of ukrainian ports on sunday it blocks the shipping route between the black sea in the sea of as off by placing a tanker beneath a new bridge linking russia with crimea the crimean peninsula was seized in twenty fourteen by russian backed separatists after the overthrow of ukraine's president viktor yushchenko bitch more than ten thousand people died in the fighting that followed between ukrainian and pro russian forces. all right let's bring in our panel for today j

of ukraine's sovereignty. of course you can get all the latest news information. we have more news that. will be with you then thanks for watching. nico is in germany to learn german. polish benito why not learn with him online on the mobile and free to suffer from the w e learning course nicko speak.

twenty later this week putin says that ukraine workers traded a naval clash in the baltic sea ukraine meanwhile says that it is worried that russia is ready to invade. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program german prosecutors have raided the offices of the country's biggest lender deutsche bank one hundred seventy police officers descended on six of the banks premises in and around frankfurt the raids are part of a probe into money laundering. claims implicating deutsche bank stuff that were in a large data leak in twenty sixteen known as the pattern of papers the leaks suggested that deutsche bank staff helped to funnel money belonging to criminals into offshore tax havens today's raid was separate to an ongoing investigation into another money laundering scandal involving deutsche bank and denmark's downs go back. let's get more now on this breaking news we're joined by gary hart first here in the studio early bartz is also joining us from frankfurt and their heart i'd like to begin with you just to put this into overall context for us because this is a big deal isn't it yeah this i

that invaded ukraine in crimea it is russia that has invaded the don't vos it is not ukraine that is invading invading russia it's your it's a case of blaming the victim and this is a classic russian excuse me kremlin propaganda ploy where we were going to blame ukraine for the fact that now we have three ukrainian vessels that are held by force by russian forces and we have twenty five ukrainian naval officers that are currently in jail six of which happen to be. seriously wounded from russian military fire this has nothing to do with a provocation from ukraine professor in moscow to want to join to reply to that. no i i think that the blame lies more in in washington in terms of the staging this . could have happened no i don't agree i don't disagree that there was a popular uprising but i have to see what the voting patterns in ukraine or if you look at for two thousand and four election for example did or two thousand and ten when in the eastern regions you had over ninety percent voting for the pro western option and in the furthest western region you had over ninety percent vot

for everybody here in ukraine to understand. he's a hero place whence the russians come for us president poroshenko insisted the measures won't interfere with elections shuttled for march but his decree is causing concern and confusion in the capital kiev for ukrainians it's unclear what changes martial law will bring after a four year sand off with russia peace seems the distant outcome. just a short while ago russian president vladimir putin commented in public on the situation for the first time it turned out that among crew members to security services members were on the board and they confessed they were members of the security services of ukraine so all fine fine place off three media truck asians it was intended to use it as a pretext to introduce the martial law in the country it has nothing in common with an attempt to him settle for relations between russia and ukraine it is them play for escalation it is a dirty game within the country in order to him a surprise political opponent. the leader because one and nick con

this doesn't mean we are declaring war ukraine is not planning for a war with anyone. also coming up tonight she's convinced twenty seven european countries that her brags it is the best rights that now she has to convince her own parliament british prime minister theresa may winning cells may now need a good dose of fear it would open the door to more education and more uncertainty with the risks that uncertainty from new deal well uncertainty phone and turning to control to water is if anything could happen if this deal doesn't get three. or we begin the day with a reminder of what hasn't gone away while europe was blinded by all the bricks on sunday evening british prime minister to resign may finally got what she's been working on getting for almost two years the twenty seven other european union members all gave their approval to may's plan on how to divorce them moving britain a significant step closer to brics it at the same time britain and all of europe were dealt a reality check the risk of war between russia and ships off the coast of the crimean peninsula n

security council meeting and the question are russia and ukraine headed for the u.s. as u.n. ambassador has accused russia of committing an outrageous violation of ukraine's sovereignty on sunday russia seized several ukrainian naval vessels near the disputed crimean peninsula moscow says that it was provoked by and just about an hour ago the ukrainian parliament voted to impose martial wall inside the country. a clash at sea causing waves of international concern a russian military ship rams into a ukrainian tugboat off the coast of crimea. the vessel was then fired at and captured by the russians along with two other ships and dozens of ukrainian sailors several of whom were injured. the united nations security council held an emergency meeting where western countries accused russia of stoking the already deadly war with ukraine what we witnessed this weekend is yet another reckless russian escalation it is an arrogant act that the international community must condemn and will never accept in response russia's representative said the ukrainian ship had violated its territor

will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic ukraine. democratic rights in a city you know well it will slowly new democracy just. some of them but obviously the funds had to keep coming and the conflict had to keep going. and more bloody and deadly. earnest. as parties from both sides were using more sophisticated and lethal weapons. as well. as the new deal. union that's really kind of. the world seemed too busy welcoming this new democracy in kiev to notice what was being done as it spread its wings over the country. many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. i 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

given with the ukraine representative said, that is exactly what ukraine things. i just like to correct what some speaker said, what was had by mister kudlow, it was a little bit odd, she seemed to mix up premier and the agreement and i do hope madame that you have read the agreements, i am sure that you are well aware that no mention whatsoever is made of premier. you also urged the sovereignty, just the sovereignty to be respected surely there is something that the russian federation should be a reflect -- respected as well, at least that is our understanding of what you believe, ms. haley also touching upon the fact that they are part of the agreement as well. and, ms. haley, perhaps, it seems that you are seeing the result as part of the agreement as well, perhaps i misheard but unfortunately, that is really astounding, in a previous meeting, our permanent representative, talked about, he gave an entire analysis of the agreement, going through it really paragraph by paragraph and despite that, we have to hear these egregious things, as regards the incident its

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 received a u.s. state department scholarship and he worked for a new york law firm which represented the organization come on or a group that appeared earlier when we learned about the color revolutions and we're dealing with democratic blood blister aleutian this is the revolution of roses and this is me kyle saakashvili with camara busy overthrowing the legitimately elected president eduard shevardnadze. was. soon after the rose revolution blossom fully georgia announced its intentions to join nato and plant fresh nato military bases in the fertile soil right on russia's border never ever will give our freedom and independence never never will give any piece of our territory saakashvili is mission was accomplished at least with his friends and nato the georgian populace wasn't quite as happy though in two thousand and

these people don't love ukraine, they is russia. do you think those relations with russian friends can be repaired? no, no. ukrainians can't forgive these deaths. can ukraine and its new church now build a country of unity and understanding, or are the scars and divisions just too deep? i'm with a priest of the ukrainian orthodox church. father nikolai is taking me to steal a look at the church that was his for decades. and this is your church of almost a0 years? like many priests here, father nikolai is part of the moscow patriarchate — a branch of the orthodox church with historic ties to russia. and that has turned him into an outcast in his own community, by those who want those ties cut. is this where you raised your children? nikolai's church and home have been taken over by a growing ukrainian 0rthodox church — the kyiv patriarchate. how do you feel when you see it now? for decades, the kyiv patriarchate has been in the shadow of the more powerful moscow patriarchate. but now it is on the brink of recognition by most of t

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 reckless as collation so moving forward i don't think the ukrainians expect any action from the security council as long as russia is on board their veto ensures that there will no be will not be any international action from this body but they did get the strong statements from their allies that they were hoping to get deputy ambassador from the ukraine vladimir he spoke to reporters before entering the security council he said what they hope to get in addition to these strong statements was more in the form of sanctions from individual countries and perhaps the e.u. he said that's the only language that russia understands and he when. so far to dr

we should see the elections coming in the ukraine by the support of the current president of ukraine with support of just did what he did so. what he evaluated i mean the ukraine violated the article mine hundred twenty three of the un convention all the. all the see. it was a provocation as everyone is saying this but what was the purpose of this. all of this provocation is intended lee to the. you know. any any sort of gatherings or protests in ukraine to regulate the media as you rightly pointed out mr poroshenko. estimating today he's chances to get through the second round of the presidential elections in ukraine is zero he's not even able to get to the second round what mr. he's waiting for the coast contest straight from the u.s. he's waiting to be a good knowledge as the right for hold all the power in the ukraine or and also the facilitator for the u.s. neo cons to use the ukraine for the base to attack russia in the future i mean let us be clear yesterday my professor from from the you know university of warsaw professor contacted me at night saying what they are doing aski

russia claims ukraine is playing the anti russia card to boost its image that as the kremlin is once again accused of aggression during two emergency sessions of the un security council following sunday's clash at sea. united states will continue to stand with the people of ukraine against the russian aggression russia wants to consolidate its illegal an exception of crimea and i mix the see. how do you hold on to power the necessary next portion of the anti russian drug sure that people in the country believe that the troubles but you to russia. she is not going to get a majority we have no idea where this is heading that is prime minister treason may faces a hostile parliament brigs it plans as she tries to win over and convince them that the. russian military experts say toxic substances were used in an assault on aleppo in syria on saturday and look why the world's media has largely ignored the chemical attack. good evening thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. the u.n. security council is held to emergency sessions over the clash between russia and ukraine after russ

russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov accused ukraine of deliberate provocation. principles of the international law were violated including the united nations charter and other legal instruments that require all states to respect the sovereignty of another state school moscow views the water surrounding crimea as russian territory the united nations however views russian annexation of crimea as an illegal act. well the united nations security council has been meeting in an emergency session over this issue and western countries have condemned russia's actions he was a bastard nikki haley accused russia of a quote outrageous violation of ukrainian sovereignty and stoking conflict an already deadly war in response russia claims that its sovereignty was violated by kids and it's accused ukrainian president petro poroshenko of provoking the incident to bolster his support in upcoming elections in his country now in brussels nato secretary-general. called for ukrainian ships and crew to be released and warned moscow that its actions will have consequences. are for mor

security council has been hastily scheduled that's as ukraine's president accuses russia off an act of aggression during a confrontation between the russian and ukrainian navy the latest clash was in the current strait that's near the disputed region of crimea and a ukrainian navy tug was rammed several sailors. and more than twenty taken prisoners russia has impounded three tugs for entering its territorial waters without permission that's despite a treaty which guarantees freedom of navigation or the russian navy also use the tanker to block traffic through the strait it was placed under a recently opened bridge connecting crimea and russia and ships use the curch straight to supply the ukrainian industrial city of mariupol it's near that's the region where russian backed forces have been fighting the ukrainian army for the past four years since russia annexed crimea. an emergency as we're saying an emergency un security council meeting is scheduled just a few hours time to discuss this incident and ukraine's president plans to ask his parliament to take action this time to martial l

this is deja news coming to you live from berlin a tense standoff between russia and ukraine over streets of the disputed crimean peninsula russia finance on and says if free ukrainian ships came in that entered a russian territorial waters off the crimean coast illegally ukraine accuses the russian navy of acting like bandits for the coming up a deal to even do most of the brig's a deal even british prime minister to resign me now faces the challenge of persuading hold on a mentor to supported her message is the only option on the table. and skyrocketing prices for vi to drugs and zimbabwe's pharmacies that's the. color of a warm welcome to you i'm on the dock cheema the united nations security council is called an emergency meeting today after russia five on and seized three ukrainian ships off the coast of the crimean peninsula these pictures that actually show a russian coast guard ship of ramming a u. korean vessel ukrainian president petro poroshenko has demanded that the crew and the vessels be released immediately. the cash took place in a narrow street between russia and crimea a

an act of premeditated provocation russia's president putin claims ukraine for sunday's naval confrontation says the crews of the captured ukrainian vessels including secret service agents are also on the program. as germany brings together political religious and academic leaders to debate islam and integration we hear from a young german muslim hoping to shape the future of her faith and the country. russia's most vulnerable of victims of. serious on the country suffering one of the world's worst epidemics takes to an orphanage in the fuel mountainous region that children infected with the virus live with children of a negative. time for girl welcome to the program russia's president a potent has accused ukraine of committing an act of premeditated provocation in the naval confrontation off crimea tensions between moscow and kiev escalated after russia seized the three ukrainian vessels on sunday at least a dozen ukrainian sailors have been detained pending trial and ukraine's president poroshenko has declared martial law in parts of the country and one that russia is preparing for war. t

will give them no chance to invade into ukraine. that's why today we are doing everything possible to provide extra financing of the armed forces. not to be outdone russia's defense ministry also released a video of training exercises in the south of the country. both sides are blaming each other for provoking sunday's naval clash in the carriage strait russian ships fired on and seized three ukrainian naval vessels capturing the crew. of ukrainian sailors have been charged with unlawfully entering russia and of being held pending trial western countries are calling for their release. the united states' special envoy for ukraine told d.w. that further sanctions against russia are on the table and we've tried to ratchet up sanctions gradually in order to create pressure and to indicate that there is a way out that we would like to talk with russia genuinely ending the conflict with throwing its forces real stablish your security and then getting even then screaming some point and then they don't see reestablishing. u.s. president don

to both russia and ukraine to exercise restraint may just think if you ask ukraine to do this it means that kiev has certainly done something that their western sponsors do not approve of i hope that the ukrainian authorities will draw certain conclusions from that. ukraine has declared martial law to protect the country against russian a question after moscow detained three ukrainian naval ships off the coast of crimea on sunday russia's foreign minister says martial law will only provoke rather call for further escalate the situation. explains why this declaration could play into ukraine and president petro poroshenko is handel's. there are certain advantages to declaring martial law it isn't just the military that's involved all sorts of aspects of civilian life also affected for example it becomes illegal to protest against the government would also give the government complete censorship over the media but it will become illegal for the media to criticize the government could also mean that reserve a simple gov't of the ukrainian government will have a lot more power to call upon

that invaded ukraine in crimea it is russia that has invaded the don't vos it is not ukraine that is invading invading russia it's your it's a case of blaming the victim and this is a classic russian excuse me kremlin propaganda ploy where we were going to blame ukraine for the fact that now we have three ukrainian vessels that are held by force by russian forces and we have twenty five ukrainian naval officers that are currently in jail six of which happen to be. seriously wounded from russian military fire this has nothing to do with a provocation from ukraine professor decent in moscow to what a joy to reply to that. no i i think that the blame lies more in in washington in terms of the staging this. could have happened now i don't agree i don't disagree that there was a popular uprising but i have to see what the voting patterns in ukraine or if you look at for two thousand and four election for example did or two thousand and ten when in the eastern regions you had over ninety percent voting for the pro western option and in the furthest western region you had over ninety percen

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 which will in fact increase the standing of the president and inc

russian missiles to crimea and to martial law in parts of ukraine as tensions between kiev and moscow remain high following black sea naval clashes. come on peter dhabi this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. national security advisor says he's not listening to the recording of jamal khashoggi murder but the head of the cia who has made no brief sentences on. the saudi crown prince was widely suspected of ordering the murder behind protests in tunisia and heads for the g. twenty in argentina. also ahead the woman who said she'd happily take a front row seat to public hanging wins a place in the u.s. senate. russia says it plans to deploy s. four hundred surface to air missiles into the crimean peninsula it is the latest escalation in a fresh confrontation between moscow and kiev ten regions in ukraine are now under martial law for the next thirty days after russian vessels opened fire in the black sea and seize several ukrainian naval boats and service personnel under simmons has the latest now from kiev yeah really. russia says this is one of many confessions by ukr

special envoy in ukraine was in berlin today proof that u.s. president wants europe to deal with escalating tensions between ukraine and russia tonight i ask if moscow pushes too far will washington simply get out of the way. this is the day. we understand now that without international support we cannot fight against enemy one of four will go a hard nut to go oh oh. about a shell issue in human history i would like to emphasize that these territorial waters were always in ourselves or even in the form of crimea joining with oppression federation yes but it's very clear high from the situation it sounds that this is also massively affecting security interests in europe foreign ministers and we don't want anybody to think that the plane thinks. the country is under the threat of a full scale war with the russian federation if you see as many of us. coming up to nine breaks it in any form will leave the u.k. worse off now who would most likely make that dire of a prediction in public well today the british government did. the analysis shows clear

ukraine is seeing that their ships we re ukraine is seeing that their ships were perfectly entitled to be where they were, the russian line and that is that the ukrainian ships were in russian territorial waters. so that debate is still continuing. thanks very much. and for more on these escalating tensions, we arejoined now by kimberly marten, who chairs the department of political science at barnard university and specializes in us—russian relations. thanks very much forjoining us. we have just got news coming in from the fsb from moscow, the security services saying that the ukrainian ships ignored warning shots. the russians of course today saying this is all hysteria on the part of russia. what does it look like from your point of view? there is an agreement, as your correspondent mentioned, from 2003 that recognises that each state that shares this border area has the right to have its ships transit into the black sea. i think there isjust no question from the perspective of international law that russia was violating this agreement and was actually looking for a fight with ukr

few nonmilitary options that ukraine's president poroshenko has at his disposal . he warns that russia is preparing for work the day he visited ukrainian troops at an army training base near the border with russia he told the soldiers to prepare for what might be on the horizon the beaches were. merged with most of you know what fighting is beaches what would you most of you know the smell of gunpowder most of you deserve respect around on us from ukraine for defending ukrainian land school the ukrainian people around the sovereignty and of the ukrainian state in its worst days we have to improve our skills and we have to provide effective training to be ready in case we need to be to beat the enemy and make them pay for the irresponsible decision to invade ukrainian territory or. over the ukrainian president there will the united states is ukraine's strongest biggest ally and it has condemned russia's actions on sunday but the u.s. president has been unusually silent no tweets a few comments and today the u.s. special envoy to ukraine kurt volker when he paid a vi

well who would help ukraine if russia invaded and started a full blown war ukraine's president says that russia is preparing to attack ukraine would we know would be no match to russia's military might yet nato has rejected calls for mr poroshenko to intervene to ensure the free passage of ukrainian ships in the old sea well that is where a naval standoff with russian ships took place on sunday right off the coast of russian occupied crimea russia seized three ukrainian vessels and arrested ukrainian sailors moscow denies kiev's accusations that it is blocking vessels from entering or leaving ukrainian ports. when the nato know who or what can help you great u.s. president trump says that europe namely german chancellor angela merkel should step up to the plate merkel has experience in mediating between kiev and moscow diplomatic string yes but merkel is making it clear she is not considering a military solution or more economic sanctions against russia. towards simply bit off despite the current situation we ask ukraine to be smart because we can only herself this in talks with one anot